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@MrDOS.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy

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Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

So the obvious first step is getting attached to a UART, throwing some power at the board, and seeing what messages the bootloader spits out. Power is easy: it has a 4-pin locking connector labelled “12V ATX POWER”, right next to a 4-pin mini-DIN connector labelled, well, “12V MINI-DIN POWER” […]

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Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

There are three sockets on the board, and they're all empty. And in the two photos of the board (Wind River SBC8548, for future reference) that I can find elsewhere on the web, they're not supposed to be. The product brochure – haven't found a proper datasheet yet, let alone a manual – says it […]

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Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I bought an old Wind River development board off eBay because I thought it would be “fun” to have a 1 GHz PowerPC e500v2 core kicking around, but I realized why nobody else wanted it almost immediately after the seller accepted my offer.

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I got that connector, the one that's smaller than D-subminiature I got that micro D

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Pondering the future of the Internet.

“Kombucha Girl” meme: on the left, a picture of a woman making a face as if she's tasted something sour: “SSO TAX”; on the right, a picture of the same woman thoughtfully considering: “IPv4 TAX”.

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

@lunalapin Looking forward to watching it! Have you seen Architecton (2024)? It sounds like the films are totally different, but you can see why my mind went there.

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

It was all fun and games when there were a million and one big corpo streaming services that I wasn't interested in, but I'm sweating now that indie comics have gotten in on the action. I like the look of Third Best TV and Grouse House, but add those to my existing Dropout subscription, and […]

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Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

The project was a card for my wife. Now that she's seen it, I suppose it's probably alright if you do, too. I ended up having to do a lot of manual path operations to get this to work, which I'd like to avoid in future, but cutting directly out of Inkscape is […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

The front of a greeting card. It says “Happy Anniversary” in a curly, very '70s typeface, with three accent bands underneath. The card has a fabric texture, and the visual elements have been drawn in pen.

The back of the card. The accent bands from the front have wrapped around the card's spine and move up the back of the card in a zig-zag squiggle shape. With more surface area, it's easier to tell that the three bands have been filled in with texture: the blue band with chevrons, the yellow with miniature lightning bolts, and the orange one with small circles.

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I have given up on getting the design into Silhouette Studio, and am trying the inkscape-silhouette extension. Good news: it can talk to the cutter. Bad news: it does not seem to understand path clipping or masking, and so my test piece is covered in marks which should not be visible. Worse […]

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Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

2,951 paths vs. Inkscape's DXF exporter, who will win? So far, the paths are putting up a pretty good fight... and even if the export finishes, I have extremely low confidence that Silhouette Studio will be able to import the result without falling over.

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

In a totally predictable turn of events, the card stock started curling a bit as soon as I hit it with the PVA glue. So I guess I'm going to leave the two sheets I prepped under a heavy lourde overnight to see if they'll flatten out.

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

I am going to attempt to stick some fabric to a card, and then plot some lines onto it. This will be my first time using the Silhouette Cameo as a plotter, so of course I'm going to complicate matters by doing it onto cotton.

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Embarking on some late-night papercraft, so you know I've got to get the clothes iron heated.

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

@qualia I really love the curvy, hand-drawn traces on old boards like this.

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

@Printdevil I love the designs of the Lewis chessmen. I wish more people drew (ha) inspiration from them!

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Everyone (outside of Fedi) talking about foldable iPhones, but I'm most curious about “Reference Image”, Apple's newly-announced system for attesting the authenticity of photos. I assume that they've worked with Sony to place unique, per-device key material into each sensor, or else it would be […]

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Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

D'oh, in-memory caching. Restarted the FPM service and the File: pages are cooperating now.

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

I dumped the whole database and grepped through it (this is a very small wiki), and I can't see anything relevant. I wonder if the File: page is re-detecting it on the fly?

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

I dumped the database schema: mariadb-dump ... --no-data ...and grepped for “mime”. The `filearchive` and `oldimage` tables also have major/minor mime columns. However, those tables are empty for me.

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

I did the dumb obvious thing: update image set img_minor_mime = "mpeg" where img_major_mime = "audio" and img_minor_mime = "mp3"; That fixed Special:MediaStatistics and Special:MIMESearch/audio/mpeg, but individual File: pages still show the old MIME type.

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Now that I've gone up three LTS versions, I'm trying to get the TimedMediaHandler extension installed. It works fine for the OGG media, but it seems like all of the MP3s in this instance were detected as “audio/mp3” when they were uploaded, rather than “audio/mpeg”. Gotta be a way to migrate […]

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Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Fun trick to not get your MediaWiki instances compromised: just run a version so old that it doesn't contain any of the recent vulnerabilities!

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

I spent most of my evening fighting Gradle. Every time I do this, I am reminded that I don't particularly like Gradle. The documentation seems to have been written as if it would've killed someone to include two or three more examples. But it seems like, as part of supporting both Groovy and the […]

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Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Two whole seasons of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds trying to figure out where I recognized Captain Batel from. So now that I've looked it up, I have an inexplicable hankering for a gin and tonic.

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

The one slightly-widely-used FOSS project I sorta-kinda have maintainership of finally got its first unequivocally AI-authored PR. It also hasn't seen any other changes merge in 2.5 years, so I guess I'd better blow the dust off my Java and finally do some work on it this long weekend to justify […]

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Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Yep, that's two 2.88 MB floppy drives gone from this world :( Any of my US mutuals want a 2.88 MB floppy drive in dubious condition? The seller still has a few left. I want two, but I'll happily buy a third if you can receive them and hang onto them until the political climate is more opportune […]

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Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

eBay have decided that their international shipping program won't deliver me two of those cheap 2.88 MB Mitsubishi floppy drives after all. Gutted, particularly because the “Item liquidated” status makes me think the seller isn't getting them back, either.

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

@tedchoward Hm, strange: my M1 MacBook Air is still on Sequoia (because I've been avoiding Liquid Glass), and I'm still seeing bottles available from Homebrew. Looking at the “Future macOS support” section on the page referenced in the error message, it seems like they've demoted the entire […]

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Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

@sundogplanets It is not something that you as an end user can really use directly, but if your institution has access to development resources, they may want to look into using Mux.com as a video hosting backend. Their API is very straightforward to integrate with, and their pricing is […]

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Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

@760ceb3b9c0ba4872cadf3ce35a7a4 “What flavour would you like, Original Beef or Original Red?”

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

At least they're better than RS, who deactivated my account because I hadn't ordered from them in two years, and told me I had to sign up all over again with another e-mail address. Spoiler: I did not sign up all over again. I ordered from DigiKey instead.

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

This is why I usually order bits and bobs from CPC, and only try to order from DigiKey approximately annually: CPC has a fraction of the inventory (their selection of connectors is particularly terrible), but the order process is normal.

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

“DigiKey function normally when the customer account has ordered from two different countries” challenge level: impossible. I am in the UK. I want to order parts to the UK. I go to digikey.co.uk. I log in. I add things to my cart. The cart indicator at the top of the page says I have things in […]

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Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Joke's on me, I spend all day in VS Code.

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Vim is slop. Neovim endorses Nazis. Helix is also slop. Vim Classic has Drew fucking DeVault. Guess it's time to learn ed, the standard text editor.

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

I am very upset that the Silverstone FLP02 case doesn't have any 3 ¹∕₂″ drive bays. “FLoPpy” is even in the name!

A fetching beige box computer case. It has almost all of the affordances one would expect of a case from 1993: 2×7-segment LEDs for displaying clock frequency, a barrel lock, a vertical grille, three 5 ¹∕₄″ drive bays with weird blanking plates that look like fake floppy drives, but... no 3 ¹∕₂″ bays!

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

@amethyst *Jacob Wysocki voice* BIG-GER!

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

Is there any Lightning to 3.5 mm headphone adapter on the market that's half-way reliable? For the last several years, since moving to an iPhone without a 3.5 mm headphone jack, I've worn out an adapter every 6-8 months. I'm in need of another one now, but it seems like Apple have discontinued […]

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Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

@chloe I like Ivory. Then again, I am not sure that I tried any others before settling on it, either, so mine is not a very well-informed opinion.

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

I wonder, what is the highest-performing PC configuration with full driver support included on the Windows 98 SE CD? Maybe @Gammitin knows?

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Some consumer electronics reviewer like Consumer Reports (but not irrelevant and practically defunct, so not like Consumer Reports at all I guess) needs to grow the balls to start handing out 0-star reviews to products that move in the physical world and don't have an emergency stop button. I […]

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Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

@dansup I think this is hugely important functionality, and I'm really glad to see it being worked on. On the quickest possible look (Ctrl+F “spoof”), I don't see any discussion on that page about people fabricating account history by spinning up a local instance, stuffing the database full of […]

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Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

Fuck.

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

My older SSD (a 2 TB Intel 660p) just fell offline (temporarily, thankfully). The /dev/nvme* entries still existed, but `fsck` couldn't read the filesystem's superblock, and `gdisk -l` reported an I/O error trying to list the partitions. Didn't think to check what `dmesg` said about the drive's […]

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Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

In a fascinating twist I was really not expecting (based on that forum thread I linked earlier), the firmware on the controller seems to correctly support hard limit switches!

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

There we go, leads made up and all plumbed in: now when I realize I've made a mistake and have to take it apart again, I'll get to enjoy cutting all those cable ties off. No, your eyes deceive you not; I brought the NC signal from the switches as far as the […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

The board is a little different than I expected (from forum.lightburnsoftware.com/t/issue…), but it's similar enough that I'm not really worried. the JST XH headers for the X/Y limit switches are where I […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

I have several things I really must do today (like finish the work week), and so of course my brain only wants to think about this. Right, let's pop the controller enclosure apart, then...

Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

I've had this machine for several years now (four, nearly, I think), but I use it less than I could (less than I'd like) because it has historically had a couple glaring operational frustrations, and so I've avoided using it. I fixed one more than a year ago when I put a dedicated computer next […]

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Empterdose @mrdos.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

I'd like to continue on with hooking them into the controller, but it's after midnight (I'm feelin' kinda freaky). Hopefully I'll remember to get back to this over the weekend, because it would be nice to have it all wrapped up and working.