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#582 – The Same Wavelength
- 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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