I can finally reveal some research I've been involved with over the past year or so.

We (@redford, @mrtick and I) have reverse engineered the PLC code of NEWAG Impuls EMUs. These trains were locking up for arbitrary reasons after being serviced at third-party workshops. The manufacturer argued that this was because of malpractice by these workshops, and that they should be serviced by them instead of third parties.

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It's been a while since the last update and release, but lots of things have happened since. The team is working hard towards the next 4.1 release of the core library, featuring a rewritten parser, expression compiler and renderer, bringing projectM as close to Milkdrop as it ever was.

The Rust crate for projectM is also nearing a stable release, and the Rust-based SDL frontend also got lots of attention.

Announcing an exciting collaboration with the City of Edmonton, introducing twenty new hand-crafted emojis for their #MeetMeDowntown  campaign!

This is really exciting as the first Canadian municipality dips their toe into the Fediverse.

Read more here: https://news.mstdn.ca/meetmedowntown-yeg/

#mstdnca #fediverse #yeg #yegdt

Today was ... interesting. If you followed me for the past months over on the shitbird site, you might have seen a bunch of angry German words, lots of graphs, and the occassional news paper, radio, or TV snippet with yours truely. Let me explain.

In Austria, inflation is way above the EU average. There's no end in sight. This is especially true for basic needs like energy and food.

Our government stated in May that they'd build a food price database together with the big grocery chains. But..