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- Brain computer interfaces
- Chris is still finishing up a book on PARC. Hearing about management decisions made him upset.
- Dave is fighting to get through Ready Player 2
- Position JWST mirrors with nanometer accuracy (video)
- More about mirrors from NASA
- How alignment is being done
- Dave’s son is getting into Kurzgesagt (amazing YouTube channel)
- Chris and his daughter like The Universe app, though looking at info about M87 (Virgo Alpha) gave Chris a panic attack
- Shenzhen is on lockdown after COVID has gotten worse in Hong Kong and some has crossed the border.
- During a (very) brief search during the show we found 90% of electronics production is done in Shenzhen? Can that be right??
- Packaging is expanding in the US, but Chris is skeptical it will put a dent in the supply chain.
- How technology impacts working conditions (in this case, calling out the monitoring of truckers)
- DRM labels or paper
- On the Unnamed Reverse Engineering Podcast, they interviewed a Starlink reverse engineer, who was recording from Kyiv as air sirens were going off.
- Ghidra
- Reverse engineering a Tesla keyfob
- Substation
- Highest volume individual
- Chris has a new meetup group in the Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill). Please help spread the word!
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Just booked my trip to Embedded World (21-23 Jun) in Nurnberg, Germany.
Anyone of you guys coming?
I actually might. It’s just a two hour drive by car from my place.
I will be there! Will try to do a meetup.
Hi, is the meetup happening? You have the link to it, in case I manage to join? 🙂
Nothing yet planned! But will post to the subreddit and let people know on the show if we do.
Regarding “Ready Player Two”, the author surely was inspired by “Brainstorm”, the 1983 movie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorm_(1983_film))
OMG, Brainstorm was amazing for the time.
Ever see Strange Days (1995)? If you liked Brainstorm, you’ll love Strange Days.
Yes I found myself yelling at the podcast when you guys were talking about popular media and the computer/brain interface concept. Brainstorm is really the first pop-cultural reference to that concept that I am aware of.
It is truly a classic starring Christopher Walken, Louise Fletcher and Natalie Wood. In face it was Natalie Wood’s last movie as she died during it’s production under suspicious circumstances. I watched it again a few months ago and just shake my head at so much of it. Things that were common place in 1983 and completely unacceptable now. For example, the number of cigarettes that Louise Fletcher’s character goes thru on screen is STAGGERING. It makes some very interesting commentaries on big business vs. startups that are still relevant today. They also explore some of the very scary way that such technology could be abused.
Chris, you’d probably find it interesting because they imply that it takes place in the medical triangle you now call home.
Well OK, maybe not. There are a few companies they show in the background that are medical triangle based but also some distinctly Silicon Valley… so probably just a fictional blend.