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InfoseepageThe world seems particularly crap atm, so I'm going to try and see a particularly cool castle today. No, it won't make the world less crap and it isn't doing a good job of distracting me from that fact, but at least at the end of the day I'll have seen a cool castle and gotten to share it with you all in some small way. Hope that is making your lives a bit less crap. Oh, on the subject of crap, should I put together a gallery of garderobes, crap chutes and cesspits I've visited? <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/castles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#castles</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/crap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crap</a>

C.When building electronics project for permanent use - i.e. after testing on a solderless breadboard - you normally go to a <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/soldered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#soldered</a> perforated board of some type as a <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/prototype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prototype</a>, or even for very-low-volume production.There are different types of boards. I dislike "matrix" boards, which are just isolated pads on a grid, i.e. there are no connections between any of them. Some people swear by these; I swear at them.I prefer protoboards that have multiple holes per pad (so you can connect multiple component leads without having to add an explicit wire jumper). If they've also got <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/busses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#busses</a> - sets of pads that run the whole length or width of the board - so much the better!Some are <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/crap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crap</a>: laminated paper PCBs where the pads lift off the board if you even try to desolder something you added. Row/column labels missing, or (like I found with some recently) that don't line up between the front and back of the board 😆 , or most egregiously, they don't actually show the pad pattern on the front of the board, so you have to keep flipping it to check your parts are correctly placed. One example below.I have some from "BusBoard Prototype Systems" that I like. The SB4 is a 38 x 24 (912 hole) board that is <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/snappable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#snappable</a> into quarters. Two of the quarters have rows that are 4-hole, 2-hole, 4-hole. The other two are 5 2-hole pads. Both types have a single bus running along each of the 2 long sides.But ...1/x<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#electronics</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/hobby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hobby</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ProtoBoard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProtoBoard</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/PerfBoard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PerfBoard</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/MatrixBoard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MatrixBoard</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Chinesium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chinesium</a>

aproitz<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigTech</a> wants to totally <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/control" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#control</a> your <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Life</a>, so stop using this <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Crap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Crap</a>. Everything you say to your <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Echo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Echo</a> will be sent to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Amazon</a> starting on March 28 - Ars Technica <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/</a>

AI6YR BenBBC: Air India plane returns after plastic bags and rags clog toilets "...Air India has confirmed that one of its flights from the US was forced to turn around last week after passengers trying to flush away plastic bags, rags and clothes clogged up most of its toilets.The plane, which was heading from Chicago to India's capital Delhi, spent several hours in the air before it returned to the US city. ..."(warning: article shows what was clogging up the toilets 🤢 ) <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr42drdkwyxo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr42drdkwyxo</a><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/aviation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aviation</a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/crap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crap</a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/diversion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#diversion</a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/ORD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ORD</a>

harrys shutA music vid like <a href="https://makertube.net/videos/watch/128b28d6-589f-4721-bc58-069d0be91705" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://makertube.net/videos/watch/128b28d6-589f-4721-bc58-069d0be91705</a>

Your Autistic Life FR/EN/ESA small crap advisory is less scary than a huge crap advisory.<a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/crap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crap</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#weather</a>

Art in a Blanket Fort“Sorry, kid. There’s no song to explain this crap.”<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#quote</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#quotes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/funny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#funny</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#meme</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/schoolhouseRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#schoolhouseRock</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/crap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crap</a>

Daniel AJ SokolovThe <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/Skype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Skype</a> shutdown is unfortunate. <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Microsoft</a> could have sold it. But of course they don't like anything that could be <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#competition</a>. They could have invested in it, make it attractive for phone calls. Microsoft missed a defensive opportunity there, because <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/Teams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Teams</a> is an awful piece of <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/crap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crap</a>.

AI6YR BenHad to use a Windows 11 machine today, and apparently now the start page is a running advertisement (trying to sell Microsoft Copilot at the login prompt). <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/crap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crap</a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/os" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#os</a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/windows11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#windows11</a>

Your Autistic Life FR/EN/ES"That crab was great! You, on the other hand, you smell bad.""Oh yeah? Well, I'm going to beat the crab out of you!"<a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/crap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crap</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/crab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crab</a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/nonsense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nonsense</a>

Dave RahardjaEww <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/crap" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#crap</a>The closer you look at it, the worse it gets.

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