TIL Altium really doesn’t like Sophos endpoint protection

Heute sind auf der Strecke von Frankfurt nach Darmstadt über einen Zeitraum von mehr als vier Stunden mal einfach alle Züge ausgefallen. Keine Ahnung wie man in diesem Land mit dem ÖPNV den Alltag bewältigen soll 🙃

2026 ist übrigens ein gutes Jahr noch mal das mit der Gewerkschaft zu bedenken (und den Mitgliedantrag zu suchen, auszufüllen und abzuschicken)

I was so confused why a u-blox GPS receiver module needed a Display Data Channel (DDC) controller, since it very much does not have any display outputs and DDC is what HDMI, DisplayPort etc. use to determine screen resolution. In the end I figured out that their […] [Original post on chaos.social]

Je länger ich in der Familienhilfe arbeite, desto mehr bin ich überzeugt, dass die wirksamste politische Maßnahme die Förderung niederigschwelliger Begegnungsangebote wäre. Ein Frühstückstreff, eine Sozialarbeiterin auf dem Basketballfeld, ein Opa, der die Töpferei aufschließt, eine […]

This January’s award for the eval board with the witcher’s vibes goes out to the HMC7044 eval board. The chip is a 3GHz integer PLL with 14 phase-adjustable outputs. #electronics

so it turns out that when VS Code asks you “do you trust the authors of this folder?” what they mean is that it’ll auto-execute .vscode/tasks.json if it exists, which can include shell commands. maybe that’s too many features. you can’t hold all these features. put a few features back

my phone got annoying and pushed me to update to iOS 26. I’ve been using it for about an hour so far, and it’s so bad. It’s ugly, distracting and clunky. I think when your software makes your users turn off several engineer-years worth of features in your accessibility settings within an hour of […]

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 […]

Is there some place that offers @forgejo as a paid, hosted service?

wrote something about weirdness in the vibe-translations by AI coding agents of the Rust html5ever HTML parser https://felix.dognebula.com/art/html-parsers-in-portland.html

Over the last few days, I've seen several people say things to the effect of "at #39c3 person XY should have held their talk in German and relied on @c3lingo because their English is too bad". Tbh, I find this attitude fairly repulsive. It has this weird, elitist vibe to it. "Look at me, an […]

Sometimes you don't want to talk to your friends. Sometimes you just want to be with them. Like, hang out and watch things together, parallel play, sometimes not even that! Sometimes you just want to know what they're up to. Sometimes not even that, you just want to know that they're... y'know […]

I’m convinced: time to resurrect blog.darkuncle.net, set up Ghost on my own server, and start self-hosting things from my house again. This is my only personal tech goal for 2026 thus far. https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-blogging-in-the-ruins/

I repaired my wife’s monitor today. The repair consisted of taking it apart, then staring menacingly at its guts using my thermal camera until it suddenly started working again 🫠

@pluralistic the slides of your 39c3 were awesome! will they be posted anywhere?

PSA today is sunday and most stores are closed #39c3

I have two entry reservations for today at 14:30 at Vabali hamburg that I don’t need, does anybody want them? (they only allow you to enter at the time without waiting, they aren’t gift vouchers you still have to pay the full price yourself) #39c3

Did anyone at #39c3 bring a clothes iron? I’m looking to use one for a few minutes to apply some iron-on labels

on my way to Hamburg! #39c3

Just found december's #chipofthemonth, which is a 80x120 px 40 k(!) fps high-speed camera sensor with digital readout that sells at ~5 € a piece on digikey. Apparently by cutting down the exposure window, this thing can go up to 260 kfps. I wonder what you could […] [Original post on chaos.social]

I’m all here for this current trend with chinese-designed gadgets of clear plastic enclosures. This particular example I was able to pick up at a regular electronics retailer over here, and it’s sooo pretty 🤩 Black FR-4 with ENIG under clear solder mask fucking slaps!

Lately I have noticed that when you purchase a ticket you don’t get a static PDF/PNG anymore. Increasingly often, you get a .pkpass file, which is supposed to be opened in wallet apps (like Google Wallet or any 3rd-party). Since I don’t like to share information about the events I attend with […]

this question is coming up a lot so i'll pin it - replacement for github: https://codeberg.org - replacement for github pages: https://grebedoc.dev - easy ci runners for codeberg: https://github.com/whitequark/nixos-forgejo-actions-runner

Anyone got experience renewing the conductive layer on rubber pads / buttons? I want to get the drum pads working again on my old Yamaha PSS 780 keyboard. I see various conducive paint products online but a recommendation would be great. Thanks! #electronics

"blahaj fin" seems to be a pretty good test case for the geometry kernel in the planar inductor layout code in #kicoil

ich frage mich was er überhaupt erfunden hat bestimmt einen hammer-schraubendreher das wäre praktisch https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/wdr/patent-staatsgeheimnis-nukleare-abschreckung-nato-100.html

I thought I was being lazy when I decided to target wasm instead of building my cross-compiling for half a dozen platforms but it took me like two days to get this to work.

#kicoil has learned some new tricks over the weekend. We now have stable-ish support for arbitrary shapes from SVG files using CGAL across platforms thanks to wasmtime. It also learned to export geometry in JSON, GDSII, and OASIS file formats. Kicoil now has […] [Original post on chaos.social]

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.