Nick (Rucas) Price @dominotree@mastodon.sdf.org

prototype boards are here

What are the benefits of more expensive 3D printers versus something like my inexpensive Ender 3?

I ordered a cheap batch of PCBs from PCBWay in China on Friday. They'll be at my door on Tuesday. Incredible.

‪My feet are hamburger meat right now‬

Researchers asked 43 freelance developers to code the user registration for a web app and assessed how they implemented password storage. 26 devs initially chose to leave passwords as plaintext.

Those devs were then asked to rewrite their code to 'store passwords securely.' Overall here are the methods of password storage chosen by the developers:
10 - MD5
8 - Base64
7 - Bcrypt
5 - SHA-256
5 - PBKDF2
3 - AES
3 - 3DES
1 - SHA-1
1 - HMAC/SHA1

https://twitter.com/PwdRsch/status/1103021803503607808

Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about your lexer.

have you ever retired larry wall by mistake

Finally ordered some prototypes - a drop-in replacement for 256Kb ROMs in various devices (for starters, 80s Casio keyboards) that will programmatically corrupt the firmware to varying degrees in reproducible ways.

Cat detected

Your periodic reminder that Rust actually powers the npm registry

https://www.rust-lang.org/static/pdfs/Rust-npm-Whitepaper.pdf

Almost finished with these Casio SK-1 drop-in "brains"

At any org, your cyber, fraud, and risk teams should be working together and sharing info at a minimum. Different teams have different pieces of complex puzzles. One team, one fight.

Splurged and ordered some pogo-pin test leads for my multimeter. Always wanted a set of these.

https://www.keysight.com/en/pd-1000000534%3Aepsg%3Apro-pn-34133A/precision-electronic-test-leads?cc=US&lc=eng

Anyone know where I could buy some Lenovo T580 motherboard schematics? The newest I could find was for the T570 but the charging circuit is too different.

Found some schematics for a Thinkpad T570... with some luck I'm hoping the relevant bits will be close enough to my T580 to be useful, but there were a couple pretty major changes between the laptops.

@yrabbit Dell Precision 5520, Lenovo T580, first-gen Apple retina MacBook Pro. Need to replace a voltage regulator on the Apple, the Lenovo had a rough life and just refused to power on one day - hoping a cycle in my reflow oven will bring the board back because I can't find schematics, and my cat knocked over the other Dell so I can't really fault them. All in all, I prefer the Lenovo simply for the keyboard but the Dell was a better laptop

After 3 laptops dying in a row, looks like I'm on OpenBSD until I fix one of them