Notices by jaseg (jaseg@chaos.social)

I just arrived in Toulouse, France for a conference next week and I think I’ve found some original French baguettes and their offspring in the wild 🤔

@whitequark this sounds like the kind of thing that even in case you can find out easily you're better off not knowing

The new modal dialogs in GTK/gnome that are nailed to the parent window's center and can't be moved are such unintelligent design. Libreoffice now uses these for the paragraph style editing dialog so now you can't move the dialog anymore to look at the effect of your settings on the actual document. A similar issue happens with the "save as" dialog in many GTK applications. Often you'd want to look at the content of the document to decide on a file name.

#gtk #gnome #ux

@whitequark ngl a set of RF-blocking silver fabric Pyjamas would be *the* perfect swag for an RF test & measurement company

@whitequark @gsuberland sorry, I meant 500 W electrical input, so more like 1 ~ 1.5 kW cooling. Still not great though.

@whitequark @gsuberland I've seen they make 12 V-powered minisplits with short hoses for installation in RVs, and I've actually considered buying one to cool down a single, 20 sqm-ish room. They're kinda expensive though if you consider they are only about 500 W.

@whitequark next version of Glasgow with DAC-controlled varactors on all pins for programmatic application of capacitive fiddle factors

@whitequark Yeah, I see industry inertia as more of a limiting factor in these applications. Technically it should be fine with proper bandwidth planning.

@whitequark something like 6LowPAN might be neat, but I don’t think anyone ported that yet?

@whitequark Since you just read up on it, do you happen to know what the upper protocol layers in this stuff are projected to be? I was kind of wondering since IPv6+TCP or whatever is cheap to do with today’s chonky MCUs, but it adds a bunch of bandwidth overhead if all you’re sending is short packets.

@whitequark I think this stuff could be a great alternative to CAN and the like in non-realtime applications

Holy shit, the PCB design of this new sensor board, called Ophanim, of CERN’s Aegis experiment just fucking slaps. Right now, there don’t seem to be many images of it on the web, but I hope to see more in the future.

#electronics #pcb #science

@filmroellchen @domi @BleepingComputer As far as I can tell, this article is just bullshit. This is not a backdoor. HCI is not spoken over the air, instead it’s the local interface between the Bluetooth chipset and the application proscessor. It’s a trusted interface.

This doesn’t look like anyone’s “fault” to me, it just looks like a completely harmless debugging feature someone who either doesn’t know what they are doing or who is chasing clout is trying to blow up into a scandal.

@obrhoff yeah, the SSD prices are crazy. If you don’t need to access all your storage on the go, a NAS could allow both laptop and desktop to access arbitrary amounts of storage at least while you are at home. I wouldn’t want to care around a portable SSD because I feel they’re easy to loose or get stolen.

For the broken laptop while traveling scenario, with appple devices at least you can get a new one within a day or so in most developed countries.

@obrhoff if you plan on commuting or traveling with the laptop, I think the light laptop plus beefy desktop option is best. I remember upgrading my main laptop from a 10 year old, 2.5kg chonker to a modern 1kg ultralight and how much nicer that thing is to carry in my backpack now.

A secondary plus is that in the age of thunderbolt, docking solutions all suck, especially on apple devices (poor display output support), and with the desktop you might not have to dock the laptop.

@nafmo uwsgi has a minimal example in their docs. Uwsgi is the thing that runs python, imports your script, and calls a function in it once per request. You only need to provide that function.

Have a look here: https://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/WSGIquickstart.html

@nafmo wsgi is pretty much the standard these days. If you just want to handle raw requests yourself, cgi style, you can just use a bare python script with a wsgi runner like uwsgi, which requires no python code beyond a single function definition.

@lauren I found that funny too, both on yt and here on the fediverse. Reading that press release, I saw a company that was badly scared of one of their products burning down someone’s home, and that clumsily tried to prevent that.

Then on the other side I saw a bunch of people who were traumatized to hell by hardware manufacturers from HP to cricut and as a result had absolutely zero chill. A shitstorm ensues.

@azonenberg @jpm I think the feeder setup time is a big issue for one-off prototypes. If you have some odd component like a 9k1 resistor on the board once, placing it by hand is faster than setting up a feeder. At the cost of even the Lumen’s feeders, having a couple decades of E24 already on feeders is very expensive.

@monk @fluepke passports contain an anglicized variant of the name, but only in the machine-readable data area , that’s the big block of characters at the bottom. That data is hard to understand for some people.