Notices by Andrew Zonenberg (azonenberg@ioc.exchange)

@dalias i guess more generally would the tax be on AWS or the customer?

Like if your tax rate depends on usage and you have 100 customers pulling 10 kW each to make the numbers round, do you tax at the 10 kW or 1 MW rate if they're independent users under one roof?

Does it change if the customers own the hardware and are just paying for rack space in a colo, or if they're renting a third party server?

@dalias given the prevalence of cloud/outsourced compute, how would you implement this? Would AWS have to collect signed certifications from every customer as to whether any given instance was an exempted purpose or not? Or tax them at the full rate regardless, making the entire cloud business model non viable and forcing a transition back to on premises hosting (which I'd prefer but it's a somewhat orthogonal issue)

@dalias @trademark @GossiTheDog the hashes are of advisories they claim they will publish in the future afaik, not patches.

@dalias @trademark @GossiTheDog so easily verifiable if they actually turn up but the hype cycle will have moved on by then and they already got the PR benefit of claiming a huge number of bugs

Cranky again about how Android randomly reserves the right to kill applications for power management or its own inscrutable reasons, even if you have power management settings for the app set to "unrestricted".

So every time I open firefox it's a 50/50 shot whether my incognito tabs from my last browsing session (my default browsing mode to minimize leaving residue in history etc) are there or not.

On a desktop OS, apps randomly being terminated for no reason would be a sev1 issue. On mobile, it's just expected.

@petrillic me and my classmates who moved out here used to joke about the "Microsoft bait and switch" but you could substitute any other big Seattle area tech employer.

You get offered an internship, spend a great summer doing fun work in beautiful weather, go back to school, finish your degree, and get offered a full time job on graduation.

Then you move out there, work through the summer, think everything is great.

And then the fall and winter hits.

The existence of toblerone implies the existence of related triangular hydrochocolate chains such as the base alkane (toblerane), as well as the closed ring form (cyclotoblerone)

@ireneista @mhoye exactly I've just stopped giving mouser my business over this. You go out of my way to not get my business, I'll honor your wishes

@ireneista @mhoye exactly, i've copy pasted a link and truncated it or something so many times while making another blog page or sending an email etc.

URLs get truncated in emails by 80 column format limits all the time too.

If you ban on a single 404, or repeated hits to a single truncated/corrupted URL, you'll cut off a lot of legitimate users. Specific bogus URLs, e.g. .asp and .php URLs when your site is written in python, make a lot more sense as poison ban URLs.

As someone who is currently unable to order delivery from my local grocery store due to excessively paranoid WAFs, I'm strongly against this kind of hair trigger defense mechanism.

I've stopped buying components from Mouser because they lock me out constantly for reasons unknown, doing a single search for a component part number is often enough to trigger it.

OK fedi hive mind... I have a small ceramic packaged TCXO with a metal top (unknown alloy) that's electrically failed (removed from a thunderscope that was ultrasonically cleaned, which we suspect was the root cause).

I'd like to open it up and visualize the damage.

I have one shot.

Equipment/tools available: my oscillating polisher, Sherline mill + carbide endmills, various wet chemistry, lots of abrasives.

So the question is, what will open it up with the least probability of destroying the innards or causing further damage beyond what originally killed the part?

@dalias @mjg59 i want both x86 and arm boards to have a dtb burned into flash at manufacture time and kill acpi

@dalias aha, ok.

I miss when amazon was a way to buy books directly from them and that was it...

@dalias (and I also hate the tendency of everything from walmart to digikey to turn into a "marketplace" lately. At one point you could buy oscilloscope software options on walmart's website because TEquipment had a storefront there)

@dalias was this not already possible? like i'm not sure how wishlists would work if the seller didn't know how to ship the product?

@r @dalias but i don't have the time to work on them and sll of the other things I'm trying to do too lol

@r @dalias so i have a long list of experiments I want to try to reduce hazmats and number of tools/reagents needed at the expense of performance and yield and throughput.

For example damascene aluminum using a single RIE recipe for all of your dielectric etching using CF4 or SF6 plus CMP. Reactive sputter silicon wafer + O2 for ILD. Sputter the same wafer in argon for amorphous silicon gates. Anneal the gates during the dopant diffusion bake to get poly.

@dalias arsenic has specific properties that make it better than other dopants for some stuff.

And that's before you get to materials like GaAs.

Low hazard semiconductor processes are an interesting research problem but you'll definitely be giving up performance vs what we do today. It's something interesting if you're targeting a hackerspace fab etc but not TSMC

@dalias ion implantation uses some truly nasty gases in the ion sources, like arsine

Also, you can tell semiconductor people are a bit off WRT their definitions of "normal, safe chemistry".

I recently finished pilot testing of a safer alternative to an existing process that uses HF.

As in, HF is *the safer alternative chemistry*.

@dalias That also prevents the "casual scrolling" to find the raccoon or delivery or whatever.

You can't solve social problems with a technological solution. Recording is an inherently neutral technology that can be used for good and harm, and specific uses and acts should be regulated.

As a general rule if the imagery is not being used to cause demonstrable harm to an individual, a property owner should IMO be able to record anything they can see from their property for any private purpose they wish.