![]() Politics aside, we’d love to dig into the technical details of the plan, and see exactly what will be salvaged from the station before its fiery demise, if anything. ![]() The agency apparently sees the increasingly political handwriting on the ISS’s aging and sometimes perforated walls, and acknowledges that the next phase of LEO space research will be carried out by a fleet of commercial space stations, none of which is close to existing yet. The space agency announced its end-of-life plans for the International Space Station this week, the details of which will just be a run-up to the 2031 de-orbit and crash landing of any remaining debris into the lonely waters of Point Nemo. Here’s hoping that you have a better retirement plan than NASA. Seems like his Twitter-bot and the resulting kerfuffle is a real resume builder, so job-seekers should take note. ![]() But Jack might just have the last laugh, as an Orlando-based private jet chartering company has now offered him a job. After Jack wisely laughed off Elon’s measly offer of $5,000 to take the bot down, Elon ghosted him - pretty childish behavior for the richest man on the planet, we have to say. This caught the attention of the billionaire-iest of them all, one Elon Musk, who took exception to the 19-year-old’s feat of data integration, which draws from a number of public databases to infer the location of Elon’s plane. Last week, the news was filled with stories of Jack Sweeney and his Twitter-bot that tracks the comings and goings of various billionaires in their private jets. Continue reading “Web Serial Terminal Means It’s Always Hacking Time” → Posted in Software Hacks Tagged chrome, chromebook, Web Serial API In a quick test here at the Hackaday Command Center, we were able to bring up the Bus Pirate UI with no problems using Chrome on Linux. But assuming you are running the appropriate browser, you’ll be able to connect with your serial gadgets with a simple interface that should be familiar to anyone who’s worked with more traditional terminal software. As of this writing it only works on Chrome/Chromium (and by extension, Microsoft Edge), so Firefox fans will be left out in the cold unless Mozilla changes their stance on the whole Web Serial API concept. But now you’ve got a new choice - instead of installing a serial terminal emulator, you can simply point your browser to the aptly-named. There’s plenty of choice out there, from classic command line tools to flashier graphical options, which ultimately all do the same thing in the end: let you easily communicate with gadgets using UART. Posted in computer hacks, Software Hacks Tagged chromebook, ChromeOS, googleĪrguably one of the most important pieces of software to have in your hardware hacking arsenal is a nice serial terminal emulator. We doubt that the hardware manufacturers are thrilled at their customers’ old machines receiving a new lease of life and we doubt Google are doing this through sheer altruism, so we’re guessing that the financial justification comes from an extra five years of making money from the users’ data. There’s another question though, and it relates to the business model behind Chromebooks. But anything which saves e-waste has to be applauded, and since this particular scribe has a five-year-old ASUS Transformer just out of support, we’re hoping for a chance to jump back on that train. We’re guessing many users will feel the itch up upgrade their hardware long before their decade of software support is up. Of course, a Chrome OS upgrade on an older machine won’t make it any quicker. ![]() Even better, it seems that this will be retroactively applied to at least some older machines, allowing owners to opt in to further updates for the remainder of the decade following the machine’s launch. Now in a rare show of sense from a tech company, Google have announced that Chromebooks are to receive ten years of updates from next year. With the rise of the Chromebook, this has moved into larger devices, with schools and other institutions left with piles of what’s essentially e-waste. It’s an acknowledged problem with the mobile phone industry and particularly within the Android ecosystem, that the operating system support on a typical device can persist for far too short a time, leaving the user without critical security updates.
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