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bdavbdav··on The Forgotten Art of the LAN Party (2023)
I love this technically, but part of the magic was all setting up trestle tables, sitting in someone’s garage / outbuilding, and it all being a bit raw.

I vividly remember cutting a hole in the side of a Shuttle XPC case to fit the fan of a GPU someone had bought over for me at one. That was all part of the experience for me.

bdavbdav··on Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links
That would take nothing to implement. Services like Truecaller already do live caller ID against databases on iOS / Android. All it would take is a sensible register of verified numbers
bdavbdav··on Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses
Teams is the only one with seat pricing. Teams has a user cap of 150. Enterprise is usage based pricing only now (with a £20/user service charge)
bdavbdav··on Flipper One – we need your help
Wow. That really doesn’t know what it is.

Love the idea of a hackable ethernet tool though.

bdavbdav··on Flipper One Tech Specs
Lots wondering about the dropping of NFC/other contactless radios. I'd argue Flipper never did this as well as a real Proxmark, and the Flipper One does well to stray from the half baked implementation in the zero
bdavbdav··on Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone
I used to use SDR for DAB radio in the nexus 7 in the dash of my BMW E46. It didn’t work very well but was closer to being some kind of radio receiver (not trans at least)
bdavbdav··on Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell
Is this not more targeted at “badly developed IOT” generally as opposed to “your doorbell”? Bad title.
bdavbdav··on I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation
Unfortunately I think just the SSL stack to support a TLS connection would saturate that now
bdavbdav··on Citroën metropolis concept car (2010)
Stelantis are defocusing Citroen.
bdavbdav··on Claude Platform on AWS
Ours have done in other similar bedrock programs.
bdavbdav··on Claude Platform on AWS
As someone who is dealing with the procurement of both in a medium sized it, finops and infosec are exactly it.
bdavbdav··on The Hottest Phone for Kids Right Now Is a $100 Landline
Our 4yo loves the landline we recently put back in for her. It’s got speed dials for all her family, and she will ring and chat to them.
bdavbdav··on New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper
Luckily I suspect the intersect on the Venn diagram isn’t huge for Neo buyers, and those wanting / needing 10gigE
bdavbdav··on Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero
*was full ;)
bdavbdav··on FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account
Was going to say there’s a good reason lots of people use services like mailchimp now. You’re not sensibly managing it yourself with the current (very sensible) regulations in the US / EU, nor do you want to be sending from your own domain en masse.
bdavbdav··on The Orange Pi 6 Plus
Good. ESPs are better for low power IO. Cheap desktop HW / mini pcs are better for tinkering environments.
bdavbdav··on The Orange Pi 6 Plus
So don N100s / N150s - often cheaper and better.
bdavbdav··on Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning
US centric view, which I believe to be wrong. UK is predominantly WhatsApp, and the bulk of handsets sold are still iPhones.

Income is a much tighter correlation than messaging platform. Rack up those market shares by phone value and the scales tip even harder.

bdavbdav··on Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning
But everyone talks about it like it was Apple, and isn’t that what matters (to Apple)?
bdavbdav··on Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones
I think that’s probably quite a selfish world view (and also quite arrogant to claim your own view is hard to argue against - of course you would find it hard to argue against, that is moot…)

When there is infrastructure to support all 3 kinds of users, it seems a lot more equitable for everyone to use the space cooperatively.

I absolutely agree one should give way to more vulnerable road users, but that all 3 can have better outcomes (safety, speed of journey, efficiency etc) it all use it cooperatively and conscientiously.

To labour the point, on shared cycle and pedestrian paths with a line down the middle, does a bell ring combined with slowing down to a safe speed not seem like an appropriate warning?

bdavbdav··on Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones
I always hate having my headphones on ANC on the street. It makes me feel really exposed and disconnected. I tend to use transparency when out and about.
bdavbdav··on Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones
This is always an odd one, as it’s the people who look like they just found a bike in a skip and decided to ride around here that cycle on the pavements.
bdavbdav··on Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones
In the roads near my office (central London), which are seldom used by cars, several pedestrians at a time very often walk down the road or diagonally cross the road head in phone. You can get very close and the still don’t notice (the slower you are, the quieter you become so even less likely to hear you).

I’m not sure arguing against a bell is helpful - people need to look on any road, especially with the advent of quiet electric cars.

bdavbdav··on AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart
It’s really odd to listen to - the vocals seem like they’ve been recorded at a really low nitrate.
bdavbdav··on Every GPU That Mattered
1999? You sure?
bdavbdav··on Every GPU That Mattered
Surprised PUBG was the defining game for so many. I don’t recall it being a demanding one.
bdavbdav··on ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V SoC with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Advanced HMI
Love ESP boards, and with Raspberry pi pricing though the roof, I’m hoping more will discover the love of getting the job done on a 10mm2 package.

I suspect a lot of the things people are using RPi for are better served by things like this (and virtualisation for the heavier end)

bdavbdav··on Bring Back MiniDV with This Raspberry Pi FireWire Hat
This would have been much nicer than suffering my dad’s 12 year old iMac I found in the loft.
bdavbdav··on A nearly perfect USB cable tester
I find some programmers (and this is presumably true of any industry) very narrow in their expertise within technology.
bdavbdav··on A nearly perfect USB cable tester
That’s quite a simplistic one unfortunately - USB 2 and 3 use different controllers in the PC, which it can indeed detect. The sub-flavours of 3/4 less so.
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