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Laser pointer no longer best method to entertain a cat?
Up until now it has been believed by many that the laser-pointer and the cat are a marriage made in heaven. The ‘click’ of the button makes a tiny sound, imperceptible to human ears, and your normally lazy feline makes a beeline for it. I’ve been working on upgrading one of the gadget army, and…
Radon update: my basement is (currently) safe from this scourge
So an update on the earlier radon gadget. I received the BLE sniffer widget, but, wow, its a bit complex to use. Keeping an eye on the basement Radon, and you can see, it fluctuates quite a bit. We are well under the ‘safety’ limit (which there is some discussion on, some being of the…
More hacking to secure the gadget army: The KanKun SP3
So a couple of years ago I bought some KK-SP3 (from ikonke). They are ‘wireless smart plugs’, and despite their pretty-sketch appearance, work. Its a tiny little white box that plus into your electrical outlet, and contains a relay and small linux board. The only real issue that i had initially was that it came…
8-bit memories and covert exfiltration
When I was a kid my pride and joy was a TRS-80 Model III. It was used when it came to me, and I didn’t have floppy drives (although the cassette interface was fast). It spent a lot of its life w/ the top off (tipped sideways) to get at its glorious internals, where it…
Data breaches: its the risk you don’t expect that gets you
Another day another data breach. (Have you checked yourself on https://haveibeenpwned.com/? I’m thinking of making “have i not been pwned” and the answer is NO). OK, we are getting inured to this by now. Yawn, change the password on that site, we are good right? Well, no. The media reporting always has the same things in…
