I just rotated a hot tub by 90 degrees, with the help of Tom.
This was not, err, easy.
But it means the heat pump conversion this week will be much easier.
The hot tub came with the house, and I had no idea at the start how expensive they are. A heat pump will help a lot, I hope.
The house also came with a fence approx 1m inside the border wall, which was silly, but was cheaper than making up the wall to a good standard, which we are now doing.
@revk I have gone back & forth on the issue of kerbside separation of waste over the last decade:
On the one hand, separating waste before it becomes mixed seems logical and straightforward.
BUT. What happens when a human makes a mistake? Discard a large amount of recycling because it has been contaminated? Expensively sort it "just in case" ?
Then there are the deposit return schemes for recyclables - does the existence of these schemes mean that kerbside separation of waste isn't working?
@bagder I think "We plea to use donated funds" might be meant to read "We plan" line 12, SPONSORS.md
(I don't know how to use Github to suggest this in the correct way, sorry)
Do not have any other TAGGED VLANs leaking out on your #Starlink bypass mode link.
It appears that they answer all ARPs they see, on any VLAN tags, with an untagged reply for the Starklink gateway MAC. Also, if you have a lot of them, the Starlink will stop working (lots of on/off making around 80% packet loss average).
I have been tracing this around my network for the last few hours.
@revk At the risk of asking a dumb question, How many VLANs does it take before it starts to be noticeable? I don't think any of mine leak, but I suspect I have fewer VLANs than you.
@revk Thank you! I wondered if it would be 1, then I reread where you had said if you have a lot of them and thought: You run an ISP, I know basically nothing in comparison and it's better that I look dumb by asking than by assuming.
🆕 blog! “Giving the finger to MFA - a review of the Z1 Encrypter Ring from Cybernetic”
★★★★☆
I have mixed feelings about Multi-Factor Authentication. I get why it is necessary to rely on something which isn't a password but - let's be honest here - it is a pain juggling between SMS, TOTP apps, proprietary apps, and mag…
@Edent How does it work where the authentication is NFC + PIN? I imagine it being awkward to hold a finger in place on the NFC reader while typing with the other hand?
@Edent Yubico security key WebauthN credentials stored via USB are available for use via NFC (and vice versa) rather than there being two separate stores, which I think is a handy to know for debugging
@Edent@ben The Omnikey 5022 works with Yubico NFC #WebAuthn on Windows (including the PIN). I have a vague memory of testing it once on Ubuntu a few years ago. Might be able to test it later if that helps?
@Edent Couldn't get it to work passing it through into a VM this time. Don't have any Linux running on hardware that I can use for testing at the moment.
This is driving me mad. My new 7.5" e-paper boards work nicely, and mine on my front door is running on 12V and working perfectly.
But one for my son is not, it is using a USB lead, 5V.
It works on a short USB and not a long one. I have literally cut tracks to get down to just the regulator and ESP32 and USB socket, and still no joy. But if I connect a serial header with the same regulator on to the board using the same long USB cable that works.
@revk I like this very much, even though the cynical part of me is wondering how long it will be before couriers start telling you that the "touchscreen" is "broken" when they press the camera "button" on the "touchscreen" and nothing happens
@revk I will! I'm rather liking the idea of an e ink sign, I have sometimes thought that there must be a better way when I sellotape a sign printed on A4 paper for a courier!
I made the very understandable but naive assumption that a USB-C "plug" (pin out as per datasheet in this image) would be wired the same as a socket. Specifically that CC1/CC2 need 5k1 to GND so as to get power by default.
But no, it seems a plug has CC and VCONN, and needs a 5K1 from CC to GND, but NC on VCONN. The datasheet could have said CC and VCONN, but no!
So, it works in a USB-A to C adaptor, as power is fixed in USB-A, but not in any actual USB-C socket. FFS
Also, it's very much an edge case that probably won't ever apply to you; but, USB power delivery isn't restricted to Cs only, you can run into it on an A or B too, it's just rare that it gets implemented.
@bagder Tangential question that that thread has made me wonder: How do you decide what to put in the user surveys? I recently worked for someone creating a survey and the attention to detail in the design to try and get the most useful data there was mind boggling. Given how important #curl is, it makes me wonder how you do it?
@bagder I thought Microsoft had improved shipping the current version of curl.exe in Windows to avoid this sort of thing - have they dropped behind again, or did I imagine it?