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Re:Creating a bespoke data diode for air‑gapped networks by justincormack on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @02:25PM (#46517255)
Pins on modern hardware like that are all bidirectional you set the direction in software normally.
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Re:Creating a bespoke data diode for air‑gapped networks by nelop on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @02:56PM (#46517726)
Ohhh that's a good point, you can set the Rx pin to Tx, then it still has to get through the opto isolator, and then it's talking to a port that's set to Tx.
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