Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

someone linked to this project earlier, and i lost the post and can't find it again

anyway: traditional GPS trackers use a lot of battery. getting a GPS fix takes a long time, and it needs to remember the almanac and do a lot of math and stuff like that.

what this project does is eliminate the "getting a fix" part of it. the board samples the GPS constellation in only 12 ms (!!). the samples can then be post-processed to determine the time and location.

https://github.com/SnapperGPS

@lucretia "whats the harm?" i say as i behold the horrible consequences i was warned about beforehand from experts i ignored

A form confidently concluded my first name must be “Hidde de” and populated that into a disabled “First name” for me.

I made this for my wife when she found a "$20 burger place" that was actually just another ghost kitchen by Denny's (we've previously found a "$20 grilled cheese place" at the same location).

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The recruiter spam on LinkedIn seems to have switched from "revolutionizing the Whatever with Blockchain" to "revolutionizing the Whatever with AI" in the past few months 🤔​🙄​

In case anyone was still in doubt, Google is not at all interested in "organizing the world's information" (despite that language still being in their mission statement). Mixing non-information, LLM-extruded sludge in with authentic information is actually the opposite.

https://www.404media.co/google-news-is-boosting-garbage-ai-generated-articles/

Relatedly: if you think that "everybody should be building simpler software", maybe help out on addressing the capitalist conditions under which the current development practices have developed?

Like, these practices did not come from nowhere, and there's a *reason* that decades of "just do better" blogposts have not led to meaningful improvements in development practices

I wish people would stop conflating "dependency complexity" with "dependency count". It's ruining a lot of otherwise legitimate arguments, for no other reason than 'number high'.

There is no meaningful complexity difference between 1 dependency that does 10 things, or 10 dependencies from one author that each do 1 thing.

I think making it clear that the stories of fascists are just that, empty promises of a better, uncomplicated world, is one of the main ways to undermine them. But you also have to prevent them from telling simplistic stories in the first place.

Thanks, @bastianallgeier, for telling your history. 🫂

https://bastianallgeier.com/notes/grandpa