Good news: my parents TV has a hex editor
Bad news: I'm buying them a new tv

I *think* it's 24-series EEPROM from a good dig at the service-manual. I have programmers, and a photo of the expected contents, and I know which bits to flip back. Maybe I can fix this.....

Fucked if I'm going to Curry's tomorrow.
This one's an MX25L4005A, dumped for curiosity before I grab a dump of the actual IC.

Aaand the actual EEPROM. Found the bits I flipped, set them back 😇
Time to reassemble the TV and see how badly I fucked up !

Its alive! Mpeg decoder is still as shit as usual, but thing doesn't think it's a plasma anymore, not gonna get very far trying to address the LVDS board like a plasma!

Legenda o sivom i crnom vuku

Kad sam bio posve sitno dijete od vlašićkih sam čobana čuo da imaju sivi i crni vuk. Oni su ih tako razaznavali ali ne po bojama već po njihovoj ćudi. Sivi uđe u tor pa tiho prikolje jedno šilježe i odvuče ga da se ostale ovce ne prepadnu. Crni vuk

uđe i pokolje sve šta stigne, raščevrta malo utrobe od jedne ovce i ode da negdje drugo čini isti zulum.
Ja sam još u toj nevinoj djetinjoj dobi slutio da ta priča ima neku strašnu a posve istinitu pouku ali je nisam shvatio sve dok se nisam počeo smucati po glavnim gradovima

poput Sarajeva i Beograda i Prištine ali vam tu pouku neću kazati jer mi nećete vjerovati a i da mi povjerujete opet ništa s njom učiniti ne možete i zato neću da se sutra govori unaokolo eno nam Kepi tovari beskorisne pouke na grbaču.
Al zato ću vam ispričati kako je legenda o

sivom i crnom vuku još jednom uskrsla u mom životu i to u onoj bezbrižnoj mladenačkoj dobi kad nam se sve osim škole čini nekako uzvišeno i vrjedno truda. Odem na Vlašić sa nekim svojim ahbabima da gore dočekamo novu godinu a staru da strmeknemo niz Paklarevo pa gore upoznamo

nekakvo simpatično društvance iz Splita sačinjeno od bučnih i vedrih mladića i kao Severina simpatičnih ali još ljepših djevojaka tek nešto starijih od nas. Naveče smo pili neko kuhano vino i razgovarali o temama o kojima su mladi u socijalizmu inače razgovarali.
U želji da

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#kavanaugh
#markjudgegaryorr
#georgetownprep

1/ Software version 9.0 starts rolling out to our global fleet today

RUTH HUNT'S RADIO 4 PORKY - AN EXPLANATION
Yesterday, on @BBCRadio4 @BBCPM, Ruth Hunt asserted that it is 'enshrined in law' that trans women are women. Questions have been raised as to the truth of this statement. @RadFemLawyer provides a full explanation:

To obtain a GRC and be able to legally change one's gender today requires a diagnosis of dysphoria and a two year period living in one's acquired gender. Only THEN can a GRC be issued and legal gender change be possible.

Therefore, very few of today's trans identifying males (transwomen) are legally female. ONLY those with a GRC. But, If Stonewall gets the GRA revisions it seeks, any male could attain this legal status quickly and without any diagnosis of dysphoria, or a two year wait.

So, very few of the males who identify as women today have legally changed their gender. Ruth should have said: 'a small proportion of today's trans women (only those with a GRC and a diagnosis of dysphoria) are legally women.' Most are men.'

As well as misrepresenting the truth of today's situation, Ruth implies that the journey to her vision of a Stonewall-engineered post-GRA reform UK represents just a minor development of today's reality - and nothing to make a fuss about.

Let's compare Ford's attorney's claim to what Ford said.

2/ And what else could Ford have told the FBI? Let's compare what she says now and said then.

3/ And re the medical records. Sounds great, but Grassley requested therapy records, not medical records. Yes, the Committee released correspondence AS THEY AGREED THEY WOUD. And maybe Ford should lose faith in her beach friend of Feinstein for keeping things confidential.

1. I have just posted a short essay on the thought of René Girard, whose esoteric ideas have a niche but committed following of ‘Girardians’.

To say that Girard’s ideas are enormous in their scope is an

2. The 2 big ideas at the centre of Girard's work are 'mimetic desire' & 'sacrifice of the scapegoat' from which he weaves extraordinarily rich insights

His profound understandings of philosophical, religious & literary texts repeatedly startle with their lucidity & seriousness

3. Mimesis is fundamental to being human - we copy each other in everything - but Girard’s key concern is ‘mimetic desire’, which sets off competitively reciprocal and escalating cycles which can become socially contagious and violent.

4. For Girard it is fundamental that mankind is “ethologically violent” because of this susceptibility to mimetic contagion.

5. Girard’s second big idea is that religion emerges in the form of rituals and myths around sacrificial scapegoating in order to reconcile violent rivalries and re-bond a community around the ‘othering’ of a victim.

Customer acquisition costs are tricky.

Prioritize them too early and you limit how great a product you can build.

Prioritize them too late and limit how great a business you can build.

1/ Theory: esports is to traditional sports as ecommerce is to brick & mortar retail.

3 similarities. 1 difference.

Thread 👇

2/ Similarity 1: In ecommerce and esports, some people overvalue(d) the in-person experience.

3/ Remember when they said we’d never buy clothes online because we need to try them on first? Remember when they said that shopping was a communal experience?

4/ Eventually they said we’d buy small things online, but we’d never buy something expensive like a car online?

5/ For reference, online clothing is a $300B market today. Online cars is at $50B in US alone.

I think they underestimated how consumer behavior can change.

Can you generate revenue through Instagram Stories?

Read on to find out 👇🏿👇🏾👇🏼

Kettlebell Kings is a leading kettlebell equipment supplier based in Austin, Texas. It generates hundreds of thousands in revenue directly from Instagram.

“On average we get 400-600 leads per week from social media, with half coming from Instagram,” said Jay Perkins, co-founder of Kettlebell Kings. Besides one-off sales to consumers, Kettlebell Kings has also signed deals with national gym chains through those leads.

Here’s its Instagram strategy:

1. Post high-quality educational content, workout examples, and user-generated content to its Instagram feed. This helped them to amass over 79,000 followers and over 20,000 posts with #kettlebellkings.

2. Re-post 10-12 stories from customers who tag them on a daily basis. This keeps the customers engaged and encourages more to share their content on Instagram. These stories, on average, are viewed by 10-15 percent of Kettlebell Kings’ followers.

“By any objective measure, Judge Kavanaugh is clearly qualified to serve on the Supreme Court,” Collins said.

Senator Murkowski announces she is voting against “a good man” out of concern for the integrity of our institutions. If one believes he’s guilty a no vote is required. If one believes he’s a good man, that’s a weird vote. Our institutions should vindicate good people.

I continue to believe good people have come to differing conclusions about this case. We are all human and have fallible judgments. Criminal trials have a higher standard of proof becuse taking away liberty or even life is so profound. Here we had a lower, unspecified standard

which naturally lends itself to greater disagreement. Whatever happens tomorrow, we still have to strive to be neighbors and friends.

Senator Collins is waning on about interest groups against Kavanaugh but IGNORES dark money interest groups in support of Kavanaugh.

Senator Collins references Kavanaugh’s judicial record. She disagrees w notion he will eliminate ACA protections, pointing to his dissent in Holder. She argues that his views on severability is narrow.

She addresses the concern about Kavanaugh protecting the POTUS. She argues that Kavanaugh defers to legislative authority. She argues Clinton got 2 justices confirmed while under Whitewater investigation and 3 Nixon appointees ruled against Nixon ruled against Nixon.

She references Kavanaugh’s reliance upon cases which sustain judicial authority and judicial checks to executive branch authority.

She argues that Kavanaugh considers the same sex marriage precedent to be “an important landmark opinion.” (This can mean ANYTHING!)

1/ Met with one of my Mentors today. Millionaire exporter of fruits and flowers. He told me to stay off social media because of its unrealistic speed and immediate expectations. He explained that Greece took 8yrs to get out of a similar situation to Zimbabwe.

2/ He explained that on the ground people complain due to ignorance and feeding the selfish agendas of those that benefit from the "Zimbabwe is shit" mantra, but in their industry, they exporting millions weekly in Flowers, macadamia nuts, bananas and avocados. Expecting to grow

3/ Expecting to grow from $10mill USD a month to $100Million in 4 yrs and already growing much better since the Not Coup in 2017. He basically said, stop complaining and start grafting. Work with the end in sight, and take advantage of the many new opportunities.

4/ He explained that Zimbabwe only grows wheat because of UDI in the 60s and its NOT an ideal crop in Zimbabwe, rather buy from Canada. Flowers, nuts and fruit are. He told me that if anyone manages to fill 1% the potential Zim produced in 2000, they would be richer than Strive.

5/ I was warned not to try live up to the Zimbos expectations of instant results but to happily grow slowly. Selling 2 cabbages a day after a day of selling 1 is a 100% growth. Be steady, be consistent. Plan with the end in mind.Hanzi smart people don't care who's in Gov.

Here’s a short thread on the history and significance of the pith helmet (as worn by Melania Trump in Kenya today). Media correctly describes the pith helmet as a symbol of colonial rule. But why did colonizers start wearing them in the first place? 1/

White Europeans have long obsessed over the supposed relationship between race, culture & climate. 19th century colonists (supported by scientific & medical opinion) believed “tropical” solar radiation attacked white people’s nervous systems & rendered them infertile. 2/

Pith helmets were often worn by colonizers alongside other protective paraphernalia such as red vests & “spine pads” worn under the shirt to protect the nervous system from the feared “actinic ray.” Spine pads were standard issue in British Army kit in early 20th century. 3/

Other convenient medical recommendations included no manual labour outdoors for whites, holidays to cooler climates & no white children in the colonies beyond age 5. The pith helmet was part of a pseudo-scientific discourse that enforced class as well as racial domination. 4/

The pith helmet is sometimes used to denote a “frontier” spirit of adventure & exploration. This is wrong. Their historical social role was to emblematize white fragility and anxieties, as well as blurring the distinction between white civilians & colonial police/army. 5/

"One of the first questions, any Indian gets asked when abroad, is about the bindi. Of all the various answers that are possible, the most definite one is that a bindi is considered auspicious among Hindus , even by those who do not sport it!" 1/n

Even within the country there are people who question it’s need find it to be obsolete an incongruous tribal marking in this day and age; however one looks at it, it is lack of understanding of what the bindi entails, it’s purpose, it’s symbolism, it’s health benefits if any 2/n

śringār is a major aspect of a vaidikā’s life. It was not just the women who indulged in beautification but so did the men. kriśṇa is always adorned in his favourite colour yellow, a diadem with a peacock feather, a garland of Vaijayanti flowers, his flute and so on. 3/n

These are his vibhutis, with or without them he is the embodiment of joy and freedom but these are his individual expressions of that very same joy! Most important of all he sports kasturi tilakam on his forehead, made of musk paste!(tilak is a vertical line to a bindi’s dot) 4/n

Most Hindus, who take after such lofty examples, enjoy alankaraṇa (mehendi/ bindi) and ābhūśaṇa (bangles/ anklets etc). Adornment and Accessories are part and parcel of day-to-day life for a vaidika. 5/n