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jhwgh1968

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He/Him | Cis | Aroace | White | Very Privileged | Elder Millennial, age overflow at 0x3fffffff secs (34 yrs) | Trans Rights are Human Rights

Random #tech, want to get better at #reverseengineering, becoming more openly #furry and #autistic, getting weirder in FO posts

My only other social media is GitHub

Avatar art by HologramA and cyberhadesblog on Birdsite, remixed under CC

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jacqueline, to random
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tangara support for ai (audio interface)

jhwgh1968,
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@jacqueline VC firm reads too fast and suddenly starts spamming your Inbox

jacqueline, to random
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why is the official reference ukca mark cropped incorrectly lmfao

britain moment

jhwgh1968,
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@jacqueline I'm an American and this made me actually lol ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

gsuberland, to random
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lmao, one of the demos released at revision needs a 48GB GPU to run

jhwgh1968,
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@gsuberland to run that on a single card, that's minimum on like what, the bottom of the 5,000 USD server room A100 architecture cards?

eniko, to random
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so google spied on its users in incognito mode AND sold the information off, and they're planning to kill adblockers, and people still won't use firefox. ridiculous

jhwgh1968,
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@tk @eniko indeed

Mozilla's bad things examples: kill things that are cool, be victimized by a tracking company, and get sucked into "AI"

Google's bad things examples: kill way more things ppl liked, become one of the world's biggest tracking companies, design military "AI" for killing machines before it was trendy

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/should-google-really-be-helping-us-military-build-ai-systems

nepi, to random

Latest "doesn't work in Firefox": PayPal doesn't let you change your primary e-mail. They also don't let you "trust this device" to stop 2-factoring unless you use a chromium-based browser.

jhwgh1968,
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@nepi my personal favorite was a janky 3rd party website used for a work thing at a prev job

I created an account, confirmed my (work) e-mail, and set a password. But I couldn't log in

After making sure I typed it right, I went to reset password. And there I discovered the issue:

The setup form, the reset password form, and the login form don't actually agree on what special characters can be in the password

So you can set a password that you can't then actually use nor clear

jhwgh1968,
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@nepi meanwhile my otherwise-excellent credit union is pushing really hard for me to do online banking, and I am resisting

This shit is reason number 3 on the list

jacqueline, to random
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what does the xz backdoor reveal about a related technology that i already disliked? quite a lot! read all about it in my new post in medium!

jhwgh1968,
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@jacqueline my take fits in a toot, but it's followers only. Follow me on Mastodon for this and more exclusive content!

jhwgh1968, to random
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@jesopo what with your new phil/theo interest combined with the shitposting, I briefly wondered if you wrote this:

https://chaos.social/@mattgrayyes/112170512721315630

jacqueline, to random
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lmao supporting SBC-XQ in tangara is literally a one line change

jhwgh1968,
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@jacqueline adding to a maximum constant/bitrate somewhere?

gsuberland, to random
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remember the train DRM thing from a short while back? that was wild.

jhwgh1968,
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@gsuberland @whitequark makes me wonder if they hired some American consultant on improving profitability and maintenance revenue, not realizing member countries of the EU will actually investigate shit like that

(Am USian)

arch, to random
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guess im forking nitter :ying_shrug_amused:

jhwgh1968,
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@arch I'm confused, I thought birdsite changed the API and disabled the guest tokens that were needed to have any automation read any of it, so Nitter was a complete dead end?

Or by "caching a post I've seen" are you doing some manual proxying/browser/other shenanigans?

madargon, to linux
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I don't understand why the heck support on , at least in my experience is so awful nightmare...

jhwgh1968,
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@madargon my guess is 2 things:

  1. It's most often done through the most nightmarish of open source software: GPG
  2. Being fully compliant, especially with the additional identity verification options, is complicated
gsuberland, to random
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meatwood flac

jhwgh1968,
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@gsuberland is that what happens when you write your own FLAC decoder and it can't handle any of the format levels except 0?

anthropy, to random
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Sometimes I wonder if there's some magical absurd force that causes e.g a group of people to stay up until 5-6am at once

jhwgh1968,
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@anthropy I think it's pure law of large numbers

The same way it can feel really ominous when 3-4 ppl on my timeline all complain about having a bad day on the same day w/o following each other (happened a couple weeks ago)

jacqueline, to random
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i find that mastodon's default post visibility the set to the correct option maybe 10% of the time

jhwgh1968, (edited )
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@jacqueline while it is configurable, as someone who posts a lot of each type I can appreciate this sentiment

jensorensen, to cars
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Latest comic: Electric vehicles gone wrong

I'm fine with the soft, whirring spaceship sounds that some EVs emit as a safety feature to alert people that they're moving. The new Dodge Charger EV comes with a deafening 126 dB roar, which is just plain obnoxious.

jhwgh1968,
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@jensorensen "petro-masculinity" in a nut shell:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0305829818775817

> The concept of petro-masculinity suggests that fossil fuels mean more than profit; fossil fuels also contribute to making identities, which poses risks for post-carbon energy politics.

(Truly a fascinating paper when I first read it)

jhwgh1968, to random
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I can't believe I have lost both of my SD card readers in the past 3 months

I've found a bunch of other random stuff in boxes, but that's not an even trade right now

whitequark, to random
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microSD Express PCIe Gen4 x2?!

jhwgh1968,
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@whitequark so I know this is a meme (and it prob should be)

But tbh I presume the PCI support is on there bc of motivation to do new and interesting things (sarcastically and not) with eMMC

whitequark, (edited ) to random
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printf debugging for FPGAs: yes or no?

(pretend that I have already implemented it and resolved the tradeoffs in some techically feasible way that is the closest to what you might want to use)

please RT!

jhwgh1968,
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@whitequark novice Q: print over what? Is there a UART in your design?

gsuberland, to random
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I was curious as to why some LDOs are MLCC stable and others aren't, and this appnote was very useful in explaining the details.

the most fascinating point was that even with MLCC stable LDOs it's often detrimental to put โ‰ค100nF capacitors very close to the output pins, and you should instead endeavour only to use a larger bulk decoupling MLCC.

https://www.ti.com/lit/an/snva167a/snva167a.pdf

jhwgh1968,
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@gsuberland I saw this being detrimental in action, in an interesting EE video quite some time ago

The goal was to build a 1A constant current source with a 0.1% accuracy. Turned out building it the "obvious" way with LDOs in series according to their data sheets made the output ring mysteriously (resulting in a ~2% accuracy or something)

I believe the feedback loop used to adjust them created a similar phase effect. A well-chosen ceramic cap fixed it

gsuberland, (edited ) to random
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I just remembered that there's a whole website dedicated to a bizarre conspiracy-laden rant about tin whiskers in lead-free solder.

http://www.tinwhisker.us/

jhwgh1968,
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@gsuberland the main diff I thought was non-conspiracy was the melting temp and the resulting "energy efficiency" of lead solder

(Not at all justified by its negative impacts outside of extremely rare circumstances)

jacqueline, to random
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linux

jhwgh1968,
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@jacqueline windows ๐Ÿต

(This is a test of everyone's meme comprehension)

gsuberland, to random
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brightly lit toilet (loo-minance)

jhwgh1968,
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@gsuberland is that what they called that stupid "AI" one that cost 10k USD that was basically dunked on by every tech reviewer at CES?

whitequark, to random
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systemverilog having a normal one

jhwgh1968,
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@whitequark am I reading this wrong or is this just an extremely elaborate mathematical way to indicate the effect of a clock edge on a register/macroblock/unit

mattgrayyes, to random
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Something Iโ€™m always disappointed by in apps is them not gracefully dealing with intermittent internet.
So many feel like theyโ€™ve never been tested on slow/patchy connections.

Why not let me:
๐Ÿ”นpress like, cache it, and send it when I get internet?
๐Ÿ”นpress send on a message, cache it, and send it when I get internet? (WhatsApp handles this one well IMO.)
๐Ÿ”นopen the message notification and see as much text as the notif held, & load the rest on reconnect?

jhwgh1968, (edited )
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@mattgrayyes I wish I could fave this more than once

I'd also add, what happens if you have "partial" internet -- your DNS works, but your packets don't go where they're supposed to

This can not only happen when your connections drops for a moment, but e.g. a "Captive Wi-Fi Portal" waiting for you to agree or pay their toll

I understand if your app doesn't work fully, but you shouldn't be in a half-connected bizarro state where you can't connect bc you're connected but can't disconnect either

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