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IEEE 802.11ac to RFC 1149 Gateway

A pigeon sitting on top of cables and a WiFi access point

@C64Takeaway Listened to them all - thanks for putting all the love and effort into them over the years. They have spiced up many a bleak commute for me! 🎶

That's the rev 2 board spin of the card edge connector PCB off to the fab house. 🚧

A KiCad 3D render of a 10x10cm footprint PCB.

The bottom of the PCB is a 2x22 card edge connector, for plugging the card into a backplane, with labelled test points above each finger.

The board is populated with pin headers and sockets, breaking out all the signals of the bus.

Took a file to it. 😅

The PCB edge connector now successfully inserted into the socket.

Apart from the board outline being like a millimetre too wide, the edge connector came out OK.

The PCB edge connector held over the 2x22 edge connector socket. Everything lines up good.

I guess that's why it's called prototyping. 😬

Also, note to self: TOLERANCES

A backplane PCB with a row of five 44 pin sockets, only one of which is populated. Into it, the edge connector of a PCB marked Prototype Dev Board (breaking out all the bus signals) is inserted. Except the right end of it, which doesn't actually fit into the socket.

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"Using AI is not about communicating. It’s about avoiding communicating. It’s about not reading, not writing, not drawing, not seeing. It’s about ceding our powers of expression and comprehension to digital apps that will cushion us from fully participating in our own lives.

Generative AI use is degenerative to literacy."

https://themindfile.substack.com/p/against-ai-literacy-have-we-actually?trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content

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Good news everyone. Both AWS and GCP are reporting there is not and has not been a problem with their services recently. Nothing to see here. Please move along.

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“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
—Captain G. M. Gilbert, Army psychologist

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If your Internet goes down, remember you can fill out the paper version of the packet transmission form.
stolen due to lack of alt text

A form depicting RFC791 "Internet Protocol Diagram"

On the left, there are these fields;
"Source, Destination": 2 IPv4-address-formatted blank fields
"Type of Service": high reliability, high throughput, low delay
"Precedence": Routine, Priority Immediate, Flash, Flash Override, CRITEC/ECP, Internetwork Control, Network Control
"Protocol": TCP, UDP, Other ____
Length: 5 digit-sized squares
Header Length: 2 digit-sized squares
Time to Live: 3 digit-sized squares
Options: *Do not write in this space.*
Headed Checksum: 4 squares

On the right, there's:
"Version": Square, "if other than 4, attach form RFC2480"
"Fragmentation": A box containing "Transportation layer use only", alongside the checkboxes more to follow, do not fragment, this bit is intentionally left blank, a 4-digit Offset field, and an identifier freeform field
"Data": "Print legibly and press hard. You are making up to 255 copies." followed by a bunch of blank lines

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Anarchy in the UK!

#bird #birds #birb #humor #humour #gull #seagull

gull sitting on a sign that says no gulls, with blue sky and white clouds in background

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@meganL 'as protestors clash with law enforcement'

As the militarised forces descend on them with gas and bullets, shooting the press and protestors indiscriminately, causing massive injury and pain, as people try to protect their communities.

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In the New Normal™, the human ability to read closely and intentionally is a finite and scarce resource.

#reading #writing #SyntheticMachines #PatternSynthesisMachines

The image is a visual representation titled "Why Readers Don't Like AI Writing." It features a comparison between AI writing and human writing, using an iceberg metaphor. The iceberg is divided into two sections, with the visible parts labeled "Text" for both AI and human writing. Below the surface, the human writing iceberg has additional layers labeled "Subtext," "Author Intention," "Contextual Impact," and "Dialectical Participation," suggesting that these elements are not visible in AI writing. The background is a light blue gradient, and the text is in white and black, with arrows indicating the relationship between the visible text and the underlying elements. The overall layout is clean and organized, with a focus on the differences between AI and human writing.

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Nothing spells “billionaires are just people” like Howard Schultz’s newly built mega yacht making its way through a small Dutch town.

Economics trickling down into your $8 latte. Cheers!

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My thoughts on the whole "Let's buy Commodore" thing can be summarised as follows. It's manipulative, naive, overly simplistic, and it's "content" rather than a call to action.

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The EU wants to stop feeding your DNS queries to Silicon Valley.

DNS4EU is the European Commission’s attempt to build a sovereign DNS resolver infrastructure that doesn’t route all your web lookups through the likes of Google, or Cloudflare.

DNS4EU aims to bring DNS resolution under EU oversight and privacy rules.

So, if you want 🇪🇺-backed ad-blocking and child protection, you may want to give it a try.

Check out DNS4EU here: https://www.joindns4.eu/for-public

@elb Welcome to the executive class. :blobsunglasses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PygDf6E94o

@kelpana Don't know what happened to that domain, but https://codebase64.c64.org/ seems current.

Interest: piqued 🤔🔥💥🍿

An illustration from a product on AliExpress. It's a bulb shaped canister with a pressure sealed lid, being rotated over over-enthusiastically rendered flames by a hand, turning a handle. On the scary-looking contraption is a pressure gauge. Over it, a calming text states:

The craftmanship is trustworthy. Real Steel is not afraid of fire practice.

Apparently, it's for making popcorn.

@mos_8502 If there are still some available, I'm in! :)

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