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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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luciedigitalni, to random
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A tough start but came home strongly

❌❌❌✅✅✅❌✅✅✅
The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 503
I got 6/10!
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/quiz/2024/06/08?rival=0001110111

Unixbigot,
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@luciedigitalni we should team up ✅✅✅✅✅❌✅❌❌✅

jpm, to random
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Don’t mind me, I’m just over here oiling my wok

Unixbigot, (edited )
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@jpm sort of related; did you hear that the latest CEE youtube vid got demonetized and age-locked for being ultrarewd and that it WASN’T for this bit: https://youtu.be/ZVYhc0m4L6g?t=8m54s

ETA: screenshot and link fix

Unixbigot,
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@jpm weird. 8m54s in this vid https://youtu.be/ZVYhc0m4L6g?si=hJfw3491SzVfAoXw

Unixbigot,
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@jpm does..does posting a tube link to mastodon trip their DDOS protection when a million fediservers cry out in unison “LINK PREVIEW PLS”?

Unixbigot, to random
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Buying abandoned stasis lockers at auction has always been a gamble. You dream of scoring the one that will be full of gold bars or priceless artworks. More often it’s 500 obsolete electronic gadgets, or more jackfruit than you can possibly eat before it all rots. I stopped bidding after I won the one that contained you. I’ve treasure enough for a lifetime now, my child.

geordie, to random
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You, an idiot: MSG is bad for you and I, like many people are allergic.

Me, wise and learned: MSG is not bad for you. "MSG syndrome" was a combination of Sinophobia, an academic prank and the introduction of higher sodium cuisine than Americans were typically used to from the higher amount of table salt in American Cantonese cuisine. Periodically a prize is offered by science communicators for someone who can prove they have an MSG allergy. It is lower sodium than salt by quite a margin (15% versus 40%) and its role in managing hypertension is the subject of study. Also it tastes fucking great.

Unixbigot,
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@jpm @geordie I am under no illusion that vegeta “vege stock” powder is anything other than MSG and glitter. It’s good stuff.

Unixbigot, to random
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Dear Lazyweb, has JLCPCB website stopped working on iOS for everyone or just for me? Login button does nothing; it used to work as of last year. Tried all the usual cookies/incognito/disable-adblock etc. Having to get up and walk to my PC to obsessively refresh :pakidge: page is a drag.

ETA: works on mac safari just fine, but not on iphone or ipad. Other browsers on iPhone….dont exist.

ETA2: owait i have an android phone here somewhere… :pakidge:

Unixbigot,
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@jpm oh yes I pay for AfterShip in order to remove the 100 package limit. In this instance my unbearable burden is “this item has been waiting to ship for 3 days, does it have a tracking number YET?”

Unixbigot, to random
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After the armistice, the defeated aggressor was prohibited from maintaining an aerial strike capability for fifteen years.

The UN security council took a long hard look at the 23rd Air Passive-Aggressive Wing and their squadron of F-41 “Friendly Reminder” aircraft, but had to admit that the letter of the armistice agreement had been met. They did however resolve that deployment of the AIM-2I9 “Per my last email” missile was a bridge too far.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

Unixbigot, to random
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A reminder that I am available for hire to grasp journalists who describe energy-storage projects using “megawatts” by the shoulders and shout at them. I also do product design and engineering, shouting is more of a community service.

Unixbigot, to random
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THIS is the Boeing 737 Max, an ill-fated airliner that was one of the last dinosaur-burners designed before gravity-polarizers rendered their breed obsolete. This beast was over 40 metres long and weighed almost 100 tons.

Let’s see how long it lasts against our planetary-mass quantum black hole! That’s coming up Right Now on The Cosmic Crush Channel. Don’t forget to like and subscribe!

luciedigitalni, to random
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✅✅✅❌❌❌❌❌✅✅
The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 502
I got 5/10!
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/quiz/2024/06/01?rival=1110000011

Unixbigot,
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@luciedigitalni saaaame

glyph, to random
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You are about to sit down at a computer to work for about 4 hours, to accomplish something. You don't know exactly what you are about to do; you'll need to look at your to-do list for that. But you know you're going to spend about 4 hours doing it.

What is a noun or noun phrase that describes that 4-hour period of time?

Unixbigot,
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@glyph @chrisjrn well if 25 minutes followed by five minutes rest is a “pomodoro”¹
then eight of them is a punnet, or maybe a truss.

¹ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique

Unixbigot,
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@glyph @chrisjrn make that four pomodori to a truss, two truss to a punnet.

Unixbigot, to random
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Dream: I was overdue to check out from a hotel where the checkout process involves disassembling and removing all the furniture, I was in the middle of repairing a robot spread in pieces across the bed, I had just realized that I had forgotten I was due to give a presentation that afternoon, the building was snowed in, and when I broke through the snow I discovered a xenomorph outbreak in progress outside.

Me: Brian are you ok? Do we need an MHD?

Unixbigot, to random
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I may have just emptied my entire "get this circuit board made someday" folder into JLCPCB's website. I couldn't help it, they drove a $3/5pcb special up to my house.

Unixbigot, to random
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The hole-in-the-wall lunch bar had a sign “SPECIAL TODAY $1 PER ADJECTIVE”.

I had to ask. “What does the sign mean?”

“Did you ever notice how the menus at expensive restaurants are just simple food with extra adjectives to make you feel better about paying so much?”

“Not really” I replied, stepping back to read the menu board in more detail.

Another customer stepped up “I’ll have the creamy roast chicken soup with toasted sourdough croutons please”

“Coming right up, four bucks”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

Unixbigot, to random
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The issue with battery-powered long-distance air travel is that you have to lug weight of those batteries with you for the entire trip.

The whole problem would be considerably more tractable if airliners could do as rockets do---jettison exhausted fuel storage as they go, especially since maximum power requirement is at takeoff. We've done the math and it absolutely works, we use our support drones to catch and reuse the jettisoned batteries.

Well, most of the time. Sorry about your cow; we'll get you a new one.

Unixbigot,
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@vik what, like the paired-bussard-ramjet hack in Larry Niven’s Protector?

Unixbigot, to random
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I was today years old when I realised that the reason that the intro to every youtube video sounds like setting an ad break, is that it is setting up an ad break. I've had whatever they call the no-ads subscription to google for years, and hadn't realised how awful the default experience was. How do people stand it? Where are the pitchforks?

Unixbigot,
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@zdl wait you can do that last one?

Unixbigot, to random
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The owner of the facility was famous. Well, Meta famous if you know what i mean. Famous for being a famous rich asshole, dedicating his twilight years to outliving all the other famous rich assholes.

Collectively the six trillionaire oligarchs who had built their burrows—each on their agreed post-apocalypse continental domains—had all hired the same experts to design those enclaves. Location: deep in the ancient stable rock of a continental craton. Supplies: Food, water and medicines to last a century, until farming could resume. Knowledge: a full archive of the Internet. Technology: every conceivable machine and the parts and tools to maintain them. Serfs: entirely separate accommodation for necessary technical staff, and hibernation for many more. Security: no, not the armed-thugs-with-shock-collars you’re thinking of; spider drones are what’s in favour with apocalypse consultants this decade.

When the Event came it blindsided even the Six. While everyone was watching the climate fall apart, the brown dwarf grazing the Oort cloud went unnoticed, obscured by the glare of the Starlink Belt. A million comets had their orbits stirred up by the visitor. It only took one, impacting in the south atlantic ocean, to tip the biosphere into chaos predicted to last three to five decades.

The balloon was up, the Six and their families executed the well rehearsed Plan Scram, and settled into their cosy bunkers to wait out the Dark Times. Serfs (sorry, “employees” in this decade) likewise. Human security personnel (unknowingly already inoculated with a delayed death sentence once their mechanoid replacements were online) set about battening down the hatches and bringing up the Evironment (2.0).

“Hey Sarge, this droid won’t boot!”

“Yeah this one too. What does ‘502 License server unreachable’ mean?”

Unixbigot,
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Some historians say that the oceanic impact wasn’t the killer blow, but instead the broken off fragment that impacted an ancient site—exact location and purpose lost—known to us only as “us-east-1”. #BonusPanel

18+ mattcen, to random
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My Fitbit Charge 5 won't hold a charge as of yesterday. Usually I charge it each 3-4 days. I've charged it 4 times today.
Top search results (NB: I am not soliciting advice) show click-baity pages like "Fitbit Not Holding Charge? Here’s How to Fix it!" (https://thewearify.com/fitbit-not-holding-charge-heres-how-to-fix-it/)

I get that maybe some users may find this useful, but, if I'm searching for this, it's probably because this has just started happening unexpectedly! Sigh.

Unixbigot,
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@mattcen okay the first thing to determine is whether it’s a case of “battery is cactus” or “software/settings went berserk and draining battery”. Do you have a usb power monitor or any kind of amp-hour meter? Fill it up, run it flat, fill it up again - did recharging it take ${approximate rated capacity of battery} (battery is ok, software is bad) or much less (battery is bad). Replacement battery will only be a few bucks.

MLE_online, to random
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Someone in my neighborhood threw away a whole set of lockers, so I guess I have to own lockers now

Unixbigot,
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@MLE_online got room for seven cats and a pygmy giraffe there!

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