Mark Roszko

@ptrschmdtnlsn @bamcashem Ooof, I see the other guy is working on something. But I pushed my branch and opened a MR. This is technically the *official* KiCad work on this ;) gitlab.com/kicad/code/kic…

@bamcashem Very cool! Do you have the source for this anywhere? I'm curious how this compares to what @mark_roszko is working on. I'd love something like this to get merged and available in kicad!

I hereby put up a $2000 bounty for adding a feature to kicad where stitching and fencing vias can be generated by a new "via pour" primitive. That is, it shouldn't just be a pass at the end, they should be regenerated like pours, and adjust dynamically as you move other elements.

@ptrschmdtnlsn I'll throw you a bone on a more up to progress ;)

@ptrschmdtnlsn I was having some stupid fun with the implementation last year. I am aiming to get something around July/August.

@mark_roszko Yaaay! Any progress, or updates, or timelines? Sorry, I'm sure that's a super annoying question you get all the time. But I'd love to help support this, if I can.

I have added 3D PCB export support to #KiCad. It is now available in the nightly builds for v10!

@yettiexplores @felix_red_panda Yep, anyone would a brain that finds a solution should be running to patent it or sell it.

@felix_red_panda They get to steal all the close solutions that people send them, nobody will actually have one that meets the needs, so nobody can sue them for “wining”.

Neuralink started a compression challenge. They're asking for people to find methods to losslessly (!!) compress files to 1/200th (!) the size but the files are extremely noisy so thats certainly not possible 🙁 (spectrogram of one randomly chosen file for illustration)

@DevuanOrg What? Devuan is absolutely vulnerable. Look at your own packages. pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/packag… openssh-server is linked to libsystemd, that is all that is required to execute the malware. Even though Devuan does not run systemd, you import systemd for binaries leecheed from debian.

Devuan is not affected by the latest vulnerability caused by systemd. The malicious backdoor in xz/liblzma is a vector for remote exploitation of the ssh daemon due to a dependency on systemd for notifications and due to systemd's call to dlopen() liblzma library (CVE-2024-3094)

@dragosr @tomfleet Nobody posts professional PCB designs publically, or rather very very very very few will. This is their problem they can't solve without paying professional engineers to crank out designs. The majority of crap on GitHub isn't very good for many reasons.

@tomfleet AI moves fast, bet they won't have that problem in a few hours.

Yet, this magic AI completely ignores basic physics. Of note, compare the traces that feed and lead from the polyfuse. The original design acknowledges the current flow. The Quilter "redesign" shrinks the main power traces to a laughable width. Utterly useless.

@GeringerAdam @vincentmcasey That's just toxic advice that's contributing to the population collapse of countries like Japan. I tell my juniors to get the fuck out at 5pm and restrict their VPN access the first year because I know they'll try and work late on shit that could just be done next day.

@vincentmcasey Stay humble, find a manager or a senior dev that wants to champion you, and make their life easier. Show up 30 minutes before them and leave 30 minutes after them at minimum 3 days a week

I want to clarify why I think the labor dynamics in tech are beyond fucked Everyone wants to hire a an amazing engineer or salesman, but they've been out of production since March 2020. Most of these layoffs and "firings for performance" people are young laptop americans. It makes sense. Spending the majority of your career doing zoom and slack robs you of proper monkey see monkey do learning. The best periods of my 6 years in ML were spent in the lab or irl with leaders on a daily basis. Most of my corporate life has been zoom and slack. There is absolutely no behavioral learning going on in these environments. It's just camera on, show time That's not to say I'm anti-remote work, I just think its toxic for early career development. I heard this idea first from one of the founders of a previous employer. It's clear industry leadership knows this is a problem. We always talk about how far behind students fell in math during covid. But do we just assume the fallout ends at 12th grade? Realistically the most important learning is early career development. The only people I know who have had normal career development in this time are people who worked irl, most notably the trades or really big companies. They work under the supervision of an experienced superior who wants them to succeed and grow. Most of the managers of young laptop americans are only a few years older. They mostly became managers during the covid expansion. They're just as insecure about not knowing how to do their job. They can't lead, they cant nurture, they cant establish development milestones. Especially through zoom! Crafting talent is an art form that hasn't been handed down to them. But tech talent is fairly commodified now. "Why build when you can buy?" so they play a game of cronyism or panning for gold, trying to find talent to manage. But the problem is I don't see that problem resolving itself. Especially not with the current glut of workers accustomed to working from the poolside. Simply, the overseas tech workforce has gotten stronger while we have fallen behind. Most of them have not been wfh for the past 4 years. On top of that LLMs have basically automated tech work first -- the economic incentive to replace high paid employees is obvious. Tech jobs like writing documentation, commenting code, light debugging, reviewing PRs, and automated QA testing are almost completely exposed to replacement in the next 5 years. It would be one thing if we were all in this together, but the market dynamics make me think it's a lost cause.

@jimscard @TimSweeneyEpic The company that makes your car that lets you drive to work deserves a cut of your pay. Also anytime you go to the store to buy something, they deserve a cut of the sale.

@TimSweeneyEpic What's the big deal? Seems like a normal sales commission to me. Especially since once they make the introduction, you're going to do everything you can to lock the customer in to your site so you get all future purchases too.

Apple filed a bad-faith "compliance" plan for the District Court's injunction. It totally undermines the order allowing “buttons, external links, or other calls to action that direct customers to purchasing mechanisms, in addition to IAP”. developer.apple.com/support/storek…

@organised @_dcd @haxrob Look at the literal watermark of the image. wigle.net that has the maps you seek ;)

@_dcd @haxrob I’m also curious about this — is there some open data somewhere — wild

A friend asked me to find out why his connected lightbulb app was asking for his location, so I ducked out to Australia’s favourite hardware store, Bunnings, and grabbed one to check out. The Android grid connect app has 500k+ downloads. Let’s take a quick look! 🧵 (1/n)

So what do we make of all this? The developer discloses on the app store that the precise location data collection is optional. Is this misleading? What we have discovered in this Twitter thread is that if you try to pair one of their devices via Bluetooth scanning, the app opportunistically siphons up your GPS co-ordinates and send them over the Internet to a remote server. The only way to avoid this would be to manually pair the device over Wifi and avoid the Bluetooth pairing option. Have the 500k+ people who have download Grid Connect from the Google Play store been mislead? What do you think? play.google.com/store/apps/det… (14/n)

@ringo_akv @kicad_pcb Please don't donate to the fake kicad PCB account that tweeted to this btw. The official account only has one underscore.

@kicad_pcb Don't you support donation from Japan via PayPal? twitter.com/ringo_akv/stat…

@Romly This is fixed for 7.0.1 and is available in testing builds on windows at least.

@ryoichi_tanaka @Hacksterio @f1mij @kicad_pcb What cursor jumping issue?

@Hacksterio @f1mij @kicad_pcb are they still refusing to fix cursor jumping issue?

.@kicad_pcb 7.0.0 download now available! bit.ly/3YOWJVV

The KiCad project is proud to announce the first major release since version 6 was release just over a year ago. Version 7.0.0 has officially been released and is available for download. kicad.org/blog/2023/02/V…

@crs Eh, there's only one critical bug by release and it's one that nobody on the dev team can reproduce, a crash on macOS. The ibis bug was reported after 7.0.0's release. The biggest problem is IBIS is so incredibly niche in use that no dev uses it.

賢明な読者諸賢はすでにご明察のことかと思うが、 KiCadのver7 release、当然Criticalバグ先送りしただけっすからねぇ。まだ人柱志願者向けですね。 特に6kstep overの大型ルーキーのIBIS対応はベンチ入り前に故障で全く動かない、という状況なので。 #tab-issues" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">gitlab.com/groups/kicad/-…

@KetturiFox Place (menu bar) > Grid Origin. Drop it wherever you want. Preferences > PCB Editor > origins & axes. Change the direction of x And y.

I see no point in KiCads page coordinate system, I only want to work with PCB coordinates. Only use for page coordinates I can think of is when printing the layout on old time pen plotter.

What I find annoying with KiCad is that board does not start from page origin point, and Y axis is inverted. I always have used lower left corner as origin, and hand calculated dimensions and placements from that. That way I just can enter the x and y values from paper/calculator

@pocketmt That is a known Intel graphics chipset driver bug that affects many things outside kicad. Intel does not want to fix it for their older chipsets. Basically it misreports the opengl version in the api.

So, if I trust Kicad v7, OpenGl v3.1 is less than the minimum required v1.5 ??? 🤨🤔

@tweetsbyparker Why is BBB relevant here? It's boomer yelp (not government run in anyway) and even has the pay2win functionality, complete with the same yelp tactics in poisoning ratings. But otherwise yea, lmao

if you were wondering about the current state of twitter, many folks just received their separation agreements in their spam folders, pointing to a URL that was registered this morning from a vendor with a 1 star BBB rating. if still there, I would have reported this as phishing.