Nostr notes by ⁡jaseg

This is awesome: Someone actually made a truetype font encoding ...

2026-07-03T16:05:58Z

This is awesome: Someone actually made a truetype font encoding QR codes, including reed-solomon encoding!

https://qr.jim.sh/

I had a look at this study when it came out last year, and it ...

2026-06-21T12:48:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…qn64
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I had a look at this study when it came out last year, and it looked very shaky scientifically. I can’t find the thread anymore, but I remember finding that this study doesn’t support any of the conclusions people usually draw from it.

I’m giving away a traffic light (yes the real thing). It has ...

2026-06-20T11:52:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…u59v
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I’m giving away a traffic light (yes the real thing). It has some drive electronics built in, and takes weird low-voltage DC halogen bulbs.

I’m giving away a pair of crutches ...

2026-06-20T11:51:33Z

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I’m giving away a pair of crutches

I’m giving away a small drill press (lightly used) ...

2026-06-20T11:50:32Z

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I’m giving away a small drill press (lightly used)

I’m giving away a small vacuum cleaner ...

2026-06-20T11:49:19Z

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I’m giving away a small vacuum cleaner

I’m giving away a tubular lock pick (new, unused) ...

2026-06-20T11:48:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…3ny0
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I’m giving away a tubular lock pick (new, unused)

I’m giving away five odd long monochrome TFT displays. IIRC ...

2026-06-20T11:04:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…yk9p
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I’m giving away five odd long monochrome TFT displays. IIRC they have a simple parallel bus that works with a stock pi, but need a weird backlight supply voltage.

I’m giving away a Magsafe L type to type C power converter (so ...

2026-06-20T11:03:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…tpsq
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I’m giving away a Magsafe L type to type C power converter (so magsafe power supply plus this equals type C power supply at up to 45W)

I’m giving away five new in box Verifone card payment terminals ...

2026-06-20T11:02:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…ex5n
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I’m giving away five new in box Verifone card payment terminals (and maybe the guts of a sixth if you’re interested)

I’m giving away a pair of mostly unused AKG K271 Mk II stock ...

2026-06-20T11:01:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…7hmg
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I’m giving away a pair of mostly unused AKG K271 Mk II stock ear cushions

I’m giving away: A bunch of industrial load cells, different ...

2026-06-20T11:00:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…zcpw
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I’m giving away: A bunch of industrial load cells, different types ranged 5kg to 100kg, 8 total.

I’m giving away: A single Canton Karat 100 speaker ...

2026-06-20T10:58:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…6flr
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I’m giving away: A single Canton Karat 100 speaker

I’m giving away a bunch of old stuff. If you’re interested in ...

2026-06-20T10:56:56Z

I’m giving away a bunch of old stuff. If you’re interested in anything in this thread, please reply in a dm or by email at stuff @ (my handle) dot de.

Everything is free, I’m just asking you to cover shipping (or pick it up in Darmstadt!)

I dont like the term “digital sovereignty” because of the ...

2026-06-16T11:17:38Z

I dont like the term “digital sovereignty” because of the pronounced nationalist and authoritarian connotations that it carries, regardless of what the actual intentions of its particular users are.

I propose that as hackers, we reframe the core concept (independence of US-centric cloud operators) as “digital autonomy”. I think this carries the same core idea while being less about who rules the digital realm, and more about the freedoms we all have within it.

oof, really? I didn’t even read about that yet

2026-05-14T17:04:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…ast4
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oof, really? I didn’t even read about that yet

delta.chat advertises that they provide “🔒 Audited ...

2026-05-14T16:56:21Z

delta.chat advertises that they provide “🔒 Audited end-to-end encryption safe against network and server attacks”, but if you click through it turns out that supposed audit:

(1) didn’t actually cover their e2ee but only a key establishment protocol and

(2) wasn’t actually an audit. Instead, unprompted, some researchers took a look at that key establishment protocol and found 20(!!) separate flaws. This research was not intended as an audit, nor was it commissioned or paid by delta.chat.

Stopping the system fans to heat up the system to shift clock ...

2026-05-13T14:17:49Z

Stopping the system fans to heat up the system to shift clock phase by a few femtoseconds is one of the less hinged ideas I’ve seen come out of CERN lol.

(AFAIU this was an experiment for a software retrofit to hardware otherwise incapable of such adjustments)

This January’s award for the eval board with the witchiest ...

2026-01-22T16:50:24Z

This January’s award for the eval board with the witchiest vibes goes out to the HMC7044 eval board. The chip is a 3GHz integer PLL with 14 phase-adjustable outputs.

#electronics

@npub1fdr…lvhs the slides of your 39c3 were awesome! will they ...

2025-12-28T13:54:58Z

Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs) the slides of your 39c3 were awesome! will they be posted anywhere?

Just found december's #chipofthemonth, which is a 80x120 px ...

2025-12-26T11:45:12Z

Just found december's #chipofthemonth, which is a 80x120 px 40 k(!) fps high-speed camera sensor with digital readout that sells at ~5 € a piece on digikey. Apparently by cutting down the exposure window, this thing can go up to 260 kfps. I wonder what you could do with a cheap, high speed camera sensor like that. According to the datasheet, apparently "gamer mouse frontend" is one of its applications. I might just get a few to try. The devkit is ~70 €.

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/aistorm-inc/AISC110C/26666752

#electronics

I’m all here for this current trend with chinese-designed ...

2025-12-25T11:25:15Z

I’m all here for this current trend with chinese-designed gadgets of clear plastic enclosures. This particular example I was able to pick up at a regular electronics retailer over here, and it’s sooo pretty 🤩

Black FR-4 with ENIG under clear solder mask fucking slaps!

I've got a new #KiCad plugin out in the KiCad plugin manager: ...

2025-12-10T11:12:04Z

I've got a new #KiCad plugin out in the KiCad plugin manager:

KiCoil generates "twisted" planar inductors. You can make it do one- or two-layer spiral inductors, toroid inductors, and many intermediate, hybrid variants in between spiral and toroid inductors.

These hybrid types have wider traces than a single-layer spiral, and have better high-frequency behavior (parasitic capacitance and self-resonant frequency) compared to two-layer spiral inductors. And they look really pretty!

#electronics

I’m looking for a Job! I’m currently finishing up my PhD in ...

2025-08-06T09:24:57Z

I’m looking for a Job!

I’m currently finishing up my PhD in EE/computer hardware security at TU Darmstadt and I’m looking for work starting January 2026.

I’m currently researching tamper-proof hardware, and I have decent skills at pretty much all stack layers from transistors to CSS. I’m proficient in electronics design/PCB layout, gateware and bare-metal firmware development, systems work from kernel to application programming.

#FediHire #fedihired

Adding to the residence card thing, as a foreigner you are ...

2025-07-22T09:24:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…yjw7
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Adding to the residence card thing, as a foreigner you are required to carry that thing at all times. Where I used to live in Tokyo, police would frequently randomly frisk passers by whenever some head of state was visiting the city. When they catch you without the residence card, they can jail you for several days while sorting out your residence status, and the fine is more than 1 k$ too.

I think in this setting analysis using any sort of straw man ...

2025-04-25T12:28:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…e7xx
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I think in this setting analysis using any sort of straw man construction is largely meaningless since the whole difficulty of the setting lies exactly in the sort of detail one would leave out in a straw man construction.

that’s just what I figured out about that scheme while shopping ...

2025-04-25T12:16:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…mnkl
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that’s just what I figured out about that scheme while shopping for groceries just now. The reason people call schemes like this a privacy nightmare is that they are unavoidable once implemented while simultaneously having myriad possibly critical corner cases that each can have grave consequences up to the death of people (think for instance someone committing sucide due to being outed to their family). It’s just not something to fuck around with.

Finally, traffic analysis attacks undermine the whole secrecy ...

2025-04-25T12:12:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…077n
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Finally, traffic analysis attacks undermine the whole secrecy idea of the system from the perspective of a network observer in any setting where verification is a rare occurrence, think e.g. the home router in a family home of four people, one of which is a LGBT teen looking for resources on sexuality. Using something like tor provides nothing in this setting since the traffic will still stand out badly.

Additionally, the verifying device has no way of verifying that ...

2025-04-25T12:08:22Z

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Additionally, the verifying device has no way of verifying that the verification request actually comes from the website in question. For instance, a malicious news website could display a verification prompt that it proxies from say, a porn website that the user never visited. Afterwards, the porn website has a non-repudiated token that someone visited it, and the signature provider could link that token to a user identity.

I disagree that your protocol would not be a privacy nightmare. ...

2025-04-25T12:05:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…k9tt
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I disagree that your protocol would not be a privacy nightmare. IMHO just the fact that your proposal leaks the fact that a verification was attempted to the government disqualifies it.

Additional problems that jump out to me on a very cursory reading are that it allows the requesting website to link the browser loading it to the verifying device, e.g. linking the device fingerprints of a laptop and a phone.

(1/n)

tbh that’s how I got started. My first big project was a ...

2025-04-16T16:51:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…tgke
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tbh that’s how I got started. My first big project was a lightweight backpack for commuting with two laptops. I try to stay well clear of these male-coded gear hobbyist places though. I found them pretty toxic, particularly ones where people call this stuff “edc”.

I feel like the contempt these machines receive is so much ...

2025-04-16T14:04:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…h57p
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I feel like the contempt these machines receive is so much because we've just become accustomed to our clothing being disposable and made by people far away for little money. Anyone who doesn't appreciate sewing machines probably has never used one, and definitely has never done maintenance on or repaired one.

Holy shit, the PCB design of this new sensor board, called ...

2025-04-07T10:42:30Z

Holy shit, the PCB design of this new sensor board, called Ophanim, of CERN’s Aegis experiment just fucking slaps. Right now, there don’t seem to be many images of it on the web, but I hope to see more in the future.

#electronics #pcb #science

TIL that you can just watch cosmic rays hit the Superkamiokande ...

2025-01-09T19:39:07Z

TIL that you can just watch cosmic rays hit the Superkamiokande experiment's giant (30m diameter) water tank 1000m below the Japanese alps in real time online:

https://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/realtimemonitor/

#science #physics

That's a lot of hassle to go through to give yourself a lot ...

2024-12-22T11:30:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…d7tn
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That's a lot of hassle to go through to give yourself a lot of hassle. I guess if you *really* dislike your overseas relatives...

You could use that to selectively heat part of the dish even. ...

2024-12-22T11:25:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…2ws0
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You could use that to selectively heat part of the dish even. This is the future of cooking!

Found a candidate for #chipofthemonth just now: UCS512B3 is a ...

2024-09-09T07:02:35Z

Found a candidate for #chipofthemonth just now: UCS512B3 is a WS2811-style #dmx LED driver in a smol little SO-8 that has 30V constant-current sinks for R, G, and B LEDs.

Datasheet: https://suntechlite.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/UCS512B-IC-Datasheet-SuntechLite.pdf

#electronics

Cursed footprint of the day: This SMD LED can be mounted either ...

2024-07-31T10:44:28Z

Cursed footprint of the day: This SMD LED can be mounted either flat on the board, or at a 90 degree angle looking to the side 😲

https://www.lcsc.com/datasheet/lcsc_datasheet_2307310952_TCWIN-TX1813Y5_C3975084.pdf

#cursedfootprint #electronics