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• Post #4485477

  BEHOLD: contraption

• Post #4481608

  NHS healthcare in the UK be like: if you are late even by 40 seconds past 0800, you're gonna get bounced by the phone system. good luck! or if you actually need healthcare, go fuck yourself i guess

• Post #4442065

  @gsuberland@chaos.social wanna test the new packages? https://glasgow-embedded.org/en/install/binary.html

• Post #4427126

  i did it. i bolted InstallShield-style background to an MSI installer. you have no idea how difficult this was

• Post #4402251

  i do not think i can rightfully describe how much effort it took to get here

• Post #4401184

  dealing with windows installer is a quasi-religious experience in the sense that you get to really understand what Dante was writing about

• Post #4400000

  did you know: autotools aren't real

• Post #4399591

  twink32.dll

• Post #4391615

  after giving up on an e-bike with the awful Shimano drivetrain, i bought a scooter on a whim (i had very good experiences with them previously). Joyor S5 (600W). as it turns out: this is definitely the right form factor for meeven though i'm not pedaling i am still getting quite a workout, close to the upper limit of exercise i can tolerate at allthe 600W motor is not enough to overcome the fucking hills nearby. i'm going to upgrade to a T10 (2x1000W). if that will not be enough torque i...

• Post #4390305

  we just spent four hours trying to figure out why wix in wine in the nix sandbox chokes on an unicode filename wix: works with hanziwix in wine on my machine: works with hanziwix in wine (from nix store) with exact same versions as my local setup: works with hanziwix in wine inside the nixbld sandbox: claims it cannot open XXX??YY???? where each ? corresponds to one ideogram cause: nix stdenv doesn't bother to install locales, even en_US.UTF-8, and wine, after being run without a locale, jus...

• Post #4373798

  existence of Wine, Nix, and Wix implies the existence of Nine in the fourth, mysterious quadrant

• Post #4364338

  "A web font that makes written content costly to scrape for AI training." look inside accessibility-breaking slop

• Post #4363806

  i don't think i will ever trust any "AI protection" measure built with Claude. that's just participating in a protection racket

• Post #4362255

  funny page https://apps.microsoft.com/unsupported-browser?feature=fetch&hl=en-US&gl=DE

• Post #4362145

  made some final adjustments to the installer

• Post #4339021

  in about a day's work i learned WiX and built an MSI installer for #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer! look at it, it includes everything (Python, Yosys, nextpnr-{ice40,ecp5}, Python libraries, the manual) in a package that is just under 90 MB and fully self-contained. and we cross-build everything from Nix using a combination of MinGW, Wine, and a lot of elbow grease this isn't quite complete yet (among other things it doesn't yet automatically install the prepackaged wheels) but it's p...

• Post #4335003

  ok so i spent like two hours tearing my hair out trying to figure out why my .msi cannot install a file in a .cab file which is most fucking definitely there tried changing compression ratios, using external cab, giving files explicit ids, everything in the world. eventually found someone's stackoverflow post where they were similarly driven to the brink by this error the post said "touch every file you're packaging" reader. dear reader. the suggestion fucking worked. not o...

• Post #4334812

  why the fuck is this called "Word Count Summary Property" https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/msi/word-count-summary

• Post #4235772

  existence of youtube shorts implies the existence of youtube long longs and youtube doubles

• Post #4234281

  Amaranth's simulator interface has taken a massive amount of effort to design and implement, but the payoff is that writing tests in it is actually pleasant. there's very little friction (i use a few helpers but those should be upstreamable) and the tests are compact and easy to debug this is possibly the highest achievement of everything we've built for the language

• Post #4233126

  they even ban spell-checkers if they're based on LLMs. that's kind of impressive. unenforceable, clearly, but impressive https://not-brain.d.on-t.work/notes/aparmsocvf8wbdj6

• Post #4222235

  really good video about how guitar and piano and violin strings vibrate https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sYdXa_yp0fc

• Post #4217990

  three or four maybe https://chaos.social/@weirdunits/117001739463210230

• Post #4194098

  @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange i just learned something you might get a kick out of so you know "CJK"? apparently zh_CN speakers sometimes use "LGC" (Latin/Greek/Cyrillic)

• Post #4150376

  summer is the season of being tortured by heat. it cannot end soon enough

• Post #4149479

  OH: "10.0 CRITICAL: blank silicon wafers can implement arbitrary logic functions, potential for arbitrary code execution, data tampering and denial of service"

• Post #4135507

  EE folks: what's a good configurable clock synthesizer chip? requirements: two outputs, 3.3V (diff or single-ended)wide range of frequencies up to 250..400 MHz (for FPGA input)can be configured using a relatively simple algorithm, as opposed to a closed-source Windows application

• Post #4116955

  weird way to calculate energy use but ok https://chaos.social/@weirdunits/116987111841624960

• Post #4103622

  using optogenetics to fuse crickets with region-specific parameters (fahrenheit slope for american crickets, celsius slope for european crickets)

• Post #4086531

  protip for anyone who sees SUMP / OpenLogicSniffer being a sort of de-facto standard for logic analyzer protocols: both the protocol itself and its implementation in sigrok are incredibly broken. sigrok's implementation is done in a way where it seems like it works over TCP but it doesn't and cannot work in the published source code, half of the functions needed for that aren't implemented so the code silently fails