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whitequark

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cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid

"A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin."

✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧
✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦
✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶
✷ nothing else matters ✷

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please name one "small pharma" company off the top of your head

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Codeberg Pages documentation now lists git-pages as the deployment method to use going forward! https://docs.codeberg.org/codeberg-pages/

thanks to everyone on the @Codeberg team for making this collaboration possible

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target triple
look inside
four parts

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i say this but i just implemented a thing in my codebase which is called a "triple" but it has two parts

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why does chromium have a request status net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_ORB

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apparently ORB stands for Opaque Request Blocking, a feature so new it's not actually in the spec (but already deployed by Chromium?..)

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matrix.org is down, post cat pictures

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OH: "think of how much more productive i could be if solitaire had keyboard shortcuts"

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github is dedicated to promoting codeberg by no longer being the higher-uptime option. i respect that

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thinking about the enby i used to live with many years ago who once described "the flow-like state of intense concentration prompted by stimulants used for ADHD treatment" as "[being like] Hitler"

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Wanted to order little baggies for legal recreational use and had the thought that I should be able to design a tpu ziplock. After several iterations I’ve come up with something that prints easy and is 100% water tight.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BambuLab/comments/1r09cc6/worlds_first_100_3d_printed_ziplock_bag/

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one of the cardinal sins engineers commit is "forgetting that real people will have to manufacture the stuff they designed, with actual fingers and eyes and abilities". i am not immune to it (and a low-cost pcb fab encourages committing this sin by almost completely abstracting interactions with people who will be making the thing), which is how i came up with the image below

@whitequark@treehouse.systems avatar whitequark , to random

check out these massive rats fighting over a piece of bagel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvDSdCA-Los

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i want a nyc subway rat as a pet

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can any of you smuggle a breeding pair out for me please? i pay cash in unmarked bills

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this is a comment under a video about dumping slag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhJF_hTJ2Rw

Great video clip. I had a job once at the US Steel Pipe Works, Geneva Plant, Utah where I took "slag temperatures" before they sprayed "devils liquor" sump water on it to cool it down. I wore wooden shoe "clogs" to protect my shoes from melting (the same kind coke oven operators wear when servicing the ovens). 24 hours after a "thimble car" dump of red-hot slag was made, I went out and traversed the dump-site, measuring congealed slag surface temperatures, sometimes up to and often exceeding 600 degrees F. I wore thick canvas over-clothes, but anywhere my body came into pointed contact with the canvas (elbows and knees) I would get "burned" because of the heat transferred from the canvas material through my regular clothes. The heat at breathing height was about 200 degrees F. I wore a face shield (clear) to protect my face from the heat and had to wear a scarf over my nose to prevent breathing in super-heated air. As it was, I still singed the hairs inside my nose if I inhaled a little too quickly.

Imagine walking around inside a pizza oven, that is what it felt like. It dried me out, like desiccating me from the inside out breathing in all that super hot and very dry air.

Watching the thimble cars dump slag at night was one of the most incredible visual experiences I have ever had. The second after they tip a thimble, when the splash of red hot slag boiling down the slope glows intensely red, there follows milliseconds later, a "blast" of intense infrared radiation, that hits you in the face like a gust of hot wind.

The sea-gulls around dusk, would often ride the intense thermals created by the super-heated air, drawing cooler air up from below the slag pits, combining with the hot air whoosh it would go, rushing up the precipitous cliffs, man-made mini-mountains of slag, there they would fly along the thermals updraft about 100 feet up and nearly parallel to the rail car dump line. Their white underbelly's "glowing" brilliantly orange, phoenix like they hovered there almost motionless reflecting the bright yellow-orange and red hues of the cooling slag. It was like they were on fire it was so bright in the fading light of the day. It was the only beautiful sight to see in an otherwise desolate and foreboding wasteland of glassy rock-like congealed blast furnace slag.

Geneva Works is now defunct.

mrc109

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in-band signaling is always a mistake and unix tooling is full of in-band signaling https://mas.to/@zekjur/116022397626943871

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new episode of Crackhead Engineering https://crackhead.technology/contact-sales-for-dimensions/
(although this entry is more "Crackhead Sales"... doesn't have the same ring to it, does it now?)

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some people try to make fun of open source devs writing bad code, but i don't like that:

  • everyone writes bad code before they write good code, it's nice if they feel safe enough to publish it
  • they'll probably read it and get angry or sad
  • lots of programmers have zero chill and an ironclad belief that their personal preference is objectively the best

i make fun of corporations releasing products:

  • they really ought to know better after the 15th IoT devce on the market
  • corporations don't have feelings and the people making chea... value-optimized devices come home and don't think about what they've done
  • bureaucracies are great producing unbelievably dumb shit no single individual could possibly manage
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VCDs of Unusual Size

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did you know that, instead of downloading some SD card image of extremely questionable provenance, you can fight with U-boot for two hours and then use Debian Installer to provision an ARM64 single board computer?

here's me doing this on a Rockchip ROCK 4C+, using entirely firmware I built myself:

debian-installer loading components in a window titled "glasgow"
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hot take: cmake would not exist if *nix people (i am including myself in that set) collectively took portability of software seriously. no, i do not consider "i kept adding preprocessor statements until it ran on AIX and then relied on a mixture of fear and guilt for everyone else to not touch them for the next decade" serious

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i finally found this picture again. it has infected me memetically a long time ago

Never touch the terminals.

Please don't. Cause of failure.

This may be the cause.

It is not possible to use multiple computers at the same time.

It is not possible.

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company is called Virgin

runs trains through the Channel tunnel

@whitequark@treehouse.systems avatar whitequark , to random

want to design some hardware, but as a game? there is now an Amaranth leaderboard in https://latchup.app

(I'm not affiliated with Latchup, I just think it's cool)

Latchup Think you're good at RTL? Prove it. Code circuits, race the clock, climb the ranks. Tackle real-world hardware challenges using SpinalHDL, Chisel, Clash, Amaranth, HardCaml, VHDL, or Verilog. See how you stack up against other hardware hackers.
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thesis: "me repeatedly buying useless $5 gadgets on aliexpress to take them apart, extract the firmware, and reverse-engineer the device" is a roguelite (i retain the experience but start from zero every time)

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if i never have to use sharepoint again it will be too soon

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to paraphrase that one veterinary handbook; if you need to get a Linux SoC to work:

  1. DON'T TRUST A VENDOR
  2. USE YOUR BRAIN
  3. USE DRUGS
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vivado what the fuck does this mean

WARNING: [Synth 8-4767] Trying to implement RAM ' ' in registers. 1: Unable to determine number of words or word size in RAM. 2: No valid read/write found for RAM. RAM dissolved into registers
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FLEXlm can be incorporated into your application by a simple inclusion of a few function calls, and it can be unincorporated in the same way.

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fedi! please recommend me your favorite film, animation, or video games.

my only requirement: it needs to include violent lesbians. the more violent the better. (i can compromise with a lack of textual lesbianism however.)

@whitequark@treehouse.systems avatar whitequark , to random

who's up asking the Moving Picture Experts Group to encode and store their genetic material?

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i hate it that after literal years spent not touching Thunderbolt on a low level, there are still a few braincells in my skull that can produce a sequence "Alpine Ridge", "Titan Ridge", "Goshen Ridge" within milliseconds of being prompted

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hi! i'm cat. i work on open source software and hardware, like:

i joined mastodon.social back when it was cool, about a decade ago. it stopped being cool a while ago so i figured i'd move over to treehouse.social. here's to a decade more here!