Thu: Feb 25, 2016

Amazon Web Services in Plain English. Glad someone came up with this.     #>


Los Angeles Neighborhood Maps. That's pretty cool, I like the interactivity of it.     #>


Federal Judge Says Photographing Police Not Always Protected by 1st Amendment. WHAT?     #>


Colin Haley Solos Torre Egger. Wow, solo? Nuts!     #>


Test for Fake USB Flash Drives – H2testw. Apparently some fake drives are showing up as the wrong capacity but much more nefarious are the drives that show as the correct capacity but are much lower, when writing data to them their firmware just writes in a loop, overwriting the old data when it gets full - this results in data loss...     #>


Inside Line – SRAM NX 1×11: 1x for entry-level bikes. That is dirt cheap compared to their premium model...     #>


RTD A Line to DIA Opens April 22nd. Yay!     #>


I bought some awful light bulbs so you don't have to. This part is especially hilarious:

I worked out the rest pretty quickly - command 03 sets the RGB colour of the bulb, 0A asks the bridge to search for new bulbs, 0B tells you which bulbs are available and their capabilities and 0E gives you the MAC addresses of the bulbs(‽). 0C crashes the server process, and 06 spews a bunch of garbage back at you and potentially crashes the bulb in a hilarious way that involves it flickering at about 15Hz. It turns out that 06 is actually the "Rename bulb" command, and if you send it less data than it's expecting something goes hilariously wrong in string parsing and everything is awful.
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