AmpBenzScientist @AmpBenzScientist@qoto.org
Toughbook fan, Mathematician and Locksmith with limited success in other areas.
Political stance is far right and far left. Proponent of First Aid Kits and PPE. Easily disheartened by big tech. Partially hinged personality and stubborn enough to not write this in the First Person.
Distrust of Psychology and a fan of satire. I love a good joke and contradict myself. Somewhat serious but easily distracted.
Joined Jan 2020
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Today I took a lot of photos (more than a hundred), but in the end, I only selected 14 that were usable. I used Affinity Photo 2 to process these RAW files. Although I have Lightroom Classic, I wanted to try Affinity's software as an action to resist and break free from Adobe's subscription model.
The 50MP RAW from the main camera of the Samsung did surprise me a bit. There is more flexibility in post-adjustments compared to JPG, but it still doesn't compare to a real camera. However, considering the cost-performance ratio, I am satisfied. So far, including the phone, the equipment I use for photography doesn't exceed 13,000 RMB, which is roughly the price of an entry-level camera and lens.
Unfortunately, these photos are too large, averaging around 15 to 20MB each, so I can't upload them to Mastodon. I will try other platforms instead.
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Note: This toot is translated from Chinese into English using AI. I'm too tired to speak in English...
“I’d say that Rust is actually less safe than C, because in C, the language is all designed around writing unsafe code,” O’Brien said.
Memory Safe they said.
Memory Safe Languages are implemented in C , C++ and Assembly. Rust used LLVM which was written in C++ I believe. So to be safe we must be unsafe to be safe and be unsafe again to be useful.
It's crazy how savage Embedded Developers can be. It's as if they have more than a superficial understanding of what they are programming and what it is for.
Also the CISA page on Memory Safe Languages looks like they copied the FSF's DefectiveByDesign campaign. That's not very reassuring.
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"Don’t expect the #Embedded community to ditch C / C++ for a Memory-Safe alternative anytime soon"
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My blueberries seem to have survived the storm.
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I used to know a blissed-out hippie-chick in Baltimore, she once told me that she used to do acid (the drug, not music) and lay down on the field by the Yoo-hoo chocolate soda factory. Flying out of her body, etc etc. It seemed like such a tacky kind of transcendence… but it was real! A new kind of religion being born out of heaps of rusted cars and fast food joints. And this girl was flying above it all, but in it too.
@thendrix Cubes grow natively in the south. Apparently they are quite abundant after some rain.
It's just pretty cool.
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[2023] "The Billion Dollar Death Trade: The International Arms Networks that Enable Human Rights Violations in #Myanmar" (Russia / China / Singapore / Thailand / India)
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"OpenTofu team vehemently disagrees with any suggestion that it misappropriated, mis-sourced, or otherwise misused HashiCorp’s BSL code" (Terraform)
https://opentofu.org/blog/our-response-to-hashicorps-cease-and-desist/
@LouisIngenthron Yes it should have been the Legislative branch. I guess that's where some representation is present.
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The Nucleo board lives. Had to dig out an old mini-USB cable for it. They haven't updated the design in years. Two USB generations behind!
@thor Wasn't USB supposed to be a standard?
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@mike @meshtastic not yet, I tested them in my house and small garden 😅
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History of Silicon Graphics
https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-silicon-graphics
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Now that is a complicated question. But usually the main way its accomplished with what we call antitrust laws. When enforced (and the usa has enforced thrm but not as strongly as it should) they effectively make monopolies illegal.
Of course the other key is keeping corruption in check and money out of politics, which isnlikewise a difficult task to do, but critical to a healthy capitalism
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I wish i had a waterproof ereader. If i did i wouod put on my scuba tanks, go sit at the bottom of a pool and read a books for a few hours.
@freemo Panasonic Toughpad FZ-X1 has an IP68 rating so you are good for approximately 3 meters.
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Deindustrialize they said. We can reboot it when needed they said… they have no idea how industry and logistics work.
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Apparently the main lens won't give you 50MP by default. It's 12MP. You have to switch to 50MP mode and lose a lot of functions.
Toughbook fan, Mathematician and Locksmith with limited success in other areas.
Political stance is far right and far left. Proponent of First Aid Kits and PPE. Easily disheartened by big tech. Partially hinged personality and stubborn enough to not write this in the First Person.
Distrust of Psychology and a fan of satire. I love a good joke and contradict myself. Somewhat serious but easily distracted.
Joined Jan 2020
