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Phone addiction: Toggle grayscale mode on your iPhone – but fast!

Many struggle with phone addiction these days. I’m not falling short on that either. One hack to solve this, is to put your screen in grayscale mode. The black and white graphics are less tasty for your brain, and prolonged usage of, say, instagram is not as compelling any more. The phone configuration you find […]

Software

Linux with Wayland is now running on iPhone 7

Since the last post about running postmarketOS Linux on iPhone 7, I was finally able to mount and run larger and persistent system images from the iPhone system memory. Therefore I used the same technique Corellium was using in their Android build for the iPhone 7. Further, ephemeral write support for postmarketOS is achieved by […]

Software

Running postmarketOS on iPhone 7

Thanks to the developers of checkra1n and Corellium I was able to port PostmarketOS to the iPhone 7. Since I was only able to transfer small kernel images to the Phone, I only tested a very minimal PostmarketOS installation, but it is booting :) Image creation and flashing involves several steps. Lets start with preparing […]

Artwork

Online applause simulator – Clap.wtf

In the last few days, Mathilde and I created an online applause simulator called clap.wtf. The idea was to have feedback from a remote audience in live streamed concerts during the COVID-19 pandemic. On the site, clicking or tapping on the clap emoji will increase the counter. The server counts the “clap” of every visitor […]

Software

Configure Wayland notification daemon mako with NixOS home-manager

Since this year I started using NixOS as my main operating system used in production. So far I’m really excited configuring and using it. Although there are still quite a few packages and configuration options missing. Compared to ArchLinux, I have to solve some problems again which were already fixed on my old installation. For […]

Software

Tuxtimer – Integratable terminal stopwatch

In the last few days, schitzu and I wrote a new stopwatch script in Bash. It simply prints ongoing time in hours, minutes and seconds format. Running the same script again in a separate process, pauses the timer. Running ./sw –stop resets it. The output format is in Json, so you can use it in […]

Hardware

Aus dem Archiv: keyComfort – Der besondere Fahrradsattel

An dieser Stelle möchte in unserem Sommer-Format “Aus dem Archiv” ein besonders kreatives und ausgefallenes Projekt vorstellen: keyComfort. Um garnicht erst viel Worte zu verlieren, lasse ich einfach das großartige Video unserer Indiegogo Crowdfunding-Kampagne (Web-Archiv 1,2) sprechen: Trotz seiner ansprechenden Ästhetik und professionellen Machart ging die Kampagne weder dort noch auf YouTube viral. Dabei waren […]

Hardware

Aus dem Archiv: CNC-Fräse Lightning Talk GPN10

Eigentlich hatten wir, Benibr, ST und ich damals 2010 schon verschiedene Texte zur GPN10, der Gulaschprogrammiernacht des Entropias in Karlsruhe, veröffentlicht. Auch der Talk von ST und Robert hatte erwähnung gefunden. Die Aufzeichnung zu dem Vortrag über die erste, selbstgebaute CNC-Fräse wurde aber leider noch nicht verlinkt oder hier hochgeladen. Das möchte ich mit dem […]