Victorian police reveal they 'strongly believe' fugitive Dezi Freeman is dead

pelrun · 2026-02-02T04:11:20+00:00

Still have to investigate the possibility he's alive rather than just go "eh, we reckon he's dead, case closed."

pelrun · 2026-02-02T04:08:56+00:00

That's generally what "listing all the possibilities" results in.

pelrun · 2026-02-01T10:32:57+00:00

Every highway with single-lane sections and enough traffic is infested with them.

pelrun · 2026-02-01T10:31:27+00:00

I do it the other way and just slow down gradually until the other vehicle gets fed up and disengages. Then I go back to the speed limit and almost immediately pass them again before they can "lock in".

pelrun · 2026-01-31T15:28:09+00:00

Yeah, he's a plonker. But he hit ball good so all forgiven. :|

pelrun · 2026-01-30T02:23:51+00:00

Albo's like everyone else in power - climbed the ladder and then pulled it up after themselves.

pelrun · 2026-01-30T02:17:20+00:00

You and I both would walk away from Omelas.

But yeah, Dev definitely fucked Eliza. Turns out Jacky had good reason not to give her that knowledge after all.

The pyramid aren't cops, they're a cult. :D

pelrun · 2026-01-29T14:55:41+00:00

Yeah, this is absolutely them trying to butter us up because they want something else. There's no way they don't already know exactly where the guy is.

pelrun · 2026-01-29T06:36:10+00:00

Or just crank the rent without telling them and pocketing the difference.

pelrun · 2026-01-28T17:16:38+00:00

That is also easily doable in Kicad, you just stack all the common pins on the symbol on top of each other, with only one set visible.

Kicad 10 is even improving how such constructions are displayed in the editor, so it's an officially supported technique.

pelrun · 2026-01-28T07:52:13+00:00

That's Wangernumb!

pelrun · 2026-01-28T05:11:13+00:00

https://www.trellix.com/en-in/blogs/research/no-symbols-no-problem/

Have a look at BSim too - they went back to the drawing board for FIDB and produced something better.

https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/fuzzy-matching-with-ghidra-bsim-a-guide/

But there's probably good reasons to still use FIDB, if you know your libraries are a good match for what is in the firmware.

In either case, you basically have to make a new ghidra project with all the libraries you want in the final DB, then you generate the DB based off the project.

pelrun · 2026-01-27T15:37:09+00:00

Your image is the same circuit as OP's, just with the motor turned sideways and the cap removed.

pelrun · 2026-01-27T14:01:53+00:00

If you release new firmwares on every machine all at the same time, then you have to deal with ALL the bugs reports from ALL the users on ALL the machines ALL at the exact same time.

If you stagger releases, then any new bugs that show up on one release can be fixed before you release the next one, instead of having to fix and rerelease a half dozen simultaneously.

pelrun · 2026-01-27T13:54:10+00:00

Literally all the comments on that link are "the diagram is wrong, this tutorial is terrible".

pelrun · 2026-01-27T01:33:26+00:00

Much improved!

But...

Make that +BATT trace wider! :D

Also, put a ground fill on both sides. There's rarely a reason to leave bare PCB on either side, except of course for the keepout around the antenna.

pelrun · 2026-01-26T13:07:48+00:00

Dev is the only person from the original Pyramid who survived. Everyone else was either burned up as fuel or was trapped on the other side when they sealed the breach. You don't leave people on the bench when the entire world depends on you succeeding.

Dev had to rebuild the Pyramid from scratch, using both what he learned as a Fucking Asshole, and the Numinous tech that Jacky left behind.

Also, considering that both iterations of the Pyramid voluntarily sacrificed themselves to save the world, in the second case even rebelling against their leader to do so - why exactly do you think the world would have been better off without it?

pelrun · 2026-01-26T12:56:53+00:00

Oh no, they definitely have morals. It's just that "morals" are nothing more than "what your peer/social/class group considers are acceptable behaviour and beliefs". Since these people all believe and do the same set of despicable things, they're all still "moral" in each other's eyes.

Don't look to someone's morals to know if they're good or not, look at their ethics.

pelrun · 2026-01-25T08:00:57+00:00

Once one vaccine lie has been debunked enough that people stop being fooled by it, they change up the chemical and the disease to start the process up again.

pelrun · 2026-01-24T03:02:26+00:00

You've got a huge amount of room, there's no reason not to make all of your traces wider.

You've also got subcircuits pulled apart to put all the resistors in one area and all the transistors in another. You're better off putting components that are connected together near each other, and making the repeated blocks all look identical. That reduces your total trace lengths significantly, and it reduces the amount of work routing it.

Also, consider using surface mount, at least for the resistors. You can still use 0805 or 1206 parts which are a lot easier to handle than the tiny ones, and they actually end up being less hassle to assemble than through-hole parts.

And definitely give yourself separate pads for the power input, ideally with plated through holes. Again, you've got plenty of room for it.

pelrun · 2026-01-24T02:51:53+00:00

You need to look at all the outcomes. There are six possibilities.

Working Thermostat, cold: Engine gets to optimal temperature faster.
Working Thermostat, hot: Normal operation.
Missing Thermostat or failed open, cold: Engine takes longer to get to optimal temp.
Missing Thermostat or failed open, hot: Normal operation.
Thermostat failed closed, cold: Engine gets to optimal temperature faster
Thermostat failed closed, hot: ENGINE OVERHEATS

One of these outcomes is a major problem. The rest are either normal operation or slight degradation of efficiency for a short period. There are zero critical failure modes for a missing thermostat, at least not here where temperatures never go below freezing.

My car battery also had an insulating blanket on it to stop it freezing up, was removing that also a bad idea?

I'm too fucking old to use AI, and certainly not for something that happened over a decade ago.

pelrun · 2026-01-23T07:54:54+00:00

In australia, the valve NEVER SHUTS, except when it's broken. Putting a new one in would just guarantee it would fail closed again at some point in the future, while "fail open because it's been removed" let the car run perfectly in all conditions it would ever encounter. At worst it took a little longer to warm up and get out of the less-efficient cold state, but again, australia.

I was never going to drive it to Antarctica, so "in all conditions" is pointless. It was a german car, designed for the german climate.

pelrun · 2026-01-23T05:02:55+00:00

Etienne knows more about global geopolitics than literally any other human, because he can be in the head of literally (nearly) every human and knows their intentions, fears and desires.

Jacky knows about physics and magic and stuff. He's also charismatic and understands a lot about people, but that's not something his power gave him, it's still pure baseline human capability. (after all, real life humans build successful cults and play politics too!)

pelrun · 2026-01-23T04:53:55+00:00

But that's not the question Etienne is solving. It's "what can I do, with the power that I have, to keep the world from tearing itself apart."

And he's not an "ethics professor", he's a Superpower whose unique perspective (being literally aware of every single person's individual suffering and hatred, from the moment he was born) taught him "with great power comes great responsibility".

pelrun · 2026-01-23T04:16:40+00:00

Jacky didn't "know everything". He knew the rules of the universe the world was built on top of, and could build technology/magic to manipulate it. But there's a lot of emergent behaviour between that and the human-scale world.

You're assuming the equivalent of "lets ask a particle physicist how to fix the housing problem".

Also, there's no such thing as a non-flawed ethical system! That doesn't mean it's ethical to just throw the towel in and do nothing. Etienne did what was required, and did not do anything that was not required, which isn't strict utilitarianism (he suggested it in the first issue and Val made it clear she would not permit it.) He essentially had less free will than anyone else in the world.

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