Readit NewsI recently did similar thing for the FineReader 6 using a hardware dongle [0]. It was surprisingly easy, no disassembly at all, just injecting srand(0) and a hardcoding the responses from the dongle. I had no prior reverse-engineering experience at all.
[0] https://slomkowski.eu/abbyy-finereader-6-ikey-1000-hack/
About the site itself: why would some of these measurements be that high? Especially the really high value in France and the one in Britain stand out.
As far as I’m aware, buildings made of blocks containing coal power plant slag have a higher background, but I don’t know how pronounced the effect is.
The normal background should be like 15–25 counts per minute for majority of Geiger tubes.
Perhaps if the discussion catches on, I can send the link to the website's owner.
When I do/create something I find useful for others, I usually publish it on my website too. I (and probably almost every other developer/tinkerer) benefited from the open-source and the wealth of information available on the Internet so much, that giving some small part back is only fair.
Recently, I started using Marginalia Search as a first choice when researching something technical. Surprisingly, almost always I find a real person writing about their experiences, not some content farm or corporate bland talk.
I wonder if there is any symmetrical response to this happening. How about unleashing psy-ops and "Western trolls" in Runet? Is Europe in purely defensive mode?
Growing up in USSR I didn’t know anyone who would own a PC up until early 90s.
I know one programmer in his 50s. He had an access to the ZX Spectrum in his primary school, but that was by effort of his local physics teacher.
Shame I used to have an SCSI scanner but I already disassembled it for parts.
One can write a simple bootloader, which reads bytes printed on a paper sheet to memory then boots it. Something like: black (0), white (1) or long rectangle (1), short rectangle (0). Wonder about the storage capacity of the A4 paper.
Fun thought experiment. The 128 GB SD card on my desk could store a 1-bit bitmap of 1,000,000 x 1,000,000 pixels. Imagine shrinking that down to the size of the die, and how small each (logical) cell is.
Precise, but featureless digital clocks lack "soul" which you can actually see.
I cannot cite the reliable sources for it, though.