Andrew Plumb 🇨🇦

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E.Eng, EDA/CAD hacker, VE3SLG, bassist, violist, 3dprinting, RepRap, Open Source bits & atoms, dabbler in everything.
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Weiss and Cibrowski announce they’re shutting down CBS News Radio, which has ~700 affiliated stations, on May 22. "Unfortunately, this decision means that all positions within the CBS News Radio team are being eliminated.”

Thus, the CBS Radio Network (b. 1927) will be terminated at the age of 99.

CBS Radio was the foundation of American broadcast journalism. Over five decades I filed hundreds of news reports for it and felt immense pride to have been on the same network as Murrow, Sevareid, Smith, Collingwood, Cronkite, Edwards, Trout, Townsend, Kuralt, Rather, Stahl, Knoller & Portnoy.

Prusa’s “Open Community License” is neither open nor for the community... a lawyer explains why

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/19/prusas-open-community-license-is-neither-open-nor-for-the-community-a-lawyer-explains-why/

Before the 12" MacBook, before the 11" MacBook Air, there was the 9" ASUS Eee PC hackintosh, and there were a number of new-to-macOS developers in our community who learned how to develop for iPhone on this very setup, and started their careers from it.

The Eee PC 901 netbook was priced at, you guessed it, the same $599 as the brand-new incredibly-powerful MacBook Neo

The way to Mount Doom is open for hobbits. The only thing prohibiting ring transport are 50,000 orcs, giant spiders, Nazgul patrolling the skies for eagles, and a giant malevolent flaming lidless eye, tirelessly casting its gaze here and there.

Pete Hegseth Questions What Girls Were Doing In School To Begin With

WASHINGTON—Saying critics of the missile strike that killed at least 175 civilians were dodging a fundamental question, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday demanded to know what girls were doing attending school to begin with. “In all this talk about who was responsible and how this happened, are we just going to ignore t…
#theonion
https://theonion.com/pete-hegseth-questions-what-girls-were-doing-in-school-to-begin-with/

A lot of the devices we use in the kitchen (Thermomix, microwaves, dishwashers, coffeemakers etc) use complete operating systems and embedded computers nowadays, often with internet connectivity for who knows what. So. Will we soon see mandated fingerprint readers for age verification or will a simple switch with "18+" be sufficient to continue to cook and clean? ;)

#SarcasmButOnlyHalf #AgeVerification

A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines

A prompt injection in a GitHub issue triggered a chain reaction that ended with 4,000 developers getting OpenClaw installed without consent. The attack composes well-understood vulnerabilities into something new: one AI tool bootstrapping another.

Influenza epidemic peak height is not the best measure of season size. How severe the season is is a separate issue again.

https://virologydownunder.com/another-way-to-look-at-flu-season-size/

Another way to look at flu season size

Influenza epidemic peak height is not the best measure of season size. How severe the season is is a separate issue again.

Virology Down Under
Desk of Ladyada – LLMs Make EagleCAD Footprints, Daycare Edition 🍼🦀
Clade Code generated a VCNL4030 footprint from the datasheet in under 5 minutes, needed a look from us, then was good to go, baby bouncer... bouncing the whole time.

https://youtu.be/ZsReTBDdyHI