Mastodawn

The universe doesn’t care about your feelings

Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions (2022) by Sabine Hossenfelder opens with a warning that it might damage your mental health... wondering if the decision to pick it up had been made thirteen billion years ago. This review has been a draft post for 4 years.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/22/sabine-hossenfelder-says-the-universe-doesnt-care-about-your-feelings/

ptorrone Feb 19

adafruit Feb 19

California's New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves

Your 3D printer needs to be on a DOJ-approved list or it can't be sold in California. Disabling the surveillance software? That's a misdemeanor. 🐻

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/19/californias-new-bill-requires-doj-approved-3d-printers-that-report-on-themselves/

ptorrone Feb 19

adafruit Feb 19

OpenClaw vs. a 475-page datasheet: let the robot do the transcribing 🦞🤖

ptorrone Feb 18

Lady Ada Feb 18

testing 1 2 3 😎

ptorrone Feb 18

Humans and Machines, a Phase Transition... The Ice Is Deciding What to Become

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/18/humans-and-machines-a-phase-transition-the-ice-is-deciding-what-to-become/

ptorrone Feb 17

Update: Limor spoke with one person there, he said they are going to decide if Limor is banned or not.

ptorrone Feb 15

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Sablebadger Feb 15

@adafruit @cazabon @cstross I gotta say I'm disappointed in @cstross for this. I mean it's one thing to be against AI, it's another to sabotage a small industry business like this.

ptorrone Feb 15

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to the few who actually engaged technically... jaseg's notes about pin spacing and grouping conventions are fair. that's real feedback and we respect it. that's also why the article says trust but verify, and why limor reviewed every pad. we're not shipping unreviewed AI output into the void. we're engineers evaluating a tool. engineers evaluate tools.

ptorrone Feb 15

5/
"i'll just buy chinese clones now" ... you were never going to buy anything. adafruit is open source hardware. we publish our schematics. we always have. if your support was contingent on us never evaluating a tool you don't like, that wasn't support. that was a leash, and you only decide to say this to a woman.

ptorrone Feb 12

a lot of this today ....