Astrid

i made a flappy bird clone that uses your folding phone as the controller

oh yeah im at 39c3. if anyone wants to hang out you have fifteen minutes before i catch a train. hall 3 at the dreamcast that's currently failing to dialup

so-called japanese speakers when the menual trotection rolls up asking for the peregvath

(we never got the mega drive half booting a game but the pc half had strange things on it)

man i didn't know the GDPR was retroactive

(or maybe they don't on purpose or for some other reason, i don't know enough about macs to say)

pro tip for this btw: they always forget to strip the macos binaries

sorry i remembered this website exists and now i'm just dumping unemployed thoughts

who needs real devkits when you can buy full devices with the correct parts off aliexpress and hope they forgot to change the bootloader signing key from the github repo they cloned the firmware from (success rate: 2 of 2)

i guess there's the official nordic eval board but i am allergic to buying the correct hardware for anything ever. also they're kind of expensive

i found exactly one board (pitaya go) that has an antenna connector, i bought one years ago, somehow managed to kill it, and now it's discontinued everywhere:/

related to prev: kind of sad/annoying that the nfc module on the nrf52840 seems consistently neglected by dev board makers? adafruit, arduino, etc all list "nfc" in the spec list, but never have any examples, never include antennas, and usually don't even expose the correct pins??? cmon

i can't figure out how this actually works hardware-wise? the rider half only has an extremely tiny chip, the cart half has a slightly larger one, but the data is clearly stored *in the rider* somehow? would help if i could solder onto the pogo pins but they're annoyingly resistant

left side: a small white pcb with six metal contacts right side: a circular flat nfc antenna connected by two word to another small white pcb, showing the back side of a set of pogo pins that match up with the other side's contacts

the nfc antenna is in the cart half, connected via pogo pins to something in the rider that actually stores the data. it's an ntag i²c plus 2k, and sending a command through the sram buffer returns some kind of data identifying what cart it's on

new kirby amiibo mounted in a vice and getting treated with a dremel

noticed the new kirby amiibos use a different nfc tag type and chose violence

here's a bonus fact: native instruments' older auth method (ras2, mostly deprecated but still used a little) uses 112-bit ecdsa, seemingly because they wanted to pack an entire signature into a 25-char product key. that's ~56 bits of security, aka. crackable by a small gpu cluster if you're bored:)

i *have* been reverse engineering various "download managers" (ie. native access, etc) because those tend to be piles of garbage, and that wouldn't allow downloading/activating anything you don't already own anyway, so maybe that's fairer game?

i assume there's a pretty good reason people don't usually put their software cracks on github

yay: finally doing things interesting enough to write about and publish

...but it's about cracking my pro audio software (or, reimplementing the auth to make it work on wine), so maybe i shouldn't, that seems irresponsible

always get stuck in the endless pit of "if i publish something it must be new and novel and interesting otherwise what's the point" -> i learn something novel or interesting to me -> "i should write about this" -> "well now i understand it so it's no longer novel or interesting, what's the point"

getting my website back in order might be a good first step (i think i lost the keys to deploy to it at some point)? always have this idea that a blog post needs to be a big whole thing with structure and be comprehensive, but i guess it can just be a paragraph or two about a tiny idea?

oh, sure! hmu!

been trying! at this point i'm sorta feeling out topics and if anything can actually assemble itself into a sensible "unit" rather than incoherent mess of ideas, and so far that hasn't happened yet, but looking out?
(although that might also be a beginner trap, waiting for something...)

talk, maybe? i've always been awful at public speaking, or really ordering my thoughts into anything resembling a linear order, but it might be time to start learning.

none of it is really video-shaped, or skeet-shaped, or blog-post-shaped, and *especially* not tiktok-shaped, but i still feel the need to get it out somehow...

i've been vaguely toying with the idea of getting into so-called """content creation""" - as in, i have a lot of weird esoteric knowledge and capacity for cool things that i think the world might find interesting, but i have absolutely no idea how to *shape* that into something meaningful?

Some time ago I saw an artist say that folks often put a lot of effort into their work, and then post about it once. Which is such a shame!

Not everyone is awake at the same time, not everyone is online every day, and you put a lot of effort into it!

So go post your work again! Repost it again!

i hear you can do quite a lot on there

okay thanks, do you know where i can find a "good" "website"

forgot this site existed for half a year, what's up

have you seen the new python package? it's on pypi. you can literally install it with pip. set up a venv. grab it with poetry. you just use rye. run it with pipx. you can install it with uv. install uv right now. go to uv. dive into uv. you can uv it. it's on uv. uv has it for you. uv has it for you