today's leftovers
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Instructionals/Technical
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Hackaday ☛ Wake, Boot, Repeat: Remote OS Selection With GRUB And ESP
What do you do when you need to choose an OS at boot but aren’t physically near your machine? [Dakhnod]’s inventive solution is a mix of GRUB, Wake-on-LAN (WOL), and a lightweight ESP8266 running a simple HTTP server. In the past, [dakhnod] already enlightened us with another smart ESP hack. This one’s a clever combination of network booting and remote control that opens up possibilities beyond the usual dual-boot selector.
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For those looking to take it further, using configfile instead of source allows for more dynamic menu entries, although it won’t persist environment variables. You could even combine it with this RasPi hack to control the uptime of the HTTP server. The balance between convenience and security is yours to strike.
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Open Hardware/Modding
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Hackaday ☛ FOSDEM 2025, A Hardware Hacker’s Haven
Have you been to FOSDEM? It’s a yearly two-day megaconference in Brussels, every first weekend of February. Thousands of software and hardware hackers from all across Europe come here each year, make friends, talk software and hardware alike, hold project-specific meetups to drink beer and talk shop, and just have a fun weekend surrounded by like-minded people.
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Security
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2025-02-25 [Older] RansomHub sends a letter to the editor. Really.
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2025-02-25 [Older] DISA Global Solutions reports more than 3.3 million people affected by 2024 data breach, but questions remain
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Computing UK ☛ 2025-02-26 [Older] Ransomware attack on Southern Water cost £4.5 million
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Bloomberg ☛ 2025-02-26 [Older] Medical Billing Vendor Sued Over Health Data Leak ‘Gold Mine’
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2025-02-26 [Older] Bluesight’s 2025 Breach Barometer Report Reveals Surge in Healthcare Data Breaches
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The Straits Times ☛ 2025-02-26 [Older] Belgian prosecutor probes alleged Chinese hacking of intelligence service
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2025-02-27 [Older] Criminal hacker known as ALTDOS, DESORDEN, GHOSTR and 0mid16B arrested
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ALM ☛ 2025-02-28 [Older] Data Breach Class Action Dismissed After ‘Alter Ego’ Doctrine Fails
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