there should be a term of art for software (or more generally technology) that you use because it solves some kind of very complex problem that you just can't get solved otherwise, and as a result you become very eager to exuse any and all user-hostile behavior of the technology, no matter how […]

Horizon EDA first impressions: * (+) it works! * (+) it's documented! * (-) it uses those awful GTK3 UI idioms. please no * (+) it's easy enough to do some very trivial stuff in schematic and layout while barely looking at documentation * (+) it's not aggressively hostile to my muscle […]

every time i compile ngscopeclient i encounter some sort of show-stopping breakage

this question is coming up a lot so i'll pin it [again after migration to treehouse] * replacement for github: https://codeberg.org/ * replacement for github pages: https://grebedoc.dev/ * easy ci runners for codeberg: https://codeberg.org/whitequark/nixos-forgejo-actions-runner

i have found a complete imx335 datasheet (leaked obviously) and apparently there's no identification regsiters??

why... why would you do this in a diagnostic tool

for some reason amazon uk no longer sells "finish" dishwasher gel (and i couldn't easily find it elsewhere). amazon de does. so i've done possibly my stupidest international order yet: four boxes of dishwasher gel

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

everything reminds me of her #shitpost

i spent _far_ too much time on this

reminder that this part is still sold https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/microchip-technology/VSC8502XML/6131484

every once in a while i receive a email that boils down to "I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn". except i don't even _have_ a linkedin

i should make a sticker pack with the "best of" from my pictures folder

"The exact mechanism of esophageal injury after fellatio is uncertain and no case reports have been found after extensive database search." https://journals.lww.com/ajg/Fulltext/2016/10001/Esophageal_Tear_After_Fellatio_in_a_Patient_with.1627.aspx (via @poppyhaze)

i have advice for unhappy people who are looking to get significantly more unhappy: touch literally anything that involves MIPI CSI

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

girl who says "hisilicon" instead of "kurwa" and vice versa

ok so my conclusion from today is: if you want to use an IP camera, don't. if you think OpenIPC will solve your problem: it probably won't

they should advertise IP cameras as "every device comes with a unique CTF challenge"!

is there a tftpd that runs on linux with the following properties or do i have to write one? * i do not want to interact with /etc/default * i do not want to interact with inetd * i do not want to configure security or whatever * please just let me share a goddamn directory, i need to […]

did you know: IP cameras have non-standardized board-to-cable connectors which you sometimes have to build cables for yourself. this makes it easy to swap the polarity by accident did you know: IP cameras can survive reverse polarity +12V@2A to the input (apparently) did you know: IP cameras […]

looking over logs, i think i would describe the primary function of https://grebedoc.dev as "lightning rod" that is, it does serve your content, but more importantly it serves the periodic onslaughts of bots-sans-rate-limits without making you think about it

people are talking about jobs i got a job from cold-applying once (it was a summer job in between first year of uni and ... repeat of first year of uni because i failed diffequations). got it on the first try, they were very happy with me too even though i thought the code i wrote was awful (i […]

reasons i decided to watch "the amazing world of gumball": * ✔ gumball's mom is a cat * ✔ gumball's mom is _very_ violent * ✔ gumball's mom is somehow not a failure of a parent

Crumpet WinSock

they should make an index "misfortune 500" that lets you invest in the worst performing stocks

achievement unlocked: renewed one of my servers that i shouldn't have because i could not remember what the hell i had it for

i buy all of my asics on mouser.com because i am a cat

check out this bird https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1J5kKiiTxA

office 2003 was more than 20 years ago

hot take: if users of your software are willing to spend a nontrivial amount of money to avoid the pain of interacting with it, you've failed somewhere along the way

i have solved the problem of pcbnew being infuriating to deal with (i paid someone at jlcpcb to route the damn thing for me. not being exposed to kicad is worth every penny)

it makes sense for an MRAM IC, but i've never seen "maximum magnetic field" in the absolute max ratings before

kicad is such fucking awful software

here's an overly specific use of industrial equipment for things you'd never expect it used for https://m.youtube.com/shorts/k_Bhy36IiOc

good morning i woke up to this

8 times out of 10, if a company is using the heart emoji in a press release you know they're up to something ghoulish

you know how a major criticism of CLIs is that they aren't discoverable? i just realized that the biggest CLI i maintain, the `glasgow` command, is designed specifically so that you can discover everything it does by putting `--help` in the right place (it has a multi-level command parser and […]

i buy all of my asics on mouser.com because i am a cat

chat do you think i should uninstall one of my 5 emotional support versions of vivado

POV: you have ADHD. you are locked in a room with only three things available for your enrichment: * Vivado with a 8-hour-long P&R time * Ender 3 that has a wobbly extruder * nitration you have to perform over 32 hours while cooling it with ice

they should make tv shows for cats

it's good when your job involves vivado because the typical workflow is: 1. run vivado in tcl mode 2. spend 45 minutes watching cartoons 3. see step 1

Player Bufknown's Global

what does the fox say? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/T9xWaNhkVUI

i love it when vivado goes "time to peg a core for 10 minutes without a single explanatory message"

vivado what the fuck does this mean

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.

CAD software that teleports your mouse cursor based on some unhinged rules the old-timers are used to is evil (_cough_ KiCAD)

creatur https://m.youtube.com/shorts/9OPZAW347sw