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ScaredyCat

@ScaredyCat@toot.net-pbx.com

Grumpy, balding software developer...

Amateur wood mangler and sawdust maker.
Amateur electron herder and soldering iron wielder.
Protector of the magic smoke (mostly)

Assistive description of profile background:

Profile backdrop if of cartoonish landscape and mountains with a fir tree line. The sky is blue and bright and there are five white clouds in it. The foreground is a grassed area with white and blue daisies. In the centre is a floating mastodon with a quiffed hair and a curled tusk. The mastodon is held in the air by strings wrapped around its body. These strings are held in the air by red and yellow birds.

Assistive description of profile avatar:

The head of a black cat with staring eyes and a tea towel on his head.

08-11-22

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malarkey, to random
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I’m imagining what I’d make if Count Binface asked me to redesign his website…

kyle, to random

Wi-fi controlled traffic light... for reasons

cymplecy, to random
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We are stuck in Ledbury as no bus has turned up for us

jasonkoebler, to random
@jasonkoebler@mastodon.social avatar

Scoop: I obtained the contract Samsung requires independent shops to sign to buy phone repair parts from them.

It requires:

  • "Daily" dumps of customer data
  • The "immediate destruction" of any phones a shop comes across that has third-party parts

https://www.404media.co/samsung-requires-independent-repair-shops-to-share-customer-data-snitch-on-people-who-use-aftermarket-parts-leaked-contract-shows/

fast_code_r_us, to random
@fast_code_r_us@floss.social avatar

I fixed a bug in Adafruit-GFX-Library that's been bugging me for a while. The inability to work with fonts larger than about 90pt. It occurs because they used 8-bit signed ints for the character offsets and they overflow. I also updated their font converter makefile to run properly on MacOS:
https://github.com/bitbank2/Adafruit-GFX-Library

Pictured is Roboto_Thin_100, which would fail to convert/display properly with their version of the code.

fast_code_r_us,
@fast_code_r_us@floss.social avatar

P.S.
If you are interested in this project (CO2 Clock), I shared it here:

https://github.com/bitbank2/CYD_Projects

intidc, to random
@intidc@mastodon.social avatar

🔥NEWS: How I was able to hack the Belgian social welfare and justice system by buying cheap domains 👇
https://inti.io/p/when-privacy-expires-how-i-got-access

francc, to Electronics
@francc@mastodon.online avatar

I learned some days ago how #moisture gets trapped inside #sealed enclosures used for #electronics when exposed to daily cycles of heat and cold.

The cold creates lower pressure inside. If that overpowers the seals, then outside air gets sucked in, carrying moisture. This extra moisture can condense inside and accumulate at the bottom.

In the next warm part of the cycle, if some air is expelled because of the higher pressure, that moisture is not carried out because it is in a liquid state.🧵

francc,
@francc@mastodon.online avatar

Repeat this a lot of times, and you will get the electronic circuit diving inside the enclosure 😂

I want to measure how the humidity and pressure fluctuate inside an enclosure that I'm prototyping for an industrial composting temperature sensor, so I assembled a quick hack with an Adafruit ESP32 Feather V2 running SensorWatcher that will report that every 10 minutes. The sensors are an HTU31D for humidity and a BMP388 for pressure.🧵

#electronics #enclosure #research #esp32 #adafruit

mikrotik, to random
@mikrotik@mikrotik.social avatar

Our latest newsletter is here:

  • NetMetal ax
  • L23UGSR-5HaxD2HaxD
  • wAP ac LTE kit (refresh)
  • LHGG LTE6 kit
  • XS+85LC01D 25G modules
  • MikroTik Brandbook
  • CRS510-8XS-2XQ-IN Review by STH
  • Community Success stories: DIN-Rail Mount

PDF: https://mt.lv/news118

ajc418, to random
@ajc418@mastodon.me.uk avatar

This American, Evan Edinger, does a far superior job than British news orgs of explaining everything the Tory party has done to make the UK housing situation even worse than it was 14 years ago
https://youtu.be/y6ADuQOXMmA

keepassxc, to random
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Debian Users - Be aware the maintainer of the KeePassXC package for Debian has unilaterally decided to remove ALL features from it. You will need to switch to keepassxc-full to maintain capabilities once this lands outside of testing/sid.

openrightsgroup, to humanrights
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org avatar

The Rwanda Bill (UK) "is a shameful and performatively cruel law that will risk people's lives and betray who we are as a society."

We've signed an open letter alongside 250 other civil society organisations to oppose this attack on human rights and the rule of law by an increasingly dangerous, authoritarian government in the UK.

Read in full here ➡️ https://drive.google.com/file/d/190Tg6VoNvWEj8x3Qw2FZnxPO2DRC3gdP/view

#Rwanda #rwandabiill #humanrights #Sunak #ukpolitics

jonthegeek, to javascript
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I'm extremely saddened to read that Women Who Code is closing (https://womenwhocode.com/blog/the-end-of-an-era-women-who-code-closing). My heart goes out to everyone impacted by this situation, and everyone who would have been impacted by their initiatives.

We can't replace them, but we welcome anyone looking for a friendly, inclusive community to join us at the Data Science Learning Community (@DSLC) https://DSLC.io

ianbetteridge, to random
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"The flag is used by everybody, it’s unifying, it doesn’t need to change" said absolutely no one on the right about the police "thin blue line" badges when they started appearing on police uniforms.

geekyandblonde, to random

Yay! Working @aaisp internet at our new place! 4 days before OpenReach said we’ll be connected! So nice to be no longer hot spotting off the mobile!

arturo182, to random
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The ability to render the 3d model into png/jpeg straight from the command line was just merged into @kicad by dsa-t 😍

arturo182,
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@kicad Using this new render cli command in @kicad , I threw together a bash script that renders multiple frames and combines them into an MP4 for a full 360 😄

https://gist.github.com/arturo182/57ab066e6a4a36ee22979063e4d5cce1

video/mp4

kev, to fediverse
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Well done, #Fediverse. You've outdone yourselves this time. 🤦‍♂️

Makes me ashamed to be a part of this network.

https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/contentnation-mastodons-toxicity/

jamie, to retrocomputing
@jamie@boothcomputing.social avatar

I have some (4) spare PCBs for an Apple II 80 column card (and the corresponding SmartSwitch board). If any one wants some, let me know. I only needed one, but had a minimum order of 5.

It's a Videx VideoTerm clone.

https://github.com/btb/80ColumnCard

#RetroComputing
#AppleII

zoul, to google
@zoul@boskovice.social avatar

Oh my God this #Google spoof is golden.

image/jpeg

CleoQc, to random

Anyone in Toronto who can take a 9 yo dog with special needs?

Mac was shot when he was 2, some bullet fragments are still in. He needs pain medication. He's also reactive to loud noises (hard to blame him!)

My friend has had him for 7 years. Mac is a very good boy. However my friend is struggling with major health issues with no way out and has tried for MONTHS to find a rescue that would take Mac. My friend has no spoons left. And the vet suggested euthanasia. This coming Saturday.

MikrotikTrainer, to random

Only a month to go to the Professionals Conference in Prague. We’ve managed to secure a major donation from a sponsor so we’ve extended the discounted pricing! Other major traders already booked tables. More in the wings signed up and we now have a FULL two days of speakers. So if you’re a MikroTik Trainer/Consultant wishing to speak all we can do now is put you on a reserve list in case anyone drops out at the last minute. So what’s stopping you from coming? 😁 https://mtpc.world

geerlingguy, to random
@geerlingguy@mastodon.social avatar

Lots of family stuff this morning, just saw the news @Raspberry_Pi is planning on an IPO.

Disappointed, but not unexpected.

drahardja, (edited ) to random
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Today I learned that “sundown towns” with their daily siren blasts that remind non-white people to leave town STILL EXIST.

This Nevada town stopped their daily sirens only LAST YEAR, and only because Nevada had passed a law that prohibits their use. Their Town Board Chairman even entertained both-siding the issue during a session. How many more of these towns still exist that carry on this explicitly racist practice?

https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2023/10/09/minden-sun-down-siren-to-remain-silenced/71083858007/

Unpaywalled link: https://archive.ph/TYXkU

phlash, to random
@phlash@mastodon.me.uk avatar

time here!

I find myself in need of extra funding for the a while (thanks inflation!), so I'd appreciate anyone who might want a pair of architectural eyes in their world, or some open source software maintenance taken on to maintain confidence in dependencies, having a look at my CV and letting me know if I seem useful or interesting:
https://www.ashbysoft.com/articles/phlash/cv/

I'm UK based, prefer home working but can travel. Super interested in freelance, part-time, flex..

boosts appreciated 🙏

nowathecat, to Cat Japanese
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Meow #cat

kate, to random
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It will be a few days before we get official confirmation from the National Grid, but I’m calling it now: 2023 was the year renewables overtook fossil fuels as the largest contributor to British electricity generation. In the 12 years I’ve been running National Grid: Live at https://grid.iamkate.com electricity generation from fossil fuels has fallen from an average of 25.1GW to 10.2GW, while renewables have risen from 2.5GW to 10.8GW.

Figures for 2023: Demand 29.6GW Fossil fuels 10.2GW Renewables 10.8GW Other sources 5.9GW Transfers 2.7GW

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