Saul Tools

Saul Tools

@saul.tools

Computer Science hobbyist, Electrician by trade. I enjoy hiking, writing code, and good coffee. Find my writing at https://saul.tools

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Jonathan McDowell
@planet4589.bsky.social

Margaret Hamilton has died. Absolute legend, it was my honour to meet her and have a conversation with her just a few years ago, super nice and still sharp. Ave atque vale Margaret. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

news.mit.eduMargaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

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Molly White
@molly.wiki

i love that the doxxed guy's response is to tell the chatbot "you gotta never do that ever again"

Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave@wolven.blacksky.app

So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.

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Anthony Pham
@viridianth.bsky.social

Replying to @orlamccool.bsky.social

It's important to note that it's not a short attention span, it's deliberately not being covered because media has been corrupted by fascist money. It's institutional, and deliberate.

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Technology Connections
@techconnectify.bsky.social

Quick reality check: My car's got a ~75 kWh battery. If that battery put out 1 kW of power, it could run for three days. Get a thousand of those and you have a megawatt of power for three days. Get a million of those and you have a gigawatt of power for three days. Hyundai has sold 250,000

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Technology Connections
@techconnectify.bsky.social

An underappreciated point which I think got forgotten from older discourse is that one of the primary reasons ice needs to be shut down and abolished is that they are indistinguishable from random vigilantes. And that is why now we must all act to protect people.

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Phil
@phil2345.bsky.social

Replying to @techmeme.com

Mozilla has the money to keep the open source Firefox browser going for decades, but instead it's going to burn through its cash on a brainless CEO's high salary and redundant AI development that will fail to compete with anything.

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Olaren
@olaren.dev

Here is what I've been doing this past week: git.olaren.dev/Olaren/mapto... A little python program that generates poster for cities! You might have seen stuff like this around lately, but I modified it to put an emphasis on rail infrastructure :3

Saul Tools
@saul.tools

Do you loathe snap packages? me too! I made this little bash script that lets me keep a close eye on them: gist.github.com/saultools/39... (this script does not install or modify anything on your machine - it just reads existing data and advises you on managing it)

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Technology Connections
@techconnectify.bsky.social

Allow me to connect some dots for you: Too much of the world currently relies for its basic functions on resources which must be continuously extracted. You burn that oil one time and oops, now you need more. Geopolitical horrors are, in fact, one of the reasons we need to move to renewables ASAP.

Saul Tools
@saul.tools

Because of this video that popped into my recommend today, I went poking around @uptime.industries website, and also found this article: It's a great hardware/electronics read too uplab.pro/2023/08/mac-...

uplab.proUptime Lab > Mac mini with Power over EthernetIn Place of a Foreword Below I'll talk about the project, I think you can replicate it, but I don't think you'll want to. Keep in mind it's quite time-consuming. Something can go wrong at every step. ...
Saul Tools@saul.tools

want want want youtube.com/shorts/ZCHz3... #raspberrypi #maker

youtube.comMagSat v0.1. This is just the first PoC. The idea is that it will be a sandwich of various modulesYouTube video by Uptime Industries

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Jason Scott
@textfiles.com

Turned out to be 17 terabytes of uploaded Internet Archive-scanned books to the Internet Archive. We already had them!

Jason Scott@textfiles.com

I am so inclined to make some sort of metaphorical reference to this,. but it is its own metaphor: Please do not upload books scanned by the Internet Archive to the Internet Archive. A surprising number of people are doing this! You're literally wasting hardware and money at the joint!

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Essem
@essem.space

Replying to @iokiart.bsky.social

what is the internet if not a bunch of stuff running on other people's computers