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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • When I was 10, I moved to another country and started studying in an international school. I essentially only spoke Portuguese (my mother tongue) with my parents and my brother, which meant I was fully immersed in English for a huge chunk of my formative years.

    English isn’t technically my mother tongue, but it might as well be. I write better in English than I do in Portuguese, because that’s the language I wrote in in school. My Portuguese is flawless, and nobody would ever say that is isn’t my mother tongue, but in some situations my English is just better. I consider myself to have two mother tongues, even though I’m technically an ESL speaker.

    I have also not been able to replicate my level of English in other languages. I’m fluent in German, and I have no difficulty with any aspect of the language, be it reading, speaking, writing or listening, but it’s really clear that it is not my mother tongue.













  • That’s usually not how secure boot is configured on microcontrollers. They usually come with no code installed and an unsigned bootloader, and therefore no barrier for you to flash what you want on it.

    In fact, the STM32 has secure boot, and it’s still one of the most popular microcontrollers for makers and hackers. That’s because the secure boot feature is there for developers, hackers and makers to use if they want to.


  • RP2350 specs:

    • Two 150MHz Arm Cortex-M33 cores, with floating point and DSP support
    • 520KB of on-chip SRAM in ten concurrently accessible banks
    • A comprehensive security architecture, built around Arm TrustZone for Cortex-M, and including:
      • Signed boot support
      • 8KB of on-chip antifuse one-time-programmable (OTP) memory
      • SHA-256 acceleration
      • A hardware true random number generator (TRNG)
    • An on-chip switch-mode power supply and low-quiescent-current LDO
    • Twelve upgraded PIO state machines
    • A new HSTX peripheral for high-speed data transmission
    • Support for external QSPI PSRAM

    Looking pretty good. I especially like the security features.