FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

https://www.theverge.com/news/831364/dell-windows-11-upgrade-numbers-earnings-call-q3-2025 no matter how badly you fuck up at your job you'll never fuck up so badly that half a billion people would choose to stick with the older, now-unsupported version of your product than take the free upgrade to the new version.
unless your job is being a product strategist, project manager, marketer, etc on Windows i guess.

Let's get this #nakeddiefriday started, people!

The guest of today is one TMS70C42A by TI. It is a 8-bit MCU carrying 4KB of ROM and 256B of RAM, with three timers and a UART.

This particular die was bit by gremlins, and a small part of it is missing; nothing crucial though. Let's have a walk around. 🧵

SiPron page: https://siliconpr0n.org/archive/doku.php?id=infosecdj:ti:tms70c42a

#electronics #reverseengineering #microscopy

@rolf That looks so cool.
It reminded me of a similar statue where the angle of the sun made the rider’s shadow disappear.
(The statue is next to the cathedral in Aarhus and depicts Christian the 10th.)

When it snows in Scotland the snow turns the Bannockburn statue of Robert the Bruce into something magical.

📸Marisa Braithwaite

The Correct Incantation

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

- it’s not the firewall
- it can’t be the firewall
- it was the firewall

HRT will work regardless of age.

There are trans folks taking HRT and seeing results as old as SEVENTY and even EIGHTY.

If it's taking a while to see effects, that's not because of the HRT, that's just how your body works with the hormones.

I've been on T for ten years, and I'm only now seeing decent facial hair, and I'm still working on a happy trail. But that's just how it works for me.

Everyone is different, and genetics play a factor. It also won't have results if you can't be consistent or if you give up early.

What isn't a factor is age.

It's never too late to start HRT, stop letting bigots tell you otherwise.

When you mention in chat that you started T in your 30s and a youngun says "I thought HRT didn't work after a certain age???"

Folks. Please. Stop listening to terfs. They're LYING to you.

I tried a machine learning model to determine of a picture of a keyboard was SFW
it said no, because it detected the escape key as a nipple

did you know that you can find free Cortex M0 development boards at the side of the road? folks call them disposable vapes but they're hackable, and i've reverse engineered a bunch of them! see https://github.com/schlae/VapeRE/

I made a proper version of https://wetdry.world/@mudkip/113793607230321821 #xenia #y2k38

London workers should be given unlimited ride oyster cards by their job.

"two birds in one stone"
​​ Awful image about violence against animals

"two cops in one brick"
​​ omg!

Men allt verkar vara hemlighetsstämplat. Dagens ETC får inte svar på sina frågor. Och:

"Polismyndighetens insynsråd, som är politiskt tillsatt, har inte informerats om samarbetet med det kontroversiella AI-bolaget.

– Vi har länge misstänkt att polisen använder sig av den typen av program men när nämnden tidigare frågat Säkerhetspolisen har vi inte fått något svar, säger riksdagsledamoten Gudrun Nordborg (V)."

Hur ser det ut i Sverige?

"Utvecklingen i våra grannländer väcker frågan om svenska myndigheter gått samma väg. Använder svensk polis Palantirs övervakningsprogram för så kallad prediktivt polisarbete? Hur många svenskar övervakas i Palantirs system – och lagras den känsliga informationen på servrar i USA?"

Men en ljusning:

"Men det finns stater som gått en annan väg. I Norge plöjde polisen ner 100 miljoner i ett Palantir-projekt som till slut lades ner. I Tyskland använder tre delstater Palantirprogrammet Gotham. Men dessa samarbeten börjar nu ifrågasättas efter att landets federala författningsdomstol slog fast att programvaran strider mot författningen eftersom den anses hota medborgarnas personliga integritet."

Polisen och Försvasmakten samarbetar med spionbolaget Palantir. Samma företag som samarbetar med ICE i USA. Och:

"I somras pekade en FN-rapport ut Palantir som medskyldiga till Israels folkmord i Gaza eftersom deras analysverktyg ska ha använts för att döda civila palestinier."

https://www.etc.se/story/dagens-etc-avsloejar-polisens-hemliga-samarbete-med-spionbolaget-palantir

i just saw a screenshot of some linux distro. i was like. what window manager is this? what UI theme? it looked kinda like one of those fancy "we're easy to use!" linux distros you see. yknow where they make it look kinda like Mac OS. but there's always some small, telltale signs: odd text alignment, unclear, monochrome icons, an overall lack of polish. you can tell it's not a *real* Mac because of those. anyway i looked a bit closer, and it actually was Mac OS. thats what a Mac looks like now