@projectgus.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
Big ol' nerd. Interested in electronics, reverse engineering, open source, repairing things, cooperatives, bikes.
Variously part-time as: MicroPython maintainer […]
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@stib.aus.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @projectgus.aus.social.ap.brid.gy@projectgus.aus.social.ap.brid.gy@Unixbigot Forget defence in depth, we've got defence through trigonometry!
@projectgus.aus.social.ap.brid.gy@josh Who can say what the future holds?
@projectgus.aus.social.ap.brid.gyIf any of you sickos want to join the Triangle Wave, these are for sale used on Taobao for AU$77. Please report back if you actually get one.
@projectgus.aus.social.ap.brid.gyOh, me? Not much, just getting pumped about Triangle Computing. It's almost ready to break through into the mainstream.
@projectgus.aus.social.ap.brid.gy@scroeser Oof, yeah
@bnewbold.netReposted by @projectgus.aus.social.ap.brid.gyah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton.
she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back.
@riverseeber.netReposted by @projectgus.aus.social.ap.brid.gyYou guys remember when Netflix was like $9/month, and it got you unlimited ad-free streaming of basically everything. And then 20 years later there's 12 different streaming services that all cost $20/month so you can watch 3 back-to-back ads at the beginning of every episode? And you guys […]
@projectgus.aus.social.ap.brid.gy[Australian EV charging networks]
Ampol, the petrol station company with the worst EV charging app in Australia, has acquired Evie, the EV charging network company with one of the best apps and user experiences.
Yay?
(PDF link)
https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/ALD/03142904.pdf
@projectgus.aus.social.ap.brid.gyRE: https://mastodon.social/@jakecoppinger/117352343708804277
Wow! Even when I worked at Espressif I didn't know this was possible.[*] Some really interesting applications are likely to come out of this...
[*] Not suggesting it was an internal secret, I didn't work directly with Wi-Fi […]
@projectgus.aus.social.ap.brid.gyRE: https://mastodon.social/@Roelmaalderink/117319021973126519
"It's just like asbestos. Asbestos doesn't hurt people, people sawing into asbestos hurt people."
😅
@projectgus.aus.social.ap.brid.gy@skinnylatte When I was on student exchange in Yogyakarta a million years ago there was another guy in my cohort who used to correct native speakers based on things he'd found in the dictionary...
It was wild. He had a Javanese girlfriend as well, I have no idea how she put up with him.
@projectgus.aus.social.ap.brid.gyRE: https://chaos.social/@cnlohr/117312800755888388
It's hard to remain hopeful about the future, but some day we may run OpenWRT on a Minions router
@colin-mcmillen.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gyReposted by @projectgus.aus.social.ap.brid.gy[LLMs, feeling down] Yesterday someone "optimized" Karateka. They fed their LLM a floppy image and got back a game that runs faster. Mechner took months or years to build it. That person doesn't know how it's faster in detail. "It added lookup tables in the language card". All of that kind of […]
@projectgus.aus.social.ap.brid.gy@dcz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_switch
Not sure about adjusting it, sorry!
@projectgus.aus.social.ap.brid.gy[Economics, "lying flat", times we live in] "What does a rational agent do in the Ponzi stage? She does not work harder at the losing strategy. That would be irrational. [...] She buys lottery tickets, metaphorical and literal. She speculates on crypto. She gambles on football. She starts an […]
@projectgus.aus.social.ap.brid.gySurprised to also learn that there are STM32 clones (Artery AT32F415 here) where compatible peripheral interfaces from different STM32 chips are bundled together inconsistently! So it's kind of a mix and match. 🤯 AT32F415 less than 20% of the cost of a similar specced ST part, so not surprising […]
@projectgus.aus.social.ap.brid.gyDetailed write-up of reverse engineering and rewriting the firmware for an e-scooter display using Rust: https://bensimms.moe/reverse-engineering-scooter/
Good overview of how to structure actor-model style async firmware, plus a discussion of the trade-offs when you need to render a UI but not […]
@projectgus.aus.social.ap.brid.gy[Home appliance repair, hubris, long post] If I want to really shave this yak then I can try to repair the busted motor. It's actually just the cheap and nasty shaft bushings that have failed, the fan motor is a shaded pole motor so the stall current isn't much higher than the run current and […]
@projectgus.aus.social.ap.brid.gy[Home appliance repair, hubris, long post] And it looks like I bought the last one from the Taobao vendor, it's now showing as out of stock... The other parts are here. So now seems that I've paid the price of a cheap new oven for a broken oven... 3/
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