Because people complained about not getting the scale of those things, here are a few more pictures with with #blahaj #smolhaj for scale.

Again, it is abundantly clear why everybody should carry a blahaj everywhere. They are friends and know all about particle detectors.

Have you ever wondered how they can move the wheels or endcap on the #CMS detector without uncabling everything?

One part of that answer is cable drag chains. Really big ones.
This one lives between the X2 and X3 balcony on both sides ('near' and 'far') and has cables for the endcap.

I don't doubt that it works. But it will work because modern components are really forgiving. And can work even when the design is bad. Just look at PDN of the Arduino Uno :)

But for this thing, I have so many open questions. Like what was the person making this board thinking? Even if its pure LLM slop, they still made the pictures and the crowd-supply campaign.

The DoctorPD project is super weird. It claims to be open source, but there are no board files. But we can look at the iBOM.

It looks to be fully slopped.
Just look at the component placement and the routing of the nets.
Those decoupling caps are all over the place. Adding lots of parasitic inductance into the power delivery network.
There seems to be a 3V3 plane though.

This thing is on CrowdSupply: https://www.crowdsupply.com/t76-org/dr-pd

RE: https://101010.pl/@kwahoo/117598636536750596

This is clearly in the Top10 of my most important #FreeCAD features that have been missing so far.

No more filet by 4.9999mm

Now I wonder if that also works for chamfers.

So this is the wifi speed, 100m below the surface in the CMS cavern.
Acceptable

Today's cursed datasheet is the EA6808
https://www.lcsc.com/datasheet/C42389063.pdf

Scheiße, #CMS, Alter, fuck, fuck, fuck!
Haben wir noch inner Tacker dabei?
Hab'n wir die noch?
Keins mehr?
Gar nix Tracker mehr?
Keine mehr?

Scheinbar hat die Firma "micro.ai" Daten über mich im Netz gefunden (vor allem gitlab und andere forges). Und dann mit nem LLM verarbeitet. Und mir dann ein Jobangebot geschickt: Ich soll deren LLM verbessern.

Kennt das jemand? Mich würde interessieren ob sich schon mal jemand gegen deren Datensammelei gewehrt hat. In der EU ist das ja nicht rechtens. Es gibt ja keine Rechtsgrundlage für die Datenverarbeitung.

I skipped the part about "Online piracy of time-sensitive copyright-protected content, including live events", since I don't care much about that and don't have a decent opinion.

The "Copyright and research" section was interesting, it covers questions regarding scientific publishing (journals) and free access to publicly founded research.

If you care about copyright (or copyleft), you should consider participating in the EU survey "for a better copyright environment for European creativity and innovation"

My current take on that is that we should not leave the field to big companies. Ideally lots of people from the civil society will submit their opinions in this survey.
There is a huge question block regarding LLM-Training and its consequences.

https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/targetedconsultationcopyright

You must construct additional pylons.

I tried to photograph a pylon. Took quota a few pictures with the phone, this is the best of the series.

So #CERN gitlab now also has anubis with a fucking difficulty set to 6.
This took 1-2 minutes on my machine

This is super frustrating, especially because I just read the report "CMS AI Strategy" which basically concludes that everybody should use more AI.

The @eff has published an article about how it will fight for FairUse in the context of AI training.
I can roughly follow their reasoning. But as a AI hater, don't like it that they have some reasonable arguments.

But:
> explaining how the court’s ruling on fair use could impact people worldwide

What I don't understand here is why 'worldwide' is the argument here. FairUse is a USA thing, not applicable to Europe.
The way copyright gets handled here is quite different.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/rewriting-copyright-law-generative-ai-would-hurt-everyone

@marvinoppong Ich hab da keine gescheite Meinung dazu.

Für mich ergibt 'Hispanics' durchaus Sinn. Ich verstehe das Wort hinreichend gut und habe ne okayishe Vorstellung welche Gruppe damit gemeint ist.

Aber ich hab halt gar keine Ahnung wie gut das Wort für andere Menschen funktioniert. Prinzipiell halte ich die die Idee von Übersetzungen im Sinne von Accessibility gut. Das mag auch eine Frage der Zielgruppe der Sendung sein.

Okay, so this is the first time this happened to me:

> Rate limit exceeded; see https://docs.gitlab.com/user/gitlab_com/rate_limits/ for more details

I was reviewing merge requests, just looking at static html that was generated by a pipeline.

There are plenty of trainings one has to take at CERN to get access to various facilities.
Some of those are given in French.

I signed up for one that apparently is in English, at least the confirmation Email says so. But in reality, its in French.
So I tried to clarify by talking to the training-center people. Suspicion confirmed.

The fun part, is that they send me a email, in French(!), telling me that they are sorry that the training is not in English. Which I could only read with help.

Ich sitze zum ersten mal in einem Zug dessen Schweizer Ziele annulliert wurden und vorzeitig in Basel endet. Komme vermutlich aber trotzdem gut zum Ziel - mal sehen ob es die Stunde Verspätung am Schluss wird.

Als Entschädigung gab es nen Zugbegleiter der einfach nur schönen Dialekt hatte. Das war wholesome.

Definiere Karma: Ich hab gesagt das es illegal ist den knipex für dicken Draht und fette Pins zu nutzen.
Und den aliexpress Seitenschneider angereicht. Weil ist ja nicht schlimm wenn der kaputt geht...