Question to all the #ee or #electronics experts here: I have two TI chips here. the one in the background is from 1985 and has shiny legs. The one in the foreground I bought in the last 5 years new from Mouser. It came with those tarnished legs already from the factory. Why are the legs so tarnished? What coating does TI use that makes it so black looking. I understand that back in the 70s supposedly TI used a silver coating that turned black over the decades, but this is something different...?
Iconic computer scientist, mathematician & U.S. Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper worked on the first all-electronic digital computer, created the first implemented compiler (coining the term), and developed COBOL demonstrating that a programming language could use English words. 🪰 #womenshistorymonth
Chelsea E. Manning is a network security expert, whistleblower, and former U.S. Army intelligence analyst whose disclosure of classified Iraq war documents exposed human rights abuses and corruption the government kept hidden from the public. #womenshistorymonth
Meredith Whittaker brings e2e encrypted messaging to the masses as head of the Signal Foundation. A leader in digital rights, she was the woman behind AI Now at NYU, M-Lab, and Google Open Research (where she was an organizer of the infamous Google walkouts). #womenshistorymonth
Kazakhstani computer programmer Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan founded Sci-Hub to provide free and unrestricted access to all scientific knowledge under the principle that access to information and knowledge is a human right. #womenshistorymonth
unfug, misinfo, ddr
Das HC-BASIC des DDR-Kleincomputer KC 85 grüßte nach dem Start nicht mit "OK READY" sondern mit "IMMER BEREIT".
Voltage is pushed, current is pulled? More like: voltage is bargained, current is bargained. The source makes a proposal, the load accepts a part of it and rejects the rest, both sides agree after several rounds of negotiation.
Holy shit.
Just wow, wow, holy shit:
Completely rewriting a multi-million line COBOL codebase that has life-or-death consequences for real people in the space of a few months, using gen AI?
I’ve been writing software for 40-some years, and I have to say: this may be, without exaggeration, the stupidest software-related idea I’ve ever heard from leadership.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/
New Signal update just dropped
Maybe France this time?
Also, I saw you can go to India by train via Iran and Turkey. So many possibilities...
🇨🇩Free Congo open strategy/organizing meeting🇨🇩
Thursday, 27.03 4pm at OPlatz, Berlin
We want to come together to talk about concrete next steps to organize for a Free Congo.
Possibility to join online, but preferably at camp.
Online link:
https://meet.jit.si/OplatzFreeCongo
Wir suchen #DBA. #teilzeit / #Vollzeit (nach Absprache).
Ort: Voll #Remote - wir haben kein Büro mehr - aber aus vertraglichen und rechtlichen Gründen muss der Arbeitsort innerhalb von .de liegen.
Selten (derzeit einmal im Jahr) eine Fahrt in die Gegend um Frankfurt/Main einzuplanen, Firmenevent.
Gutes Wissen mit/über/in #Oracle #Datenbank nötig. Je mehr dann auch noch von #PostgreSQL und ggf. #patroni bekannt ist, desto besser. Umgebung auf #linux.
#Festanstellung ist das Ziel, #Freischaffend ist weniger gern gesehen (ja, ich weiß, da gibt es auch viele gute).
Bei Interesse: DM an mich.
#fedihire #fedijob #oracle #postgresql
Boosts welcome.
Debian bookworm live images now fully reproducible
EFF veröffentlicht Rayhunter: Open-Source-Tool zur Erkennung von IMSI-Catchern. Rayhunter spürt Cell-Site-Simulatoren (CSS) auf, die Handys täuschen und überwachen. Es läuft auf günstiger Hardware und warnt bei verdächtigen Aktivitäten. 👇
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying