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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

added Qt integration for #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer via PySide6 the dialog below is just 125 lines of code (plus a .ui file from Qt Designer); it offers every basic function of `memory-25q` applet in a touchscreen-friendly format

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

whoever decided that this setting needs to automatically turn on every autumn needs to be found, tarred, feathered, and then fired

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

grebedoc is over a year old now! also has more uptime than github

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

well, that was premature the fuck you mean "could not confirm", you cretins

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

> placing a new connector > ask the pnp if the connector is creepy or wet > it doesnt understand the question > pull out humidity card indicating a difference between creepy and wet > it chatters and says "it's a good connector ma'm" > reflow it > it was wet

photo of a big 2x10 IDC connector on a glasgow revD. it "popcorned" (had a bubble of steam crack some plastic internally)

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

i wonder if anybody will be masochistic enough to assemble a #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer revD1 by hand

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

thanks to Elen Eisendle's (@cmb) extraordinary effort over the last several months, #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer revD1 design files have been sent to JLC. we hope this will also be the production revision (or if we do have a revD2, it happens with […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

[re: war] this says "Raspberry Pi mini-sandwich"

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

[war] every once in a while i check reibert to see if there's anything interesting to reverse-engineer and apparently there's a new naming scheme "Beetroot" is something like a dashcam for a Shahed-136/Geran-2 "Borscht" is an LTE tracker "Radish" […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

omg look at these cute little typeset spider eyes from a 1932 scientific paper!!!!!!!!

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

literally had an aliexpress merchant tell me just now "go ahead and do a chargeback" after there was no way either of us could get a refund via aliexpress itself

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

things that exist on the internet that grebedoc.dev frees you from dealing with, part one thousand:

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

every once in a while i check in on one of the libraries i wrote, published, and never used. being an oss maintainer is terrifying sometimes

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

vaguely threatening spam emails today (this mri product company is emailing me every day)

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

you can't tell me this isn't nominative determinism

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

usually you have one spine and multiple ribs... not the other way around

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

look! check out what you can do with the new #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer streaming logic analyzer tap into D+/D- lines on a, for example, keyboard, and watch keys get pressed and released in real time in the USB packets

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

[juvenile] needed some test channel names for the logic analyzer channel metadata. so i went for the obvious thing

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

programmers: uwu we're so bad at naming things biologists: Hold my petri dish

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

oh, it's not just software tools you have to do this with

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

"Alright" is such a word to say right before your fiery death. Relatable

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

also, you can dump the PD messages as text using sigrok-cli! sigrok-cli -d glasgow:conn=tcp-raw/127.1/5555 -c samplerate=5m -P usb_power_delivery:cc1=D0:cc2=D1:fulltext=yes -A usb_power_delivery=text --continuous

PD transaction negotiating [1] (PDO #5: Fixed 20V) 3.25A (operating) / 3.25A (max)

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

ever wondered how USB devices negotiate Power Delivery (PD) with each other? ordinarily, you'd need a specialized USB PD analyzer. the upcoming #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer revD has I/O drivers that natively support USB PD voltage levels, enabling you […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

SOURCE CAP message:
[1] [Fixed] 5V 3A (15W) [unconstrained]
[2] [Fixed] 9V 3A (27W)
[3] [Fixed] 12V 3A (36W)
[4] [Fixed] 15V 3A (45W)
[5] [Fixed] 20V 5A (100W)
[6] [Programmable|PPS] 5/21V 5A

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

hey!!! check out this massive moth that flew in!! 4cm wingtip to wingtip #moth #mothodon

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

this is a very basic and janky setup i connected the Glasgow to D+ and D- like this and that's it :) (does not work on HS devices, of course)

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

so, Pale Moon devs are the main character today on some subset of the internet because of a dispute over how the browser is shipped: soc.megatokyo.moe/objects/e433f950-… i think trademarks are the only defensible […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

@dalias here's his direct textual refutation of your point a few pages later

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

@dalias i wonder how many of the kolektiva.social people boosting the post have read his prose. it's really not very subtle

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

@dalias regardless of what you personally think, it certainly did seem to lead Edward Abbey to reinvent eugenics from first principles ("One Life at a Time, Please", p34). or perhaps he started with being a eugenicist and went with bioessentialist analogies. I'm not his biographer

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

i hate this style of source code comment so much there's nothing _intrinsically_ wrong with it. it's just that it takes up half of your screen without mentioning such unimportant details as, for example, "who owns the data buffer passed into this function?"

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