Just in case you need to keep your eclipses straight (original emoji joke credit to astronomer Katie Mack):

Solar eclipse: 🌎 🌑 ☀️
Lunar eclipse: 🌕 🌍 ☀️
Apocalypse: 🌏 ☀️ 🌕

good morning afternoon

nini fedi, finally going to bed

why did I read an article about risc-v instead of doing this earlier

meow

this is the first time I have ever recieved an emergency alert (for wildfire risk)

31°C

good morning

going to bed now, good night

(this is still later than I would have liked but better than yesterday, and hopefully I will sleep for more than 5 hours)

I completely forgot to eat anything today since breakfast (except for an ice cream)

LB: this is *fucking nuts*.

on certain AMD CPUs you can just poke a random MMIO address from ring 0 and change the memory controller's scrambling pattern, on a live system, which completely jumbles the mapping between physical addresses and DRAM IC coordinates. since all memory protection features (IOMMU, SMM boundaries, etc.) are based on physical addresses, it bypasses *all of them*. you can read AND WRITE the SMM, fTPM, and even the C6 microcode save regions. wild.

https://furry.engineer/@soatok/117089469038278431

mmraowwr

going to bed at 5:40am, good night

(this is too late. I'll probably wake up in 3-4h because of the heat)

Amber Warning for Extreme Heat on Thursday

good morning/afternoon

nini fedi

this is somewhat later than I would have liked to go to bed again

I wish all USB cables were labeled like this!!!

(Elecom brand, if anyone's wondering)

reminder: all those 'homemade hacks' for looking at an eclipse (looking through CDs, sunglasses, etc.) are going to damage your eyes permanently, and you won't notice until much later. they do not work.

you have exactly three valid options:
- look through certified eclipse glasses from a known-good manufacturer for <30s at a time at most
- go to your local observatory, they probably have equipment set up to do this safely
- project the eclipse on the ground using small holes but DO NOT look at the eclipse directly, also not through small holes

anything else will leave you with eye damage for the rest of your life. you do not want eye damage.

You'd expect that they skip certain numbers when numbering their vehicles, but apparently they don't…?

I forgot about the eclipse until today and now I need to make a pinhole camera

Quoth the Raven, "Be careful with that cable, it's carrying 48 volts"

-- Edgar Allan PoE