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dogbenon How to modify Starlink Mini to run without the built-in WiFi router

They may want to make absolutly sure no wifi signal emit from the device. Turning it off in the setup page is definitely not enough.

The wifi chip may emit signal during boot. The device may get accidentally reset in the field. SpaceX may push an update that messes with the settings.

dogbenon A note on the USB-to-PS/2 mouse adapter that came with Microsoft mouse devices

PS/2 keyboard/mouse are interrupt driven which saves power on laptops. While USB ones are polling based which require controllers running all the time.

dogbenon IO Devices and Latency

I believe that's power saving in action. A single operation at idle is slow, the drive needs time to wake from idle.

dogbenon Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 awarded to Nihon Hidankyo

There were instruments dropped by parachute.

dogbenon Linux 6.11 Released

you can just blacklist amdgpu and use EFI/VGA buffer provided by bios

dogbenon Cyber Scarecrow

A simple magic is to set system language and locale to Russian.

dogbenon Controlling the Taylor Swift Eras Tour wristbands with Flipper Zero

Thanks. So that 30W lamp in another comment might be a safty hazzard if someone in close range stares at it and the beam is tightly focused.

dogbenon Controlling the Taylor Swift Eras Tour wristbands with Flipper Zero

Is high power IR lamp safe for eyes?

dogbenon A transport protocol's view of Starlink

> This orbital velocity at the surface of the earth is some 40,320 km/sec.

Is that a typo? Orbital velocity on the surface should be 7.9km/s.

dogbenon How Microchips Work

And it's relatively easy to make large pure silicon single crystal.

dogbenon "<ESC>[31M"? ANSI Terminal security in 2023 and finding 10 CVEs

My Firefox+dwm combo works. The 0x1b on my status bar is shown as a Treble clef. Maybe it's a font thing?

dogbenon How I Made a Heap Overflow in Curl

  if(!socks5_resolve_local && hostname_len > 255) {
    socks5_resolve_local = TRUE;
  }

This is really a bad idea. For people who use anti-censorship tool to protect privacy, this can leak their identity through DNS.

dogbenon Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier

武侠小说 may be more appropriate.

dogbenon Memory-efficient enum arrays in Zig

The most accurate IBM PC emulator is in rust. https://github.com/dbalsom/martypc

dogbenon Keeping Open Source Open

This makes me feel very uncomfortable.

dogbenon Intel Explores Transition to 64-Bit-Only X86S Architecture

Looks like SMM is still there.

dogbenon Why is my dryer radioactive?

I don't think it has negative ion generator. I guess the fan itself can generate ions, that's why aircraft have static dischargers.

dogbenon Why is my dryer radioactive?

It's interior. No ventilation. I guess it's ionizing the air and bringing radioactive dust particles to the whole room. The radiation level is still very low so I'm not worried.

dogbenon Why is my dryer radioactive?

My geiger counter activity goes up when air conditioner is working. Never figured out why. This could be a good explanation.

dogbenon I want to talk about WebGPU

It works with --enable-unsafe-webgpu --enable-features=Vulkan command line arguments. Not very stable though.

dogbenon Google: Turn off VoLTE, Wi-Fi calling: severe Exynos modem vulnerabilities

Quectel EG25-G is running linux

https://nns.ee/blog/2021/04/01/modem-blog.html

dogbenon Running KDE Plasma on RISC-V VisionFive-2

They do support OpenCL. You only need their closed source user space library libamdocl*.so and libamd_comgr.so to use it.

dogbenon Losing the magic

Macro magic and compiler extensions.

Example: https://lwn.net/Articles/750306/

dogbenon Activision’s faulty anti-cheat software

Again, pirates get the better product.

dogbenon Nvidia PhysX 5.0

The CPU on xbox one/ps4 is very weak. Developers have to sacrifice physics.

dogbenon Soldering Wires – Here's a different way

Watch this before inventing a new way of soldering.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL926EC0F1F93C1837

dogbenon Xz format considered inadequate for long-term archiving (2016)

The hardest part is digitizing those notes. Once digitized, the best approach is to make copies every few years. Copying of digital data is easy and lossless, and the cost of digital storage is constantly going down.

dogbenon Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

That Armoury Crate bullshit is embeded inside the UEFI ROM. It's called Windows Platform Binary Table (WPBT). I can't distinguish it from malware. Trully disgusting.