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@jamie@boothcomputing.social
2025-10-27 22:14:10

My first attempt at desoldering a BGA chip and it worked really well. Chip cleaned up nicely as well.
Disclaimer: I don't plan on using this chip or board again. So, I don't need it to work at the end.
#retrocomputing
#desoldering

picture of the board without the CPU. lots of little solder balls show where it used to be.
the underside of an UltraSPARC chip with lots of left over solder blobs in it.
an UltraSPARC chip sitting on a silicone mat seperate from the processor board. the top is all dirty from where the heatsink was attached.
an UltraSPARC chip all cleaned up and looking shiny. it's propped up against the edge of a metal plate to dry.
@mszll@datasci.social
2025-10-27 19:05:19

Very cool paper out by our collaborator Chris Larkin (et al): Identification of plausible low traffic neighbourhoods using open data
sciencedirect.com/science/arti
Code:

Map of Newcastle Upon Tyne, partitioned into potential low traffic neighborhoods
@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2025-11-27 02:40:13

I'm thankful for the remaining moral & ethical people faithfully serving the American people in the Federal government - against all odds.
▶️ 10 Things To Be Thankful For | The West Wing
youtube.com/watch?v=Nj-SBGQVQ9

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-12-26 17:15:02

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Moby:
🎵 Porcelain
#Moby
spaceboogie.bandcamp.com/album
open.spotify.com/track/6EXi6Zq

@timfoster@mastodon.social
2025-09-28 09:16:08

Lol, I think this page is missing a big fucking elephant-in-the-room statement:
"Don't allow AI tools that make shit up and frequently make incorrect assertions run anything on any infrastructure, ever. If fact, just stop reading right now, because this was a stupid idea from the beginning."

Security Best Practices - Model Context Protocol

@whitequark@mastodon.social
2025-12-27 09:51:42
Content warning: hot take

i don't think cryptographers should be allowed to write cryptographic specifications
i understand that this is very precise but if you're trying to implement the algorithm it adds _so_ much overhead

@EgorKotov@datasci.social
2025-10-24 15:27:44

This is the second year that I’m teaching a short session on Open Science and Reproducibility with Quarto, GitHub, and R for students in the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) programme (by @…, INED, EAPS, and others).
This year, I demoed everything in Positron (Posit PBC), switching back to RStudio only occasionally. I also made a point to discuss a…

tutorial screenshot: flow map shows migration of scientists on a world map
tutorial screenshot: positron is given priority over rstudio
tutorial screenshot: positron is given priority over rstudio
@jamie@boothcomputing.social
2025-09-28 00:27:21

Been a while since I crashed a registration form.

an error message on a webpage which broke because my random generated password had quotes in it.
@jamie@boothcomputing.social
2025-11-27 14:53:22

The tables are set....
#Thanksgiving

picture of my dining room with three tables set with 15 place settings.
@jamie@boothcomputing.social
2025-11-27 21:29:58

Planning for Christmas Lego has begun. Sets have been divided between my son and I. The one set by itself is new and we will alternate bags.
#Christmas
#Lego
#WinterVillage

8 Winter Village Lego sets sitting on the floor with a few smaller sets on a coffee table. The sets are divided in to three piles. One for me, one for my son, and one that we will take turns assembling.