5GHz Problems

Interference is a bitch, you should heed the warnings about cheap Chinese video systems they can make a lot of noise. This weather sat didn't stand a chance, Here is an article explaining what is going on.

Reading: Babylon's Ashes, Cryptonomicon

Are you a real hacker?

Pretty sure I am not, I lost the git branch with a new feature on it and it took an hour to find. I didn't delete it, I just couldn't remember where it was.

Reading: Babylon's Ashes, Cryptonomicon

Loch Brandy

Reading: Babylon's Ashes, Cryptonomicon

BIOS Engines

I read this cool article on trying to get the Purism laptop booting with coreboot instead of the proprietary bios. Quite a lot of people having been trying to open up the Intel hardware ecosystem in the past few years, all those closed bits make it very hard to say that hardware is secure.

It would be nice if we could leave the Intel world and use ARM or MIPS processors, but I think the graphics situation holds us back.

Reading: Babylon's Ashes, Cryptonomicon

PO-14

I was given a Teenage Engineering PO-14 for Christmas and took it with me to congress for entertainment on the way. The pocket operator has a load of functions hidden behind very few buttons, I had a lot of fun playing with it on the flight. I am still to really figure out everything this board can do.

Watching some OP-1 videos (their much bigger synth) TE manage to pack a ton of functionality into hardly any keys.

Reading: Babylon's Ashes

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