Paywalls,Ads and Pain

The overuse of ad spaces on websites has become an increasingly common phenomenon in recent years, and it is having a significant impact on the end user. Advertisements are essential for generating revenue for websites, but when there are too many ads on a page, it can negatively affect the user experience. In this article, we will explore how the overuse of ad spaces on websites influences the end user and what can be done to address this issue.
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Reverse Engineering the Silvercrest Wireless Socket set.

The Silvercrest wireless socket set is a budget 433Mhz remote-controlled socket sold at Lidl for around £15. It can take up to 3000w of continuous draw and comes in a 5-piece set. Due to its simplistic form of communication, it makes it an excellent candidate for performing replay attacks as well as capturing the signal, so it can be used with Home assistant. There are plenty of tools we can…
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First TinyGS station in Cyprus

TinyGS is an open network of Ground Stations distributed around the world to receive and operate LoRa satellites, weather probes and other flying objects, using cheap and versatile modules.
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Pi Exchange with Refinitiv

This project is software developed for the Raspberry Pi 3 model B to try and emulate a low-latency exchange simulation that can handle a large quantity of buy/sell transactions.
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Bash scripting essentials

Bash scripts are very helpful in doing time-consuming tasks in very little time, the unix “bash” terminal .first let's write a sample bash script all bash scripts start with #!/bin/bash, so we can point the system to the right place
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CYHAMS

The Cyprus Amateur Radio Society (CARS) is the national membership organisation for Amateur Radio enthusiasts. The society was first founded in 1975. The CARS looks after the interests of the Cyprus’s licensed Radio Amateurs and is a not-for-profit organization that: Represents all radio amateurs when working with the authorities to ensure that the amateur spectrum is protected. Is a member of the International Amateur Radio Union, representing Radio Amateurs at…
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METEO APRS

Meteo APRS uses the Cyprus Meteorological Center's API to query and push data to the APRS Network. It downloads the XML file and converts it to JSON and queries the data for specific Stations. They are then pushed to the APRS network using TCP/IP.
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Minesweeper ARM

Our Minesweeper variant is played on a eight by eight grid, of which eight squares are filled with mines (represented by the letter ‘M’). The eight mines are distributed randomly on the board, and then each square is covered up by a ‘*’. A
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