- A new open-source HDL (Hardware Description Language) called “Hyphae” is under development; the parser is already functional and the project is hosted at https://github.com/lachlansneff/hyphae.  
- Participants discussed a university micro-electronics course where students fabricated transistors from the ground up using a micron-scale process and characterized their I-V curves.  
- The channel debated content-moderation policies on social-media platforms, specifically whether a ban for “threatening violence against government enforcers of a vaccine mandate” constitutes censorship or justified moderation.  
- Links to Twitter threads documenting the above moderation incident were shared: https://twitter.com/prayankgahlot/status/1449477902748164096 and https://birdsite.xanny.family/BashCo_/status/1449637924861927437.  
- A user asked for IRC contacts at the Internet Archive; the suggestion was to try the #archiveteam channel on EFnet.