David B. :SetouchiExplorer:
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So, a #Japanese industry association decided that a great English name for their website would be
"industry"-ass.co.jp
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עניין השחיקה עלה לי למודעות בתקופה האחרונה. לדוגמה - פעם היה לי קשה לקרוא חדשות או לדפדף בשטויות בפייסבוק. עכשיו כבר אין לי כוח להתעצבן. נשחקתי.
A FPGA UART receiver? Sounds pretty simple, and indeed some of them are. This one isn’t - there's a heap of RX-side analysis happening on the signal to make the receiver tolerant of some amount of noise, to constantly adjust inter-bit timing between every RX bit, and to attempt frame re-alignment on repeated sequential framing errors.
The transmitter side has been tested right down 1 clock per bit, and the receiver works as fast as 4 clocks per bit. Typical low-end FPGAs usually have around a 200MHz PLL inside, so... uh... it should be able to RX at 50MBaud on even a small FPGA? I think that should be fast enough for just about anyone's crazy use-case.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think I just saw a raccoon or raccoon dog sort of running away from some hedges near my home.
Important detail: raccoons nor raccoon dogs are native to The Netherlands. Huh?
Apparently raccoons & raccoon dogs have reached The Netherlands. In some parts of the country raccoons are becoming a nuisance already. Notified our municipality just in case. A bit baffled about this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raccoon
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@BjornW
We've had wild R dogs in northern Sweden for over half a century. Escaped from fur farms. I don't blame them. 😄
@airbleu Adoration totale de La linea ❤️
New daily podcast: 15 July 1966: Colour bar scrapped
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/15-july-1966-colour-bar-scrapped--72834133?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
Welches Gras, ist eure Sache
@fuzzyleapfrog
Ich war schon versucht zu fragen.
@roytoo The vocal reminds me of nothing so much as Zevon.
@GeePawHill
Jackie does sound a bit like Warren Zevon on this take.
While media speculation comes with the territory for England players, defender Ezri Konsa says they are ignoring outside noise as they prepare for their World Cup clash with Argentina. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2026/07/15/soccer/england-argentina-world-cup-noise/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #soccer #2026fifaworldcup #england #argentina
RE: https://helmholtz.social/@Helmholtz_HIOH/116918256553882063
Die haben auf #Instagram 83 Follower:innen und halten es fuer ne tolle Idee auf ne Plattform zu wechseln, die u.a. mit Werbung fuer Kindesmissbrauch-Bildern in Indien Umsaetze generiert hat.
Hut ab @Helmholtz_HIOH dass ihr das mit den sozialen Medien so gar nicht verstanden habt und zumindest so wunderbar transparent kommuniziert.
@pallenberg @Helmholtz_HIOH Tja. Haltung wird manchmal erstaunlich schnell gegen Reichweite eingetauscht.
China’s Economy Grows at Slowest Pace in Years
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/business/china-economy-gdp-growth.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Business Day @business-day-newyorktimes
Johanna, CanCon variety
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Further UX delights I am finding in @phanpy : in the mobile client, I have to tap on (open) an individual post to do something about it, including like or boost.
Is that on purpose? If so, there is a very canny design mind at work here, with some great wetware engineering know-how.
If it’s by accident : great instinct, DON’T Change!
It’s a perfect amount of friction introduced to slow down the pathway from perception to reaction, and let the communication in between have a moment to get its breath.
We all benefit from a slightly slower scroll through our connections. You have to think about the meaning of each tap just a little bit more.
"Link in bio" for writers is usually a mess of random URLs.
Kerouac syncs everything you've ever shipped on Substack, Ghost, & Medium into one clean profile.
One URL. Put it in every bio. Let people find your work without a scavenger hunt.
https://www.kerouacapp.com/u/joan
@Daojoan Four blogs went to the wilderness, Only three came back. Two blogs died from Guinea Worm, The other died from you. Jack Kerouac
As we rip out some old hardware in preparation for *finally* hanging the #SunrisePottyDoor, I was reminded of this bit of helpful #ClownWisdom...
"Sometimes, progress looks like destroying an old problem so you can install a new one."
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This is a cool sentence for English learners to practice on:
Salix
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J.K. Rowling is actively and aggressively using her wealth to attack Amnesty International. Specifically, she is trying to bankrupt them because they criticized anti-trans organizations.
Let that sink in.
1. She’s not just anti-trans. She’s pro-violence against trans folks. Because, yes, anti-trans organizations invoke violence against trans folks.
2. She’s so committed to this that she's trying to bankrupt the largest human-rights organization on the planet.
That’s nazi behavior. She’s a nazi.
"Link in bio" for writers is usually a mess of random URLs.
Kerouac syncs everything you've ever shipped on Substack, Ghost, & Medium into one clean profile.
One URL. Put it in every bio. Let people find your work without a scavenger hunt.
https://www.kerouacapp.com/u/joan
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Little known cultural difference between the USA and #Canada:
In the US, our garbage and recycling bins take solitary migrations
While in Canada, migrating is done in groups
Fascinatingly enough, in the #UK they run for elected office!: @CountBinface
(Spotted in #Sherbrooke #Quebec)
@user47 @rabble @wearenew_public @iftas we've built the core on atproto (*not* bluesky) infra, designed composable moderation from the ground up, but as it stands adding activitypub support would only be a few days' work. The tech is "easy"; the hard part is designing something people want to use, with and for the communities that need it. 💗
@user47 @rabble @wearenew_public @iftas as Rabble and I discussed, after 20 years of working on "decentralization", I think the better approach is "collaborative" and "cooperative" networks that improve the agency of people and their communities. "Decentralization" is just a catch-all for any number of technical architectures that encodes a number of necessary but insufficient properties of these networks. 🌍❤️
