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Sydney, 40’s, he/him, I like science and roleplaying and learning about people and a world I never realised had so much colour
Greetings traveller! New missions are available at the Fyrestone bounty board.
Just How Dodgy Are Cheap USB Chargers Anyway?

Aside from apparently having both the ability to reproduce on their own and simultaneously never being around when you need one, USB chargers seem innocuous enough. The specs are simple: convert ma…

Hackaday
@wintermin Chức Mừng Năm Mới!
Good morning! Happy Lunar New Year!

It’s been a while, Australia, I hope you’ve been well!

I do not know if it’s time to return to social media, but people have been following me recently? And liking my old posts? There’s nothing here, just a shadow in your phone, but maybe I’ll see something or do something that would be worth a post.

Stay dry #sydney

Royal Mint UK will turn #ewaste into gold through a new factory that can process 90 tonnes of circuit boards every week to recover hundreds of kilograms of #gold per year. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230904-how-the-royal-mint-is-turning-electronic-waste-into-gold #urbanMining #circuitBoards
The gold jewellery made from old phones

E-waste is mounting. Now the UK Royal Mint has found a new way to extract the precious metals hidden in laptops and phones to reduce our reliance on raw materials.

BBC
@wintermin I'm inclined to agree that it should be a thing.
But its instability can actually create art 😀
See here:
https://road.cc/content/forum/256522-paths-800-unmanned-bicycles-being-pushed-until-they-fall-over #bikes #art #cycling
Paths of 800 unmanned bicycles being pushed until they fall over

Do you ever get the feeling that some people have too much time on their hands? https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/7s8hck/paths_of_800_unmanned_bicycles_being_pushed_until/ [img]https://preview.redd.it/wzux1azjcob01.jpg?width=1024&auto=webp&s=56346419558bd717c7b302f0272755bd02113e67[/img] Original paper: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.88.3781&rep=rep1&type=pdf

road.cc
When will the design a bicycle that doesn’t fall over? 🚴‍♂️ 🕳️ 💥🤕

Look at this chicken.
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It's giant. It's bigger than a car!
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It's getting bigger!
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The horror. The horror.
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god help us all..
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Holy crap Microsoft figured out how their signing key was leaked. Must read:
https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/09/results-of-major-technical-investigations-for-storm-0558-key-acquisition/
Results of Major Technical Investigations for Storm-0558 Key Acquisition | MSRC Blog | Microsoft Security Response Center

Results of Major Technical Investigations for Storm-0558 Key Acquisition