BatchDrake
@batchdrake.bsky.social
C/Unix ninja, PhD student in astrophysics (instrumentation, mostly). Ham radio operator (EA1IYR). I am the guy to blame when SigDigger crashes.
You have to admit it, this was a beautiful ship.
December 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
You have to admit it, this was a beautiful ship.
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Shader systems are ridiculously powerful if you’re clever enough.
Most people use them to create visual effects. You know what’s cooler?
Running Linux.
Inside an emulated RISC-V CPU. Inside a pixel shader. Inside of VRChat...
Most people use them to create visual effects. You know what’s cooler?
Running Linux.
Inside an emulated RISC-V CPU. Inside a pixel shader. Inside of VRChat...
November 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Shader systems are ridiculously powerful if you’re clever enough.
Most people use them to create visual effects. You know what’s cooler?
Running Linux.
Inside an emulated RISC-V CPU. Inside a pixel shader. Inside of VRChat...
Most people use them to create visual effects. You know what’s cooler?
Running Linux.
Inside an emulated RISC-V CPU. Inside a pixel shader. Inside of VRChat...
Hi people from Portugal! 🇵🇹 I am learning European Portuguese, and I really like science podcasts and YouTube channels. What do you recommend?
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Hi people from Portugal! 🇵🇹 I am learning European Portuguese, and I really like science podcasts and YouTube channels. What do you recommend?
LLMs are a freaking curse. Looking for the etymology of this french girl name, most of the websites are LLM-hallucinated garbage.
October 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
LLMs are a freaking curse. Looking for the etymology of this french girl name, most of the websites are LLM-hallucinated garbage.
The magic eye was broken but I've replaced it with NOS/NIB from East Europe. It's a shame the camera is messing up the hue, it's true color is actually a more vivid, less bluey green. Greener than a green laser.
October 12, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The magic eye was broken but I've replaced it with NOS/NIB from East Europe. It's a shame the camera is messing up the hue, it's true color is actually a more vivid, less bluey green. Greener than a green laser.
Aaand it's done! Not my proudest soldering, but at least there are no shorts. Hope I can measure this soon.
October 4, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Aaand it's done! Not my proudest soldering, but at least there are no shorts. Hope I can measure this soon.
I bet Ethan Peck had a hard time holding his laughter in Star Trek: SNW (s03e08). Oh my God.
August 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I bet Ethan Peck had a hard time holding his laughter in Star Trek: SNW (s03e08). Oh my God.
"Let's repair this tube radio." "I'll start by replacing the power cord by something more safe." "Oh, let's check first if the power switch works."
August 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
"Let's repair this tube radio." "I'll start by replacing the power cord by something more safe." "Oh, let's check first if the power switch works."
bluealsa acts like malware.
August 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
bluealsa acts like malware.
"Aprovechando que el Pisuerga pasa por Valladolid, (...)"
July 23, 2025 at 10:51 AM
"Aprovechando que el Pisuerga pasa por Valladolid, (...)"
Friendly reminder that relying on LLMs to teach yourself stuff is a bad idea.
July 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Friendly reminder that relying on LLMs to teach yourself stuff is a bad idea.
It is *so soothing* when you write some physics code and energy flux though a surface is conserved.
July 3, 2025 at 7:46 AM
It is *so soothing* when you write some physics code and energy flux though a surface is conserved.
You don't know how much you need a column drill until you have a column drill.
June 28, 2025 at 9:02 AM
You don't know how much you need a column drill until you have a column drill.
This is so frustrating. Internet is being actively jammed from the inside.
June 12, 2025 at 5:44 AM
This is so frustrating. Internet is being actively jammed from the inside.
I left SigDigger running for the last 24 hours in HF @ 32 Msps. You an easily tell when the D layer of the ionosphere vanishes, enabling communications below 10 MHz. Useful? Not much, but damn isn't it beautiful?
May 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I left SigDigger running for the last 24 hours in HF @ 32 Msps. You an easily tell when the D layer of the ionosphere vanishes, enabling communications below 10 MHz. Useful? Not much, but damn isn't it beautiful?
Reposted by BatchDrake
This piece is perfect. I am prepared to link this to people dozens of times over the next few years.
I am the antithesis of what’s described. If you care, follow me. I don’t care if there’s only a hundred of you, what I care about is we follow each other.
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
I am the antithesis of what’s described. If you care, follow me. I don’t care if there’s only a hundred of you, what I care about is we follow each other.
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
The Who Cares Era | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
May 28, 2025 at 6:24 AM
This piece is perfect. I am prepared to link this to people dozens of times over the next few years.
I am the antithesis of what’s described. If you care, follow me. I don’t care if there’s only a hundred of you, what I care about is we follow each other.
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
I am the antithesis of what’s described. If you care, follow me. I don’t care if there’s only a hundred of you, what I care about is we follow each other.
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
Reposted by BatchDrake
Screenshoted from endler.dev/2024/move-sl...
Move Slow and Fix Things | Matthias Endler
Growing up as a kid in rural Bavaria, I always …
endler.dev
March 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Screenshoted from endler.dev/2024/move-sl...
Hai algún ximnasio / escola de danza na Coruña onde te deixen pillar horas soltas de pole dance?
April 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Hai algún ximnasio / escola de danza na Coruña onde te deixen pillar horas soltas de pole dance?
This has probably been considered by some people already but, I wonder if there's a little bit of post-COVID (just a tiny bit) in all this western-world-wide madness we are living.
April 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
This has probably been considered by some people already but, I wonder if there's a little bit of post-COVID (just a tiny bit) in all this western-world-wide madness we are living.
Al final Pepephone me ha atendido (muy bien, debo decir!) con lo de los bloqueos de LaLiga del fin de semana. Desgraciadamente el bloqueo les es externo a ellos. ¿Conclusión? Si, como yo, necesitáis hacer cosas productivas los fines de semana, VPN o Tor. No hay otra.
April 7, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Al final Pepephone me ha atendido (muy bien, debo decir!) con lo de los bloqueos de LaLiga del fin de semana. Desgraciadamente el bloqueo les es externo a ellos. ¿Conclusión? Si, como yo, necesitáis hacer cosas productivas los fines de semana, VPN o Tor. No hay otra.
I know we teach people that electric charges induce electromagnetic fields, but here's a question for the theoreticians around here: why can't we say that charge (or a 4-current) is a property of the electromagnetic 4-potential?
March 10, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I know we teach people that electric charges induce electromagnetic fields, but here's a question for the theoreticians around here: why can't we say that charge (or a 4-current) is a property of the electromagnetic 4-potential?