Yesterday was 25th anniversary of Depeche Mode "Exciter". Which is in the "top 3 of my favorite Depeche Mode albums that are not Violator". That's it, that's the post. Something for my biographers or whatever.

I normally don't experience this, because I have Win11 on a work laptop where I don't have access to things, and on a personal desktop where I don't have bitlocker, but I just had to type the whole damn key into a laptop because the damn thing thought the power supply was too small and ...

facebook sometimes shows me weird stuff, and me just glancing quickly make them even weirder. for a second I was sure it was "Beach Sounds" by Pet Shop Boys, which would be amazing. so disappointed.

OK, hear me out: what if Carol Sturka is Kim Wexler? And before you say no, may I remind you about BCS S6E12 aka "Waterworks"? Right. If she can sell sprinklers in Titusville, FL, she can also be Carol Sturka. #bettercallsaul #plur1bus #pluribus

OK this is ridiculous. I'm building an updated AMI, based on one of the deep learning base images. From my own last year's notes I know that it is necessary to compile the Nvidia Pyxis plugin against the specific version of Slurm, and that I need to start from a basic Ubuntu image, install Slurm...

I specifically forbid to invest a single penny in "crypto". You are strongly encouraged to invest in cryptids, though. I believe those are the future.

I knew collecting data from a sensor on the balcony would be useful. In this case for testing accelerating workloads with GPUs. The first is just pandas, the second is cudf.pandas on A100, with 13.5x speed gain. Which is not bad at all.

I'm not an investor but just checked that my RasPi 5 8GB was 97.50€ in early 2024, and now the same store has it for almost 200, so... well I'm glad I got it back then 🙃

if you happen to have a 405 (or any Peugeot, really) with some killer sound system but not Taxi soundtrack handy, I'd suggest this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf5X...

I just saw a gecko outside of the bathroom window. Last time I saw one in the wild was 20 years ago, but, like, 600 km down south, so I was pretty surprised. It was super cute! Kinda dusty pink sort of color, really blending in to the wall, with big black eyes. I'm gonna name him George the Gecko.

I finally started watching Plur1bus. I really like it, love Rhea obviously, but it's also this feeling that I don't think I ever had before watching a movie/show and totally recognizing the place, like "OMG that's ...". And here it's like, yay, Sunport! LOL

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OK so I finished "Stranger Things" and I liked it a lot, then I looked up "ending" because I know that many were unhappy with it, got one from the subreddit and... discovered that everyone seems to be twelve, even though even people who started watching it when they were at the age of the kids in S1

Should you dare to venture beyond the comfy boundaries of the "multiverse", there's A LOT of bizzarro world to discover. You know Batman Who Laughs and his counterpart, Batman Who Cries? Then get ready for Batman Who Doesn't Care, Batman Who Can't Even, and Batman Who Is Fed Up With All This Shit.

Everyone using the 6-7 thing should be immediately asked why 6 was afraid of 7. If you don't know, you shouldn't be allowed to use those numbers, period.

This is pretty disappointing: one of my favorite online stores for all things maker/electronics was taken over by some ass-clowns 🤡

I really like this local gen 8 Civic. It has just a few additional things there, no nonsense (no idea if there's some mechanical tuning, possibly yes). I even like the color OK. Still looks pretty futuristic.

imaginary car idea: Ford Escort Mk I or Opel Kadett C, not 2-door station wagon but a pick-up, the Australian ute style. what do you think @creatinglightly.art ? :)

I really hope those are not demogorgons.

copied from a fantastic FB profile that collects old Polish book covers (manuals and textbooks, to be specific). this is "computer graphics" from 1989.

- What the movies and comic books were wrong about: uber villains are not super intelligent. In fact they can be incredibly dumb. - What they were right about: we should be afraid of the evil clowns.

One good thing is that... the bats are out there! First time this year, and there were at least 7 of them, this time flying at the 6th-7th floor altitude. But sometimes in the summer they do the Maverick flyby right in front of me when I stand on the balcony, and that is super cool 🦇

Does anyone know anything about the deep sleep in ESP32, specifically ESP32C3 failing to wake up after some random number of cycles? #rustlang #embedded #esp32 #espressif

The Emperor's new clothes consisted of bright red hot pants, acting as a fiery beacon for the followers. Until this one nerdy little brat yelled "those are no pants! that's just a red butt!" And then it dawned on everyone... the Emperor... WAS A BABOON! 😱🐒 (coming soon to a cinema near you)

they're not wrong 🤔

I really like the Sorgenfresser but we would need one the size of King Kong.

I had a dream that I was going to be on some... quiz show? or a TV show? in this format "one celebrity + some rando", and I was supposed to be Sarah Chalke's rando 😀

I'm re-watching Stranger Things before getting to season 5, right now it's season 3 and there was just a cameo, if you can say that, of BTTF. And it's all great but then the episode ends and I remember that we're in the Upside Down and also in that timeline where Biff is running the show 🤬

Good news everyone, I have one ESP32C3 transmitting sensor data and another one receiving with ESP Now! This is exactly what I need for my weather station obsession, because BLE is great but kinda difficult, meanwhile here it's a super simple transmission. Let's see how it goes! #rustlang #embedded

alright STOP! spring time! 😀

what the dickens? I didn't even have time to respond with ovewhelming disgust, what is going on?

If you need to watch one show, watch Deadloch, it's great. Just finished the 2nd season, even better than the first one.

I wasn't so sure about the Coupe back then, but the older it gets, the more I like it 🙃 Here you can see the original year sticker on the plates, it's 99. cc @creatinglightly.art @midnightdorifto.bsky.social

For those interested in this kind of shenanigans: Matrix size: 50000x50000 Iterations: 50 PyTorch Version: 2.7.0+cu128 Driver Version: 570.133.20 NVIDIA A100-SXM4-80GB Average time per iteration: 14.3344 s NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition Average time per iteration: 3.4642 s

tired: Weltschmerz wired: Weltkrankheit

A new idea for an animation/physics exercise in Blender just dropped 😏 futurism.com/robots-and-m...

the "axis of evil" concept is so last decade. in 2026 we have the brand new "multidimensional grid of evil" concept 😵‍💫

In case someone needs it, here's a very basic #embedded #rustlang template I made for the Xiao nRF54L15 board: github.com/nebelgrau77/... #nrf54 cc @astrakernel.bsky.social @theembeddedrust.bsky.social @seeedstudio.com @nordicsemi.com 🦀🦀🦀

Sneak peek time :) I repurposed the AirSniffer to display some GPU metrics, sent from nvidia-smi over serial. #ratatui #mousefood #esp32 #mousefood #rustlang #embedded #gpu cc @orhun.dev

The new version of "Mousefood" is out! 🧀🥳 🐁 Mousefood — A Ratatui backend for embedded devices 🦀 Build TUIs for microcontrollers, e-ink display & more w/ Rust! 💯 Now supports blinking cursor & lilygo T5 e-paper ⭐ GitHub: github.com/ratatui/mous... #rustlang #ratatui #tui #esp32 #rp2040 #stm32

nothing to see here, just Nancy and Jonathan looking like a B-team on the Americans 😀 #strangerthings #theamericans

Either I'm getting some knock-off, discount bin version of Claude Sonnet which seemingly can't figure out things like suppressing-and-unsuppressing logging messages or correctly pass a variable in Slurm spawner... or these people are on some serious drugs: share.google/AEqJ1cFK3hou...

I don't know if Claude is "sentient", but I do know that now it's been failing not one, but two task I've been repeatedly asking it to help me with: pass the username to a Slurm/enroot flag, and suppress _and then restore_ the "noise" Spark makes when being initialized. WTF, Claude?

I keep reading those stories about an LLM that got the claw agent run to the store, come back with even more money and also make the best sandwich ever with the purchased products, making everything obsolete in the process, and I'm like... I've seen this one! This is the story of Jack and Jill who

They said I was a techno-pessimist, but look who made a frogbot! www.cgboost.com/courses/blen... #blender3d #blender #b3d

Yeah, I won't be making any 3D-printed cases or printed PCBs any time soon, it's more like hand-made stuff, like radios used to be 😀 The protoboard is attached to a piece of forex board here, which in turn is mounted on a cheapo plastic "desk label". I really like those "desk labels", they're good

I'm doing this super relaxing CGBoost course here: www.cgboost.com/courses/blen... but also re-watching Stranger Things, so here's the FrogBot in that pitch black void Eleven goes to 🙃

Every now and then I forget that we're basically living in the Upside Down and I look for some nice moments. Today it was the supermarket: the veggies have 3-digit numbers to punch in on the scale, and then you confirm. That's beep-beep-beep-beep, and you can perfectly match it to the

www.euronews.com/my-europe/20... 5D CHESS REAL HARD 😱

This whole 5D chess idea many seem to be fascinated with has one major drawback: it is, like, super easy to check-mate yourself. Based on: the news.