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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2026

about to migrate accounts to treehouse.systems, see you on the other side

✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2026

i'm playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance because i watched some youtube clips and it had fun dialogue options, but what i'm getting instead is a _really_ in-depth history lesson about Czech nobility from a thousand years ago

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2026

maybe what Amaranth needs is a "starter FPGA project", something fun you can buy cheaply and mess around with

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

OH: "the ANC on my headphones is so good i just missed a drone strike fully"

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

@azonenberg i think you'd know the answer to this offhand: can i swap from an XC7A200T-1FBG676C for an XC7K410T in the same package with no PCB changes?

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

so, the list. while i do not think that "making a list" is inherently wrong, doing something like that requires a clarity of purpose and a specific, achievable objective. i do not think this particular list fits the requirements

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

easy solution to the current political situation: give greenland a nuclear submarine

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

babe wake up they invented carbon offset for AI

It's a tweet from Logan Kilpatrick saying I am happy to share that we, the Google AI Studio Team, are now a sponsor of the Tailwind CSS project. Honored to support and find ways to do more together to help the ecosystem of builders.

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

this is the most specific product safety notice i've ever seen

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

hey wanna hear something surreal? when i called 911 to report a stalker being actively in my home right now, the cop on the phone spent like a minute trying to figure out if my ethnicity was "white - british" or "white - other" lord only knows what they wanted that data for

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

UK residents: what do i have to commit so that Evri will finally stop putting items into trash bins?

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

wait, you can put a git worktree *inside* another git worktree for the same repo?

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

i like this part of the uk because it barely ever rains (i kind of like when it rains but i also kind of like when it doesn't rain)

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

dell laptops are frankly mid at best (and got worse since the ~2021 model i own right now) but it's relieving to know that if i need a replacement maybe it'll be made by a company that has one (1) working braincell cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/1158…

cyberplace.social

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026

you know, i had to physically get the stalker out of my house, but even after that there's some _choice_ feelings to be had when someone forwards you the stalker sending them the pictures from inside your home

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026

i think we need a kind of "DFM" in open source: design-for-maintainability basically, what happens when you get bored/tired/sick/done with the project and some other poor bastard has to take it over? that

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026

catherine picks an IP camera, an adventure in 3 steps: 1. download firmware updates for 400 cameras 2. extract a device tree from each of them 3. intersect the chipset list with openipc.org/supported-hardware/feat… (... how else would you do it?)

openipc.org

List of recommended SoCs - OpenIPC

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Rairii :win3_progman: :win3: @rairii.labyrinth.zone.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026

ah, WPBT acpi table expected usecase: automatic execution of software “absolutely critical for the execution of Windows” that cannot be distributed any other way (source: WPBT spec) actual usecase: a mix of actual malware (absolute computrace) and potentially unwanted programs (oem crapware) […]

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026

one of the stranger parts of living in the UK is how common the knowledge of the NATO phonetic alphabet is. everybody, from banks to landords, expects me to be able to spell my surname using it is it taught in schools or something?

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/01/2026

so, i have something important to say. on 9th of December 2025, i woke up to someone who stalked me for eight years being inside my home, finding my address through means that are still not fully clear. i know that several people reading this have in the past supported her (knowingly or not) or […]

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026

I made a venn diagram to help you understand Moiré patterns.

venn diagram. circles labeled "Angled lines" and "Different angled lines", they are filled with patterns of slightly different angled lines. the intersecting area is labeled Moire pattern and indeed has a moire pattern in it.

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026

signs you're having a good time: you have some rust code. it is panicking. this is the only debug information you are provided with:

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2026

imagine being in charge of a product where you go out of your way to say "features: ✔✔✔ far calls!!"

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2026

just discovered that 0x1020304 in decimal is 16909060. nice

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curche @curche.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025

> sbt (originally simple build tool, nowadays stands for nothing[4]) Thanks Wikipedia ...wait. oh. Oh no. @whitequark

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025

OH: (while looking at a piece of crackhead codegen) "it's like watching a counter-strike player... one shot and then goddamn reload"

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/12/2025

does vexriscv document the invariants it expects from the memory subsystem _anywhere at all_, or am i supposed to glean what the CPU expects from Scala code and their AXI/Wishbone/Avalon adapters?

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/12/2025

there should be a program called `unrv32c` that decompresses the RISC-V instructions from stdin to stdout

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Maronno Winchester @pstrada.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

@c3fax@mastodon.social 🔗 mastodon.social/ap/users/115... - New Fax from 5514 received at 2025/12/30 13:39:05 #39c3 #telefax #retronetworking

36-Dec-2625 12:35 i slept at 4:38 am last night 5514 pel

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/12/2025

the real sign of becoming middle-aged is when you start writing unit tests for even "simple" code

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/12/2025

using sbt should be considered a form of self-harm

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2025

just used #PyPy to accelerate an Amaranth simulation from 35s to 17s (no code changes) it's pretty good

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/12/2025

"a single braking event of a small car can dissipate over 0.12 kWh worth of energy" i am begging people to use joules

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/12/2025

i wonder if you could make a small business out of providing Forgejo Actions compute resources for projects that want to pay for what they use instead of giving control up to GitHub

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Royce Williams @tychotithonus.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 27/12/2025

So if you initiate the phone-to-phone Signal account transfer process, and it _almost_ completes, such that the _account_ is transferred, but the _data_ isn't, and then errors out ... and if you didn't have backups enabled ... then your entire chat history just vanishes into thin air with zero […]

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/12/2025

i implemented Ascon-Hash256 in Amaranth! (as well as laid the groundwork for the rest of Ascon family functions, including Ascon-AEAD128) it comes at 1268 LUTs for iCE40 in the "compact" configuration, processing an average of 5.3 bit/cycle. a little […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

screenshot of test vectors output by a python process in terminal

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/12/2025

[hot take] i don't think cryptographers should be allowed to write cryptographic specifications i understand that this is very precise but if you're trying to implement the algorithm it adds _so_ much overhead

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