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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

import std.stdio;
import std.file;
import std.path;
import std.string;

void main() {
writeln("Scanning for connected USB serial devices on macOS...");
writeln("=====================================================");
string devPath = "/dev";
uint foundCount = 0;
try {
// Guard against an empty or missing /dev directory
if( !exists( devPath ) || !isDir( devPath ) ) {
stderr.writeln( "Error: /dev directory not found." );
return;
}
else {
// Iterate through all entries in /dev (shallow scan, no recursion)
foreach( DirEntry entry; dirEntries( devPath, SpanMode.shallow ) ) {
// Extract just the filename (e.g., "tty.SLAB_USBtoUART")
string name = baseName( entry.name );
// Filter for common macOS USB-to-Serial naming conventions:
// - tty.SLAB_ : Silicon Labs (Yaesu FT-991a)
// - tty.usb : Generic USB-to-serial bridges (FTDI, Prolific, CH340)
// - tty.uart : Built-in or external UART lines
if( name.startsWith( "tty.SLAB_" ) || name.startsWith( "tty.usb" ) || name.startsWith( "tty.uart" ) ) {
writefln( "Found Device: %s", entry.name );
foundCount++;
}
}
if( foundCount == 0 ) {
writeln( "No matching USB serial devices found. Is the radio turned on and plugged in?" );
}
else {
writefln( "\nScan complete. Total devices found: %d", foundCount );
}
}
}
catch( FileException e ) {
stderr.writeln( "Failed to scan directory: ", e.msg );
}
}

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

screwing around with USB libraries. hate the UX using the "official" FT-991(A) configuration software. thinking about building something new.

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brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

The "is this a pigeon" meme: A man gestures at a butterfly with the text "Watching drawing tutorials on YouTube for several hours straight". The bottom text represents what the man says and reads "Is this drawing?". The meme format implies that watching drawing tutorials on YouTube for several hours straight is not actually drawing

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
d_rift@beige.party ("d.rift") wrote:

At what point did gnu just decide the correct abbreviation for cryptography in their libraries was 'cry'? 😂

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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
warandpeas ("War and Peas 🧿") wrote:

Good Mood

4-panel comic by War and Peas. Panel 1: A smiling man strolls into the office with a briefcase and calls out, "Morning, Barb!" Panel 2: A woman at her computer answers flatly, "Morning, Carl." Panel 3: She frowns and wonders to herself, "Why is he always in such a good mood?" Panel 4: The man walks off with a wide, blissful smile, thinking, "I hate it at home."

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Boosted by firepoet@tech.lgbt ("Stephen 🌈 (he/him)"):
chadmccullough@bsd.cafe ("Chad McCullough") wrote:

RE: https://zeroes.ca/@kimcrawley/117185371202419389

This! So much, this!

#NoAI

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
britt@mstdn.games ("Badass Britt :mastodon_lgbt:") wrote:

More morning skies 🌅

#watercolor #MastoArt #art

Centre is a small mini painting of a vibrant setting sun over the ocean with some mountains towards the middle of the scene on both sides. Three tubes of paint are scattered in the scene.
Centre is a small mini painting of a lavender and peach rising sun over the ocean with some mountains towards the middle of the scene on both sides. Three tubes of paint are scattered in the scene.

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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
organ-harvest-coordinator@app.wafrn.net ("Organ Harvest Coordinator, patron god of lesbians :BhjFlag_Ace: :sparkles_aromantic: :neocat_flag_agender_256: ") wrote:

Ngl one of my fav things to do is to impersonate people, a little identity theft as enrichment where I just say silly stuff

#like-that-one-time-I-was-gabbo-for-a-day

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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

this is great, gandalf demonstrating outside thiel's new house in argentina telling him to fuck off

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HzmGRzWNo5k

you don't need a lot of spanish to get the idea

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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
chpietsch@fedifreu.de ("Christian Peach") wrote:

Debian developer Antoine Le Gonidec just quit the project over its decision not to ban #LLM-assisted code contributions:

Pretending to have a "neutral stance" when faced with fascism is not neutrality, it’s active collaboration.

AI slop is fascism materialized. Stop it whenever you can!

Source: https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2026/08/msg00041.html

#aislop #debian #gnulinux #linux #distribution

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Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

Look, you are not required to put sharks in the swimming pool.

But nor are you prohibited from doing so.

This swimming pool is entirely neutral on the issue of sharks in the swimming pool. Sharks are beautiful and graceful creatures.

If you do put a shark in the swimming pool, the shark is your responsibility.

Oh, and you don't have to tell anyone if you are putting a shark in the swimming pool.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
trashheap@tech.lgbt ("trashHeap :hehim: :verified_gay:") wrote:

FIND yourself a a linux distribution or BSD that does reject AI; use it and donate to it.

If you can't move your daily driver move a secondary machine. Tinker with it, fit it into your life where it makes sense.

YEAH the linux kernel has slop. Most programming languages have slop. Most desktop environments have slop, you will have dependencies that are still slop. This is a big problem; there is no magic off switch to fixing this overnight.

We are in the early days of dealing with a contaminate that polluters are actively dumping into our digital environment.

It is going to take a long time before anyone can truly be slop free.

But support, and invest in the folks doing that hard work which will build a slop free future.

Starlight Network maintains a list of slop rejecting operating systems and distros here: https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html #floss #AntiAI #linux #bsd #netbsd #elementaryos #gentoo

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
kbob@chaos.social ("Kernel Bob :progress_pride:") wrote:

For those of you who missed it or weren't born yet, may I direct your attention to what is possibly the most important computational physics result of the 20th century.

https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9912202?spm=a2ty%5Fo01.29997173.0.0.718a55fbWgQ0WT

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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
kestral@masto.hackers.town ("Kestral") wrote:

RE: https://bookstodon.com/@reconnectpress/117185382449783580

Would you like to read an advance copy of my next book and give a little feedback in exchange for a credit in the book and a hand-signed copy once it's released?

Advance readers help make us all better writers. Please do sign up if you're interested!

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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Correct me if I'm wrong here… As far as I know, an executive order of a U.S. president is an order for the executive branch of the government: its various agencies and bureaucrats. Nobody else has to follow Trumps orders, neither Google, nor you, nor me. So it follows that no toponyms are "official", they're all just colloquial. So we all can still talk about Gulf of #Mexico and Lake #Ontario as long as people around us understand what we're talking about.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
bigvimto@mendeddrum.org ("Big Vimto - The Boss Of Bus 🚌") wrote:

May I offer you a tiny frog in these trying times?

A tiny frog on a child's hand, lit by warm evening light

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
pomarede ("Daniel Pomarède") wrote:

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope separated from the rocket’s second stage and is flying on its own.

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/roman/2026/08/30/nasas-roman-space-telescope-flying-on-its-own/

#Roman

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Our brave forebears didn't haul themselves out of their burrows, scrounging for whatever scraps they could find to survive after the asteroid hit so we, the inheritors of their efforts, would just capitulate to a bunch of GPUs!

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andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

Also added external link domains to the stats page (excluding twipm posts): https://nesbitt.io/stats

3,699 Unique URLs - 926 Hosts across 200 posts!

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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Why open technologies tends to eventually win.

#map #ontario

A screenshot of OpenStreetMap showing Lake Ontario.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
spocko@mastodon.online ("Spocko") wrote:

Google did what the #MadKing decreed! On August 30, 2026, Google Maps now displays the name Lake America when showing Lake Ontario.
Google's AI still says Lake Ontario.
#uspol #Trump #rename

A map of Canada and New York showing Toronto, Hamilton and Niagara Falls and then it says Lake America instead of Lake Ontario. On the left it shows Lake Ontario underneath the category of Ask Maps and it reads "The easternmost lake the chain bordered by Ontario and New York which empties out into the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence river.

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mitch/117185040965789810

insanity

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mitch@hachyderm.io ("Mitch Wagner") wrote:

The Ig Nobel Prize, a whimsical science award that honors "achievements that make people LAUGH, and then THINK," is moving out of the US after 35 years, because the US is now unsafe for international visitors. https://improbable.com/2026/03/10/the-ig-nobel-prize-ceremony-is-moving-to-europe-after-35-years-in-the-usa/

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social ("Imogen") wrote:

Introducing Agatha Christie‘s new mystery novella.

“Why is there cat hair in the butter?”

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@FuturisticRobert/117184999631352207

lies. all lies.

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@FuturisticRobert/117184995614797262

innocent!

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SueInRockville@mstdn.social ("Sue Cohen") wrote:

A Silver Alert has now been issued for Mitch McConnell
It's now 77 days since he was "hospitalized?"
But how lucky is his family?
He's still receiving his full pay & all benefits
Don't you if you disappeared for over 2 months?
https://newrepublic.com/post/214878/mitch-mcconnell-missing-75-days
#MitchMcConnellIsDead

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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

nojourd'hui

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
JeremyMallin@autistics.life ("Jeremy Mallin") wrote:

We need a UN and worldwide criminal court with actual teeth and no fingers on the scales for any particular nations.

#MyUnpopularOpinion

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
vicfroh ("Victator") wrote:

#christiannationalism #immigration #evangelicals #apostolics #fundamentalism #religiousextremism

No amount of scriptures in your bio will redeem you from idolizing a pedophile, demonizing immigrants, or turning a blind eye to people and children suffering in war zones. None. @KATE.L.IRL humanity in the mess