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New comment by izme in "Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle"

izme — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 23:54:07 +0000

This takes me back. There exist emulators for these dongles as well, you run the a dumper with the dongle attached and load the program and it makes a dump file which you then use in the emulator.

I had to do this for a company so they could continue to use their old specialised Win98 software on modern computers using Dosbox and an emulator.

New comment by izme in "Meshtastic"

izme — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 08:17:38 +0000

One of the main differences with MeshCore is that client nodes don't repeat messages, only dedicated repeater nodes repeat with the idea that they should be placed in more ideal locations.

Just don't mention MeshCore anywhere around Meshtastic, or they'll kickban you.

New comment by izme in "Cops suspect iOS 18 iPhones are communicating to force reboots"

izme — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 00:39:27 +0000

Another option is that whatever bug cellebrite was exploiting to extract data from iPhones in AFU mode is now subtly not working, leading to unexpected reboots when attempting extraction.

New comment by izme in "Cops suspect iOS 18 iPhones are communicating to force reboots"

izme — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 00:19:40 +0000

I very much doubt it. Far more likely to be a memory leak in the baseband which is exposed when the devices are unable to talk to the cellular network for a period of time.

New comment by izme in "A curious phenomenon called 'Etak'"

izme — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 03:46:29 +0000

It's a vector display, similar to how an oscilloscope display works. Check out the Vectrex video game console for another great example.

New comment by izme in "Sega AI"

izme — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 03:44:11 +0000

I think it's more based on the TRS-80 Model 100 maybe?

New comment by izme in "Disappearing Polymorphs"

izme — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 04:17:04 +0000

It also makes you wonder if novel crystal forms could be discovered by purposely seeding the process with other arbitrary seeds.

New comment by izme in "Disappearing Polymorphs"

izme — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 04:13:48 +0000

This is fascinating, such that I went looking for more information on this phenomenon and found an interesting preprint regarding the polymorphism of ritonavir suggesting that specific milling processes are able to reliably produce each form.

At least I think that's what it says, I'm definitely not a chemist!

https://chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv/article-details/645112f...