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."
nintendo tri-wing screwdriver
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
nintendo tri-wing screwdriver
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"To hell with graphics, squash the special effects. All has only functional significance. Given will, they would play on monochrome oscilloscopes." - Andrey Om for GAME.EXE, 1999.
I knew this quote was living in my head rent-free for a purpose.
I knew this quote was living in my head rent-free for a purpose.
November 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
"To hell with graphics, squash the special effects. All has only functional significance. Given will, they would play on monochrome oscilloscopes." - Andrey Om for GAME.EXE, 1999.
I knew this quote was living in my head rent-free for a purpose.
I knew this quote was living in my head rent-free for a purpose.
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
i put balatro on my oscilloscope
November 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
i put balatro on my oscilloscope
yes!!! WebAssembly linker settings are now secure-by-default: github.com/llvm/llvm-pr...
[lld][WebAssembly] `--stack-first` should be the default for wasm-ld · Issue #151015 · llvm/llvm-project
There are several arguments in favor of doing so: With stack protectors disabled by default, no dynamic stack overflow checks, a default stack size of 64K (the smallest of any non-bare-metal platfo...
github.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
yes!!! WebAssembly linker settings are now secure-by-default: github.com/llvm/llvm-pr...
kickstarter to launch a satellite that could be used as a sovereign ground for the principality of sealand
November 6, 2025 at 5:01 AM
kickstarter to launch a satellite that could be used as a sovereign ground for the principality of sealand
have you ever wanted a #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer, but more wireless? #ESP32JTAG is a Glasgow-inspired device which is specialized for FPGA/MCU programming and debug, and works over WiFi. I think it's very cool and I've backed the project www.crowdsupply.com/ez32/esp32jtag
ESP32JTAG
A multifunction, wireless JTAG tool powered by an ESP32 and an FPGA
www.crowdsupply.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM
have you ever wanted a #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer, but more wireless? #ESP32JTAG is a Glasgow-inspired device which is specialized for FPGA/MCU programming and debug, and works over WiFi. I think it's very cool and I've backed the project www.crowdsupply.com/ez32/esp32jtag
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god forbid girls do anything
From 2022: The evidence suggests that at some point in the Miocene, one or more worms may have scavenged a dead fish’s brain, leaving a profuse amount of excrement in their wake.
www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/s...
www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/s...
Why Did a Fish Have Fossilized Feces Where Its Brain Once Was? (Published 2022)
www.nytimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
god forbid girls do anything
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this is not the face of a boy who understands the realities of the american legal system
September 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
this is not the face of a boy who understands the realities of the american legal system
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they're good cats
August 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
they're good cats
added a new #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer applet, `control-clock`: a simple clock generator for when you just need to feed something into the XI pin of an MCU or something.
you can use it in combination with other applets!
e.g.: `glasgow multi probe-rs ... ++ control-clock --clk A7 -f 2000`
you can use it in combination with other applets!
e.g.: `glasgow multi probe-rs ... ++ control-clock --clk A7 -f 2000`
November 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
added a new #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer applet, `control-clock`: a simple clock generator for when you just need to feed something into the XI pin of an MCU or something.
you can use it in combination with other applets!
e.g.: `glasgow multi probe-rs ... ++ control-clock --clk A7 -f 2000`
you can use it in combination with other applets!
e.g.: `glasgow multi probe-rs ... ++ control-clock --clk A7 -f 2000`
does anybody know whether Flash memory protection in Atmel AVR (specifically AT90USB162, but there is nothing special about this chip) can be glitched/bypassed?
also, does anybody know if UV erasure attacks on lock bits on this particular IC family has been demonstrated?
also, does anybody know if UV erasure attacks on lock bits on this particular IC family has been demonstrated?
November 4, 2025 at 8:11 AM
does anybody know whether Flash memory protection in Atmel AVR (specifically AT90USB162, but there is nothing special about this chip) can be glitched/bypassed?
also, does anybody know if UV erasure attacks on lock bits on this particular IC family has been demonstrated?
also, does anybody know if UV erasure attacks on lock bits on this particular IC family has been demonstrated?
watching a video about private equity buying everything in pro audio (native instruments, etc)
i think over a long enough timescale (more than five years) the only tools that remain are FOSS ones.
i think over a long enough timescale (more than five years) the only tools that remain are FOSS ones.
November 4, 2025 at 2:26 AM
watching a video about private equity buying everything in pro audio (native instruments, etc)
i think over a long enough timescale (more than five years) the only tools that remain are FOSS ones.
i think over a long enough timescale (more than five years) the only tools that remain are FOSS ones.
let's fix the Wasm stack overflow situation at least for WASI: github.com/WebAssembly/...
Make -Wl,--stack-first the default · Issue #639 · WebAssembly/wasi-libc
Because of the very small default stack size (64K) and the proximity of the stack bottom to rodata/data, a stack overflow that happens today in a "default" (not specifically tuned for Wasm) build o...
github.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM
let's fix the Wasm stack overflow situation at least for WASI: github.com/WebAssembly/...
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Just got home and checked some of the Halloween sweets — found an ESP32 Supermini inside a Double Decker and an ATmega328P inside a Lion bar. Please be careful and inspect everything before eating. Something’s not right about this. #HalloweenSafety #HowSmallAreTheyNow
October 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Just got home and checked some of the Halloween sweets — found an ESP32 Supermini inside a Double Decker and an ATmega328P inside a Lion bar. Please be careful and inspect everything before eating. Something’s not right about this. #HalloweenSafety #HowSmallAreTheyNow
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if you're feeling generous a donation of 10$ or more to OSHWA will get you one of these beautiful Move Slow and Fix Stuff riso printed posters designed by @leeborg.bsky.social ! Donate here:
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October 31, 2025 at 4:16 PM
if you're feeling generous a donation of 10$ or more to OSHWA will get you one of these beautiful Move Slow and Fix Stuff riso printed posters designed by @leeborg.bsky.social ! Donate here:
secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/...
secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/...
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that "getting kicked in the head by a horse" tweet gives a more accurate idea of how this works than the prevailing psychiatric diagnostic model. everyone is capable of losing touch with reality, to varying extents. because "reality" is a fake idea. when the feedback loop breaks down, you spiral out
llms don't "cause psychosis". that's my job
October 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM
that "getting kicked in the head by a horse" tweet gives a more accurate idea of how this works than the prevailing psychiatric diagnostic model. everyone is capable of losing touch with reality, to varying extents. because "reality" is a fake idea. when the feedback loop breaks down, you spiral out
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These should be illegal!
October 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
These should be illegal!
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as a condition of funding, we were asked to affirm that we wouldn’t undertake any diversity, equity, and inclusion work, whether or not we used the government funds to do so. The PSF simply couldn’t agree to that statement,
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
as a condition of funding, we were asked to affirm that we wouldn’t undertake any diversity, equity, and inclusion work, whether or not we used the government funds to do so. The PSF simply couldn’t agree to that statement,
advice to every Rust organizational decisionmaker out there: shut up, stop making excuses, and take notes from the PSF: bsky.app/profile/pyth...
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
advice to every Rust organizational decisionmaker out there: shut up, stop making excuses, and take notes from the PSF: bsky.app/profile/pyth...
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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this C compiler is really fast! it can compile and link a simple C program in ~65 ms on my machine. (this involves spawning three Wasm "processes")
on the same machine, running the same command with a very similar Clang build natively takes ~80 ms.
fast enough for update-as-you-type live coding!
on the same machine, running the same command with a very similar Clang build natively takes ~80 ms.
fast enough for update-as-you-type live coding!
October 26, 2025 at 10:44 AM
this C compiler is really fast! it can compile and link a simple C program in ~65 ms on my machine. (this involves spawning three Wasm "processes")
on the same machine, running the same command with a very similar Clang build natively takes ~80 ms.
fast enough for update-as-you-type live coding!
on the same machine, running the same command with a very similar Clang build natively takes ~80 ms.
fast enough for update-as-you-type live coding!
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please enjoy: my Wasm-hosted, Wasm-targeting build of Clang/Clang++/LLD: a self-contained, 25 MiB (gzipped) pure function
www.npmjs.com/package/@yow...
www.npmjs.com/package/@yow...
October 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
please enjoy: my Wasm-hosted, Wasm-targeting build of Clang/Clang++/LLD: a self-contained, 25 MiB (gzipped) pure function
www.npmjs.com/package/@yow...
www.npmjs.com/package/@yow...