<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: BertoldVdb</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=BertoldVdb</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:49:38 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=BertoldVdb" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BertoldVdb in "OpenMANET Wi-Fi HaLow open-source project for Raspberry Pi–based MANET radios"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is an offline moving map with very fancy marker etc support. Seems a good choice for a hiking app?</p>
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<p>To make a compliant ethernet signal from this you would need at least some sort of line driver/receiver as well.</p>
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<p>Just put normal test pads next to the tag connect, a bit more spaced out. A bed of nails in the production line connects to that, the tag connect can be used for bench development.</p>
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<p>We tried this long ago at a university, the cards we had were entirely invisible to the x-ray.<p>I think the 'x-ray' table in the article works with IR cameras and illuminators under the table, and tablecloth that is slightly IR transparent.</p>
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<p>Laser decapping will destroy the die, except if you have a rare package that does not mix glass in the epoxy.<p>You could still compare the internal structure of the package and bonding, but the die itself is mostly destroyed.</p>
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<p>A lot of low population density cellular backhaul runs over satellite. Two factor SMS or voice can be directly intercepted, assuming encryption is not used.</p>
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<p>A solar panel is like a normal silicon diode. The voltage over the cell goes up drastically with lower temperatures. In cold climates crowbars are usually added.</p>
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<p>This architecture is good for data path applications, but not really for control flow (eg, think how expensive a context switch would be)</p>
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<p>Usually yes, but it is not an EU-wide system. Contact your spectrum regulator and ask for what options are available for private 5G[1]. You can likely get a bit of spectrum in the 1.8GHz guard band, around 2.3GHz, or somewhere between 3.4-5GHz. Price is from free to thousands of euros, depending on the country, transmit power and whether you are using outdoor cells. A private mmWave cell will almost everywhere need to be under an experimental/R&D license (we don't have public mmWave networks).<p>If you can choose, it's best to take a TDD license, as the duplexer required for FDD base station operation is a relatively expensive device when operating on an uncommon band.<p>1) Private 4G wasn't really a big thing in EU, but in most countries the license you get is technology neutral and can be used with a 4G base station as well.<p>PS: Connecting the private LTE to the public telephone network with a publicly reachable number requires a public telecom operator permit in some countries. You will also need to pay for the block of phone numbers. Roaming to the public cellular network requires many extra things which are not cheap or easy to obtain. And of course you need to have a roaming agreement with the other operator.</p>
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<p>In the Netherlands you can run private 4G in the 1.8GHz GSM guard band. For indoor use with 200mW or less no license is required.</p>
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<p>No, unless the Android is already rooted, it is not possible to send vendor HCI commands.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2025 21:11:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43313872</link><dc:creator>BertoldVdb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43313872</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43313872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BertoldVdb in "Undocumented backdoor found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A very far stretch: You have a ESP32 based Bluetooth dongle, that exposes its HCI interface to the host. You have already gained access to the host and can now load code to the dongle.<p>Not really a vulnerability, and many types of bluetooth dongle firmwares can be updated by the host...</p>
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<p>The people in these talks go quite a bit further than just BLE packet TX/RX (which you can do with the documentation on most chips). In theory this work allows implementing a totally different protocol.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2024 17:49:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42551641</link><dc:creator>BertoldVdb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42551641</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42551641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BertoldVdb in "Adapter lets you use cheap eSIM plans on any Android phone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The interface to configure an eSIM is standardized, there is no need to use the proprietary app. You might even be able to configure it with the software included with the phone OS.</p>
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<p>There are many products like this, eg:<p><a href="https://shop.sysmocom.de/sysmoEUICC1-eUICC-for-consumer-eSIM-RSP/sysmoEUICC1-C2G" rel="nofollow">https://shop.sysmocom.de/sysmoEUICC1-eUICC-for-consumer-eSIM...</a><p><a href="https://esim.me/" rel="nofollow">https://esim.me/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2024 22:24:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41550966</link><dc:creator>BertoldVdb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41550966</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41550966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BertoldVdb in "Making a rickroll laser: A parametric speaker"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I worked on this long ago, the main problem with the poor sound quality is that the self-mixing process is non-linear, a good approximation is squaring the output signal.<p>To improve the quality you can pre-distort the output signal. Taking the square root works quite well, but expands the bandwidth significantly (infinitely, in theory). There is a lot of literature on pre-distortion with bandwidth constraints for telecom power amplifier linearisation. You will also need a linear amplifier to power the array.<p>The ultrasonic transducers used in this post are very narrowband, having a resonance peak of merely a few 100Hz. You can reduce the Q factor with resistive loading but the output power significantly drops. It seemed these transducers quickly start making an audible whining noise when used for continuous transmission at higher powers. I don't know what caused that, apart from this effect they seemed to hold up for essentially infinite duration.<p>Using a larger wideband ultrasonic transducer instead of an array of small narrowband transducers again increases the sound quality a lot. We did not find a commercial supplier of such transducer for a reasonable cost, but made some improvised custom electrostatic ones with conductive foil. There is a lot of literature on how to construct ultrasonic transducers but this is not my field.<p>You will not be able to play bass notes due to physics, the power required would be insane.</p>
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<p>With a rate of 1.5%, paying the loan off might not be a smart move, as long as you don't mind not being fully debt free.</p>
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<p>How does the mercury get into the water?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2024 21:49:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41229731</link><dc:creator>BertoldVdb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41229731</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41229731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BertoldVdb in "Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That functionality is absolutely non-trivial. There are a few WiFi cores (digital and RF) you can license but they are expensive and the analog part uses a lot of die area. If you look up die shots from the ESP chips, you see that the radio is more than half of the die.<p>Espressif apparently has their own WiFi implementation, which makes sense as they are a major vendor of very cheap tablet and cell phone WiFi radios. This is likely why they can offer that feature so cheaply.<p>Bluetooth Low Energy is way simpler BTW.</p>
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<p>It's very unlikely IMHO. Both the RISC-V and the M33 are very tiny in die area, compared to for example the 512kB RAM, or even compared to a few bond-pads.<p>Making a single core with two instruction decoders but a shared register file, caches, prediction logic and ALU would make sense for a very high-end application processor type core, but not for these small devices. You would also need an instruction set license from ARM for that, vs just licensing the M33 netlist.</p>
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