Life pro tip: Have a bunch of random gunk stuck in your silicone mat? Cover it in white glue. When it dries, you don't have to look at the gunk stuck on your mat anymore.

Does anyone have experience with an e-commerce site that's easy for both buyers and sellers that also handles sales taxes properly?

PSA: How to get a 2026 "choose your own charity" eChallengeCoin ! Donate before July and send me a copy of the receipt. If you are in the USA, I'm happy to mail your your eChallengeCoin. If you are international I will reserve a eChallengeCoin and bring it to DEFCON in August. aosc.cc/eccn2026

I'm using a PicoGUS not quite as intended. I needed a sound card for a PC/104 board and realized that the pin ordering matched on the PicoGUS v1.2 and I could drop a header in place. Thanks @polpo.org for all your contributions to retro tech!

This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both

Just released the source for my WiFi-Shuriken project! This is my 6 radio ESP32-C5 wardriving device. github.com/CoD-Segfault...

It's #MakeShitMonday! Lets see your project progress or things you've made. Anything goes! I printed some brackets and got the synth mounted on the wall. Show me what you got!

Got my new WiFi-Shuriken boards delivered and assembled today. They have 6x @seeedstudio.com Xiao ESP32-C5 boards and a Xiao RP2350. This thing is a scanning beast! Can scan both 2.4 and 5GHz bands in under 2 seconds.

I did some work with the ESP32-C5 this week. I replaced the Side B of the @jhewitt.net wardriver.uk with a C5. I had to strip out everything but Wi-Fi scanning, but it's a beast for 5GHz. In my tests, I saw about a 30% increase for 5GHz compared to BW16. Code available at github.com/CoD-Segfault...

github.com/WithLoveFrom... Someone made an android app that will trigger all axon police body cameras in range

HVAC THE PLANET!!

Started working on moving the wardriver.uk code from Arduino to PlatformIO. It's a bit messy, but it does run! I have some plans to make a few enhancements, including potentially running the code on different hardware.

Broke 3M Wi-Fi found on @wiglenet.bsky.social today! Got a new color! #wardriving #AllTheWifi

We have squeezed the last bit out of Wigle! The final numbers are here! Thank you all for contributing to another 24 Hour event and to @wiglenet.bsky.social for the support. Hat tip to @se.gfau.lt for running the scoreboard. Stay tuned for more after we rest up. #HHB24Wigle 👷‍♂️👷🏽‍♂️👷🏿 ❤️

And we are off! All uploads between 0001 and 2359 count! Make sure to tag us and/or use the hashtags below with updates on your journey. Scoreboard : hardhat.rocks/24hours2025/ Reminder: Safety first! Don’t drive sleepy and take breaks. #AllTheWiFi #HHB24Wigle

Just dropped my first batch, in queue for the @wiglenet.bsky.social kittens to chew on. S9, S10, S20, Pixel6 and 3 Jhewitts in tow The S10 completely borked its WiFi somewhere early in the run so we’ll see how its relatives do! #allTheWifi #hhb24wigle #wardrive @hardhat.rocks

Using phones to wardrive? Don't forget to turn off "Wi-Fi scan throttling" in Developer options. Join us Saturday October 25th for our 24 event! #HHB24Wigle #AllTheWiFi

Where has the time gone??? One week until the 24 Hours of HHB! We are encouraging our group (and everyone else) to wardrive and upload to @wiglenet during 24 hours. Saturday October 25th from 00:01 PDT to 23:59 PDT Leaderboard is here: hardhat.rocks/24hours2025/ #HHB24Wigle 1/2

sherman, for the love of god!

The last few weeks, we've been working to connected with the family of the person taken by ICE and are building a campaign to get his out. But he was the only person working for his wife and kids and we need to raise money for a lawyer and his family's living expenses. bsky.app/profile/bmes...

It is invariably cheaper to choose kindness:

A gentle reminder to my friends: it's been a rough time lately. Take good care of yourself and each other. Do something nice for yourself. #MakeKindnessNormal

I'm giving a talk about multimeters this weekend for @pancakescon.com! Thanks to @blenster.com for running the Hardware Hacking Village and for giving me the opportunity to present!

Not even into VCFMW yet and saw this amazing hat courtesy of @hardhat.rocks! Very awesome!

I'll be at #VCFMW today wearing my DOOM hard hat. Come up and say hi!

My wonderful friend @hacks4pancakes.com has finally managed to cat-wrangle me into setting up the actual schedule for the @pancakescon.com Hardware Hacking Village Livestream happening in two weeks! I was going to get to it this weekend for sure. ADHD permitting of course. LOL

Who knew that @defcon.bsky.social inhuman badges held such power? I may or may not be human anymore. Maybe it was that bite from that goon...

Hackers solve problems. I believe in our community. #DFIU

Oh man, I wish I would have known. I could have powered my Pinecil on the flight!

Getting ready for @defcon.bsky.social where I'll be on staff at @defconnextgen.bsky.social and thanks to @rayredacted.com we raised $1,921.64 for 500 free soldering kits. Time for the transparency report to show where it all went. All told I spent over $2k and most of it is here:

#DEFCON #HackerJeopardy #DFIU #MSDOS #RetroComputing #Retro #HardHatBrigade

My DOOM @hardhat.rocks hat is going to make another appearance at @defcon.bsky.social this year with some new tricks! It now plays MS-DOS #HackerJeopardy! Write your own category and I might put it on my head!

Less than a month away from #DEFCON33 - what are you building for @defcon.bsky.social ? Join the Hard Hat Brigade as we explore everything #DC33 has to offer! We can't wait to see your creations....

New decade on @wiglenet.bsky.social! #AllTheWifi #wardriving

I find this stainless steel to be a bit questionable.

Been quiet lately, but still working on some stuff in the background. Today's milestone: A stripped down wardriver.uk side B running on the ESP32-C5.

JOIN THE DFIU CLUE CREW Present a clue live on stage at Hacker Jeopardy at @defcon.bsky.social #defcon33 Open audition: forms.gle/M4igbJ9pW9mr... Deadline is 14 July 2025

I want off this timeline.

I'm not sure it was a good thing for me to know this exists. github.com/input-inc/op...

American airports: "Take off your shoes! Is that water bottle empty?! I don't like the look of this nail file, buster!" Switzerland: "Please feel free to purchase our iconic pocketknives right here inside the terminal."

Are you going to #THOTCON or @bsides312.org? Come find me for some @hardhat.rocks and Chicago-exclusive @wiglenet.bsky.social stickers. I'll be wearing my DOOM hard hat, so you won't be able to miss me.

I did something today. I bought something for a reasonable price instead of just making it myself for 3x the cost, not even factoring in my time.

Seems that my BW16-Open-AT project was featured in the latest @hackerboxes.bsky.social!

#wispier #hackerbox has ARRIVED! COOL! THANKS @hackerboxes.bsky.social #wigle @se.gfau.lt @463n7.bsky.social @jhewitt.net

#PicoGUS can now emulate both a CDROM drive and Sound Blaster in parallel, smoothly playing both CD audio and SB sound effects simultaneously. Still a lot of polish to do before a new firmware release but I'm excited!! This is MechWarrior 2 with bin/cue stored on a USB stick plugged into the PicoGUS

Are you going to #THOTCON or @bsides312.org? Come find me for some @hardhat.rocks and Chicago-exclusive @wiglenet.bsky.social stickers. I'll be wearing my DOOM hard hat, so you won't be able to miss me.

New hard hat dropped! More info here: honeybear.hydrox.fun #defcon #layerone2025 #hardhatbrigade

Hey web developers. STOP TRYING TO VALIDATE EMAIL ADDRESSES. You are bad at it. There I said it. If you want to see if an email address is valid, send it an email and have the person click a link or copy a code.