VHF/UHF Antennas, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Even Worse
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/03/vhf-uhf-antennas-the-bad-the-ugly-and-the-even-worse/

When you buy a cheap ham radio handy-talkie, you usually get a little “rubber ducky” antenna with it. You can also buy many replacement ones that are at least longer. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/03/vhf-uhf-antennas-the-bad-the-ugly-and-the-even-worse/)

A Trip Down Electronic Toy Memory Lane
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/03/a-trip-down-electronic-toy-memory-lane/

Like many of us, [MIKROWAVE1] had a lot of electronic toys growing up. In a video you can watch below, he asks the question: “Did electronic toys influence your path?” …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/03/a-trip-down-electronic-toy-memory-lane/)

The Workstation You Wanted In 1990, In Your Pocket
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/03/the-workstation-you-wanted-in-1990-in-your-pocket/

Years ago there was a sharp divide in desktop computing between the mundane PC-type machines, and the so-called workstations which were the UNIX powerhouses of the day. A lot of …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/03/the-workstation-you-wanted-in-1990-in-your-pocket/)

Smartwatch Snitches on Itself and Enables Reverse Engineering
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/04/smartwatch-snitches-on-itself-and-enables-reverse-engineering/

If something has a “smart” in its name, you know that it’s talking to someone else, and the topic of conversation is probably you. You may or may not like …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/04/smartwatch-snitches-on-itself-and-enables-reverse-engineering/)

A Second OctoPrint Plugin Has been Falsifying Stats
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/04/a-second-octoprint-plugin-has-been-falsifying-stats/

The ongoing story of bogus analytical data being submitted to the public OctoPrint usage statistics has taken a surprising turn with the news that a second plugin was being artificially …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/04/a-second-octoprint-plugin-has-been-falsifying-stats/)

Cloudflare Adds Block for AI Scrapers and Similar Bots
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/04/cloudflare-adds-block-for-ai-scrapers-and-similar-bots/

It’s no big secret that a lot of the internet traffic today consists out of automated requests, ranging from innocent bots like search engine indexers to data scraping bots for …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/04/cloudflare-adds-block-for-ai-scrapers-and-similar-bots/)

A Cute Sentry Scans Your Net for Scullduggery
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/04/a-cute-sentry-scans-your-net-for-scullduggery/

As long as we get to make our own network security tools, why not make them look cute? Netgotchi may not be much more than an ESP8266 running network scans and …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/04/a-cute-sentry-scans-your-net-for-scullduggery/)