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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 19/09/2026

She’s a criminal, she’s been convicted to basically the same exact thing already. The fact that she’s back to being eligible and campaigning as if nothing happened for the next elections right now should put us all to shame.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 19/09/2026

It seems the only good option for a Zigbee thermostat if you need one without a neutral wire ther must close a 240volt line, is the Seimens RDZ100ZB. I got it, it works *okay* with ZHA on Home Assistant but I had to write a script to repeatedly write and check attributes with ZHA Toolkit from HACS

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 18/09/2026

So, *another* french Olitec modem, slightny newer SelfMemory 56000 after a factory resest decided that it was okay wiht the 55 volt rms 25hz signal from the GrandStream and started printing `RING` in the serial console!

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 16/09/2026

I remove some of the good I have to say about it. It generates a 20 or 25hz signal, which my old OLITEC modem (French made!) does not understand It cannot automatically pickup a call as, is, you need to use a ATA command. :-/

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 14/09/2026

In a very long list of useless things I am playing with right now, it seems that NTP does it's job... And my rube goldberg machine of raspbery Pis and ATAs do not add that much latency Dialing NIST Colorado's time service here, from France, the clock pulse is basically in sync with this computer

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 14/09/2026

This is a useless information for most people, but I am very happy about the ringer circuit in a GrandStream HT813. It seems very happy to ring an old mechanical french analog phone, which expect anything between like 50 to 90 volts AC? Does a better job than the phone output of the Freebox Ultra.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 31/08/2026

One gotta *love* when academics name stuff. "ORB-SLAM" (a family of tracking algos used in robotics), fully extending the name comes to: Orientated "Features form Accelerated Segment Test" and Rotated "Binary Robust Independent Elementary Features" - Simultaneous Localization And Mapping

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 22/08/2026

I wish the WireGuard iOS app had integration with control center or widgets

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 15/07/2026

Microsoft decided it was a good idea to not support the "/pt" parameter on mspaint.exe ? So, no more easy 1 liner to print an image file on Windows from a terminal I guess? (yes, I do that sometimes. Don't you??)

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 08/07/2026

Oh oh! The French license-less car (it's a Citroën Ami, rebranded by Fiat, that was originally designed thanks to weird French regulations on such vehicles) has reached America. Fun fact: The electric motor in this thing is a re-purposed starter for a "real" engine

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 23/06/2026

The GabeCube is cute... It's also too expensive. Part of that is out of Valve's control though

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 08/06/2026

Brains are weird, and I caught myself correcting a point of grammar that was "English" in something that was written in French. I had an "avoir" in a construction that would work with "have" in English, where french uses "être" (be) 🫠

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 05/06/2026

Star City, the spin off of For All Mankind that is following the Soviet side of this alt-history, is starting extremely strong on its first 3 episodes

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 01/06/2026

It's funded already, holly dogcow

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 15/05/2026

It is perplexing that, a sensitometer like the one described in the ISO6 standard for black and white camera film testing, seems to not exist. The ones that seems to exist are made for X-ray film testing Nobody makes a device that expose daylight spectrum? Ilford and Kodak, what do they even use?

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 27/04/2026

Steam Controller 2 is expensive ….

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 24/04/2026

New weird kind of internet spam going on: Reddit DM from random people asking you to try out their one week old, obviously vibe coded application, with a link to their GitHub. 🙊

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 11/04/2026

Mac people: Is there any reason I should bother learning about `launchd`, or is stashing script that I want to run daily in crontab still okay on *ye goode olde UNIX system*? cron seems to work fine and It even vomit its logs in my local mail spool if I let it do it.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 29/03/2026

Javascript-ness aside, QML/QtQuick is pretty nice.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 18/03/2026

I found that there's a nice AUR package to install Windows 11 fonts into Arch cleanly: ttf-ms-win11 I have a dual boot so, simply mount windows partition (read only is fine), copy all the /Windows/fonts/* files into the build cache directory (if you use yay it will be .cache/yay/ttf-ms-win11) first

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404 Media @404media.co · 14/03/2026

NEW: The DOGE deposition videos a judge ordered removed from YouTube on Friday after they had gone massively viral have since been backed up across the internet, including as a torrent and to the Internet Archive

404media.co

The Removed DOGE Deposition Videos Have Already Been Backed Up Across the Internet

On Friday, a judge ordered those who uploaded the videos to YouTube to remove them. By Saturday, a backup of the videos was available online as a torrent and on the Internet Archive.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 12/03/2026

This video is great as it do clear up 2 things that throw off digital photographers - ISO is not changing sensitivity, it's how much gain on the signal before digitizing - Noise comes from lack of light, not "high ISO". - The practical advice is good But, it misses the origin of the confusion 🧵👇

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 12/03/2026

It's been NaN days since the last floating point incident

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 09/03/2026

giving some bean juice to the fruit computer fruit computer has lotsa work to do tonight

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 09/03/2026

How can it take 5 days to remove an email address from a list, for a company that its sole product is basically A FRONTEND FOR A DATABASE FULL OF TASKS

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 03/03/2026

Maybe I am missing something, but I cannot find a good replica or a good analog of this input device on the space shuttle's cockpit that can be just used on a computer. It is called the THC: Translation Hand Controller, and is a 3 DoF device used for... Well, translation control in space!

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 26/02/2026

one of the shiny new stuff that I need to look at is this new language to write shaders called Slang shader-slang.org I think it is a Khronos standard. It also happens that currently the LunarG Vulkan SDK ships a compiler for it. That's wide enough adoption to consider this seriously!

shader-slang.org

The Slang Shading Language

Empowering real-time graphics developers with advanced language features and machine learning capabilities.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 24/02/2026

Random job in my mailbox, asks for 7 years "experience" of "GitHub Copilot and agentic Mode". GitHub Copilot, a thing released in 2021.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 24/02/2026

Watch time I hear @reckless.bsky.social say the words “digital god”. My brain substitute them with “torment nexus”. I don’t really know how to feel about the above really.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 22/02/2026

It is a good thing that SteamWorks by default remove PDB files from your game builds. It is rare to see a Unity game made by an indie that *does not* contain the `_DoNotShip` folder in it.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 22/02/2026

It's leaking helium too, and it's not going to the moon in march, most likely.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 20/02/2026

Very good quality software, thank you Meta

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Antonio Caggiano @antoniocaggiano.eu · 17/02/2026

The recording of my Vulkanised 2026 talk is now live 🎥 In this talk, I walk through the journey of bringing a Vulkan RT pipeline into Godot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HddS... Thanks to LunarG for the opportunity and to the @godotengine.org community for the reviews and feedback.

youtube.com

Vulkanised 2026: Integrating Vulkan Ray Tracing into the Godot Engine

YouTube video by Vulkan

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 16/02/2026

The full Vulkan specification in its latest version with all extensions is a small 6884 pages, as a PDF (most of it is the description of data structures and function calls, but the first few chapters actually are explanatory)

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 12/02/2026

I have downloaded the demo of Kittens Space Agency. Need to spend a little bit of time with this, but as far as a "spiritual successor to KSP", I think they're really getting somewhere here. Loading the solar system (apparently the whole thing) destroyed my 3080 10GB I got in 2020

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kue @kue.glitch.paris · 12/02/2026

The first point is underestimated by the ppl in the other two. Software isn't treating AI hypothetically anymore. It's moving on to frameworks and paradigms. It could possibly affect development the same way Stack Overflow did.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 10/02/2026

Somebody talented steal this idea : design a micro ATX chassis as a wedge with a modern mechanical keyboard on it like this please please please

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 08/02/2026

This is a modern retro-looking flash. It works stupidly well design-wise on this 1960’s rangefinder camera!

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 07/02/2026

Artemis 2 got delayed because the SLS rocket is leaking hydrogen. So, exactly like Artemis 1...

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 06/02/2026

Stuff nobody needs to know: apparently an acidic solution of ammonium thiosulfate (black and white photographic fixer) is enough to damage the coating on an iPad Air screen. Not too bad. You will see the traces when the screen is off… Avoid splashing this stuff on it. Print those data sheets.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 05/02/2026

I do not know why Valve chose to provide a list of Vulkan extension as space separated strings, while all other libraries out there give you the size of an array for you to allocate to get it filled with const char*s

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 30/01/2026

New prompt in the steam beta client (I guess) Though, I figure if a person has explicitly enabled this view filter in the past, they are not part of "most user" 🤔

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 25/01/2026

Apple Podcast automatic transcription and chapter detections trying to understand what Do By Friday is about is hilarious

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 24/01/2026

ChatGPT was doing fairly well at attempting to reconstruct a STL file form Gcode, analysing the extrusion commands to build cylinders, then fitting voxels inside.... But then it decided that it needed to check that 1+1 = 2

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 20/01/2026

Gotta love stumbling on a project that... Only builds in Visual Studio 2017, with some specific version of Qt 5

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