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  There’s a survey going around by someone trying to collect better sizing data for trans adults who have been on HRT long term (ie body stabilised in shape). It asks for a lot of measurements and just “are you transfem or transmasc”. No identifying details. Please fill it out trans friends, because having sizing charts and patterns that fit trans people better would be great! https://tinyurl.com/Trans-Standard-Sizing

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  New worst bandwidth unit dropped

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  Hey does anyone want 20x MAX3232CSE+ (SOIC16) chips that element14 gave me by accident? pay postage (like a few bucks, fits in a letter) and they're yours

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  I was a lasagna non-believer. A lasagna infidel. And then my beautiful wife made her beautiful lasagna. A religious experience. So delicious. Now I am a lasagna believer. I would do terrible things for her lasagna.

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  Hi Cathode folks, There’s a security update for mastodon coming out in approx 12 hours (overnight). Depending on the severity, cathode church may be offline for several hours until I am able to apply patches. You can now check https://status.cathode.church for updates!

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  @mike I am celebrating #TakeYourKitchenScalesToWorkDay today

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  Recently at work we replaced a component of an Audio DSP server (glorified PC) which was a PCIe MADI interface. It has a redundant twin with the same version card as the original (not changed). The new one now outputs wordclock at a 180° phase offset to the old one (inverted), for the same wordclock input signal. Crucially, the new one is correct — the wordclock output is in phase with the input. It’s the old ones that are wrong. However, now it also doesn’t work properly. Do we need a replac...

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  Hey Fedi friends, I’ve been utterly unable to find this thing and I think maybe you can help. I want a plug-in wall power supply that is: White in colour24VDC, 0.25A or greaterplugpack-style (no AC side cord)AU/NZ Type I plug (earthed or unearthed is fine)ideally a 5.5x2.1mm jack plug outputsold by a reputable supplier/actually meets SA regulations Any leads? I couldn’t find one on mouser/digikey/RS/element14/WES, and everything on eBay/ali is dodgy.

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  It is the season — the linesmen are nesting!

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  omg I got authoritative DNS wildcard CNAME working on OpenWRT for my LAN and it wasn't even that hard? Nobody else has ever gotten it working from forum threads.

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  My bank just emailed me to say that because I haven’t used my two factor auth recently (they only require it for specific actions), they’re disabling it on my account. What kind of a batshit security posture is that?!!

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  There are rumours of imminent French toast

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  Remember this thread? https://cathode.church/@s0/114959788512020266 Well today I dissected another cheap USB PSU, this time a simple “10W” 5V one with a single USB-A outlet. And folks, this one was a shocker. Literally. ✅ start with the good — pin sheathing on correctly sized pins, and it fits nicely in a standard Australian outlet footprint. 🚨 downhill from here — the case is flimsy, thin, and poorly glued. It would easily break open from a fall or knock. 🚨 The PCB underside makes a go at...

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  Apple won’t admit it but this is actually the most efficient way to connect a Mac mini to a power outlet EDIT: this ain’t theoretical, see it working

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  In one of those pools where you don’t really have a horse in the race but you do want to know the results, which item do you vote for?

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  Tested out the long-awaited PocketPD from CrowdSupply that arrived -- it's as dope as I was hoping! Gonna be a killer to have in the portable kit. Being able to get a decent 3-20V 5A DC source with only this and a cheap GaN USB C charger is phenomenal. #Tinkering

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  This lighting console UI is the result of thirty years of incremental learning on UX for professionals working in a world where time is the single most valuable thing. It is effectively displaying a relational database with dozens of inter- and intra-dependent tables*, using a smorgasbord of visual cues and a completely custom keyboard for recall and access. It can be used by near-novices with a very simple subject-verb-object command line syntax, with graphical feedback. Everything beyond the...

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  Someone local posted this. Just phenomenal.

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  Maybe what we’re in this world for is to make art and appreciate it. Were the shadows really cast upon the cave wall without anybody there to recognise a shape in them?

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  The fancy gin and tonic are out — A merry tgif folks.

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  Telling my longsuffering cybersec team at work that it’s ok, $server isn’t affected by the new privesc CVE because it’s running a kernel older than 4.1 and watching their faces

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  This is your regular PSA to learn the “over-under method” of rolling cables! Coiling a cable the ‘normal’ way, whether just in your hands, around your elbow, or somewhere else, imparts a 1/2 axial twist to the cable each time. That’s the main thing that causes your extension cables to develop kinks and degrade! If you use the over-under method, the 1/2 twist is counteracted by a -1/2 twist every second loop, so the cable is kept flat and unstressed. This can hugely increase the lifetime of your...

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  To solve the problems with mastodon frontend design, I will deploy a skin where the SCSS is publicly writable over FTP. Community collaborative chaos UI design

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  What 10 years on E and an orchi does to a mfer

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  Any of our under-employed frontend coder cadre on here interested in a bit of work to update the [Cathode Church](https://cathode.church) flavour/theme to work with the new mastodon frontend? My CSS skills are outdated and I don’t have the time rn, but the style is crucial to the vibe of cathode to me. Getting them updated will let me bring the server up to date with security and bugfixes too. It’s SCSS and Vite, and possibly a couple minor JS patches. The current tree will be visible at https...

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  @slyka this is fantastic, the combination of elegance and hacky reuse of unexpected MCU features is amazing.

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  @sundogplanets telling my 1920s time travel companion that in 2026 the capitalists aren’t trying to privatise the night sky — they’re trying to destroy it, for imaginary gains to their bad mechanical Turk.

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  I would just like to express my deep condolences to anybody who understands the CW and just cringed. What a fuckery

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  Me @ me: “What is that in your mouth!? Is that another project? That better not be another new project in your mouth! You know you’re not allowed any more!!” Me:

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  Reminder that @maia has a merch store where you can get not only stickers of it but also T-shirts that make your CTO’s eyebrows furrow in concern, highly recommended