#Stuff

2026-02-01

⚪ Connecting Arduino to Azure IoT Hub: A Practical Internet of Things Guide

🗨️ Last year, Microsoft announced a cloud backend for managing smart devices and embedded electronics. Azure IoT Hub lets you set up communication between devices and integrate it into your Azure-based projects with minimal coding. To see how it works, we’ll walk through a simple task: sending sensor r…

🔗 hackmag.com/stuff/arduino-azur

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2026-01-30

⚪ 9 Practical Ways to Stop Vote Rigging and Fraud in Online Polls and Elections

🗨️ Setting up a poll on a website is trivial. Protecting it from vote manipulation is a whole different story.

Even if you don’t really care about securing online voting, this article will explain how you got banned on an anonymous forum and why your favorite porn site still remembers your tastes …

🔗 hackmag.com/stuff/voting-cheat

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Bradley C. Williamsbradders@mastoart.social
2026-01-24

Be very wary of snowmen.

A stupid snowman based video

#silly #video #absurd #bakedbreadnottoast #stupid #stuff #funny

Bradley C. Williamsbradders@mastoart.social
2026-01-23

Think back, or should you
On all that was
To remember, kills you
To forget is worse

#poetry #writing #loss #stuff

The silhouette of a cast chasing a butterfly. The cat is standing on it's back legs, one paw stretched out towards the butterfly, one paw held out for balance. The butterfly is hovering just above the cat.
2026-01-23

⚪ Crypto Mining FAQ: What to Mine Today, How to Mine It, and Expected Profitability

🗨️ You hear the word “mining” everywhere these days—even from people far outside the IT world. Crypto exchanges are seeing unprecedented price swings, and in July the combined market cap of…

🔗 hackmag.com/stuff/crypto-minin

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2026-01-23

⚪ Hands-on with the Omega2: What a Tiny, Low-Cost Linux Microcomputer Can Do

🗨️ Every maker eventually hits a point where basic microcontrollers just don’t cut it anymore, but dropping cash on a Raspberry Pi feels hard to justify. That’s where the modestly named…

🔗 hackmag.com/stuff/onion-omega-

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2026-01-22

⚪ Top 5 Web-Based Emulators for Classic Operating Systems and Retro Computers

🗨️ Modern computers and browsers have reached impressive performance levels. Ten years ago, an interactive web app felt like a marvel; now JavaScript powers not just games, but even full-fledged emulators…

🔗 hackmag.com/stuff/www-top5-bro

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2026-01-22

⚪ Choosing the Right Mobile Development Stack: Native, Black-Box SDKs, or Cross-Platform Frameworks

🗨️ The first iPhone was introduced ten years ago, in 2007. A year later, Apple launched its App Store. Around the same time, Android arrived on the scene, along with its own app marketplace, Google Play. Although the idea of selling software for mobile phones wasn’t new, the arrival of the iPhone, Andr…

🔗 hackmag.com/stuff/mobile-devel

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2026-01-21

⚪ Design and Implement a Custom TCP Protocol and C# Server from Scratch

🗨️ You’ve dealt with plenty of protocols over the years—some you’ve used, others you may have reverse‑engineered. Some were easy to read; others were indecipherable without a hex editor. In this…

🔗 hackmag.com/stuff/diy-tcp?utm_

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2026-01-21

⚪ How Keyloggers Evade Antivirus: A C# Proof of Concept

🗨️ Full-fledged keyloggers packed with features and anti-detection measures can cost dozens, if not hundreds, of dollars. But a keylogger isn’t that complex, and if you want, you can build your…

🔗 hackmag.com/stuff/diy-keylogge

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2026-01-21

⚪ Choosing a Mobile App Framework: A Practical Comparison of Intel XDK, NativeScript, and Xamarin

🗨️ In the previous article, we looked at the silo-based approach to mobile app development, as well as some of the most popular black-box tools: Apache Cordova and Adobe Fuse. Today, we’ll continue exploring the “black box” model and cover a few more well-known development tools, and then move on to th…

🔗 hackmag.com/stuff/mobile-devel

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2026-01-20

⚪ Deploying Mobile Apps with Microsoft’s Visual Studio Mobile Center DevOps Pipeline

🗨️ In the previous article, we walked through automating the build process for Android and iOS apps, hooked up Xamarin Test Cloud, ran automated UI tests, and integrated HockeyApp to collect user feedback. Today we’ll continue our dive into the Mobile DevOps toolkit—tools that not only speed up develop…

🔗 hackmag.com/stuff/mobile-devop

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2026-01-18

⚪ Windows 10 Mobile Development: Accessing Directories, Sending SMS, Using the Address Book, and Scanning Wi‑Fi Networks

🗨️ No matter what hardware platform Windows 10 is running on, applications everywhere are built on top of the UWP subsystem. In the previous article, we started looking at the mobile version of Windows 10 and discussed a number of important topics. Today I’d like to offer a few practical tips for divin…

🔗 hackmag.com/stuff/windows-10-m

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2026-01-17

⚪ Python Generators and Iterators: How They Work and When to Use Them

🗨️ These days, data is steadily becoming the “new oil” in terms of value. The catch is that the volumes we have to process are growing by the hour. Plenty of…

🔗 hackmag.com/stuff/generatora-i

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2026-01-16

⚪ Getting Started with VR: A Comprehensive Guide to Virtual Reality Headsets

🗨️ Public interest in VR waxes and wanes, but the tech keeps getting better. If you’re thinking about picking up a VR headset, this guide is for you: we’ll break down…

🔗 hackmag.com/stuff/vr-guide?utm

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