"A voter will look and say: The Republican party are assholes to other people. I don't like that. But the Democratic Party is an asshole to me." - Sarah McBride (Trans Representative from Delaware) youtu.be/KlbNFsAGFRc?...

It is so very rare my viewpoint for features lines up with anyone else's. I always feel like the odd man out. But also good to see that even when it does line up to others, the requests won't go anywhere either. At least I'm consistently not allowed to have nice things. github.com/actions/uplo...

The degree of technology VRChat users continuously come up with is ridiculous in the best ways.

Am I the crazy one? The inability to make AI go away causes me so much rage. Is it me who has become out of touch?

This truly is the worst timeline. We have git submodules in this timeline, but git clone does not by default clone submodules.

The import "brokerage charge" on my last item (not tariff or anything, just the fee UPS charges for charging tariffs) was $41. Oof. I mean the process was flawless, but I guess they figured out if you are trying to extract money from people, make it easy.

"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious." - Carl Jung

Do you remember when we had checks and balances within the US federal government? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.

TIL you can just yolo your own RISC-V instructions.

I can't wait to get started writing this firmware. #ch32fun #risc_v

I love datasheets for Chinese parts.

I never find things the last place I look. I keep looking after finding what I'm looking for, cause I find the best things that way.

youtube.com/watch?v=86nh... I cannot believe how quickly @YouTube is jumping on to ensloppify the platform.

If there was one "trick" I wish someone explained in more detail earlier in my career, it was to encourage me to use LUTs to solve problems, and look for areas of their application. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnqq...

I am genuinely confused how despite virtually no documented support from the public, so many of these "protecting children" laws are moving ahead, in spite of being blatantly design to remove free speech. I can't even figure out how to fight it.

I love it when @jlcpcb.bsky.social CB gives you X-Ray reports for your projects.

Are there any charities you are aware of that advocate for free, open, anonymous internet? I.e. groups that fight age and identification verification laws? I am interested in contributing to fight the good fight some way. (The EFF is wayyy too wimpy see the Clearview cop out)

Does anyone here know how to contact anyone from the Onslaught team? Algorithm, Ukimenustah or Krill? I have some questions for them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsDy...

TBF, Clippy wasn't that bad. If only we knew where the future of tech would lead.

(From a friend's 2022 memes folder)

I don't understand what people are talking about, re: Texas? Asking as a previous Marylander, isn't this how it's supposed to be?

Services are not tools. They are slavery.

Legitimate question: Does anyone other than package maintainers like snap instead of apt? It has been nothing but a nuisance for me, that some packages are only available in snap, and they are just janky. I don't want containers. I just want to install apps, to my system.

He's not wrong.

If we can't keep the epstein files memes going above the cheating ceo memes, what are we even doing?

Let's gooo 🚀🚀🚀

Other countries: Military capabilities secret. China: Can't pump up those patent numbers if you keep secrets! patents.google.com/patent/CN111...

Plasma 6.4 Wayland vs X11, processor and power benchmarks. I don't understand how people are treating like Wayland has any technically rational leg to stand on anymore. It's a people problem, that's all it is. www.dedoimedo.com/computers/pl...

"Ever since there have been cars, they have been preyed upon by their natural predator, trains" - Tor Parsons

I feel like this whole Epstein thing is a test to see if we, the people, deserve to have a democracy or not.

It's amazing how tightly VPX coding is able to hit the optimal entropy compression ratio -- which happens to be the exact same graph as the chance of surprisal from coin flips. If you're curious github.com/cnlohr/vpxco...

So glad this finally landed in ch32fun. 100% open, plain and vanilla. Thanks for all the effort, Montemonte.

If you want to let people be and live their lives, you are not alone. If you prefer privacy, you are not alone. If you do not want the government to control your transactions, you are not alone. If you want to preserve your right to assemble and protest, you are not alone.

I do not understand how you can consent to facial recognition for things like the TSA line in the airport, if you think you might want to protest something ever.

Anyone know what the current deal is with the X11 stuff? For one of my systems, I still need to do X forwarding and need things like Xnest, which it seems like Wayland has no interest in supporting. (Also it seems like Wayland is much slower than X for things like Kicad)

There is an alternate tech tree to my life I sometimes wish I had gone down... These were 12 years ago.

Very cool design pattern I saw at TEARDOWN last weekend. Superloops / superduperloops are a great alternative to RTOSes, at a microscopic portion of the costs. www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/...

An amazing talk that really taught me some deeper and more true principles in computing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHIk... "There are no zero cost abstractions."

First time using timer-triggered chained DMAs, where one DMA channel writes into the descriptors of another DMA channel to change what the other DMA is doing. This is just a 8x9 matrix array in a 6x12 configuration on a ch32v003, with #ch32fun github.com/cnlohr/cnhar...

The pace of technology is wild. Many GPS units still use framed serial communications, which were first used in the 1870's for teletypes with Baudot Codes.

I'm feelin' lucky

I will be giving a talk at Teardown 2025 on June 21, on the power of bringing up microcontrollers from nothing and the story behind ch32fun crowdsupply.com/teardown/por...

New capacitor de-rating chart project dropped.

Was anything of value gained by routing the board this way, you ask? Well, I have a question for you, do you still think about that time in kindergarten when the children laughed at you for liking the smell of the bottom of your shoes?