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jaeckelon 15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test

Fancy! One can buy a pack of 3 for 30€ in Germany, which detect multiple types of borrelia bacteria ...

jaeckelon The Serial TTL connector we deserve

Since I once had the case where junk on the line (from a wiggly connection) caused Magic Sysrq requests I'm fully on your side. No junk tolerated for potential hot plug connections.

jaeckelon My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated

> you can always try the plastic bag + vacuum cleaner trick - take a thin flexible rope, tie it to a small plastic bag, stuff the small plastic bag into the conduit, use a vacuum cleaner at the other end to suck the plastic bag & rope through.

That's absolutely great! Worked like a charm two days ago and everybody cheered and laughed who saw it :-D

jaeckelon My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated

> [...] a string [...]

Does someone have a recommendation for a specific material the string should be made of?

jaeckelon ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC

In a straight line?

jaeckelon I use zip bombs to protect my server

ImgurViewer from fdroid on an FP5 opened it blurry after around 5s and 5s later it was rendered completely.

Pan&zoom works instantly with a blurry preview and then takes another 5-10s to render completely.

jaeckelon Using eSIMs with devices that only have a physical SIM slot via a 9eSIM SIM car

I'd be very much interested in those documents.

You can reach me via mail to s at username dot eu

TIA

jaeckelon Bambu Connect's Authentication X.509 Certificate and Private Key Extracted

I'm a bit surprised that nobody mentioned prusa as a replacement?

FMU that's where Bambu originally copied from!?

My short dive into 3d printers stopped once I was highlighted to the micro plastics pollution they create in the air, but still I would've gone for a prusa, already because all parts are free soft- and hardware.

Or is there anything else I'm missing?

jaeckelon Breaking NATO Radio Encryption [video]

It's an evolution of said papers and AFAIU improves the attack to a level that makes it executable.

jaeckelon Getting Started with FPGAs

> Some rather affordable dev board is: GateMateA1-EVB > > https://www.olimex.com/Products/FPGA/GateMate/GateMateA1-EVB...

Cool That looks nice! Thanks for the pointer

> This board has RP2040, not the successor RP2350. > > Still looking for similar board with 1Gbit-Ethernet.

Surprising indeed, that none of the two boards has Ethernet

jaeckelon Getting Started with FPGAs

Did anyone try out the CologneChip GateMate FPGA? It's supposed to have a completely open toolchain, but the dev board isn't exactly cheap at 230€

https://colognechip.com/programmable-logic/gatemate-evaluati...

jaeckelon How much energy does desalinisation use? Is it “absurdly cheap”?

That's why you do thermo solar in hot regions.

E.g. https://marquesadosolar.com/plant-andasol-3/

jaeckelon Ask HN: Marketplaces for Embedded/FPGA Developers

If you give a short description of what you need and contact details, your search is maybe already over, as on this site are also some freelancers with FPGA&|Embedded experience.

jaeckelon Digital signatures and how to avoid them

The answer is: dedicated CPU instructions for SHA256 vs. software implementation of SHA512. For amd64 there's SHA-NI, for Arm there's the crypto extensions, but both only provide sha256 (at least when I last looked at their specs)

jaeckelon Tupperware files for bankruptcy as demand slides

Absolutely this. Less microplastic FTW.

For lasagna we cook the ragu etc for multiple times eating, then we prepare the glass boxes as if they went to the oven, but put them to the freezer. Finishing this is basically: put the box from the freezer to the oven, then turn on the oven and bake for ~75minutes instead of the usual 60.

IKEA and DM (in Germany) have also nice glass boxes which are not as expensive as the Pyrex ones, but especially the cover of the Pyrex are better IMO.

jaeckelon Microwave spontaneously turned on by its LED display

> Sure, if you have money you can go with a reputable brand like Bosch & Siemens

Just FTR they're exactly the same -- "BSH Hausgeräte GmbH" -- with just a different label on it. ... And I didn't have a single good experience in the last years, IMO they're designed for planned obsolescence.

E.g. my premium Bosch Hand mixer broke after 2.5 years. Afterwards I bought a >35 years old used RG28e for half the price and it's still going stronger than the Bosch ever was, 5 years later.

> if you have even more money you can go with Miele

If you buy cheap (or uninformed) you most likely buy at least twice.

jaeckelon 23-Floor Manhattan Office Building Just Sold at a 97.5% Discount

Very common model in Germany as well, called Erbbaurecht. The land is usually owned by the Catholic Church or the city itself. They then give you a lease valid for 99 years and after that time the land falls back to them.

jaeckelon I got almost all of my wishes granted with RP2350

And only discord on top, but maybe I'm simply not hip enough

jaeckelon I got almost all of my wishes granted with RP2350

Would've been cool for safety applications if the second core could be run in lockstep mode.

jaeckelon Optimizing a bignum library for fun

If you're interested in even more details you could also have a look at Tom's book about bignum arithmetics. C.f. third paragraph of https://github.com/libtom/libtommath#summary

The library evolved since then, so the algorithm documentation only exists in code nowadays.

FTR I'm involved in the project as maintainer.

jaeckelon Ask HN: Freelancer's Dilemma – Client Won't Pay Despite Clear Agreement

Absolutely this.

jaeckelon Convert an existing wired doorbell into a smart doorbell using ESPHome

Thanks!

jaeckelon Convert an existing wired doorbell into a smart doorbell using ESPHome

> I have a [local only, no cloud] doorbell with a camera that does person detection.

Would you maybe share with us how you built it/which parts you used?

jaeckelon Reformatting 100k Files at Google in 2011

> [...] nor tooling that makes it a really natural thing to do [...]

If we ignore the fact that switching between those two formatters would "break" the formatting: There exist clean&smudge filters in Git, which could accomplish this technically.

https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes#_filter https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Attribute...

jaeckelon Adventures of Linux Userspace at Meta [video]

Their media hosting platform is used by many conferences. That's a video of a non-CCC conference, called asg, earlier in 2023, not to be confused with the recently held congress or other CCC headlined events.

jaeckelon Moving Git commits between repos (2017)

The mainstream version of this post is called subtree-merge and supported by recent Git versions ootb

jaeckelon Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?

Sorry to hear that! I have a pretty low sample size of ~8 friends on FP3 and I can't remember hearing of a single hardware failure. Some batteries got replaced and some are even still going strong on their first battery. I've updated mine from 3 to 3+ and I'm on my second battery since this summer, I.e. the main board is ~4years old. A friend had some minor issues in the beginning with some internal connector but I can't remember him mentioning it again.

Another friend got rid of her FP2 this spring in favor of a FP4, but only because some apps she uses got really unusable. Otherwise she would've stayed.

IMO it's a fairly good platform and I'm looking forward to how it evolves in the future. Hopefully they will introduce a smaller phone at one point.

jaeckelon Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage

And I just realized that I meant the Frenzel Maneuver, which I always forget the name of. OK you need a nose clip, but besides that it's hands free.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenzel_maneuver

jaeckelon Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage

It's not the same thing, but it would allow them to

> "[...] relieve your ear pressure without moving anything else"