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I parked my Yuba Kombi next to another one at the grocery store. I had to take a picture because it was so amusing.
Mine, made up of Frankensteined parts on base model ($900 when I bought it). Theirs, the fancy e-assist model that starts at $2400. They've got 2 of the seat pads, monkey bars, bread basket (front rack), official shimano motor/battery. I've got one seat pad, a ring, a diy mid-drive motor (bafang bbs02) with random battery, and a piece of wood as my front rack.

Losers of the world, unite! We have nothing to lose but our loser status.
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Sridhar Ramesh (@radishharmers.bsky.social)
Electoral politics is systemically biased against losers who lose at everything, even though we comprise the majority of the population.

Better! I added a runt filter for the sync pulses on my my pico based rgb-uvc adapter; much better - it's just running on another PIO sm, and so other than an extra wire, it's still component-free.
My BBC Master's sync is really nasty; it looks that way on the main board, I'm not sure if it's the 6845 or the croma chip or what.
(Yellow is Beebs input, blue is unrunted)

The #SantaBarbaraCounty Board of Supervisors took the first step of what promises to be a protracted and historic pivot to pull the plug on all onshore oil development anywhere in Santa Barbara County.
This Tuesday, the supervisors narrowly approved
— by a 3-2 vote —
⭐️a ban on any new onshore oil drilling. 
The last time a new drilling proposal was approved took place in…

Testing out all of the lab exercises for my probing class next week

Happy Birthday Diana Muldaur (88)!
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Black Wax Cafe on Instagram: "Happy 88th Birthday, Diana! Diana Muldaur (born August 19, 1938) is an American film and television actress. Muldaur’s television roles include Rosalind Shays on L.A. Law and Dr. Katherine Pulaski in the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. She appeared in two episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series in the late 1960s, playing different roles (Drs. Miranda Jones and Ann Mulhall). She has been nominated for an Emmy twice, as a supporting actress on L.A. Law in 1990 and 1991. Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised on the Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard, Muldaur started acting in high school and continued on through college, graduating from Sweet Briar College in Virginia in 1960. She studied acting under Stella Adler, and made her name on the New York stage. She was at one point a board member of the Screen Actors Guild and was the first woman to serve as president of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (1983–1985)"
0 likes, 1 comments - blackwaxcafe on August 19, 2026: "Happy 88th Birthday, Diana! Diana Muldaur (born August 19, 1938) is an American film and television actress. Muldaur’s television roles include Rosalind Shays on L.A. Law and Dr. Katherine Pulaski in the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. She appeared in two episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series in the late 1960s, playing different roles (Drs. Miranda Jones and Ann Mulhall). She has been nominated for an Emmy twice, a…

Late October in Northeast Scotland. It was down to 2 C last night; not as cold as it might be. Very few flowers are left; the Michaelmas daisies are finishing. But the ivy (Hedera helix) has its moment now: walls and trees covered with powerfully cloying, yellow-green asterisks. The last remaining insects are very grateful: Red Admirals (Vanessa atalanta) who have not yet found a place to hibernate, wasps who are postponing their starvation, and a few stubborn hoverflies (Eristalis tenax) su…

Sonnet 006 - VI
Then let not winter's ragged hand deface,
In thee thy summer, ere thou be distilled:
Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place
With beauty's treasure ere it be self-killed.
That use is not forbidden usury,
Which happies those that pay the willing loan;
That's for thy self to breed another thee,
Or ten times happier, be it ten for one;
Ten times thy self were happier than thou art,
If ten of thine ten…

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

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…