TIL about gungraun??? https://gungraun.github.io/gungraun/latest/html/index.html

Sticker collection for 39C3 is complete. 500 of each iso8601ultras, "We do not test on animals, we test in production" and a large stack "Nett hier. Aber waren Sie schon mal in Ankh-Morpork?" Will be distributed in trading boxes/stacks/heaps #39c3 #stickers […] [Original post on chaos.social]

[shitpost] New PCB anti-counterfeiting protection just dropped: Make all your planar inductors shaped like $iconic_media_character and have nintendo's lawyers solve your problems for you! #electronics

Does anyone need a squiggly coil?

For the last month, the IT department of the ~5k staff strong university I'm working at until the end of the year has somehow managed to break the authentication service backing their email infrastructure at least once every two weeks. Kind of annoying considering how much of this place runs on […]

My spiral geometry code in kicoil is getting pretty solid, I think I'll finish up a release this weekend. #electronics

kicoil is learning to layout trapezoidal and other non-circular coils #electronics

kicoil is learning to layout trapezoidal and other non-circular coils #electronics

[frustration,free software] It's mind-boggling to me how hard gnome falls on its face when you have more than one monitor connected. This is absolute UX hell.

I've got a new #KiCad plugin out in the KiCad plugin manager: KiCoil generates "twisted" planar inductors. You can make it do one- or two-layer spiral inductors, toroid inductors, and many intermediate, hybrid variants in between spiral and toroid inductors […] [Original post on chaos.social]

Fun with USB starter pack #electronics

I've got a new #KiCad plugin out in the KiCad plugin manager: KiCoil generates "twisted" planar inductors. You can make it do one- or two-layer spiral inductors, toroid inductors, and many intermediate, hybrid variants in between spiral and toroid inductors […] [Original post on chaos.social]

Lugano train station has a coffee bar with a model railway stapled to the ceiling! #Lugano #Switzerland #Coffee #Cappuchino #GoodMorning #Train #Trains #ModelRailway #Travel #breakfast

I made a quiche 🥧

I made a quiche 🥧

I found one of those rare instances where LLM tools actually perform better than conventional search engines on factual accuracy. I was wondering if anyone ever actually measured the magnetic permeability of FR-4. If you type that into a search engine, you get a ton of results where humans […]

fedi #fpga crowd: What’s your opinion on Xilinx Spartan Ultrascale+ versus either Artix 7 or Lattice ECP5 regarding PCB implementation complexity and usability of their logic resources?

For a while now, I have noticed that when more than one monitor is connected to my system, after resuming from suspend somewhere inside gnome, the state of the monitor layout seems to desync. The symptom this causes is some applications, most frequently electron applications, stopping to receive […]

I’m looking for a #39c3 ticket. I wasn’t lucky in this year’s presale. If any of you have one to spare, please dm me.

lol, I just read about that catastrophic RCE in react/next.js, and it turns out they basically reinvented Java's object serialization two decades after people figured out *that* wasn't a great idea. For extra convenience, where to exploit Java serialization you need some vulnerable dependency […]

i'm glad that no matter what the current state of the world is We get to witness the japanese gboard team's descent into insanity

This must be one of the the most unhinged workplaces in science, ever. In 1966, Fowler asked how air moves through a centrifugal compressor. To answer this question, he put a guy holding a camera on a spinning chair in the middle of a huge turbine wheel spinning […] [Original post on chaos.social]

https://dr-cos.info/ is a free sewing pattern website with multiple categories like: doggy clothes, hats, cosplay, and others. There are multiple sizing guides, and each pattern has a difficulty meter. #fiberarts #sewing #fashion #crafts

continually astonished that every package delivery service on earth seems unaware that the #1 reason people are visiting their website is to use the track-and-trace and not to read their mission statement

I made myself a very simple rope bag for #climbing I kind of yolo’ed the design using scraps and leftovers. It’s made from only two, rectangular pieces of fabric. A lightweight ripstop nylon makes an inner bag, and a heavy backpack fabric wraps around to […] [Original post on chaos.social]

long shot, but: do i know anyone who has experience with the lowest power modes on rp2350, either with powman or sleep-dormant APIs, and has working code to restore USB stdio after wakeup?

this is genuinely the most brain damaged thing i've ever read * company sues boeing for Reasons?? * company launches satellite * company fucks up satellite launch, sat in wrong orbit * cannot move satellite without licensing boeing's magic patented math * boeing refuses to license […]

"Those in power recognized that oppression is best maintained by keeping the masses illiterate, and those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation. To my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked […]

TIL that ST's "MX" brand that they use with their STM32 microcontroller series stands for "MicroXplorer"

"Qualcomm-owned #Arduino quietly pushed a sweeping rewrite of its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and the changes mark a clear break from the open-hardware ethos that built the platform." (source: Adafruit […] [Original post on waag.social]

Wenn Meta jetzt nicht 4% ihres Umsatzes als Strafe zahlen muss, will ich bitte nie wieder irgendwas zu #dsgvo hören. https://www.heise.de/news/3-5-Milliarden-Konten-Komplettes-Whatsapp-Verzeichnis-abgerufen-und-ausgewertet-11082660.html?seite=all

I guess it’s good that we’re still up so people can complain about all the other stuff being down?

owo

Fallout 4, launched via Steam, on RK3588 MNT Reform open hardware laptop with external AMD GPU (RX 580)

Huh, I just found out that Gowin now has a series of FPGAs that claim 2 Gbps LVDS I/O and 12.5 Gbps transceivers. Doesn't seem like anyone stocks their devboards yet though, and their pricing on mouser looks not too dissimilar from xilinx. I wonder if they still support these parts with their […]

Wow, this campaign website against Google's plan to kick out XSLT is a thing of beauty. https://xslt.rip/

What is it that an LLM does? It’s for sure not “thinking”, as participants of the hype are trying to portray it as. I feel like “cyber-fermentation“ might be a more appropriate term.

Scientists have discovered that it is possible to just do something, without making a podcast about it

I’m looking for a Job! I’m currently finishing up my PhD in EE/computer hardware security at TU Darmstadt and I’m looking for work starting January 2026. I’m currently researching tamper-proof hardware, and I have decent skills at pretty much all stack layers from transistors to CSS. I’m […]