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14 Jul 2026 5 minute read 4 comments Investigator515
In a pre-fibre world, modems would do most of the heavy lifting. No Paywall, No Problem, Read on Substack. In a world with silent, solid-state drives, high-performance CPUs and high-speed broadband, the ’90s-era modem looks positively ancient by mode...
10 Jul 2026 6 minute read 0 comments Investigator515
Anniversaries are usually the company’s party. This one is all yours. Join the party by checking out the anniversary page. Twelve years is a long time in technology. Entire projects can come to life, go obsolete, then wither and die. Some workhorses...
28 Jun 2026 7 minute read 2 comments Investigator515
Just a few decades ago, the idea of a virus being deployed to combat nuclear weapons proliferation would be unheard of. Stuxnet didn’t just damage Iranian centrifuges. It changed what warfare means. Here’s what it actually did, how it worked, and why...
20 Jun 2026 5 minute read 3 comments Investigator515
Passive, low-effort tools for keeping track of your own digital footprint before someone else does. At some point, someone is going to Google your name. It might be a recruiter reviewing your application, a client checking you out before a call, or m...
19 Jun 2026 5 minute read 5 comments Investigator515
Before the evolution of the mobile phone, the pager was king. With the smartphone being an all-in-one device, it can often be difficult to picture how things worked before the internet was everywhere. And, rather than having an all-in-one device, soc...
14 Jun 2026 8 minute read 1 comment Investigator515
On January 31, 1954, a man in an overcoat stepped out from a 13th-floor window of his Manhattan apartment. He’d addressed an envelope to his wife, Marion, and left it on a table. At 63 years old, the man who gave the world FM radio died on the street...
11 Jun 2026 8 minute read 0 comments Investigator515
Proxmox makes it easy to start, end and recover containers. The time was fast approaching. The old lab had served its purpose, and time had turned it into a collection of VM’s that was becoming ever more cumbersome to use, running on hardware that w...
7 Jun 2026 9 minute read 2 comments Investigator515
The tale of Echelon leaves you with more questions than answers. Right now, at multiple locations across the globe, giant satellite dishes are staring at the communications satellites that help us to maintain global connectivity. This all-seeing, ele...
1 Jun 2026 5 minute read 3 comments Investigator515
There is a piece of equipment sitting on the workbench of almost every electronics engineer on the planet that most people outside of that world have never heard of. It has no consumer product to its name, no marketing campaign, no cultural moment th...
27 May 2026 6 minute read 7 comments Investigator515
In this previous article, we took a look at how to use Satdump paired with the RTL-SDR and a modest antenna to collect live weather imagery from space.Shortly after this, however, it was announced that the NOAA Automatic Picture Transmission (APT) sa...
