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Look, I’m all for someone being excited for something they’ve never explored before. There is a joy in personal discovery of things you see. I’m not a fan of a
by xattt 2y ago
Look, I’m all for someone being excited for something they’ve never explored before. There is a joy in personal discovery of things you see.
I’m not a fan of a fabricated premise in order to show “look how brilliant I am, I discovered RDS from first principles” when this mostly documented (1).
In contrast, look at the Mike Harrison Eidophor talk. The guy pieced together a history of a significant technology that is otherwise poorly recorded on the Internet (2). This is new and novel info.
(1) https://www.2wcom.com/fileadmin/redaktion/dokumente/Company/RDS_Basics.pdf https://www.2wcom.com/fileadmin/redaktion/dokumente/Company/...
(2) https://hackaday.com/2016/04/19/mike-harrison-exposes-hot-oil-and-high-voltage-of-ancient-live-projector/ https://hackaday.com/2016/04/19/mike-harrison-exposes-hot-oi...
- ezcrypt 2y agoI mean, she was pretty clear about why she found the signal, and that she read the RDS documentation in order to decode it, etc. I think the more fun part was towards the end, when she brute-forced decryption keys for traffic information coordinates and also found the (AFAIK) non-standard Finnish bus stop time table information in another band and reverse-engineered that, and I think that was the takeaway of the talk.