Tootfinder

Expert systems are inevitable
Don’t get left behind, Flash is the future
Java Applets will replace all other software
Cryptocurrency will obsolete fiat currency
Better claim your stake in the Metaverse
By 2015, we will all have self-driving cars
Pen computing is going to end keyboards on laptops
You’ll look so stupid if you miss out on NFTs

France is aiming to increase the number of shared cars fivefold in five years: from 14,000 now to around 70,000 in 2031.
Both station-based and free-floating, within companies, urban and rural.
https://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-eco/autopart

Autopartage : le gouvernement vise un objectif de 70.000 véhicules d'ici 2031
Le gouvernement a fixé jeudi un nouvel objectif pour développer l'autopartage en France afin de réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre du...

Shortly after 10 a.m., the California Highway Patrol announced on X that #Highway101 is #closed from Winchester in Goleta to State Route 1
“due to debris flow and flooding for an unknown duration.”
#CHP advises motorists to u…

Flash Flood Warning Issued for Parts of Santa Barbara County as 101 Closes for ‘Unknown Duration’
Debris flow and flooding close Highway 101 in both directions through Goleta Saturday morning.

“Please note that access to your Animate files and project data will end on 1 March 2027. To ensure a smooth transition, we encourage you to export your Animate FLA and XFL files to other formats such as SWF, SVG and MP4 files before this date.”
R.I.P., #Flash. 🪦

Finland uses “Russia-gauge” rails. They are going to move to European compatible rail gauge for their own resilience.
This is what we should be thinking about for moving to open social away from American platforms: it should come with significant spending commitments & is absolutely necessary.
https://www.

Gemini 3 Flash is priced at $0.50 per 1M input tokens and $3 per 1M output tokens, compared to Gemini 2.5 Flash's $0.30 per 1M input and $2.5 per 1M output (Tulsee Doshi/The Keyword)
https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3-flash/

Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed
Gemini 3 Flash offers frontier intelligence built for speed at a fraction of the cost.

Our pick this week is a banger from UK punk rockers Templeton Pek.
Crank that volume, give it a listen and see what we had to say about the track and the band behind it. Go on, it's almost the weekend .. treat yourself!
Follow us for more reviews of hand picked tracks from across the epic world of #rock and

Templeton Pek - Red Lights Flash
One awesome, hand picked song from the world of rock and metal, showcased every week. Nothing more, nothing less! 🤘

Weitere Verknappung: Weltmarktführer verringern angeblich NAND-Flash-Produktion
Die Speicherriesen Samsung und SK Hynix könnten 2026 weniger NAND-Flash-Wafer belichten als bisher. Das verschärft möglicherweise den Mangel.

"From deadly heatwaves to flash floods: How Europe’s extreme weather events defined 2025"
#Heatwaves #Environment #Climate

A timeline of disaster: How extreme weather battered Europe this year
Europe’s extreme weather has caused thousands of deaths and shaken the economy. Will it be 2025’s grim legacy?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Parliament:
🎵 Flash Light
#Parliament
https://slynk.bandcamp.com/track/parliament-flash-light-slynk-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1v1PV2wERHiMPesMWX0qmO

Google unveils Gemini 3 Flash that it says offers Pro-level performance with lower latency, higher efficiency, and reduced costs compared to 2.5 Pro (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/12/17/gemini-3-flash-launch/

Google announces Gemini 3 Flash with Pro-level performance, rolling out now
Following last month's launch of Gemini 3 Pro, Google today announced Gemini 3 Flash for consumers and developers.

from my link log —
Testing ECC NMI in a cubesat boot loader: intentional flash corruption for STM32 microcontrollers.
https://blog.010.one/Dont-snipe-me-in-space-intentional-flash-corruption-for-stm32-microcontrollers

Don’t snipe me in space - intentional flash corruption for STM32 microcontrollers
Almost one and a half years ago I joined MOVE, the Munich Orbital Verification Experiment, a student club focusing on practical education in the area of satellites at the Technical University of Munich. MOVE has launched three CubeSats to date (First-MOVE in 2013, MOVE-II in 2018 and MOVE-IIb in 2019), and we are currently preparing two future missions. These missions require reliable software, and the ability to update in orbit.

Somebody with an old Samsung Tab 2 (gt-5110)? What to do with it in 2026?
I've tried to install #customRom but it didn't work...
https://xdaforums.com/t/gt-5110-which-odi…

Flash Garden
#SciFiSuburbanLife
#hashtaggames

Complaint by Coupang's U.S. investors may turn data leak probe into trade flash point
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-01-23/business/tech/Compl…

Complaint by Coupang's U.S. investors may turn data leak probe into trade flash point
U.S. investors in Coupang sought intervention in the Korean government's probe of the e-commerce giant over a data leak, potentially escalating the domestic investigation into an international trade conflict.

"More than 87m people impacted by climate-related disasters in 2025"
#Climate #ClimateChange

More than 87m people impacted by climate-related disasters in 2025
In 2025, more than 200 climate-related disasters affected more than 87.8 million people worldwide, according to preliminary figures from the International Disaster Database analyzed by Mongabay. The disasters include flash floods, landslides, severe storms, wildfires and droughts. Drought and food insecurity impacted the largest number of people. In Syria, which faced its worst drought in […]

Chasing some other interesting bugs in the STM32MP2 setup.
1) I don't know if the clock dividers were the problem or not, but I'm seeing weird behavior with the QSPI flash randomly not working properly sometimes.
2) Possibly related: power consumption of the board seems to vary /- 20% from one reset to another. This is an enormous variation, no I do not currently have an explanation.

Google makes Gemini 3 Flash the default model in Gemini app and Search's AI mode; it scored 33.7% without tool use on Humanity's Last Exam vs. GPT-5.2's 34.5% (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/goog

Google launches Gemini 3 Flash, makes it the default model in the Gemini app | TechCrunch
Google is making Gemini 3 Flash the default model in the Gemini app and oAI model for Search

Torrential rains and flash floods kill 37 in Moroccan city of Safi #Morocco

Torrential rains and flash floods kill 37 in Moroccan city of Safi
Floods triggered by torrential rains have killed at least 37 people in the Moroccan coastal city of Safi, the Interior Ministry said Monday.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Joey Beltram:
🎵 Energy Flash
#JoeyBeltram
https://loewmusic.bandcamp.com/track/joey-beltram-energy-flash-loews-mood-vibes-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/46ddej1ibGIgs58H0wakoK

[sitting in my VRML-generated Java Applet that floats through the Metaverse, powered by Flash and Silverlight]
AI is here to stay!

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Grandmaster Flash:
🎵 White Lines
#NowPlaying #GrandmasterFlash
https://discosanctuary.bandcamp.com/track/grandmaster-flash-white-lines-sanctuary-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2W1ClVyalH5ys0HIN3FGvU

We are already well behind the peak of the #Geminids - as expected - according to meteor radio echo data from around the world plotted in https://www5f.biglobe.ne.jp/~hro/Flash/2025/GEM/ (the solar longitudes of 261° and 262° correspond to December 13th at 3:17 and December 14th at 2:53 UTC, respectively).

Well, today has been an emotional rollercoaster. Ever had a successful BIOS flash lead to silent RAM corruption causing certain things to fail while the operating system as a whole continues to run? I have now. Rollback fixed it. No more upgrades for me!

was trying to decide if i was gonna get a slice before or after the show, but the flash mob dance party at the pizza place answered that swiftly. #nyc

RHYTHMICSHIT – Flash
https://www.archive.org/details/23DSK07
https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2025/12/12/r<…

Koutei Camera Girl Zwei - Lovin flash Da Bagdad

• YouTube
• YouTube Music
• Invidious

News flash: Billionaires are unpopular. But, the strength of the sentiment and how fast the needle has moved were both surprises to me. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/opinion/billionaires-politics-money.html

Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
The first rule of dark money is to quit blabbing about it. Did they think people would thank them for it?

I post a lot here and on Maker Forums Discourse, and have kind of not gotten around to blogging for a while. But today I had time to reflect on my first full year of #HamRadio — this new hobby has surprised me in a lot of (good) ways.

The global market for memory chips, particularly DRAM and NAND Flash, is experiencing significant price increases, primarily attributed to the explosive demand from operators of AI, who are buying up these essential components in enormous quantities.
https://www.computing.co.uk/analysis/2025/

The memory crunch – Is AI to blame?
The global market for memory chips, particularly DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) and NAND Flash, is currently experiencing a period of significant price increases, primarily ...

Woo hoo! GLM 4.7-flash is available in LM Studio!

Since the Trump administration launched high-intensity immigration sweeps this year,
federal agents have routinely countered protestors using crowd control weapons
— rubber bullets, flash-bang grenades, tear gas and pepper balls.
They’ve fired on American citizens and noncitizens alike in ways that some experts say might be criminal.

Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear gas. Protestors trapped, struggling to breathe.

Xiaomi releases MiMo-V2-Flash, an open-weight MoE model with 309B total and 15B active parameters, saying it excels in reasoning, coding, and agentic scenarios (Xiaomi Mimo)
https://mimo.xiaomi.com/blog/mimo-v2-flash

I had this little avatar from years ago, originally borrowed from a series of Flash animations called "Ninjai - the little ninja".
It was way to small to be used for an avatar in its current size, so I asked Gemini to upscale it and give it a little more texture.
Mind blown!
#AI #GenAI

You know what I love in the morning, before getting any sort of breakfast, getting K dressed & fed, or really anything?
A good solid hot flash and sneezing fit, capped by a half-dozen dry heaves.
It makes me special. My doctor and her shadow med student are mystified when I described these incidents.

Is anyone are of good tools for "the attacker knows the key but not the system" cryptanalysis?
I'm thinking scenarios like "I've dumped external flash and efuses off a target with encrypted firmware, but I don't know the algorithm or image format".
So ciphertext and key are believed to be known, but bit ordering, endianness, algorithm, headers, etc are unknown.

Infant needs CPR after feds unleash flash-bangs on family van with 6 kids inside (Raw Story)
https://www.rawstory.com/ice-minneapolis-2674900256/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p3#a260116p3

Been using a number of AI models over the past week or so as work has slowed down, giving me time to explore things more deeply.
Been using Claude Code with musistudio/claude-code-router which is great as I can switch between different models on similar tasks.
Experience so far has been that Gemini 3 Flash is very good for thinking and coding tasks but the code does tend to be fragile so rewrites are needed. For tough problems where the errors are not straightforward it falls d…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Ananda Shankar:
🎵 Jumpin' Jack Flash
#AnandaShankar
https://echoesreverie.bandcamp.com/track/jumpin-jack-flash
https://open.spotify.com/track/6BkeuHmO4P69Ln2BSonrXi

Je publie des photos ratées parce que... Pourquoi pas. #raté

Japanese NAND flash memory maker Kioxia is up 500% in 2025 so far, outperforming all other MSCI World Index members, after its Tokyo IPO debut in December 2024 (Alice French/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@… you can use BETA5 now to test hardware compatibility. Install to a USB flash drive.
@…

Remember when people said that /Flash|Applets|Silverlight/ is here to stay, you better accept it, it’s inevitable

A clean peak on the evening of 13 December UTC in the #Geminids this year: the meteoroids flux per volume and time plotted vs. time from global video data, in https://globalmeteornetwork.org/flux/plots/flux_GEM_sol=256.00-266.00_year_2025_full.png from https://globalmeteornetwork.org/flux/ - the peak came right at the expected time and is matching the global radio echo data https://www5f.biglobe.ne.jp/~hro/Flash/2025/GEM/

NUNCA deixem nada "na nuvem". NUNCA.
A nuvem são os computadores dos outros gajos. Nada daquilo é vosso.
Têm conta no gmail ou em coisas semelhantes? Usem um programa de email e descarreguem as mensagens. Não as deixem simplesmente lš. Documentos? A mesma coisa. Trabalhem localmente, mesmo se fizerem uploads regulares.
Caso contršrio, correm este risco.

Not the final lights but ones with batteries I have lying around. They'll have lights chasing up and down the length of the windows and changing colour and warping when it's done next year.
Make 'em flash with the materialisation noise as an alarm clock maybe 😆

Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles announced a flash flood warning for the region beginning on Tuesday
and is urging people to use caution while traveling for the upcoming holiday.
The city is also deploying staff with the Los Angeles homeless services authority (Lahsa) to get supplies and hotel vouchers to those living outside.

Japanese NAND flash maker Kioxia's stock is up ~800% over the past 12 months, as AI demand and constrained NAND flash supply boost the chipmaker's pricing power (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/13c5ac7d-c19d-48b5-9b91-2ce1caf57c67

468 nets unrouted. Still have to do the FPGA flash, the power supply, bulk caps for the FPGA, and a few other odds and ends but the entire SoC subsystem is basically routed.
So at this point I can already say definitively that routing the STM32MP2 in TFBGA436 on an OSHPark 4-layer board is extremely doable as long as you aren't trying to max the IOs. Using the DDR may or may not be possible (I'm not trying here) but the internal RAM and HyperRAM are enough for a lot of applicat…

6 kids hospitalized because ICE threw a flash bang into their car. The father said they were not apart of the protest and he was just trying to get his family out of that situation. (01/15/26)
Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1qdqozh

How the #Geminids are doing so far: global video data from this year in the top, the 2023-5 average below. From https://globalmeteornetwork.org/flux/ - see also https://www.imo.net/members/imo_live_shower?shower=GEM&year=2025 for visual and https://www5f.biglobe.ne.jp/~hro/Flash/2025/GEM/ for radio echo data; the plots should consolidate in a few days.

I'm hopeful that the current RAM crisis will end up tanking demand for other hardware to the extent that I'll be able to pick up a future Zen6 chip and AM5 board (or at least a 5950X) for less than they'd otherwise go for. Let's arbitrage this shit to our advantage! (I will shortly have a recurring CPU-bound task that will benefit greatly from doubling my core count or other improvements, and I do have 2x16GB DDR5 SoDIMMs that I could press into service with an adapter in a n…

Poking more at the STM32MP2.
I have CPU2 (the M33) booting from flash, reading a bunch of fuse registers and printing them, doing all the hardware init, etc.
I'm gonna call that reasonably brought up. My current flasher hard codes a few addresses but it's good enough to get the job done while I am tinkering before I make a more permanent solution.
I think I'm ready to start looking into bringing up the A35 next.

Replaced article(s) found for physics.atom-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.atom-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Temporal dynamics in the Bragg reflection of light by cold atoms: flash effect and superradiant d...
S. Asselie, J. -M. Nazon, R. Caldani, C. Roux-Spitz, W. Guerin

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Kenny Dorham:
🎵 Basheer’s Dream
#KennyDorham
https://deejaybastos.bandcamp.com/track/13-basheers-dream-s-mos-mash-up-ft-grand-master-flash-kenny-dorham

Scottish engineer and inventor,
James Watt
was born on this day
19 January 1736
"I had gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon. I had entered the Green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street – had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking about the engine at the time and had gone as far as the Herd’s house when the idea came into my mind, that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication was made between the cyl…

Thony Christie (@rmathematicus.bsky.social)
The 18th-century, Scottish, engineer and inventor, James Watt was born 19 January 1736 #histsci #histtech https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/a-twelve-year-flash-of-genius/

STM32MP2 bringup progress: I have a "FSBL" (really my whole firmware) image booting from QSPI flash, doing some very low level init, then hanging before it starts the UART.
But it's able to open up debug access without needing ST's wrapper. I hard code a few pointers for SFRs that I don't have structs for but it's enough that I can get gdb attached and the code isn't TOO ugly.
Now I need to figure out why Timer::Sleep() is being derpy in BSP_InitUART…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five:
🎵 The King
#GrandmasterFlashandtheFuriousFive

STM32MP2 update: created what I think is a valid boot image, set straps to boot in M33-first mode from flash, reset the board, and it's not coming up.
So now I get to try to figure out why.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
The Allergies:
🎵 No Flash (feat. Ohmega Watts)
#TheAllergies
https://theallergies.bandcamp.com/album/no-flash-feat-ohmega-watts
https://open.spotify.com/track/7kbDrS2fHc7r1nzkk3Wtvi

STM32MP2 bringup update: after fixing some weird linker things with weak symbols that per documentation should never have worked and yet somehow never bit me until now, I have a C stub running on the M33 out of RAM (no flash boot, you have to JTAG/SWD load it for now).
It turns on three of the four LEDs on the devkit, for reasons currently unknown the fourth LED doesn't work. My only guess is that it's in the VDDIO3 domain and I might not yet have turned that on due to PMIC c…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
John Forté:
🎵 Ninety Nine (Flash the Message)
#JohnForté

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Big Audio Dynamite:
🎵 E=MC²
#BigAudioDynamite
https://flashatkins.bandcamp.com/track/big-audio-dynamite-e-mc2-flash-atkins-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/52WaKEZpbiD6aBkmENlj6x

Anyone have an Alexa device that would like to try out a little skill I've made for @… ?
You should be able to add the skill to alexa here:
#testing #alexa #amazon #weather #nerd

Can somebody explain why MLC/TLC/QLC flash is apparently slower to write than SLC?
it seems to me that if you're PAM4/PAM8/PAM16-ing the same amount of data across less bitcells you should get *higher* write speed. Why is MLC not double the write throughput of SLC?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Grandmaster Flash & Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five:
🎵 The Message
#GrandmasterFlash #GrandmasterMelleMel #TheFuriousFive
https://jus-groove.bandcamp.com/track/the-message-funk-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/26kxT1wWIDo5KhMJs8ABwT

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Modeselektor feat. Thom Yorke:
🎵 The White Flash
#Modeselektor #ThomYorke
https://bpitch.bandcamp.com/track/the-white-flash-feat-thom-yorke
https://open.spotify.com/track/2tJurH4ajhFCQGHUV2W3Ge
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