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NovaMostra
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NovaMostra is a personal blog at novamostra.com about security and hardware. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-24, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link these posts for a practical walkthrough of using socat to send serial data over IP, including a Raspberry Pi USB gadget setup. Only one comment, which is neutral and reads as the author's own.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
In case anybody is interesting, over the last month I used socat as a simple way to transfer serial over IP. Here you can see the "sending" part https://novamostra.com/2020/05/15/rasperry-pi-as-a-usb-gadge... and here https://novamostra.com/2020/05/15/rasperry-pi-as-a-usb-gadge... you can see how you can redirect input from a remote serial device or the local UART port of a Raspberry PI to the Gadget port using soca…
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on “Let SOcket CAT Be Thy Glue over Serial”Submitted Bring Your Own Password Manager: Portable BitWarden on a Pi Zero as a story · 154 points
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HN discussionSubmitted EcoPrinter – Replace hardcopies with no interaction file sharing as a story · 3 points
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