The tyranny of GDPR popups and the websites failing to adapt get me to feeling that The GDPR is Annoying and Ineffective. Too often The practical effect of GDPR seems to me that I have to click away about half a dozen consent popups every day. Sometimes a cookie warning in addition to that. Those →
1923 cartoon eerily predicted 2023’s AI art generators H.T. Webster imagined a 2023 where a “cartoon dynamo” could generate art. He was right. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/a-cartoonist-predicted-2023s-ai-drawing-machines-in-1923/ →
This posting is here to collect cyber security news in March 2023. I post links to security vulnerability news to comments of this article. You are also free to post related links to comments. →
Chris Petrich Warns “Almost All” DS18B20 Sensors Not Bought From Authorized Distributors Are Fake https://www.hackster.io/news/chris-petrich-warns-almost-all-ds18b20-sensors-not-bought-from-authorized-distributors-are-fake-afcc0a8befc5 A test purchase of 1,000 sensors from 70 different sellers showed the majority to be counterfeits of extremely variable performance. →
XML is now 25 years old. You probably missed the XML standard on the 10th of February 1998 (design work started 1996; 27 years ago), but it’s almost certain that XML has touched your life in many ways. The idea of one strictly compliant universal markup language to rule them all was extremely interesting in →
When gamer kids generation really hits audio engineering there will be huge market for this kind of RGB light gadgets? Neutrik etherCON® and XLR Halo Connectors are chassis connectors that incorporate a halo light ring and assymmetric ESD safe push tab. This design allow for standard XLR connector cutouts in the chassis without the need →
The HP Envy (stylized as HP ENVY) is a line of consumer-oriented high-end laptops, desktop computers and printers manufactured and sold by HP Inc. They started as a high-end version of the HP Pavilion line. I have had a HP ENCY 17 laptop for many years. It has worked well. But just some days ago →
This posting is here to collect cyber security news in February 2023. I post links to security vulnerability news to comments of this article. You are also free to post related links to comments. →
USB-C cables are a controversial topics, and rightfully so. USB C has standardized the connector type, but brought us the Wild West of Wiring. Different USB-C cables they all might look exactly the same, but you’ve likely experienced that they’re not the same internally, and often there’s not a label in sight. Yes, it’s pretty →
The Tektronix TDS220 is a portable two-channel digital scope with 1 GS/s sampling rate and 100 MHz bandwidth. This is part of TDS200 oscilloscope series, that was released in 1997. Sister models include TDS210 (60 MHz dual-channel) and TDS224 (100 MHz quad-channel). Tektronix TDS 210 and TDS 220 Digital Real-Time oscilloscopes offered at them time →