Mastodawn

notice: catgirls are valued members of the society.

therefore, when writing technical documentation please avoid using discriminatory and nekophobic language such us “information provided under NDA”, “license key required”, or “registrer programming interface is proprietiary and will not be documented”.

Schrödinger's Catgirl (Joyce)6d ago

Emily Velasco Mar 27

I want to teach a class on repurposing electronics. We could start out just taking some broken things apart and seeing if we can fix them, but every student would have to pick something to repurpose or revive as a semester-long project. Maybe they want to turn an old propane lantern into an LED lantern, convert a cordless drill with dead nicad batteries to lithium, or jailbreak an e-bike. Everyone should leave the class with a device or appliance with a new lease on life. A community college should hire me for this

Schrödinger's Catgirl (Joyce)Mar 25

Andrew Zonenberg Mar 25

Today's keynote should be a nice talk

Schrödinger's Catgirl (Joyce)Mar 21

RE: https://chaos.social/@sleepyowl/116257881458012754

So turns out you just had to press enter to set a supervisor password before you're allowed to change anything else such as secure boot settings.

But you still cannot change the secure boot mode from Standard to anything else. I still ended up following this anyway: https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Create_UEFI_secureboot_USB

Schrödinger's Catgirl (Joyce)Mar 19

Welp. I have encountered a Acer Swift 3 SF314-42 laptop which actually enforces secure boot by default AND where the UEFI setup menu for options relating to secure boot have been greyed out.

I was trying to install Alpine Linux on this machine, but seems like I will have to make a bootable USB with the shim to get it to boot. Interesting.

Schrödinger's Catgirl (Joyce)Mar 19

Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)Mar 19

WOW.

With the news that Bluesky closed a $100M Series B (!!) last April and didn't tell anyone (??) until now, it's just become far more obvious that Bluesky is inching very close to its full enshittification era.

You don't raise that kind of money unless you're ready for *massive* capture of eyeballs and ecosystem control.

I am telling you right now, Bluesky in another year or two will look very, *very* different. (And tbh, it's not that great now.)

Schrödinger's Catgirl (Joyce)Mar 19

Have no fear, 'cause I iz here.

Unfortunately, this disappearance was not a false alarm. A few of us were arrested on the evening of 16 March, and all but one person was released on bail on the 18th. I am doing alright myself, although some were traumatized by the experience.

We will need some time to rest, decompress and consider our legal options. I will provide more details about what transpired when we are able to do so.

Thank you all for your concern & support!

With love,
Joyce/BitOwl

Schrödinger's Catgirl (Joyce)Mar 15

cpresser Mar 14

So someone dropped code to decrypt proprietary #ltspice models. That allows you to use them with #ngspice and #kicad

https://github.com/jtsylve/spice-crypt

GitHub - jtsylve/spice-crypt: Tool to decrypt encrypted LTSpice models

Tool to decrypt encrypted LTSpice models. Contribute to jtsylve/spice-crypt development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

Schrödinger's Catgirl (Joyce)Mar 12

Fabio Manganiello Mar 12

#Samsung devices from today can no longer install custom ROMs.

Odin is gone and the Download Mode is also gone, which makes life hard also for repair services that want to restore a device.

This is your daily reminder that #Android is a liability, and major hardware manufacturers who ship Google’s version of Android are a liability too.

We need to get Linux phones to work, and we need manufacturers who are aligned with our principles.

https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-disables-odin-removes-download-mode-3648469/

Samsung's latest update is a serious gut punch to Galaxy power users

Samsung has released a controversial update that disables a tool widely relied upon by power users and service centers.

Android Authority

Schrödinger's Catgirl (Joyce)Mar 3

Jan Wildeboer 😷

Mar 3

Don’t call it age verification. Call it centralised personal data collection. And understand that it serves surveillance, not safety for children. Thank you for your cooperation.