Posts by projectgus@aus.social
(DIR) Post #AoG6J3tX4vPFDMXLiC by projectgus@aus.social
2024-11-21T01:38:20Z
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In all seriousness I am amazed at the absolute crimes you can commit against modern communication protocols like USB and CAN and they just keep on going.Pretty decent engineering.(This was me splitting out the CAN junction that joins all the individual CAN buses of the Kona's motor stack together. By bridging them in one at a time I was able to identify which modules send a few of the remaining unknown CAN bus IDs.)#KonaHacking
(DIR) Post #ApebuWryTkKaFBEYfg by projectgus@aus.social
2025-01-01T22:19:11Z
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Spending the second day of the year catching up on a job I've put off for almost seven years: sorting through a bunch of Apple II computer bits from when my parents downsized...Will any of it still work? Will this be pleasant nostalgia or a giant chore? Who can say!
(DIR) Post #ApebuXsMjmEpMgQNv6 by projectgus@aus.social
2025-01-01T23:11:40Z
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That checkerboard cursor did unearth some nostalgia, it turns out
(DIR) Post #ApebuYqz6OjAOgmnPE by projectgus@aus.social
2025-01-01T23:48:00Z
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Credit to the good people at TADIRAN for making a lithium battery that lasted over 35 years without leaking
(DIR) Post #As4MKGzFdMsrd8kObw by projectgus@aus.social
2025-03-15T05:06:20Z
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Tag yourself I'm
(DIR) Post #AststiqQ44GDP1vrBQ by projectgus@aus.social
2025-04-09T01:57:55Z
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The brand new Ryzen desktop I built on Monday just had a USB induced kernel panic, and then refused to boot at all until I turned all my USB hubs off and on again.How many USB hub devices? Oh, the normal amount - definitely no more than 20.Either its a bad week for me and computers, or I'm the problem...
(DIR) Post #Aulfc0fzyPIBuhvIw4 by projectgus@aus.social
2025-06-03T22:52:31Z
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Doing an overdue cleanout of my electronics parts, and - not for the first time - coming across parts that I clearly bought some years back, but I don't remember buying or have any idea what they were intended for.
(DIR) Post #AulfcARTfFcQCZCqgq by projectgus@aus.social
2025-06-03T22:53:51Z
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(Also these giant resistors were in a box marked "Loose SMT", which is clearly stretching the definition of Surface Mount Technology...)
(DIR) Post #Av0pFHo5QQtD79dHV2 by projectgus@aus.social
2025-06-11T01:18:49Z
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@xssfox NGL, I've wondered about quietly CAN logging a dealer service to get samples of their firmware update protocols 😆
(DIR) Post #AwTqUyrDpJ9NOHmghU by projectgus@aus.social
2025-07-25T04:18:56Z
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2015 Internet: Worried that websites might quietly run JavaScript proof-of-work code to feed the cryptocurrency bubble.2025 Internet: Worried that websites might not quietly run JavaScript proof-of-work code to avoid feeding the AI bubble.
(DIR) Post #AxNbPsJAKA5bAdXKW8 by projectgus@aus.social
2025-08-21T01:52:42Z
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The Taviso blog post about Anubis[*] seems to miss a key point, which is that so far Anubis still works pretty well for un-DDoSing small servers!Maybe Anubis will eventually become ubiquitous, and/or be bypassed by enough savvy operators to become useless. Then maybe it'll no longer be a good approach, but AFAIK that hasn't happened yet.(That never really happened to hashcash either, which is why "never widely deployed" seems like an odd criticism - "oh no, this thing that's effective may never become worth attacking and therefore useless!")[*] https://archive.md/BSh1l
(DIR) Post #AxNbPtqsaIeRxUJlho by projectgus@aus.social
2025-08-21T01:53:29Z
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If anything, it's an argument for diversity - there should be a dozen projects like Anubis that all do slightly different things.
(DIR) Post #Ay2f2g8BnWQy2cxDV2 by projectgus@aus.social
2025-09-09T21:16:15Z
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They're so close to a breakthrough...
(DIR) Post #AyDvpXtDiIzwYtTC2C by projectgus@aus.social
2025-09-15T01:37:44Z
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"Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape"https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/Truly, we live in an age of absurdly wasteful wonders.(Although the vapes aren't running Android. Yet.)
(DIR) Post #Ayqv0tjgVYDMTM8sZk by projectgus@aus.social
2025-10-04T00:03:42Z
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Another laptop rescued from the Windows 10 shutdown and e-waste with Linux Mint!My friend only uses her generic 2014-era HP laptop for web browsing and LibreOffice.It struggled to boot to the desktop with 4GB of RAM under Windows. Popped an extra 4GB of RAM into it (free from junk pile) and it's completely snappy running Linux Mint. All of her files copied over, and they all still open.Should continue to meet her computing needs for years.It's true that "just switch to Linux" isn't a panacea for a lot of reasons, but for many folks with straightforward computer requirements it absolutely is!#Linux
(DIR) Post #Ayqv11g4yq5H6UW74C by projectgus@aus.social
2025-10-04T00:07:07Z
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The one biggish (but optional) service job that I did was re-pasting the CPU heatsink. That took as long as everything else combined, but I decided to do it after memtest86+ was showing 102C core temperatures with the fan at 100%!After replacing the thermal paste, memtest shows temps in the high 50s with barely audible fan. Better!#repair
(DIR) Post #Ayqv11gmwCeR8gqgAi by projectgus@aus.social
2025-10-04T00:16:25Z
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For many of us on this site this is a really easy and straightforward job to do.It took me a couple of hours, mostly backing up and restoring files. Then half an hour or so walking them through the (small) user interface changes now they're not on Windows. Plus maybe I'll get a call for help about something down the track.But there is absolutely no way my friend would have done this on her own - even with the very best internet tutorials and docs. It takes knowledge and trust.My point is: if you're reading this then there's a good chance you also know someone that you could offer to do it for, too.
(DIR) Post #AyzohdkQsM4q5AZ6rg by projectgus@aus.social
2025-10-08T07:43:19Z
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Greatly appreciated this "Cancelling Async Rust" talk by @rain.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrv5Cy1R7r4A systemic examination of async cancellation issues in Rust, with a bunch of practical advice. I was superficially aware of the issue, but learned a lot from their talk!#rustlang
(DIR) Post #B0ULUtOfR0Ipfz7I24 by projectgus@aus.social
2025-11-22T01:06:27Z
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Re: last boost https://chaos.social/@dpk/115589097803252590 That OCaml PR is textbook open source in the era of vibe coding...It's got everything:- PR submitted without the author acknowledging they didn't write it and don't understand it.- Copyright laundering.- "I just wanted to get it done!" versus maintainers who know they have to live with code contributions for years.- Zero-effort pasting LLM output as reply to real people's thoughtful questions. (At least the author acknowledged what they were doing that time.)- It doesn't matter that it's hard to review because "AI has a very deep understanding of how this code works."- "Beats me. AI decided to do so and I didn't question it."If this is our new world then it's going to turbocharge maintainer burnout. :dumpster_fire: (If you don't want to read a quite long often depressing thread, would still recommend reading this well reasoned comment by one of the maintainers:https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369#issuecomment-3556593972 )
(DIR) Post #B1Um2SyGOLTsjQaIBk by projectgus@aus.social
2025-12-21T04:15:37Z
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Suddenly reminded of an e-waste story: about 13 years ago I spotted a high end gaming PC at the tip. Less than two years old, pretty expensive component choices for the era.Took home, powered up. The CPU fan immediately ran 100%, and it froze mid-boot. OK, we know why it was treated as e-waste...Opened the case: Packed with thick dense lint and dust, especially in the CPU cooler fins. I can't imagine where it lived to ingest this much dust in only a couple of years, it looked like a clothes dryer filter in there.Carefully vacuumed it out, and it immediately worked. Literally nothing else wrong with it.#repair