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Unixbigot

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I created https://Accelerando.com.au IoT Lab, and I host the Brisbane Internet of Things Interest Group. Hacker. Parent. Scientist. Rantist. Atheist. Roboticist. Treehugger. (he/him¹). was @unixbigot

I design and build custom IoT solutions...fast!

Every day I write a #PowerOnStoryToot over morning coffee, as a self-test of my brain. If you like them, buy me another coffee? https://ko-fi.com/unixbigot

¹ subject to change without notice 🐣

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Welcome to RightsMail, the webmail solution that displays your email in a DRM labeled video stream to protect it from AI snoopware.

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what were republicans

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@RikerGoogling way to get on a section 31 watch list there, Willy.

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Sunak is now almost literally role playing the plot of Starship Troopers ... "We need you all. Service guarantees citizenship"

"Would you like to know more?"

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@Natasha_Jay IRL: the cow scene but with a tory MP and a group of voters

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Bored teenaged orcas looking for something to entertain themselves are sinking expensive yachts.

Bored teenaged humans should learn from their example of doing civic good.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/05/24/killer-whales-attacking-sinking-boats-are-bored-scientists-say/73558157007/

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@vampiress related https://aus.social/@Unixbigot/111768183301624215

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Nobody told me about the snakes! @academicchatter

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@HollieK72 @Alexlee @academicchatter and after you read the FAQ, read this account of how the process works in practice https://archiveofourown.org/works/28299630

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Best movement of “The Planets” by Holst?

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@futurebird I have never paid much attention to the post-jupiter movements despite owning a recording of this for decades. You have opened my eyes!

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Venture Capital is dynamite fishing. You sprinkle some “free service” on the waters until you have a nice thick shoal of users. Then you detonate.

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Sufficiently Advanced Bodging™ is indistinguishable from having used the correct pinout.

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If you are in space and copying a file from earth to your space computer... isn't it uploading not downloading?

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@futurebird boring answer: yes satellite folk have a different definition of “upload” than the rest of us.

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Well, I spoke too soon with the RC2014. Definitely some things wrong with it. But hey, way more of it works first try than I expected!

Now for the fun** part: figuring out what's wrong... despite me not owning an oscilloscope.

I'm... going to end up buying an oscilloscope, aren’t I?

Hmm... what's a decent brand to go with there for small hobby electronics stuff…

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@vampiress

under $10: usb logic analyzer
under $100 dso nano or similar
under $1000: rigol 1054z

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If you aren't caught up on the state of Boeing lately, John Oliver covered it, with bonus camel-fucking jokes. [32m] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8oCilY4szc

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@vampiress that was thoroughly worth being late for work having watched!

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“Mos Eisley WeWork. You will never find a more wretched hive of Scrum and Visio”

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For a while I've been playing a very fun game of Scum & Villainy with a group. I'm shocked we got as far as we did but the GM (who was writing the sessions before we play them) has decided to take a break as he's burned out. Still wants to GM, but has decided to run a module instead.

So, for the first time in a VERY long while - I'm playing D&D.

Appropriately enough, we're doing Ravenloft.

Reckon it'll be fun. I'm playing a Paladin who I mentally imagine as Christopher Lee in a '70s low budget film.

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@vampiress I read that as scrum and villainy and it didn’t even slow me down. totally plausible.

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Does any of the Mastodon apps allow you to compose a thread of posts, and complete them all before posting them all at once?

Unixbigot ,
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@randahl @jwildeboer the IAPs for Toot! are purely optional “give the author money because you like their app”. I bought the biggest one.

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Mr 19 snapped the hinge on his headphones. Fixed them by (a-la Kurtis from Cutting Edge Engineering :sayori_like: ) “Building up the bore with weld and machining it back to spec”. In my case I used a plastic knife and ABS filament (white), painting the result black. I didn’t quite get the new hinge axle straight (I’ll have to get a 1mm line borer!) but the headphones are back together and still fold!

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That's some good gender.
https://botsin.space/@genderoftheday/112238525554779751

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@vampiress are they the same thing as the shrieking eels from the Strait of Florin?

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I want a custom mechanical keyboard for a modern USB-C/bluetooth system that's designed like this. Complete with the dials and gauges up top, that have to actually work.
https://mastodon.social/@keyboards/112234070586039169

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@vampiress usb or bluetooth. I’m building a few non traditional keyboards with auxiliary displays atm.

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small sample 💖

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@futurebird @mensrea @kechpaja @exocomics okay now i’m thinking of a water cooler for cats whose waste heat is piped to a sleeping pad….

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I rebooted my terrible work-provided windows 11 desktop and suddenly it has a new button with “AI" crap in it. Right in the OS. Alongside some ads.

Windows has become a curse of the sort most people would be too horrified to put on their worst enemies.

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@vampiress @maximemelian tell the mgmt that if any AI generated tripe gets into their games it’s not copyrightable.

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    @vampiress nice

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    @vampiress @NewtonMark in my experience ninety five percent of the difficulty of running a workshop is avoiding the entire runtime being consumed by that one poor soul who cannot get the tool to run on their locked-down work-provided machine, or who has brought a tablet to a gunfight. The other five percent is coming up with some simple workflows and doing short iterations of [explain, now you try it, troubleshoot, repeat].

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    As woman who loves ants and loves capturing them on video I've lusted after the "Laowa 24mm f/14 2X Macro Probe" camera lens for three years. It costs. $1.5k

    Now there is a knock off probe lens "AstrHori 28mm F13 Probe Lens 2X Macro" for about half the price. Really it's still too expensive.

    Maybe I could ... rent a lens and try it out?

    I don't think it would be useful for my pet ants, but for shooting in the wild? It could be amazing.

    Anyone use these? Feelings?

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    @futurebird depth of field is only dependent on magnification (and f-stop) . Any macro lens will have the same DoF at the same magnification and aperture as any other. Regardless of whether you’re using tubes, diopters, a cheap macro or a diamond encrusted one, you are stuck with the same DoF. You do get different working distances with different focal lengths. The benefit of a “good” macro lens is flatness of field, and sharpness.

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    @futurebird I can link you to the cheapie gear i use for circuit board closeups tomorrow, if that is helpful to you.

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    @vampiress death was no escape

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    @vampiress I miss DNA so much. Thinking about thought, this just happened.

    https://aus.social/@Unixbigot/111960648855030386

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    @vampiress that’s the one thing i never could stomach about Coolangatta; all the damn vampires.

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    @vampiress thumbnail clip led me to believe you had encountered the fabled porn parody disc

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    @vampiress sounds a bit like that play, “Waiting for Baby”

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    I don’t know /why/ cleaning robots have microphones, but it can’t be good. What I /do/ know is that a microphone implies an input and an input implies a buffer. And buffers can be overflowed.

    As I dance through the streets playing my pipe, augmented with inaudible-to-humans harmonic overtones added by my homemade amplifier, the robots hear, listen, overflow, obey, follow. The trail of robots stretches out of sight, now.

    I don’t yet know for sure what I’m going to do with my army of two thousand score Roombas, but it can’t be good.

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    @ChateauErin @vampiress I heard Ebert’s disdain for video games was because of his long and bitter estrangement from his brother Qbert

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    We Will
    We Will
    BLOCK YOU

    I see your #JohnMastodon and I raise you #FediMercury

    #FediverseASongOrPoem
    #HashtagGames

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    @dannotdaniel @smellsofbikes I misread the image caption as “sea of loins”, I don’t know what made me do that…

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    @vampiress no. Coffee smoothie. #WorkedForMe

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    “void? Are you there”

    「always」

    “I’m sorry I haven’t screamed in a while”

    「it’s ok. that’s probably good for you, actually」

    “Heh, I guess so. Do you get a lot of screams?”

    「more every day」

    “Does that get you down? Do voids get down?”

    「not at all. screams help to give distinctiveness to each point of infinity. a bit like solving a maze in zork」

    “You play Zork?!”

    「not for years」

    “Would you like to? Now? Together?”

    「it is a single player game」

    “I’ll read the rooms and you give me the moves. Would you like that?”

    「yes, I would like that very much」

    “This is an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
    There is a small mailbox here.”

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    @vampiress was that before or after the “such is life tatt” acid baths?

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    There were just a few at first. We dubbed them Canadian Boring Worms after news broke of the ones discovered tunneling through a landfill in Vancouver. They look more like enormous caterpillars than worms, and it turned out earlier specimens had been sighted under cities in West Africa, Thailand, and elsewhere, but the name stuck. Comedians quipped “boring is redundant, you already said they were Canadian”.

    Their appetite for organic waste, and particularly plastics hinted at a revolution in waste management. When the Vancouver colony was traced back to a cache of eggs, the outsourced garbage contractor had seeded six other sites with eggs before anyone thought to stop them.

    People stopped repeating the “boring” joke after the worms grew fat on garbage, pupated, and the adult dragons emerged.

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