Oh, joy! Another PDF extraction library, because the world was clearly suffering from a dearth of those. 🤦‍♂️ Written in Zig, for those who like their obscurity with a side of performance bragging—5x faster than MuPDF, because who doesn't love playing with the tiniest 🐌 of time savings?
https://github.com/Lulzx/zpdf #PDFExtraction #ZigLibrary #PerformanceBragging #ObscureTech #DeveloperHumor #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, yes, because the internet was just itching for another deep dive into the thrilling world of Linux kernel #features 💤. Who knew "Binary Format Miscellaneous" wasn't a lost Radiohead track but a riveting saga of custom file execution? 🤔 Keep this up and soon you'll have enough obscure knowledge to bore a sysadmin to death. 💀📚
https://dfir.ch/posts/today_i_learned_binfmt_misc/ #LinuxKernel #BinaryFormat #SysadminKnowledge #ObscureTech #DeepDive #HackerNews #ngated

🎉🥳 After only two decades of hard labor, #MAME managed to get #sound working on an #arcade system nobody remembers! 🎮 The true triumph here is fast-tracking PC Engine LaserActive support, because who doesn't love prioritizing the obscure? 🚀 Keep those Tokyo vacation slides to yourself, Wes.
https://www.readonlymemo.com/mame-hyper-neo-geo-support-sound-emulation/ #PCEngine #RetroGaming #ObscureTech #HackerNews #ngated

🤯 Oh, look! Another riveting YouTube "exclusive" on tech no one asked for. 🤓 Mini #smartphones from #Japan that are so obscure, even their inventors forgot about them. 📱✨ Welcome to the future, where big things come in tiny, irrelevant packages! 🎉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e27TfHibTg #technews #miniaturization #obscuretech #gadgets #HackerNews #ngated

In the late 1980s and early 90s, a mysterious hacker known only as Kando made waves across private BBS systems and underground phreaking circles. Not much is known about their identity, but Kando was credited with releasing a series of clever, minimalist terminal hacks—scripts that could hijack modem handshakes or manipulate ANSI escape sequences to gain access or crash rival systems. Their work never made it to mainstream hacker zines, but among old-school sysops, the name still rings a bell. Some say Kando walked away before the internet boom, while others believe their fingerprints are still hidden in obscure .asc files floating around forgotten FTP mirrors.

#HackingHistory #Phreaking #BBS #ANSIArt #OldSchoolHacking #TerminalHacks #obscuretech

🦀✨ Ah, yes, another riveting tale of someone cramming #Datalog into #Rust because who doesn't love combining obscure technologies for funsies? 🚀🔧 It's like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole and calling it innovation—now with extra GitHub links for the brave souls who pretend to care. 🎉💾
https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2025-06-03.md #Innovation #TechHumor #ObscureTech #HackerNews #ngated

🚀🥳 Breaking News in the World of Obscure Computing Hobbies: 🥁 Rocky Linux 10 will bravely venture into the thrilling, high-demand land of #RISC-V support! 🤯 Get ready, tech hipsters, to run your favorite software on gadgets nobody owns! 🎉👾
https://rockylinux.org/news/rockylinux-support-for-riscv #RockyLinux #ComputingHobbies #TechNews #ObscureTech #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, another day, another obscure Amiga hack nobody asked for! 🎉 A 'Dual Kickstart ROM' replacement for a computer that's about as relevant as dial-up Internet. 🚀 What's next, a floppy disk defragmenter? 🤣
https://github.com/cdhooper/kicksmash32 #AmigaHack #DualKickstart #RetroComputing #ObscureTech #FloppyDiskFun #HackerNews #ngated

In 1988, a Cornell graduate student named Robert Tappan Morris released a small experiment onto the early internet. It was meant to measure the size of the network, but a coding flaw caused it to replicate uncontrollably. The Morris Worm infected over six thousand machines, bringing parts of the internet to a halt. This led to the first ever conviction under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986.

The 3½-inch floppy containing the 99 lines of source code is still on display at the Computer History Museum in California.

#HackingHistory #MorrisWorm #InternetOrigins #CyberSecurity #ObscureTech

I'm trying to track down an #article I read years ago about how #Microsoft tracked leaks of either the #XBOX or the #xbox360 where they embedded the details of the xbox into the drops or the rings or something in the background, so they could find the exact person from a photo of the screen.

Anyone know where I can find it?

#AskFedi #OpSec #digitalsecurity #obscuretech

For years I have thought the third-party 360 controller receiver that I bought on Amazon was just junk. Then I found out it works flawlessly on Linux.

JUST TODAY I found out you can manually install the driver on Windows. Not the 10.x driver from this year, but the 2.x driver from 2009.

- Open "Device Manager" (if it still exists at the time of reading)
- The "Other devices" section should be auto-expanded
- Right click "Unknown device" if you don't see anything else corresponding to your adapter.
- Select "Update driver"
- DO NOT SELECT "Search automatically for drivers". That will fail every time
- Select "Browse my computer for drivers" and then "Let me pick from a list of available drivers" and then under "Xbox 360 Peripherals" select the "Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver for Windows Version: 2.1.0.1349 [8/13/2009]"

GAME ON!

Search Keyword: "X-360 PC Wireless Gaming Receiver"

#ObscureTech #Solution #Driver #Xbox360 #Wireless #Receiver