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Albania is home to a staggering number of bunkers, remnants of the Hoxhaist era built between 1967 and 1986 under Enver Hoxha’s regime. A staggering 750,000 concrete military bunkers were constructed across the country, each costing the equivalent of a two-room apartment to build. Despite a cost that drained Albania’s resources and diverted them away […]
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The original Xbox, released in 2001, was a remarkable piece of hardware, closely resembling a versatile PC of the early 2000s. The device attracted technical hobbyists eager to run ‘homebrew’ code and alternative operating systems. Despite being secured by a ‘secret’ bootrom, the system was famously hacked by Andrew “bunnie” Huang, enabling further research. This […]
In the competitive world of engineering, top graduates from Imperial, Oxford, and Cambridge are facing bleak economic prospects post-graduation, with hardware engineers in London earning significantly less than their Silicon Valley counterparts. Many engineering prodigies, like Sarah, James, and Alex, find themselves underutilized in traditional engineering firms, leading to a national misallocation of human capital. […]
TikTok announced its return to U.S. users after being blocked but credited President Trump for ensuring service restoration. Indicating a strong stand against censorship, the company plans to work towards a long-term solution under Trump’s cooperation. Despite being blocked by Trump, TikTok saw Republicans supporting the ban on the app, highlighting potential challenges to its […]
In this thought-provoking piece, the author discusses how surveillance capitalism and DRM have transformed the relationship between consumers and technology companies from friend to foe. The personal computer, once a symbol of tech liberty, has been eroded by internet surveillance, algorithmic polarization, and extractive business models. The post highlights the need for comprehensive privacy legislation, […]
The Bambu Connect Electron App is criticized for being insecure due to relying on Security through Obscurity principles. For those curious, instructions are provided to extract the private key stored by Bambu in the app from the MacOs .dmg file. Attempting to extract the key without following the decryption steps correctly will result in encrypted […]
Rockwell famously used 6502-based cores in modems for many years, but that doesn’t limit the use of other 6502s. John Iannetta’s “35-cent modem” from 1998 used the SID chip to modulate data through a C64’s sound output to a receiving modem. Recently, the author revisited this project using a Commodore SX-64 and a WorkSlate. Despite […]
At Qovery, the engine-gateway service was running smoothly until an unexpected out-of-memory crash occurred. Despite stable memory consumption, the service was abruptly restarted due to exceeding the memory limit set. After investigating with deep kernel messages, it was discovered that the OOM issue was caused by a subtle difference in how errors were logged. The […]
number, &hints, &server_addr); if (rc != 0) { on_func_failure(“Failed to resolve hostname”); } getaddrinfo(CPP_HOSTNAME, port_number, &hints, &server_addr): Resolves the hostname (CPP_HOSTNAME) and port number to an IP address and protocol-specific address structure. The function fills in the struct addrinfo server_addr with the resolved information. If it fails, the program exits. Create A Socket int client_socket […]
On January 13, 2025, GitHub unveiled sub-issues, issue types, and advanced search for issues to the delight of users. Sub-issues help organize tasks within a parent-child hierarchy, making tracking progress seamless. Issue types classify and manage tasks across repositories consistently. Advanced search capabilities enable users to find specific issues effortlessly by using complex filters. The […]