Notices by niconiconi (niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be)

European datasheets have parameters, American datasheets have parainches.

Q: What do you say when a nanoelectronics and nanooptics lab is closing down?

A: Plasmoffnics.

@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me It's a new video, deliberately captured (edited) in the retro style.

You know you're terminally online when you stumble upon a "Touhou Sakuya cosplayer's tutorial of burning 24C256 EPROMs for NES homebrewing" video.

@puniko Good meownyaaaaaaaaaaaaa

@puniko Good meownyaaaaaaa

@whitequark@mastodon.social 2.6.36 was the first (?) Linux kernel I used.

#FreeBSD build/pkg server is having a serious outage for about a week already... A ton of packages disappeared entirely from the repo because of failed build jobs. Not only making them uninstallable, running a regular system upgrade with pkg may delete existing versions from your system. "Wait and see" seems to be the only solution (other than building from port). :woozy_baa:

@hj@shigusegubu.club Does it come with a price tag of $3.9?

@puniko

Chiptune Cat (src: https://x.com/DoughnutsCinema/status/966638900281135104 ) #chiptune

Q: What do you say when you reopen Matlab after it crashes?

A: The Matrix Reloaded.

@phoronix@masto.ai Why do we still have legacy code with default-executable stack in 2025. :woozy_baa: Security hardening be like: fighting executable stacks since the 2000s.

#TIL Rainbow Palette Considered Harmful

conduction and displacement current density around one plate of the parallel-plate waveguide, excited by a 5 GHz Gaussian signal on the left edge. #openEMS #electronics

@chjara@akko.wtf Yep, "just because." Since the early 2000s (?), a school of thought appeared in China that advocate for the word "Loong" as the replacement of "Dragon", as they believe these are different mythologies. They didn't use "long" as it doesn't look like a proper noun in English. This sect's influence is far from universal, but noticeable. Loongson is apparently its follower.

@chjara@akko.wtf @koakuma@uwu.social The original English codename for the CPU core was just hilarious: Godson. No idea about its origin.

Cirno's Perfect Math Class.

Q: Can executable code running in one address space overwrites memory in another space?

A: It's virtually impossible.

Some people are calling all text-to-speech voices "AI" these days - including videos from the late 2000s. :woozy_baa: Apparently eSpeak and Windows Narrator are becoming lost knowledge. :blobcatfacepalm: