Hacker News: ElectRabbit

New comment by ElectRabbit in "OpenWrt Two Approval"

ElectRabbit — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 08:52:48 +0000

Quite a few Ubiquiti APs can be reflashed with OpenWRT.

New comment by ElectRabbit in "OpenWrt Two Approval"

ElectRabbit — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 08:52:20 +0000

I really love their Switches, Routers and directional radio link stuff.

But: Mikrotik has problems with end-user Wifi - Their APs are old and weak.

New comment by ElectRabbit in "OpenWrt Two Approval"

ElectRabbit — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 08:51:37 +0000

By looking at the security history of Checkpoint.. uhm.. :-)

New comment by ElectRabbit in "Solar Generation Surge Sends European Power Prices Below Zero"

ElectRabbit — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:59:09 +0000

At least in Germany solar panels are absurdly cheap right now.

You can get a ~440W panel for around 40€. Latest generation and industrial grade.

There are dozens of shops where you can pick them up after ordering.

New comment by ElectRabbit in "Volkswagen's cheapest EV ever is the first to use Rivian software"

ElectRabbit — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 21:11:52 +0000

RIP Cariad

New comment by ElectRabbit in "Wyvern's Open Satellite Feed"

ElectRabbit — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 12:17:18 +0000

> 1) Do they post SatDump data somewhere?

Don't know.

> 2) (I doubt it but) Is it under a free license?

SatDump is GPLv3

New comment by ElectRabbit in "Wyvern's Open Satellite Feed"

ElectRabbit — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 07:53:33 +0000

Cool stuff!

Also keep a close eye on the Opensource SatDump project. That's a group of (mostly ham, but not all of them) radio enthusiasts that are listening to all kind of science satellites. They managed to decode many of them.

They are far far beyond the old 137MHz analog NOAA stuff. Collecting crazy broadband from S- or X-band is no challenge for them.

New comment by ElectRabbit in "ESP32 Undocumented Bluetooth Commands: Clearing the Air"

ElectRabbit — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 08:59:10 +0000

On the HCI interface. That's not a OTA attack.

If an attacker can write raw data the HCI interface you are doomed anyway.

New comment by ElectRabbit in "Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe?"

ElectRabbit — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 10:45:04 +0000

As far as I know all nav sats have emergency beacon payloads (Cospas-Sarsat). All providers (Beidou, GPS, Glonass, Galileo) joined this.

New comment by ElectRabbit in "Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe?"

ElectRabbit — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 10:30:22 +0000

> Galileo

Which has optional cryptographic signatures of its positioning data. It's not spoofable anymore (but still jam'able with strong transmitters).

Free for use.

(https://www.gsc-europa.eu/sites/default/files/sites/all/file...)

Same for the HAS (High Accuracy Service) which offers precision down to 30cm without additional correction data.

Also free for use. But requires a special receiver as it's using an additional band.

Galileo was the ugly duckling for a very long time - but it turned into a shining one after it aged a bit.

New comment by ElectRabbit in "Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe?"

ElectRabbit — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 10:29:02 +0000

Galileo offers optional cryptographic signatures for their positioning data.

It's a solved problem and free for use.

https://www.gsc-europa.eu/sites/default/files/sites/all/file...

New comment by ElectRabbit in "Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin"

ElectRabbit — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 10:34:00 +0000

Kicad brings its own Python and is fully interfaceable.

New comment by ElectRabbit in "Airbnb CEO says it's still too early for AI trip planning"

ElectRabbit — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 16:26:11 +0000

TA is IMHO far from useable when planing complex tours in a country.

I even prefer reading Reddit travel reports or indexes of travel books for reading stuff on that website.

New comment by ElectRabbit in "Airbnb CEO says it's still too early for AI trip planning"

ElectRabbit — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 16:23:55 +0000

I tested it with several places I know very well from my "manually planed" tours. It was "aware" of them all. Even the more hidden recommendations.

New comment by ElectRabbit in "Airbnb CEO says it's still too early for AI trip planning"

ElectRabbit — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 10:04:40 +0000

LLMs are stellar for trip planning. They can spit out a lot of potential options for a country or region.

I just add all the suggestions to a map and then plan way around them. Also doing some manual research like opening times.

Why I love this? I really don't want to research too deep into my destinations as this kills a lot of the magic seeing seeing them in person.

New comment by ElectRabbit in "5G networks meet consumer needs as mobile data growth slows"

ElectRabbit — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:19:03 +0000

Without 5G SA that standard is an awful battery sucker. My Pixel 6 looses almost 1/3 of its battery capacity when being stuck at 5G NSA.

With my Pixel 8 and 5G SA activated (Telefonica Germany) everything is back to normal.

New comment by ElectRabbit in "Ask HN: Are there any open source RISC-V processors that I can buy and use?"

ElectRabbit — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 21:03:26 +0000

WCH is quiet famous for their Risc-V microcontrollers.

New comment by ElectRabbit in "ScatterBrain: Unmasking the shadow of PoisonPlug's obfuscator"

ElectRabbit — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 20:26:29 +0000

This is the result when an elite attacker meets an elite analyst group.

That's some very heavy stuff.

New comment by ElectRabbit in "Show HN: ESP32 RC Cars"

ElectRabbit — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 09:36:48 +0000

Cool project! Love it! :-)

We mounted a furby head in one of our robots at work and let it yell swear words at our management.

They (and we) love it.

That project was the source of many code snippets/patterns that have implemented in official products that earned a lot of money.

New comment by ElectRabbit in "Norway's wealth fund now worth $319,900 per citizen"

ElectRabbit — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 08:54:32 +0000

The Nordic countries have a lot of problems too.

One example is their completely failed drug policy, which is aimed at repression instead of care and therapy.