Peter Hartley
TalesFromTheArmchair@hachyderm.io
<p>Software engineer tinkering with embedded things, ARM, RTOS, Rust, networking, audio. Expecting to mostly use this account for micro-journalling open-source software, and anything else I try to give away.</p>
Posts
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Post #983119
@jripley We did exactly the thing described for Electric Imp crash telemetry: if the faulting address in the report was just one bit off from what would be a valid address (and especially if the same unit had done this repeatedly), then the default assumption would be that it wasn&#39;t a software issue. On embedded the usual culprit was badly-designed power supply circuitry -- or, in one case, badly-designed example power supply circuitry in the microcontroller datasheet, which was signific...
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Post #983118
Wow, someone&#39;s successfully targeted my embedded Rust USB host stack to *EHCI*. That&#39;s, like, a *real* host controller... https://github.com/imxrt-rs/imxrt-usbh #rustlang #embeddedrust #rustembedded
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Post #947984
Lots of side-eyeing today of Microsoft&#39;s disclaimer that &quot;Copilot is for entertainment purposes only&quot;. In the UK you&#39;d often see that disclaimer used by clairvoyants etc., on the basis that taking money for purported actual clairvoyance would be a crime under the Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951, as it&#39;s viewed as taking unfair advantage of the customer&#39;s mistaken belief that actual spirits were being consulted. FMA has since been repealed, as superse...