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Got the replacement diodes and reworked the probe demo board with the messed up one.
Here it is before defluxing. A lot of hand soldering and rework on this one plus two extra oven cycles so it's pretty ugly, let's see how it cleans up in SWAS. Gonna give it an extra good scrub since it's so messy

Neue Betriebssysteme als Public Beta: Unterstützte Hardware plus Downgrade-Tipps
iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 und Co. stehen zum Download bereit, wenn auch nur als öffentliche Beta. Ein Überblick der verwendbaren Geräte – und wichtige Tipps.

Neue Betriebssysteme als Public Beta: Unterstützte Hardware plus Downgrade-Tipps
iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 und Co. stehen zum Download bereit, wenn auch nur als öffentliche Beta. Ein Überblick der verwendbaren Geräte – und wichtige Tipps.

BBC lawyers want to subpoena Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner for both documents and deposition testimony
-- arguing all three have direct knowledge of Trump's intentions behind his January 6, 2021, speech at the Ellipse.
Citing testimony gathered by the House January 6 Committee, the BBC claimed Trump Jr. and Ivanka were present as their father revised the speech and were with him when he delivered it,
while Kushner reportedly drafted a statement condem…

BBC forcibly turned away trying to serve papers to Ivanka and Kushner: report
The BBC's legal team got physically blocked by police while trying to hand court papers to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner at their own Miami home.The incident, reported by Politico, is part of an escalating fight to force President Trump's family into his $10 billion defamation suit against the Brit...

I think the demo board firmware is getting close to... I won't say done, there is always more things I can pack in there, but "good enough to show off at an event".
I've got:
* NRZ PRBS7/31
* 2D-PAM3 PRBS-31
* 1000baseX (no packet generation yet that's my last big TODO)
* QSGMII (also no packet generation yet)
* 100baseTX (working packet generation)
* Various clock/pulse outputs
* UART
* SPI / SPI flash
* Serial RGB LED…

#marswaterhistory

"Compliance with…law hasn’t been a defining feature of…Trump administration. Nonetheless…law matters, & federal law is ill-disposed to aggressive ICE presence at voting locations. 18 U.S.C. § 592 states…no federal officer may keep "troops or armed men" at an election site except to repel armed enemies of…United States…same title of U.S. code prohibits voter intimidation (18 U.S.C. § 594). So too does…Voting Rights Act…&…National Voter Registration Act…"

ICE at the Polls: Not the Hottest Election Threat
A broad range of views on democracy to help break the stalemate caused by partisan conflict.

That PC whose fan dropped off the other week has been bodged into working. I used a couple of plastic strips and motherboard mounts to hold them to the board with screws in the right place for the heatsink; but I found it needed more pressure on the fan for it to make good contact with the CPU, especially at the top; so outcomes the wood. This is working reasonably well; although the wedge positioning is a bit touchy to get it right.

#FlyingLess puts you in iconic #trains, like this Polish-German InterCity. That’s a decent way to end the #EAAST conference. Including, of course,
VEGAN CABBAGE!🥬

That’s a demographic point, not a call to arms. @… https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app

Bill Cole (@scconsult.com)
We’re at the point where we can no longer afford easily-scared “normies.” We need to convert, not coddle. A lot more people need to die in the process of turning around the fascist trend, and pointing out the fascists as they depart is a positive thing. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Final probing demo board ready to go to fab, unless anyone else finds something in the next couple hours.
Two 6 Gbps TX-only transceiver lanes, two low speed DAC outputs, four LVCMOS18 GPIOs on SMAs, four LVCMOS33 outputs on probe clips, and a MLT3/PAM3 output on SMAs. Plus test points on all the power rails and the USB.