#news summarizing #Trump #politics concerns driving #France to #Linux: “Since taking office in January 2025, Trump has upped his attacks on world leaders — straight-out capturing one and aiding in the killing of another. He has also weaponized sanctions against his critics, who include judges on the International Criminal Court, effectively cutting them off from transacting with U.S. companies. Those who have been sanctioned have reported having their bank accounts closed and access to U.S. tech services terminated, as well as being blocked from any other U.S. service.”
#news of protests in #Ireland and Norway against the high fuel prices resulting from the #Iran war, and government actions in the Philippines and France. In #Ireland the protestors are blockading the country’s only oil refinery in Whitegate and fuel depots.
#WireGuard apparently got a reprieve from #Microsoft. Discussion.
announcement of the #WireGuard #Microsoft reprieve
summary and aftermath of #Microsoft nuking #VeraCrypt and #WireGuard
Sam #Altman about someone throwing a Molotov cocktail at his house last night. #politics #AI
on #Ukraine, #Iran, #weaponry #drones, and putting things #underground to keep them safe. He proposes “rapidly bored shallow tunnels” because “Israel has destroyed only about 40 percent of Gaza’s tunnels after two and a half years of war.” He suggests cut-and-cover with prefab tunnel segments, which sounds ineffective to me.
#USA is unretiring a KC-135 refueling tanker airplane from the “boneyard” after #Iran blew some up. #News from last week.
discussion of Kent Overstreet’s temporary ban from contributing to #Linux. #bcachefs #history
secondary emission can give #vacuum-tubes negative resistance, so Albert Hull designed an oscillator using them called the "dynatron" in 01918. #electronics #hardware #history
#news from February: “#Micron Celebrates Opening of #India’s First Semiconductor Assembly and Test Facility” in #Gujarat. But not a fab: “converts advanced DRAM and NAND wafers from Micron’s global #manufacturing network into finished #memory and storage products”.
how #piezoelectric ceramics are “poled” in #electronics #manufacturing. “The poling process itself involves applying a high DC electric field to the components for a specific length of time while the part is held at a given temperature. Typical DC voltages are on the order of 2000 volts per mm of component thickness. The effect of elevated temperature, usually resulting from performing the poling process in a heated dielectric fluid bath, is to make it easier to “switch or align” the domains.”
more about poling #piezoelectric ceramics in #electronics #manufacturing, this time from COMSOL, which is maybe a more disinterested source. But, unlike the American Piezo piece, it doesn’t actually explain what you do to pole them.
The Longan Pi is powered by the Allwinner H618 “(Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 @ 1.5GHz, 64-bit)” with 4GiB, HDMI 4K, and GbE. #hardware
#paper: “Lethal conflict after group fission in wild #chimpanzees” #politics
debate between #Ousterhout and #Uncle-Bob utterly demolishing “#Clean-Code”.
#Muratori harshly criticizing #Uncle-Bob’s version of #clean-code as a “debacle”, and "gingerBill", the guy who wrote #Odin, reviewed his criticism, adding criticism of his own. gingerBill’s video commentary is mostly just low-content snarky innuendo.
Many commenters agree with Muratori: “I would not recommend Clean Code even to beginners, it’s an awful book. Here is the thing: if you just skim it and read the headlines then any sane person would agree. But if you just want to skim it, then you are not the target audience of CC. The issue is when it comes to actually implementing the suggestions. Martin’s examples make the code even worse than it was before.”
discussion between #Muratori and #Uncle-Bob about #Clean-Code, significantly but not completely focused on #performance, discussing Muratori’s video criticizing it.
further debate between #Muratori and #Uncle-Bob about #Clean-Code, elaborating an OS I/O device example in a very illuminating way
spot #oil #pricing is over US$130 a barrel even as the futures market dips below US$100 this week, the biggest divergence in 20 years. #finance “Prices have soared around the world. And some countries in Asia — which depends heavily on fuel from the Persian Gulf — have even faced shortages. Gas stations in Vietnam and Thailand turned away customers, saying they had no fuel; Sri Lanka declared every Wednesday a public holiday; and many other countries have mandated or encouraged remote work.” #Iran