Notices by niconiconi (niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be), page 14

@whitequark@mastodon.social @0x47df@duckpon.de For PHY compatibility, one should guard both sides with a known-good USB hub IC, not all USB 3 PHYs can handle the distorted LFPS to start a link it seems (VIA can't, Intel can). But the bare-minimum version is literally just two data lines directly into SFP+, with 50 Ω resistors to bypass receiver detection.

And you can sell this circuit board with barely any electronics for $200 as a corporate conference room solution! Don't ask how I knew (I couldn't believe I've spent $200 just to reverse-engineer 1-bit of information). The picture is my own implementation.

@whitequark@mastodon.social @0x47df@duckpon.de Tried that in 2022. I can confirm it works. (Still no time to actually finish and publish that...)

@ignaloidas@not.acu.lt @whitequark@mastodon.social @rf@mas.to @0x47df@duckpon.de Some USB 3 hubs allow you to force-disable U1/U2. You then disable U3 in OS. Problem "solved."

@whitequark@mastodon.social @baloo@sfba.social @0x47df@duckpon.de

@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me Meanwhile, to do anything over the network today, you just pack everything into HTTP with no standard serialization, no binding to programming languages, no function prototypes, type checking, language exceptions whatsoever, it's just a big JSON file. It's hard to say which one is a step forward and which one is a step back.

Perhaps the late 90s was the ALGOL equivalent of networked OOP - extremely powerful, seen as silver bullet. Consequence was a system too big and overcomplicated so went out of favor soon, and everything came after that was less powerful, sometimes even as an anti-thesis to that (e.g. BCPL and C), with its own consequence of being too crude.

Remember when the network was supposed to be the computer and that object-oriented programming across networks was supposed to be the first-class citizen with CORBA and DCOM? Remember when even GNOME and KDE were originally meant to have native networked OOP support? :nadeGranny:

@puniko the real problem is small-form factor, it's impractical to do any meaningful cable management anyway when everything barely fits with no buffer zones.

Literally me, except I'm not a cute anime girl... #animeirl

3D printing is more like 4D printing because of the time it takes...

@PeterCxy@comfy.social Literally me, except I'm not a cute anime girl... #animeirl

Q: Why is C++20 difficult to master?

A: Too many concepts.

You know it's Misskey when NaN is NyaN.

@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me I just saw your post and wanted to say hi. Turned out I no longer needs to. :blobcatgoogly: This time, my problem is VTK upstream's OpenGL 2 backend, which affects a ton of scientific visualization programs...

"We've got you surrounded, come out and recompile your GLEW now!"
"I hate Wayland! I hate Wayland!"
https://github.com/nigels-com/glew/issues/172

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A trackball is just a large fidget toy that also functions as a pointing device.

@snacks@netzsphaere.xyz @chjara@akko.wtf It didn't help that every major European colonial power had a world domination plan/dream. Also people believed that the war was going to be a quick and simple one that was going to end soon thanks to modern mechanical weapons - by making them powerful they were supposed to discourage people from fighting total wars... Also, who would be stupid enough to fight a total war to destroy the European supply chain that only exists because of interconnected free trade anyway?

Q: What do you say when a program is crunching a lot of data in a loop?

A: Just wait for a while.

@puniko mew mew mew

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