@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk@… 's ngscopeclient showing a trace and fft (from a 1kHz sample) from my Rigol DS series scope; I can't say it's that happy with the Rigol, but hey I think that's as much about the Rigol's firmware.
https…
@aardrian@toot.cafe
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaRed Lines under the EU AI Act: Understanding ‘Prohibited AI Practices’ and their Interplay with the GDPR, DSA
https://fpf.org/blog/red-lines-under-the-eu-ai-act-understanding-prohibited-ai-practices-and-their-inte…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe NIST narrows its National Vulnerability Database priorities to CVEs in CISA's known exploited catalog, to deal with a backlog after its 2024 funding lapse (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/nist-narrows-cve-analysis-nvd/
@cdarwin@c.imFrench MPs are preparing to vote on a law that treats criticism of Israel as antisemitic and widely expands the scope of terrorism legislation.
Lawmakers will debate the bill informally dubbed Yadan’s Law
– in reference to the MP who proposed the bill, Caroline Yadan
– on 18 April.
Under current law, “direct” incitement to terrorism is punishable by five years in prison and a €75,000 fine.
The bill would expand that to “implicit” incitement or glorification of …
@shriramk@mastodon.socialCS researchers: NSDI 2027 explicitly declines to include work in some topics that are technically in scope (search for "Moreover, NSDI does not include work in…"). Are there other elite conferences that are also doing this? Pointers welcome, thanks!
https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi27/c
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeMetacurity operates outside the infosec news echo chamber to track patterns, context, and connections that most other sources miss.
Check out today's issue for the most critical developments you should know, including
--Defense companies face a 'relentless barrage' of cyberespionage, Google,
--Fugitive sentenced to 2 years for pig butchering money laundering,
--Coupang data breach scope was more massive than reported,
--Discord to demand face scans or…
@cdarwin@c.imAn election clerk in a far-right Michigan county has been purging voter rolls without authorization
According to the report, the Michigan Bureau of Elections "sent a letter to Antrim County Clerk Victoria Bishop on Tuesday saying it had received information suggesting she had made voter registration changes 'that fall outside the scope of your statutory authority and fail to comply with the law.'"
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… indeed.
My screenshot pokes fun at the contrast between the numbers (not at the seriousness of the underlying issues) with GitHub automatically – necessarily – hiding hundreds of points of view, and unfortunately doing so above the number "2".
There's probably scope for GitHub to more intelligently automate the placement of its '…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeWelp. That was a long night.
Good news: my last box on Debian Bookworm has been updated, I'm now 100% Trixie, both bare metal and VMs.
And the prodigal scope is back from the LeCroy service center after what feels like several months of downtime between waiting for friends to help me rack/unrack the 70 pound boat anchor and shipping back and forth.
Turns out there were multiple failed internal power supplies, both on the acquisition board and the top level system PSU, p…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsI've been wondering lately if my job is #bullshit.
I've given it a lot of thought, and I think it's not directly bullshit. I'm doing stuff that's meaningful, at least in a narrow scope, both in my dayjob and my #FreeSoftware / #Gentoo work.
That said, with the arrival of all the bullshit CEOs, CTOs, all their bootlickers, wannabe bootlickers, and all the CEO/CTO/bootlicker cosplayers, the whole software industry is becoming filled with bullshit to the brim.
Even if my work is meaningful, it contributes more and more to software that's either scam in itself, used to scam people or pure unadulterated bullshit. Even if the tools used to be useful, they either gain bullshit parts or bullshit dependencies.
I hate this, and it's making me hate what I'm doing.
@cdarwin@c.imIn another round of late-night social media posts, Donald Trump attacked the Supreme Court for not overturning his loss in the 2020 presidential election
— and tried to pressure the court to rule his way in future election cases.
Flurries of angry social media posts are not unusual for Trump,
but this one was particularly alarming for its scope and the criticism it directed against the nation’s highest court,
where six out of nine justices are conservatives and three …
@roland@devdilettante.comThe law breaking continues from The Convicted Criminal and his cronies.
https://mastodon.social/@cemedia/116018673132909030
@ocrampal@mastodon.socialWhy Computation Can’t Create—And Where It Hits the Logic Ceiling.
While logic can rearrange the pieces of an existing puzzle, it cannot explain the spark that creates the pieces themselves.
https://ocrampal.com/the-scope-of-geneosophy-where-concept-creation…
@bibbleco@infosec.exchange(Via @… )
Why o why did I surrender to curiosity and peek? ... It seems that five years metaphorically lying down in a darkened room isn't long enough for the fundamental impossibility of #infosec to change or evolve.
"This pa…
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukI wrote up my #esp32 hackery:
https://www.treblig.org/espstuff/index.html
@memeorandum@universeodon.comEpstein Files Reveal Scope of Ghislaine Maxwell's Role in Clinton Circle (Danny Hakim/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/us/politics/epstein-clintons-maxwell.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p13#a260208p13
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeAnybody know of code autoformatters/linters that respect intentionally added whitespace (e.g. having a big table of values with each column aligned even if this means multiple whitespace characters, or indenting code inside a begin/end function pair even if it's not a new scope, etc)?
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialLLMs have no concept of "true" or "good." But they are trained to signal high-quality work. Meanwhile, bosses are pressuring workers: go faster, produce more, let the AI cook.
Study after study documents what this does to the human brain: cognitive surrender. We're "in the loop" but the bot calls the shots.
Read more in this week's issue of the Product Picnic newsletter:
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzCool - managed to move one of my Uptime Kumas from Sqlite3 to MariaDB... and I created 2 additional instances so I could split up my concerns among the responsible entities (relevant companies/communities). It's impressive software, though I think it'd be cool if it supported user accounts (currently there's just scope for a single account on each instance). That's being explored...
@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.orgIf you’re about to submit a paper to an established (!) conference, please not only read the call for papers—yes, READ it—but have a look at previous proceedings. Please!
“But I spent so much time writing this” doesn’t make a paper fit the scope
#AcademicChatter
@n8foo@macaw.socialMore shots tonight. Beginner #astrophotography target but the results with the new little scope are amazing, especially for only 26 minutes of capture, in light polluted and cloudy skies.
M42 the Orion Nebula. #Astrodon
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaAfrica’s Data Protection Reforms: A Continental Perspective on the Drivers of Change in Legal Frameworks
https://fpf.org/blog/africas-data-protection-reforms-a-continental-perspective-on-the-drivers-of-change-in-lega…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn eight-month study at a US tech company finds AI tools didn't reduce work but intensified it, as employees worked faster and took on a broader range of tasks (Harvard Business Review)
https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euIt's not even annoying anymore. As usual, the open-source gods have stepped in and support these abandoned hardware products. The difference this time is one of the lines of abandoned hardware products launched a little over 3 years ago, and the other isn't obsolete within the scope of the usecase.
I'm Annoyed At AMD's Latest Radeon Blunder - Hardware Unboxed
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
“Personal Data”: more than a definition, a quasi-constitutional stake in EU law in the era of the Digital Omnibus.
https://www.europeanlawblog.eu/pub/yc0l0slk
saved 2026-03-04
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 103 - CIII
Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth,
That having such a scope to show her pride,
The argument all bare is of more worth
Than when it hath my added praise beside!
O! blame me not, if I no more can write!
Look in your glass, and there appears a face
That over-goes my blunt invention quite,
Dulling my lines, and doing me disgrace.
Were it not sinful then, striving to mend,
To mar the subject that before was well?…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: WaPo's layoffs may narrow its scope to topics of expertise and reader interest based on digital traffic, with politics and video becoming more central (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/business/media/washington-post-newsroom.html…
@aardrian@toot.cafeFrom @… at that other site.
https://bsky.app/profile/ericwbailey.website/post/3mgidriwhq22g
@adulau@infosec.exchangeGCVE-BCP-08 - GCVE GNA Directory File
Following some good pre-discussion at #fosdem - a first draft of the directory file specification has been updated. The goal is clarify some of the fields. Feedback is more than welcome.
@…@…
@cheeaun@mastodon.socialNeat ideas for navigating threaded comments & new comments highlighting. I kinda thought of this but really wonder about its usefulness.
- If there's too much nesting of comments, the sidebar space won't be enough
- It shows "[INT] [NAME]" where INT = vote count. Higher count is probably more read-worthy?
- Per-day filter for new comments highlighting is probably too broad in scope if the conversation is too active.
- Sidebar won't appear on sma…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeReferences to specific paragraphs and clauses of IEEE 802.3 is a perfectly normal thing to find in a GLSL shader, right?
Just normal shader developers doing normal shader things.
https://github.com/ngscopeclient/scope
@cdarwin@c.imThe U.S. dropped nearly $6 billion worth of munitions on Iran in just the first two days of the U.S.-Israeli assault, officials say,
giving a sense of the staggering scope of the carpet bombing campaign as the Trump administration sweeps aside affordability crises at home.
Three U.S. officials told The Washington Post that the U.S. dropped $5.6 billion in the first two days of its bombardments.
This represents hundreds of “precision” weapons like Terminal High Altitude Area …
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizzaIt feels obvious that llm's have no place in free and open source software. Apparently it isn't, at least not to everyone. I recently became interested in exploring the scope of the problem after finding out that both Vim and Neovim not only don't have policies banning llm contribution, but already contain fairly significant amounts of llm generated code.
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukCombining my bad rust, bad soldering and bad carpentry, I can now press on the two foot pedals and get a character on my Linux terminal via USB. I'm intending to be able to set scope trigger and capture a screen shot via SCPI/LXI - that shouldn't be that hard now that the host gets the key inputs.
Not a bad little project; learnt a bit more Rust, some ESP32 (on @…
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaRed Lines under the EU AI Act: Unpacking Social Scoring as a Prohibited AI Practice
https://fpf.org/blog/red-lines-under-the-eu-ai-act-unpacking-social-scoring-as-a-prohibited-ai-practice/
@…
@dawid@social.craftknight.com
@brian_gettler@mas.toThe Yellowhead Institute, an Indigenous-led think tank at Toronto Metropolitan University, has released a new version of its treaty map along with an education guide including material designed for Grade 8 through post-secondary. Check it out.
https://treatymap.yellowheadinstitute.
@raiders@darktundra.xyzDetails of Kirk Cousins’ 5-year deal with Raiders emerge https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/04/02/raiders-kirk-cousins-contract-details/89435763007/
@NFL@darktundra.xyzMike Kafka joining Lions as high-ranking offensive assistant after stint as Giants interim coach https://www.nfl.com/news/mike-kafka-lions-high-ranking-offensive-assistant-giants-interim-coach
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgbums, i had a collection of mags from the late 1990s, all about cycling with a progressive sustainability point of view
anything without a diamond frame was in scope
cargo bikes, trikes, recumbents, recumbent trikes, pedersen, moulton, brompton, usw etc pp
i cant find them and i fear i got rid of them :-(
they were so optimistic
@sherold@mastodon.onlineRE: https://mastodon.online/@sherold/116289803951438216
There are things in this part of the known universe that I consider essential to even begin to grasp the full scope of what it means to be human. 🦄🎉
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeWell that's... Fun. The baseT1 demo setup is giving weird looking waveforms now. Partially closed eyes and a skewed constellation.
The saved waveform from before works fine, which means it's probably either the scope or the signal source that's acting up and not any of my recent software changes. But what changed? I traveled with the scope but don't think I damaged it, it was securely packed in a pelican case. I double checked all of the probe connections and re torqued…
@newsie@darktundra.xyzNike probes potential cyber incident after hackers claim data leak https://therecord.media/nike-probes-alleged-cyber-incident
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 103 - CIII
Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth,
That having such a scope to show her pride,
The argument all bare is of more worth
Than when it hath my added praise beside!
O! blame me not, if I no more can write!
Look in your glass, and there appears a face
That over-goes my blunt invention quite,
Dulling my lines, and doing me disgrace.
Were it not sinful then, striving to mend,
To mar the subject that before was well?…
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaThe Rest of the West: Oregon and Washington Build on California Chatbot Law
https://fpf.org/blog/the-rest-of-the-west-oregon-and-washington-build-on-california-chatbot-law/
@…
@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.pageStructural-Ambiguity-Aware Translation from Natural Language to Signal Temporal Logic
Kosei Fushimi, Kazunobu Serizawa, Junya Ikemoto, Kazumune Hashimoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28426 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.28426 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.28426
arXiv:2603.28426v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Signal Temporal Logic (STL) is widely used to specify timed and safety-critical tasks for cyber-physical systems, but writing STL formulas directly is difficult for non-expert users. Natural language (NL) provides a convenient interface, yet its inherent structural ambiguity makes one-to-one translation into STL unreliable. In this paper, we propose an \textit{ambiguity-preserving} method for translating NL task descriptions into STL candidate formulas. The key idea is to retain multiple plausible syntactic analyses instead of forcing a single interpretation at the parsing stage. To this end, we develop a three-stage pipeline based on Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG): ambiguity-preserving $n$-best parsing, STL-oriented template-based semantic composition, and canonicalization with score aggregation. The proposed method outputs a deduplicated set of STL candidates with plausibility scores, thereby explicitly representing multiple possible formal interpretations of an ambiguous instruction. In contrast to existing one-best NL-to-logic translation methods, the proposed approach is designed to preserve attachment and scope ambiguity. Case studies on representative task descriptions demonstrate that the method generates multiple STL candidates for genuinely ambiguous inputs while collapsing unambiguous or canonically equivalent derivations to a single STL formula.
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@azonenberg@ioc.exchange15.6 kWh solar generation today, new record (unsurprisingly... the days are getting longer plus we are having a sunny spell).
This month so far, production has averaged around 10% of my consumption although I expect both to be climbing soon (my big scope is back from service, and spring is coming next month) so it'll be interesting to see what happens after that.
Total YTD production is 194.8 kWh although that includes 12 days of zero production with the system offline betwee…
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukThat looks believably like a video signal off a test point on the busted OLED panel
@cdarwin@c.imIt’s only February, and the November elections are already in peril.
When I think back to the days and weeks before Jan. 6, 2021, one thing that’s clear is that many of us suffered from a failure of imagination.
We knew President Trump’s lies and conspiracy mongering were dangerous,
but it’s hard to think of a single person who predicted that a MAGA mob would storm the Capitol.
Very few people anticipated the sheer scale and scope of the effort to overturn the electi…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeOK so now I have a hundred-odd lines of Bash and a 25-line slurm.conf that is able to queue up a build job (https://github.com/ngscopeclient/scopehal-ci-scripts), wait for the node to be free, spawn the VM, wait for it to boot, launch the actual test script on the VM, shut it down,…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzNew Coaching Staff Brings Increased, Expedited Attention for 2 Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-new-coaching-staff-brings-increased-expedited-attention
@gyp_vokag@social.linux.pizzaDefaults at AtSite will shape place. Scope the world to fit the moment. Rate-limit week by default.
@cdarwin@c.imThe chief federal judge in Minnesota accused federal officials of continuing to #disobey judicial orders related to immigration enforcement and then #mischaracterizing the scope of their missteps.
♦️The judge, Patrick Schiltz, threatened to hold government officials in criminal contempt if the pattern con…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeEarly experimenting with a new-user tutorial for ngscopeclient.
Thoughts?
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeThis cheap indicator stand doesn't stick that well to the table through the mat, but it's better than what I had before. Had to shim the camera with some electrical tape to make it fit.
The setup is definitely getting as cramped as a FIB chamber with the spindle, camera, optical scope, light, compressed gas spray, and suction all vying for space around the workpiece
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeTest equipment never ceases to amaze me with the new and creative ways it can break what should be a straightforward API.
Today's enemy is the Agilent DSO-X 2000 series... I just merged a pull request that increases the connection timeout for the Agilent driver, because this scope (verified with netcat) has a hang of about ten seconds after you connect to TCP 5025 before it will send *any* responses to commands.
Once this wait elapses, it works fine. I'm guessing it just …
