Yep – those little ESP chips are cute. And powerful. And easy to program. And much more. But if you are going to control more ….
Category: computer
Sometimes we have to send short command sequences and/or replies over unprotected networks. Especially when working with IoT environments. Though SSL/TLS is always preferred – ….
Cheap IoT devices like power plugs are mostly manufactured in China. They connect to “bridging” servers we don’t really have control over, they are usually ….
I remember my first “ping” to prep.ai.mit.edu. This must have been around 1993 . I worked with networks before that time, hacking X.25 networks and ….
The problem with geeks: We are never satisfied. But that’s not too much trouble for those of us who learned to code in the dark-ages ….
Alexa, Google Home, Siri – the new revolution of computing power is the spoken word. You just tell a device what you want and – ….
When exactly did it start? When did we start to refuse to accept the responsibility for our own data? How can it be that we ….
Plenty of services use a standard email-address as login token. This has advantages: The user doesn’t need to remember another keyword and the service provider ….
I recently “upgraded” to CentOS 7 and got a Radeon RX 480 graphics card to go along with the upgrade. Everything went well but a ….
Here is the general idea: I wanted to have a record player that looks nice, spins at the appropriate rpm, is able to display matching ….