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Reverse Engineering a Mesh Radio

Loading a 2.3 MB ESP32-S3 firmware binary into Ghidra on a Raspberry Pi, building the decompiler from source, and extracting 50+ terminal commands from MeshOS.

Remarkable Trees

Luxembourg has 240 officially protected remarkable trees. A new campaign wants you to help find more.

Forty Years, Still Burning

Chernobyl turns 40 today. The containment shell is punctured by a Russian drone. The sarcophagus is not a permanent solution. Some disasters don't end.

Chernobyl, 40 Years On: What We Still Haven't Learned

Four decades after reactor four exploded, Chernobyl is still teaching uncomfortable lessons about secrecy, institutional failure, and the limits of human control.

Ready Together

After the 2021 floods, one Luxembourg commune decided to stop hoping for the best and start preparing for the worst. A lesson in local resilience.

Same Board, Different Trackball

Some T-Deck units scroll down just fine. Others can't. The difference isn't the software. It's the hardware variant your firmware was never told about.

Paint and Malice

Niederanven painted a rainbow on a cycle path. Then 440 angry comments, homophobic abuse, and vandalism arrived. The mayor says the rainbow stays.

Dream Factory Closed

Filmland S.A. in Kehlen is shutting down after 13 years and 115 films. Luxembourg loses its only professional film studio complex.