Fans of Adafruit may recall a couple of months ago that one of the key people at the company made a series of posts on social media (including Mastodon and BlueSky) that looked awfully like online harassment. Besides some unprofessional stuff like name-calling, there were more serious […]

Worthwhile as always watching @bunnie and @Xobs's talk from #39c3 about the Xous memory protected embedded OS. https://app.media.ccc.de/v/39c3-xous-a-pure-rust-rethink-of-the-embedded-operating-system https://youtu.be/DaWkfSmIgRs Something that consistently impresses me about their projects […]

Soon-Tzu Speechley wrote this in 2020, ‘what if we write about American food the way they write about us’ “In a nation torn by racial conflict, one unlikely food unites. To those accustomed to chopsticks, the greasy parcel known as a ‘burger,’ a sort of split bao, is crude and messy. Yet it […]

RE: https://phpc.social/@syntaxseed/115863080846737985 Exactly. I don't care too much about the "unicorns", I want small to medium companies that do one thing really well, everyone is fairly compensated and can go home early on Friday.

Stumbled on the Shell Game podcast: I'm listening to the first season from 2024 where the narrator creates an AI voice agent as himself, hooked up to ChatGPT, and sends his "persona" out into the world. I expected it'd be insufferable, but although it's disturbing on multiple levels it's also […]

[Geopolitics reckons - Venezuela, structural racism] I guess what grates me about the "imagine if Greenland/Taiwan/Canada is next" takes, is that they carry the implication that the fact this is ACTUALLY happening in Venezuela is expected, or not as bad as it would be if it affects […]

oh hey, rad, @bsky.brid.gy has created 'bounce', which lets people ... bounce from bsky over here, and keep all their followers! share it with all the people who left to go to bsky! https://blog.anew.social/bounce-beta-now-live/

Thoroughly enjoyed the Hacking Washing Machines talk video from #39c3. Had expected it'd be about IoT stuff, but it was mostly about old fashioned diagnostic protocols! Some great reversing efforts. https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-hacking-washing-machines It did dawn on me that if we had good […]

Lovely video about a man running a second hand bike shop in a tiny upstate New York town https://youtu.be/1-0q-VYYcgI

At a family gathering, watching adults try to correct the #actuallyautistic kid - with a special interest in #geography - who was claiming that Canada borders Denmark. Wrong, get rek't adults. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Island (and that's how I learned that Canada does, in fact, border […]

The NSW Transport Regional bookings website is pretty close to the website you'd make if you didn't want anyone to take a train, ever.

MAN DO YOU HAVE ANY FUCKEN IDEA HOW MUCH PETROL IT TAKES TO RUN A CAR A CAR USES SO MUCH PETROL YOU NEED TO CONSTANTLY REFUEL IT AS YOU DRIVE AND DIGGING UP OIL CREATES HUGE EMPTY VOIDS IN THE EARTH THAT FROGS FALL INTO. FUCKEN MILLIONS OF 'EM, JUST DYING IN THE OIL VOIDS WHERE THERE'S NO GRAVITY

fully open hardware usb-c powered server with milled aluminum enclosure (mnt desktop reform with ls1028a processor module and some blinkenlights). and vesa mount. and sma antenna mounts. and 3x usb on the other side

@projectgus I operated a lab of IBM DOS computers in a school library. To keep little fingers away, the server was on the carpet under a table. Each day about 120 children traipsed in to use the computers. One day the server shut down, so I called the technician. He set the server on some […]

Suddenly reminded of an e-waste story: about 13 years ago I spotted a high end gaming PC at the tip. Less than two years old, pretty expensive component choices for the era. Took home, powered up. The CPU fan immediately ran 100%, and it froze mid-boot. OK, we know why it was treated as e-waste […]

Also, not for nothing, but... this puts the lie to GamerGate-style arguments yet again. One woman appears in one video game: KERP POLITICS OUT OF MY GAMEZ A literal arms manufacturer makes a literal game console using scrap metal from literal weapons of war: *crickets*

The attempt to read the UNIX V4 tape is underway!

Jonathan Oxer has announced Freetronics has run its course, and remaining products and stock will be merged in with SuperHouse. I've always seen the Freetronics logo as a mark of quality, and am grateful to Jonathan Oxer for designing and building a bunch of feature-packed Arduino compatible […]

I took some encouragement from the Waterfox "no AI* here" post that's doing the rounds after Mozilla's latest commitment to bad choices. Particularly encouraged to see the author talk about Waterfox's governance. IIUC it's still a one person project at this point, but for any of these forks to […]

The NXP experience: 1) Looking for chip reference manual 2) Have to sign in to see "secure content" and "additional documents" 3) Sign in process needs to verify my work email again for some reason. 4) Signed in! 5) LOL @ Lorem Ipsum placeholder on chip family […] [Original post on aus.social]

This attempt to break the US Cannonball run EV record with a modified Rivian is *wild* (in a very nerdy way). I'm both glad that there are madmen pushing the limits of this kind of thing, and a little worried about it at the same time... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfgkh4Fgw98

The CRASH Clock uses the current density in altitude bins (averaged over eccentric orbits) of satellites, rocket bodies, and tracked debris, assuming typical cross sections for each type and orbital speeds. This calculation tells us how long to a collision if all orbital maneuvers were to […]

Convenient to check if a paper published in 1978 has any recent updates. (Spoiler: no updates.)

[Stranger Things final season] Pros: Enjoying it. Cons: Will be humming Running Up That Hill for another six months.

iFixit has fallen 😔🕯️

My thoughts on social media bans everywhere is that if you're taking digital connections away from teens, you better make sure they have third spaces for physical connection, and give them options for transport that is not "parents drive us around" otherwise all you're creating is isolation. And […]

Our Community Investment Co-op got a write up from the ABC! https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-08/castlemaine-cooperative-privatisation-economic-democracy/106103270 #cooperatives

Stablecoin account holders are going to be given creditor seniority over *cash* account holders? The federal government is trying to turn the USA into a kleptocracy. 🤪 https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/115678753302203662

I am so honored to have been awarded the first annual infosec.exchange peace prize. 🏆

Free software people I am begging you to stop naming your software

Home sick, makes for a pretty chill and ambient #BandcampFriday. Got myself the latest from the Necks, Cassandra Jenkins' companion album My Light, My Massage Parlor and the latest Milford Progression Association album by @jimbob 💯 https://milford.bandcamp.com/album/postal-boutique […]

I'll definitely have more to say about this one, but it's an immense tragedy to see a library management tool, of all fucking things, betray the whole concept of artistic expression like this. https://buc.ci/abucci/p/1764956951.732666

but the reason i kept going was because "oooh it was so close, if i just try again ..." - spending more tokens. its a trick. the whole deal is to get you to spend more tokens. there's some nebulous ceiling of complexity, and when you hit it, you get the "EA lootbox bullshit they got sued for […]

Meta trying to make their AI glasses look cool, and like everyone else is sheep, is really breathtaking to behold

Its a bit humbling to discover your White Whale is 2015-era Logitech webcams. When I drilled out the stuck screws on last week's one it apparently killed the focus drive. So I bought a replacement on ebay, ex-corporate. Surely, the last time was unusual - many […] [Original post on aus.social]

(a) this really is a bloody great piece and (b) it occurs to me that Data Centres In Space are very similar to Musk's Mars colonisation promise in that the obvious actual goal is to enable and excuse more harm on Earth today and tomorrow, rather than sincerely aim for the stated goal years from now

There's a first time for everything. Just had to deny a registration request on the official OctoPrint plugin repository as the plugin the author tried to register turned out to be pretty much completely vibe coded. And in the end, even their communication seemed to be the output of an LLM […]

The Peoples Blockade of Newcastke Port begins! A great turn out, amazing energy, and anecdotal reporting that a coal ship has been delayed! ✊ A completely OTT police response (the cops have their own special operation for this activity) and only two 'pro coal' […] [Original post on aus.social]

Next job for the afternoon. Fingers crossed no more drilling out screws today.

[AI, mental health, awful] The most evil part is where the companies are all, like, "We're putting in safeguards for vulnerable people" like every person alive isn't "vulnerable" to having ideas put in their head. Your brain is a squishy slippery complicated vulnerable little thing and if you […]

Help, internet brains trust! I have three small (M1.8) philips head screws tightly embedded in a Logitech webcam. They really don't want to come out. My usual methods don't apply at this scale. Anyone got a trick to suggest? Important detail: it needs to go back […] [Original post on aus.social]

Happy Voron news! I finally had some time to look at it again on the weekend and realised the print bed screws were all loose! 🤦‍♂️ Since tightening those it's been solid, and I just printed my first non-calibration print in ABS this morning. Hopefully smoother […] [Original post on aus.social]

Re: last boost https://chaos.social/@dpk/115589097803252590 That LLM-generated OCaml PR is a textbook illustration of open source in the era of vibe coding... It's got everything: - PR submitted without the author acknowledging they didn't write it and don't understand it. - Copyright […]

12 months ago, I realised that I was not living out my own values. As a whānau, we committed to a #nobuyyear2025 where we only bought essentials. A year ago, I had a 3 year old who was almost impossible to take shopping because she would beg for every random toy […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

Podcast interview with the late @burgerbecky recounting the infamous 3DO console port of Doom: https://corecursive.com/doomed-to-fail-with-burger-becky/ Becky later posted the source on GitHub, there are even set photos from the abandoned FMV cutscenes in the "art" directory! […]

Finally visited the Jirrahlinga Dingo Conservation and Wildlife Centre yesterday, after living nearby for almost eight years. I patted a baby wombat, but the highlight of the visit was while a keeper was talking to us and his radio went off: "Uh... can Bettongs […] [Original post on aus.social]

Held our second Co-op AGM last night (and first since we raised member investment to buy The Hub). We were a little worried about getting 10% of 560 members for quorum, but over 90 showed up! Great night, and we've now opened our AGMs with a dance performance […] [Original post on aus.social]

ZIRP was a disease that ate our infrastructure and now we're dealing with the symptoms