Skip to main content

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
Wrote a small utility to convert targeted APRS traffic to Nagios passive check events to monitor a remote site's power supply status.
A nagios screenshot depicting the power status report of a repeater. Said repeater sends its situation reports through APRS.

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
Got my hands on something quite special. Those who know know.
Plextor PX-B920SA Blu-ray/ HD-DVD drive.

F4GRX Sébastien reshared this.

in reply to isithran

Axel Hartmann
mastodon - Link to source
Axel Hartmann
• •
- can it do some special game console formats that are otherwise impossibru?

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
Weaponizing DRM APIs against AI scraping wasn't a move I'd anticipated, but its elegance is so underrated.
signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-…

f4ivy reshared this.

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
🌸

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
Currently writing a middleware that interfaces a D-Star Radio with packet applications.
On this video: Winlink e-mail transfer over DV Fast Data.
youtube.com/watch?v=rKkFJ9TmqQ…

Winlink over DV Fast Data

YouTube

F4ACU Matthieu reshared this.

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
Rewrote my DExtra / D-Star dissector, I'm able to read DV Slow data packets, DV Fast Data should come quickly once I'm laying my paws on a pcap trace to validate a few assumptions. Payload reassembly, superframe-wise, is being written.

f4ivy reshared this.

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

1 bug report and 1 feature request submitted to Wireshark devs, so that AX.25 dissection gets better 🐱

gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark…
gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark…

loic_fejoz reshared this.

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
FBB Dissector for Wireshark: here you go, code qualification has not been completed, I need to continue bug hunting (some additional traces needed).
github.com/dscp46/dissectors
FBB dissector showing the analysis of a SID exchange between a Winlink Client and a Post Office Server.
Same dissector showing the analysis of a B2F e-mail over a LZHUF payload

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
TCP reassembly is now correctly handled, time to write the LZHUF extraction routine (don't wanna T_T)

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
Finally took another take to implementing the FBB protocol dissector. The command interpreter is almost finished.
The last obstacle is to implement LZHUF decompression in LUA to decode payloads.
isithran reshared this.

glitchsoc - Link to source

De moins en moins d'écrans CRT fonctionnent et c'est normal, les composants s'usent notamment les condensateurs. Beaucoup d'écrans ont été jetés et ça devient de plus en plus rare d'en trouver alors si possible ne les jetez pas, vendez-les ou donnez-les pour pièces. :blob_cat_heart:

(ceci était un message du Comité de Restauration des Tubes)

reshared this

isithran reshared this.

mastodon - Link to source

A good opportunity to remind you to check your:

backups
balls
breasts

Unless you are on a train, in which case, do it later.

reshared this

isithran reshared this.

mastodon - Link to source
The current situation...
Minecraft message saying: You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby You may not rest now, there are monsters nearby ...

reshared this

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
"Firing the Lorentz Plasma Cannon"
archive.org/details/firing-the…
isithran reshared this.

hometown - Link to source

12-bit rainbow palette by @kate : iamkate.com/data/12-bit-rainbo…

#color #design #freeContent

Twelve bands of colour ranging from red to purple with smooth changes in perceived brightness

The 12-bit rainbow palette

A palette of twelve colours chosen with consideration for how we perceive luminance, chroma, and hue
iamkate.com
#design #color #freecontent @Kate Morley

reshared this

isithran reshared this.

mastodon - Link to source
Add passkeys to the list of things that didn't advance as much in 2024 as we thought they might. That's because some companies are still making the process complicated. pcmag.com/news/the-passkey-fut…

reshared this

isithran reshared this.

mastodon - Link to source
A blockchain. That's all, that's the post.
Several concrete blocks, each connected with a thick chain, forming a kind of barrier. The chains sag slightly, and if you try to climb on them, you'll definitely fall flat on your face.

reshared this

isithran reshared this.

glitchsoc - Link to source
purrfection 👌
Lenovo thinkpad laptop with a modifier bios logo saying lenowo thinkpaws
This entry was edited (5 months ago)

isithran reshared this.

isithran reshared this.

mastodon - Link to source
These cancer cells have destroyed so many retro computers. It's extremely sad. And if you have an old computer around from the 386 or 486 era, I suggest you check and remove that thing ASAP #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing
#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

reshared this

isithran reshared this.

sharkey - Link to source
Is an IRC channel about electronics a jRC channel? a jωRC channel?

reshared this

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
Funny JS hack (not yet in production, but soon to be): you can detect a slow internet link using readyStateChange events to offer a lighter web page :3
Screenshot of a demo page where network throttle settings are set to 56kbps. Transferred content size is 21.73kB.
Screenshot of the same demo page where no network restriction is applied. Transferred content size is 147.55kB.
isithran reshared this.

mastodon - Link to source

Tech is political.

You encode your values, your attitude and your bias into the code.

The tech you create can give you legitimacy. It can give you influence. Get rich enough (or start out rich enough) you get doors opened to you.

It's all power.

We can see what some people in tech do with that power.

We can however choose to not contribute to that enablement.

You're in FOSS you've made some sacrifices.

What's a little more?

reshared this

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
Happy new year to y'all 🎆

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
Jan 1 11:35:18 CET: %SOCL_MASK-4-HWPROGERR: Hardware mask module failure - spoons pool exhausted
isithran reshared this.

mastodon - Link to source
This article is very uncomfortable to read. wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-…
Even if you’re technologically savvy, you’re still dealing with these problems — fresh installs of Windows on new laptops, avoiding certain websites because you’ve learned what the dodgy ones look like, not interacting with random people in your DMs because you know what a spam bot looks like, and so on. It’s not that you’re immune. It’s that you’re instinctually ducking and weaving around an internet and digital ecosystem that continually tries to interrupt you, batting away pop-ups and silencing notifications knowing that they want something from you — and I need you to realize that most people are not like you and are actively victimized by the tech ecosystem.

Never Forgive Them

In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might pr…
Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)

reshared this

in reply to Jess👾

Juliet Merida, Dum Tran Elf 🏳️‍⚧️
sharkey - Link to source
Juliet Merida, Dum Tran Elf 🏳️‍⚧️
• •

By that time we were able to stop using the 1, but it was still "local long distance" for a few years after that, at least. I have no idea when the area started requiring 10 digit dialing because I had stopped using a land line by early 2007.

I can't talk about phone switching without sharing the "Speedy Cutover Service" video from the 80s.
youtube.com/watch?v=saRir95iIW…
@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange


Speedy Cutover Service, SXS switching cutover to ESS filmed live at Glendale CA central office, 1984

A brief but surprisingly exciting 1984 video showing the preparation and live, real-time cutover from Step By Step switching system (SXS) to a new electronic...
YouTube
@Jess👾

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
Yearly UPS battery deep test
7 years-old VRLA batteries
7% load
100->10% in 51 minutes
Nominal operation runtime is above 5 hours for that load, 8+ with shedding.


Time to order new batteries, lol.

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
🎉 Name change request accepted 🎉
isithran reshared this.

mastodon - Link to source

New make !

Laser engraved slate coasters with famous CPU markings...

Laser engraved slate coasters showing markings of a z80, a pentium, a 486 and a 68k with a glass on it.
Laser engraved slate coasters showing markings of a z80 and a 68k.
Laser engraved slate coasters showing markings of a 8085, a Z80 and a 6502

reshared this

in reply to vince

vince
mastodon - Link to source
vince
• •

@f4grx And here the 11 ones I made for me :)

(now waiting for blank ones to be delivered)
1/3

68hc11
Altera Cyclone V
AMD Ryzen
Ampere

68hc11
Cyclone V
Ryzen
Ampere
@f4grx Sebastien (OLD ACCOUNT)
in reply to vince

vince
mastodon - Link to source
vince
• •
@f4grx 2/3
Pentium
486
Z80
68000
Pentium
486
Z80
68k
@f4grx Sebastien (OLD ACCOUNT)
in reply to vince

vince
mastodon - Link to source
vince
• •

@f4grx 3/3 Lynx flavored ^^

Logo
Mickey
Suzy

Logo Atari Lynx
Mickey
Suzy
@f4grx Sebastien (OLD ACCOUNT)
in reply to vince

vince
mastodon - Link to source
vince
• •

@f4grx I will make some burning this week. I can "take orders" if some of you wants. Lets say I can book a total of 10 blank slate coasters for mastodon people.

I need a picture B&W (or vectorized) for ~9x9cm (the tile is 10x10cm but the hammered edges prevents nice result)

I propose 4€ each (without postage cost, to be added depending where you live).

First come, first served.

@f4grx Sebastien (OLD ACCOUNT)
in reply to vince

F4GRX Sébastien
mastodon - Link to source
F4GRX Sébastien
• •
faudrait envoyer un 74F00N a la personne concernée ^^
This entry was edited (6 months ago)

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
Name change request submitted today ✨🎀✨

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
isithran reshared this.

mastodon - Link to source

Coding is being positioned as place where generative AI is going to have a huge impact.

But a new study of 800 developers found GitHub Copilot did little to improve productivity, while introducing 41% more bugs into the code.

cio.com/article/3540579/devs-g…

#tech #ai #genai #coding


Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants

Code analysis firm sees no major benefits from AI dev tool when measuring key programming metrics, though others report incremental gains from coding copilots with emphasis on code review.
Grant Gross (CIO)
#tech #ai #coding #genai

reshared this

isithran reshared this.

mastodon - Link to source

Alan Turing didn't have our modern boolean circuit notations, so he described circuits by the minimum number of high input lines required to trigger an output. You can almost see it as a neural net rather than logical gates, except when the ≢ sign appears for XOR. The lines with zeroes written over the node outlines are inhibitors.

The semicircles are delays measured in bits, which (as this was a serial machine) can achieve all sorts of shifting and rotation operations. The rectangles are delay lines (mercury tanks designed by Tommy Flowers at the Post Office research centre in Dollis Hill), and the number inside indicates the number of bits cycling around (although in some pages it's the number of 32-bit words, confusingly). Smaller delay lines could buffer a word for combination in a future operation.

The image here is a page from The Logical Design of the Pilot Model ACE, by J.H. Wilkinson,Sept 1951. alanturing.net/turing_archive/… #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #Turing #PilotACE

Figure 18(a) "Small Accumulator" showing a diagram of data flow through numbered nodes, a box labelled "adder-subtractor unit. 2nd input zero unless D17 or D18 are used", and a rectangle indicating one of the 32-bit delay lines (mercury tanks). Below that is "Figure 18(b). Details of adder-subtractor unit" which is more elaborate, and has nodes that are numbered, semicircular nodes, and some with "not-identical" signs in them.

AlanTuring.net

www.alanturing.net
#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #turing #pilotace
This entry was edited (9 months ago)

reshared this

isithran reshared this.

mastodon - Link to source
So, TCP/IP at 1200 baud and 128 MTU is a thing I have now experienced. I'm downloading a 37K file at 70 bytes per second ...
This entry was edited (9 months ago)

reshared this

in reply to Gord

NCommander
mastodon - Link to source
NCommander
• •

@grs cause this was the speed it actually ran at back at the day.

(also, until very recently, there was legal limits on how fast I could transmit data over amateur radio in the US)

@Gord

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Hamnet news:

New 35 mile link and repeater brought up on the regional network thanks to involved parties.
I'm implementing dark mode on our dashboard so our users with browsers in their car can display the call log without being hindered by light in the night. A few nuts and bolts need to be adjusted with the map, but we're almost there.

isithran reshared this.

glitchsoc - Link to source

Working on a way to subdivide blog post content into a format that should comfortably translate into ActivityPub Notes.

Changing my content to run on an intermediary language last summer has allowed for so much flexibility in post-processing.

A screenshot with a sticker of Xe Iaso's shark character on the right and then some post-sized content sections, where there are headers, text, followed by an image or so. Additionally, there are some broken images in this preview. The subject of this article is about post quantum security, though the content itself isn't the focus of this image, rather how it is subdivided and formatted.

isithran reshared this.

in reply to Cendyne

Foxarc
glitchsoc - Link to source
Foxarc
• •
cryptographically agile software


This is a brand new sentence I have ever heard.

"but I'm kinda worried about cryptographically agile software"
in reply to Foxarc

Cendyne
glitchsoc - Link to source
Cendyne
• •

@Foxarc in the PQC discussion, it is about switching key agreement and key signing (a lower priority) away from weaker cryptographic technologies (which today are computationally-hard, but in a post quantum world are no longer considered computationally-hard) in less than 10-20 years.

If you can call a software transition over 10 years agile..

It is also about making things easier to switch, should the newer tech introduced suddenly have weaknesses that were previously unknown, such as SIDH.

While at a high level it sounds like "great, I can just swap parts" as better ones come, the truth is that these PQC technologies have different protocol level requirements, storage and communication sizes, as well as computational overhead far different than what we have today, and change is fundamentally difficult to have backwards compatibility for.

@Foxarc
isithran reshared this.

mastodon - Link to source
New rental car challenge just dropped:

isithran reshared this.

in reply to 1.3.6.1.4.1.61513

groxx
mastodon - Link to source
groxx
• •
... so what's the furthest you can drive only in disallowed areas?
isithran reshared this.

akkoma - Link to source
lewd, computer aided design software
Forget top or bottom, which Solidworks tool are you? - Hole Wizard - Advanced Hole - Thread - Stud Wizard

reshared this

isithran reshared this.

mastodon - Link to source
who called it DXVK and not IndirectX?

isithran reshared this.

in reply to Scarlet ❤️‍🔥

Claire
mastodon - Link to source
Claire
• •

See, they wanted to call the DirectX -> Vulkan layer "IndirectX" but found out the term was already used for something else!

Specifically, for Indirect X Rendering over the GLX/Xorg pipeline using the LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 Mesa flag to use the older indirect OpenGL renderer for remote X connections

"We have IndirectX at home" :p

This entry was edited (1 year ago)

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
Why bother going out to hunt storms down :3
youtu.be/1wYe-iQ8JHQ?si=PuRxM_…
isithran reshared this.

mastodon - Link to source

ME: Hello computer! Please show me what I was doing recently

COMPUTER IN THE 1980's: l cease to exist when I am powered off. Please start whatever you were doing from scratch

COMPUTER IN THE 2000's: Yep here you go champ

COMPUTER IN THE 2020's: I stored 10,000 identical copies of what you were doing in 500 different global datacentres at a carbon footprint equivalent to leaving a semi-trailer idling 24/7 and also sent a copy to the FBI just to be safe. Let me know which one you want and I'll do my best to figure it out. By the way here are 10 things which are similar to what you were doing and 9 of them are ads. Do you like this? Please select "I love this very much" or "I'll be in love with this later" to continue

reshared this

⇧