Week 12, 2024

Links

• Finally got my ultimate retro KVM setup working! (rubenerd.com) - using a collection of equipment to get output from various retro tech
• We Built An Orb: The making of the Steam Deck OLED launch trailer (store.steampowered.com) - making a real sphere of Steam Deck OLEDs for the launch of the new product
• Flightradar24’s new GPS jamming map (flightradar24.com) - a new visualisation layer on FlightRadar to show regions which are experiencing GPS jamming
• Inside the London office where swinging pendulums keep cyber threats at bay (ianvisits.co.uk - I was aware that Cloudflare had used Lava Lamps to assist with generation random numbers, but not that their London office uses swinging pendulums (and their Singapore office uses the radioactive decay of a pellet of uranium)
• Indonesia’s e-bike shops are building their own batteries (restofworld.org) - the quite sketchy world of backstreet battery pack makers

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