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Folks, i need a job or a contract so bad. I'm a full-stack developer, i work in several frameworks (including #laravel and #yii2), and with several CMSes (notably #craftcms and #expressionengine but i can also work in Wordpress). I've got SQL wizard skills and a deep focus on #a11y and solid, maintainable, semantic HTML and CSS on the front end. Please hire me!
I'm a dual US/Canadian citizen and prefer fully remote work but can also do in-office in Vancouver/the Lower Mainland area.
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Hackaday Links: November 23, 2025
Remember the Key Bridge collapse? With as eventful a year as 2025 has been, we wouldnāt blame anyone for forgetting that in March of 2024, container ship MV Dali plowed into the bridge across Baltimore Harbor, turning it into 18,000 tons of scrap metal in about four seconds, while taking the lives of six very unlucky Maryland transportation workers in the process. Now, more than a year and a half after the disaster, we finally have an idea of what caused the accident. According to the National Transportation Safety Boardās report, a loss of electrical power at just the wrong moment resulted in a cascade of failures, leaving the huge vessel without steerage. However, it was the root cause of the power outage that really got us: a wire with an incorrectly applied label.
Sal Mercogliano, our go-to guy for anything to do with shipping, has a great rundown of the entire cascade of failures, with the electrically interesting part starting around the 8:30 mark. The NTSB apparently examined a control cabinet on the Dali and found one wire with a heat-shrink label overlapping the plastic body of its terminating ferrule. This prevented the wire from being properly inserted into a terminal block, leading to poor electrical contact. Over time, the connection got worse, eventually leading to an undervoltage condition that tripped a circuit breaker and kicked off everything else that led to the collision. Itās a sobering thought that something so mundane and easily overlooked could result in such a tragedy, but there it is.
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Weāve been harping a bit on the Flock situation in this space over the last month or so, but for good reason, or at least it seems to us. Flockās 80,000-strong network of automated license plate readers (ALPRs), while understandably attractive from a law-and-order perspective, is a little hard to swallow for anyone interested in privacy and against pervasive surveillance. And maybe all of that wouldnāt be so bad if we had an inkling that the security start-up had at least paid passing attention to cybersecurity basics.
But alas, Benn Jordan and a few of his cybersecurity pals have taken a look inside a Flock camera, and the news isnāt good. Granted, this appears to be a first-pass effort, but given that the āhackā is a simple as pressing the button on the back of the camera a few times. Doing so creates a WiFi hotspot on the camera, and from there itās off to the races. There are plenty of other disturbing findings in the video, so check it out.
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Sufficiently annuated readers will no doubt recall classic toys of the ā60s and ā70s, such as Lite-Brite and Rock āEm Sock āEm Robots, and games like Mouse Trap and Toss Across. We recall owning all of those at one time or another, and surprisingly, they all sprang from the inventive mind of the same man: Burt Meyer, who died on October 30 at the age of 99. We have many fond memories of his inventions, but truth be told, we never much cared for Mouse Trap as a game; we just set up the Rube Goldberg-esque trap and played with that. The rest, though? Quality fun. RIP, Burt.
Last week, we featured the unfortunate story about a Russian humanoid robot that drunk-walked its way into ādemo hellā history. And while itās perhaps a bit too easy to poke fun at something like this, itās a simple fact of life that the upright human form is inherently unstable, and that any mechanism designed to mimic that form is bound to fall once in a while. With that in mind, Disney Research engineers are teaching their humanoid bots to fall with style. The idea is for the robots to protect their vital parts in the event of a fall, which is something humans (usually) do instinctively. They first did hundreds of falls with virtual robots, rewarding them for correctly ending up in the target pose, and eventually worked the algorithms into real, albeit diminutive, robots. The video in the article shows them all sticking the landing, and even if some of the end poses donāt seem entirely practical, itās pretty cool tech.
And finally, this week on the Hackaday Podcast was discussed the infuriating story of an EV-enthusiast who had trouble servicing the brakes on his Hyundai Ioniq. Check out the podcast if you want the full rant and the color commentary, but the TL;DL version is that Hyundai has the functions needed to unlock the parking brakes stuck behind a very expensive paywall. Luckily for our hacker hero, a $399 Harbor Freight bidirectional scan tool was up to the task, and the job was completed for far less than what the officially sanctioned tools would have cost. But it turns out there may have been a cheaper and more delightfully hackish way to do the job, with nothing but a 12-volt battery pack and a couple of jumper wires. Lots of vehicles with electric parking brakes use two-wire systems, so iās a good tip for the shade tree mechanic to keep in mind.
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A buon rendere. SolidarietĆ con gli anarchici condannati a Massa
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Riceviamo e diffondiamo. Qui il testo in formato volantino, di cui ĆØ incoraggiata anche la distribuzione cartacea: a-buon-rendere-massa-5-novembre A buon rendere SolidarietĆ con gli anarchici condannati dal tribunale di Massa Continuiamo a lottare contro il 41 bis e le politiche...Vedi
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so it goes
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@filippodb l'origine della bufala fu una band sfigatissima degli anni '90 il cui frontman imitava le fattezze e il modo di cantare di Piero PelĆ¹
A un evento MTV cantarono una "versione rock" di Jeeg Robot
(che poi, l'organo Hammond di Fogus (che credo mancasse nella versione originale giapponese) era la cosa piĆ¹ rock del mondo!)
@steek_hutzee @spettacoli@mastodon.uno @spettacoli@diggita.com
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I saw this video and I was somehow reminded of @jessie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_lgAe1cW0g
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La vita va vissuta, e invece io la penso...
