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by jbit 1mo ago
Have you released your reverse engineered endoscope camera work? It's something I've been thinking about doing myself, since the vendor apps leave a lot to be desired.
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by jbit 2y ago
Hightec also have an ISO26262 qualified compiler focused on automotive: https://hightec-rt.com/rust So there's lots of focus on having a good alternative to C/C++
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by jbit 2y ago
There were a few vendor-specific VLBish busses: Opti local bus was the most common, and had a few different boards: https://ancientelectronics.wordpress.com/tag/opti-local-bus/ Gigabyte had one that was only used
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by jbit 3y ago
Check out the `--shutter` option for `libcamera-vid`, it allows you to tweak the camera's exposure time which might help with the screen refresh banding. `--shutter 60` sets the exposure time to 60ms, which might be a good starting poi
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by jbit 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230719185342/https://libreboot... For context, this is the page the cease and desist was referring to.
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by jbit 5y ago
I wonder how legit this site is. It says: > These SVG images were created by modifying the images of Pixabay. And indeed, the images seem to be taken from pixabay (e.g. [0], [1]), however the pixabay license is NOT CC0, and specifically
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by jbit 6y ago
Or even find the /etc/shadow contents in the hexeditor and empty the root password field. Searching for "root:" usually gets you to the right place. Most *nix systems are happy if you pad the left over bytes with newline
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by jbit 6y ago
I'd never heard of this documentary, so I took a look. I assume you meant "The Bit Player"? ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5015534/ ). It looks interesting, and it's on Amazon prime video so I&
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Taking Advantage of Auto-Vectorization in Rust(nickwilcox.github.io)
2 points by jbit 6y ago|0 comments
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by jbit 7y ago
Adding to this: f-droid also encourages reproducible builds: https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Reproducible_Builds/ This means you can verify the APK on the f-droid store matches what's in github by building i
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by jbit 7y ago
Why not also add the kitchen sink! http://www.john-ward.org.uk/personal/john/computers/html/roc... :)
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by jbit 8y ago
Rust has a lot of good IDE options these days: https://areweideyet.com/ They decided to focus on the "Rust Language Server", which many IDEs use, rather than on one specific IDE.
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by jbit 8y ago
As well as the IMA Appraisal feature that mjg59 mentioned, you can also integrity check your entire filesystem with verity[1]. Android uses it to make sure the system partition isn't tampered with. [1] https://www.kernel.org
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by jbit 9y ago
The embedded version of CLFS (Cross-Compiled Linux From Scratch) covers building a musl + busybox system: http://clfs.org/view/clfs-embedded/x86/ But the more resources available on this kind of thing the bet
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by jbit 11y ago
As somebody who uses numerous keyboard layouts on a daily basis, this is an interesting idea! I wonder how hard it'd be to make a script where you specify which keyboard layouts you're likely to encounter and it finds the common s
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by jbit 11y ago
> Also note the lead weights used here to make the product feel more substantial Are these weights really made of Lead? Or is "lead weight" just an industry term for anything heavy? If they're actually Lead, how do toys
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by jbit 11y ago
Google Apps has a few more knobs at least: https://support.google.com/a/answer/2368132?hl=en
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by jbit 12y ago
I believe all NTSC equipment is required to support Black&White System M signals, which are exactly 60Hz[1]. It probably made their equipment much simpler to forget about colour encoding entirely. (And it made the 44,100Hz fit too) [1]
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by jbit 12y ago
Small correction: The MinnowBoard MAX only has 8MB of on-board flash, not 8GB. (It's an SPI chip to hold the firmware)
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by jbit 13y ago
While I agree that they likely store much less data than five zettabytes, your assumption that all their storage is on constantly spinning hard disks seems flawed. (Tape libraries and various other offline/nearline storage solutions wo
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by jbit 13y ago
Indeed it's rare, but not unheard of. For example the "nocash" series of emulators has extensive debug support (breakpoints, memory viewers, disassemblers, hardware traps, etc) http://nocash.emubase.de is the website if you want to check