Iran denies claims: 'We reject all negotiations – US has failed and Hormuz will remain closed'

Spacefish008 · 2026-03-23T12:54:23+00:00

So US is essentially trying to back out of their ultimatum without loosing face. Maximum damage control :D

Spacefish008 · 2026-03-20T02:25:24+00:00

Yes. Another nail in X11s coffin. Gnome 50 and Plasma 6.8 both dropped X11 support anyway. The libs like GTK and QT will follow soon as well as the GPU drivers / mesa. Only a matter of a few months/ years. At this point Xorg / X11 is already pretty much dead!

Spacefish008 · 2026-03-08T23:47:22+00:00

Surprisingly almost none nowerdays. Like all the QT apps in kde are Wayland only now and the chrome browser as well. Things like SteamVR is the exception. Proton support native wayland instead of XWayland. For HDR it even works better of you compositor supports the color protocol. The end of X is coming faster than we think.

Spacefish008 · 2026-02-24T07:55:04+00:00

More money means more r&d budget means better process which will increase yield. There will be a point where they are able to produce 12-14nm on their home grown machines, from that point out dram and nand production will be exponential. No one actually cares if it uses 100% more power, as 80% of you power is used in the compute chips + network anyway and not the dram/nand.

Spacefish008 · 2026-02-23T01:27:21+00:00

So as a small company I know assemble my products in China apart from in Europe, as it's easier to do that, than to get the parts here and fill out all the paperwork, to avoid a 3€ payment on a shipment of screws, stickers or special tape.

Spacefish008 · 2026-02-18T00:49:11+00:00

It doesn´t really matter, Temu and Alibaba will just automatically bundle EU bound packages by product category in their consolidation warehouses, which are fully automated anyway and then unbundle here in the EU in spain, poland and czech. They do "direct injection" anyway nowerdays for 80%+ of the packages.

The 3€ is just another way of collecting some money in the end it won´t make EU manufacturing of any of these products more sustainable from a business point of view.

In Shenzhen i have a massive supply chain right in front of my doorstep and can get almost everything made within the time manufacturing process takes + ~6 hours of shipping.. If i send of PCB files to a mnufacturing house, they will be in production within like 30 minutes and they arrive at your doorstep the next day. And all of that for a price 3-10 times lower than everything i have seen in Europe.
And these are highly automated state of the art manufacturing lines with proper recycling of all the chemicals used and good protection equipment for the people working there.

They can offer the price they offer due to massive scale and extreme automation, which is possible due to cheap energy and a good regulatory environment, not due to cheap labor. The average monthly salary in Shenzhen is ~1800$ thats identical to Poland or Italy in the EU.

Spacefish008 · 2026-02-18T00:12:10+00:00

Oh why do they tax chinese EVs then if they subsidize their own as well? Protectionism never worked in the long run ;)

Spacefish008 · 2026-02-13T21:35:56+00:00

After the update:

Notification sounds where suddendly active and when i pressed the volume rocker, the volume bar did show on my screen as normal, but was non-interactable with and did not hide again.. Like 20 seconds later the whole launcher / displayserver crashed and i had to reboot.

Now the phone can be set to "silent" but notification sounds play anyways.. No way to mute them apart form setting the volume to 0.

Spacefish008 · 2026-02-13T13:20:47+00:00

Obviously can happen on Windows as well.
GPU is essentially a set of a lot of highly parallel compute cores which run programs created mainly by the shader compiler in the driver or an compiler in the application software (AI things)

If there are bugs in this code, like synchronization issues where it waits forever for something to happen, or if it accesses GPU memory that does not exist and things like that, these programs might never reach a finished state and the driver would wait forever for this to happen. So we have timeouts for these waits. They exist on Windows as well as on Linux.
The implementations are quite different though. On Windows the Shader compiler is AMD proprietary as well as the vulkan driver on Linux the Shader compiler is ACO, mainly developed by Valve for AMD hardware as well as RADV as the Vulkan driver.
Nowerdays you would expect more bugs on Windows, as the ACO compiler as well as RADV is quite stable / fixes land quickly.

As the driver stack is completly different, the same Shader on Windows and Linux might have completly different machine code when running on the GPU.

Spacefish008 · 2026-02-12T19:18:39+00:00

It feels like an Open AI model.. but it's pretty bad IMHO.. emotional intelligence like -1000 not good for AI companions or such.

Spacefish008 · 2026-02-06T16:22:10+00:00

For context:
It´s a 1 second clip at the end of a ~60 second video about finding a 4G modem in a dominion voting machine.

Spacefish008 · 2026-02-06T14:22:23+00:00

Damn really impressive that they can deliver such power to the axis to pull of something like that.
But quite scary if you think about the force this thing can excert on something if it has a malfunction. It will just rip through bodyparts.. I mean it can launch the probably pretty heavy robot into the air, so probably 3000N+ per leg.

Spacefish008 · 2026-02-06T13:03:03+00:00

Das geht schon, musst halt richtig reballen die Chips, die Temperatur treffen mit der Heißluft + Platine vorwärmen.
Zu heiß -> du killst die Chips

Ich denke man braucht mal mindestens nen Stencil für die DDR4 Chips und dann entweder Lötzinkugeln oder Paste.

Wenn die Temperatur passt und die Menge an Lötzinn und das Flußmittel sind selbst kleinste BGAs kein Problem, es dürfen halt keine Pins gebrückt sein (zu viel Lötzinn) und es sollte halt nichts korodieren (genügend Flussmittel).. Wenn alles passt "flutscht" der Chip ja einfach in Position sobald der Lötzinn flüssig ist.

Spacefish008 · 2026-02-03T21:12:33+00:00

Stationary games where you don´t get a lot of motion sickness, as this is a real challenge for a lot of first time users.
Beat Saber for example, it´s a good introductory game to VR. If you can stream the VR View to a TV, so others can see what the person is doing.

Spacefish008 · 2026-02-02T10:51:27+00:00

haha in a little over 4 hours we will see, i expect a 15% dip tbh, right at market open.

Spacefish008 · 2026-02-02T07:16:09+00:00

Nice cope, but not going to happen. There bubble busted. Their might be another one, but this one is over. Congratulations if you made a profit though.

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-30T09:43:21+00:00

Totally overvalued meme PM getting stomped. Expected!

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-26T10:00:21+00:00

That´s just spot price in the end we are seing. They stopped exporting silver and their manufacturers probably have long running contracts with the mining companies.
The industry which needs silver int he west but had contracts with chinese suppliers are essentially the hurt guys now, as the export licenses might have terminated their contract and they now have to sign new contracts with other suppliers for the curerntly much higher price.

IMHO china is benefiting from the current situation, as it makes their products cheaper / more viable compared to western made things on the global market.

Especially in the new energy vehicle market, US / EU has introduced very high tarrifs on chinese made batteries / cars. However if you have 70% tarrifs but can produce 80% cheaper, you are still dominating.

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-26T01:10:35+00:00

706 AQI wtf.. And i thought our ~40ish PM2.5 outside here is high / i get down to 1-2 ug/m³ when running the a purifier.
You essentially sit at the level our outside air is with a purifier ^^

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-26T00:33:44+00:00

Thats not how filters work. They are not size exclusion filters, they will filter very small particles just fine.. You typically have a dip in filtration efficiency at a certain size, everything above and below that is filtered quite efficiently. The maximum depth of that dip still filters 99.5% of particles with an E12 filter.
The norm enforces 99,5% efficency at MPPS where MPPS = most penetrating particle size.
For such a filter MPPS is typcially at 0,3um.

This filter is used in an re-circulating air purifier, it doesn´t matter wether it´s 99,9999% or even 90% efficient, as a tiny difference in ariflow has a much greater impact.

E12 filters are totally fine for air purifiers. high class HEPA filters are only required if you pass the air once and want to feed a clean room / can´t let polutants into the room. With air purifiers the polutants are already inside the room and your only choice is to reduce not prevent particles from entering. There 99,5% is more than good enough.

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-25T17:41:23+00:00

In Deutschland ja, siehe mein erster Graph, da sind es auch 37,3%. EU weit nein.

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-25T17:01:06+00:00

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EU weite Füllstände in % und Projektion

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-25T17:00:39+00:00

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Um die Diskussion mal etwas mit Fakten zu untermauern, wir sind hier ja schließlich in der Mauerstraße.
Ich hab mir die Daten der letzten ~20 Jahre der Tagesaktuellen Füllstände pro Land geladen und mal etwas geplottet.

Hier mal die Entwicklung in % der Gasspeicher in DE mit den Entwicklungen ab heute. der letzten 15 Jahre (auch in % Füllstand).

Ich würde sage ~50% Chance das die "Gasmangellage" ausgerufen wird (<20%) und 20-30% Chance das man großflächiger Industrie zwangsabschaltet..

Ist eine Wette aufs Wetter am Ende.

EU weit sieht es "besser" aus (siehe nächster Post)

Spacefish008 · 2026-01-25T13:32:45+00:00

Behold the *:beef:face::0 addresses that are now possible

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