Hackaday (unofficial) March 7, 2024 10:00pm An ESP32 MultiFactor TOTP Generator #securityhacks #softwarehacks #esp32wrover32 #lcd #mfa #platformio #totp #visualstudiocode #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 An ESP32 MultiFactor TOTP Generator MFA, or multifactor authentication, is a standard security feature these days. However, it can be a drag to constantly reach into one’s pocket, scroll to Google Authenticator (other MFA appli…
Hackaday (unofficial) March 4, 2024 10:00am The Juggler: In Rust #raspberrypi #softwarehacks #amiga #juggler #raytracing #rust #softbuffer #vecmath #winit #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 The Juggler: In Rust Back on the theme of learning to program by taking on a meaningful project — we have another raytracing demo — this time using Rust on the Raspberry Pi. [Unfastener] saw our previous article about …
Hackaday (unofficial) March 1, 2024 10:00am DOOM Runs On Husqvarna’s Robot Lawnmower #softwarehacks #doesitrundoom #doom #mower #robot #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 DOOM Runs On Husqvarna’s Robot Lawnmower DOOM has been ported to a lot of platforms — to the point where the joke is kind of getting old now. Evidence of that is available in the fact that brands are now getting in on the action. Ye…
Hackaday (unofficial) February 26, 2024 10:00pm KiCad 8 Makes Your Life Better Without Caveats #news #softwarehacks #designtool #eda #kicad #kicadintegration #pcblayout #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 KiCad 8 Makes Your Life Better Without Caveats A few days ago, KiCad 8 was released, and it’s a straight upgrade to any PCB designer’s quality of life. There’s a blog post as usual, and, this year, there’s also a FOSDEM …
Hackaday (unofficial) February 22, 2024 4:00pm Filters are in Bloom #softwaredevelopment #softwarehacks #bloomfilter #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Filters Are In Bloom If you are a fan of set theory, you might agree there are two sets of people who write computer programs: those who know what a Bloom filter is and those who don’t. How could you efficiently …
Hackaday (unofficial) February 19, 2024 8:00pm Steampipe: All SQL All the Time #linuxhacks #networkhacks #softwarehacks #linux #sql #sqlite #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Steampipe: All SQL All The Time Although modern Linux has slightly shifted, the old Unix mantra was: everything’s a file. With Steampipe, a better saying might be: everything’s a SQL table. The official tagline is …
Hackaday (unofficial) February 16, 2024 1:00pm The Latest Windows 11 Release Might Not Work On Your Oldest Machines #computerhacks #softwarehacks #microsoft #obsolescence #windows11 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 The Latest Windows 11 Release Might Not Work On Your Oldest Machines Everybody knows you can’t install Windows XP on a 386, or Windows 95 on an original IBM PC. But for Windows 11, the goalposts seem to be changing with newer releases of the existing OS. As co…
Hackaday (unofficial) February 15, 2024 12:00pm Make Your Bookshelf Clickable #softwaredevelopment #softwarehacks #gpt #imageprocessing #ocr #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Make Your Bookshelf Clickable We’ll confess that we have a fondness for real books and plenty of them. So does [James], and he decided he needed a way to take a picture of his bookshelves and make each book clickable to f…
Hackaday (unofficial) February 10, 2024 4:00am Breaking Through The 1 MB Barrier In DOS With Unreal Mode And More #softwaredevelopment #softwarehacks #intel8086 #msdos #protectedmode #unrealmode #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Breaking Through The 1 MB Barrier In DOS With Unreal Mode And More The memory map of the original 8086 computer with its base and extended memory made the original PC rather straightforward, but also posed countless issues for DOS-based applications as they tried …
Hackaday (unofficial) January 30, 2024 7:00pm Human-Interfacing Devices: The Descriptor Heist #hackadaycolumns #howto #peripheralshacks #softwarehacks #hid #hidkeyboard #hidusb #usbhidkeyboard #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Human-Interfacing Devices: The Descriptor Heist Today, we’ll build our own input devices. And they will be easy to create and write firmware for, they will work perfectly, and they will be cross-platform. We can do that with help of the Hu…
Hackaday (unofficial) January 29, 2024 5:00pm Need a Serial Data Plotter? Better Write Your Own #softwarehacks #plotter #pyqt #python #serial #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Need A Serial Data Plotter? Better Write Your Own When you’re working with a development team, especially in a supporting capacity, you can often find yourself having to invent tools and support systems that are fairly involved, but don̵…
Hackaday (unofficial) January 21, 2024 7:00pm Creators Can Fight Back Against AI With Nightshade #artificialintelligence #softwarehacks #ai #generativeai #imagepoisoning #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Creators Can Fight Back Against AI With Nightshade If an artist were to make use of a piece of intellectual property owned by a large tech company, they risk facing legal action. Yet many creators are unhappy that those same tech companies are usin…
Hackaday (unofficial) January 15, 2024 5:00pm Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive in 2024 #reviews #softwarehacks #beos #haiku #operatingsystem #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive In 2024 Haiku is one of those open source operating systems that seem to be both exceedingly well-known while flying completely under the radar. Part of this is probably due to it being an open source vers…
Hackaday (unofficial) January 14, 2024 7:00pm UEVR Project Converts Games to VR, Whether They Like It Or Not #softwarehacks #virtualreality #modding #reverseengineering #uevr #unrealengine #vr #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 UEVR Project Converts Games To VR, Whether They Like It Or Not UEVR, or the Universal Unreal Engine VR Mod by [praydog] is made possible by some pretty neat software tricks. Reverse engineering concepts and advanced techniques used in game hacking are leverage…
Hackaday (unofficial) January 14, 2024 10:00am Why The iPad Doesn’t Have A Calculator #softwarehacks #apple #appleipad #ipad #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Why The IPad Doesn’t Have A Calculator For the handful among us who have an iPad tablet from Apple, some may have figured out by now that it lacks a feature that has come standard on any operating system since roughly the early 90s: a c…
Hackaday (unofficial) January 3, 2024 1:00pm From KiCad to Blender for a Stunning Render #art #pcbhacks #softwarehacks #3dcad #blender #kicad #kicadintegration #render #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 From KiCad To Blender For A Stunning Render We love Blender. It brings you 3D modeling, but not in a CAD way — instead, people commonly use it to create animations, movies, games, and even things like VR models. In short, Blender is ab…
Hackaday (unofficial) January 1, 2024 7:00pm Developing An App For Reduced-Gravity Flying #softwarehacks #transportationhacks #mitappinventor #parabolic #vomitcomet #zerogravity #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Developing An App For Reduced-Gravity Flying You’ve likely heard of the “vomit comet” — an rather graphic nickname for the aircraft used to provide short bursts of near-weightlessness by flying along a parabolic trajec…
Hackaday (unofficial) December 29, 2023 4:00pm Using Local AI on the Command Line To Rename Images (And More) #howto #machinelearning #softwarehacks #ai #bash #commandline #images #llama #llm #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Using Local AI On The Command Line To Rename Images (And More) We all have a folder full of images whose filenames resemble line noise. How about renaming those images with the help of a local LLM (large language model) executable on the command line? All that…
Hackaday (unofficial) December 24, 2023 4:00am Dial up Over Discord #retrocomputing #softwarehacks #dialup #discord #modem #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Dial Up Over Discord Some hacks are useful and some are just… well… for the fun of it, and we can appreciate that. Take, for example, [Cool Blog’s] recent experiments with dialup networking. If you th…
Hackaday (unofficial) December 1, 2023 8:00pm Wine is for Windows and Darling is for MacOS #machacks #softwarehacks #darling #linux #windowssubsystemforlinux #wine #wsl #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Wine Is For Windows And Darling Is For MacOS Wine has become a highly optimized and useful piece of software for those that live in Linux, but occasionally need to walk on the Windows side. In case you’d wondered, there’s a simila…