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2026-08-31 18:50:57 GMT

If your kids don't understand that their "private" communications are _not private_ if they don't hold the _private keys_, have them read this:
https://www.gadgetreview.com/student-teacher-sent-a-private-snapchat-complaining-about-her-workday-an-hour-later-police-pulled-up-to-her-school
#technology #privacy #snapchat

2026-08-27 16:06:48 GMT

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that's the whole joke... Any time someone says 6,7 you say 6,7 move your hands and laugh.
Its terrible and the kids have already moved on.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/67-meme-six-seven

2026-08-26 21:56:56 GMT

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I see nobody posted a 6-7 joke yet... :-)

2026-07-12 19:03:55 GMT

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https://engaugedigitizer.com/
I have used this when I needed to model diode curves from data sheets.

2026-06-30 17:27:52 GMT

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Until there is a built in discovery feature, can I suggest people creating collections post them under a hashtag? Maybe #collections?

2026-06-22 03:42:18 GMT

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timely. I was just discussing flock cameras with my brother at brunch.
The thought was a website called maybe save our surveillance that would offer a monitary reward for the first person to report that a camera (flock, right turn on red, speed, etc.) is not operational. It would accept donations that would be used to fund the encouragement of reports.
It could also have smaller reward payouts for reports that cameras are put back in service.
It might have affiliate links...

2026-06-01 14:41:54 GMT

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Have you ever watched an actual Mechanical Engineer using 3D CAD? It's wild.
Years worth of muscle memory on their tools... I'm pretty sure it won't be this generation of ME who will be using Claude to drive 3d cad.
Hmm... I should ask a couple guys at work what they think about it.

2026-05-20 18:52:59 GMT

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Did you do the commenting while you drew, or as a second pass?
I use OBS with multi-cameras, multi-screens and a macro pad to switch between them, and a HUION tablet. But for remote electrical engineering design work. I use xfce/xubuntu with X11.
I don't see any value in moving to Wayland for my setup. Once I see the killer feature, maybe (doubtful). Or once it becomes painful to stay in X11.

2026-04-07 22:37:35 GMT

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Oh wait, you mean you want to modify that cable to have a regular USB A plug?
Then just cut then end off whatever USB A cable you have handy and hook up the four wires you need.
The picture doesn't show what the other five are labeled, so it's not clear what to do with those.

2026-04-07 22:30:18 GMT

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So just buy a type A socket, and wire up the four pins, or if you have a type A extension cable handy, cut it in two and wire up the four wires you have there.

2026-04-07 22:28:07 GMT

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Uh, USB 2 and 1 both have four conductors. USB 3 has nine.

2026-04-03 04:46:10 GMT

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A physicist I used to work for said quantum computing is very good right now for getting grant money to develop very nice ADC's and detector circuitry, which is useful for astronomy and particle physics.
He admitted when I pressed him that he agrees that the actual computing part is complete bunk and going nowhere.

2026-03-30 17:01:28 GMT

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Beautiful...
My immediate thought upon seeing this, before I even noticed the fairy... was M.C. Escher... both the lizard and the completely filled section of mice, and the black-and-white hatched style... and maybe even the framing with a pen and binder clip...
"Reptiles" "butterfly tessellation 1950" "Drawing Hands" etc.

2026-03-12 19:42:47 GMT

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I'll backpedal and say it is great if you own a home, have a parking spot where 240 VAC is available, and have a second car that is a gas car for long winter road trips that have a tight schedule.
So poor/renters/urban condo owners can't really do this. It's a luxury.

2026-03-12 19:39:24 GMT

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My wife bought a used 2022 Ford Mustang Mach-E. It cost less than my current RAV-4 and my previous honda accord.
We charge at night and never need to spend time thinking about running out of gas or trying to find a gas station. It's great.

2026-03-11 14:48:24 GMT

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It's a funny feeling to see this reply and realize I'm following both of you already.

2026-02-15 08:51:24 GMT

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Ah. I feel you. And I agree with your conclusion...
And yet: no!:
Read your post... and edit it, mentally, to replace the words: "ignores," and "wants to outsmart"... with words like... "generates," "produces text that does not match my prompts".
Words matter.
A LLM generator only simulates an answer to your "question." You add the perception that it is thinking.
It's a disservice that they phrase things this way, see:
https://mastodon.social/@poleguy/116029719554487947
#note1ct3…mml4

2026-02-07 14:03:35 GMT

Asking copilot to call itself slop-bot and not anthropomorphize itself. It "decides" to not comply.
#AI #GenAI #LLM
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2026-01-24 19:25:09 GMT

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it's all overkill. Most people just use an iphone and lose everything periodically. :-)

2026-01-24 18:03:38 GMT

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Oh, does restic run continuously? Borg just runs on a schedule.

2026-01-24 16:09:16 GMT

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Did you consider rsync vs syncthing in your case?
Since the data goes only one direction you could use either.
In my case I take advantage of being able to edit my files on either machine (well, three in my case).

2026-01-24 16:04:12 GMT

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I feel like I'm an alternate universe Spiderman. :-)
You went down one path, and I down another.
Our futures diverge.
There are subtle differences in risks, but I can't say I've thought deeply about it.

2026-01-24 05:26:22 GMT

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Interesting. I have my laptop synchronizing my data to my desktop using syncthing. And then I back-up my desktop using borg. Then I back that up to the cloud (backblaze b2).
That's the opposite order: you do backup,syncthing,cloud and I do syncthing, backup, cloud.

2026-01-07 17:40:56 GMT

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Your lighting, shadows and details on the cloth square in the lower left panel jumped out at me: beautiful!

2026-01-05 05:58:26 GMT

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You could probably put a couple minutes of HD H.265 video on a 20 min record side... But it would buffer for 19 minutes before it started playing.
So to answer the question better you really need to specify what latency is tolerable. I imagine nobody would be excited for a demo if the delay was more than a couple seconds.

2026-01-05 05:38:42 GMT

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The bandwidth you could encode digitally on a record is probably pretty big. With error coding and a high order digital modulation it could certainly do better than any analog scheme. I see no reason a magnetic stylus wouldn't work. You could have an arbitrarily high frame rate if you allow buffering. But then the video length would be a tradeoff.

2025-12-23 03:09:18 GMT

Sasha thinks the oven was turned on to warm him up while he enjoys the smell of baking bread. #CatsOfMastodon #caturday #pannetone
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2025-12-05 20:35:37 GMT

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I'm in a non-autonomous racing series https://powerracingseries.org (just noticed my kart is on the main page).
They require a kill switch on every vehicle, accessible and obvious by any track marshal, participant or bystander, per the rules.
It's pretty basic.

2025-12-04 01:18:22 GMT

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I'm 48. Mine is hooked up and still works fine. It's been in my family since it was new. My grandparents lived in this house. Same number. You could call me right now. Ha.
It's on VoIP now (finally) with an analog adapter. The bell ringer on the wall rings just fine.
@npub1sgc…xyny
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2025-06-30 14:35:11 GMT

I just met on a one way street in #Chicago with an #activist who gave me these #posters and #stickers out of the back of his car.
He's spending $10s of thousands on making prints for protests. But he needs #artists and #graphicdesign folks. His high-end professional contacts are #scared to provide designs because of their ties to big tech, etc. 80% ghosted him. Please boost and reply with #poster designs he can use.
"This machine kills fascists"
#antifa #antifascist #protest
#printmaking
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2025-06-16 01:59:32 GMT

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you can just ask chat gpt to write it for you one sentence at a time. It's like money laundering. After it goes through chat gpt it is no longer copywrited. :-)

2025-02-26 20:23:54 GMT

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At least he seems to be stating clearly what opinions will be allowed/forbidden. I guess that's better than pretending to be unbiased. :-)
I mean, I read "first things" which is very right leaning... but that's exactly what they claim to be.
But yeah, if you don't want to hear these viewpoints without any counter points then it's time to unsubscribe. (I don't read the Washington Post in the first place. )

2025-01-23 16:59:00 GMT

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Yes, more cats please!
Sasha napping before dinner.
What's cookin'?
#caturday #catserole #CatsOfMastodon #catsofpixelfed #CatsOfFediverse
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2025-01-05 05:04:10 GMT

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I've done a lot of selenium coding. It is always very fragile. And when it breaks you must become an expert to fix it. I'm sure I could fix it. I have no interest in touching it.
I don't know if the link to @npub12np…yc43 's getsteamgames is less fragile, but at least he's here to immediately fix it for you.
I suspect nothing is as fragile as selenium though.

2024-12-30 16:17:02 GMT

[@Anne_Delong](https://musician.social/@Anne_Delong ) it sure seems like @npub1cle…v8zl is an AI bot. At any rate they don't have any artist attribution on their images. I won't be reading your forwarding of this account. Just FYI.

2024-12-18 16:29:35 GMT

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A quick google shows an example...
It's a problem with not allowing packing of mismatched control sets into a single slice. It's a huge problem, and it's very difficult to come up with a design methodology that avoids this problem.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/674/764/025/864/077/original/cb1cf6c504f68798.png

2024-12-18 16:15:45 GMT

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this bit me when we got to the end of the modem design on the ULXD Receiver and things got full. I settled on scripting 20 builds at a time to get one to pass. It rarely failed all 20.
It's always at the 11th hour right before the product ships that these things start breaking.
On my current ADXR build we moved to spartan 7 but now the limiting factor has been "running out of control sets." It is annoying to run out of something that's not a counted item in the data sheet.

2024-12-07 04:51:38 GMT

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Yup. Yeah, well, I guess if 'we' the people equates to 'we' the 50% majority of voters or something... maybe 'we' did vote for the end of ITAR. :-)

2024-12-06 22:38:52 GMT

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Isn't that why we voted for Trump? If ITAR is not what he meant by reducing government regulation I don't know what is!

2024-12-05 13:21:23 GMT

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If you are a complete beginner there will be a very steep learning curve. #LTSpice is very powerful, but is not easy to learn without an explicit tutorial due to the UI controls being very custom and very hard to 'discover.'
I've not used falstad simulator much, but even if it is easier to draw the circuits, your learning curve will depend heavily on where you are with electronics and #electronics theory.

2024-12-05 12:46:23 GMT

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I tried this lately and really liked it. https://www.falstad.com/circuit/
The traditional #EE solution is https://www.analog.com/en/resources/design-tools-and-calculators/ltspice-simulator.html
XVII version works under wine just fine.

2024-10-22 12:22:20 GMT

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core#/media/File:The_demon_core.jpg

2024-10-10 01:12:51 GMT

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I would be interested. I'm doing verilog with cocotb and cvc; gtkwave to view outputs. I also use modelsim and aldec and ghdl on other parts of this design. Today I was doing a fix for an async fifo problem found in hardware, and confirmation that the old design would fail in sim. It's for an rf ADC feeding a modem design.
I'm unfamiliar with time travel. Will we need roads there? :-)

2024-09-06 23:44:46 GMT

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Literally last night:
Her: I don't understand why don't they just tell me the steps? What's it called...?
Me: an algorithm?
Her: Yes... that's it.
Me: <loss of words>

2024-09-06 23:37:27 GMT

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My daughter just started high-school. Apparently her math teacher is not good at teaching. I'm pretty sure these variable names are documented clearly and the names match the datasheet and have detailed explanations. A Xilinx chip, right?
In my kid's class they introduce new concepts, terminology, syntax, and variables on the fly without any formal definitions in the homework almost every other night. Formal mathematicians may be better than highschool math teachers?

2024-05-21 02:42:14 GMT

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I love that anything bad is always found on "the dark web". Yet I doubt anybody buying from this tor site got there by looking for "the dark web" to find it. They just clicked on links and followed the instructions just like doing anything on the bright web.