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alvela.bsky.social
Alex (tries new things)
@alvela.bsky.social
bit badger, annoying leftist
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I think I’m pro-shame because I study activism. It’s one of the core tactics social movements successfully use to move the powerful, who might otherwise feel no obligation, toward the right position
I am an evangelist for public shaming of bad people but whenever I say this I get a bunch of breathless replies that it doesn’t work. Yet even the totally shameless act differently when collectively sanctioned.
March 11, 2024 at 1:52 PM
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I really, really want to try doing this on a Wii U SoC at some point but I also know the equipment is going to cost obscene amounts of money 😓

It feels like such a waste to have the JTAG eFuse fake-unblown but then never poke around.

blog.ret2.io/2023/08/09/j...
JTAG 'Hacking' the Original Xbox in 2023
Released in November 2001, the original Xbox was Microsoft’s first venture into the game console industry. With its hardware closely resembling a cheap but v...
blog.ret2.io
August 26, 2023 at 8:26 PM
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Today's "What am I doing while stuff compiles" fun was managing to upgrade a system from Fedora 28 to Fedora 38 without any intermediates. It was, uh, not smooth, and involved binary patching my package manager: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/67126.html
August 8, 2023 at 5:55 AM
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Hello everyone! I'm a landscape pixel artist migrating from twitter/insta! Pls enjoy!
July 26, 2023 at 5:58 PM