Shayla Love from The New Yorker visited a @Toool lockpicking meetup in Amsterdam and wrote a piece about it.
I hosted the meetup, and enabled Shayla with lockpicks, locks, and plenty of stickers, but chose to leave the interview/discussion to those with more energy.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/how-i-became-a-lock-picker
Vibe coded projects on GitHub are a form of the bullshit asymmetry principle. As in, it takes much longer to verify code than it took for the programmer to create.
I've misread it, and believe anything I would say about A/I to be a problem under the sanctions, at least when someone in the US shows any kind of sympathy for the group based on my messages.
Physical copies are now purchased, as I believe it to be important to own physical media. One for me, and one for a hacker space library.
I've dug a bit deeper into the sanctions against Autistici/Inventati, and I found that I'm not allowed to incentive support for the organisation. So I won't.
The group wrote a book called "+KAOS: Ten Years of Hacking and Media Activism" ISBN: 978-94-92302-16-8. It looks interesting to me, but cannot recommend you reading it, nor getting a copy from the Internet Archive. (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
I may go for a jester training, so I can realize my fool potential.
I believe we should bring back #followfriday #ff
Just a few from my current timeline with posts I enjoyed: @Pepijn @astridpoot @IcyPalm @eloy @Dany
@whitequark Do you have a parts list for your cooling suit? I've browsed your Mastodon, but don't see one.
I've played with water cooled mat, but cooling system is evaporative, and does nothing for me here. Starting with icy water does help to sleep earlier, but for the full night that'd be several kilograms of ice, and no way to control it. (Aquarium pumps are better, but quite expensive.)
Had a bit of fun drawing up this e-clips of the sun.
I've got a knowledge gap about these systems, and started learning. The best video about repairing and refilling one of these systems is video by Lain Portalupi. He shows how you can repair these systems. And it is clearly way above my capabilities at the moment.
Not wanting to give up just yet, I ran a few tests. The machine uses 300W of power, where the spec writes it uses 800W. This is consistent with low pressure in the system. I.e. the compressor has nothing to compress.
I've bought a broken portable air conditioning, hoping it would be an easy fix. The issue doesn't seem to be electrical, so the problem is in the refrigeration system. E.g. a leaky or blocked refrigeration line.
I don't have the skill, nor the tools to fix this. While I'm a bit sad this device is likely scrap, I've picked up a few ideas, and tried a few things.
I wish more of the effort of LLM was put towards making search better. As in when I search for 'high voltage DC power supply', it should understand I'm not looking for 'high precision AC power supply' or 'high power something'. From there we can have it learn component families, give equivalent suggestions, and near neighbors.
And no, I don't want to 'chat' with an LLM assistant.
The building I have an apartment in started cocooning. I hope it becomes beautiful, but I'd be a bit sad if it grows wings and starts flying away.
Small rant. I've purchased a museumkaart which is a subscription to Dutch museums. The options are to purchase a physical card online, or activate the card with their app. So far, so good, and I chose the physical card. Activating the card in the application invalidates the physical card, and there is no easy way to revert it. They say it is due to fraud risk, but ownership of the card is easily verified as the card is personalized.
Of course, my problem is that I'm just too skeptical of digital identification, but also too impatient to wait for the physical card. While I don't 'need' to go to a museum today, I wish I could.
RE: https://bolha.us/@personalescrito/116716891735359755
De Volkskrant, a Dutch news organization, released an article in 2025 about the children being treated in Gaza for single gun shot wounds. Indicating this is deliberate, and not stray fire. I've not seen the article before today, but now they've won an award for the reporting, and thus I'm sharing it for you to read as well. This reporting is from a year ago, from the events in the year before that. In the meantime the situation has only worsened, and still we (mankind) aren't doing anything. I feel powerless, but this is not a good reason to look away.
My go-to solution for project storage is the smallest sizes of IKEA Samla. This works fine until you have a large collection of (un)finished projects.
I'm at a tech event on embedded systems. While it is good to see trends, there does not seem to be much news. Better modules, higher precision measurements, but nothing shocking or revolutionary. The community has learned a few new words, including quantum, AI, and security, but can't yet define it. Quite adorable, but also frustrating.
Embedded Systems Security is a practical training on black box evaluations of embedded systems. The training starts with an introduction to security theory, and quickly moves to practical content on hacking embedded Linux devices, and defending them. In particular, with physical access to the hardware in scope. https://www.keysight.com/us/en/learn/bootcamp/164386.html
If you are a hacker, but don't yet have experience with embedded systems, this training is worth your while. The training is designed to give an in depth understanding of electronic devices and how to attack them. The examples are not extreme, and teach you the ideas and methods instead of giving you a list of exploits. While my contribution is as part of a team, the training contains some of my best writing I've done. Many chapters on hardware, components, circuit boards, and low level communication are mine. I'm thrilled the training is now available for everyone, online, and free.
@hermithive A few more detail pictures of the vault door hinges and the emergency ventilation.
Do let me know if this is interesting, or what you would like to see pictures of. The vault was locked open, and don't expect to get to see the internals of the door.
