Human folly for 02026-05-01

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• Is it true that Cricket wireless doesnt offer (old.reddit.com):

  #MVNO #Cricket Wireless supports physical SIMs (pSIMs) but someone got refused a pSIM because their phone supported an #eSIM. #cellphones #tourism

• Choose customer type (cricketwireless.com):

  #MVNO #Cricket has a signup page for getting physical SIMs. They have a 3-month unlimited plan for US$40 a month plus US$45 up front, but I think that may be online-only. Unlimited data, no hotspot, unlimited calls and texts, no “Auto Pay”. #cellphones #tourism

• Broadband facts machine readable plans (cricketwireless.com):

  #MVNO #Cricket has a CSV file of the “broadband facts” for their service plans for #cellphones. #tourism

• (walmart.com):

  Apparently Walmart sells #Cricket physical SIMs.

• MEID vs EID vs imei vs iccid (old.reddit.com):

  #cellphones with an MEID and no EID don’t have #eSIM support.

• How disposable diapers conquered (worksinprogress.news):

  Virginia Postrel’s #history of the rise of the disposable diaper.

• (spiritrestructuring.com):

  #Spirit #Airlines is “winding down all operations” because of fuel cost increases from the #Iran war. “It is with great disappointment that on May 2, 2026, Spirit Airlines started an orderly wind-down of our operations, effective immediately. To our Guests: all flights have been cancelled, and customer service is no longer available.”

• Spirit Airlines ceases operations folds (npr.org):

  #news about what happened to #Spirit #Airlines. Not just #Iran.

• GS (delorie.com):

  #tutorial #documentation for “PCB”. For #electronics design there’s a 43-year-old package called “PCB” which includes a pcb program for PCB layout. #PCB-program

• (geda.seul.org):

  the #gEDA site is broken

• (gpleda.org):

  for a long time the old #gEDA site redirected to this under-construction sign

• Www (web.archive.org):

  this is a working archive of at least the #gEDA front page, listing the components: gattrib, gerbv, gnetlist, gnucap, gschem, gsymcheck, GTKWave, gwave, Icarus, ngspice, PCB (#PCB-program), symbols, tclspice, utils, vbs. #history

• PCB (mecrisp-stellaris-folkdoc.sourceforge.io):

  using gSchem from #gEDA and the #PCB-program to design PCBs in 01999, with photos. #electronics #hardware

• Lm324%20Spice%20Model%20 (onsemi.com):

  #SPICE model of #LM324 #opamp #hardware. #electronics

• Refcard (repo.hu):

  #PDF refcard #documentation for the #PCB-program for #electronics design

• PCB (repo.hu):

  #PDF full manual #documentation for the #PCB-program for #electronics design

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  Chris Lamprecht (Minor Threat) describing his time in prison

• Ringdove (repo.hu):

  "Ringdove" is “a free/open source Electronic Design Automation suite that offers a schematics editor, a PCB editor , a gerber/excellon viewer; modular, toolkit approach with stand-alone tools; fits well in a UNIXy workflow; supports CLI and server applications” of which pcb-rnd is a part. #electronics

• Pushed Trump policies top U s battery Scientist moving Singapore (science.org):

  #news that Shirley Meng, top battery scientist “who also heads a Department of Energy (DOE) research hub, is now heading back to Asia”, is moving from the #USA to #Singapore and “stepping down as director of the $62 million Energy Storage Research Alliance (ESRA) based at Argonne National Laboratory” because of #Trump #politics #energy-storage. But for two years “she will maintain a partial appointment at UChicago and continue to run her lab.”