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As a professional writer, I rack up thousands of words a day. Too many in fact, to the point where it hurts my brain. To ease this burden, I choose …read more Continue reading Microsoft Killed My Favorite Keyboard, And I’m Mad About It
If you’ve got a wireless keyboard or mouse, you’ve probably got a receiver dongle of some sort tucked away in one of your machine’s USB ports. While modern technology has …read more Continue reading OSHW Framework Laptop Expansion Hides Dongles
Today, everything from your computer to your dryer has wireless communications built in, but devices weren’t always so unencumbered by wires. What to do when you have a legacy serial …read more Continue reading Put Your Serial Port on the Web
At the time of this writing, the James Webb Space Telescope was perched upon its ride to space, ready for its much-delayed launch from the ESA spaceport in French Guiana. …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: December 26, 2021
By Deeba Ahmed
A vulnerability in Razer Synapse software lets anyone possessing Razer peripherals obtain administration rights on a Windows PC.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Razer software bug lets anyone gain admin rights o… Continue reading Razer software bug lets anyone gain admin rights on Windows PC
[Alta’s Projects] built a two-in-one cyberdeck that not only contains the requisite Raspberry Pi (a zero in this case) but also eschews a dumb LCD and uses an iPad mini 5 for a display.
We need to address the donor …read more
Continue reading Cyberdeck Running On Apple Silicon, Though An A12 Not An M1
Generic video game console controllers have certainly gotten better and more ergonomic since the hard corners of the Atari joystick. As beautiful and engrossing as games have become, the controller is still the least engaging aspect. Why race your sweet fleet of whips with an ordinary controller when you could
Continue reading Hacker Driven to Build R/C Forza Controller
We have a new hero in the COVID-19 saga, and it’s some hacker in Poland. Whoever this person is, they are making bootleg dongles that let ventilator refurbishers circumvent lockdown software so they can repair broken ventilators bought from the secondhand market.
The dongle is a DIY copy of one …read more
Continue reading DIY Dongle Breathes Life Into Broken Ventilators
For those starting to wade into radio as a hobby, one of the first real technical challenges is understanding trunked radio systems. On the surface, it seems straightforward: A control channel allows users to share a section of bandwidth rather than take up one complete channel, allowing for greater usage …read more
Is there no end to the dongle problem? We thought the issue was with all of those non-USB-C devices that want to play nicely with the new Macbooks that only have USB-C ports. But what about all those USB-C devices that want to work with legacy equipment?
Now some would …read more
Continue reading Faking Your Way to USB-C Support on Laptops Without It