Hackers force French supermarket fridges to heat up to 50C in ‘unprecedented’ cyber-attack
Meanwhile the UK continues to obsess over having all our home appliances, batteries, heatpumps, solar and car chargers connected to imaginary secure energy company services
I guess I need to write an Atari 8bit keyboard driver next
Lots more to do but the really interesting bit is that the kernel code is split across 4 x 16K banks and all the bank to bank calling is managed by the tool chain including function pointers and keeping C sematics about comparison of function pointers.
Oops seems like the funny salute battery company has another problem
"Tesla has remotely discharged most affected Powerwall 2 units pending
replacement. Any remaining affected units are being discharged by Tesla
technicians."
So US batteries don't have remote killswitches right 8)
and btw the killswitch is snarky - remote discharging them if remotely managed is probably the right safety choice in most cases.
I now have Fuzix running on a rubber key ZX #Spectrum 48K with a DivIDE plus providing banked low 16K memory. It's all bit fun making it fit, but it does.
Does need a DivIDE+ not the classic DivIDE though. In theory anything that just lets you map a load of 16K RAM banks there ought to work with a bit of tweaking.
One hour of free electricity tomorrow, 16kWh fair use limit. Possibly it's not meant to be a challenge but I have batteries, water heating, and oven set to go 😁
Cool stuff - someone has a reproducible recipe to make new pens for the ancient ALPS printer/plotters
Sorting out some minor things and putting them on codeberg.
First is a version of cat that can also insert blank lines every 5 lines of output, and can also alternate lines fanfold paper style with a pale green background. The serious application is to help people who struggle to follow along lines of dense text when reading stuff. The less serious application is you can install it as "nyancat" and you get what you deserve.
If Reform and friends were actually serious about British values they'd be outside our supermarkets protesting about the arrival and sale of mince pies in September 😂
We are so lucky enshittification took hold as late as it did. Imagine having to debug a 1990s PC with beep codes for 'the signing certificate on your graphics card ROM is expired' or having a PXE BIOS preboot network environmental to check your OS licence has not expired
If you are in Wales and want to give your opinion. Predictably the far right are on a crusade to get all their followers to respond and call for tax cuts for rich people and stopping anything good
Thought for the day
The US will be very shortly paying the same per year in debt intetest as China spent building the largest high speed rail network in the world.
So when you wonder why you don't have nice trains remember it's because the US sold rich people bonds instead of taxing them.
PS: if you are wondering why US petrol and diesel prices are so high it's because it's apparently more important to export fuel at peak prices than add export restrictions and keep in country prices down.
Fuzix on 6809 now seems to be reasonably happy on the targets converted so far. The new compiler code is slightly larger than gcc but seems already to be less full of compiler bugs. The difference isn't huge which considering that gcc has the memory to load functions into memory and do full graph level processing on them and I can compile the code in under 64K of RAM I consider acceptable.
#fuzix #6809 #compilers
Has anyone come across a device that'll just beep annoyingly if the room temperature passes a certain setting. I could go make one obviously but I'm looking for something to help an #autistic person who has a tendancy to hyperfocus and fail to manage their temperature properly.
Congratulations to the USA on Scott Bessent. I really thought the UK had achieved an unbeatable world record book entry with Liz Truss, but I was wrong.
That does not look or smell good
Reminder today is the last day for anyone wanting to respond to the UK govt consultation on cohabitation and rights when relationships end - designed to provide actual clarity and rights when people live together or have kids together but don't marry
One interesting thing is that it's all about couples but there's no marital notion of exclusivity so it may create an interesting framework for polygamy that's probably not what they intended😂
https://consult.justice.gov.uk/digital-communications/a-fairer-end-to-relationships-consultation/
sloptimism: the belief that #ai in the USA isn't going to do an Enron.
@jwz Seems we have an imposter DNA lounge in the UK ;)
If a "tract" in English is a small piece of writing why do we still use the word "contract" not "contome" ?
When we all upgrade to Na based batteries charging offpeak will the new tariff be the sodium nitrate ?