BakersDozen
hackadayReviving ReBoot With a Tape Deck Repair
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/04/reviving-reboot-with-a-tape-deck-repair/
Scott_Dixon
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30% of Nixon supporters still believed Nixon was innocent - even years after he resigned in disgrace. History shows time and time again — a solid 30% of humanity will always demonstrate they are incredibly dense, stupid, ignorant, incompetent, evil, etc.
Cory DoctorowTrying to track down a famous satirical quote (maybe attributed to Stalin?!), along the lines of, "If the people choose the wrong leader, the leader must elect a new people"
Not quite that (obvs) but close.
Anyone know what I'm thinking of?
ETA: it's "Would it not be simpler, if the government simply dissolved the people and elected another?" (Brecht)
Thanks, @timo21!
mei
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial@whitequark ooh I do have a few feedback items to write up from my recent first-actually-useful-fpga-thing tinkering I did this weekend. all minor though, it was remarkably easy to learn.
main issue was the docs page drops me onto 0.6.0-beta-something but the latest release version is 0.5.8, and I couldn't find a link to that release's docs (I had to guess the URL). the code shown used the frequency conversion helper which didn't exist for me and that threw me until I realised the mismatch.
ides.dev@littlemouse @pluralistic maybe not more often (it sounds like Cory barely stops as it is), but given how many answers had to be curtailed it felt like it could have gone on all day and they wouldn’t have run out of things to discuss! Looking forward to reading the books now.
Fabian Transchel@pluralistic This is supremely funny.
In Germany his policies wouldn't even count as social democrat, not even close to actual socialism*.
* Where I live, we have some experience with that *actual* socialism. (Didn't work well, but not because it wasn't extremist enough...)
✧✦Catherine✦✧i think the myth of "you can't self-host email" persists because while it can evidently be done, basically all of the software involved is ancient, baroque, inconsistently documented, requires a PhD in Bullshit to correctly configure, and is almost actively hostile to observation. but this is _annoying_, very different from _impossible_, and fortunately mostly solvable by delegating the annoying bits to an expert using something like NixOS to make it reliably work
Peter Toft Jølving@shanselman
Nah, just who. As this quote from Frank Wilhoit concisely describes: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
Nah, just who. As this quote from Frank Wilhoit concisely describes: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
@Femtoduino https://youtu.be/z6UJPqQYzNc this channel has done several videos on TDR. Also many other good ones on other electronic topics.
