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brainsmoke, 10 days ago to random

Use Signal, not Hydroxychlorogram

brainsmoke, 29 days ago to random

New stinky puzzle!

brainsmoke, 3 months ago to random

Snake

Snake animation on an LED sphere

bert_hubert, 4 months ago to random

And another unfortunate security thing I learned today is that .svg files can contain JavaScript, and that your browser will happily execute that if someone directly views your image (so not through <img>). This has consequences for anyone hosting user supplied images. Thank you Wander Nauta for pointing this out. The painful story is here: https://github.com/berthubert/trifecta/issues/38

brainsmoke, 4 months ago to random

After 9 1/2 years, it finally runs without an external Raspberry Pi :,-)

brainsmoke, 5 months ago to random

An LED sphere showing an animation with multiple colours blending into each other.

brainsmoke, 5 months ago to random

close-up of addressable LEDs in a wooden structure; two LED strips are connected using a custom PCB

dangoodin, 6 months ago to random

I so, so, so don't want to drive any new car that can do this:

A federal appeals court refused to bring back a class action lawsuit alleging four auto manufacturers had violated Washington state’s privacy laws by using vehicles’ on-board infotainment systems to record and intercept customers’ private text messages and mobile phone call logs.

The court ruled that the practice does not meet the threshold for an illegal privacy violation under state law, handing a big win to automakers Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen and General Motors, which are defendants in five related class action suits focused on the issue.

The plaintiffs had appealed a prior judge’s dismissal. But the appeals court ruled Tuesday that the interception and recording of mobile phone activity did not meet the Washington Privacy Act’s standard that a plaintiff must prove that “his or her business, his or her person, or his or her reputation” has been threatened.

A suit filed against Honda in 2021, argu[ed] that beginning in at least 2014 infotainment systems in the company’s vehicles began downloading and storing a copy of all text messages on smartphones when they were connected to the system.

An Annapolis, Maryland-based company, Berla Corporation, provides the technology to some car manufacturers but does not offer it to the general public, the lawsuit said. Once messages are downloaded, Berla’s software makes it impossible for vehicle owners to access their communications and call logs but does provide law enforcement with access, the lawsuit said.

Many car manufacturers are selling car owners’ data to advertisers as a revenue boosting tactic, according to earlier reporting by Recorded Future News. Automakers are exponentially increasing the number of sensors they place in their cars every year with little regulation of the practice.

https://therecord.media/class-action-lawsuit-cars-text-messages-privacy

th, 8 months ago to random

I just learned that Python includes Logo in the default installation and now I'm reliving my turtle graphics childhood. https://docs.python.org/3/library/turtle.html

brainsmoke, 9 months ago to random

Stinky puzzle...

brainsmoke, 9 months ago to random

ChatGPT is kind of like a combined ergonomic keyboard & foot gun.

gsuberland, 10 months ago to random

at some point I'm going to have to write a blog post talking about the significance of bit depth in linear PWM LED drivers when applying a gamma curve, and the challenges involved when designing the driver electronics that attempt to solve non-linear brightness performance.

mcfly, 10 months ago to random German

its a bit hard to work while your #hackerspace has just burned down. 😟

brainsmoke, 11 months ago to random

Tiny USB-C uarts (with, and without 'esptool' reset circuitry)

https://github.com/brainsmoke/uuart

brainsmoke, 11 months ago to random

I made another round thing