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...welcome to industrial sales :-(

23july2024on Thinking about recipe formats more than anyone should

There actually is the BatchML stardardized recipe format, even if it's a different kind of recipes I'm talking about. ISA-88 recipes for describing pharma/chemical batch production processes.

https://github.com/MESAInternational/B2MML-BatchML

23july2024on SASE: Society of Automation Software Engineers

If your work is adjacent to industrial automation, check this community out.

Albeit admittedly slowly, something new is cooking in that field.

23july2024on Give Me the Green Light Part 1: Hacking Traffic Control Systems

Part 2 article goes into a bit more of detail, but the funniest thing is that they requested access to the SNMP MIBs of the controller and never got them

> I requested MIBs from Q-Free but didn’t receive any follow-up after the request and I never received access to the MIBS, so it was back to square one.

Then you go look at https://www.freethemibs.org/advocates and... there they are, "advocates" for free MIB access. What clowns.