artemist

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reverse engineering, ee, so-called "freebsd expert"
photography and trains when i actually remember

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2026-04-05 20:48:43 UTC

us retailers: no we can't use chip and pin, that would make buying things take 5 seconds longer!
also us retailers: do not include tax so cash cannot be calculated beforehand, and include 4 unnecessary steps on every transaction, including asking for a phone number and donations to a multi-billion dollar corporation.

2026-04-05 05:20:04 UTC

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@nprofile…emk6 now i really want one of those "the art of war for children learning to read" books that are available in china.

2026-03-25 14:00:10 UTC

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@nprofile…mv7s @nprofile…ws0j most well-proven technology is probably fired clay tablets, but there's limited information density there

2026-03-25 13:43:34 UTC

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@nprofile…mv7s @nprofile…ws0j i think their method is to keep it in sealed containers in the svalbard global seed vault

2026-03-25 13:38:45 UTC

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@nprofile…mv7s @nprofile…ws0j There is one company that does the datamatrix method, but they put it on photographic film instead of quartz. iirc they put the barcode specification at the beginning of each roll in a human readable form.
that's what the github "arctic code vault" was.

2026-03-24 13:34:52 UTC

my understanding from looking at the uk citizenship test is that british values include "being good at pub quizzes"

2026-02-14 03:50:19 UTC

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@nprofile…re2d if you have debug symbols for your libraries (or can get them from a pdb or debuginfod server) you can turn symbols into file paths and line numbers. debuginfod can also fetch individual source files, though it's not designed to fetch entire tree efficiently aiui.

2026-02-10 19:43:03 UTC

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@nprofile…vsjg i've definitely noticed that pinyin characters don't map clearly to a sound, since they merge different sounds that are only used in different contexts into one letter. i'd guess they were trying to remove extraneous information that's inherent in mandarin phonology from the script.
one of the more interesting cases of this is that there is a distinction between "nu" with an unrounded vowel and "nü" with a rounded vowel. but there is no "ju"/"jü" distinction, so the rounded vowel is written as "ju".

2026-01-22 02:50:19 UTC

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@nprofile…mv7s @nprofile…yzy8 @nprofile…rn6v i thought old formatting assumed the same number of sectors per cylinder, which wouldn't make a ton of sense if you were trying to hit absolute limits of data density

2025-12-07 21:06:19 UTC

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@nprofile…623q it feels like they did not put a lot of effort into this form: www.notruf112.bayern.de/assets/stmi/sus/rettungswesen/notruf112_notfall_telefax.pdf

2025-11-21 05:52:50 UTC

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@nprofile…syqt i feel like my assumptions with armv8 application cores is always that they'll tell you to use psci and ask tf-a to do it

2025-10-14 17:32:30 UTC

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@nprofile…hc5w this is kind of impressive, did you build freebsd yourself and get the build system confused?

2025-10-10 02:38:20 UTC

i very specifically asked for not that
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2025-10-07 23:40:39 UTC

vendors should be legally required to give transgender people datasheets for free with no nda

2025-09-29 22:06:27 UTC

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as GPS, is in fact, GPS+GLONASS+Galileo+BeiDou+QZSS, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNSS. GPS is not a highly precise navigation system unto itself, but rather another component of a fully functioning satellite navigation system made useful by a multitude of additional satellites by different organizations.

2025-08-22 23:49:42 UTC

someone should send me a document verifier certificate that chains to the italian country verification certificate authority, i want to see the fingerprints on my id card.
it seems like the eu has measures for cross-signing document verifier certificates so eu countries can read the fingerprints on other eu passports, but i'm not sure if that's used in practice. france used to have automated border control with fingerprints but it could only read them from french passports.

2025-08-07 22:24:19 UTC

oh no, some pushy sales rep came up and seemed to be selling me fiber internet, but no, it was 150/10mbps 5g home internet where i'm pretty sure they cgnat you. also they claimed i would have a dedicated "5g fiber" connection. i very much doubt they would reserve one of their nr bands for one apartment. i don't doubt that their gNB has a fiber backhaul though, because any backhaul other than fiber is an awful idea

2025-07-22 19:53:05 UTC

Each time I look at the stock market I must remind myself that stocks are not related to the performance of a company, they are related to investors' expectations of future performance of a company.
That is somewhat less true in companies that give dividends or voting rights, but modern tech companies tend not to do so.

2025-07-18 05:43:00 UTC

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@nprofile…gacn okay, that's rude

2025-07-18 05:22:55 UTC

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@nprofile…gacn how is it loading the kernel? arm64 linux has 3 ways of getting a kaslr seed: relocation in the efistub (which gets randomness from uefi EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL), the /chosen/kaslr-seed property in the device tree that u-boot sets, and the aarch64 RNDR system register.
You should only get that error if all three fail

2025-07-15 05:22:46 UTC

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@nprofile…gacn mostly avoids having to repack apps when doing invasive debugging, e.g. with frida or accessing an app's data. also lets you add new tls root certificates for interception which normally android won't let you do.
it's nice to have a rooted android device for reverse engineering but i wouldn't root my main device.

2025-07-03 05:50:09 UTC

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@nprofile…c5n8 I got a pretty poor impression of them when i took them (went to weird station in vienna, didn't accept interrail in 1st class but that wasn't noted anywhere, and the seat reservation signs weren't working so i had to move twice)

2025-06-30 20:41:26 UTC

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@nprofile…fr03 i'm starting to think that setuid is a bad idea

2025-06-20 19:01:15 UTC

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@nprofile…s6x2 I'd say the biggest changes in computing in the past 25 years have more to do with centralization of information and communication around a small number of internet monopolies than to do with how computers function and the software that can run on them. We had Windows NT, Linux, and web browsers with JavaScript in 2000.

2025-06-17 19:33:05 UTC

Someone sent me an incredibly cursed pin
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2025-06-08 19:29:00 UTC

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@nprofile…85f4 i'd guess this wouldn't work with my amphetamine er, but i don't really need to try that

2025-06-08 19:27:25 UTC

will dissolving lisdexamphetamine in water then doing volumetric dosing work well? i'm almost out of 20mg (getting a new psychiatrist or any fills is hard...) but i have a bunch of 40mg and splitting with a milligram scale is very tedious and inefficient.

2025-06-03 05:40:14 UTC

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@nprofile…cgs9 get a bunch of those rp2040 zero dev boards and have each one type one letter on enumeration, so you can use the reset buttons as keys

2025-05-26 20:56:55 UTC

i love wiktionary
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2025-05-16 18:19:30 UTC

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@nprofile…36ma as someone who has never lived in europe, being allowed to sign it felt kind of weird

2025-04-29 18:31:55 UTC

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@nprofile…leww this is italian

2025-04-29 18:29:59 UTC

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@nprofile…leww oh no i'm smol
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2025-04-11 17:49:25 UTC

the index controllers being 150USD each feels absurd until you open one up and you see complex flex PCBs with WLCSP parts with underfill connected via high density connectors to other flex PCBs.
the construction makes me think more "digital camera" than "game controller"

2025-04-07 00:48:11 UTC

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@nprofile…gacn in both cases you can get extremely cursed physical sim cards for them

2025-03-30 21:52:32 UTC

my catgirl is so accepting, it loves me even though i have massive tits

2025-03-28 18:13:40 UTC

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@nprofile…k9rm @nprofile…7kv5 i thought the layer 2 switch could do 802.3ad lag

2025-03-17 22:07:22 UTC

White people keep talking about "msg-free food".
Skill issue. I have acquired food-free MSG.
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2025-03-14 14:44:27 UTC

if you're making an adventure isakei in 2025 you should be legally required to make it weird.
no more "i have to fight monsters and solve problems then i'll get home", do something like "i fell in love with the person assigned to kill every otherworlder and she can't kill me, so i go on a journey with her so she can figure out how to kill me"

2025-03-12 02:36:56 UTC

how do i tell if a catgirl likes me? we've been living together for 5 years

2025-02-20 01:49:41 UTC

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@nprofile…gacn i keep searching for ai pins on ebay but all i get is weird ai-generated porn

2025-02-20 01:42:48 UTC

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@nprofile…gacn yeah, it would just be funny.
the only reasonable chance of hacking would be an exposed uart/usb test point and a serious configuration error, no idea if anyone has tried that yet

2025-02-20 01:36:55 UTC

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@nprofile…gacn Qualcomm didn't have an approved iSIM at the time the SoC was released, so one of the chips is probably an eUICC connected to the CPU over ISO 7816 and could be replaced.

2025-02-14 20:37:19 UTC

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@nprofile…cgs9 sony managed to basically do this in c++, they stripped the binary but exported every function so it was useless. also most of the functions logged their name and the name of arguments

2024-12-24 03:40:58 UTC

wireless headphones:
turn them on
pair them with your computer
a2dp doesn't work, so turn them off them off and on again
a2dp still doesn't work, so unpair and repair them
after 3 tries, they start working again
watch a video, all the audio is like 500ms delayed
wait until they run out of battery
throw them in the trash
wired headphones:
you plug them in
listen to music/watch a video, audio has no perceivable delay
wow i can see why everyone is using wireless headphones now

2024-09-02 02:39:22 UTC

oh, in case anyone wants an esd sensitive electronics symbol for a pcb or something, feel free to use this: https://git.mildlyfunctional.gay/artemist/play/raw/branch/canon/cad/inkscape/cat_esd.svg
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2024-07-31 01:13:43 UTC

i hate how home consoles now are just "pc with fucked up freebsd/windows".
they should make another console that has 7 cores of an architecture you've never heard of
games should run at kernel level and have to include their own scheduler. don't worry, you can have 3 cores of 3 different architectures to manage filesystem access and such.

2023-08-16 17:07:31 UTC

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@npub1683…f0qg Sorry, I've just been kind of annoyed at other people thinking that and assumed you were

2023-08-16 17:04:59 UTC

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@npub1683…f0qg How efficient is this process? The EU has set somewhat aggressive collection ratios in the past and have sometimes not managed to reach them. They are targeting 70% recovery of lithium by 2030 (this includes batteries that are not returned). According to a review paper efficiencies tend to top out at around 90%.
If it's any less than 100% we'll need massive amounts of lithium as cars get bigger. This seems to often come at the expense of indigenous peoples, e.g. Canada is already planning on destroying more Cree land to mine lithium.
My position, and the position of most people I talk to about this, is that battery recycling and more electric cars are necessary, but not sufficient. A lot of this reasoning is described in a whitepaper from UC Davis and various other researchers around the US.
In addition to recycling it's important to improve public transportation, reduce the use of cars in cities, promote e-bikes, and increase density in cities. This would have other positive effects, such as more social mobility (easier to get to jobs and poor people do not have to spend thousands of dollars on a car), more safety, less noise, and lower PM2.5 from tires.

2023-08-10 05:58:43 UTC

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@npub1qru…8lu4 @npub1c57…awu5 Just as a music listener I've tried to figure out how it works and it's a huge mess.
Most of the services will take almost any music but they don't want to deal with artists directly, so they have a list of allowed distributors that they've authorized to submit music and metadata. Artists have to pay to get their music submitted through a distributor.
The distributors are too small to negotiate recording royalty payments, so those are negotiated by Merlin Network Limited and the money is funneled through them and the distributor before it gets to the artist.
Countries also have separate statutory royalties for songwriters, which Merlin won't deal with and distributors won't collect unless you pay them extra. In the US there's the Mechanical Licensing Collective for mechanical royalties and SoundExchange for performance royalties. I don't really understand how those work except that apparently there's a difference between a listener choosing a track and the platform automatically choosing a track for the listener.

2023-08-10 00:39:43 UTC

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@npub1c57…awu5 It always seems weird when I can't find small artists on bandcamp, just streaming. I prefer to buy lossless music (on a CD or as lossless files, so I can transcode them to weird formats for my various devices) and there are very few places left that let you do that

2023-07-15 16:56:36 UTC

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@npub1r4h…u0jf Adding Rust is a super recent thing and has been somewhat delayed as Rust adds better support for allocation failing without crashing the entire system.

2023-03-25 17:15:37 UTC

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#[0] no more consumer isps, just random people running fiber to ixps and announcing their own prefixes