emily, professional edge case

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange (intentionally not looking this up because I am absolutely the sort of person who will impulse buy random specialty adhesives if I'm not careful)

and pet a floof

long shot: do any of you #retrocomputing people have a copy of "i960 SA/SB Microprocessor Reference Manual", intel sku 270929? specifically that reference manual. *not* 272206/272207, that's the datasheet it definitely exists and I cannot find it and now I'm doing a hyperfocus about it

i have not managed to laser anything yet but i am learning cool new things about ld-linux.so so that's neat (https://bnikolic.co.uk/blog/linux-ld-debug.html)

progress! i have managed to boot far enough to get a normal bsod instead of weird ntldr messages nobody's ever seen

molex picoblade joins the list of connectors I do not like working with so many bad crimps

@RueNahcMohr@infosec.exchange ? seems to be the other way around: pushing the blade usually results in bending/snapping, pulling it makes it come out of the handle

one day my partner is going to ask me why i have a bottle of black nail polish despite being nowhere near goth enough to wear it, and i'll get to explain conformal coating and solder mask to them

actually werewolf is the past tense, if they're currently one they're an arewolf

CRSF is an amazing protocol: https://github.com/tbs-fpv/tbs-crsf-spec/blob/main/crsf.md

• this markdown doc in a github repo is the sole official spec of a protocol implemented by multiple manufacturers
• name apparently chosen specifically to troll people who work on web stuff (where "CSRF" is the name of an entirely unrelated thing)
• big endian. stop making big endian things. nobody has big endian hardware. you are just making everyone convert between the two on both ends
• defines a bunch of oddly specific device addresses, but also refers to the target address field as a "sync byte". afaict absolutely nothing ever sends or expects anything but 0xC8. this includes things sent by the flight controller, which is the thing with address 0xC8
• if you ctrl-F "voltage", the first thing you will find is frame type 0x0E, labeled "Voltages". this does not work, the one you want is 0x08, "Battery Sensor"
• the actual control inputs are sent as sixteen densely packed 11-bit integers, with 992 defined to be the center point, because fuck you that's why

but doctor, I *am* the support person

got some bodge wires attached, went to grab a usb cable to splice onto them first one I cut open was power-only second one was also power-only so was the third one on the FOURTH attempt I finally found one that had all four wires in it the good news is they have all been cut up and I will no longer attempt to use them

i am now Even Deeper In Yak Shaving, learning how to use the windows xp embedded system buildy thing (having remembered that i have a pile of 32-bit x86 tablets with no batteries or storage, for reasons) current status: "oh, I see, I do not merely need Service Pack 2, but Service Pack 2 Feature Pack 2007"

it has been [0] days since the last Spicy Donut Combustion Incident #combatRobotics #theWorkshop

ah yes, exactly what I was looking for: how to switch my mcu to palestine mode

@RueNahcMohr@infosec.exchange i know, i still use irc too this does not solve the problem of getting a bunch of people who think discord is peak UX to switch to something else

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange ah, you mean when you initially put the connector on I didn't assemble this, it's an off the shelf dev board, but yeah I have gone as far as encasing things in JB weld when I suspect this might happen to them

this shitpost brought to you by having to stop and do Surprise Engineering on my hacksaw because the blade fell out, before returning to cutting the four thin aluminum tabs I wanted to cut

@pearl@fedi.rrr.sh this is the fc<->rx wire protocol. the air protocol is elrs

it is now the next day, and my etchant became saturated with copper overnight (there's leftover bits of the wire i fed it) but still smells strongly of HCl, which i think means it ran out of oxygen running bubbles through it to see if that helps

SCP Foundation (nonprofit org that maintains Space Cadet Pinball)

someone should make a tiny $20 device that runs windows xp i don't want to set up a whole ass windows machine just for this, but linux lightburn is broken and i can't imagine it'll get better

I had never thought about how latching switches work, I expected it to be more complicated than this

@RueNahcMohr@infosec.exchange there are no sensors yet, this is a hardcoded packet to see if i can send anything at all

cat

@gnarlsnishi@mstdn.ca not that mcu, i'm reconfiguring my Moderately Colorful Umbrella (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcontroller if you legitimately don't know the acronym)

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange not that first thing (I have this: https://www.icrimptools.com/products/iwiss-iws-3220m-micro-connector-pin-crimping-tool-0-03-0-52mm-32-20awg-ratcheting-crimper-for-d-sub-open-barrel-suits-molex-jst-jae )

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange tbf I am the one crimping them badly they are very easy to crimp badly

TFBGA (transfeminine ball grid array)

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange ah, that's not been my experience with JST (for which I use an even cheaper crimper with no issues), this is my first time using molex stuff I think I am so far unimpressed, but it'd probably be fine with known good premade cables?

curiosity: how do people read my domain name?

it went back to doing the weird ntldr message nobody's ever seen, so i stared at that for a while longer before figuring it out: it only works building in release mode. if you build in debug mode it inexplicably decides to leave out bootvid.dll, which is required during early boot

hahah it lets you enable usb booting without including the drivers for literally any usb device (including hubs or generic mass storage)

does anyone ever actually call the "get in touch with us" numbers on the back of food packaging? what happens if you do? kind of curious but not curious enough to risk getting into an extended conversation with a jellybean enthusiast

got a cool ruler

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange did you see my high tech thermoplastic down the thread a bit

i feel another "clearly i can power through adhd with the right organization tools" phase coming on maybe i will install jira this time

the level above that is principal software engineer, which means you get to show up at schools and impose arbitrary rules on them

update from the local discord that fractured when discord did Things People Didn't Like earlier this year: discord is still the main space where most people hang out. some people just outright left the community because everyone (me included) dragged their feet setting up alternatives i am the admin of the matrix side and the matrix-to-discord bridge. a few of us use it, we expect discord to try again at some point and push most of the rest over the fluxer side kinda just split off into their own isolated community, but is finally getting around to setting up bridging with us, and they chose to bridge into discord instead of matrix. this is not the choice i would have made, considering the whole reason we're doing any of this in the first place, but whatever, it's fixable later when it becomes a problem i guess today i was curious whether the two bridge bots would bridge messages from each other through discord, so i tried bridging matrix into their fluxer testing channel. result: lol no you can't have two bridges in one discord channel

Probability of wanting to switch jobs soon has gone from "maybe" to "extremely likely" recently, so now public and boostable:

I'm looking for work. Software engineer, 14 years experience working on various SaaS things in various languages and frameworks, lots of linux sysadmin/electronics/firmware experience from side projects which I'd also be happy to put to use.

DM me for a resume if your company hires that sort of person.

Filters:

• based in Olympia, WA (US Pacific time zone, UTC-7/8), cannot relocate
• strongly prefer fully-remote, occasional travel within the US is okay
• not willing to work on military stuff
• I'm openly trans, company must be generally okay with that (that's the whole requirement, just "be okay with that", I ask for nothing more)
• I am currently paid $180K/year, but I'm past the "salary is less important than mental health" part of the diminishing-returns curve here so shrug

#fediHire #getFediHired

@RueNahcMohr@infosec.exchange i would like a seriously unhealthy number of jellybeans, thank you

deeply amused that the lowest-fuckery way to transfer files between a vm and a host machine seems to be to plug in a physical usb drive and repeatedly toggle whether it's forwarded to the vm

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