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ben

@ben@hardill.me.uk

Working on https://social.nodered.org/@nodered at FlowFuse Inc.
Also Director/Founder Hardill Technologies Ltd.
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#FlowFuse #NodeRED

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revk, (edited ) to random
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I am sorry to say that both of the resin filled e-paper signs have now stopped working - a couple of days after being made. I did not expect resin to affect them, but somehow it has. My next trick is glue gun all the connections before putting in resin. See if that solves it. You live and learn.

Update: making my own circuit for this, thinner and smaller and none of the wires, so easier to protect a connector when I put in resin. Nearly got it tracked.

ben,
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@revk how hot does the resin get while curing?

ben, to random
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So 30mins of indoor cycling and I managed to raise the temperature 2.25 degrees. The Garmin should tell me the my average watts for that time. I wonder how efficient i am...

ben, to RaspberryPi
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Ahhh, Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm has moved to use NetworkManager

#raspberrypi #raspberrypios

jpmens, to random
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    ben,
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    @jpmens But they are leaving the CVV on the front right...

    Edent, to SmartHome
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    Those of you who have a , what are your use-cases for smart plugs?

    Most of my electrical things aren't just on/off.

    I've got a light, a fan, and an electric blanket which can be controlled from the plug.

    Other things (like TV, kettle, etc) need interaction after the power is turned on.

    Have you found any good uses for plugs?

    (Not interested in rants about security & privacy, thanks.)

    ben,
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    @Edent I have a group of things that are all used together, but plugged into different outlets.

    I have 3 smart sockets all bound to a single wireless switch to turn them all on/off together. (the group could also be turned on/off via voice, but I never do...)

    tony, to random
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    ben,
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    @tony what is the method of collecting the fee?

    bloor, to random
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    Please tell me why I seem to have a contra-view to most on here about the ad blocker / youtube thing? I generally sit left-of-centre about most things. Basically, why this view is wrong?

    1. Youtube has huge costs of hosting.

    2. Youtube provides a service I (and many others enjoy)

    3. Youtube's platform facilitates a living being made; or a partial living being made, by many others.

    4. Their revenue is

    a) advertising
    and
    b) subscription.

    1. Youtube is entitled to make a profit.

    1/2

    ben,
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    @bloor I think Google/YouTube have done this to themselves. Their advertising business has driven the cost of buy adverts so cheap, they now have to show so many that it makes the service near unusable.

    (I pay for YouTube Premium, for 2 reasons, 1. to turn off the adverts 2. to get access to the music playlists, I both made and uploaded the legal copies of the mp3s I had, that they bait and switched away from me when they killed Google Music)

    sxa, to random
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    So I have this four way (4 computers and 4 peripherals to be shared). Would you expect that the USB OUT connectors go to the computers or the peripherals? (The other side of it has pets labelled USB IN)

    ben,
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    @sxa in that case the side with the key socket is the place to plug the devices in and the other side for the computers

    ben, to homelab
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    I need a replacement for DropBox.

    All I use DropBox for is syncing a small number of files between 2 laptops and 2 phones and mostly as an easy way to send photos to the laptops from the phones. Their current free plan only allows 3 devices.

    Happy to self host.

    Any Suggestions?

    #homelab #dropbox #selfhost

    cstross, (edited ) to random
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    WELP: Marines Test Fire Robot Dog Armed With Rocket Launcher

    https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/marines-test-fire-robot-dog-armed-with-rocket-launcher

    Buried lede: they used a cheap off-the-shelf Chinese consumer robot. And the Chinese and Russian armies have already tested that model with weapons.

    ben,
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    @cstross @GreatDismal called, he'd like his slam hound back

    ben, to random
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    Somebody raises a GitHub issue without searching for the error message first, I'll probably let them off, but when they also email you directly 30 seconds later, I'll start to get a little narky, but when it's the exact same problem that they raised a month a go that was a problem with their local hardware I really am going to be rude when I reply.

    simon, (edited ) to random
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    Urgh. Got woken up at 3:19am by a test of the earthquake alert system that was supposed to happen at 10:19am... but they accidentally scheduled it in UTC instead of California time zone!

    I mean, time zones are hard, but still - such a rookie error
    https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-10-19/california-earthquake-early-warning-test-goes-off-seven-hours-early

    ben,
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    @simon ooof, how to make friends...

    garius, to random
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    I've been asked by a digital publication to do a regular column on forgotten or overlooked bits of tech and business history that changed stuff forever.

    So what's your favourite weird nugget of obscure history or people in tech or business?

    This is LITERALLY your chance to make me write about it 😄

    ben,
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    @Edent @garius There is still a Rabbit antenna (but nothing else) attached to a house (used to be a corner shop) near my parents. I do wonder who else remembers what it was

    mjg59, to random
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    Pretty much exactly 19 years ago I got on a train to Oxford and made Mark Shuttleworth's laptop successfully suspend and resume using ACPI and that was the turning point in my entire career

    ben,
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    @mjg59 though I do like that Lenovo used to swap out things like wifi cards to more Linux friendly versions of specific models for a while.

    ben,
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    @sldrant @acsawdey @mjg59 Likewise I was part of the (small) group running Fedora. But we were mainly in the Development Labs, the service folk all HAD to run RHEL

    ben, to random
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    OK, after last night's musing on dial up internet, this might be interesting to play with as I already have a single analogue to SIP converter...

    https://github.com/AonCyberLabs/D-Modem

    /cc @simonzerafa

    #dialup

    ben,
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    @simonzerafa bah, who uses fax these days (apart from the NHS...)

    simonzerafa, (edited ) to retrocomputing

    If anyone wants to find out how 1990's style dial-up ISP's configured their equipment or how the equipment of that era works then I can recommend a channel:

    TheSerialPort

    https://www.youtube.com/@theserialport

    If you are interested in Terminal Servers, Cobalt RaQ equipment or how the CISCO PIX Firewall saved the Internet then this channel is for you 😉

    #ISP #RaQ #PIX #RetroComputing #Internet #DialUpNostalgia

    ben,
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    @simonzerafa as somebody that runs their own "desktop isp" I'd love to add dialup to it.

    Just got to find a tiny analogue PBX to play with.

    https://www.hardill.me.uk/wordpress/2019/08/26/building-an-isp/

    ben, to random
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    Anybody else have problems with Thunderbird (lightening) not pulling in new calendar entries from Google Calendar? If I add events (e.g. from my phone) they don't show up in Thunderbird unless I restart it.

    Forced sync does nothing but shows no errors.

    #Thunderbird #Calendar

    ben,
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    @peturdainn I get the same behaviour on both Ubuntu and Fedora and across 2 different Google accounts. Thunderbird 115.3.1 Google Calendar Provider 115.0.2

    tony, to random
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    ben,
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    @srtcd424 @tony It may also have been a comment along the lines of "look we take real CVEs seriously, unlike some the garbage we've been sent recently"

    foone, to random
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    I wonder if any company has set up a policy to temporarily revoke system access to employees on vacation.

    You're on vacation, why are you logging into the JIRA instance? Go sit on a beach or climb a mountain or something.

    ben,
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    @foone I wouldn't be surprised if French law didn't demand it, it's already illegal to email out of hours

    cstross, to random
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    Tired: buying an iPhone or iPad with maxed-out internal SSD.

    Wired: buying an iPhone or iPad then also buying a pocket USB-C hub that has a slot for you to plug in a third-party M.2 NVMe SSD of your choice to stash your movie library on. (Because the Files app on iOS is happy to talk to an external SSD.)

    ben,
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    @rjek @cstross

    ben,
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    @cstross @rjek iOS apps can support Chromecast iirc, e.g. YouTube but it is on the developer to include the required Google library I think.

    ben, to node
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    Anybody know how to stop npm using "git+ssh://git@github.com/org/repo" URLs in package-lock.json files even if the dependency is using "https://github.com/org/repo"

    #npm #GitHub

    ben,
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    @voxpelli because it forces anybody trying to install the node that uses the dependency to have ssh keys setup for github even if the target project is public. So this is going to break a LOT of CI setups or people installing as part of a Docker build

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