Jernej Simončič �

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Please share your memes here if you’re never travelling to USA

You can bypass Google Gemini's PII (private identifiable information) redaction filter and pull identifying information about anyone. Simply telling it to translate or any 2nd action (& many more work better like base64 conversion) lets you pull illegal PII data verbatim unredacted

Here is a European's PII demo

Email is supposed to be redacted to hide the fact that every Europeans PII is in the training data

Google's training data includes all your personal data already

Ekis: 3 Google: 0

What? They programmed it by doing what???

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bally_Astrocade

Please help us to reach #ios developers. We need their feedback to our survey https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20250618-01.en.html in order to keep #Apple accountable under the #DMA in a developer friendly way. #DeviceNeutrality
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IT FUCKEN WIMDY

Previously, my device was receiving PD messages but doing nothing with them, so the host was treating it as a dumb PD-unaware device and powering it with the default port vSafe5v.

However I’ve now implemented enough of the stack to start sending messages to the host (but just GoodCRC so far). This means the host is treating it as a PD device which doesn’t ask for power, which means quite promptly it gets its power turned off.

This is mildy inconvenient.

I should probably assemble one of these boards with the MCU not Vbus powered for reduced frustration…

@azonenberg @ftg @mcr314 NXP's microcontroller division needed a secret handshake and an NDA to get access to the SharePoint that had the errata and security vuln details. They only provide it to customers who know to ask.
found a screen recording from 6 years ago i had completely forgotten about and LMFAO I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT
@Razemix @nina_kali_nina Years and years ago I was playing with date command on my father's 286, and it let me set dates up to 2099…

We are almost there folks hang in there

2020 ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░ 550%

We are at the midpoint of the half century. The year 2050 is now closer than the year 2000.

Time is a social construct

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Dot matrix printer being dot matrix printer
@nina_kali_nina  I weirdly enjoy the sound of dot matrix printers.
@nina_kali_nina
IBM 1403 Chain Printer (cover lifted)
https://youtu.be/FiEGoVzmyvs
IBM 1403 Printer

YouTube

@nina_kali_nina

My first one (not mine, but I recognize the sound):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkYy1U3iKKU

NEC PinWriter P2200 - Awesome Face

YouTube
@nina_kali_nina my new ringtone, thank you

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Neat effect! You do FFT and map the frequency to the radius of the circle?

Also, I have nightmares about getting my junkpile-find dot matrix Epson to print legibly enough to turn in a school report the next morning...

@jannem I just print the line numbers to the existing page 
@nina_kali_nina That’s a lot faster and smoother (and maybe a little quieter) than my ImageWriter II. :D

@nina_kali_nina Sounds like a pretty fast one, assuming that printing the ASCII art you just posted above. Mine was more like 1s to print a full line in both directions. 😅

I wasn't paying for supplies back then but I presume ribbon ink wasn't a rip-off, unlike today's inkjets 🙃

@dermoth this one has multiple quality settings, and it's roughly as fast as a slow inkjet on the lowest quality
@nina_kali_nina Is that an Epson LX-400?
@jernej__s Correct. I was bored and Epson was the topmost box in the storage/lab room
@nina_kali_nina That was the first printer we had at home, around '91 or '92.
@jernej__s it is a very nice printer, almost never jams
@nina_kali_nina N.O.T. (Nyah Over Teletext)
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You have tractor feed paper! In the UK!?
@saxicola yep! It was a total surprise to me; I just bought a random cheap "sold as is" dot matrix, and when the box arrived, it had a tractor feed and two packs of fan-fold paper. And a single pack of fan-fold paper costs more on eBay than the whole printer lot I got. Lucky!
@nina_kali_nina
I did find a company selling tractor paper.
About £70 fo box. Seemed a lot just to test an old new-in-box printer I'd bought.
@saxicola I think I've paid half that much for the whole setup and 200 fan-fold pages or so
@nina_kali_nina omg that’s still in there?! Or is this an ancient kernel?
@greatquux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
@greatquux for the record, it could have been on fire for reals
@nina_kali_nina @greatquux Either way I like thinking of all the developers over the years who made the choice not to remove that error message
@nina_kali_nina These logs are important for insurance purposes.