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Phil M0OFX

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Software preservation, electronics, software and ham radio - a maker of things! Pronouns: https://pronoun.is/he/him Current projects: #Datatrak radio […] 🌉 bridged from https://digipres.club/@philpem on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 3h

The ARM7500 is a particularly big chip. Yields on this must have been pretty bad.

Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 3h

There's a few more in the Sin Bin but I need to clean and mount these six first.

Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 3h

Chips a la Phil #icre #icreverseengineering

An early (but faulty) ARM chip being decapsulated with hot air

The remains of a complete decapped ARM chipset

Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 4h

@hugh Funnily enough I was thinking of picking up another used or ex-corp-loan one and refurbishing it, but wasn't sure what to pick. A friend has the AMD version of the T495S.

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Rocketman @slothrop.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 7h

Ok, so #framework have decided that they want to be bigoted wankers:

https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986/3

I acknowledge this, will avoid any dealings with them in the future, and encourage others to proceed in the same way.

Framework supporting far-right racists?

With all due respect, I think you profoundly misunderstand the nature of my concern here. This is not a “I do not like this distribution” kind of argument. This is a “the people you are sending my money to want me and my friends dead or deported” kind of argument. The “big tent” argument works fine if everyone plays by some basic civil rules of understanding. Stuff like code of conducts, moderation, anti-racism, surely those things we agree on? A big tent won’t work if you let in people that ...

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 6h

Sucks about Framework. I have some overtime pay coming and needed to replace the X220 Of Theseus.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Used market is also an option. Though I'm not keen on how modern laptops all seem to have internal pouch LiPo's custom-sized for the chassis.

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lucie lukas "minute" hartmann @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h

BTW if you're looking for an open hardware, repairable laptop made by a small team in berlin with no venture capital, maybe MNT Reform Next could be interesting for you: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next

MNT Reform Next

A new 12.5" open hardware laptop that is future-proof, modular, and highly performant

www.crowdsupply.com

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lucie lukas "minute" hartmann @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h

i appreciate how framework are doing a bit of involuntary marketing for us today 🤝

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 6h

Also nice of them to explain how to lock your foe out of their RSGB Online account - all you need is their callsign and email address. Which are both probably on QRZ.

But it's fine, nobody reads Radcom.

Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 7h

Tell me you're saving passwords in plaintext without telling me you're saving passwords in plaintext.

Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I think I'm going to spend my lunch break writing a shim plugin, in the style of how the OAuth one extends Authplain.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 1d

jetbrains is far from the first company to make this particular pair of claims but it is simply, on the most fundamental level, impossible to mass-collect people’s terminal and editor contents and also not collect sensitive or personal data.

I realize they […]

[Original post on infosec.exchange]

screenshot: We’re now adding the option to allow the collection of detailed code‑related data pertaining to IDE activity, such as edit history, terminal usage, and your interactions with AI features. This may include code snippets, prompt text, and AI responses.

That sounds like a lot, and it is, but that’s where the real value for improvements comes from. If you allow us to collect this data, we will make sure that:
No sensitive or personal information is shared.

(Snippets of the text have been highlighted: “edit history, terminal usage, code snippets, prompt text … no sensitive or personal information is shared.”

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DDR @ddr.pony.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

I have now spent 6 to 8 hours of my precious free time failing to get InvenTree to run. It's been about 3 hours of it not responding to HTTP requests at all, 1 hour of it redirecting to https://localhost due to a proxy misconfiguration, and another three hours of it redirecting to itself in a […]

Original post on pony.social

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Stories in the press this morning that people are refusing to update to Windows 11 because of the enshittification... it's XP/Vista or 7/8 all over again.

Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 1d

the thing I miss the most about the 2010s is having faith in the basic goodness of people
and the relentless optimism of the 2000s was just wonderful. anyone remember that? it's the new millennium, a new renaissance?

what happened to that, eh?

Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 1d

If you block someone from commenting on your github for asking "uh, are you using an LLM to write these answers? I said in the last reply that I'd tried that" then maybe you're the problem.

Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 1d

bit of an #askfedi .. Are there any CCTV / network-DVR apps which don't suck, or at least suck a little less than Frigate or Ispyagent?

I've found Ispy crashed and absolutely gobbled CPU, and Frigate (while a neat premise) is extremely hard to configure.

Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 1d

In hindsight I should have probably expected that someone developing a CCTV platform which makes a big deal about using a Coral TPU for image recognition would be using an Artificial Idiocy chatbot to respond to Github comments.

(yes it's Frigate)

Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 1d

<philpem> isn't amd64 a third-party 64-bit patch on a 32-bit extension to a 16-bit enhancement of an 8-bit processor, originally derived from a 4-bit calculator chip by a 2-bit company who can't stand 1-bit of competition?

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@q PPE is important!

Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 1d

LNER: "Delay repay? It's Northern's fault"
Northern: "We took so long dealing with your claim, it's out of time. Sorry-not-sorry"

Me: *replies to deadlock email, cc'ing Transport Focus and the Rail Ombudsman*

Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Oh cool, an alternative to the ZuluIDE

https://picoide.com/

PicoIDE - an open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator

picoide.com

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public universal mutual @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · Aug 29

I feel like mastodon would appreciate this unopened 1998 three tape documentary about the pre bubble internet i found at my parent’s house

A copy of “Nerds 2.0.1, a brief history of the internet,” with quotes from larry ellison and bill gates

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Oh. Dokuwiki Chained Authentication doesn't work with the OAuth plugin. That's going to be fun to fix.
(I have a custom auth plugin which lets the Google Search Appliance VM index the wiki)

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Tom Lyon ✅ @aka-pugs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14d

NFS at 40.

Phenomenal collection of seminal documents, related work, source code, ephemera, etc...

https://nfs40.online/

#sunmicrosystems

NFS AT 40 – Sun Microsystems NFS

nfs40.online

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