Notices by philpem (philpem@digipres.club), page 2

@foone That wasn't uncommon on early laptops, everyone had their own form factor. Toshiba had a different module for every blasted laptop model. Infuriating when you want to upgrade your Satellite or Libretto, even when they were new.

Hi. I'm the kid who liked to take things apart and figure out how they worked. Thing is, now I'm 30 odd years older, and I haven't grown out of taking things apart.

@foone "dial sqrt(-1) for faxback service"

@foone Dang. A Framework with a Greaseweazle plug-in module would be SWEET. A literal go-anywhere one-box disk imager.

@foone @artandtechnic if you've got enough stations and good enough clocks, why not! It'd work in a lot of places - FM radio might be easier though, and AM would definitely be easier

@foone They can call them "dielectric filters" all they like, they still look like sigils

@foone My favourite was googel searching the BSB custom chips from the ACM and finding a post from someone who'd sadly departed, talking about reverse engineering it. He probably figured it out too!

@foone @kiwa so what you're saying is, it's a flashing drive?

I don't know why people are so obsessed with ChatGPT and #AI. I know a lot of people who can spout absolute bullshit with a much lower carbon footprint. Funnily most of them seemed to be in the sales and marketing fields, but I'm sure that's a coincidence.

Just in time to switch back to the loratadine!

"Interestingly, several antihistamine drugs [...] which have been approved for treating allergy symptoms without side effects for decades, have been found to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection or replication via protein-protein interaction analysis or drug library profiling (30–35)."

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.01088-24?s=09

Happy days, I've finally fixed the spacebar on my keyboard. Turns out the keyswitch had a dodgy spring or plunger. The new one even clicks!

@darkrat That idea is cursed, evil, and I'd love to see what happens when someone tries to use it. I guess it could work okay if there was some kind of order to the randomness.
meanwhile I'll just sit here tapping away on my MX Blues and annoy you with the clicking!

Meanwhile, while I'm on a #Ghidra bender this evening - I just found this neat tutorial on using Zynamics #BinDiff with Ghidra, via the #BinExport plugin:
https://www.0x90.se/reverse%20engineering/install-binexport-and-bindiff/

I'm planning to give this a go - while I had access to IDA+Bindiff, I used it a fair bit.

Edit - in case you missed it, BinDiff and BinExport are also now open-source:
BinDiff: https://github.com/google/bindiff
BinExport: https://github.com/google/binexport

@foone oh heck yeah. I had a brief look at videocipher and figured there wasn't enough info out there to make a scrambler. I guess you found more than I did!

You know what #EMF2024 #emfcamp needs?

Cable TV.

@foone If you do, I need one too! :D

And here's what he looks like on my #EMFcamp talk slides :)

In case you missed it, I've got a spiffy new logo for my slides and PCBs. This is Chaos the dragon!
https://meemu.org/@quesadillawizard/112493013282894564

@foone 9 to 12 depending on heatsinking, aye. Works down to seven and a half.

@foone aha! I knew someone had done this. I was more curious if it was a thing people did back in the day - like swapping the alphanumerics for OCR A/B.