"we can't allow the unethical orphan crushing machines to win ... so we need to work with the orphan crushers on ethical, responsible orphan crushing machines, or we'll be left behind"
- what "AI" discourse in the FOSS space sometimes sounds like nowadays
Dear restaurant owners:
We ALL hate the QR code menu.
Stop.
-everyone
seriously, fuck planned obsolecence.
Very fond of the GDR-made hardened glassware that does not break.
- rsyslog: Slop
- tmux: Slop
- esp-idf: Slop
- vim: Slop
I could go on here, but I really hate how techfascits push the slop, and many projects are glady jumping on.
Definitely will celebrate when the bubble bursts, I am so tired of it.
This rant was brought to you by finding a embedded ASM snippet that turned out to be slop.
Still not sure what I want to set up to track my parts; I need DigiKey import and barcode printing support.
MiniDebConf Hamburg 2026 starts in seven days. Full schedule is available here: https://hamburg2026.mini.debconf.org/schedule/ #debian #MiniDebConf #MiniDebConfHamburg2026 #04
https://regviz.com
It allows you to visualize registers for various micocontrollers and set single bits by clicking on them. A *lot* of microcontrollers are in there.
Invaluable resource for low-level embedded development.
#embedded #electronics
Features a full build log and a demo of actually using the machine on myself :3
The program pgpg just entered #debian , it has nothing to do with either pgp or gpg.
This will not be confusing at all.
The bright #LLM future, next part.
git.gentoo.org is now effectively dead, being DDoS-ed by almost a million different IPs every day. Most of them are just performing a single request at a totally random URL. How are people supposed to deal with that? How can we distinguish a legitimate user who hit some URL from a scraper that distributes its operations over thousands of IP addresses?
If you use LLM crap, you're part of the problem. You support these bastards. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Don't worry, Sam, SpaceX won't ACTUALLY launch 7,000 satellites! (There are currently 10,296 Starlink sats in orbit)
Don't worry, SpaceX said they'd get their satellites fainter than magnitude 7! (They have not https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link_gateway/2025MNRAS.544L..15M/PUB_PDF)
Don't worry, they won't actually start Kessler Syndrome! https://outerspaceinstitute.ca/crashclock/
Don't worry, they won't actually launch a million AI data centres into orbit!! https://theconversation.com/a-new-space-race-could-turn-our-atmosphere-into-a-crematorium-for-satellites-276366
This is the fucking worst I-told-you-so https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Wenn heute ein SUPER-GAU stattfindet:
☢️ Reiche betont, Benzin & Gas sind NICHT belastet!
☢️ Markus isst vor Kameras Wildschwein-Wurst & zeigt Entwürfe seines "Mini-AKWs".
☢️ Merz betont, es gäbe KEINEN GRUND, morgen nicht zur Arbeit zu erscheinen!
☢️ Schwurbler erscheinen in Schafkostümen auf dem örtlichen Marktplatz, faseln von "Verschwörung" & lecken den aufkommenden Regen vom Bürgersteig.
☢️ Jens Spahn bestellt Schutzanzüge bei Temu, weil sein Schwippschwager da gerade einen Prozentcode hat.