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Software preservation, electronics, software and ham radio - a maker of things!

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Website: https://www.philpem.me.uk

Current projects:
LF radio navigation - #Datatrak
DIY cable TV headend - #AnalogCable
#HackTV (TV signal generator for SDRs) - video scrambling modes
Acorn/#RISCOS software preservation (#DigiPres)

Tags: #electronics #HamRadio #Machining #Metalworking #RetroComputing #HardwareHacking #ReverseEngineering #ICRE #Maker #DigiPres

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websitehttps://www.philpem.me.uk
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main accounthttps://digipres.club/@philpem

The people in 2024 screaming at trans people to use separate bathrooms are the same people in 1954 who were screaming at black people to sit at separate counters, or use separate drinking fountains.

They're not terfs. They're not feminists.

They're segregationists. They're bigots.

aowwowowwwowoowowowowwoowowowowowow (coyote modulation)

Automation Fair, in a nutshell:

50%: Dont put your control system on the internet!

the other 50%: Put your control system on the internet!

Peak microscope service UI right here. This is what it looks like when you are baking out and starting up the IGPs on the electron column.
Happy 37th anniversary of the Max Headroom Incident, to those who celebrate.
Thames water seem to be circling the drain... at this rate they'll be renationalised (good). Hopefully that doesn't include a shareholder bailout (bad).
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/sep/26/thames-water-credit-ratings-slashed-to-lower-levels-of-junk-as-default-fears-grow
Thames Water credit ratings slashed to lower levels of junk as default fears grow

S&P and Moody’s cut ratings by five notches on risk troubled company will run out of cash

The Guardian

Update: The CEO of Elecrow responded to my email about the unauthorized voice cloning early this morning.

I will be posting a video with more details and my reaction either tomorrow or Wednesday, but here's a snippet of the email.

me: "CVSS 9.9 affecting BSD and Linux? That sounds like Coreutils then."

@orman: "Well it's GNU/Something Fundamental. It's an unauthenticated network RCE."

me: *screams internally, whines externally*

in re:
https://x.com/evilsocket/status/1838169889330135132

Simone Margaritelli (@evilsocket) on X

* Unauthenticated RCE vs all GNU/Linux systems (plus others) disclosed 3 weeks ago. * Full disclosure happening in less than 2 weeks (as agreed with devs). * Still no CVE assigned (there should be at least 3, possibly 4, ideally 6). * Still no working fix. * Canonical, RedHat and

X (formerly Twitter)

🐉being quietly blocklisted en-mass and having all trans people cast as white skinned white supremecists by default is incredibly destructive to trans bipoc if cis bipoc stand by and tolerate that narrative.

It promotes the idea that bipoc can’t be trans.

That I saw two trans bipoc folks buying into what Ro said today and unwittingly casting David, Vanta and myself as white breaks my heart.

Trans people of color have been at the forefront of queer liberation struggles since before we were calling ourselves queer. Erasing trans people of color and taking our possessions has been one of the top priorities of colonial regimes when they have taken over countries.

And here Ro has been, doing that exact same thing in front of everyone, and the couple of cis bipoc I talked to tell me my issues don’t matter, and the couple of trans bipoc I saw publicly think only white people criticize Ro.

My issues *will* be taken seriously!

I went to this talk at #emfcamp and came out of it with a wish list of tools to acquire! 🫣
https://hackaday.com/2024/09/22/the-tiny-toolkit-manifesto/
The Tiny Toolkit Manifesto

Most of us have some form of an on-the-go toolkit, but how much thought have we put into its contents? \there’s a community of people who put a lot of thought into this, and EMF Camp have put…

Hackaday