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Alvaro @alvarop.com · 29/06/2026

WTAF. Just took a Lyft from the airport to my house. They charged me $50. I saw the drivers phone when he was starting the ride and he only got $18 ?! That’s ridiculous!🤬

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Alvaro @alvarop.com · 21/06/2026

Who else is headed to Toorcamp this week?

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Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast @unnamedre.com · 09/05/2026

New episode is up! We talked to Michael Ossmann about HackRF Pro, Cynthion, and more! unnamedre.com/episode/78

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078 - Séance Mode - An Interview with Michael Ossmann

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Helen Leigh @helenleigh.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

🎉 #Teardown2026 will be happening 24-26th July. We're in a cool new space: the Jupiter on Burnside. Our 60s mall era is dead, long live our 60s motel era. Tickets, calls for participation + volunteers, and general info on the @crowdsupply.bsky.social site: www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/por...

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Alex Glow (merlin) @alexglow.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Hey, any of y'all #PCB nerds have a favorite type of UV-cure solder mask? 👀 Just got my old Bantam mill back, and I'd like to level up my quick-prototyping game... // #PCBs

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Alvaro @alvarop.com · 28/09/2025

Do you have a J-Link compact and wonder why it only works with _some_ USB-C cables? I looked into why that is 🤬 alvarop.com/2025/09/j-li...

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Alvaro @alvarop.com · 17/08/2025

Spent waaaaay too long trying to figure out why my board's SPI bus on GP6-GP9 wasn't working 🤦‍♂️

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Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast @unnamedre.com · 02/08/2025

New episode is up! We talked with Nathan Emerick about the Spotify CarThing and it's journey to becoming the @deskthing.app :D unnamedre.com/episode/75

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075 - Teleporting All Over The Timeline

An Interview with Nathan Emerick

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 11/06/2025

When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.

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It matters. I care.

It matters. I care.0:00/295.5529711× Listen to me read this post here (not an AI-generated voice!), subscribe to the feed in your podcast app, or download the recording for later. “Who cares? It d...

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Alvaro @alvarop.com · 06/06/2025

Do folks have a favorite UV cured adhesive for PCB rework? For holding wires in place, etc…

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Deviant Ollam ツ @deviantollam.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

My gargantuan presentation about Cold War attacks and intrusions into our intelligence apparatus has now been published. If you didn't catch it at #ShmooCon or #CackalackyCon now you can view it here... youtu.be/-Z_Jv7vuiqg Enjoy! 👍😁👍

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Attacking Classified Safes and Vaults from the Cold War to Now [CackalackyCon 2025]

YouTube video by DeviantOllam

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 26/04/2025

Looking forward to the full-throated condemnation of this letter by those who accused the Biden administration of pressuring social media firms to moderate COVID-19 and election fraud misinfo! Any second now... www.theverge.com/news/656720/...

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Trump DOJ goon threatens Wikipedia

Wikipedia is facing another threat.

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OpenMV @openmv.io · 17/03/2025

We just launched the OpenMV N6 and AE3 on Kickstarter - Our Latest OpenMV Cameras with AI accelerators onboard - Run YOLO at 30 FPS on a Microcontroller! bit.ly/41tpKtv - Back our Kickstarter now!

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OpenMV N6 & AE3 - Low Power, Python Programmable AI Cameras

Embed AI into anything, anywhere, running on batteries for years with the OpenMV N6 and AE3.

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Jeff Keyzer @mightyohm.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Working on something today. I've been doing a lot of recapping recently and was getting tired of Googling pdfs. mightyohm.com/wiki/referen...

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reference:electronics:capacitors:electrolytic [MightyOhm Wiki]

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Alvaro @alvarop.com · 05/03/2025

Have you ever wanted to debug your device over USB-C? (I’m talking JTAG/SWD, not just USB!) If you already have a USB-C connector, there’s no need to have an additional connector to program! Started as a twitter thread ages ago, but I've cleaned it up and added more info! alvarop.com/2025/03/swd-...

BlackMagic Probe connected to a target over SWD using an SWD2USBC adapter.

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Embedded @embeddedfm.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Debra Ansell( @geekmomprojects.com ) joined us to talk about finding friends and exchanging neat gifts, accidentally tricking people into making unmanufacutable boards, and happy, blinking lights. Take a listen here: embedded.fm/episodes/494 #makergiftexchange #friends #maker #LED #lights

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494: All Tech Is Wearable — Embedded

Debra Ansell joined us to talk about finding friends and exchanging neat gifts, accidentally tricking people into making unmanufacutable boards, and happy, blinking lights. Debra is usually known by ...

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Some useful Surveillance Self Defense links for people who want to lock their shit down right now: Attending a protest: ssd.eff.org/module/atten... How to Use Signal: ssd.eff.org/module/how-t... Security starter pack: ssd.eff.org/playlist/wan...

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How to: Use Signal

Download location: Google Play Store, Apple App Store System requirements: Android 5 or later, iOS 13 or later Version used in this guide: Android: 7.0. iPhone: 7.0 License: GPLv3 Level: Beginner Time...

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OSH Park @oshpark.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Teardown is amazing annual June event in Portland for hacking, discovering, and sharing hardware. The call for proposals closes on Wednesday, January 15th: www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/por... #portland #portlandpdx #pdx #openhardware

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 08/01/2025

Donating to the Wikimedia Foundation is great. Becoming a volunteer editor is even better. youtu.be/bRRHR1NEOqE

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Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes

YouTube video by Molly White

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Thaís @barbieauglend.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Please support one of our own! If you ever have been to defcon, needed network security, used MFA, touched HAM radio, etc… dearest cjunkie made your life better one way or another - one of the most awesome human beings I know (and I know tons of them!) www.gofundme.com/f/support-ma...

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Donate to Support Marc Rogers' Road to Recovery, organized by Katie Vogel

Stretch goal! We blew past our initial goal in less than 24 hours. Because ant… Katie Vogel needs your support for Support Marc Rogers' Road to Recovery

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Stephen Hawes @stephenhawes.com · 04/01/2025

finally finished the fiber laser vid! you can check out the full version on yt: youtu.be/wAiGCyZZq6w

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stacksmashing @stacksmashing.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Randomly found these cool 3D printable probes by for the Omnifixo that use a jumper-wire as probing needle. Especially the version with the 5 cent coins as weight works great! Might have to make a version with pogo pins :) Awesome work, IsTim! makerworld.com/en/models/51...

PCB held on Omnifixo with 3D printed needle probes

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Tomb💀Time @tubetime.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

hey! have a seat, crack open a can of POWER TUBE, and let's review ONE YEAR OF TUBE TIME! 🧵

a pull-tab can containing an 8122 power tube made by Penta Laboratories

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Alvaro @alvarop.com · 27/12/2024

This is one of the neatest gifts I’ve ever received. It’s a rug that looks just like one of my weather station PCB’s! Here are pictures of the PCB and the rug. Oh, and did I mention some of it glows in the dark?!?!?

A rug that looks like a printed circuit board

A green printed circuit board with various components, like a radio, integrated circuits and other stuff

A picture with a small circuit board next to a very large rug that looks like that circuit board

A picture of the rug that looks like a circuit board with glow-in-the-dark components

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Alvaro @alvarop.com · 23/12/2024

Slowly migrating old Twitter threads to my blog. Here's one on a 7400 series clock I built based on my dad's college project notes. alvarop.com/2024/12/7400...

7400 series clock prototyped on a breadboard

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KiCad EDA @kicad.org · 22/12/2024

The KiCad project is excited to announce the first release candidate for the next major version is available for testing. Version 9.0.0 is expected to be released by 01/31/25. New features can be found here forum.kicad.info/t/post-v8-ne... Packages are available www.kicad.org/download/

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Tomb💀Time @tubetime.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

over the last year, i've been reverse-engineering and documenting old Seagate hard drives from the 1980s. the latest one is this ST-296N from 1987, which is a SCSI drive that can store 85 megabytes.

larger 5 1/4" format hard drive that is longer than my hand. the case is aluminum with what looks like a gold-colored alodyne coating. it has a number of stickers on it, including "ST-296N" and a warning label about the warranty being voided if the drive is opened.

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Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast @unnamedre.com · 07/12/2024

New episode is up! New episode is up! unnamedre.com/episode/72

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072 - EOF?

Catching up with Jen and Alvaro

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 07/12/2024

Come for all the UUIDs everyuuid.com, stay for the unexpected cryptanalysis. eieio.games/blog/writing... By the one and only @itseieio.bsky.social, of course.

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Writing down (and searching through) every UUID · eieio.games

I couldn't remember every UUID so I wrote them all down

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404 Media @404media.co · 02/12/2024

Subscriptions to 404 media are 25% off today: - ad-free access to all articles, most of which are paywalled - bonus articles every week - bonus podcast stuff every week - growing archive of FOIA training - supporting unique journalism Sign up here: t.co/fN7NVMEtvH

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 30/03/2024

I'm watching some folks reverse engineer the xz backdoor, sharing some *preliminary* analysis with permission. The hooked RSA_public_decrypt verifies a signature on the server's host key by a fixed Ed448 key, and then passes a payload to system(). It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable.

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Alvaro @alvarop.com · 15/07/2023

I’ll be at #opensauce all weekend. Stop by and say hello if you’re around! (Or if you need something fixed!)

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Alvaro @alvarop.com · 17/05/2023

What are some examples of great schematics from open source projects?

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 09/05/2023

A deep dive on Andreessen Horowitz's latest "State of Crypto" report. In short: they want people to keep buying crypto, and are not above publishing blatant falsehoods to convince them to do so. newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/andrees…

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Thaís @barbieauglend.bsky.social · 04/05/2023

Aaaannnnddd BlackHoodie Seattle will happen June 22/23 and is hosted by @LeviathanSec , trainings will be brought to you by @pinkflawd, @bhavna, @supg0x80 and yours truly! Registration is now open, please spread the word :) More details: blackhoodie.re/Seattle

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Blackhoodie Seattle 2023

Malware, Incident Response, Side Channels

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