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• Post #4346251

  Big Rheostat doesn’t want you to know about pulse-width modulation

• Post #4346250

  Okay so are trolleybuses angel girls because the trolleypoles are wings

• Post #3474129

  I'm really tired of computers are unaffordable because VC-funded companies need to build the next Uber which will end up ultimately being unreasonably expensive for me to use while invading my privacy I'm not even saying AI is bad (though many uses of it are, or they reveal the ways our present system rewards unethical behaviors)

• Post #1991113

  Oh I forgot about this, it’s so crazy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing_polymorph

• Post #1705630

  It annoys me that we are culturally prone to talking about impressive technology we (personally) don't understand as "magic" I think this does a disservice to those who may be hear us (especially children) and thus think, "I could never do something like that!" It's a lot of hard work and cooperation that got us the things that exist today. And you could be someone who makes the next amazing thing exist

• Post #1515103

  @mipsytipsy wrote an amazing blog post https://charity.wtf/2025/07/09/thoughts-on-motivation-and-my-40-year-career/ I feel like she's describing so much of what got me interested in tech work and why I still have so much ambition and hope for it Overall, society's not been great at making spaces for neurodivergent folks who also love the complexity of systems of humans, and in a way, working in tech has felt like the only place I could have gone and made my life work, especiall...

• Post #980819

  I’m beginning to come to the conclusion that the only sensible response to the emergence of ridiculous politics around trans people in restrooms is that everyone should just randomly use any gender restroom at any time until we grow out of this stuff as a society We should not tolerate any restroom being unsafe, and the notion that the historical segregation of restrooms by gender confers some safety is dubious at best

• Post #933844

  I'm annoyingly being forced to reckon with a particular kind of intersection between mortality and quality of life (I'm in no danger, but in the long run I am in danger and I don't like the implied choices)

• Post #933842

  It would be so cool if some day I can stop hearing about J. K. Rowling

• Post #933841

  In Ann Bannon’s novels, the character Beebo Brinker has a dog named Nix

• Post #933840

  Honestly glad to live in the century where astronauts are tossing around a plushy while on a live videoconference with TV news

• Post #714420

  Mastodon is the kind of place where if I made a shitpost like: You can tell the difference between leaded and lead-free solder by tasting it So many of you would get mad as hell and probably report me and even consider making a fediblock post, but you wouldn’t do the sensible thing and quote tweet it because you’re too cowardly to have that kind of callout culture (Feel free to quote tweet this!)

• Post #452009

  Talking with folks at the local hackerspace about my ham radio experience has me thinking about 10.368 GHz equipment again. There's a lot more commercially available now, but there's also a lot less random telco surplus Because building, testing, and adjusting stuff would be half of my enjoyment, I wonder about doing this from scratch. How bad is it to get prototype quantity PCBs made in the suitable substrates (i.e. not FR4, stuff like the Rogers products) these days? Also not...

• Post #441245

  RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116070756284944237 Sagan's writing about this always brings me to tears https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot#Reflections Because it's distinct from a lot of the domineering "you are small" messages in this (and some other societies) –rather, it's that the entirety of human existence is small, but it matters, cooperation is the greatest thing you could do.