Marc Trius

@barrydeutsch.bsky.social wow
I don't think I've ever seen anything very this brutally ratioed. It's not even a ratio, it's divide by zero

A green PCB with a bunch of footprints for keyboard switches and a single switch inserted in the corner

I got the pcb for the toy!

And it turns out I accidentally used SMD footprints for the diodes. I guess I have to get the right diodes now... At least they're pretty cheap.

Just make sure to get the right type, Marc. And then you can learn to solder surface mount components.

#diy_electronics

Living as a human in this here 21st century is in fact immensely complicated and relentlessly exhausting and most of us want fewer choices, not more. We want to *delegate*, abstract away, and never have to think about it.

Most people only want more choice if (a) it is their area of niche […]

"Everybody is gonna be happy. [...] They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"

This is manifestly stupid but I need people to understand that there is very little in the world so universally enjoyable that you can replace "negotiate their own insurance" in that sentence […]

@youranoncentral.bsky.social @aakselrod I grew up with this kind of shit all around me every day and I hate it with every ounce of my being. Yes, sometimes you have to take up arms in resistance to imperialist aggression but this "I only regret I can only die once for my country" is textbook […]

[Anarchist Bookfair Berlin]

Siehe auch hier von @malobeo.

"However, the texts were immediately torn down, removed from the table, and the person was surrounded and accused of “war propaganda” and “provocation” — simply for putting the papers on a table reserved for their collective." […]

It's funny. I am writing a blog post based on a toot I wrote yesterday (https://hachyderm.io/@alter_kaker/115509972158001658), about the need to consider and talk about not only the technical but also the human infrastructure required to maintain and sustain #DigitalSovereignty; but for some […]

Hundreds of Thousands of Anonymous Deportees Amid the president’s fast-moving deportation campaign, the stories of most people being swept up are missed.

Tough to read but important reporting on the everyday, bureaucratic Trump deportation machine. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/11/mass-deportation-immigration/684871/?gift=UDCAY75CzHyGUPSsXwkpWv6mvMeoNr8aKfvBdHgGgpE

@marmrt my wife says I can't get any more components until I build something

@marmrt what would you suggest? I have a key matrix and I need to connect it to the microcontroller. I don't have enough pins and I don't have a multiplexer 😅

I also don't want to use USB, since it's all going to be embedded in one device

Oh and while I have your attention, when building a matrix keyboard for an embedded device, what makes more sense: use an I2C multiplexer and read the matrix in the main microcontroller, or use a dedicated microcontroller to read the matrix and send keycodes? What are some of the considerations […]

I need a 18 pin I2C multiplexer but I can't buy one right now. How hard would it be to fake one with an #Arduino Nano? Is there an I2C library I can use to encode and communicate?

#diy_electronics

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And then there's the other piece, enabling the experts to do good work according to their values. This is a huge question!

To enable experts, we need institutions where expertise is trusted, and experts are given a degree of autonomy to work according to their values; meaning, that […]

I've been thinking. What is #DigitalSovereignty?

The Centre for Africa-Europe Relations breaks it down into three layers: "the physical layer (infrastructure, technology), the code layer (standards, rules and design) and the data layer (ownership, flows and use)." I think that it's missing a […]

An old reel to reel magnetic tape. It has a label, in Jay Lepreau's handwriting, proclaiming it to be "UNIX Original from Bell Labs v4 (see manual for fmt)"

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973

Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition

We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum

#retrocomputing

Kind of a long shot: I'm a backend developer currently in the US with experience in developing and maintaining large enterprise systems who wants to apply to a Canadian business incubator with a project focused on #DigitalSovereignty and community ownership of digital infrastructure.

I'm […]

@fivetonsflax since we're not having a row, I'll add something about assimilation. I am categorically against it, but I also try to make a distinction between assimilation and change in general. I think that boundaries should be maintained but permeable; the natural process of change and […]

@fivetonsflax yes, I agree with what you're saying
@trochee

@fivetonsflax I also think that standardized tests are bad, learning how to learn and think is much more important than any specific curriculum, and that it's good to resist assimilation and preserve endangered languages
@trochee

@fivetonsflax look, there are quite a few people I never spoke to again over this yeshiva business, so I'm really primed to have a giant flaming row over it. Let's just say that I think that communal autonomy itself is an important interest of the students, and whatever issues those yeshivas […]

@fivetonsflax yes I have and I do
@trochee

@hosford42 I got tired of getting in fights with people

@fivetonsflax
'He also alluded to the scrutiny Hasidic yeshivas have faced in recent years for failing to meet state education standards.

“The issue of your education is something I will listen to your leaders,” Mamdani said. “ I will work to protect you from anyone who wants to disturb your […]

I try to avoid posting about Jewish stuff on here but I've been itching to say something for days.

In my opinion Mamdani's promise to defend the right of Jews to determine what is taught in their yeshivas tells me that he actually understands the interests of American Jews are much better than […]

We raised $34,000 total. This is _substantially_ less than the fully-loaded annual cost of one software engineering IC, pretty much anywhere in the world.

Do you think that your most junior employee could recreate the entire Python software ecosystem, with no help? Become a PSF sponsor.

The World Bank’s latest data shows a quiet global triumph: 93% of people aged 15 to 24 can now read and write, up from 87% in 2000. In many regions, including East Asia, Latin America, and Central Europe, youth literacy has reached or neared universal levels, marking one of the most successful […]

Incidentally, this is an argument for UBI because the only reason I was able to switch careers was the COVID assistance checks...

I was brought on to this team as a dev in April, but somehow I'm finding myself just in the last month or two focusing on triaging performance and stability issues on this microservice architecture with something on the order of 100 services and lambdas, that combines event driven flows (via […]

The GOP War Over Which Jews to Hate Left Jews? Or all of them?

This, by @nberlat.bsky.social, is really on target.

The GOP War Over Which Jews to Hate

open.substack.com/pub/noahberl...

Those guys do absolutely everything. PCB assembly, 3d printing, CNC, mechatronic parts, you name it.

That's gotta be their business model, let some small guy affordably get a PCB manufactured, maybe something a little bigger on the next order and hey, if the hobbyist happens to start a business […]