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zoobab··on Various Projects Find Hidden SDR Capabilities in ESP32 Microcontrollers
I created a new country Zooland where there are not RF regulations:

https://www.zoobab.com/zooland

For the same reason, those regulations (FCC radio lockdown etc) stifle innovation in the SDR world.

zoobab··on How the Bayh-Dole Act Transformed Tech Transfer
Or how to transform universities into patent trolls.

And make the public pay twice.

zoobab··on Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet
Because some people want power, and abuse it.
zoobab··on Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust
"they went after a forum that documented initiatives to reverse (well, they also hosted pirated diagnostics sw but.. yeah)"

I think i know that software. It's the one distributed to shops?

zoobab··on Show HN: Drop – A rootless Linux sandbox with gVisor support
Have you ever tried to use proot?

It does not use process namespaces, and can run on Android (on Termux with proot-distro).

zoobab··on The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week
A public FTP server is next app store.
zoobab··on Iranian banks' SSL certificates are being revoked due to OFAC sanctions
It's not as if SSL critics warned about this ponzi pyramid, prone to censorship.
zoobab··on Who gets to define the rules for AI?
Democracy does not exist.

And there is no need for rules, this doomerism probability is not based on science.

zoobab··on Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust
We need to free up Bosch systems. They use lots of open source libs, but they close the whole chain (like spare batteries) so that you cannot plug external batteries from other suppliers.
zoobab··on LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'
GDPR is forcing them to detail which private data they collect.
zoobab··on Bernie's AI bill proposes to sentence AI developers to 20 years in prison
I propose an amendement with Death Sentence with Lethal injection, 20 years in jail is not enough if we follow the gradation of sentences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_injection

zoobab··on Claude is only available to people over 18 years
It's a sarcastic joke, similar to what the lobby managed to put in the head of our politicians with social networks being "harmful" for kids.
zoobab··on Claude is only available to people over 18 years
Vibecoding is harmful for kids, especially when they grow up.

Well done Claude, will use Chinese models instead!

And i won't give you my ID card.

zoobab··on Use Vsock with Libzmq
Preparing for the 10 years anniversary of Pieter Hintjens's disseapearance, the main author of Zeromq:

http://hintjens.com/blog:125

zoobab··on There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis
I saw my personal website nearly dissapear from Google, because it is hosted on wikidot:

http://zoobab.wikidot.com

Before my pages had a high ranking in Google.

zoobab··on Colorlight 5A-75B: A dive into a popular low-cost ECP5 (FPGA) development board
"getting access to the JTAG pins"

I have seen some of the boards being reflashed with DirtyJTAG and openfpgaloader.

JTAG pins might dissappear from the board?

There is a video here "Pico-DirtyJTAG: Cheap JTAG Programmer! Raspberry Pi Pico for Lattice ECP5 + Icestudio":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj1X4PIoQGg

zoobab··on Mistral raises €3B
Still no training data in sight.

Maybe we need to abolish copyright?

zoobab··on Live map of public transport in Belgium
I always complained about the lack of displays at the tram stops, now it's getting better.
zoobab··on Mistral now trains on user input by default, except on enterprise tier
What do you expect from running on "someone else computer?"
zoobab··on Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users
Well, i emailed the DMA team at the European Commission, they don't plan to do anything to Keep Android Open.

Apple moved first with making a special 'sideloading' case for apps not under their control, Google is just copying what they did.

No more free sideloading.

zoobab··on Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users
From bad to worse.
zoobab··on AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link
"pay the relevant Play service fee"

We were promised alternative app stores in the EU, but the European Commission does not stop them.

zoobab··on AI-written code is still your code
We need some laws to tag which code has been produced or not by an AI.

For the AI Act, it is the case for images and videos, don't know about code.

zoobab··on California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
Not a victory, Android is still covered.
zoobab··on vLLM v0.28.0
Did some loadtests on vllm, managed to crash it :-)
zoobab··on Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
So much for 'open'.
zoobab··on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
Let's file an antitrust complain.

Not just on this HF acquisition, but on the whole ecosystem monopoly.

zoobab··on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
an FTP server delivering tarballs.
zoobab··on Walgit – a Git server that is one binary in front of an object store
Tarballs over FTP was better.
zoobab··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
If you are interested in the EU killing small companies and economic suicide:

https://ffii.org/unified-patent-court-is-100x-more-expensive...

This is an article from 2021, but in the meantime, after the complaints of small companies, countries made the matter even worse by *increasing* the court fees even more, citing the inflation over 10 years.

You see there is hope in this corrupt world, not to mention that the people who decide do it for themselves, states don't want to spend more so they send the bill to companies that have to litigate.

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