<p>youve heard of boymoding now prepare for boeingmoding (doing more with less)</p>

<p>I think my own personal favourite weird IC is the ScioSense AS3935.</p><p>it uses radioatmospheric signatures (spherics) to detect lightning strikes within 40km and tell you how far away they are with a 1km resolution.</p><p>(I have one in my drawer full of sensors, naturally)</p>

<p>weird footprints count but I have seen a lot of weird footprints (I follow the account by that name) so it may be hard to impress me on that front.</p>

<p>what is the weirdest commercial off-the-shelf IC that you&#39;re aware of? critically: must still be in production, or at least produced in the last few years, and still available for purchase from distributors.</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>electronics</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hails.org/@hailey" class="u-url mention">@<span>hailey</span></a></span> yeah<br />i hate that it&#39;s like this</p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> this industry is lucky there hasn’t been a bigger backlash, given that one of the dominant business models is Ransom</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hails.org/@hailey" class="u-url mention">@<span>hailey</span></a></span> i&#39;ve avoided even taking photos for ages because of this</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hails.org/@hailey" class="u-url mention">@<span>hailey</span></a></span> i think so</p>

<p>How do normal people deal with this shit? Do they just put up with their life’s memories being locked away in their device and sometimes just lost entirely?</p>