"Computer fun is inversely proportional to number of investors."

- HN comment

For the last few weeks I've had a new dspod on the bench that's based on the STM32U3C5CIT6 MCU. This is a low-power device with some unique new features. I've posted the hardware and firmware sources on Github along with some design notes here:

https://github.com/emeb/dspod/tree/main/dspod_u3c5

This includes driver test code for all the on-board resources including the HSP hardware signal processor and the ADF PDM-PCM filter peripheral. There's also a skeleton of a simple GUI-based multi-effects appliction.

As a long time #Forth, #Lisp, #Lua, #Awk and #C programmer, I really shouldn't be having this much fun coding in #Oberon (#Oberon-07 to be specific).

It reminds of old school Forth (particularly Eforth): Here is a minimally viable program language (fully described in a handful of pages); don't get hung up on abstraction and libraries:... work on the problem.

ArXiv is going to ban researchers for a year if they are caught submitting AI slop. ArXiv told us it's a one strike rule: do it once, you're out.

https://www.404media.co/new-arxiv-rules-ai-generated-papers-ban/

Understanding common tech features and marketing terms:

Safety: surveillance

"Smart": surveillance

Connected: surveillance

GPS-enabled: surveillance

Personalized: surveillance

AI: surveillance

Integrated: surveillance

Partner: surveillance

Free: surveillance

Collaboration: surveillance

"Packages that can't be rebuilt byte-for-byte are now blocked from entering Debian's testing branch."

https://itsfoss.com/news/debian-makes-reproducible-builds-mandatory/