Lup Yuen Lee 李立源 @lupyuen@qoto.org

"An independent repair shop in Germany has invented a tool that can break through Anti-Repair locks Apple has put on a specific sensor on the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air"

https://www.404media.co/diy-tinkerer-invents-tool-that-breaks-apples-macbook-repair-locks/

Intercepting #Linux system calls with ptrace (#ZigLang)

https://notes.eatonphil.com/2023-10-01-intercepting-and-modifying-linux-system-calls-with-ptrace.html

Making a Plastic Injection Mold

https://www.airgradient.com/blog/lessons-learned-plastic-injection-mold-making/

Daniel Thompson-Yvetot: Interview with #Tauri co-creator

https://buttondown.email/taurinewsletter/archive/tauri-newsletter-issue-2/

Booting #RISCV Star64 #JH7110 SBC with Apache #NuttX RTOS ... So much faster now!

Source: https://lupyuen.codeberg.page/articles/tftp2.html

Continuous Electrodermal Activity (cEDA) Sensor "can point to possible signs of Stress using a machine learning algorithm that incorporates heart rate, heart rate variability and skin temperature"

https://blog.google/products/pixel/google-pixel-watch-2/

"HeadHome aims to reduce the dangers posed by Dementia wandering" (Wearable #ESP32)

https://github.com/GSC23-HeadHome/HeadHome

InfluxDB: Time Series Database in #RustLang

https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb

"Three chemists who predicted and were first to make Quantum Dots — nanoscale crystals that interact with light in unusual ways — have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry" (LED)

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03048-9

Fake External M.2 NVMe SSD has MicroSD Cards inside

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/low-performance-external-m2-nvme-ssd-found-to-have-microsd-cards-inside

Windows will send every TFTP Packet 3 times ... Maybe that's why Star64 #JH7110 U-Boot won't work well with Linux TFTP Servers? 🤔

Source: https://github.com/lupyuen/nuttx-star64/issues/2

#Mastodon Annual Report

https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/02/amid-twitter-chaos-mastodon-grew-donations-488-in-2022-reached-1-8m-monthly-active-users/

"We successfully exploited this Vulnerability and obtained full Root Privileges on the default installations of Fedora 37 and 38, Ubuntu 22.04 and 23.04, Debian 12 and 13" (#Linux Glibc)

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-LD-Nasty-Root-Bug

"By quantifying the exact Attenuation of the signal received at the gateways, they were able to determine the Soil Moisture levels around the #LoRa node"

https://hackaday.com/2023/10/02/using-lora-nodes-as-soil-moisture-sensing-antennas/

#Python 3.12: Cool new features

https://realpython.com/python312-new-features/

Hacktoberfest 2023 (ends Oct 31)

https://hacktoberfest.com/participation/

Find out how we build #LVGL Touchscreen Apps with #ZigLang and test them in the Web Browser with #WebAssembly ... Like this Feature Phone App for Apache #NuttX RTOS on #PinePhone @PINE64

https://youtu.be/8gnD8pW7Bw8?si=cYf_7MYykx8AUTlf

Star64 Power Adapter (3 Amp) failed with a loud pop ... So I switched to this Power Adapter: 12V, 3000mA, Centre positive, 5.5mm outer, 2.1mm inner (Same connector as Arduino Uno?)

From Lazada: https://www.lazada.sg/products/i2826035090-s19492243232.html

We fixed TFTP Timeouts in Star64 #JH7110 U-Boot Bootloader ... By sending every TFTP Packet twice 🤔

Source: https://github.com/lupyuen/nuttx-star64#strange-workaround-for-tftp-timeout-in-u-boot-bootloader

"Devices believed to use the affected chips include the Google Pixel 7, Samsung S20 and S21, Motorola Edge 40, OnePlus Nord 2, Asus ROG Phone 6, Redmi Note 11, 12, Honor 70 Pro, RealMe GT, Xiaomi 12 Pro, Oppo Find X5 Pro"

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/vulnerable-arm-gpu-drivers-under-active-exploitation-patches-may-not-be-available/