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I feel like Bryan's blog post buries the lede a little bit here with its choice of headline -- yeah Oxide took more money, but, the important thing is why:

We've been quietly profitable since the start of the year and have been receiving more orders than we can fill.

In this current economy of "give me more money so I can light it on fire" and companies filing to IPO proud to spend $3 to make $1, it's nice to be able to tell investors "if you give us some more money, we will make it a larger number in the near future."

https://oxide.computer/blog/our-445m-series-d

In honor of Spooky Season, a PicoCalc horror vignette!

"Oh I see you've got a graphics thing running on your PicoCalc, let me just ... oh ... oh no ... WHERE IS ITS BRAIN‽ YOU MONSTER 😱"

(I thought it would be a nice body for my Forth machine, so I'm prototyping before building a Pico-sized module)

RE: https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/117406074421025473

This is a great thread on the complexity of secure hibernate.

I think a lot of people have a habit of looking at secure boot and these defenses as being anti user. They're not. We really need to rename userland.

Userland is where every website runs. The kernel is the program that you, the user, use to defend yourself from userland. Secure boot ensures it isn't subverted against your will.

I'm not sure which of you needs to hear this, but:

lrzsz-sx has at some point started defaulting to YMODEM. You have to add -X to get actual OG XMODEM.

Yeah, no idea. But that's why your firmware transfer is failing.

Any KiCad 10 users out there who can tell me why pressing a key repeatedly, fast, only recognizes the first press until a delay elapses?

(Edit: I appear to have gotten 10.0.5 which has an input bug! Thanks @remmy@social.treehouse.systems )

Like, open schematic, select item, start moving, then press R-R-R to rotate it three times... it rotates only once if you press too quickly. Some kind of type-ahead search in the hotkey mechanism maybe?

The part that really bothers me is that this affects cursor keys, when nudging things around manually. Have to press. them. slowly.

(answers to some of the likely questions in the replies)

#kicad

Been letting my Mandarin lapse this year, but, it appears I remember how to say "I don't eat beef" intelligibly 👍

(Trying a new knife cut noodle place, around here they're often from Chengdu and put beef in everything)

I am bewildered and disappointed to report that Android's onboard emoji search stops working if you have a flaky Internet connection.

Meaning, it is not local.

Meaning, they're going out to the goddamn Internet to see if any of O(1000) records match the word "fish."

I can't even.

Kinda want to write a bot that just replies to any really long, unsolicited, probably-LLM-generated pull request with this picture of me at, like, five

In the early 90s, PKWare offered their Data Compression Library as a way to put basic compression into other applications. It uses a different algorithm from PKZIP. I encountered it because it's used by the proprietary recipe program that my mom used, and I've been recovering her database.

Turns out it's had an input-controlled buffer overrun since, well, forever! The library itself won't produce streams with the property required to trigger it, but it also doesn't defend against them.

But, because of the specifics of how its structs are laid out, it's probably not usefully exploitable. (The overrun stomps on a section of the input buffer that isn't likely to be used again.)

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mjk/117044034810143202

"Why do they need to keep raising money?" ask the commenters.

Ah, I see you're from software!

An oldie but a goodie: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/259

Good thing this is purely a thought experiment, right?

...right?

Well, Tindie has been back up for a few days but is still refusing to pay out money owed, so... I've set all my products to 0-in-stock and attempted to redirect buyers to my Lectronz storefront.

Amusingly, they won't let me set my store banner message to include a Lectronz URL. I bet it blocks any URL, but, given how much trust they've squandered, this isn't a great look.

#tindie

RE: https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116477568123660243

I'm excited to read this. You might be too.

@mrtazz@chaos.social yeah, if I'm being honest, I mostly maintain my own accounting software for emotional reasons.

1. It's kind of fun.
2. It helps me have a sense of control in an area (finances) where I'm prone to anxiety.
3. Because of that anxiety, it's pretty easy to knock me off my rhythm of keeping my financial data off to date, so it's nice to know that the tools will only change when I change them.