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makdaam

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Playing Tetris professionally with weird techy tetrominos. Just doing things in Berlin.

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mattgrayyes, to random
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Hehehe @thisisjofrank got a photo of me wrestling the paper #emf2024 #mastodot

makdaam,
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@mattgrayyes @thisisjofrank So people go camping to relax by checks notes fixing printer issues.

Hmm.

kandid, to random
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Today #GPN22 in neon colors.

OK, the colors are not manipulated. Only the geometry has been messed up by me.

Adhesive tapes that glow in UV light. In heavily distorted geometry. Some of the text fragments are still recognizable. There was also the outline of a shark. But this shark has probably been completely absorbed by the distortion.
Adhesive tapes that glow in UV light. In heavily distorted geometry. Some of the text fragments are still recognizable. There was also the outline of a shark. But this shark has probably been completely absorbed by the distortion.

makdaam,
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@kandid That's one way to make "UV images".

makdaam,
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@kandid I know :) it was supposed to be a pun about both UV light but also memories of trying to do proper UV mapping of a texture.

campuscodi, to random
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Just think about it!

In just 14 days, Microsoft pivoted from "do security" in an internal memo on May 5 to "let's install spyware on everyone's PC" on May 21.

That must be a world record in bad corporate management

makdaam,
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@campuscodi Also many people forget what Microsoft means when they say something they want to do to your PC is optional.

Logging in to a Microsoft account during Windows installation is optional. O356 self-service purchases are optional, at first you could disable them globally, now they're deprecating the API that allows that.

I suspect Recall will become "optional" in the same way.

makdaam, to GPS
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If anyone is interested, I'm giving this old #GPS receiver away for shipping costs from Germany.

It's a Garmin eTrex (the first one from 1999-2002). It has an IPX7 case, a 64 x 128 4 level grayscale LCD display with a backlight. GPS doesn't work anymore due to the GPS week rollover, other components work great.

It's a bit sad that a really well designed handheld device became useless due to outdated software.

It was also a prop "scanner" in #Stargate SG-1 if someone does cosplay.

:BoostOK:

A screenshot from the TV series Stargate SG-1 with one of the characters - Daniel Jackson - in a warehouse holding a Garmin eTrex over some artifacts.

makdaam,
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@acejacek I couldn't get a position lock, outside with a good visibility of the sky.

It locked 2 block IIF sats, but couldn't lock to a block III sat that was at a similar angular alt. I don't know if there are any differences between those, or just bad luck. Also I don't know what the rollover does to the coordinates.

If someone wants to play with it, to check if it's still possible to get a valid lock - have fun. But I don't want to over promise on the functionality.

jacqueline, to random
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any recs for an artist who can do a small (~1 inch square) black and white lineart of girls kissing? i need this for business purposes

makdaam,
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@jacqueline I know it's a bit late now, but I can recommend @p_the_wanderer for the future.

mattgrayyes, to random
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I travelled like a monarch for the price of a cab ride!

https://youtube.com/shorts/UCAvmYTbwEc

makdaam, (edited )
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@mattgrayyes I hoped for a butterfly wing contraption of some kind. Now I'm a bit disappointed. :)

drewdevault, (edited ) to random
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Quick FOSS legal literacy quiz

Imagine the following situation: your project is MIT licensed. Someone takes the whole project and white-labels it (changes the name), then sells it commercially without providing the source code or sharing any of the sales revenue with you. They include "Copyright <your name>" and a copy of the MIT license in the "about" page of the software.

Is this allowed?

makdaam,
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@drewdevault 100% but I had to assume you mean "allowed in the USA" since trademark law is different where I live and a name of a product/software could be infringed upon without prior registration (but the process of proving that is usually more costly than just outright registering a ™).

rysiek, to random
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Gah, an account that posts photos with alt-text being just "-". 🤦‍♀️

This is why we can't have nice things.

Look, if you don't have the spoons to add alt-text, that's fine — we all run out of spoons sometimes — don't add alt-text. :blobcatcoffee:

And if you can't be arsed to add alt-text, whatever, you do you, don't add alt-text. 🙄

But adding a random character or a filename as alt-text just so that the "[ALT]" label shows up on your images is really extremely shitty. :blob0w0:

makdaam,
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@wiktor @rysiek You can use the #Alt4me tag that some people watch and help out if they can.

It's exactly for this kind of situations, even though I see some photographers just drop their galleries in the tag :/

thomasfuchs, to random
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I don’t understand how Teslas are still legal when people keep dying because they can’t open the doors when power is lost.

(You can open them, but it’s a non-obvious multi-step process that requires reading the manual.)

makdaam,
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@deirdresm @thomasfuchs Please read the Tesla manuals and let me know how to open the rear door in the newest model Y in case of a power cut off without a tool.

I'll wait.

makdaam,
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@deirdresm @thomasfuchs Sorry for the tone of my message.

The thing is: Tesla doesn't provide a way to open the rear door without power. Having read the manual doesn't resolve the core issue of evacuating a car in case of an emergency.

makdaam, to random
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Another cycle in the IoT life:

  • flash a board
  • flashing fails successfully
  • pull out the JTAG to unbrick
blinry, to random
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I want to try the "make 50 of something" technique again!

So this week, I'll try to find 50 things to do with a Software Defined Radio! 📻

I'll use this simple USB dongle, which you can get for around $30.

makdaam,
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@nblr @blinry Just to tease more people outside of the hobby: "range" is a weird thing if you have an atmosphere to deal with :) You can get troposphere ducting and receive UK broadcast radio in Poland for example. But the conditions are more probable over a body of water. See https://dxinfocentre.com/tropo_eur.html

Also if you aim your antennas right you can bounce signals off commercial airplanes*.

*) terms and conditions of physics apply.

makdaam,
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@blinry There's a series of amazing writeups from @windytan on FM broadcast signals https://www.windytan.com/search/label/FM%20subcarriers

I really like that in DE the TMC location codes are not "encrypted".

makdaam,
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@blinry Weather sats - you should be able to catch NOAA satellites with a simple dipole... not horizon to horizon but there should be something.

If your RTL-SDR has a direct mode (allows you to tune below 50MHz) you can try catching a Weather Fax... but that might be noisy if you're in a city.

Play with your 433MHz or 868MHz remote operated stuff/doorbells. Check if it's a rolling code or a static packet.

DECT?

Read your heat or water meters via wM-BUS.

makdaam,
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@blinry GSM can avoid sending audio when it thinks you're silent (it compresses very well). People don't notice because they're tricked by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_noise

makdaam,
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@blinry if the channels in the 177-180MHz range are separated by about 1.75MHz - you've listened to this already. It's DAB. :)

makdaam, (edited )
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@blinry If you have a portable radio that can tune to the signal - go for it. :D (or use a lot of sticky tape to make a portable SDR laptop with a dipole?)

Even if other sonde hunters get to it first I'm sure they'll be happy to let you take photos of the sonde itself to promote radio.

According to https://sondehub.org/# it will fall somewhere close to Sandesneben around 14:00. But it's just a prediction.

Edit: I read the timestamp wrong, it's 14:00 not 15:00.

makdaam,
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@blinry Do combinations of the things you already did count? I think SSTV postcards from ISS are a thing.

There also a whole world of amateur digital radio (DMR, D-Star repeaters).

Or the amateur radio pager network https://www.hampager.de/#/ those seem legal to listen to and decode for the purposes of experimentation. But of course require judgement before posting to the public Internet.

wariat, to random Polish
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Dziś sejmflix i nowa odsłona Newag Gate! ;-)

https://sejm.gov.pl/Sejm10.nsf/transmisje.xsp#

Pewnie i tym razem nie dam rady w biurze oglądać i ostatecznie będę liczył na zapis audio w podcaście @polamatysiak . No ale… tak czy siak to dziś kolejna szansa na rekord w liczbie przybitych facepalmów na godzinę. :)

makdaam,
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@wariat @polamatysiak Dorzucam link do streamu pani przewodniczącej na YT (widać slajdy) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDv_tLnpwVo

rysiek, to random
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Loads of irrelevant/spam e-mail gets sent from addresses that turn out not to exist if you send an e-mail to them.

What if delivery of mail from not-before-seen e-mail addresses was held by the mailserver until a test e-mail of some sort is successfully delivered to the sender address?

Obvious things to consider:

  • random failures
  • what should be the message to the sender?
  • sending a test e-mail confirms existence of the address it is sent from.

🤔

makdaam,
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@rysiek @jwildeboer There's a little known official fallback hierarchy in that case. If you get a noreply@example.com and the server responds with errors you SHOULD try to resend the reply in case of failure to legal@example.com, finance@example.com or invoices@example.com.

rysiek, to VisionPro
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I guess my current policy on is that anyone bragging (humble, or otherwise) about owning one, wearing one, or generally promoting it in any way is very likely to get an insta-block from me.

Personally, I don't find it funny enough to ridicule it. Even though as @parismarx notes, it really deserves to be ridiculed!
https://disconnect.blog/apples-vision-pro-headset-deserves/

I will, of course, gladly accept other people's ridicule of it. Like this remarkably thoughtful take by @karafuto:
https://mstdn.social/@karafuto@mas.to/110497342663574555

makdaam,
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@wiktor @rysiek Why isn't <your org here> in Second Life yet?

makdaam,
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@rysiek @wiktor sorry, added CW

rysiek, to random
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Well well well, if it isn't Kraków #Hackerspace joining fedi! 💻🐲

Welcome @hskrk! 👋

makdaam,
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@rysiek @hskrk looks at the expression of future desire and OCCRP in present time

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