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Do you have any good tips on what to look out for when buying a used metallurgical microscope for looking at decapped chips? Even if not a complete set constraints, I'd appreciate some off the cuff thoughts if you have the time.

I use a basic metallurgical microscope (AmScope ME300TZB). An X-Y stage is very useful for taking photos of chips and stitching them together. A camera is also important; my scope has a 10MP camera. I'm not into optics, so I don't know what lens characteristics to look for.

Not for kernels.

Wake word can be tiny. Like 10k weights and can run on an esp32 or similar with plenty of compute to spare.

TinyML is a book that goes through the process of building a wake word model for such constrained environments.


He and been way off the rails for decades before that.

In fact, growing up in the very affluent part of my city, I saw a bunch of kids die using opiates to mentally escape the weird family fiefdoms where they [p/m]atriarch inexplicably wouldn't ever need for money, so went completely off the rails mentally. I was prescribed a bunch of opiates (including fent) after a bad ski accident, and can tell you that they basically work by turning down the volume on life around you. I can understand why someone would turn to them to mentally escape a bad family life.

About the only good thing I can say about recreational Xanax is that those kids are generally still alive in contrast to the ones who preferred opiates.


People are dying from recreational Xanax because it’s more and more cut with fent.

> The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.

~ Julius Nyerere


The claims of whataboutism to shut down any comparison are getting mine numbingly old.

Particularly in cases like this which are simply continuing discussion on the existing subjects of the discussion.


They did not publish enough API docs to write an alternative backend.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/bose-open-sources-it...


Except the title is wrong; Bose didn't open source anything.

Except they didn't open source anything. They just published a simple API spec to allow play/pause/next button support over http.

The plan was to use Maduro's capture as the mechanism for continued exertion of control.

It just didn't work.


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