I love how vibecoded commits are called vommits. It's so perfect.

Ok, nerds. Here’s a photo of a beta XBox (One S?) in dazzle camo, from a random hallway cabinet in Redmond.

I'm hoping to reproduce this cavity stabilized oscillator design from NIST but at 12 GHz as an ultra low phase noise reference clock for the vector signal generator. This nonsense is optional, the clock could be as simple as an LMX2594.

These pipe couplings are very close to what I need for a TE015 resonator at 12 GHz. They need some minor machining, polishing, endcaps, coupling loops.

https://tf.nist.gov/general/pdf/1887.pdf
https://tf.nist.gov/general/pdf/2729.pdf

CFP for LPC 2026 is open!

Important dates:
Thursday, April 23, 2026: Deadline to submit proposals to host a microconference
Sunday, June 28, 2026: Deadline to submit LPC Refereed Track Presentations Proposals and Kernel Summit Presentations Proposals.

Please use the following to access the full CFP and submit your proposal!

https://lpc.events/event/20/abstracts/

🐧 Get your proposals in this week! The CfP closes this Sunday, 15 March. 👀 ⏰

RE: https://social.kernel.org/objects/b4dcda9a-582c-4803-9d6a-30e42dfc8538

@occult What's stopping you from coding like this?

RE: https://vox.ominous.net/@occult/116103841606429399

@palmer TIL there are JIS versions of these things :-)

RE: https://social.kernel.org/objects/5da2b96e-6715-46b8-b0ae-c1bfe65e4868

Oddly, the standard metric sizes are 0.9 and 1.3mm. No idea why these tools are slightly different, nor why there's a random Phillips head. I assume excellent reasons, however.

RE: https://social.kernel.org/objects/ff0ff177-e6d7-4604-a913-3f6e611576e9

@jamesb typical Big Dart.

RE: https://fedi.duckduckpigeon.co.uk/@jamesb/statuses/01KKA7Y2Y497DPF0Z3TRY8PXP2

These color-coded hex tools are proof that Japan is living in the future.

RE: https://social.afront.org/@MLE_online/116116531245705615

Apparently certain amazon basics color changing smart light bulb's contain ESP32 boards.
If one happens to come across one. As the PSU's are the likely parts to fail, not the rest of it.

#systemd v260~rc1 is out! We are not late on the schedule, we simply took over and reimplemented the meaning of punctuality from the traditional shell-based implementation.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/tag/v260-rc1

We will be having Fedora Hatch at @socallinuxexpo this year! On Friday, March 6, join us for our dedicated track!

What are we talking about?

* Getting started in open source
* @centos and Fedora collaboration
* RPM packaging workshop
* And more!

➡️ https://fedoramagazine.org/hatch-scale-23x/

#Fedora #SCaLE #Linux #OpenSource

The “RTTY Receiver by Artificial Intelligence” article I wrote for ORI will run in May/June 2026 QEX. Roughly 18 months after it was submitted and accepted for publication. Very happy it's been scheduled, but it does take about a year on average to get an article into their magazines.

The work has been presented multiple times, and the recordings of the presentations are online. What we did was to build and train a machine learning model to receive RTTY in noisy conditions. Not LLM stuff.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but f'ing magnets, how do they work?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKSjCOKDtpk

Reminder: the CfP for LSS-NA is open until March 15th.

RE: https://social.kernel.org/objects/b4dcda9a-582c-4803-9d6a-30e42dfc8538

📣 All Systems Go! is back in 2026! Same location, same dates.
We hope to see you 🫵 in 📍Berlin 📆 Sept 30-Oct 1 for 2 days of presentations, conversations and collaboration around foundational user-space Linux technologies.
More info here 👉 https://all-systems-go.io/
Follow to get notified when the CFP opens and 🎟️ tix go on sale.

@flexion I wanted one of these so badly back in the day.

RE: https://oldbytes.space/@flexion/116102728174568820

New ⸭ ParticleOS ⸭ branding dropped!

Now to figure out how to get an IPE policy loaded, per Luca Boccassi's presentation at @fosdem https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/DVVAV9-particle-os-from-trad-distro-to-immutable-image/

I'm open for work again! I'm looking for interesting opportunities; want to work with me?

My experience includes web archiving and digital preservation, devops, and internal developer tooling. I'd love to put that experience to work for you and your team.

Experience includes the Internet Archive, GitHub, Shopify, and others alongside a number of open source projects.

Available in Vancouver, BC or remote.