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I blogged again! About my hike last Monday in the cold. On the hike I tested warming pads in the shoes which were almost great (almost because I should have adjusted them on the way down).
But NOT getting cold feet was really preciousss!
https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2026/testing

Last bit of car maintenance for the year: the Boxster is back from it's 4yr major service. Along with that, we have new front discs and pads and new hardlines from brake junction to calipers, and to top it all off, the original dealer plates are back in place.
Driving home, it definitely felt faster - though that could be a result of my now much lighter-weight wallet 🙂

And also about heating pads and aging...
The interview kinda spun out, but in a fun way. https://flipboard.com/@npr/music-fru3ssldz/-/a-ikPV7EP6SASNRUMrhn_LMQ:a:3195441-/0

Singer Brandi Carlile talks about retreating from the version of herself on stage
Singer Brandi Carlile talks about writing her new album by retreating from the version of herself on stage.

Has anybody here swapped an M.2 1216 SMT Wi-Fi module on a board? Looking for any tips I may need especially re: unsticking the 8 ground pads under the package. Do you just heat up the can? Put the board on a hotplate?

Paraphrase of my #IOT hardware rant on slack (unsurprising, since I maintain https://github.com/unixorn/internet-of-trash/)
In a perfect world IOT hardware companies should:
- Have to escrow the firmware. And escrow the source code, not just the binary blob
- The firmware isn't allowed to use binary blobs as device drivers. Chip manufacturers will have to suck it up and document their chips or hardware companies won't be able to use them
- Have to escrow any keys required to update the firmware
- To be sold, have to have a local API, with at a minimum, functionality to update the firmware once the hardware company stops support. No "You have to use our crapware that only works on a phone/computer OS two major versions old, and it has to download firmware from our servers that got turned off when we went out of business / dropped the product's support
- Eighteen months with no updates causes release of the escrowed firmware and update keys. There are bound to be at least some security updates required in that time
- Have to have clearly labeled pads on the board for updating firmware and running diagnostics.
- Not be allowed to lock consumers out of reflashing the firmware. If someone flashes custom firmware before the escrowed firmware is released, and the custom firmware bricks the device, that's on the person who reflashed it, not the company.
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Unearned privilege continues for the ex-prince. These are the modest little pads where he might end up.
Where might Andrew live on the Sandringham estate? - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c201zvrpvw9o

Where might Andrew live on the Sandringham estate?
The sprawling Norfolk estate is home to several properties - here is a look at where Andrew might be moving in.

"strncpy() is a weird function with a crappy API."
good thing I don't do C 🙃
Seriously though - projects defining their own strc(o)py do mean flaws in a standard library.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/12/29/no-strcpy-either/

no strcpy either
Some time ago I mentioned that we went through the curl source code and eventually got rid of all strncpy() calls. strncpy() is a weird function with a crappy API. It might not null terminate the destination and it pads the target buffer with zeroes. Quite frankly, most code bases are probably better off completely … Continue reading no strcpy either →

Atmel ATSAMA5D27. Also not my best work, but hey it's a sample I have so might as well photograph it.
It was desoldered from something but I have no idea what the origin was.
https://siliconprawn.org/map/atmel/atsama5d27/azonenberg_mz_mit20x/…

A short clip from the weekend:
It was indeed a bit cold up there but it was really good to get out and get my feed on the mountain 🙂
My wife gifted me some warming pads and gosh was that comfortable to have warm soles!!! Just on the way down, they shifted slightly and caused a little blister. That's something to improve. But on the way up is was great

Don't do full system water cooling if you don't like maintenance. I did a full disassembly and flush of the system this time around. Including a multi chemical process to make sure everything is killed as algae started growing.

Surely ... Surely there is a better way to phrase this?
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