eupolicy.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
This Mastodon server is a friendly and respectful discussion space for people working in areas related to EU policy. When you request to create an account, please tell us something about you.

Server stats:

206
active users

#engineer

7 posts7 participants0 posts today

:blobcatbigfan: 8 Bit Mechanical Computer built from K’nex.

Long before electricity was a common household utility, humanity had been building machines to do many tasks. Transportation, manufacturing, agriculture and essentially everything had non-electric analogs, and perhaps surprisingly, there were mechanical computers as well….

youtu.be/EtIJUwkOAwM

#knex#8bit#alu

We're expanding our R&D team in Finland and we're looking for Android System Engineers. If you are interested in learning how to compile, change, and deploy your own Android OS, develop and ideate on system applications our customers will enjoy using worldwide and build future technologies from scratch, this is for you.

If you or, someone you know is interested on joining us at HMD, tag them, reach out to me.

PS: This position is Europe-based and you can work remotely from Europe. Most of the team is in Finland.

#job#hiring#hmd

Post SMTP Plugin Flaw exposes 200K WordPress Sites to Hijacking Attacks.

The security issue affects all versions of Post SMTP up to 3.2.0 and is due to a broken access control mechanism in the plugin’s REST API endpoints, which only verified if a user was logged in, without checking their permission level….

patchstack.com/articles/accoun

#NVIDIA #Engineer Now Co-Maintainer Of "NOVA" #OpenSource Rust #GPU Driver
NOVA opensource NVIDIA GPU effort the past year and 1/2 has been led by #RedHat engineer #DaniloKrummrich as the main NOVA-Core driver maintainer for #kernel code that continues being built out piece-by-piece for mainline tree.
Now joining him as a co-maintainer is NVIDIA engineer, #AlexandreCourbot. Name may ring a bell as he started out in 2011 working on Tegra graphics driver support for #Linux.
phoronix.com/news/NOVA-Core-Co

www.phoronix.comNVIDIA Engineer Now Co-Maintainer Of "NOVA" Open-Source Rust GPU DriverThe NOVA-Core driver as the basis for a modern, Rust-written open-source NVIDIA GPU driver for the upstream Linux kernel and eventual successor to the reverse-engineered Nouveau DRM driver has a new co-maintainer.

Building a #Stirling #Engine #Bike.

A Stirling Engine is a heat engine, powered by the expansion and contraction of a working fluid [such as air] which is heated and cooled in a cycle. In the video [Tom Stanton] begins by demonstrating the Stirling Engine with some model engines and explains the role of the displacer piston. His target power output for his bike engine is 150 watts [about 0.2 horsepower]….

youtu.be/zB3lrLjqIh4

“There’s a common misconception that state-of-the-art technology has to be expensive, energy consumptive and hard to engineer. That’s because we have been persuaded to believe that #InnovativeTechnology is whatever bombastic billionaires claim it is, whether that’s commercial #spacecraft or the endless iterations of generative #AItools.

As the #Canadian #technologist and #engineer #UrsulaFranklin once said, fantasies of technology would have it that innovation is always “investment-driven, shiny, lab-born, experimental, exciting”. But more often than not, in the real world, it is “#NeedsDriven, #scrappy, on #location, #iterative, #practical, #mundane”.

The real pioneering #technologies of today are genuinely useful #systems I like to call “frugal tech”, and they are brought to life not by eccentric billionaires but by people doing more with less. They don’t impose #TopDown#solutions” that seem to complicate our lives while making a few people very rich. It turns out that genuinely #innovative #technology really can set people free.” — Eleanor Drage

#OpEd / #EleanorDrage / #tech / #FrugalTech / #Cambridge #LeverhulmeCentre / #FutureOfIntelligence <theguardian.com/commentisfree/>

The Guardian · Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better worldBy Eleanor Drage

:apple: Programming Like It’s 1986, For Fun and Zero Profit.

Some people slander #retrocomputing as an old man’s game, just because most of those involved are more ancient than the hardware they’re playing with. But there are veritable children involved too — take the [ComputerSmith], who is recreating Conway’s game of life on a Macintosh Plus that could very well be as old as his parents.

youtu.be/P4QYKMXJ108

Continued thread

“This is the biography of an extraordinary family, an impossible sea and an engineering miracle”

Bella Bathurst’s THE LIGHTHOUSE STEVENSONS tells the story of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ancestors – four generations who designed & built the great lights around Scotland. They were lifesavers & pioneers, & their lives were as full of drama & adventure as anything RLS wrote.

Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award 1999

@bookstodon

bellabathurst.com/books/the-li

Bella Bathurst · The Lighthouse Stevensons - Bella Bathurst‘Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not farm from one of the works of my ancestors. The Bell Rock stands monument for my grandfather, the Skerry Vhor for my Uncle Alan, and when the lights come out at sundown along the shores of Scotland, I am proud to think they burn […]

“When the lights come out at sundown along the shores of Scotland, I am proud to think they burn more brightly for the genius of my father.”
—from MEMOIRS OF HIMSELF, Robert Louis Stevenson’s uncompleted (indeed, barely begun) autobiography

Thomas Stevenson (1818–1887), lighthouse engineer & father of Robert Louis Stevenson, was born #OTD, 22 July

1/2

My freelance quote for your software project.

50 - if you tell me what you want, I confirm the requirements, and I build it for you
100 - if I have to pry a description of what you want out of you like pulling a tooth
250 - if I have to build it on a "company laptop" you supply
350 - if I have to regularly video call with you for no particular reason
400 - if I have to use JIRA
450 - if I have to use Github
500 - if I have to use Zoom
750 - if I have to use Teams
1,250 - if you ever want to "watch me work" by sharing my desktop
1,500 - if the project is fixing something your employees built for you
1,800 - if it's fixing something a previous contractor built
2,500 - if it's fixing / completing a project a previous, cheaper freelancer failed to complete
19,500 - if it's fixing something created with "AI"

#AI#LLM#quote

I am job hunting if anyone is looking for an #IT #engineer

I currently work in Mergers and Acquisitions as an IT specialist in the embroidery field, but I have experience with #Cisco #networking including their Firepower ASA and their switches. I am also an #MDM engineer and I am the team lead for SOP writing and development.

I would like to get back into a #datacenter job. I am comfortable with #travel and I'm comfortable with #parttime and #contract work if you have any recommendations.

I won't do defence companies though.