Catherine
@whitequark.org
catgirl shaped object
"A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin."
"A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin."
maybe we need a "thank the open source developer whose tools work flawlessly for you day"
November 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
maybe we need a "thank the open source developer whose tools work flawlessly for you day"
abc has commands &if, &if2, &iff, &iiff, &jf, &kf, &lf, &mf, &mfs, &nf, and &of. i think it should also have &yiff. In this essay I will
November 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
abc has commands &if, &if2, &iff, &iiff, &jf, &kf, &lf, &mf, &mfs, &nf, and &of. i think it should also have &yiff. In this essay I will
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@deviantollam.bsky.social I thought you might like to see a fun way to open doors if they are using infrared no touch exit sensors. If you record the signal the sensor is sending and play it back with a high power IR led you can trigger them from a distance or the wrong side of the door.
November 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
@deviantollam.bsky.social I thought you might like to see a fun way to open doors if they are using infrared no touch exit sensors. If you record the signal the sensor is sending and play it back with a high power IR led you can trigger them from a distance or the wrong side of the door.
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last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
if you use or contribute to #ngscopeclient: I will pay £150 to anyone who adds MHO98 support; I can provide access to a live scope to that end
github.com/ngscopeclien...
github.com/ngscopeclien...
Rigol MHO900/MHO98 support · Issue #1022 · ngscopeclient/scopehal
I would like ngscopeclient to have support for MHO98, which is nearly identical to MHO900. I can provide network access to an MHO98. I will pay £150 (subject to revision upwards if the issue turns ...
github.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
if you use or contribute to #ngscopeclient: I will pay £150 to anyone who adds MHO98 support; I can provide access to a live scope to that end
github.com/ngscopeclien...
github.com/ngscopeclien...
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Whoa, client-side search got good while I wasn't looking (and what a surprise, it's Rust)
pagefind.app
pagefind.app
Pagefind | Pagefind — Static low-bandwidth search at scale
Pagefind is a fully static search library that aims to perform well on large sites, while using as little of your users’ bandwidth as possible, and without hosting any infrastructure.
pagefind.app
November 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Whoa, client-side search got good while I wasn't looking (and what a surprise, it's Rust)
pagefind.app
pagefind.app
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"Leftists stop fighting tech and start fighting IP on tech so billionaires and large corps can no longer succeed with monopolizing tech in their hands."-challenge (you would think this challenge to be easy considering fighting IP to seize tech from billionaires once was considered leftist but nope…)
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
"Leftists stop fighting tech and start fighting IP on tech so billionaires and large corps can no longer succeed with monopolizing tech in their hands."-challenge (you would think this challenge to be easy considering fighting IP to seize tech from billionaires once was considered leftist but nope…)
maybe i should have a website again
i've avoided it for years after deciding that i didn't like both the nature of my old writing and the reasons for writing
i've avoided it for years after deciding that i didn't like both the nature of my old writing and the reasons for writing
November 27, 2025 at 10:32 AM
maybe i should have a website again
i've avoided it for years after deciding that i didn't like both the nature of my old writing and the reasons for writing
i've avoided it for years after deciding that i didn't like both the nature of my old writing and the reasons for writing
> (By the way; thank you so much for this project, it's enabled us to teach HDL as a small portion of an introductory course to digital logic which would have been much harder any other way!)
November 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
> (By the way; thank you so much for this project, it's enabled us to teach HDL as a small portion of an introductory course to digital logic which would have been much harder any other way!)
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#Reproduction was the biological process by which new individual organisms – "offspring" – were produced from their "parent" or parents. There were two forms of reproduction: asexual and sexual.
November 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
#Reproduction was the biological process by which new individual organisms – "offspring" – were produced from their "parent" or parents. There were two forms of reproduction: asexual and sexual.
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do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
#Finland will begin to #Russia - proof its rail network, integrate with EU train infrastructure.
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
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No matter what the politicians say, this is discrimination. Look at how the regulation is worded: This is not a ban on its use for a particular indication, it's a ban for a population.
www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/p...
www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/p...
November 24, 2025 at 4:58 AM
No matter what the politicians say, this is discrimination. Look at how the regulation is worded: This is not a ban on its use for a particular indication, it's a ban for a population.
www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/p...
www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/p...
til as recently as 1990 people would routinely fall out from british trains and _die_ and the explanation for this was "well... this is probably their fault... must've been drunk" with _no specific evidence for such_?! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJuu...
A Five Body Problem: The Mystery Of the Tamworth Triangle
YouTube video by Plainly Difficult
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 AM
til as recently as 1990 people would routinely fall out from british trains and _die_ and the explanation for this was "well... this is probably their fault... must've been drunk" with _no specific evidence for such_?! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJuu...
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unbelievable, scrubbing with a magic eraser and then it works again
Lithium battery fumes got inside the HDD and oxidized the platter. I actually was able to clean this off with a magic eraser AND IT READS... Plenty of bad sectors, but i am getting an image!
November 24, 2025 at 12:57 AM
unbelievable, scrubbing with a magic eraser and then it works again
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After repairing a bunch of old oscilloscopes, I melted down the failed wax capacitors and made up scented candles.
November 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
After repairing a bunch of old oscilloscopes, I melted down the failed wax capacitors and made up scented candles.
i did a 15 minute impromptu talk about glasgow/amaranth/yowasp/grebedoc and why i think these tools are interesting and special for @oshwassociation.bsky.social, you can watch a recording: youtu.be/Y_TtMzmuXoY?...
Show and Tell Monthly: November 2025
YouTube video by The Open Source Hardware Association
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
i did a 15 minute impromptu talk about glasgow/amaranth/yowasp/grebedoc and why i think these tools are interesting and special for @oshwassociation.bsky.social, you can watch a recording: youtu.be/Y_TtMzmuXoY?...
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THEY SEE ME ROLLIN’
THEY HATIN’
Ha-ha bitches, I got a new scooter!
THEY HATIN’
Ha-ha bitches, I got a new scooter!
I’m howling.
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
THEY SEE ME ROLLIN’
THEY HATIN’
Ha-ha bitches, I got a new scooter!
THEY HATIN’
Ha-ha bitches, I got a new scooter!
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It's on apt. It's literally on Cargo. It's on DockerHub with ads. It's literally on nuget. You can probably find it on snap. Dude it's on portage. It's a Homebrew original. It's on pacman. You can download it on nixpkgs. You can go to pkgsrc and watch it. Log onto the Windows Store right now.
November 20, 2025 at 3:24 AM
It's on apt. It's literally on Cargo. It's on DockerHub with ads. It's literally on nuget. You can probably find it on snap. Dude it's on portage. It's a Homebrew original. It's on pacman. You can download it on nixpkgs. You can go to pkgsrc and watch it. Log onto the Windows Store right now.
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A libreSDR B210 which is a clone of an Ettus B210 but with a different FPGA.
This image was taken with it still in its aluminium case. The second image is the bare PCB taken from an AliExpress listing.
This image was taken with it still in its aluminium case. The second image is the bare PCB taken from an AliExpress listing.
November 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
A libreSDR B210 which is a clone of an Ettus B210 but with a different FPGA.
This image was taken with it still in its aluminium case. The second image is the bare PCB taken from an AliExpress listing.
This image was taken with it still in its aluminium case. The second image is the bare PCB taken from an AliExpress listing.
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Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
Blender Development Fund
Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.
fund.blender.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
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you can bring down 20% of the internet with a single-character typo in a regex, but you can also destroy a nearly 50 year old bridge with a single incorrectly placed piece of heatshrink
isn't technology beautiful
blog.cloudflare.com/details-of-t...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu7P...
isn't technology beautiful
blog.cloudflare.com/details-of-t...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu7P...
Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019
Almost nine years ago, Cloudflare was a tiny company and I was a customer not an employee. Cloudflare had launched a month earlier and one day alerting told me that my little site, jgc.org, didn’t see...
blog.cloudflare.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
you can bring down 20% of the internet with a single-character typo in a regex, but you can also destroy a nearly 50 year old bridge with a single incorrectly placed piece of heatshrink
isn't technology beautiful
blog.cloudflare.com/details-of-t...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu7P...
isn't technology beautiful
blog.cloudflare.com/details-of-t...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu7P...
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cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents