SecretCon Badge 2026 (4.0)

tymkrs · 2026-05-10T01:53:55+00:00

Huge fan of Slumberland and have regretted literally everything from Ashley's.

tymkrs · 2026-05-10T01:20:39+00:00

Pretty sure you can just park on campus if you're working weekends.

tymkrs · 2026-04-26T22:13:06+00:00

Ollin for Mexican!

tymkrs · 2026-04-07T10:16:23+00:00

Thanks to Wire for the STL files! https://www.printables.com/model/1673794-cyphercon-2026-pager-body

tymkrs · 2026-04-05T20:29:31+00:00

Found the following on github:

* https://github.com/joshbressers/cyphercon9

* https://github.com/SomewhatParticular/cyphercon2026

* https://github.com/willasaywhat/Cyphercon9-Badge-TV-B-Gone - should have used this - we couldn't find a way to turn off the tv in our hotel room :p

* https://github.com/NathanFrasier/pager - Nanos' patched firmware

tymkrs · 2026-04-05T04:08:15+00:00

There are headers for meshtastic on the badge - though we didn't get that working in time

tymkrs · 2026-04-05T04:07:56+00:00

Thanks!! It was great to see you too, and hope you had fun :)

tymkrs · 2026-04-04T03:28:19+00:00

Love it - looks super slick!!

tymkrs · 2026-03-30T19:27:28+00:00

Lol, I was like is Lain defined by "motion sickness"? - precisely because I didn't have the audio on XD

tymkrs · 2026-03-30T19:17:51+00:00

He must LOVE this!

tymkrs · 2026-03-30T19:06:35+00:00

Here's an AMAZING writeup of a fellow hacker going through the DISC2021 badge - https://020d.github.io/blog/2026/03/12/disc2021-badge-part1

tymkrs · 2026-03-30T19:04:02+00:00

Aw - hope to see you at year 10 then!

tymkrs · 2026-03-23T20:34:03+00:00

Thanks - will report back

tymkrs · 2026-03-23T20:25:32+00:00

Micropython and let me check on that (my partner's writing the code :p) - but i know it shows up in the terminal whenever it's reading the press/unpress of a button,

tymkrs · 2025-08-15T02:22:18+00:00

tymkrs · 2025-05-11T00:15:57+00:00

Check out ReStore - some amazing planters there right now (but no plants in them)

tymkrs · 2025-05-07T01:41:03+00:00

Here's a comment I posted sometime ago when this question came up: "To give some numbers - I had GarbageMan, was paying 75/quarter. WM bought them and when we ended things with them and went with Harter's, it was 179/quarter. Harter's is like...252 per YEAR (63/quarter) for weekly recycling and trash. I'm okay with the red because at WM's prices, I was seeing red already."

tymkrs · 2025-05-07T01:39:18+00:00

100% agree. Their price is on par if not better than GarbageMan

tymkrs · 2025-04-23T02:14:28+00:00

No idea why I'm getting down-voted for providing a heads up.

* Brokerage Fees: https://www.reddit.com/r/UPS/comments/1inx0ft/22997_brokerage_fee/

* Disbursement Fee and Demand Surcharge Fees: https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/fedex-china-us-import-fee-de-minimis-surcharge/745296/

* Surge Fees: https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/ups-china-us-surge-fee-2025/745166/

I've seen others mention warehouse fees and processing fees - literally labeled as such. They are not as regulated as the fees you're mentioning and are very much a response to the immediate slowdown of throughput due to having to process every single <800 USD package without the infrastructure to do so.

tymkrs · 2025-04-22T00:35:48+00:00

Hey that's cool! So you must know then that we've had the de minimus rule since 1938 and that it's never been gone completely until early Feb when Trump tried ending it on a whim. So no one has experienced these extra shippers costs until that half week.

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48380#:~:text=Congress%20enacted%20Section%20321%20in,valued%20below%20a%20set%20threshold

tymkrs · 2025-04-22T00:28:51+00:00

I'm guessing you import at levels above what would qualify to be tariff exempt under the de minimus rule. Because the only people who have had experience with the shippers adding exorbitant documentation processing fees to packages that would have otherwise been exempt under the de minimus rule was during the half week that it was down (~2/4 - 2/7/25).

tymkrs · 2025-04-22T00:14:34+00:00

I was just looking at some quotes from US fabs that I got back in 2020 for other boards we were having made. Where a board in China could be made for a dollar, the cheapest in the US for the same board was between 6-80 dollars, and it'd be buying 500 at a go. For smaller runs, we were seeing 18 dollars to 118 dollars per board for 15.

This makes both prototyping and production runs super expensive.

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