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They leave the Boeing and Soyuz up there, then when it’s time, gas 'em up and have them act as controlled thrusters. Everything burns up in the atmosphere. All problems solved.

Saves them $800M and change.

Many years ago, folks figured out how to crack firmware and find embedded keys. Since then, there have been many technological advances, like secure enclaves, private/public key workflows, attestation systems, etc. to avoid this exact thing.

Hopefully, the Rabbit folks spec’d a hardware TPM or secure-enclave as part of their design, otherwise no amount of firmware updating or key rotation will help.

There’s a well-established industry of Android crackers and this sort of beating will keep happening until morale improves.

I tried to hand-solder a Hirose .35-pitch connector onto a custom OSHPark board once. Let’s just say it was a humbling experience. Thanks to a generous friend, I learned the value of solder masks and owning a home reflow oven.

Respect to whoever can do this sort of thing, but life is too damn short and my eyesight and hands don’t need the abuse.

So, like teenagers learning to drive stick.

Looked like it happened right after takeoff. Can’t imagine what it would be like an hour away from an airstrip at 5000 ft.

Also, fortunate not to get hit in the face by insects when near ground. Have seen it happen to passengers in convertibles going 60. No fun.

How you solder those without dropping a blob and causing a short is a mystery.

Someone should build a little AI app that scrapes a job listing, then takes a resume and rewrites it in subtle ways to perfectly match the job description.

Let your AI duke it out with their AI.

The ‘Santa Cruz Diet.’

On sale, this Christmas. Deluxe edition with boot-shaped mug.

I have no shame for enjoying the entire Rick Riordan Olympian / Norse / Roman series. But I did have “reading to kid before bed” as an excuse.

Seeing all these comments on use of ACs… what happens if it cumulatively overloads the grid and you get blackouts?

Is there a Plan B?

Good to see proliferation of presence detectors. Good for turning things off when nobody is around.

In my last job I got to play a bit with the SeeedStudio mmWave presence box. What was interesting (and a little confusing) was that it took multiple add-on boards for things like on-device fall detection (for elderly). For the time I had with it, it worked fine with HA: https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/mmwave_radar_Intro/

‘Steve and I were talking about children one time, and he said the problem with children is that they carry your heart with them. The exact phrase was, “It’s your heart running around outside your body.”’

– Eric Schmidt, quoting Steve Jobs.

I could, but I personally feel anyone foolish enough to use my blathering deserves the unfortunate consequences.

My idea was for people who felt strongly about keeping their stuff away from the big maws of AI.

Outstanding!

If these companies were serious about on-site work and how much better it is, they would pay for time while commuting and transportation expenses.

Some Costcos still have them. Used to send checks and cash to the back office once they hit a limit. Guessing not so much any more.

Scrape a bunch of Onion articles, link them together in an index, then post an invsible link from your home page that spiders will follow but humans can’t see.

Write a script to randomize the words on all the articles and link them in too. Then change the image tags to point to random wikimedia files.

If there’s one thing we’ve learned, it’s that there’s very little quality control. Channel your inner Ken Kesey / Merry Prankster. Have fun.

Phones have had accelerometer/gyros for a while now. Problem with pinpointing one’s location is how to get a starting fix and how to deal with drift and loss of signal.

The way devices have dealt with it is to periodically confirm and baseline with a satellite fix.

If this method does away with all that, it could remove the reliance on overhead signals and those trying to jam them in hostile zones.

Pretty cool. Lots of potential.