#electronics #repair

here's a handy guide to electronic components.

@rrika speaking of bash poems, there's at least Queering Code Manual: https://www.them-all-magazine.com/issues/issue_01/winniesoon.html

I’ve just seen someone describe Windows 11 as a “sloperating system”.

@xssfox Ok fine.

Banana for scale :P

This is a valuable lesson for any manufacturer: never awaken the nerd sleeping inside your customer, because his wrath shall be terrible.

In this case the warning was quite literal.

The company annoyed a buyer enough to push him into full blown nerd mode. He tore the product apart, reverse engineered every part, and then published a step by step guide showing exactly how to disable "kill switch" that prevented the use of the product without the vendor spying on the user.

What started as a minor grievance became a public, technical exposé that left the maker exposed and embarrassed.

Moral of the story: underestimate your users at your own peril.

The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me

Update: This post seems to have struck a nerve and went very wide. As I will not be able to answer every comment, I want to add a few points:

• The linked article was not written by me. It came to me on a different channel (Discord). I only wrote the post on Mastodon.
• The top image in the article looks AI generated. It is no a good image, but in my view less irritating than an advertisement (which is far more common).
• Some people suggest the article itself is AI generated. I don't think this is the case. I wouldn't rule out he author wrote the text in a different language and used AI for translation assistance.
• The claims in the article are not fully backed by the linked repo, but the general statement is correct and IMHO important.

Wir wollten eigentlich nur entspannt übernachten, sind aber (schon wieder!) über Sicherheitslücken in Hotelsoftware gestolpert. Diesmal mit dabei: 35 Millionen Buchungen, ein paar Jugendherbergen, Motel One und (wie immer) ein 🔢 zählendes Zerforschi.

Die ganze Geschichte lest ihr hier: https://zerforschung.org/posts/sihot/

This! Buy from local (independent) stores instead of online giants; attend live shows, and buy merch directly from the bands; eat locally-grown (organic) food; use privacy-focused, community-built online services; buy used gear & equipment instead of brand new ones; and of course, do it all based on what you can afford and as a best-effort thing, without being hard on yourself if/when it just isn't possible.

For sure, it won't change the world, but it will feel good 😎

https://terminal.ahumanfuture.co/posts/2025-10-17/the-world-is-something-that-we-make/

Ok so
So so sorry
But here

https://www.leetchi.com/en/c/lauras-well-being-1091510?utm_source=copylink&utm_medium=social_sharing&utm_campaign=pot

a casual reminder

If you're running Nextcloud, beware that version 32 is the current stable release but has a critical bug that tries to run the 'first run wizard' when you login after the upgrade. If you have autoplay disabled in your browser, this effectively bricks the web UI and stops you from doing anything.

If you have SSH access, you can disable the app with:

occ app:disable firstrunwizard

The issue for the bug is closed on GitHub but I still hit it when upgrading this morning.

#Nextcloud