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Re:My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle on Saturday June 07, 2025 @09:08PM (#44213843)
I lived and worked on the HKUST campus in the 90's.. Very picturesque. Surrounding coastline very rugged. He picked a good spot. No egress there at the bottom of the hill. Fun fact: He camped just below the historic location of Shaw Studios, who popularized the Kung Fu movie genre
Re:Nixie Tubes on Saturday November 16, 2024 @10:08AM (#42156804)
There are very active technical discussions of nixies going on here

https://groups.google.com/g/neonixie-l

Re:Abandoned villages of Hong Kong on Monday February 12, 2024 @10:56PM (#39354176)
I lived in HK in the 90's at the HK University of Science and Technology. It's out in the New Territories, surrounded by small villages and otherwise mostly undeveloped dense, low-lying scrub. We'd hike in the country parks and it could be surreal; Remnants of abandoned villages like in the article. Feral dogs like in the article. We had some Hakka ladies take us on their boat out to I think it was Pak Sha Chau where there was a small pathetic abandoned amusement park. Also there was a larger island with an original refugee camp from the Vietnamese boat people era. Now I think it is a golf course.. Great memories
Re:Sudo for Windows on Friday February 09, 2024 @08:17AM (#39314531)
I guess if we were on a conquest for universal adoption we can now say we've succeeded.. <pinches self>
Hackaday interviewed me about the origin story - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaAwl3HN5ds&ab_channel=HACKA...
As one of the original creators of sudo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudo) I've witnessed it getting nearly totally rewritten and then incrementally bug-fixed over the last 43 years. It must take the prize for the UNIX command most highly-scrutinized for security flaws. Flaws which have been identified and fixed.

Thousands of developers and security experts have gone over it. So part of me wonders - how is it possible for a single dev team to totally reimplement it without unknowingly introducing at least a bug or two? Is there something to this Rust language which magically eliminates all chances of any bug being introduced?

Re:Pick-and-Place Machine on Thursday August 03, 2023 @09:45PM (#36994427)
I own a Manncorp MC-400 Pick and Place. Surprised wiki does not mention Manncorp or Autotronic or Quad. Seen many inidie DIY PnP projects come and go. The latest generation of low-end Chinese PnPs like Neoden have seen increased popularity for personal and small batch use.
Re:Tell HN: Digikey has 1822 Pi4 8GB in stock on Saturday July 29, 2023 @11:59AM (#36921504)
I've also switched over to OrangePi. Using the OrangePi Zero LTS in a commercial product. It has FCC emissions compliance. That said, The RasPi community is at least 2 or 3 orders of magnitude larger, so if you get stuck on a weird problem you are more likely to find an answer for a RasPi than an Orange Pi.
In the mean-time there are now more lower cost, in-stock alternatives to the RPi than ever such at the OrangePi.
Re:I Made a Wemos D1 Mini Dev Board on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @09:48AM (#34982981)
WeMos D1 Mini FTW. So many ESP8266 libraries out there now.
After 30 years running my own MTA I also gave up and moved to fastmail.
Re:Introduction to I²C and SPI protocols on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @06:59PM (#9307580)
Good article. There was a recent kickstarter for something called 'i2c and spi education shield' with some great tutorials and hw also..