jsonbeckerNilay’s piece on Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter is as good as it gets. There’s a reason everyone is linking to it. https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-problems-speech-moderation
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@waynerad Huh. Their website says that these things have LTE & BLE connections, can instantly notify you if the vehicle moves, and the battery last five years. I don't see how all of those things can be true at once...
Privacy nightmare aside, it will be fun if these get hacked and you can remotely edit the aggressive driver in the giant pickup truck's plate to say something hilarious.
KateThinking a bit about #TwitterMigration arriving in mastodon and trying to recreate their Twitter habitat exactly here. Twitter’s commercial genius is that it’s already shaped your thinking about what you’re experiencing, especially that all good things are easy to understand and work first time. I remember being baffled by my first email address, trying to figure out irc and Usenet culture norms, the exact sound of a dial up modem not connecting. Slow down friends, it’s ok here.
captain_morganHi independent/home circuit assembly folks. I'm looking for opinions on the NeoDen YY1, you or you know someone with hands on experience? Please let me know. It's basically the only #PNP I can afford and I am moving to slow on RE'ing the old TM245P. #pleaseboost
@captain_morgan @jonoxer has recently popped up on fedi and might have some good links or tips. 😀
I will give add the probably unnecessary and unwelcome advice that if you're not assembling a decent number of boards, even a reasonable pnp machine can easily become a labour sink not a labour saver.
@s0 @captain_morgan I think he's had a couple of NeoDens. The really bad one was CharmHigh, iirc.
@retr0id Nicely done! Did you cut those with a scalpel? My mind boggles at trying to get close enough to the right length!
@freakboy3742 I feel a lot can explained by "poor business plan somehow attracted investment, spent marketing budget on YouTube creators".
If these ads are still on new videos in six or twelve months, this won't be so easy of an explanation...
@ve7fim In their defense, the existence of these companies has no doubt saved people's projects sometimes - as it's probably not affordable to run a business around that stuff otherwise. Still a super weird world.
I'm pretty sure we redesigned the system so it didn't need the weird old counter cards.
@ve7fim I remember this weird niche electronics hoarding world from when I worked at a university nuclear physics department. We had these ~1980 era counter cards, an AMD 16-bit counter IC on a VMEbus breakout board. Still in daily use, but realised we had no spares. Available for a mere $8,000 from one of these companies whose business model is "sooner or later someone will *really* need one of these random junk items, at short notice..."