Colonel Panic ⧉ 💾

Colonel Panic ⧉ 💾

@xtools.at

Web/App/Hardware Developer from 🇦🇹 Creator of things no one asked for. ❤️ Decentralised systems and the Fediverse

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Colonel Panic ⧉ 💾
@xtools.at

I started going down the rabbit's hole of local llms, and fine-tuning, merging and uncensoring open weights models. My headspace is fully occupied but I'm learning interesting new stuff 🙂

Colonel Panic ⧉ 💾
@xtools.at

LinkedIn recruiter scams are flooding my inbox 🙄 Scammer: are you interested in this job? Me: sure, could you send me an email from a company address to verify this is real? Scammer: *blocked* Every single fucking time...

Colonel Panic ⧉ 💾
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Me: *watching a 20min video* My Surface Pro: Ok who wants to fry some eggs on my chassis? @microsoft.com this is not exactly peak engineering for a supposedly premium product. I can hear the battery screaming in agony while it's getting boiled alive...

Colonel Panic ⧉ 💾
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@proton.me wtf is this? i thought you'd be better than that

meta@metaend.eth.xyz

Proton Meet Isn't What They Told You It Was www.sambent.com/proton-meet-... Hilarious

sambent.comProton Meet Isn't What They Told You It WasProton built Proton Meet to escape the CLOUD Act. They built it on CLOUD Act infrastructure. Their website promises "not even government agencies" can access your calls. The company routing them hands your call records to the government when asked. Proton hid them from their privacy policy.

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Pavel
@spavel.bsky.social

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus. FOSS nerds: the Torment Nexus cannot be ethical until it is Open Source

Colonel Panic ⧉ 💾
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800MHz+ when cooled with dry ice, LFG 🤟

Liliputing@liliputing.bsky.social

Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller overclocked to run at more than 5X original frequency #Mcu, #Overclocking, #RaspberryPiPico2, #Rp2350

liliputing.comRaspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller overclocked to run at more than 5X original frequencyThe Raspberry Pi RP2350 is a microcontroller chip designed for low-power, low-latency applications. While it's a big step up from the older RP2040 chip, it's still not exactly a speed demon. But what if it... was? When Raspberry Pi first introduced the RP2350 in 2024, the company described it as a chip with two Arm Cortex-M33 cores with frequencies up to 150 MHz and two Hazard3 RISC-V cores that also top out at 150 MHz.
Colonel Panic ⧉ 💾
@xtools.at

pretty cool 😎

castpixel ⚧️⚢@castpixel.bsky.social

I made a tool that turns PCB designs into 3D-printable molds. you sandwich copper tape between the parts, sand the ridges, and you have a real working PCB. no etching, no chemicals. I am losing my mind castpixel.itch.io/pcb-forge

Colonel Panic ⧉ 💾
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Turns out the single core in the ESP32 C3 slows down a bit when running BT+Display+Serial debug, and Android 16 doesn't wait around. Turning *off* the debugger solved the problem, fml 🙃

Colonel Panic ⧉ 💾
@xtools.at

"In a world of total surveillance, the only true freedom lies in not being seen"

GrapheneOS@grapheneos.org

France's government and law enforcement wants you to believe GrapheneOS and Signal are somehow responsible for crime. French law enforcement operates with impunity and has extraordinarily levels of corruption and criminal behavior. They're the ones committing and enabling crime.