💫DID YOU KNOW💫 that if you move a mouse cursor fast enough, you can get persistence of vision and, say... *run a game of Pong inside your mouse's firmware* 🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️🕹️

Does astrology work? We tested the ability of 152 astrologers to see if they could demonstrate genuine astrological skill. Here is how the study was designed and what we found (including a result that really surprised me): 🧵

How ssh got port 22 assigned!!

real

Ah yes, I remember buying that textbook

This is amazing! Great entry for the Tiny Tapeout demoscene competition!

Pure ASIC! Thunder captured inside the rock to make pixels. No CPU, no GPU, no RAM. Racing the beam and straight to 640x480 VGA at 60Hz! Me together with Erik Hemming and second iteration made a demo for Tiny Tapeout demoscene ASIC competition 161 x 225 microns on 130nm!

1/ A Norwegian fishing vessel was shot at by a Russian warship in the Barents Sea in Norwegian territorial waters. The encounter happened after the Norwegian vessel refused to move from its fishing lines despite being commanded by the Russian military.

Soon TinyTapeout will support another open source 130nm process with fabs in Europe - IHP

We shall measure stellar brightness logarithmically, and it will be called the "magnitude." - Sir, will that logarithm be base 10, or based on Napier's constant? Neither. It shall be of the base of the fifth root of one hundred.

I don't want to hear any German politician say "never again" if Bundeskanzler Scholz represents how most Germans actually feel about Ukraine and Russia. Germany is losing the moral authority it earned over the last 75 years with its appeasement and failure to stand up to Russia.

How many fully functional game consoles can I fit on a 130 nm chip? Tiny Tapeout github.com/rejunity/tt09-…

Hardware-in-the-loop! Test-driven development for digital hardware design, down to the physical. Re-use tests from dev against #FPGA, #ASIC, and really any chip in-circuit. Works from desktop, Raspberry Pi #RP2 and #Pi5 and more. Demos of all that in: youtu.be/g8cmUiP3KGQ

Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.

Decent people thank Ukraine.

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce Lithuanian far-right politician and Seimas member Remigijus Žemaitaitis. He’s best known for his extremist political views and for falling for a scam that convinced him he was flying to New York to meet Elon Musk. 1/17

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug

At last the issue how to transfer money raised by Lithuanians to the families of 4 US soldiers who died while on duty in LT is solved. Money will go to TAPS (Tragedy Assistance Program to Survivors) foundation and it will distribute to families (~70K USD each family)

Apparently President Zelenskyy does have some cards!

🇺🇦 Security Service managed to hit more than 40 Russia’s strategic bombers in a highly sophisticated drone attack. Once again, Ukrainians show not only to Putin how powerful & inventive they are, but also remind Europeans how much we can learn from them. Slava Ukraini!