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"Apple Predicted Your AI Assistant in 1987."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.
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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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Here's Our First Gemini Deep Think LLM-Assisted Hardware DesignCorrect pads, correct pin naming, even added a pin 1 dot and sensing element outline on tDocu. Ladyada's still driving... just has a co-pilot now
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Here's Our First Gemini Deep Think LLM-Assisted Hardware DesignHere's Our First Gemini Deep Think LLM-Assisted Hardware Design
We've been using LLMs for software and firmware for years... now we're trying hardware. Threw a MAX44009 datasheet at Gemini Deep Think, asked for an EagleCAD library file, and about 10 minutes later it popped out working XML. Loaded it in Eagle, checked the pins and dimensions, rolled with it.
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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.
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Look Ma, No CAD...@blue_on it's a captcha to see who reads the article -pt
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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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Adafruit's Limor Fried Named to Forbes Innovator 250 ListAdafruit's Limor Fried Named to Forbes Innovator 250 List
Forbes put together a list of 250 American innovators. Limor made it! “Empowered a generation of ‘makers’ with her open-source hardware.”
Taylor Swift is on there too.https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/11/limor-fried-named-to-forbes-innovator-250-list/
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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