When I read this I see a a niche, super premium hardware company that managed to acquire tens of thousands of customers by word of mouth. Not only that, their customers are all in-effect self employed or small businesses with huge average revenue per employee. They manage global supply chains, intense competition, all while taking on and managing huge legal/compliance risk. How is is that supposedly “dumb,” criminals can do this, and yet many of us are stretching our intellectual capacities to learn new technologies and maths, developing our nth stupid app, trying to achieve a fraction of the customer traction and revenue that street thugs manage to do every day. Are these people much smarter than average, or does it mean that if you sell something people actually want, literally nothing else matters about your intelligence, education, character, background, or anything at all. When I read these drug stories, it just reinforces for me that growth solves everything. You can succeed with a crew of violent, drug addicted idiots whose only reliable characteristic is short term thinking, and who spend half their time in prison if you have product market fit. What I’m beginning to think is that the “smarter,” people are in a company, the less anyone will want their product. It’s like the success of a venture is inversely proportional to the number of ostensible geniuses it employs. reply How Police Secretly Took over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime | Hacker News

https://hardware.majix.org/ cool website showing off someone’s old computers

As my hardware is getting older, I feel myself getting more attracted to retro-computing.

modern mobile development cons: the absence of hardware keyboards leads to a culture of passivity. modern mobile dev pros: nobody assumes you are running a supercomputer with a fiber connection directly to the data center no more than 5 ft long

MCD | Ghost Hardware https://www.mcdbooks.com/features/ghost-hardware-tim-maughan

@metamurks@www.metamurks.org: Actually I’m running OpenBSD on APU2 routers, but that would have been to much to explain for the tweet. And OpenWRT is pretty much as good. The APU2 hardware is quite nice compared with what else is out there.

Why I use old hardware | Drew DeVault’s Blog https://drewdevault.com/2019/01/23/Why-I-use-old-hardware.html

The Case Against Quantum Computing - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/the-case-against-quantum-computing

Canon Cat Hardware Schematics : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/CatHardwareSchematics

Chuck Thacker, “Personal Distributed Computing”The Alto and Ethernet Hardware” - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9n2J24Jg2Y

LegoOS: a disseminated, distributed OS for hardware resource disaggregation | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/10/22/legoos-a-disseminated-distributed-os-for-hardware-resource-disaggregation/

Hardware Interrupts | Writing an OS in Rust https://os.phil-opp.com/hardware-interrupts/

Vectorized Emulation: Hardware accelerated taint tracking at 2 trillion instructions per second | Gamozo Labs Blog https://gamozolabs.github.io/fuzzing/2018/10/14/vectorized_emulation.html

The Political Cost of the Chinese Hardware Hack - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/political-cost-chinese-hardware-hack/572383/

David Patterson Says It’s Time for New Computer Architectures and Software Languages - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/hardware/david-patterson-says-its-time-for-new-computer-architectures-and-software-languages

It seems like every time I reboot, Ubuntu manages to forget about another piece of hardware I have. First it was the USB controller, then the wifi (still not fixed), and now it’s my sound card.

Oh man remember these? Only 90s kids had their neural networks in hardware ICs. https://www.sigarch.org/neurochips-from-the-90s/

How to Make Everything Ourselves: Open Modular Hardware - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2012/12/how-to-make-everything-ourselves-open-modular-hardware.html

A Modern Office with Vintage hardware – ~ajroach42.com – I’m Andrew. I write … http://ajroach42.com/a-modern-office-with-vintage-hardware/

Inside a low budget consumer hardware espionage implant https://ha.cking.ch/s8_data_line_locator/

Jacked into the net with salvaged hardware, araneanauts are hunters, spelunkers and librarians, except the library occasionally eats them

Magic was given only to players, but nobody’s logged in in a few hundred years of game time. We run on hardware the admins have forgotten

The jing-jang of hardware and software support ⌘ https://blog.cosmix.org/2017/08/14/the-jing-jang-of-hardware-and-software-support/

Chuck Thacker, "Personal Distributed Computing—The Alto and Ethernet Hardware" - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9n2J24Jg2Y

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Uh, i haven’t heard about yacy in years. Please keep us informed! I have to talk to our hardware guy, maybe we can run an instance at work.

the hiveminds quickly start optimizing their hardware and grow brain-only humans around a placenta of wires, completely integrated

Those who can afford the hardware have plots in the high resolution quarters of Polygon City, while low poly is synonymous with poor.

New build farm hardware at TUD

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Here’s what we have: 5 Intel Core 2 Duo DualCore machines
with 1GB RAM, 2 Mac minis with 1,83-GHz Intel Core
Duo-processor, another Core 2 Duo a UPS to deal with spikes in
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