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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 16:19:04 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   it has been zero days since I last searched the name on an IC inside some weird computer component, only to be told by the search engine that what I am looking at is not a surface-mount 4 megabit EEPROM, but is, in-fact;
   a gnome flag.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 16:20:03 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     bold of the keyboard engineers at Kinesis to use christmas flags instead of the usual flash memory chips. I'm amazed that even made it fit inside this keyboard!

   • Fi 🏳️‍⚧️ (munin@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 16:23:31 JST Fi 🏳️‍⚧️

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     @foone

     it's a more ecognomic option

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 16:23:31 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Fi 🏳️‍⚧️

     @munin damn you

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 16:48:24 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     It turned out to be a super-common chip that I was just blanking on, an 74HCS595: 8-bit tri-state buffer.

     Which makes me suspicious. I'm not sure that the fuck they're doing with that and why they'd need it.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 16:50:08 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     because the other two chips are a 32bit AVR chip and a SPI flash chip.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 16:51:12 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     and they should have plenty of GPIO to do both the SPI and the USB and the keyboard matrix with ease.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 16:51:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     it just smells like something they added on last-minute to work around a hardware bug

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 16:52:56 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     It is a split keyboard, I guess: maybe they just make the two halves talk to each other with a shift buffer? That might be cheaper than two microcontrollers, if there's no second microcontroller in the other half