"Apple Predicted Your AI Assistant in 1987. They Were Off by 18 Days" Looks like there are enough tools, services, and open-source versions of various apps to make this "real" we'll see what is possible soon, Mastodon dudes, if you do not like the content we publish, you don't need to read it, block, move on - for everyone else, stop back later. siri was october 2011
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No Tools for You: A Century of Men Policing Women’s ToolsNo Tools for You: A Century of Men Policing Women’s Tools
In 1925 a doctor said vacuum cleaners will make women lazy. In 2026 mastodon dudes said the same thing (and worse) about a woman engineer using a tool to make a CAD part.
https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/16/no-tools-for-you-a-century-of-men-policing-womens-tools/
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How to tell a formerly respectable brand has jumped the shark (after selling out to Qualcomm, who are their own special species of shitbaggery):@maaneeack @knowuh @cstross Please read our articles, we use the hundreds of open-source libraries I made and released, as open-source, and used for many of the experiments you see. It is trained on my code and I ask it to "write code like me" (but you can block, why read it?) - Limor
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How to tell a formerly respectable brand has jumped the shark (after selling out to Qualcomm, who are their own special species of shitbaggery):@cazabon @cstross too late, he did it about 8 hours ago and kept going, any way - he caused a giant pile-on, we updated our post ... in the "UPDATE – Men on Mastodon" section ... https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/14/heres-our-first-gemini-deep-think-llm-assisted-hardware-design/
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How to tell a formerly respectable brand has jumped the shark (after selling out to Qualcomm, who are their own special species of shitbaggery):@cstross posts something wrong, does not edit or correct, gets a ton of people to pile on for showing what a new tool can and can't do... adafruit did not "sell out to Qualcomm" either. we are vc-free, loan-free, NYC, usa manufacturer, open-source... Charles why is wrong for a woman to experiment & use a tool to make her job easier? My company is Adafruit, not Arduino btw - Limor
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Meta Wants to Scan Every Face You Walk Past 👓🔴Meta Wants to Scan Every Face You Walk Past
Meta plans to add facial recognition to Ray-Ban smart glasses. An internal document says they timed launch during political crisis so civil society wouldn't notice.
https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/14/meta-wants-to-scan-every-face-you-walk-past/
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Look Ma, No CAD...Look Ma, No CAD... We fed datasheets to Gemini Deep Think and it spit out production-ready EAGLE .lbr files... paste mask segmentation and all. ESP32-P4, MAX44009, LT3652, ES8311.
It calculated every pad coordinate, segmented the paste mask to ~40% coverage so the chip doesn't float during reflow, and grouped schematic pins by function. No footprint editor. No GUI. XML out of a chat window.
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https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/14/from-pdf-to-lbr-using-deep-think-to-write-custom-cad-parts/
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"Any User Who Has a 3D Printer Would Have This Software Installed" ... says the CEO of a company in Spain @printandgotech that wants their DRM, file-blocking, print-policing software on every 3D printer in America."Any User Who Has a 3D Printer Would Have This Software Installed" ... says the CEO of a company in Spain @printandgotech that wants their DRM, file-blocking, print-policing software on every 3D printer in America. Listen to or read the translated radio interview
Read post for more details, context (older interview that has been part of the research ... thx
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What a Load of Filament 🧵🤖 The Case Against 3D Printer Gun DetectionWhat a Load of Filament 🧵
The Case Against 3D Printer Gun DetectionWe covered New York’s proposed 3D printer legislation that would require printers to detect and refuse to print gun parts. Now Michael Weinberg, who spent years overseeing trust and safety at a major 3D printing service, has published a detailed technical breakdown of why this simply cannot work.
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The TMP119 might be the most precise-iest temperature sensor we’ve ever put on a breakout 🌡️The TMP119 might be the most precise-iest temperature sensor we’ve ever put on a breakout
️±0.03 °C typical accuracy from 0–45 °C. On a tiny DSBGA-8 package.
New year, new proto. We tweaked our TMP117 design, added Stemma QT, and now we’re about to find out how spicy pick and place gets at this size
Coming soon...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/03/the-tmp119-is-the-most-precise-iest-temperature-sensor-ever/
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New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D PrinterNew York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer
New York’s budget bill proposes mandatory file-scanning “blocking” software for 3D printers and CNC tools. It targets general-purpose tools instead of criminal acts — and puts educators, open source, and small makers on the hook first.
️https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/03/new-york-wants-to-ctrlaltdelete-your-3d-printer/
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gm legends, rise and grind, time to open (a) claw ... limor is clawmaxxing today 🦞