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Robotics, IoT and embedded engineer. Specialising in Rust for embedded systems.
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Comment · 8 days ago
We live in a mass spiritual cognitive dissonance, boarding like hamsters thinking we can take it all with us when we die
Comment · 9 days ago
I remember as a child many of my friends getting a PS1 specifically because you could chip it and burn games. Young people love piracy because they have no money to pay
Comment · 9 days ago
The entire human philosophy is to borrow from tomorrow to pay for today, and it’s leading to the destruction of our societies. At some point we will be forced to redefine the models that we’ve held onto so tightly.
Comment · 9 days ago
Wow
Comment · 16 days ago
Me and my partner bought Withings watches - neither of us will buy them again. Very very poor customer service
Comment · 17 days ago
I really empathise with the voices in here. Remember you are not alone.

But also remember that building a life, even for the most successful people, is like building a castle on sand. Existentially everything crumbles with time, our brains, bodies, income, status.

When we hold onto ideas of how things should be, we suffer, because we live in a reality of flux, and that flux seems to be increasing over time. We are moving towards great volatility and we are all apart of it.

In times like these people need a philosophy - I believe in something akin to Buddhism, because it’s taught me the more we cling, the more we suffer.

I implore everybody to do that soul searching and realise that we can always find something else, and something better, if we adjust our expectations and attachments of how we think it should be.

This is the greatest change of our time, and the outcomes are not a reflection of your performance.

If anyone is interested, checkout Ram Dass, some great YouTube videos and podcasts that can really help get a sense of life

Comment · 19 days ago
Difference is humans arent on the top of the stack anymore, AI is.
Comment · 1 month ago
I followed them for a while before the AI craze started. It looked promising back then, but I wasnt willing to invest time and attention back then on something so new.

Good thing I didn’t

Comment · 1 month ago
If you don't want your mbp to run like garbage, then don't update to the newest version of obsolescenceOS.
Comment · 2 months ago
I always considered Garbicz a very commercial festival even from the very beginning. The ticket was expensive, food was included, all infrastructure already built and you party and leave without much thought at all. The people also had little regard for the beautiful nature and lake - A pretty typical techno festival catering for the Berlin clubscene.

Burns usually are completely different. Yeah Burning Man is super commercial now, but smaller more obscure burns happen all over the world, including Europe. They run on participant preparation and donation, these still embody what Burning Man was originally about

Comment · 2 months ago
Coming down from acid makes you feel hollow?
Comment · 3 months ago
“the new API WILL require you to rethink your code”

I recall we had roughly the same experience. Tried to use the OTA API that was rewritten and it was a disaster. The contributors opinion was atrocious, and we had deliverables to deliver so we ended up just hacking it and using unsafe globals to workaround how opinionated it was.

Ive been developing rust embedded applications for about 5 years, so im not new to it either.

I get people want to be ideologically biased with how they structure code, but a public API should be flexible enough to work in a wide range of situations, and what irks me about it is that there isn't really much benefit, if at all, for the pain, time and money it takes to adjust it.

Comment · 3 months ago
“Stealing” implies they aren’t rightfully yours. Ownership of self determination, freedom etc are human rights, as is breathing clean air, or drinking clean water. We all are born into this world with an inherent set of rights.

No authority should ever be above that, unless you take those same rights away from another.

Authority and the State steals these rights from us, slowly eroding them under the guise of safety, passing immoral midnight legislation like Chat Control, or declaring a state of emergency. Time and time again we find ourselves in a prison and time and time again we start the next inevitable revolution.

Comment · 3 months ago
There is a growing counter-tech neo luddite movement forming, and I think its going to get very large. At some point we need to step back and ask - why are we simply accepting technologies that erode freedoms and subjugate the masses
Comment · 3 months ago
Im not an expert in emissions testing but pretty sure it still needs CE certification testing. The module shouldnt cause any problems providing that the firmware for the transmitter is configured properly, and is placed sanely in the enclosure, but the entire product must still undergo the relevant testing for 2.4GHz emitters.

Just because you use a certified module doesn't give you a free pass.

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