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commit e52137bb2fd839ea6446af2c0cc70ea4ea31b5b3 |
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parent 86e908988e5cc304c0f51b9eaf3511d9519ab0af |
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Author: Josuah Demangeon <[email protected]> |
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Date: Sun, 29 May 2022 22:01:40 +0200 |
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opus5: redact some more articles |
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M opus5/article-tgtimes-animated-tex… | 1 + |
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M opus5/article-tgtimes-ascii-art-re… | 1 + |
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M opus5/article-tgtimes-bluetooth-br… | 78 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++… |
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diff --git a/opus5/article-tgtimes-animated-text-art.mw b/opus5/article-tgtimes… |
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.SH linuxconsole |
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Animated ASCII art |
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+.2C 40v |
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.PP |
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With all the history of ASCII art and demoscene, |
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.SH tgtimes |
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Synthetic ASCII Art |
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+.2C 80v |
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.PP |
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Sometimes, an entirely new way to approach problems is found. |
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+.SH josuah |
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+Wireless, wireless everywhere |
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+.2C 60 |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+Wires! Cables! Connectors! |
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+Computer and electric systems seems to befriend with plugs and sockets. |
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+Why is the computer industry running away from them for everything exposed to … |
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+. |
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+.IP "Where do I plug the cable?" |
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+Everyone needfully face this question at least once, be it the first time they… |
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+From the various connector shapes to choose from, to the various set of protoc… |
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+cables provoke confusion to cable-haters and computer neophytes. |
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+. |
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+.IP "Cables are ugly" |
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+It might not be true for everyone, but computer manufacturers seems to say dif… |
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+Starting with the name "wireless", that comes by opposition to wires, supposin… |
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+Cable management is a full time job for datacenter jockeys, and a chore for th… |
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+. |
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+.IP "Cables are immobile" |
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+Unless making use of an uncommon cable management strategy, |
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+objects connected to cables cannot be carried too far away without unplugging … |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+So here comes wireless. |
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+While not frequent in large computer infrastructure, wireless is invading the … |
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+Using radio waves to make device talk to each other, at various frequencies, m… |
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+Ready to sacrifice any amount of good engineering to make itself more seducing… |
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+marketting perpetuates the same illusion of making computer troubles fade away… |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+From the Bluetooth protocol swamp of mixed edge-cases and compmlexity, |
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+to the security vulnerabilities of Wi-Fi, |
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+to the security vulnerabilities of Bluetooth, |
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+to the proprietary but popular protocols like LoRaWan, |
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+to the unreliability and unstability as opposed to wires, |
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+to the black box of wireless broadband such as UTMS and LTE, |
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+Wireless does not have the same fame among developers valuing simplicity and r… |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+Even the United Army holds griefs against wireless such as Bluetooth, |
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+and disrecommand it for use by militaries: |
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+.FS |
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+https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN4771_Pam25-2-9_Final_W… |
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+.FE |
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+. |
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+. |
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.QP |
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Do not use Bluetooth devices to send, receive, store, or process classified in… |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+Nontheless, wireless is fun, beautiful, and filled with culture. |
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+While marketting pushed engineers from the wireless cliff, |
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+long before computer came, radio waves were put at good use in the most simple… |
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+From the AM and FM radio stations to listen while on the road, |
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+the medium-range boat, airplane, truck, pedestrian talkies, and even satellite… |
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+hobbyists building-up their own antennas for inter-continental communication, |
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+garage door openners and remotely controlled drones... |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+Complex and twisted wireless protocols are only a special case of radio commun… |
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+and simple unobfuscated methods of communication are possible, and even freque… |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+Be it a simple and inexpensive RTL SDR dongle receiver |
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-https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN4771_Pam25-2-9_Final_W… |
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+https://www.rtl-sdr.com/ |
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+.FE |
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+to complete receiver-emitters such as HackRF |
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+.FS |
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+https://greatscottgadgets.com/hackrf/one/ |
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+.FE |
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+or LimeSDR |
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+.FS |
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+https://limemicro.com/products/boards/limesdr/ |
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.FE |
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+among others, the gears for letting one experiment with radio transmissions. |
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+. |
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+.PP |
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+This is an invitation for everyone to discover or rediscover the universe of e… |
