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  • Walter Kaufmann’s BASIC WRITINGS OF NIETZSCHE: A Review

    Walter Kaufmann’s BASIC WRITINGS OF NIETZSCHE: A Review

    2025-01-16
    Book Reviews

    ★★★★☆ The last sensitive white boy, as he bragged in almost those words; a man as important as he was self-important, as full of wisdom as he was full of shit.

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  • Flashing Custom Rust Kernel to Raspberry Pi 3, on Debian/Windows 11

    Flashing Custom Rust Kernel to Raspberry Pi 3, on Debian/Windows 11

    2025-01-14
    Technology

    Booting a Raspberry Pi 3B into a Rust binary and then using a FT232H to communicate with the console over UART

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  • The State of EVSE Security in 2024

    2024-12-09
    Security, Technology

    Edison Electric Institute projects 25 million electric vehicles on the road by 2030. Meanwhile, EVSE (Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment, that is, EV chargers), is projected to grow tenfold, from about 50,000 deployed in 2023 to 500,000 by 2030. As electric vehicles continue to proliferate in response to the ongoing climate crisis, so too do the…

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  • HTTP/2 GET and POST Requests in Python with HTTPX

    2024-11-20
    Howto, Technology

    Introduction HTTP/2 is an update to the classic HTTP protocol which aims to increase network efficiency without requiring large changes to the existing protocol API. It seeks to maintain a single connection between a client and server, as opposed to HTTP/1.1 where a separate TCP session is created for each TCP request. Furthermore, it seeks…

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  • THE MANY-HEADED HYDRA by Linebaugh and Rediker: A Review

    THE MANY-HEADED HYDRA by Linebaugh and Rediker: A Review

    2024-11-16
    Book Reviews

    ★★★★☆ An intricate, idiosyncratic survey of empire and rebellion which makes a strong argument for the Atlantic character of the Age of Revolution

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  • Securing the EVSEcosystem – Pittsburgh OTSec Slides

    2024-10-24
    Security

    Today, I gave a presentation to Pittsburgh OTSec on the topic of EVSE security. I plan to expand these ideas into a full blog post soon, but in the meantime, my slides are provided below. EDIT 12/9/24 – a blog post summarizing this information is available at https://witchofthewires.com/index.php/2024/12/09/the-state-of-evse-security-in-2024/.

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  • Maxwell’s Equations, with just the right amount of math, Part 2

    2024-10-22
    Notes

    Part 1 can be found here. In Part 1 of this series, we took an extremely high-level, birds-eye view of calculus of a single variable. We did not do any calculations or prove any theorems; if you would like to learn how to do this, there are many excellent Calc 1 courses available for free…

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  • Maxwell’s Equations, with just the right amount of math, Part 1

    2024-10-09
    Notes

    Special thanks to Katelyn Chirdon for feedback and edits Most online resources explaining Maxwell’s Equations are either written for university students recently trained in multivariable calculus, or are written for the general reader and avoid all discussion of math whatsoever. The relevant Wikipedia page is a good example of the first type, and this WIRED…

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  • WRETCHED OF THE EARTH by Franz Fanon: A Review

    WRETCHED OF THE EARTH by Franz Fanon: A Review

    2024-09-09
    Book Reviews

    ★★★★★ Fanon’s righteous fury is kept remarkably restrained as he examines the necessity and nature of violent anticolonialism

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  • CITIZENS by Simon Schama: A Review

    CITIZENS by Simon Schama: A Review

    2024-09-02
    Book Reviews

    ★★★☆☆ Although erudite and often beautiful, the author’s liberal sympathies prevent him from fully developing his ‘thesis of violence’.

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