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Donald Duck’s Old Computer
February 10, 2026
We are living in duck times.
Computer hardware is starting to age like wine. Capability increases over time without substrate improvements.
Machines cheat Moore’s law, treat memory as a fabric, and find utility in our so-called junk through evolutionary means.
This is self-similar to the progress of AI in general, leaving our symbolic abstractions behind for more biologically inspired means of improvement.
Flipping read-protect bits: Altera EP900
July 16, 2018
Techniques used to locate and erase on-silicon security bits via nitric acid decapsulation, uv masking and binary search.