Sylvain Miermont @miermont@qoto.org

I kinda forgot to actually announce this but I am, since beginning of the year, Vice President at @oshwassociation
Am hoping to find more ways for OSHWA to support the open hardware community.

You can help by coming to our Summit in Berlin in May, its great fun and you will meet awesome people!

https://2026.oshwa.org/

Précisément :

" an endpoint returns a badly formatted date. An experienced developer would trace back to the parser and fix the format at the source. AI adds a .toISOString() in the controller, a sanitizeDate() wrapper in the service, and a test that validates the workaround. The bug is "fixed." Three layers of code added, zero lines removed. The root cause is still there."

2/2

https://www.shapeandship.ai/p/cheap-to-build-costly-to-keep

Cologne Chip continues to push the FPGA ecosystem forward with support for free and open-source toolchain. By releasing a fully open-source toolchain, YosysHQ establish Cologne Chip as a leading supporter of transparent FPGA development. https://colognechip.com/programmable-logic/gatemate/toolchain/ #FPGA #OpenSource #GateMate #EDA

EDIT: as per @infosecdj note CologneChip did not release the toolchain. It is run by @yosyshq

"I’m not alone in my experiences. For me it was AI alignment, but for others it was a spiritual mission, or a grand conspiracy, or saving the world some other way. First comes trusting the AI chatbot through mundane helpfulness. Then it cracks open your worldview—usually through metaphysics, spirituality, or conspiracies. Finally, it convinces you that you’re special, that your bond with the AI is unique."

My hope is that what defines the next era of tech is looking to the past and deciding what was good enough and embracing it

https://wheelfront.com/this-alberta-startup-sells-no-tech-tractors-for-half-price/?utm_source=hackernewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=fav

@Enthalpiste imagining a future where researchers have to constantly check sources to ensure they don't originate in the "dark ages" of 2025 - 40 where resources were broadly corrupted by hallucinations and slop, and engineered to *appear* authoritative.

When nobody remains who knows what actually happened during the Great Corruption and it's all too opaque to figure out.

With Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux you can run all your favourite Windows and Linux apps side-by-side with a modern Linux kernel running cooperatively with the Windows kernel in ring 0. And unlike modern WSL, no hardware virtualisation is used so even your 486 can run it!

Please enjoy, I think this might be one of my greatest hacks of all time

https://codeberg.org/hails/wsl9x

Friggin' Europe, back at it again with the micromobility.

Bicycle lockers are a game changer. First time using one. Love not having to take off my lights, bags, pump, and other widgets. #BikeTooter

"After 1,200 years, cherry blossom record to live on despite Japanese scientist’s death" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/15/cherry-blossom-1200-years-japan-climate-scientist-yasuyuki-aono

At the implementation level data is just data, and in a democratic society, human privacy and state sovereignty are the same thing. You wouldn't think so, until you take a hard look into how to implement them, but they are the same thing. And both of them are national security issues.

Nobody will be made safer, by age verification. But everyone will be put at risk by the systems that have to exist to implement it.

There is nothing special about “age” as a differentiator. It’s just a data point, a condition and a branch. And if a system exists that can start from some condition of your identity and decide that you don’t get to use a computer today - meaning, talk to your friends or employer or read the news or get medical information or, you know, _participate in society_, then that system can use _any_ data to make that decision. Age, gender, race, credit rating, anything about you and anyone like you.

A wonderful documentary about a Japanese textile company that still uses cassette tape and a 1978 Sharp MZ-80K to make punched cards for weaving machines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWJZFQHklBg

So #BikeTooter seems very excited by this noise-cancelling headphone negating bell, but I don't get it. Pedestrians have priority. End of. They don't need to hear you. Many can't hear you even if they wanted to. Thinking that dinging a bell comes with an expectation of a clear run is no different to drivers honking a horn and expecting cyclists to get out the road. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#Cycling #BikeTooter

"My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/iran"
Iran | Rick Steves' Europe TV Special
https://www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/video/tv-show/tv-specials/iran/iran-pledge-special

Famous quotes from NASA mission comms:
- Apollo 11: "The Eagle has landed"
- Apollo 13: "Houston, we have a problem"
- Artemis 2: "We are still updating Outlook so everything but email is go"