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Tag: locks

  • A small white 10-key keyboard with hand-drawn icons on stickers on the keys. A finger reaches in to press one key, which flashes a purple LED from beneath.

    Lock All The Computers

    I wanted a button on my desk that, when I pressed it, would simultaneously lock every computer connected to my KVM system. Here's what I came up with.

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    • 6 comments
    • posted 23 July, 2025
  • A toilet in a tiled bathroom.

    A Surprisingly Shit Bathroom

    This bathroom at the holiday home where some fellow volunteers and I are doing some Three Rings work, this week, has a few unusual quirks, including this surprisingly-shit bathroom.

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    • posted 7 April, 2025
  • Unbreakable smart lock devastated to discover screwdrivers exist

    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/15/taplock_broken_screwdriver/ (theregister.co.uk) It's never easy to crack into a market with an innovative new product but makers of the "world's first smart fingerprint padlock" have made one critical error: they forgot about the existence of screwdrivers.

    Tapplock raised $320,000 in 2016 for their product that would allow you to use just your finger to open the โ€ฆ

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    • posted 30 June, 2018
  • A Weekend Of Lockpicking

    Following up the arrival of my new lockpicks, I've spent the weekend picking pretty much every lock I've come across (and helping to teach JTA and Bryn how to do it for themselves). The result: six of nine attempted locks picked, feeling significantly more well-practiced, and very, very sore fingers. I need to get some โ€ฆ

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    • posted 21 February, 2005
  • I Can Still Do It

    My new lockpick set arrived today. I haven't played with picks in years and years, and so, when I started clumsily fooling around inside a chunky padlock that Claire found behind some furniture yesterday, it felt like I was about to have another half-hour of footing around before I could even count the number of โ€ฆ

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 18 February, 2005

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