Given the reactions I'm getting to ReworkCTF stuff, I'm curious...
What's the most complex PCB rework you've personally done? If you've done multilayer circuit edits, what kind of bodges and what tooling did you use?
I've seen some pretty impressive work (and done some myself in the past) using handheld rotary tools, but IMO for truly surgical multilayer rework a 3-axis (or more) mill is the way forward.
Federal Judges Are Done With The Deference: Courts Call Out Admin’s Immigration ‘Bullshit’ In Increasingly Pointed Terms https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/04/federal-judges-are-done-with-the-de…
How to do tings properly is very different from how to get things done.
Therefore do things properly to get them done sufficiently is good and bad advice at the same time.
The Competition and Consumer Authority in Denmark 🇩🇰 has conducted inspections in the EV charging industry, suspecting that competition rules have been violated.
https://kfst.dk/pressemeddelelser/kfst/2026/20260206-kontrolbesoeg-i-branch…
As International Women’s Day approaches, we examine how agentic AI is automating and amplifying gender bias in business workflows, often reinforcing systemic inequalities, and provide some ideas for what can be done to change course.
The only way I would be interested in a return of “Firefly” is a “Battlestar Galactica” level reboot.
It probably could be done. Whedon absolutely not allowed* you could have some of the actors return in other roles, it COULD be done and be good.
*Whedon involved in ANY way is a big “hell nah”
Interviews with Anthropic executives and other tech industry leaders and engineers about Claude Code's success, which some say has been a long time coming (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/874308/anthropic-claude-code-opus-hype-moment
Goodbye Buck!
Well done on your years of service to the Jays.
I'm gonna say it!, your voice grated on me sometimes lol... but mostly when the Jays were losing.
2025 is a fine year to go out on even if the result was just shy of perfect.
#BlueJays #Baseball
https://dailyhive.com/toronto/buck-martinez-goodbye-toronto-blue-jays-broadcasts?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
EU adopts -90% emission reduction target for 2040, and max 5% of that by 'high-quality international targets', i.e. reductions elsewhere. 14 years to go and a *lot* of work to be done!
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/p
When I say “Fuck AI” there’s always this one guy who defends it and explains how it makes his life easier and helps him get more work done.
I feel like he’d use the same argument if it were long ago and I said “Fuck Slavery”.
#NOai #ai
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto
undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
-- Max Beerbohm, "Mainly on the Air"
“How may the compulsive programmer be distinguished from a merely dedicated, hard-working professional programmer? First, by the fact that the ordinary professional programmer addresses himself to the problem to be solved, whereas the compulsive programmer sees the problem mainly as an opportunity to interact with the computer. The ordinary computer programmer will usually discuss both his substantive and his technical programming problem with others. He will generally do lengthy preparatory work, such as writing and flow diagramming, before beginning work with the computer itself. His sessions with the computer may be comparatively short. He may even let others do the actual console work. He develops his program slowly and systematically. When something doesn't work, he may spend considerable time away from the computer, framing careful hypotheses to account for the malfunction and designing crucial experiments to test them. Again, he may leave the actual running of the computer to others. He is able, while waiting for results from the computer, to attend to other aspects of his work, such as documenting what he has already done. When he has finally composed the program he set out to produce, he is able to complete a sensible description of it and to turn his attention to other things. The professional regards programming as a means toward an end, not as an end in itself. His satisfaction comes from having solved a substantive problem, not from having bent a computer to his will.”
—Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason, 1976
I wish I could tell you that all our preparations meant we were ready, that we never despaired, that we knew we would endure. I don’t think any of that is true. I spent much of December and January considering, seriously and vividly considering, that this was the arrival of an authoritarian police state that could outlive me. But I didn’t spend too much •time• considering that — because there was work to be done, work right here, in my lap, and nobody was coming to save us.
4/
Doing something I should've done 6 (8?) months ago.
Pour Lui's now groups haven't even done a show yet but they already releasing apology!
LOL
Wouldn't it be nice if this revealed inefficiency and bloat at DHS and something was done to break it up into manageable pieces again?
Republican divisions, Donald Trump’s detachment stymie GOP efforts to end DHS shutdown
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5815769-johnson-thune-trump-dhs-shutdown/
The complex part regarding our understanding of Rosa Park's history, is that several others, such as Claudette Colvin, had done her protest before Parks.
Irene Morgan had done it in 1944, but certain states simply ignored the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in her favor. There was a deliberate choice to make Rosa Parks the face of the campaign, since she could handle the heat better. It'd also be much harder to dig up any dirt about her: Rosa Parks was a well-respected woman in her 40s with…
War on Iran and the metabolic rift. Another argument for agroecology rather than high (fossil fuel) input industrial agriculture. Of course such a transition can't be done overnight.
How the Iran war could create a ‘fertiliser shock’ – an often ignored global risk to food prices and farming
Monthly check-in. Not panicking yet as I have 11 more months and people fluctuate by a few pounds every day. I also have done nothing remotely serious about meeting my goal and in fact had several family celebrations in January that involved really good food. I'll do something about that procrastination tomorrow...
#GetHealthy
A constant rant I have when reviewing a paper:
Putting images at the end of a manuscript was useful in the 1980s whenever we printed papers. it should not be done in any circumstance in 2026 and should raher reflect the paper as it will / should appear after publication.
I have not found a better formulation of this yet. #paper # scientificwriting # reviewing…
#ListeningClub She and her boyfriend broke up after this album and the band was over. She’s done other things locally in Athens since.
Sonnet 035 - XXXV
No more be grieved at that which thou hast done:
Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud:
Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.
All men make faults, and even I in this,
Authorizing thy trespass with compare,
Myself corrupting, salving thy amiss,
Excusing thy sins more than thy sins are;
For to thy sensual fault I bring in sense,
Thy adverse party is thy advocat…
omg. Well that was a masterclass both in diplomacy and presidential tone. Well done.
MVP Stafford's not done, plus NFL award winners
I saw a video where a guy built a Power BI app to filter only very specific senders for a client who got a lot of spam email. I commented, "there's a checkbox in OWA settings to only deliver emails from your safe senders list." Could've done it in like 2 clicks.
It is really fun to have all my data directly accessible on my phone without having to rely on an active internet connection. Not that I don't have one but I just don't need one for most of the tasks.
This is mainly done through #Syncthing and an SD card in my #fairphone
…
Hive mind: is there a non-profit that helps Open Source projects get their builds notarized by Apple? The technical part can be tricky, but it is possible to set this up with a bit of elbow grease, but getting a legal entity approved by Apple takes a lot of paperwork. I would hope that there would be a (European) foundation or sth that has done this, and would be willing to lend their credentials to a well-known project that currently cannot publish ready-to-run macOS binaries...
Can't believe I almost forgot to post my #WWBC post this week. I was so proud of myself, too, because I had it done Monday evening. There's a link in the post to the rest of the Weekly Wednesday Blogging Challenge posts, so be sure to check them out.
It is nice to see how the community of a small Emacs package I created is growing. And people are willing to crash into the bugs just to see the project improve.
I've done that for other projects as well, but it is my first time for my own code. Is kind of inspiring and encouraging.
News articles complaining about the state of the navy, during a time of conflict, are like news articles that wait until heavy snow to complain about the lack of investment in snow plows.
The UK's previous government took a bet that they wouldn't actually need a full navy before the 2030s - hence the "frigate gap".
Mexico is “a country that has done nothing but cooperate with US interests on all levels”, Thomas Payan said.
“And here he is rubbing Mexico’s nose in what is essentially a very deep wound in Mexico’s history … it’s seared in Mexico’s memory.”
According to Payan, the statement also speaks volumes as to how Trump would like his presidency to be remembered.
“He wants to go down as a great president who expanded the American Empire,” he said.
“It’s just sheer 19th-centu…
Just so we're clear: you can't have face unlock anymore because we don't trust you to understand that we don't think that your device is secure enough
Fuck these paranoid idiots
Maybe I'll buy an iPhone
@… @… I’d encourage folks to support the Kickstarter if they want to chip in! (which I believe you may have already done, so thank you!)
Something I do not think the fashy Trump-licking crowd understands is how •deeply• we here in Minneapolis and environs felt everything that’s happened.
The ICE invasion might have been a lot of things for the folks behind it: a strategic offensive, a gambit, a bender, a job, a joy ride. But I suspect that across all those cases, it was something they feel like they can walk away from whenever they decide to be done with it.
Not so for us neighbors. They have no idea how angry we are. They have no idea how long we’re going to stay angry. If you were a part of the ICE invasion, be warned: people will be out hunting for your head as long as you walk free on this earth.
The war with Iran will only increase the shortage in Ukraine for interceptors for missiles/drones. Also I think it's peculiar some European countries send military assets to defend Gulf States against drone/missile attacks, why can't the same be done for Ukraine?
#ukraine #iran
It's February. It's only five months until ARRL/RAC Field Day!
Last year, I modified Morse Walker to support practicing running CW FD.
I've since done a couple other modifications; sadly I haven't heard back from the author on PRs, so if you are thinking you'd like to brush off your Morse code to participate in Field Day, my fork is still your best option:
Quick tip: if `ffmpeg` shows the incorrect frame count when processing videos, just toss it through a quick `mkvmerge`.
```
for i in video*; do mkvmerge "$i" -o"temp_$i"; done
```
#mkvmerge #ffmpeg
I don't suppose there's a filter to transform a #Convo site into some sort of #WordPress theme? Or a skilled hand who's done it before?
But we do get the configuration it'd mostly be in during a camp. Single bed out, sink and fridge available, batteries under the bed.
Note the infinity mirror in front of the mini-fridge. Pretty.
And if the bed feels too cramped, the fridge and sink can go under the other side.
Nice. It's useable now. More to be done. That wallpaper is pretty terrible in places and the doors all still need doing. Going to need to apply glue to things as they fall apart. Needs curtains. Has some tiny little battery LED lights, but I'm thinking a strip all around the roof really on top of that. Lots of 3M Dual Lock strips everywhere to enable things to be locked down and avoid sliding around so much.
Done as much as can be done until more wallpaper arrives at least.
The wave of progressive independent news and media outlets genuinely keeps me going with hope for the world sometimes.
(I credit @… with starting the trend / giving others a template for how it can be done, but of course such publications have always existed in some form)
It's done, I successfully defended my #PhD! 🤩
My amazing colleagues @… made this gorgeous hat for me 😍
In Her Era
For the woman who's done playing small with her health, her success, or her potential...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/in-her-era/
@… Duncan Jones posted this video over on BSky, and I thought you might enjoy it as much as I did. I am slain by what a difference having these professional ovens makes - you can control both the heat and the humidity. Beautiful to see all these steps that I have taught myself done with such grace and precision by a pro!
Generalist, which raised $140M at a $440M valuation in 2025, releases GEN-1, an AI model to help robots handle high-dexterity tasks typically done by humans (Anna Tong/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026
I found a really nice co-working space near me. It's 30€ for a single day or 250€ for an entire month of access. Coffee and water are free. I have never done co-working before so I can't compare.
What do you guys think of that price?
#Freelance #Freelancer
Got paid for a writing project that isn't going forward in its current form (paused) but feels good to be paid for the work I've done, and maybe it can have a slightly different life elsewhere too.
#writing
What’s that? Yes, I am trying to get some work done with a fully grown cat wearing a cone perched on my shoulder like a parrot.
Yes, it is quite inconvenient…
#CatsOfMastodon
This week, something broke.
Maybe Trump does not understand the link between the past and the present,
but other people do.
They can see that, as a result of decisions that Trump made but cannot explain,
the Strait of Hormuz is blocked by Iranian mines and drones.
They can see oil prices rising around the world and they understand that it is difficult and dangerous for the U.S. Navy to solve this problem.
They can also hear the president lashing out,
So I guess the Strait of Hormuz isn't going to open itself, and the US isn't just going to walk away, and a lot more damage will be done to energy infrastructure all around the Gulf, and the chatter of the past 48 hours was just that... talking down the markets. Buckle up, this could get interesting. https://ww…
Come on, Virginia, don't make me wait!
Catholic girls start much too late,
Ah, but sooner or later, it comes down to fate,
I might as well be the one.
Well, they showed you a statue, told you to pray,
Built you a temple and locked you away,
Ah, but they never told you the price that you paid,
The things that you might have done.
So come on, Virginia, show me a sign,
Send up a signal, I'll throw you a line,
That stained glass curtain t…
RE: https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/116332667717903322
I really think that we _are_ starting to build those tools. I'm party to a lot of discussions about how to use these tools well, and a lot of that starts to look like systems design: what are controls? What are the feedback loops? Where do we need to add new frictions? Where do we need to eliminate old bottlenecks?
We are still very, _very_ early in this.
But the work is getting done, and a lot of us 'haters' need to get in the drivers seat and start putting up useful critique like mttaggart's. I don't agree with the entire article, but it's solid work and solid case report. It’s very good stuff. We need a lot more of these conversations.
And we need to let people hate it. Not to be confused with obstinate blocking, but to have the feelings of hating it, of disliking the processes it engenders, of finding those new footings — or rejecting the bad ones. We can't look at this clearly unless we have the space to hate it.
This is how my weekends usually go:
- Get the laundry done
- Get the dishes done
- Get the dogs to the dog wash
- Get the groceries done for the week
- Do something that brings you joy
I'm always surprised when I get to that fifth item successfully.
Not much has been mentioned of late about the progress for the California High Speed Rail project.
(I am a big supporter of the project; I was with some of the principals on election night when the voters chose to endorse the project.)
Below is a fairly recent video about the progress and financing.
I often drive the section between Bakersfield and Fresno - and I can see much that has been done (and I've walked on what seems to me to be rail/signal/power ready "gui…
I realise on the fediverse this is maybe asking for a flaming, but yesterday out of sheer curiosity I tried Claude for a simpleish coding task that I'd been putting off (largely inspired by @… 's latest on #theclimatebrink). The performance of Claude was seriously impressive. I am convinced the AI cycle is more than hype (and have been for a while), the chatbots have been a huge attention hogger, misleadingly so, while the serious work has been done elsewhere. (We are developing ML tools to supplement parts of our climate model workflows).
Now I'm wondering if there is any serious EU competition to Anthropic? - Mistral's codestral perhaps?
Because this kind of performance changes everything and we can't afford to lag behind...
#AIcoding #ML
Edit: here is the climate brink post I mentioned
https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-ai-augmented-scientist
This is the story of my whole life. Aside from my wives and kids of course.
And in writing this I came to realize that other than a scattering of travel alone (work, dead relatives, eclipse chase) I have not done the “in public alone, not lonely” thing very much for a long time. Odd that it seems so familiar still. Now I really miss it…
ht…
Court ordered money to go to Planned Parenthood, so not much to be done about it.
MAGA senator declares war on RFK as pro-lifers mutiny - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/josh-hawley-2676658698/
Harry Dunn was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal in 2023, the second-highest civilian honor, which was presented to him by former President Joe Biden.
"I once told Congress,
'I did my job, now you do yours,'"
Dunn says in his announcement video posted Wednesday.
"Well, I'm done waiting."
Dunn will face a crowded field for the Democratic nomination to replace Hoyer,
including established Maryland politicians Del. Adri…
Answering a question someone asked me elsewhere - should it be necessary, fuel rationing at the petrol station would be done on a per-visit basis, not a per-person/vehicle basis.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publi…
@… well, I’ve done it but escaped unscathed, I wonder if I have safesearch on or something
Microscope bench workstation upgrade is almost done - now has the CPU from the VM server, the RAM from the soldering bench workstation, a new motherboard, and SSD previously retired from the storage cluster. So the motherboard and heatsink were the only new purchases and I effectively have a brand new workstation.
But I also need a new fan because the Supermicro BMC doesn't like how low the RPM on the Noctua case fan is and some quick poking at ipmitool didn't fix it so I'm…
Okay, removed the second MiSTer and made room for the OG Mega Drive/Genesis. Got it hooked up, found the right power adapter and SCART cable, and even cleaned it up a bit. Think I'm done futzing around with the shelf for the time being.
#retrogaming #nes
Finishing term has done wonders for the dishes.
I will once again repeat what I think is a nationally winning campaign for a US opposition party (should any care to exist), now with Berlatsky’s improved phrasing:
❝If elected, I will fight like hell to:
- destroy Donald Trump, everything he has done, and everything he stands for,
- tax the living shit out of billionaires, and
- use that money to repair the damage they’ve done to the US.❞
Not saying that’s everything that needs to happen, or an entire political philosophy, or the solution to everything. Only saying that I think that — simply that — would win elections. Try it and see. You cowards. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:htdsafwakqmzvuk2oivijzn6/post/3midafsxk3k2p
🇳🇴 Norway has reached the milestone of one million electric cars.
Bra jobbet! [Well done!]
#EV
@… The people at Wolfram have done a gorgeous visualisation of the trajectory
Just ran a successful non-interactive build and test cycle of ngscopeclient in a Debian VM with a PCIe passthrough GPU.
Just start the VM from the snapshot, paste a handful of shell commands into a SSH session, and I get this.
Still need to work out how to actually spawn the VM, specify the hash I want to build, shut it down and revert when done, etc.
Took only three and a half minutes on this instance (16GB RAM, 16 vCPU, GTX 1630) which is pretty decent considering there w…
Even if ICE CBP presence in the Twin Cities goes back to pre-Dec levels (which to be clear it •has not• yet done), we will be living with this for a long time. The world will be moving on, the national press will forget about us no doubt, but we’ll be living with this.
Nobody here thinks we’re done. But a lot of us are cautiously hopeful that we are now entering a time where this is some room for repairing and rebuilding.
Cautiously hopeful. But vigilant.
/end