Jaime Lightfoot
@jaimelightfoot.bsky.social
EE, dev, hacker
What I want doesn't exist (yet), so I will create it ⚡️
jaimelightfoot.com / lightfootlabs.io
What I want doesn't exist (yet), so I will create it ⚡️
jaimelightfoot.com / lightfootlabs.io
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Knowledge is never knowing the answer. It’s knowing the territory.
February 18, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Knowledge is never knowing the answer. It’s knowing the territory.
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“You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn
February 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
“You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn
short-form video feeds but this time with more rabbit holes arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction
WikiTok cures boredom in spare moments with wholesome swipe-up Wikipedia article discovery.
arstechnica.com
February 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
short-form video feeds but this time with more rabbit holes arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
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this is a beautiful, exhausting story of community love and action
(gofundme at the end!)
(gofundme at the end!)
Update on my life: Last year, I joined my kids' school's PTA, because they needed a treasurer and I'm good enough with numbers. It was a straightforward, self-contained job: balancing the checkbook for an organization that only did a few fundraisers each year.
February 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
this is a beautiful, exhausting story of community love and action
(gofundme at the end!)
(gofundme at the end!)
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This is my #1 most-searched article, so I updated my earlier PCB vendor roundup with some new samples from 2025: lcamtuf.substack.com/p/comparing-...
Comparing hobby PCB vendors
An not-for-profit roundup of affordable PCB manufacturers. Originally published in 2023 and last updated in February 2025.
lcamtuf.substack.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
This is my #1 most-searched article, so I updated my earlier PCB vendor roundup with some new samples from 2025: lcamtuf.substack.com/p/comparing-...
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fuck it, I'm pitching an op-ed.
"I'm a reliability expert who has championed testing in production for a decade. here's why I'm raising alarm bells about DOGE's meddling with DFS"
"I'm a reliability expert who has championed testing in production for a decade. here's why I'm raising alarm bells about DOGE's meddling with DFS"
February 6, 2025 at 12:25 AM
fuck it, I'm pitching an op-ed.
"I'm a reliability expert who has championed testing in production for a decade. here's why I'm raising alarm bells about DOGE's meddling with DFS"
"I'm a reliability expert who has championed testing in production for a decade. here's why I'm raising alarm bells about DOGE's meddling with DFS"
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Brief break from hawking The Onion to tell everyone I just subscribed to Wired. Please support publications who do brave work right now.
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February 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Brief break from hawking The Onion to tell everyone I just subscribed to Wired. Please support publications who do brave work right now.
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I'm doing my required cybersecurity/phishing awareness training today and am struck how by negative it is
Maybe people would be more inclined to follow cybersecurity practices if we didn't make them feel like idiots or try to trick them all the time
Maybe people would be more inclined to follow cybersecurity practices if we didn't make them feel like idiots or try to trick them all the time
January 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I'm doing my required cybersecurity/phishing awareness training today and am struck how by negative it is
Maybe people would be more inclined to follow cybersecurity practices if we didn't make them feel like idiots or try to trick them all the time
Maybe people would be more inclined to follow cybersecurity practices if we didn't make them feel like idiots or try to trick them all the time
if you are an open source maintainer, Google is launching a program where you get paid for security-improving pull requests. yeah, yeah, terms and conditions apply but check it out: bughunters.google.com/blog/5273064...
Blog: Level Up Your Open Source Karma (And Your Wallet) by Improving Security
This blog post takes you through everything you need to know about the Patch Rewards Program, including our newly introduced focus on memory safety (including reward multipliers!), recently increased ...
bughunters.google.com
January 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
if you are an open source maintainer, Google is launching a program where you get paid for security-improving pull requests. yeah, yeah, terms and conditions apply but check it out: bughunters.google.com/blog/5273064...
being able to buy your mom a car, then finding a remote unlock vulnerability in it and getting it fixed is the car hacking dream. Congrats to @zlz.bsky.social on another great writeup: samcurry.net/hacking-subaru
Hacking Subaru: Tracking and Controlling Cars via the STARLINK Admin Panel
On November 20, 2024, Shubham Shah and I discovered a security vulnerability in Subaru’s STARLINK admin panel that gave us unrestricted access to all vehicles and customer accounts in the United State...
samcurry.net
January 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
being able to buy your mom a car, then finding a remote unlock vulnerability in it and getting it fixed is the car hacking dream. Congrats to @zlz.bsky.social on another great writeup: samcurry.net/hacking-subaru