Managed to debrick a linksys e1000v2 router today, which I regard as a personal victory. It involved soldering headers, connecting via serial and flashing firmware using tftp.
It's now working again, running dd-wrt. If it weren't for the dd-wrt community, I could never have done this - https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Serial_Recovery#Barryware_Instructions_for_Linksys
On the verge of going all in for the Belgian family friendly hackercamp www.fri3d.be
Ticketshop remains open until Sunday August 7th - https://fri3d.be/en/
Obviously, minecraft for raspberry pi worked straight away ... but that was not what my 11 year old was after. The whole Xbox account thing was ... being persistent. But we now have a family account, with permissions and everything.
I'm in the mental and financial position again to support one of my favourite newsletters - https://sentiers.media/ by @inevernu
Good to be back, looking forward to interact more once again.
I really liked Caterina Barbieri's work already, but her new album just tops all of the things. I'm not sure what to think when I'm listening to it, what I do know is that I look forward to go running with this in my ears. https://tidal.com/browse/album/209986210
It happened yesterday and it was the best. We played through 'labyrinth' and my 11 y/o joined in as well. Thanks to the most excellent GM Toon VDP for taking us on this journey.
Album arrived on vinyl today, I'm literally crying about the crispness of this recording. Hope to someday catch this live, or listen to the recording on an insanely hi fidelity system.
Read elsewhere : "Transaction vs. Connection".
Although it was mentioned in another context, it made me think many tech bro's want to move towards having everything as a transaction, leaving out space for messiness and humanity. Suppose we'd look for systems based on connection, it would make more sense to me. Although I'm still in the dark about what that could be.
Designer and researcher. Intrigued by the interplay between technology and society.