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Attached: 1 image Using Claude code to analyze PCB files and generate a board support package Hardware may be hard, but software is a slog, especially when it is time to create a board support package definition for new dev boards.adafruit (Fosstodon)
Silver dropped 30% and Gold dropped 10%
shiny rock chads are in for a huge disappointment
Today is a day of a national shutdown. Many working in tech are likely afraid of losing their jobs, a reasonable fear.
If you can’t take today off, consider alternative actions you might take to show solidarity for those in this country under persecution
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More than 450 tech workers from companies like Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and Salesforce have signed a letter urging their CEOs to call the White House and demand ICE leave our cities.Rebecca Bellan (TechCrunch)
If you can’t show solidarity, give it.
If you’re a tech worker with the means, help families who have been stuck in their homes for weeks unable to work or live their lives who need help with food or rent
www.standwithminnesota.com
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Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Yet another day of screaming at digital enshitiffication:
1. My coworkers and I are in a car driving to FOSDEM.
2. We pull up to charge the car.
3. Charging station REQUIRES you to use an app, no option to just pay with a card.
4. We try to install the stupid app. We carry phones running:
- GrapheneOS
- GrapheneOS
- GrapheneOS
- LineageOS, postmarketOS, iOS
5. Neither of our phones meet requirements to install the stupid app (Play Integrity API).
6. My iPhone can't install the app, because it's "Not available in your country".
7. We give up and drive to another charging station.
This is NOT how you introduce applications, "Circle K" 
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We're now using our own autonomous system and IP space for 3 of our networks. We run 2 entirely separate anycast DNS networks for our authoritative DNS and have a simpler unicast setup on a bare metal server at Xenyth which we'll be using for more soon.
GrapheneOS Foundation (AS40806) is a BGP network that is peering with 14 other networks and has 2 upstream carriersbgp.tools
Catherine O’Hara died today.
With her death, the character Kevin McCallister from the original two 'Home Alone' movies, played by Macaulay Culkin, is now an orphan.
Wait, is that even a thing?
Kevin's father, Peter, played by John Heard, died in 2017, at the age of 71, coincidentally, the same age as Catherine O’Hara.
R.I.P.
oh my god are you kidding me, i just took a fresh look at this
the problem started when I migrated the Registry from being just filesystem backed to being database backed so it can properly garbage collect and we don't have 500GB of crap that we can't safely clean up
The normal Postgres database used by Rails is set to 'host' => nil so it knows to not use TCP but use the unix socket
The Registry database config default to 'host' => 'localhost' and then throws errors specifically during database migrations, not during normal operations
changing that value to 'host' => nil fixes it...
Usually the luggage Racks are not really crowded. If it still is a reasonably structured and sized Backpack of some 15 more cm and no Monster of virtually the same size as you, it could fit. Just be sure to keep doorways and aisles clear.
Have a smile and your ticket ready at the door.
Never saw anyone measure anything while travelling there every second week.
It's really heartbreaking to see a technically superior OS (MacOS/iOS) turn into complete dogshit because the people running the show are clueless.
They had the best implementations of almost everything but decided to just keep making the user experience worse every release and letting the craziest bugs manifest and go unaddressed for years
I guess with Cook being so focused on making Apple a services-focused company it was bound to happen, but damn... they really ruined a technical masterpiece.
And worse, every release they make it even harder for a competent engineer to actually debug these kind of issues. What good is having Dtrace if you can't even use it because of SIP, etc?
Legendary Canadian actress Catherine O'Hara dead at 71
@Tutanota I’m having trouble understanding pricing for family plans.
Assuming 2 users, is it 3€ (user 1) + 3€ (user 2) + 3€ _required_ shared inbox == 9€/mo? Or is it possible to just have 3€/user with no shared == 6€/mo?
Thanks for clarifying!
(yearly plans assumed for all this)
Just a friendly reminder that it's the #FOSDEM week :)
7 rooms will be streamed over #PeerTube from VHSky.cz and MakerTube.net instances. Playlists here.
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Přátelská připomínka, že nás tento týden čeká #FOSDEM :)
7 místností bude streamováno i na #PeerTube z instancí VHSky.cz a MakerTube.net. Playlisty zde.
Ja vím blbost, ale fakt mě to #pobavilo 🤣🤣
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A little girl was trying to find her missing father.All she had… was a drawing.When the anchors saw it,they completely lost control 😂Somehow —the sketch was...YouTube
Erotic Parody ' #Melania: Devourer of Men' Sales Surge on Amazon Amid Documentary Flop
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A Reddit-led protest is trying to push an eight year old erotic thriller to the top of Amazon’s sales charts.Matthew Gault (404 Media)
Was gibt es Neues im Gesundheitswesen? In diesem Podcast bieten Dr. Laura Weisenburger und Dr. Dennis Ballwieser werktägliche Updates.Apotheken Umschau
#XMPP Summit
After two great days focusing on the XMPP ecosystem and its future we are closing the 28th XMPP Summit. Many thanks to all 35+ participants!
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Meet us tomorrow at #FOSDEM 2026! #ULB, AW Building, Level 1
#jabber #chat #opensource #messaging #federation #Brussels
The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is exited to announce the 28th XMPP Summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium next year - just before FOSDEM 2026. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all …xmpp.org
Hey, you guys. I'm testing out a keyboard for iOS, PC, and Mac called Wispr Flow. You get 1,000 free words a week on mobile and 2,000 free words a week on PC and Mac.
I like it because I don't have to dictate punctuation. It auto-formats and inserts punctuation for me, which means that I'm typing faster or rather more productively on iOS with less of a need for editing. It also lets you specify punctuation style. In messaging apps, I have casual punctuation, but in email and other apps I have it set to formal punctuation.
You get a two-week free trial. After that, the app is $15 a month or $143 a year. Either way, I think I'm going to subscribe to this. ChatGPT estimates that I generate about 12,000 words of content a week right now, so I think this is a really good fit for me personally.
Think you're buying Canadian at the grocery store? That product may actually be from the U.S.
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If only there was a Federal Government that cared that could regulate labelling.
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It's treason, plain and simple. This kinda shite needs to be nipped in the bud... #cdnpoli #polcan
The US administration have held meetings with members of the Alberta Prosperity Project, a separatist group that is pushing for the western province to become independent.The group is openly seeking a $500B US line of credit from the US Treasury to help bankroll the new country, if they come out victorious in a referendum.
DO WE NOT HAVE LAWS PREVENTING THIS AND/OR PUNISH THIS?!?!? cbc.ca/news/politics/eby-alber… #cdnpoli #polcan #treason
> Another example is Habitant pea soup, a French Canadian tradition with the phrase "Designed in Canada" on the front. But turn the can around and it says "Product of USA."
We ought to have more strict labelling. Including requiring to say where it's made like lot of other products omit.
Final User Testing in France
The Ability project has recently conducted its final user testing workshops with future users with visual impairments. Following earlier trials in Lithuania and Germany, these sessions held in France made it possible to evaluate various usage scenarios, including understanding geographical maps, following routes, online shopping, and exploring images.
The consortium will now finalize its conclusions for deliverable.
#ABILITYProject
It's time for the mission report, let's start the YouTube LiveStream!
The Matrix.org Foundation is hosting a hackathon at HSBXL as a warm-up for FOSDEM 2026!The results of the hackathon are presented in this live stream startin...YouTube
Time is up for our hackathon! Our mighty teams have successfully hacked their way towards the Matrix Caps! We'll start live streaming the results in a few minutes!
The Matrix.org Foundation is hosting a hackathon at HSBXL as a warm-up for FOSDEM 2026!The results of the hackathon are presented in this live stream startin...YouTube
#XMPP groups are centralized depending on a single server, if server dies the group is gone, server stores group metadata
#Matrix servers store a lot of group metadata across servers
with #DeltaChat the server stores ZERO group metadata/state you don't depend on any server and can easily migrate your profile keeping group state and history in your devices
if Delta Chat had "super groups" with admin/moderation for public rooms, would you switch?
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Delta Chat Spec Proposal: Super Groups Terminology semi-public group: A group that is intended to be used for more or less public interactions, its invitation link can be shared in public spaces like social media or websites.Delta Chat
My partner's been looking into changing home health agencies for a while now for reasons that are a whole other thread. Her caseworker sent along a PDF of agencies supported by her program, but of course it was 62 pages of graphical PDF. Also, even though she can read the PDF just fine, all the agencies were listed by city and not county, and our county has probably something like 20+ cities/townships. None of the agencies had any context, either, just one giant pile of images with names/medicaid details.
Several hours and strategic prompts later, Claude Code OCR'd the PDF, extracted details for 38 agencies in the cities in our county, linked to and summarized reviews across Google/Indeed/Glassdoor about not only how the agency served its clients but also how it was to work there, cross-referenced sanction data from a Michigan government website and provided details on one agency's ongoing active litigation, and gave me a markdown report I piped through Pandoc and emailed her.
Could it have missed an agency or some details? Possibly, but it did at least catch the agencies I knew about and was specifically looking for in the output. Could it have gotten a link wrong? Yes, it was not absolutely right (in at least one case anyway,) I caught it and it fixed the error, though the link still showed what it claimed when I verified it. Could it have gotten a phone or CHAMPS number incorrect? Certainly, but it distinctly flagged the possibility that it might make OCR errors with numbers and that I should verify these details myself. Could I have made any of these errors myself, especially after a few hours of repetitive cut-and-paste? Yup, I have an do. And even if I'd managed to solve the original problem of making the PDF accessible, I'm still new enough to the area that I don't know all the little cities and towns in my county well. Feels like every other block in this county is another tiny township or other.
AI is heavy machinery. Use it incorrectly and it'll slice through your proverbial waterline like any other backhoe. It's unfortunate that it gives the impression of doing good and valid work even while slicing and dicing indiscriminately, but until we live in a world where our abilities to make choices about our care don't hinge on us having the ability and time to parse through a 62-page inaccessible PDF and review our options, I still maintain that one of its best uses is as access technology. Imperfect tool it may be, but without it, I'd have been dead in the water with no one else to help.
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in reply to mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) • • •I wouldn't call these capabilities cringe
> An engineer using Quilter completed the two-board system with 12 hours of cleanup on the baseboard instead of the 238 hours quoted for a manual layout, and 26.5 hours of cleanup on the System-on-Module (SOM) instead of the 190 hours quoted for its manual layout. In total, 38.5 hours of human input replaced 428 hours of estimated manual effort.
quilter.ai/project-speedrun
1 Week to Design a Computer - Project Speedrun
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Unknown parent • • •@alyx_woodward I don't remember the name of the paper at the moment so I can't provide a citation, but there seems to be evidence that it can do much more efficient PCB layouts than human designs
We're going to see some very interesting things come from this
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