@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info2026-01-13 03:00:34
I bought a pair of 25' Intellitron stainless steel whip antennas from GigaParts while they were on sale ("two is one and one is none" and the second one tipped me me into "free shipping" making its marginal cost pretty low). On removing them from the packages, however, loose roll pins fell out, and the bases fell off the antennas. Both of them.
A roll pin is an inappropriate fastener to use to connect two concentric thin-walled tubes, so this is a design failure. And the roll pins are …
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2025-12-13 08:40:21
"the drops in sales volumes are largely the results of French and EU car manufacturer’s own strategic choice to prioritise large, more profitable models [.] Despite lower sales volumes, their operating margins have increased. This premiumisation trend is not new, but it has accelerated in recent years, to the point of backfiring, with manufacturers now facing a sharp drop in sales and factories standing idle.
Rolling back the EU’s 2035 targets won’t solve the problem."
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-13 04:50:56
Within minutes of federal agents with ICE, the DEA and FBI arriving at the workplace,
a rapid response network mobilized to confront the agents carrying out an immigration raid at the Bro-Tex distribution center.
As community members rallied to halt the raid,
federal agents cordoned off the area and began trying to clear protesters.
Agents used pepper balls, OC canisters and pepper spray on the crowd
as they tried to clear a path for a convoy of their vehicles, s…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-12-11 14:46:51
I love how simple Kitten’s Streaming HTML workflow makes building features like this, especially when using class-based Kitten pages and components :)
#Kitten
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<style>
table[inert] {
opacity: 0.9;
filter: grayscale(100%);
}
</style>
</table>
</section>
`
}
onToggle () {
this.editable = !this.editable
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@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-01-12 21:42:01
from my link log —
The road to the Erlang JIT.
http://blog.erlang.org/the-road-to-the-jit/
saved 2020-12-01 https://dotat.at/:/BQA2J…
@catsalad@infosec.exchange2025-12-14 01:00:57
Seeing the built-in drink holder for the first time...
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-12-12 13:16:07
The Paris agreement is 10 years old today.
How time flies. But how little really has changed.
"Paris Climate Change Agreement, 2015: the good, the bad and the ugly."
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2015/12/1…
@shriramk@mastodon.social2025-12-13 12:35:00
"The skyscraper, the apotheosis of form following finance and function"
—Jenny Diski, LRB
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/n15/jenny-diski/post-its-push-pins-pencils
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2025-12-12 21:57:55
Took a few minutes over lunch to iron out the last of the bugs in the happy path of PCIe link training.
There's no timeouts or fallback if there's problems but if the other side is happy, it will train up to L0 and then sit there ignoring all incoming traffic.
After a while, the link partner gets mad that it hasn't seen a single DLLP from me and drops the link. I don't implement recovery yet so things go downhill from there.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-13 21:40:56
Columbia faculty received notification from the university that we can submit claim forms asking for part of the $20 million Columbia is paying out to Jewish or Israeli members of the community who have been victims of antisemitism.
Quite a few of my Jewish colleagues are trying to figure out if they qualify
-- because of what happened to them when they expressed opposition to the genocide in Gaza
- Peter Woit (Not Even Wrong)
