Hell is other people's ringtones.

New street art by Topsy in Seattle. #fuckice #reneegood #streetart #seattle

@brouhaha Bell Labs developed a CO2/Mg powder combustion chamber back in the 60s...probably a nightmare to turn into an IC engine, though.

The teaser for _For All Mankind_ S5 features a motorcyclist on Mars. So how big an oxidizer tank would you need relative to the fuel tank?

@Screwtapello @brouhaha I put lemon in all of them, no sugar. Because I like lemon. And milk in tea to me just seems wrong, except in chai, which should also be sweet.

@brouhaha I'm not big on fancy teas myself, but it was a gift, so I'm trying to appreciate it properly. :)

I've been enjoying some Fancy Tea I got for Christmas. I don't know much about Fancy Tea, but my impression was that black tea is generally served with milk, and green tea or things with lemon do not go so well. So it's weird to me that the Fancy Tea with oolong (approximately black tea) […]

The audience of Davos attendees is remarkably happy to hear that the "rules based" international order is over. I mean what a relief, right! Suddenly they can go back to caring about human rights, and climate, and— 🤔

This joke headline NEVER gets old. #china #uspol

Why is a whiny toddler even welcome to attend the World Economic Forum?

"Took a picture of my wife standing in front of a horse and now she won’t talk to me. 😖" via Mike Bales

Danish newspaper of record: " #Denmark should initiate discussions w/ #Sweden, #Norway and #Finland, possibly #Iceland, for establishing a joint #nuclear weapons program." Yes. We must discuss this *seriously*. A joint deterrence program makes so much sense. www.berlingske.dk/synspunkter/...

It occured to me that I now fully understand the Butlerisn Jihad, and why it is so important. To rid the world of so-called AI, must we also rid the world of VCs?

The Texas Instruments TMS1802 released in 1971 was their first "single-chip" calculator IC, though it needed external display drivers. It was renamed TMS0102 as part of the TMS0100 series, which had many variants with different ROM code. (Not to be confused with the TMS1000.) The Datamath web […]

There is a new ship standing order on the Bridge. When one is in the penalty box, tears are permitted. – Star Trek: The Next Generation, S01E10

declaring marital law

Today I released version 0.7 of my print-in place single-paddle Morse code key. This will function as release notes: * The most important practical change is that **the slot in the lever for the stabilizer bar is taller,** so that it doesn't bind […] [Original post on social.makerforums.info]

What's the funniest way your party has handled a dragon encounter? #ttrpg #dnd #rpg #meme #ttrpgsky #ttrpgcommunity

@brouhaha I think that Twain had something to say on the topic!

lately, everytime i feel sad i go to jlcpcb and submit a new order _stares at wallet_ is this why women spend so much on shopping

[#uspol] @pixel I'd like to not feel a little guilty about posting videogame summaries like nothing is going on. I would like to stop worrying about when I'm going to get chucked in a camp or summarily offshored to El Salvador. I really want to stop imagining that intensive firearms training […]

When I was a child in the USA, I was told that any of us could grow up to be president. It wasn't until 1998 that I realized that it had been a threat. It wasn't until 2025 that I realized that it was an existential threat.

Back on my bullshit? No, I was never off my bullshit!

I loved this too much. ❤️ 😆😆😆

#treason #trumpmustgo #trumpkillsamerica #republicansownthis #USpol

BREAKING: A new video out of Minneapolis shows the truth #ICE doesn’t want you to see… compliance does not protect you. In this video, ICE agents pull up to a vehicle and immediately demand the driver’s ID. The man calmly asks the most basic […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

[lofty's cpu] I am surprised how much progress I've made by refactoring NERV. it's, still quite a bit away from what I want, but I think it's worth it to have a working CPU at every stage of refactor. it does require a lot of thought about other things though, and I need some fellow RISCVer to […]

Apple made a whole TV series about the plumbus?

Funny how discourse on the same thing is so different in different parts of the world. There’s a story about people in their 30s still living with their parents. There would be a story where I grew up about people in their 30s who refuse to live with their parents, look at how Asian family […]

When talking about DRAM please don't use the term "shortage", call it what it is: price manipulation. Shortages are when things you want to buy cannot be bought anywhere, but DDR5 memory kits are widely available. There's hundreds of different types in stock at online retailers. I've yet to see […]

My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com

In a way, #Putin even got more then he ever could wish for All for free by #Trump Alliances shattered, internal threats, everyone really disliking the US, speaking about war within #NATO even It's unbelievable how much damage that senile dic(tator) has done within a year I really hope we […]

@mmiasma With now two Nobel prize medals gifted to nazis, let's remember the the two that escaped them: James Franck (Jewish) and Max von Laue (anti-nazi) illegally sent their medals to Denmark to keep them out of nazi hands. When Germany invaded Denmark, Jewish physicist de Hevesy concealed […]

@brouhaha Anyone else get a little teary eyed from thinking about friends storing away our creations for decades? I’m sure many of us have had family and friends who believed in our nerd skills and held on to things. I sure have. Building this would be a bit of a tribute to your friend as well […]

in search of the lost corduroys #laundryday

@brouhaha Oooh, I worked on a bit slice project once, mid 1970s. It was doing image analysis as quality control of microfilm of football pools coupons. Football pools coupons were microfilmed *before* the games were played so that there was a record of what the coupon said to limit scope for […]

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

I've been using DOSbox on Linux to run TI's ASM7 cross assembler for the TMS7000 to test my disassembler, and it works fine, but I decided that it would be nice if I could invoke it directly as a shell command, without opening a window and typing the ASM7 command into the window. Of course a […]

we all need a little less raging against the dying of the light and a little more coordinated tactical assault on the darkness factory

Thinkin' about those type of computer kits where you key in programs and commands using a hex keypad. Systems running CHIP-8 do this. I wonder what little 4K virtual machine I could write that is inspired by CHIP-8, but serves more of my purposes--text editing?

Thinking about a simple text editor written in BASIC... Having studied a few now, I think one in particular could be adapted and refactored into something more intelligible for the modern day. Many of the editors I have here assume a paper teleprinter, and so will make edits that are completely […]

Well, crap. I have some untrusted stuff on a VLAN, and I hadn't considered that possibility. On the other hand, if my switch gets reset to factory defaults, outside internet access is lost, because that's coming in on a VLAN, so maybe it wouldn't be a disaster.

I hadn't looked at Everspin FRAM products lately. The async parallel products still only go up to 32Mbit (2Mx16), and xSPI now goes to 128Mbit (for around $300 ea.), but they now have a DDR4 1Gbit (128Mx8) part. Unit price for that is $134, and DigiKey minimum order is 380 pieces. I guess I […]

are you gonna modus on our ponens or what

A new working draft of C++26 has been published, N5032, dated 2025-12-15. The page links in the table of contents seem to be outdated, which presumably will be fixed in the next draft or final. The title page still says "Note: this is an early draft", but I suspect that it is a late draft, given […]

Well, once I _tried_ to rise above the noise and confusion.