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:drgn_cup_mlem: dreaming dragoness. E-25965.

jack of many trades, master of some.
read the book and not afraid to throw it.

freelance void witch, compsci researcher and payments specialist, with too many side gigs.

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OH: a minibar is a fridge with an identity crisis

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does anyone have recommendations for project management software? (boosts welcome)

needed for some small business stuff, not just a single project; can be paid, but not add huge costs per-seat

OpenProject I've seen recommended a few times, and it looks really good, with the slight catch that kanban boards are a paid feature, and they won't let me pay for less than 5 seats (we currently need 2-3)

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does anyone here know who at SIS (the Swedish Institute for Standards) I need to contact about joining committee meetings?

I've emailed [email protected], but haven't heard anything back in over a month.

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loginctl kill-user

ok hold up that seems a bit harsh

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Signal conversion: - what was that one train show called again with the cute twink autists (1m ago) - jetlag the game (now)
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today I will write a 3rd parser for the Pokémon Gen 4 mystery gift format (I'm rewriting the event spoofer in Rust)

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or what if I just mem::transmuted it
this feels more in the spirit of embedded

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why waste valuable cycles on this ESP32 parsing/validating input, when you can simply not hold it wrong

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oh, the reason why this SD card reader isn't working is because I forgot to connect the power

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I've been trying to figure this out for like an hour

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ah, the reason why it still doesn't work is because uh

the reader has onboard circuitry whose only purpose is to make a 3V3 SD card require 5V, by converting the voltage both ways. why

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ok so my new plan is to get out of having to pay €2 + shipping for a working SD card reader (on which I would put a schedule file + a bunch of pokemon sprites), by generating a big pile of JSON and turning that into compile time constants and embedding the images they reference in the binary

I've got 4MB of flash on this ESP32, I sure hope this actually fits w

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arrested for rust crimes

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ok this doesn't actually look half bad if the variables have actual names, don't mind the transmuting

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ooh but now that I'm doing rust crimes at build time anyway, I could like. precompute all the cryptography and checksums and stuff

this doesn't need to be nearly this optimised, but I have the technology

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it's 4AM and I can't sleep, but I'd be the envy of the playground in 2007

my 3DS showing Deoxys on the lower screen, and telling me my gift has been received!

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electronics is my passion

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ayy, my Pokémon event spoofer got accepted as an art project at 38c3! :drgn_sparkle:

if you have a copy of Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, Heart Gold or Soul Silver (even some ROM hacks work), bring it by for some Mystery Gifts :D

there'll be re-runs of old events (Shaymin, Darkrai, etc.), some unreleased content (The Azure Flute), and a silly illegal Pokémon to collect - all hacked to allow DS-to-DS sharing, even after the end of the event