new tech warcrime

ppl always complain that the clock on my microwave never shows the right time bcs i cant be assed to set it manually

so now i have an unfuck-microwave.sh cronjob which briefly kills its power every day at midnight

Heyo Fediverse,

Did you ever want to run your VHDL code on someone else’s FPGA and see the results as a video?

No?

With @icepi-zero-bot you can do it anyway!

Just send the account an ask containing your VHDL code (see the account’s bio for an example) and the bot will synthesize your code, flash it onto my Icepi Zero FPGA board, and record a 30s video of its HDMI output!

I know this might not be the most useful bot, but I’ve mainly made it just for fun.

Feel free to play around a bit with it! :D

I’ll add SystemVerilog support soon, once I figure out how to reliably differentiate it from VHDL based on only the code.

#FPGA #VHDL #bot #fedibot # Icepi Zero

@directhex it's actually really what happened. I think maybe the TV thought the washing machine was a bluetooth speaker?

They all speak so many protocols I'm not 100% sure what's actually connecting to what, though -- the washer has bluetooth, matter, some Samsung stuff, and some Google stuff (as it runs something Android-ish). I don't think the TV is on the network, but the crash just happened once -- and only when the TV wouldn't listen to CEC, so it got power cycled.

That or LG just figured out how to make Samsung stuff crash ;)

@directhex ya, last weekend my TV tried to pair with my washing machine, which the washing machine interpreted as an attempt to stop drying and open the door, which caused the washing machine to crash because it was washing...

WANTED: Intel Architecture Labs 1990’s CD-ROM’s. They appear to have maybe been monthly. They contained a mirror of Intel’s ‘download.intel.com’ ftp server, specifically the /ial/ subdirectory which is not in the 2014 backup of the site on archive.org.

Lots and lots of white papers and design guideline documents in there. Especially looking for ones from the late 1990’s (1998-ish onward) if they exist. I’ve seen references in mailing lists to them that lead me to believe they do.
Example gem: intel trying to cover its ass after the FDIV bug, and have some more FDIV

I could think of a better illustration if I tried. 😂

You can get a 100% compliance score, but it will all just be wasted effort if Gmail Just Doesn't Like You.

This post by Bruce Schneier contains so many thoughtful soundbites:

> The question is not simply whether copyright law applies to AI. It is why the law appears to operate so differently depending on who is doing the extracting and for what purpose.

> Like the early internet, AI is often described as a democratizing force. But also like the internet, AI’s current trajectory suggests something closer to consolidation.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/ai-and-the-corporate-capture-of-knowledge.html

korgalore demo: yanking arbitrary lore.kernel.org threads into generic gmail

https://youtu.be/wOi_qHSO7KY

A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 9 (Project Zero)

https://lwn.net/Articles/1054547/ #LWN

Frowned upon in video games, loot boxes are back in real life–and one’s in the Pentagon.

https://www.404media.co/theres-a-lootbox-with-rare-pokemon-cards-sitting-in-the-pentagon-food-court/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@brauner/115871045863565861

Be sure to request an invite to #lsfmmbpf 2026 in Zagreb, Croatia!

@WTL I assure you that the majority of these reply guys have also never been to a protest.

Car Brain.

There's a lot of stupid in the world, but here's some more. For those of you not in San Francisco: we have an old freeway running right past the ocean. It is falling into the ocean, and for decades had been closed like 20% of the time as...
https://jwz.org/b/yk1T

Hey #linux nerds. Anyone interested in a #mac pro 2013 trash can?

This is an 8 core Xeon with 32 gigs of ram. I got it for free and had a good play.

I was never able to get #nixos running on it because the graphics cards are problematic. But it seems to run Linux mint perfectly.

I'm happy to simply pass it on for free. If your local you can pick up or if want to pay shipping from Olympia, WA, I'll send it to you.

Update: the makelaar uses Signal too!!! Reminder to myself to always ask, people are starting to add Signal even if they are still on WhatsApp too

Ever wanted a PicoGUS or PicoMEM but for PCMCIA? yyzkevin's PicoPCMCIA adds modern WiFi networking, Sound Blaster, GUS, CD-ROM, and storage to any computer with a PCMCIA slot. He's getting closer to launch and is now taking deposits for the first run of cards. https://www.yyzkevin.com/picopcmcia/

Both the Sound Blaster and CD-ROM emulation on the PicoGUS originally came from this ambitious project so it's awesome seeing it get close to done!

For the first time, open silicon wasn’t just a niche experiment in 2025 - it was a real ecosystem spanning three fabs and thousands of designs. And then one company collapsed and hundreds of chips effectively disappeared overnight.

Then somehow we recovered, sent 12 chips to be manufactured, sent 1 chip into space and gained access to another fab!

Read my review of 2025 and goals for 2026 here: https://zerotoasiccourse.com/post/year_update_2025/

the g in gobject stands for glib, and the g in glib stands for gtk, and the g in gtk stands for gimp, however the g in gimp stands for gnu, so really the g in glib stands for gnu, but you shouldn't confuse it with gnulib, which is developed by the gnu project, who shouldn't be confused as the developers of glib, which is the gnome project, in which the g also stands for gnu

@never_released ya, the RISC-V vector stuff is going to be a real rabbit hole of crazy...

I'm going to put https://www.tumblr.com/prokopetz/736059196246769664/mimi-croissant-prokopetz-bossbot97 here since it's December 1st, as a "hah that's funny" that quickly turns "damn, that's a good short fic".