I have a very picky LCD panel (LQ079L1SX04) that only works (displays correctly) on Raspberry Pi.

I'm trying to get it to work on a Mac Mini but the resolution needed doesn't show (1536x2048). I need to use a utility like SwitchResX but I need the details like freq, front porch, back porch, etc.

How can I get the #RaspberryPi to tell me those values it's currently using?

xrandr seems to show only resolution and freq (and two other unidentified numbers).

New (non-work) blog post! 📝 “Generative AI vegetarianism” https://sboots.ca/2026/03/11/generative-ai-vegetarianism/

English speakers of the fedi. In a software with the interface in English, Reading a menu with verbs such as Save, Open, Close, Edit, Format etc., do you read them as imperative (an order: "do this") or as an infinitive (the "base form" of the verb, like "to do this")?

Are you a native speaker or have English as a second language?

#Dev #ux #ui #software #interface #translation #uiux #uxui #gui

Dan Blanchard, maintainer of Python's "chardet" library, used Claude to rewrite the entire project's codebase so that he can switch the license from LGPL to MIT.

https://github.com/chardet/chardet/pull/322

I highly doubt that this is legal, but who the fuck cares these days anyway, right?

If I was a contributor to that project, I'd tell him in no vague words what I think about shit like that. "No bro, it's totally not relicensing your code bro, this is totally new code bro!"

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Morten Linderud » 🌐 2026-03-04
@Foxboron@chaos.social

Apparently chardet got Claude to rewrite the entire codebase from LGPL to MIT?

https://github.com/chardet/chardet/releases/tag/7.0.0

That is one way to launder GPL code I guess?

This is amazing. EA1FUO has built nec2c into WebAssembly, and now you can do antenna simulations on your phone or desktop without depending on nec2c running on a server. You can also deploy it locally, and he provides instructions for how to do this on docker or bare, and you can run nec2c on the server if you like.

Takes seconds to simulate my inverted V, and it even displays updates on what it is doing while running the simulation. It then gives a 3d rendering that you can drag around to get a better intuition. As you hover your mouse over the model, it shows gain in dBi with elevation and azimuth.

Beautiful work!

I don't know where else he's active, but he's been posting about this on Reddit as he's been developing it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/1rfsr6f/my_new_modern_free_and_open_source_antenna/

Source code GPLv3: https://github.com/EA1FUO/AntennaSim

#HamRadio

New reading material!

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Photo of the cover of "Digital Signal Processing and Software Defined Radio" by Albert F. Peter AC8GY and Jack Purdum W8TEE

Yesterday Cory Doctorow argued that refusal to use LLMs was mere "neoliberal purity culture". I think his argument is a strawman, doesn't align with his own actions and delegitimizes important political actions we need to make in order to build a better cyberphysical world.

EDIT: Diskussions under this are fine, but I do not want this to turn into an ad hominem attack to Cory. Be fucking respectful

https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/acting-ethical-in-an-imperfect-world/

Some genius made his AI remind him to get milk in the morning and it used up his $20 account balance overnight because it kept checking if it was morning every 30 minutes. Lmao. “AI”

https://bsky.app/profile/rusty.todayintabs.com/post/3mdrdhzqmr226

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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Benjamin De Kraker @BenjaminDEKR OpenClaw is interesting, but will also drain your wallet if you aren't careful. Last night around midnight I loaded my Anthropic API account with $20, then went to bed. When I woke up, my Anthropic balance was $O. Opus was checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night." Doing literally nothing, OpenClaw spent the entire balance. How?

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The "Heartbeat" cron job, even though literally the only thing I had going was one silly reminder, ("remind me tomorrow to get milk") 1. Sent ~120,000 tokens of context to Opus 4.5 2. Opus read HEARTBEAT md, thought about reminders 3. Replied "HEARTBEAT_OK" 4. Cost: ~$0.75 per heartbeat (cache writes) The damage: - Overnight = ~25+ heartbeats - 25 × $0.75 = ~$18.75 just from heartbeats alone - Plus regular conversation = ~$20 total The absurdity: Opus was essentially checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night."

This is one of the things that frustrates me about #Meshcore in my neighborhood: I'm in a shallow valley and the nearest repeaters are over the ridges. I can hear them, but they can't hear me. Y'know, like regular ham radio. And I have an antenna on the roof of my 2nd floor apartment, no less. I have to go downtown to chat. #AustinMesh

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Screenshot of the meshcore app where I'm transmitting, yet nobody hears me. But I can hear them. "How goes the propagation today" "nobody hears me, that's how"

Video:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=moBCOEiqiPs

Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46728808

There are thousands of independent weather stations publishing their conditions over APRS, some via radio and some via the internet. You can grab the raw stream of data from any APRS server, or see it visualized on a site like https://aprs.fi

CC: @xan@xantronix.social

My memory of the "personal web" at that time is that it felt like it was a linear progression from BBSes, gopher, Usenet, and IRC. More graphical and more widely accessible, but with a lot of the same community spirit.

CC: @Mnemonic@hackers.town

Farmers in Bastrop, TX were hopeful when Elon Musk bought land nearby, but now he’s turning the area into “an environmentally hazardous industrial park.” Authorities won’t do anything because they’re understaffed and “intimidated by their powerful new neighbor.”

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/elon-musk-vs-organic-farmers-bastrop/

#elonmusk #spacex #tech #texas #boringcompany