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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · Aug 17

On a completely different tack, a small rant. This fucked up “iNtErSeX pEoPlE aRe aLl eItHeR mAlE oR fEmAlE oNlY” bullshit that empty-headed chucklefucks come out with ignores a huge part of the human side of living this - and that is WE OFTEN DON’T KNOW WHICH OURSELVES in whatever manner of-

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Catherine @whitequark.org · 4h

my anycast provider also offers the anycast/localized DNS service, but the benefit of using anycast is that people can set A/AAAA records for their own domains

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Catherine @whitequark.org · 5h

traceroute grebedoc.dev from a bunch of places and you'll see!

Catherine @whitequark.org · 5h

anycast

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Catherine @whitequark.org · 6h

i could slash my cost by 2/3 (or more) if i served pages from Frankfurt only, but i want access to be equitable in that it should be low-latency across the entire world

for the cost of one Chinese takeout meal i can run the entire grebedoc git-pages infra for a month. i think this is okay

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Catherine @whitequark.org · 6h

we've migrated grebedoc.dev from Fly.io IaaS, which should reduce latency just as well as risk exposure to engineers with a rabidly pro-AI position

here's how much it costs me to run the service using good old VPSes, with a reasonable amount of cost optimization where feasible

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Catherine @whitequark.org · 10h

very excited to finally do it

i've wanted to for a very long time, but had to wait until i moved to the UK, for reasons that are hopefully obvious

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Lobotomy Princess (lizzy) @straybimboroadk1ll.bsky.social · 22h

blow up doll

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Catherine @whitequark.org · 20h

that is SUCH an incredibly petty thing to do, holy shit

sorry you're dealing with this

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Catherine @whitequark.org · 20h

ty :3 :3

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2d

Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia on.ft.com/4hdts1U

Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia

Move by The Hague escalates frictions between western countries and Beijing over access to high-end technology

on.ft.com

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Catherine @whitequark.org · 1d

yes, it's a complete replacement; the only change is a shift in bus timings due to it using a modern process

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 2d

it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc

and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way

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Catherine @whitequark.org · 1d

also the reason they discontinued it was that Skyworks (iirc) bought the fab they used

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Catherine @whitequark.org · 1d

Corebai makes a functional replacement on a modern process, which is what we'll use for Glasgow

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Catherine @whitequark.org · 1d

sick! fx2 is a bit long in the tooth so i'm super glad my old code is still helping people

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Catherine @whitequark.org · 1d

#GlasgowInterfaceExplorer is now OSHWA-certified! certification.oshwa.org/uk000081.html

@oshwassociation.bsky.social

photo of a revC Glasgow with the OSHWA mark UK000081 underneath

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Catherine @whitequark.org · 1d

oh I see!!

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Catherine @whitequark.org · 1d

i'm very happy that it didn't go nowhere! what's your application?

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cuteosphere @cuteosphere.bsky.social · 2d

Underrated fursona idea: the grasshopper mouse. It is a carnivorous rodent that 1. Is continuously evolving a higher pain threshold and toxin tolerance to be able to eat live snakes and scorpions while they fight back, and 2. Defends its territory by howling like a tiny wolf. Hardcore little beast

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Catherine @whitequark.org · 2d

i go and remove the battery after the second beep

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Tomb👻Time @tubetime.bsky.social · 2d

things are getting pretty complicated

Pentium motherboard with the CPU plugged into a complex interposer board with a huge bundle of ribbon cables coming out. next to it is a logic analyzer.

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Catherine @whitequark.org · 2d

"The modern Firebase Cloud Messaging is actually still XMPP-based to this day, though. Of course, it has been separated from Google Talk now."

man, what??

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Catherine @whitequark.org · 2d

added a WebUSB platform device capability descriptor to #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer so now it pops up a prompt like this if you plug it in and Chrome is running

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Catherine @whitequark.org · 2d

yes

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