Tech

Generally “interesting technical stuff” (software and hardware), vs the craft and profession of building software (see Software Engineering).

Mesh Networking

• Meshtastic

• MeshCore - Off grid mesh radio communications system

• Reticulum Network

Neat

• An app can be a home-cooked meal

• Low Earth Orbit Visualization | LeoLabs

• The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown | WIRED

• iOS 16: The MacStories Review - MacStories

• The Follower – Dries Depoorter

• 𝔸𝕟𝕒𝕥𝕠𝕝𝕪 𝕊𝕙𝕒𝕤𝕙𝕜𝕚𝕟💾 on Twitter: “Here’s a 117 kilobyte JPEG by @_kgsws_. It appears to be a perfectly normal picture, but… (1/2) https://t.co/ZPImHfSKD6” / Twitter

• Real Artifacts

• Structural and electronic properties of chiral single-wall copper nanotubes | SpringerLink

• Building The Infinite Matrix Of Tamagotchis | Hackaday

• My thoughts on writing a Minecraft server from scratch (in Bash)

• We’re going to need a lot more grid storage. New iron batteries could help. | MIT Technology Review

• His software sang the words of God. Then it went silent.

• Moscow state university network built by students | by Pavel Safronov | Oct, 2021 | Medium

• This page is a truly naked, brutalist html quine.

• Cycling through ALL THE STREETS in central London

• Scientists have taught spinach to send emails and it could warn us about climate change | Living

• IPv6 Christmas Display Uses 75 Internet’s Worth of Addresses

• Solving murder with Prolog

• Generating a commit log for San Francisco’s official list of trees

• A Haskell ASM Monad

• History of UNIX Manpages

• Describing Chinese Characters with Recursive Radical Packing Language (RRPL)

• What would a EvE online Internet look like?

• The GPS 2019 Week Rollover - What You Need to Know

• One Windows Kernel

• Donut math: how donut.c works

• Unscii - a bitmapped Unicode font for blocky graphics

• Looking inside real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT

• Nakatomi Space – BLDGBLOG

• The Liverpool Cross

• The buttons on Zenith’s original ‘clicker’ TV remote were a mechanical marvel - The Verge

• How can you land 5 kilometers above the Moon? | by Robert Barron | May, 2023 | Medium

• Technical analysis of the checkm8 exploit / Habr

• ggerganov/kbd-audio: 🎤⌨️ Acoustic keyboard eavesdropping

• Brain Maps

• IMG_0001

• absorptions: The sound of the dialup, pictured

• The smallest possible (valid) PDF – PDF Association

• Two weeks of wayback · Ariadne’s Space

• DNSFS. Store your files in others DNS resolver caches

• How The Heck Do QR Codes Work? (An Interactive Exploration)

• London

• // Jarrod Blundy

• Fast16: The Cyberweapon That Predates Stuxnet by Five Years - HackingPassion.com : root@HackingPassion.com-[~]

• Forking Chrome to render in a terminal - Fathy Boundjadj

• NHS using drones to fly blood tests between Southwark hospitals

• DoomPDF dev stuffs a Linux system into a PDF • The Register

• Downtown Doug Brown » Upgrading my old Chumby 8 Linux kernel part 1: U-Boot

• An Electromagnetic Force - Aeracode

• The legacy of Lynn Conway, chip design pioneer and transgender-rights advocate - Michigan Engineering News

• Intro | Putting the “You” in CPU

• Building a Balloon Tracking Cyberdeck | blog.howrandom.net

• Simon Hardwick | Why Did the Eurovision Song Contest Look Odd This Year?

Fun

• Ex Astris Scientia - Commercially Available Chairs in Star Trek

• Medical Ultrasound Scanner Gives Up Its Secrets, Runs DOOM | Hackaday

• Playing battleships over BGP

• DOOM Rendered via Checkboxes — Andrew Healey

• xkcd: mRNA Vaccine

• Apple does not ‘let bad guys use iPhones on screen’ | Apple | The Guardian

• Gently Down the Steam

• Is it possible to smear paint on the wall without creating valid Perl?

• Lighting up my DasKeyboard with Blood Sugar changes using my body’s REST API

• Man’s $1,998 Camera Fried by Self-Driving Car Laser

• watch ing Star Wars in Postgres

• AWS Is Your Org Chart

• Fast line-following robots

• Building telemetry for tea aka Tealemetry

• First Ever Life-Size and Drivable LEGO Technic Bugatti Chiron Is a Pioneering Piece of Engineering and Design

• everythingishacked/Semaphore: A full-body keyboard using gestures to type through computer vision

• cofe.rocks: Fedi’s #1 Coffeehouse - new tech warcrime

• The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock

• iracigt/ventinari-clock: A functional malfunctioning clock

• curl -v https://google.com - YouTube

Hardware

• On Hacking MicroSD Cards « bunnie’s blog

• A history of ARM, part 1: Building the first chip | Ars Technica

• ESP8266 Web Server Saves 60% Power With A 1 Ms Delay | Hackaday

• So yeah, let’s just use plug and socket - industry group recommends obvious change in terminology - CDM Create Digital Music

• USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness - Dennis Schubert

• BlackBerry Pi-Thonny Cyberdeck Build Guide.pdf

• Reversing the Pokémon Snap Station without a Snap Station | jamchamb’s blog

• The Framework is the most exciting laptop I’ve ever used | by Cory Doctorow | Sep, 2021 | Medium

• Always-on Processor magic: How Find My works while iPhone is powered off

• The TT555: a discrete 555 timer plug-in replacement | Tiny Transistors

• Matt Blaze: Testing Phone-Sized Faraday Bags

• GitHub - OkuboHeavyIndustries/Mini-Mobile-Mission-Control: International Space Station Tracker using a QT Py board, GPS and OLED

• Maltronics Deauther OLED Enclosure by Ulfbragd - Thingiverse

• YARH.IO YET ANOTHER RASPBERRY HANDHELD

• Spectra - Open Source Biomedical Imaging

• JTAG Explained (finally!): Why “IoT” Makers, Software Security Folks, and Device Manufacturers Should Care

• Penguin Watch — Pi Zeros and Camera Modules in the Antarctic

• ikeacluster build designs and photos

• Reverse engineering the ARM1 processor’s microinstructions

• Building Raspberry Pi Systems with Yocto

• Starting an Internet Service Provider - Part 2 - Deploying Fiber

• GitHub - TobleMiner/DC-UPS: A small DC UPS, designed to keep small appliances like consumer network equipment running during power outages

• All About USB-C: Pinecil Soldering Iron | Hackaday

• Writing userspace USB drivers for abandoned devices

• I made my blog solar-powered, then things escalated

• GitHub - ploopyco/headphones: A set of 3D-printed headphones, alongside a DAC/amp/EQ board powered by a Raspberry Pico.

• G4lile0/Heimdall-WiFi-Radar: Heimdall WiFi Radar ESP8266

• Database of Zigbee devices compatible with ZHA, Tasmota, Zigbee2MQTT, deCONZ, ZiGate and ioBroker

• You Can Just Buy Far-UVC

• Radiacode 102

• 3D - Analogue

• Radeon R500

• Extreme Pi Boot Optimization | KittenLabs

• USB-SD-Mux

• Once Upon a Pipe in the West: A working adapter from HDMI to Gardena | jhauser.de

• 144 7-segment displays make up this delightful digital clock | Arduino Blog

• 160 Core RISC-V supercluster on a single M.2 - YouTube

• 3.7g Servo Analog Gauges | blog.howrandom.net

• blog.smartere » Floppy Disks: the best TV remote for kids

• RFID & NFC human chip implants - Biohacking

• Project MINI RACK | Miniature rack builds, for portable or compact Homelabs.

• Off-The-Shelf 10” Gear Guide : r/minilab

• MIRPH-1 – MIRPH Designs

• K-9 2.0. WiFi Controlled and Autonomous Robot Dog. : 23 Steps (with Pictures) - Instructables

• Glo, The Polyphonic Whale

• Le Powerwall de Glubux - France PowerWall DIY - Fabriquer sa batterie Lithium-ion 18650

• Nukit 222nm Far-UVC

• TfL abandons plans for driverless tube trains

  • “It’s now been confirmed that the study [into driverless trains] reached the same conclusion that every other study into the issue has already reported — it’ll cost an awful lot of money for very little benefit.” - I hadn’t realised this!

• Daylight | A More Caring Computer

• You Can Use LEDs As Sensors, Too | Hackaday

• UniFi Comparison Charts

• I Built My Dream Keyboard from Absolute Scratch - YouTube

• Our First Step Towards the Home of the Future - Impulse Blog

• π•pistrelle Bat Detector

• USB Power Delivery For Hobby Projects – Flameeyes’s Weblog

• BLE Satellite – MOHIT BHOITE

Tools

• Block Protocol – an open standard for data-driven blocks

• 12ft Ladder

• timhutton/twitter-archive-parser: Python code to parse a Twitter archive and output in various ways

• unflwrs

• JustAnotherArchivist/snscrape: A social networking service scraper in Python

• Telink Flasher v4.4

• macOS defaults list

• README - Uncurled

• Useful utilities and toys over DNS

• what3words - OpenStreetMap Wiki

• Disabling snap Autorefresh - Alan Pope’s blog

• Transparent network audio with mpd & sndiod

• usb-c cable colour codes

• Introduction to Crostini on ChromeOS - Part 3: Using Ubuntu by default

• o2sh/onefetch: Git repository summary on your terminal

• wiv.js - A library for a more wiggly div

• Open Infrastructure Map

• COI - Chat Over IMAP

• WireGuard Setup Guide for iOS

• What is First-Party Isolation in Firefox and what breaks if you enabled it

• Anubis: Web AI Firewall Utility | Anubis

• Favicon Generator for perfect icons on all browsers

• adbar/trafilatura: Python & Command-line tool to gather text and metadata on the Web: Crawling, scraping, extraction, output as CSV, JSON, HTML, MD, TXT, XML

• superwhisper

• An All-In-One Agreements Platform | Agree.com

• docusealco/docuseal: Open source DocuSign alternative. Create, fill, and sign digital documents ✍️

• Domain redirect service hassle-free - redirect.pizza

• GitHub - microsoft/typespec

• stoplightio/elements: Build beautiful, interactive API Docs with embeddable React or Web Components, powered by OpenAPI and Markdown.

• OpenDevin/OpenDevin: 🐚 OpenDevin: Code Less, Make More

• daytonaio/daytona: The Open Source Dev Environment Manager.

Law

• User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer | Electronic Frontier Foundation

• synecdochic | No, that’s not what that website’s terms of service means

• RIPE meetings: IP addresses as spoils of war – TechAint

• Notes on operating fediverse services (Mastodon, Pleroma etc) from an English law point of view - decoded.legal: Internet, telecoms and tech law decoded.

• Why did Queen’s Counsel automatically become King’s Counsel? Parliament and the Demise of the Crown Act 1901 - ICLR

• Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come! - Conservancy Blog - Software Freedom Conservancy

• Graham Dwyer fallout: judge makes significant ruling on mobile data - Independent.ie

• Code, Speech, and the Tornado Cash Mixer | Electronic Frontier Foundation

• Silk but no silken tongue | Joshua Rozenberg | The Critic Magazine

• Don’t let cold calling get you into hot water - decoded.legal: Internet, telecoms and tech law decoded.

• Russian plugin, go fuck yourself – Hi, I’m Heather Burns

• Why the term “for the avoidance of doubt” is the hallmark of shoddy legal drafting – The Law and Policy Blog

• How I changed the law with a GitHub pull request

• Crowdfunding Backer Patented My Project

• Registry Agreement Termination Information Page - TLD Graveyard

• The curious tale of ICANN, Verisign, claims of subterfuge, and the $135m .Web dot-word

• Legal Oddities

• MongoDB’s Server Side Public License is likely unenforceable

• US Copyright Office Ruling Imposes Sweeping Right to Repair Reforms

• How a small French privacy ruling could remake adtech for good

• Computer Programming for Lawyers - Computer Programming for Lawyers

• No-logging of user activity policy - Guides | Mullvad VPN

• You Want to Geofence My GPU???

• Online Safety Act Notes for Small Sites — Russ Garrett

• Performing an Online Safety Act Assessment For mastodon.bentasker.co.uk | www.bentasker.co.uk

• UK Orders Apple To Break Encryption Worldwide While World Is Distracted | Techdirt

• Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder * TorrentFreak

• TuneIn ruling may lead to a more restrictive future for UK smart speaker and Internet radio users | The SWLing Post

• Break Google’s Search Monopoly without Breaking the Web - Open Web Advocacy

Misc

• Tether: The Story So Far | Kalzumeus Software

• It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

• clening/MastodonPrivacyGuide: A guide on data protection obligations, challenges & pitfalls for Mastodon Users & Instance Admins

• Closing the official BSL instance — Nicolas Constant - DevBlog

• Mastodon Hosting, Part 1 - Ideas.Offby1

• My home in the fediverse: Mastodon on a Raspberry Pi - Neil Brown

• How to run a small social network site for your friends

• On Running a Mastodon Instance | rixx.de

• Scaling Mastodon in the Face of an Exodus | Nora Codes

• fediverse.space

• GitHub - Anthchirp/mastodon-defederate: Aiding small Mastodon instance admins by tracking larger instances’ server blocklists

• jwz: Mastodon and federation

• Why This Computer Scientist Says All Cryptocurrency Should “Die in a Fire” ❧ Current Affairs

• The Sender Policy Framework (SPF)

• After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.

• Say No to Cloudflare

• Is This the Beginning of the End of the Internet? - The Atlantic

• An elegy for GNU and RMS | gay robot noises

• Did I make it harder to sell your crappy, used crypto mining graphics card? Good | TechRadar

• See No Evil

• Personal Data Warehouses: Reclaiming Your Data

• “Link In Bio” is a slow knife

• Home | Making Sense of Crypto and Web3

• Cautionary Tales from Cryptoland

• What will happen to crypto when USDT collapses? | by peerchemist | Jun, 2022 | Medium

• Electromagnetic Field 2022 - CuTEL

• How to poison the data that Big Tech uses to surveil you | MIT Technology Review

• A Glimpse of the Deep: Finding a Creature in Ethereum’s Dark Forest | Robert Miller’s blog

• The Case Against Crypto

• The Backpage Story and Future of Crypto Regulation | by Kyle S. Gibson | Medium

• Moxie Marlinspike >> Blog >> My first impressions of web3

• About – Web3 is going just great

• What’s a ‘Nocoiner’? Inside the World of Crypto Sceptics

• NFTs: crypto grifters try to scam artists, again – Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain

• Is Crypto Tethered to Reality? - by Gummi Bear - Gummi Bear Deepdives and Articles

• The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger

• Stephen Diehl on Twitter: “Today we’re going to talk about “the blockchain” and why it’s one of the dumbest most harmful faux innovations to ever come out of the tech industry. (1/) 🧵” / Twitter

• Cryptocurrency is an abject disaster

• 💸 Paving the way for micro transactions

• We Need Chrome No More

• Sean Coates blogs about IoT: Internet-Optional Things

• WRT54G History: The Router That Accidentally Went Open Source

• Life Moves Fast, Smart-Apartment Style – tisiphone.net

• Android

• DNS over HTTPS - It’s DNS Jim, but not as we know it!

• Goodbye, EdgeHTML

• Security Things to Consider When Your Apartment Goes ‘Smart’

• Apps Installed On Millions Of Android Phones Tracked User Behavior To Execute A Multimillion-Dollar Ad Fraud Scheme

• Investigating Implausible Bloomberg Supermicro Stories

• Bitcoin must die

• On Firefox moving DNS to a third party

• UK tech policy after Brexit

• Facebook, Google, Amazon, and the Collapse of the Tech Mythology

• The 7 basic features that will hopefully return to the MacBook Pro

• Continued progress porting Emacs to Rust

• Google+ to shut down after coverup of data-exposing bug

• What Really Happened to Apple’s AirPower

• How to Build a Low-tech Website

• Mozilla co-founder’s Brave files adtech complaint against Google

• The mysterious case of missing URLs and Google’s AMP

• Google Wants to Kill the URL

• Google AMP Can Go To Hell

• Mastodon and the challenges of abuse in a federated system

• The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New York Times Since 1995

• The gTLDs’ New Clothes - A Look at Centralization in Naked Domains

• Smartphones With Popular Qualcomm Chip Secretly Share Private Information With US Chip-Maker | Nitrokey

• MaximeBeasse/KeyDecoder: KeyDecoder app lets you use your smartphone or tablet to decode your mechanical keys in seconds.

• celoyd/potato: A small pansharpening model

• Backing up Spotify - Anna’s Blog

• Tiger - Real Time Train Information

• &udm=14 | the disenshittification Konami code

• マリウス . A Word on Omarchy

• Treat Big Tech like Big Tobacco - by Joel Wertheimer

• XSLT Debate Leads to Bigger Questions of Web Governance - The New Stack

• Olilo: Multi-Gig Broadband for Techies

• Solar capacity - sticky graphs

• The Future is NOT Self-Hosted

• Firefox dev says Intel Raptor Lake crashes are increasing with rising temperatures in record European heat wave — Mozilla staff’s tracking overwhelmed by Intel crash reports, team disables the function | Tom’s Hardware

• The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives - Ars Technica

• Web Bucks

• ‘Alexa, what do you know about us?’ What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family’s smart speaker had heard | Amazon Alexa | The Guardian

• Near-infrared spatiotemporal color vision in humans enabled by upconversion contact lenses: Cell

• The End of Glitch (Even Though They Say It Isn’t)

• The IPv6 transition | APNIC Blog

• ovh/venom: 🐍 Manage and run your integration tests with efficiency - Venom run executors (script, HTTP Request, web, imap, etc… ) and assertions

• Deciphering Glyph :: Unsigned Commits

• Andrew’s Blog - Resolving an unusual wifi issue

• Home | Kindle Modding Wiki

• Everyone knows your location

• How Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal - Ars Technica

• Ghostty Is Native—So What? | g.p. anders

• 100R — about

• Subpixel textures

• GreyNoise Labs - RattaGATTa: Scalable Bluetooth Low-Energy Survey

• xen0bit/rattagatta

• The solar industrial revolution is the biggest investment opportunity in history – Casey Handmer’s blog

• Hear that? That’s the sound of an ultrasonic cold brew coffee ready in under three minutes

• combatwombat/netbeep: Chrome extension to play sounds on network requests, depending on request type and file size.

• A Quick Guide to Containerizing Llamafile - DEV Community

• The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2024 – tecosystems

• Deciphering Glyph :: Let Me Tell You A Secret

• Taliban Shuts Down ‘queer.af’ Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance

• [archiloque.net] Trusted peers network

• Bricked Xmas

• 39 Post Office convictions quashed after Fujitsu evidence about Horizon IT platform called into question • The Register

• Public inquiry launched after 736 UK post office workers falsely convicted of fraud - Boing Boing

• Mixed Signals | Roads.org.uk

• The coming storm - Charlie’s Diary

• SebastianMuskalla/ModelessVim: Configuration files to turn vim into a modeless editor.

• A YaCy experiment - Chronicae Novis Rebus

• There’s a technology built into our cars to make driving safer – but we’re not using it.

• Safety Differently and The Principles of Human Performance | by Tom Connor | 10x Curiosity | Medium

• The Markdown Web

• Use of HTTPS Resource Records

• Upsert in SQL

• Fake Response Server: Slow response time generator – Sean Shadmand

• Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking – BadCyber

• Drinking distilled water