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Google Fi bricked my iPhone 11 Pro Max (2020)
When I discovered Google Fi six months ago, I thought to myself, “Finally, a phone service that accomplishes everything I need at a…
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RP2040 Doom
The Making of RP2040 Doom
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Oxide at Home: Propolis Says Hello
So Oxide is making some cool stuff huh? Big metal boxes with lots of computer in them. Servers as they should be! Too bad I can’t afford to buy one for myself… but wait, they’re open-sourcing the software they’re writing to do it. Mom said we can have Oxide at Home!
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ZFS on a single core RISC-V hardware with 512MB
Is this feasible? Yes it is! OpenZFS on Linux compiled from sources for RISC-V, it will work with less than 250MB of RAM for a nearly fully filled 2TB zfs volume with 225.000 files! Even stressing the system and run in parallel (via Wifi): a…
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Linux Developer Laptops: Dell's Precision 5500 series reigns supreme (2019)
I’m an entrepreneur and engineer focused on AI developer tools and data systems. My principal role is Founder at Kenn Software . I am also a Principal Architect at Posit , where I contribute to Python and AI strategy. I was a founder of Voltron Data , Ursa Labs (with Posit ), and DataPad. I wrote Python for Data…
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Apple AirTags draining battery of devices close by
If you have AirTags in the vicinity of your iPad it drains its battery for no reason. The past months I’ve been wondering why my iPad Pro always needed to be recharged when I used to use it without charging for weeks. I’m not the only one…
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Reverse-engineering the waveform generator in a 1969 breadboard
How hard could it be to fix a vintage solderless breadboard that doesn't quite work? The "elite 2 circuit design test system" below combin...
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Apple M1 Ultra
Apple today announced M1 Ultra, the next giant leap for Apple silicon and the Mac.
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New iPhone SE
The most affordable iPhone features the powerful A15 Bionic, 5G, better battery life, improved durability, and a new camera system.
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What's the risk from fake Yubikeys?
I found this on a security-related Slack (shared with permission). It launched an entertaining discussion about the risks of taking a potentially fake FIDO token. We all know the risks of taking a free USB drive and shoving it in our computer, right? USB sticks can install software, act as a keylogger, transmit data…
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IBM open sources fully-functional Lego microscope design (2020)
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Sony A1 Complete Disassembly and Teardown
Sony A1 Complete Disassembly And Teardown. One year ago, Sony announced this beautiful beast, and today we’re going to take it apart!
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My New Old Macintosh SE/30 Computer
Acquiring and tricking out a 1989 Apple Macintosh SE/30, the greatest Mac of all time
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EEG Cat Ears (2018)
I built mind-controlled ears as a way to learn how to build my own arduino-based designs. Challenges included cable management and designing custom servo hardware to attach to the asymmetrical EEG headset.
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The Life of Pi: Ten Years of Raspberry Pi
The most successful computer ever to come out of the UK celebrates its tenth anniversary this year.
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Intel gets worse, but Power11 might get better
Just in case we needed any more reassurance we made the right move with OpenPOWER: Phoronix is reporting that Intel is about to get even ...
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An Interview with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger
An interview with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger about IDM 2.0, the acquisition of Tower Semiconductor, and the choices Intel did not make.
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How Ebooks Have Poisoned Electronic Ink
It is the best of times for electronic ink but it is the worst of times for actually reading eBooks.
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Capcom CPS-1 Graphic system study
As I keep on exploring the internals of the machine that animated so many hours of my childhood, I came to study its GFX system.
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Live Streaming a Macintosh Plus
Since recording a handful of C Programming on System 6 videos, I've occasionally wanted to live-stream the more casual daily programming being done on my Macintosh Plus. After getting all of the pieces together, I now have a working self-hosted broadcasting setup.
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Find You: Building a stealth AirTag clone
We built an AirTag clone capable of silently and continuously tracking someone. The device accomplishes this by sending just one beacon per generated public key, thereby staying invisible to tracking notifications for iOS users and Apple’s Tracker Detect Android app.
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NSA's Backdoor of the PX1000-Cr
In 1983, the PX-1000 pocket telex used DES encryption. But with help of Philips, the NSA managed to replace DES with an alternative (weaker) algorithm that they could break. That NSA algorithm is now broken.
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Intel to Acquire Tower Semiconductor for $5.4B
Intel and Tower Semiconductor on Feb. 15, 2022, announced a definitive agreement under which Intel will acquire Tower for $53 per share in cash, representing a total enterprise value of approximately $5.4 billion. (Credit: Intel Corporation and Tower Semiconductor)
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A Small Ode to the CRT
I used to hate Cathode Ray Tubes . As a kid in Europe, everything flickered at 50Hz, or made a loud whistle at 15.625KHz (back when I could still hear it). CRTs just seemed crude, “electro-brutalist” contraptions from the valve era. They were heavy, and delicate, and distorted, and blurry, and whistled, and gave…
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Building an iPod for 2022
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