Excellent read (as always with Fabien Sanglard's work) for any Jurassic Park and retro computer fan
https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.html
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I'm throwing my hat into the ring for the #occ2026 with a week centered around my trusty Thinkpad Transnote. Follow me for some NetBSD shennigans!
http://unconventional.computer/projects/occ/occ2026/
(Also a lowkey softlaunch of my tech blog 🎉)
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@janamarie@mystical.garden
Thanks for this detailed explanation! Now I have to see how (if possible) to make one with a four third camera like a cheap Lumix
@coldclimate@hachyderm.io
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@axel_hartmann@digitalcourage.social
Thanks for the detailed feedback!
So basically your sensor is basically sensitive to both UV and IR and depending on the external/screwable filter you set up you've got either UV pics or IR ones?
@janamarie@mystical.garden @coldclimate@hachyderm.io
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@CyReVolt@mastodon.social
Thanks! I wasn't aware of the FOSDEM videobox, I'm gonna check it out!
We strive to use FOSS everywhere we can at Botconf so it's very interesting. For now regarding the hardware we mostly threw money at the problem and have a Blackmagic ATEM mini pro and a Scarlet 2i2 soundcard, along with a laptop with lots of hdmi splitters and hdmi to usb capture cards.
@hackaday@hackaday.social
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@da5nsy@social.coop
And regarding #OpenWRT the limits are mostly from hardware : RAM and Flash memory (e.g. https://openwrt.org/supported_devices/432_warning) and supported architecture of the CPU and network chipsets. So #copyfail won't magically solve these issues (but could help R&D on known compatible but unsupported hardware as rooting helps to experiment)
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@da5nsy@social.coop It could be with the following caveats :
- many kernels in IoT/"smart" devices are from before 2017 so #copyfail won't apply
- many devices have locked down bootloaders and rooting the OS doesn't provide by default a way to unlock these bootloaders. Unlocking them is required to be able to install a third party OS (depending of the device a root acccess could be suffficient to replace altogether the bootloader though)
- having root access is nice and is a first step but the other step (which is 99% of the work) is doing a port of an OS (like #postmarketOS or #netbsd) to the new device and supporting its peripherals (network cards, GPU, cameras, modems...) and it is still an involved and technical process
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@internetarchive
Looks like a great book! Any way to buy it for those far away that cannot attend?
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@lcamtuf@infosec.exchange
Congrats! This is a reminder that I really should find a library in Europe that carries @nostarch@mastodon.social books because shipping + tax from the US is ridiculous
Your book deserve a physical presence on my bookshelves
How people manage audio/video stuff for temporary setups like festivals or conferences while keeping it compact (suitcase-sized) and with a decent cable management?
I've got an issue of cable management regarding the AV setup of the #Botconf and I'd like to improve it for the #Botconf2027. I'm thinking about precabling all the equipment with short and neatly organized cables and sending it as-is as a (modular) monolith. For this I'm thinking about a guitar pedal board (see pictures for example) or maybe a 10" #minirack which will be sent in a suitcase or a small flightcase.
I wonder how tech people from other confs like #39c3 #STIC @hackaday@hackaday.social #supercon deal with this?
First day of the @botconf@infosec.exchange 2026! It's alive and kicking at https://m.youtube.com/BotconfTV
Here's an exclusive behind the scenes picture of the control room
(Don't mind the clusterfudge of cables :~)
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@realMagnesium12@troet.cafe
Damn nice! I wonder if someone is selling fully assembled units
@jiub@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net @coreforge@furry.engineer
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@_thegeoff@mastodon.social
The one page website/tool I love the most is Cyberchef : https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/
@gabe_sky@infosec.exchange
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr
Nice! Anything in the pipe regarding a French translation?
@rashunda@mastodon.social
Welcome to Mastodon @sprite_tm!
I'm happy to see such a great member of the #hardwarehacking community joining our ranks on Mastodon : )
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@campuscodi
I'd be curious to know if age of the responders falling for it was a factor. Like millenials won't fall for .SCR but would fall for older and weirder executables formats like .COM .BAT or ($DEITY forbid) .PIF
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@kenSwinson@indieweb.social
Thanks for the link! I look forwared reading about your future #mouldmaking posts!
How can a simple and passive 4 pin header can cost as much as 2 to 3 times the cost of a devboard? And is there an off the shelf alternative for those? #hardwarehacking #uarthttps://fr.aliexpress.com/item/1005005732295296.html
I typed odyssey in google and some troyans stole divs on my webpage #odyssey
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@rashunda@mastodon.social
Is there official translations in the works?
@pluralistic@mamot.fr
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@hackaday@hackaday.social
Dmitry reverse engineering writeups are among the best because they really explain all the nitty gritty details and all the struggles all reverse engineer encounters but almost none ever document in writing, thus providing a truthful glimpse of what this hobby/practice entails.
> renting a private vertical slice of stolen, soylentized flash frozen expertise to create a completely isolated island of a thing
Is one of the best description of what using a LLM actually is
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@marieverdeil@post.lurk.org
Damn I wish I could be there but I'll be at the #Botconf2026. Will some documentation would be produced following those workshops?
@rein@merveilles.town @creativecoding@post.lurk.org
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@Gammitin
DSUB are always a PITA to desolder, especially with old solder. I still haven't found a technique
Day 3 of #occ2026, we have NetBSD on the IBM #Transnote!
Dear EU fellows, do you know if there's an equivalent to the US FOIA/FOIL requests for Europe?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_(United_States)
RE: https://hub.azkware.net/display/6e2ecb8d-156a-c2a9-3b00-d25115105626
#hellmood still on top of the game
(I'd be curious to see the writeup on this one!)
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Just found a DOS demo that fits in eight bytes (yes, eight!) pouet.net/prod.php?which=10705… #Demoscene
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@marieverdeil@post.lurk.org
Awesome! Have a nice workshop!
@rein@merveilles.town @creativecoding@post.lurk.org
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@altomare@oldbytes.space
I love fixing sewing machine when we got them in our #repaircafes !
Now what's the brand/model of the audio tape player we see in the background?
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@kenSwinson@indieweb.social
Do you have any notes and or pics on the making of these molds? Or maybe the pics on your previous posts are the molds themselves and not finished tiles from the molds like I though
Anyway congratulations on your work, they are very pretty!
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