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Wow, this thread fell quite low on my URL list. The problem is not the weaponization of the Internet. The Internet here is just a device, like a telephone, and noone is talking about weaponization of the telephone when it comes to mass obscene phone calls (including telemarketing :) ). The...

I bought the cheapest possible MP3 player for exactly the same thing: Playing audio (here sometimes audiobooks) when working in garden, making electronics (making it from ready assembly schematic on an universal PCB doesn't require you to think too much), housekeeping etc. Generally, one of...

Recently I bought Atari ST Mega 1... without keyboard and mouse. Fortunately, ikbd is relatively simple and I implemented a converter in Arduino quickly to use PS/2 mouse and keyboard. It works since the start of a system. Anyone knows ST from technical perspective? I'm looking for diagnostic...

We just finally reached the state that FB can do anything they want and we just can't do anything. The last asking Zuckerberg in USA Senate was a fun show made for public - to show that government cares while they care only about the surveillance system Mark built for them. If someone remembers...

The problem with fake accounts is that it works, fake or not, as an "anchor point" for tracking on websites with FB's iframe. Then the data can be combined with other data, this with other, this with leaks... that's hot it's done today. I was writing about these classified ads sites... And...

The biggest problem is that forming communities becomes a commodity. Thus, communication is done not to solve problems, but is done to be done, for someone's profit. I was thinking about recent USA law, officially against sex trafficking, and I think that this beautifully fits to making a...

At last something is moving and is moving in a right direction. The thing in a movie, with shoulder buttons not clicking in their place first, shows an important and I think a bit under-valued solution. This is one of these details everybody ignores but I like these, as they all sum up in a good...

Pi Zero with GPIO-connected small ADC, or even Covox+amp. I think that it may be possible to add ADC, Covox ladder and amplifier on a board of Pi zero size, put right on Pi Zero like Arduino shield. Or, but more expensive, I remember Intel made such modules. Curie? Something like this. If all...

Haven't bought, but I got some "not working" computer parts. I decided to try repairing them, so I found: - A server, dual-Slot1 board. This should fit nicely to my Zenith server casing, it's for such mainboard, I got it upgraded with some Sempron. The first problem was the CPU fan not...

Arduino may not be bulky, if the result device is carefully planned. First of all, prototype on Arduino module, let's take Uno because it's cheap and easy. Get the module with socket, not chip soldered in. After making prototype, get rid of the module from your project. I do it all time, I made...

The biggest problem is that this may pass in any country, and people are divided so much that they won't even protest - because some party will label itself in this protest and other people will not protest for pure contrariness to this party. In my country this is commonly used to make people...

Levi, and I expected mm. I could expect proper dimensioning too, but I got used to incomplete (or excessive) dimensions. Decent CAD... This was a scan of drawing. Made with ink on a piece of paper, and I should thank them not giving me a tube of Astralon :). I found that with computer sketches...

I have seen another engineer's hell. I'm doing some projects where I have to interface with industry. Recently I got technical drawings of quite precise details, the biggest length was about 10cm... ...with all dimensions in meters. IN SCIENTIFIC NOTATION. Like 3.25000000x10-4. (the -4 in...

@Elw3 Here they are: Here is as delivered: The rear ABS frame is broken to multiple pieces, most of them left in the rear part which could be just removed after unscrewing bolts - all plastic locks to keep the rear in the main chassis were broken as well as "hooks" on the bottom. The cooling...

Some time ago I bought a Power Mac 9500 to my collection. A nice thing was the upgrade, it was equipped with better G4 CPU and 128MB of RAM - being in fact like a computer from 1999, not 1995. One of the earlier units, with engineers' signatures well visible on inside of chassis (later they worn...

I'm talking about making these parts like "pipes": With one "input" transfer condition on one part (usually elements faces) and "output" on another, everything else is not modelled at all. The problem I found is that modelling the other conductivity makes the conditions a bit more ideal than...

I think it's important to do thermal simulations as well as physical tests to make sure we won't end like GPD did - where the CPU heat and battery charging heat are going over safety limits of the battery to the degree that it inflates. Recently there are numerous reports about it from those who...

It looks like it's really critical on servers and multi-access systems where users may execute their code. In client devices to exploit it you need some existing code-execution vulnerability to start privilege escalation from somewhere. Most typical media players don't have such options...

I found in GPD Win that Debian's GRUB automagically installs in UEFI partition and detects Windows during installation, the systems coexist well at this level. The problem started when I decided to downgrade BIOS to perform a memory grade tweak, which re-written my UEFI boot partition. GRUB was...

The problem with Windows bootable disks is that there are many of them, so be sure that it's the correct one. There are images of different integration degrees. And it's a completely intentional thing made for corporate deployment. Maybe an MS Partner understands it better and will correct me...