Signal Boost: If you are willing to fix any of the #Wayland related issues I describe in https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-01-04-wayland-sway-in-2026/, I am willing to sponsor the hardware you need for it, e.g. high-res monitor, GPU, PC, etc. and/or pay a bounty for the fix itself.

See https://lobste.rs/s/5pkjai/wayland_set_linux_desktop_back_by_10_years#c_4cpf8q for details and reach out; thanks in advance.

My goal is that #Linux works better, but I can’t do it alone. Let’s improve it together!

This is amazing. EA1FUO has built nec2c into WebAssembly, and now you can do antenna simulations on your phone or desktop without depending on nec2c running on a server. You can also deploy it locally, and he provides instructions for how to do this on docker or bare, and you can run nec2c on the server if you like.

Takes seconds to simulate my inverted V, and it even displays updates on what it is doing while running the simulation. It then gives a 3d rendering that you can drag around to get a better intuition. As you hover your mouse over the model, it shows gain in dBi with elevation and azimuth.

Beautiful work!

I don't know where else he's active, but he's been posting about this on Reddit as he's been developing it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/1rfsr6f/my_new_modern_free_and_open_source_antenna/

Source code GPLv3: https://github.com/EA1FUO/AntennaSim

#HamRadio

If you're a swiss resident ( or know one ... ) you can get a custom hardware design onto an ASIC for FREE !!!

You get back one chip with your design (and a bunch of others!) and some board to help bring up/testing.

Also, this is "resident", no need to be a student or at uni or anything, you just need a valid Swiss address ...

I know I might be repeating myself here because I mentioned it a few month back but this bear repeating IMHO.

https://swisschips.ethz.ch/news-and-events/tiny-tapeout-submission-form.html

PS: Can I haz boost for reach ?

"Animated Bokeh" has been on my whiteboard for a long time, and this is the result.

I thought it would just be for cheesy novelty effects, but it also does lightfield manipulation that was cooler than I expected.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_2MAgS_pE

Someone brought back this #qrcode sticker from #39c3. The QR code encodes a minified #Linux #x86 #ELF binary that obfuscates what it actually does. Looking at the #disassembly, we can see the following behavior:

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