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mastodon 4.7.2Sparkly tinkering with computers.
Developper for the Haiku operating system, designer of retro computing hardware, reverse engineering of VTech stuff, and many other cool things!
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"Debian neither endorses nor prohibits the use of generative AI tools"
Oh well. It looks like I will have to go distro shopping :(
https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/08/msg00360.html
Seen this morning: a big "AI on board" ad on, of all things, a garbage truck. Can't decide if it's genius trolling or not thinking about the implications.
Random Haiku development action shots: currently we're updating libxml2 at haikuports and rebuilding all things that depend on it (due to lack of symbol versioning and namespacing, a process can't have multiple versions of libxml2 running at the same time).
So, Blender is still running fine! (somewhat old version, but all I cared about is getting it building again)
Next is trying to rebuild 0.A.D. which promises to be a challenge.
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@flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange I will continue porting Haiku to more and more hardware.
For servers and other non-desktop things, I may switch to NetBSD someday
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@brgl@social.kernel.org add a notice to your readme and documentation indicating that the domain is not related to you. Maybe ask other projects who got in similar situations (I think Kicad did a few years ago?)
#3615MaVie: J'ai installé des ventilateurs de plafond
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"New" phone received today. It's from 2021 and cost me less than 90€. It has way more computing power and RAM than I would ever need in a phone. But now the bootloader unlocking procedure involves waiting for a week. The stock ROM has google apps in it and as soon as I connected it to internet it decided to install various games. Turning the phone off uses the same shortcut (long press on power button) that also triggers google voice command so it can listen to you.
Made some progress today on eMMC storage support in Haiku. But no success yet, the commands to read data from the storage gets me a device timeout. I have several things to cleanup and improve, we'll see if that helps. And I hope I don't get any regressions on SD and SDHC cards.
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@Luk@mamot.fr ça se trouve tout le monde dans la chaîne a fait exprès de mal faire son travail pour prouver que c'est une mauvaise idée d'utiliser l'IA. En tout cas, c'est ce que j'aurais fait à leur place
Just found out that there is now a vector/scalable version of the proggy fonts. It's great if you want tiny text that remains readable, and it has better unicode coverage than the old bitmap one. I'm happy to fit so much text on my screen again, but keep the ability to zoom in if needed!
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Anyway, GALs programmed, board assembled and tested, desk cleaned of all the disassembled power supplies and stuff! On to the next project now...
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@amanda@social.spejset.org
Given a polar coordinate (a = angle, d = distance):
x = d . cos(a)
y = d . sin(a)
Round as needed to get integers.
I'm not sure how people manage to make this sound complicated? Or do I misunderstand the question?
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@b0rk there is something to do for at least decentralizing the different functions: archival, discovery of new projects, code hosting, release distribution, ...
The all-in-one approach of Github to this is convenient, but when it inevitably fails, that breaks everything at once. Replacing just one of these things at a time in a project would be a little easier.
Je relisais la page wikipédia de Jacques Cheminade (candidat aux élections présidentielles en 1995, 2012 et 2017, moins de 0.3% des voix à chaque fois) et en fait Elon Musk lui a volé toutes ses idées: les aérotrains, la colonisation de Mars, les gigafactories, ...
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@rk@mastodon.well.com I think these toings would be way more successful if they had a fun, easy to remember name that is loosely related to what they do, instead of greek letters and the name of whoever invented it the second time it was invented. Why is it not simply called paramfixxing?
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New LCD for the game gear received and installed today. I got a cheap kit from ebay, figured out it couldn't be worse than the original display. Installation requires soldering a flexible pcb and 6 wires. The one I got appears to be a bit of a "mix and match", using a controller meant for "laminated" screen but an lcd that can be simply set where the original was. It needs a bit of care to make sure nothing will shortcircuit or rattle around, the kit comes with insulation tape
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I guess that's what I get for using 15 year old repurposed hardware for most things. That power supply was from a usb 3.5" hard drive enclosure that I had modified to use as an external floppy drive enclosure for the Amstrad. The replacement adjustable power supply was not used much because of this factory miscalibration, I should have opened and fixed it much earlier.
The multimeter is on its 3rd or 4th battery and had been warning of a low battery for a long time already.
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@opoponax@mastodon.social I have read it (the original French version). I would say is is exactly what you'd expect from the title and the author's bio (former policeman but thatws just one of a dozen unusual past jobs, runs two youtube channels of which one is about Akai MPC sound samplers, says he wrote the book on his phone while commuting to work in RER trains)
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@opoponax@mastodon.social I guess "The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir who got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe" would be fitting?
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Ok, I found a dead via on the audio board and that brought sound back! So the system is alive, and only the LCD is dead. I started messing with it and almost electrocuted myself with the backlight power supply. So I'm carefully closing that up and ordering a mod rn replacement display that doesn't involve dangerous voltages. The playing experience won't be quite the same, the screen will be too good but also the weird 160x144 original resolution doesn't scale well to 320x200 replacement displays
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But gaming experience on a console I'll probably don't use that much isn't worth the risk of electrical shock trying to fix it, all things considered.
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@nicoco@pouet.pas.la since I had to buy something, I picked one that is officially supported by LineageOS. I already run unofficial/old unmaintained versions of it on various other devices (tablet, the backup phone I use now and that I keep for cases like this where my main phone is broken), and it works fine for my needs.
Not going to experiment with stranger stuff because I already do that with Haiku on my computers. So my phone is my only "mostly normal" device...
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Also it came without its original box, but the seller included a pre-bent paperclip to use as a SIM/SD card tray ejection tool. I guess someone's job is bending paperclips then?
My server ran out of memory because the web statistics script cannot keep up with parsing the logs with so many scrapper bots visiting me. At this point, 65% of the requests are being rejected and the IP blocked (which means I still reach 65% with requests comming from different IP addresses). And I'm likely very far from detecting and rejecting all the bots.
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@millihertz@oldbytes.space Dasung has a range of eInk displays promising 33 to 60Hz refresh rates (depending on size, resolution, and wether you also want color). I didn't see one in real life to see how it actually delivers on that promise
https://shop.dasung.com/products/dasung-paperlike-103-the-worlds-first-60hz-e-ink-monitor?pr_prod_strat=e5_desc&pr_rec_id=918ac969b&pr_rec_pid=9942565322936&pr_ref_pid=9957629493432&pr_seq=uniform
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@rk@mastodon.well.com it's not spinning, but it's doing so clockwise and counter-clockwise at the same time. Unless you look at it, then it spins in a single direction.
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@aislerhq@aisler.social thanks, not sure how I missed that when ordering. Not really an issue anyway, it's quite rare that I have two things to build at the same time
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This was also my first time ordering PCBs from @aislerhq@aisler.social so they are made in the EU. Some notes about that:
- you can upload your kicad files directly, no export to gerber needed, pretty convenient!
- untracked postage is cheap, but took 2 weeks (it's fine, I'm not in a hurry)
- order quantities are in multiples of 3 as they make 3 panels with several PCBs on them
- no batching: I ordered two different circuits and they were shipped separately. I guess it makes their logistics simpler
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@kkarhan@c.im it's Xiaomi, but having an official process to unlock the bootloader makes them one of the "good" guys...
See https://a.zli.li/en/ fr a list of manufacturers and summary of what's needed.
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@gllmr@social.gllmr.fr j'en vends plusieurs, pour ajouter des ROM d'extension qui augmentent les capacités du système, ajouter jusqu'à 2Mo de RAM, stockage de masse sur carte microSD, port USB pour brancher une souris, une clé usb ou un peu ce qu'on veut, un synthétiseur MIDI ou un OPL3 pour faire de la musique.
Et y'a plein d'autres trucs fait par d'autres gens avec du wifi, des cartes graphiques, sûrement tout plein d'autres trucs
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@gllmr@social.gllmr.fr
En anglais, les pages de cpcwiki (qui a aussi un forum pour toutes les questions):
https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Peripherals
https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/DIY
(le site semble avoir des difficultés aujourd'hui, il faut insister un peu pour arriver à charger les pages). J'ai pas trouvé de liste de recommandations, c'est un peu "brut" et un mélange de trucs récents et plus anciens
Un forum en français (y'en a plusieurs): https://cpcrulez.fr/forum/viewforum.php?f=5
Pour mes projets personnels c'est ici:
https://shinra.cpcscene.net/tech.html
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There is too much play in the shoulder buttons (quite annoying when playing Unirally). A piece of heat shrink tube as a shim between the plastic button and the silicone pad did the trick. My replacement pad (a cheap fake one) is also dead, the PCB is so thin and became all wavy and won't contact the buttons I think. I used it as spare parts to replace the shoulder buttons on the other one. I could desiGn a new PCB for it, but I think it's not worth saving. I ordered another one from Hyperkin
Today random electronics works: fixing a headlamp for my stepbrother and an old duplo train for my nephew. Both had leaked batteries causing some corrosion inside. For the toy train it was just the battery terminals, so a good cleanup and reapplying a little bit of solder was enough. But there was an extra challenge as my nephew played with it while it was open, so it came "pre desassembled".
REMOVE BATTERIES FROM YOUR DEVICES.
Mystery device found on the sidewalk today. There is a sticker with the brand "EO Guidage" which was a company making sound signalling system to guide blind people on crosswalks. Not sure why and how this was abandoned where I found it.
It has some Renesas microcontroller, bluetooth, usb, and a built-in 5V power supply. I'll put it on the pile of things that may become devboards.
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The green color is the lowest priced, other ones are more expensive (until more people order them and it makes sense to produce more, I guess, but I'm happy with green anyways). The green is slightly more brown than other manufacturers I used before, I think. No problem with the build quality, just note that the PCBs will have panelling supports on all edges that you may need to file away.
Now I'll go and make some improâements to my PCB as I've already found some slight problems with my wiring
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@nicoco@pouet.pas.la I also considered just continuing to use my rescue phone (a Galaxy A3 2016), but battery life is not great, screen brightness is too low indirect sunlight, no fingerprint reader, ...
Missing just a little bit too many things I got used to. And keeping an extra rescue phone just in case is a good idea and I don't have any other reasonable (read: 4G compatible) one
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@nicoco@pouet.pas.la sure, no problem! I would be super happy to try postmarketOS or some other Linux-based thing, but not really possible on my main hhone I think. The previous one I had chosen a model compatible with Sailfish but in the end I left it with its stock firmware , and never bothered to reinstll it with LineageOS when that became well supported. So I learnt to check for support before getting the phone this time!
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I hope that one will be as good quality as the original controllers and give my snes another 30 years of lifetime!
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@come@social.chilliet.eu dans mon projet actuel les LLMs sont interdits sur demande du client pour l'instant (risque de fuites de données, alors que toutes les données sont déjà stockées chez Microsoft, mais bon c'est pas la question).
Je sais pas si ça restera longtemps comme ça...