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futuresprog

@futuresprog@mastodon.nzoss.nz

anarcho-despo-totali-laxitarian with electronically-mediated musings at the intersection of finance; I’m in Aotearoa NZ and mostly take photos of native plants, insects, and birds. #iNaturalist #Nature #birds

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vik, to random
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It's one thing to hear "we're going to make one small change," from the dev team, and quite another to hear it when your stuck on the pointy end of a rocket.

futuresprog,
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Why don’t you fix your little problem and light this candle?

@vik

whitequark, to random
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huh why is the wall like that in lwir

futuresprog,
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It almost looks like where the plaster was applied over the screw holes in the wall.

Plasterboard walls?

@whitequark

vik, to random
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Two letters from The Ministry in the snail mail today: One containing road user charge licences for The Fleet, the other a letter reminding me to buy road user charge licences ...

futuresprog,
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@vik alas already installed mine

futuresprog, to random
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On Bloomberg:

Millions More Trees Isn’t the Climate Fix New Zealand Thought

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-27/after-planting-millions-of-trees-nz-reviews-its-controversial-climate-fix

vik, (edited ) to homeassistant
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Next project is a 15 tonne water tank level monitor. So, your thoughts:

futuresprog,
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I asked this same question here last year and I believe they said the best thing was an inflow and an outflow sensor. Ultrasonic sensors would get moisture issues.

And 15 tonnes? Good luck.

I just went and searched back and can’t find it. I didn’t delete my posts. Don’t know where it is. Maybe the index doesn’t go back far enough.

@vik

futuresprog, to random
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Bing is down.

I was going to say DuckDuckGo is down but it’s under the hood.

futuresprog,
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@vik thank you. I wasn’t sure what the next option is. Google isn’t an option.

vik, to homeassistant
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is going well, but I need to move all the devices to another network SSID and password. Searching for how to do this is basically full of "why would you do that?" but no solutions that don't involve manually diving in to the config "secrets" - followed by replies saying "don't do that!" Well, security is one reason. I can't be alone here, right?

futuresprog,
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I put Home Assistant and all my IoT devices on a separate VLAN and 2.4GHz-only WiFi network.

My biggest mistake was putting a second NIC in the Home Assistant box. If I was to do it all again I would put it on a single NIC with the default and IoT-only VLAN.

Unfortunately HomeKit devices are in my normal private WiFi since the Apple pairing process expects them to be on the same network.

The electrician had a chuckle when he saw me pairing a new device. “Is that your password?” Oops

@vik

futuresprog, to random
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I cross stitched my wheelbarrow since it was starting to crack.

Stupid plastic.

futuresprog,
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Remains to be seen if it is stronger.

@vik

Jaden3, to mentalhealth
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My gramps gave me the best advice I gonna try and follow .
Here it is ..........
Jaden .Deal with shit when it happens. Don't think about it before or after .
Fck ! That fking hits ! That's it !!!!! That fking simple!!!
Yall can do this you gon be happy af .
My grammpa a genius 👏🏾 🙌🏾
I need a hashtag I can share dis shit wide ????
#mentalhealth #mentalhealthawarenessmonth

futuresprog,
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Your grampa is smart! That’s part of Stoic philosophy that Epictetus was talking about thousands of years ago.

I was just sharing that recently with someone who was nervous: if you worry and it doesn’t happen, you worried for nothing. So don’t worry. You can deal with shit when it happens.

@Jaden3

seachanger, to random
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since i've been posting about credit card transaction fees, someone commented about debit cards as an alternative. i looked, and for most e-commerce, debit cards are processed with the same fees as credit cards (right now averaging 2.9% plus .30). most of our retail commerce is being taxed by corporations at unnecessarily high rates with no practical choice given to the purchaser, and often with no warning or means for consent

futuresprog,
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This is really the crux of why Apple Pay and PayWave surcharges are where the growth is and why the US has no incentive to implement GIRO or FAST or any of the many Government-mandated payment clearing methods that every other country has figured out.

Where there is a strong Treasury/Central Bank/Government there are great options for us customers to transfer money. Unfortunately for you, the US is one of the weakest.

@seachanger

vik, to random
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For the first time ever, Trustpower have actually sent me a text advising me to activate my emergency medical power plans. This one might be serious, folks. I am well prepped btw.

futuresprog,
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I think I used all my generator fuel in the lawn mower. Whoops!

@vik

amoroso, (edited ) to space
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These unofficial Mastodon accounts of space agencies are bots that merely share news items the agencies publish elsewhere, yet the accounts have quite a lot of followers:

  • NASA: @nasa 71K followers
  • ESA: @esa 1.4K followers

There's an unfulfilled demand for public institutions to communicate on open and independent platforms.

#nasa #esa #space #mastodon #fediverse

futuresprog,
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Conversely @cnes

is an official account.

@amoroso

chris, to random
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    futuresprog,
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    I was just there a few weeks ago!

    @chris

    futuresprog,
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    Not at all!

    I’m down here in Aotearoa NZ and was Illinois to see the eclipse and visit some friends. Took time out to go and see a Cubs game.

    @chris

    futuresprog,
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    Not quite. The furtherest south we got was Mt Vernon for the solar eclipse.

    @chris

    orci, to random
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    Groceries.

    futuresprog,
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    Nuts … dairy … yep, most of the food groups covered there.

    ✔️

    @orci

    strypey, to renewableenergy
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    "...solar roof tiles are solar panels that look like roof tiles.... Much like solar panels, they comprise semi-conducting materials that generate an electric charge and send it to an inverter and eventually a home and/or solar battery.

    Unlike bolted-on roof panels, they take the place of the tiling on the roof and become part of the structure of the home."

    https://www.greenmatch.co.uk/solar-energy/solar-panels/roof-tiles

    futuresprog,
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    About 20 years ago my cousin was trying to get those in Aotearoa NZ but building regulations wouldn’t allow it.

    A couple of weeks ago I was biking along the Hauraki Rail Trail and saw a house with these tiles on the roof. They fit in quite nicely but were clearly not the same tin as the rest of the roof.

    #solar

    @strypey

    futuresprog, to random
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    Nearly every company I’ve come in contact with has asked me to:

    A. Install their App
    B. Give Feedback

    First, why do I need the app? Very few had an actual good reason beyond what you’d expect from an email or Wallet ticket. One provided some minigames and additional context, which was very neat. Another added some animated tingles to the ticket to make it harder to copy, but nobody ever checked and it could be exported to an Apple Wallet anyway.

    futuresprog,
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    Interesting.

    Preventing ad block? Maybe. These are shopping sites so they’ve done the hard work of acquiring you already.

    Ring-fencing data? Hardly. They’ve got the standard Facebook / Twitter / Google share and advert and tracking embeds.

    There must be some other advantage. Able to get your geolocation and push advertisements as notifications?

    @vik

    GossiTheDog, to random
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    HT to @wdormann here - somebody has backdoored the open source project XZ which has downstream impacts.

    For example, although OpenSSH doesn’t use XZ, Debian patch OpenSSH and introduced a dependency which translates as the XZ changes introducing a sshd authentication bypass backdoor it appears.

    One dude bothered to investigate in his free time about why ssh was running slow, so it was caught fairly early - i.e. hopefully before distros started bundling it.

    https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

    futuresprog,
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    Finder is here:

    https://mastodon.social/@AndresFreundTec/112180083704606941

    @GossiTheDog

    futuresprog, to random
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    Last night I was lying awake attempting to remember the lyrics to Bob by Weird Al.

    I had the ending of one line and was attempting to reverse it to calculate the beginning.

    Very difficult at 0100.

    timClicks, to random
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    Perhaps I’m showing my age, but the density of games that were able to chart completely new territory is impressive.

    Dune II - 4X strategy

    Sim City - simulation games

    Star Control II - open world procgen

    Doom - first-person shooter

    Monkey Island (or Age of the Tentacle) - adventure

    Civilization - strategy

    https://tim.mcnamara.nz/post/745148074232545280/early-90s-video-games

    futuresprog,
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    Did you mention Crash Bandicoot specifically because of how it pushed the boundaries of the hardware at the time?

    https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/tag/crash-bandicoot/

    @timClicks

    iangriffin, to NewZealand
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    Here's a full disk white light solar image I took this morning. I love solar observing!

    futuresprog,
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    The good news is that the new filter has arrived.

    The bad news is that somehow I accidentally selected the 67mm instead of 58mm

    @iangriffin

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