Notices by CEO of Anti-Clock Society (be@floss.social)

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https://emancipator.bandcamp.com/track/first-snow

Welcome to the fascist future, where the rich gentrify city blocks then turn them into gated communities with private rent-a-cops

https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/11/19/ukrainian-village-residents-urge-neighbors-to-help-fund-private-security-patrol/

A library by the same lead developer has a Blockchain [Non]support Policy in the README.md:

https://github.com/kanidm/webauthn-rs?tab=readme-ov-file#blockchain-support-policy

I like this too.

Maybe a hot take, but I feel this is way more important than a Code of Conduct.

More software projects should have a Developer Ethics document:
https://kanidm.github.io/kanidm/stable/developers/developer_ethics.html

10 meters of APA 102 LED strips with 144 LEDs/m ordered. Going to make some pretty rainbows and learn embedded development in the process.

Aliexpress is a terrible website. Completely different prices after logging in, and every listing that shows up in search results can only order one of each item??? And that's after waiting a confusingly long amount of time to get the confirmation email to log in.

Nevertheless it's the cheapest source of LED strips that I found.

25 10440 batteries ordered... hopefully I don't cause any of them to explode or burn 😬 Ordered them from https://liionwholesale.com/ which is a good place to buy batteries according to flashlight nerds.

Wiring Design for Addressable LED Strips

https://electricfiredesign.com/2022/04/14/wiring-design-for-addressable-led-strips/

There are lots of other great posts on this blog...

Fundamentals of Microcontrollers - Arduino bare-metal breakdown

teaching embedded programming by explaining in detail what Arduino abstracts

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNyfXcjhOAwOF-7S-ZoW2wuQ6Y-4hfjMR

Now take the money from .io domain registration and give it to the Chagossians

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/4/why-is-the-uk-handing-the-chagos-islands-back-to-mauritius

If you are spending a lot of time on here here, I highly recommend reading this book.

@jalcine https://floss.social/@be/112188704636346073

All this talk about software supply chain attacks but hardware supply chain attacks are orders of magnitude more terrifying now
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/18/chk_exploding-pagers-psychological-warfare-israels-attack-on-hezbollah

Between these exploding pagers and suicide drones, it's a terrifying tech dystopia we live in now

https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/09/11/suicide-drones-killing-civilians-syria-ukraine-gaza/

Hardware being intercepted along the supply chain and rigged with explosives is especially terrifying considering the increasing trend towards devices with non-replaceable batteries and cases sealed with glue that can't easily be opened and inspected.

Wearing a mask is not a big deal. Not wearing a mask is a big deal.

Until a year or so ago, I thought that wearing an N95 was a big deal because my experience with N95s was extremely uncomfortable hard shell masks provided by an institution that I couldn't tolerate wearing for more than 20-30 minutes. It is a massive failure of public health education that I did not know that comfortable N95s exist and they cost less than a dollar each so long as you don't buy a tiny 3 pack at Walgreens.

@HeavenlyPossum ah, but if you park a car in a public space and are homeless in that car, then it's illegal to park it

The system is much more fragile than it appears.