hmm, must be an election coming up 🤔 quick! break out the empty platitudes!

yikes, I’m glad I decided to switch to debian stable recently, not that it’s a foolproof system either

I fucking hate agents!

All of these rug pulls are exhausting, but it’s keeping my motivation alive for migrating to selfhosted alternatives. Unfortunate how much time and expertise is required to do that so the vast majority of users are just along for the ride into total enshittification. Need more development on systems that allow groups of savvy folks to administer services for their communities. Yunohost is decent but not a perfect solution

thanks for the info, fortunately with it self hosted I can migrate if/when I have problems, but it’s working fine for me for now.

My order is in and I should be in the June batch :) Can’t wait to be back to the pebble ecosystem. My pebble steel had the common screen issues, and my pebble time was just too dim and the battery life was getting very short.

I host my own gitea instance and have been migrating my code off of github. Trouble is there isn’t much traction on federated code forges seemingly, so if I want people to be able to collaborate on my code they’d need to set up an account on my gitea, and I’d have to set up an email server to send the transactional emails to enable that, etc.

Selfhosting is great, but I don’t expect everyone to do it. I think the next step for data sovereignty is making it easier for the folks who are able to set up selfhosting to provide access to their services to members of their communities.

also, now having a gitea server running it’s an LLM scraper bonanza, so I have fail2ban blocking IPs as they come in but that only works on scrapers that identify themselves, and the big ones have so many IPs it’s still pretty overwhelming. Perhaps I’ll start redirecting them to a tarpit when I have bandwidth to spare 🤔

Such a huge fan of what Technology Connections is doing, especially more recently with his “we have the technology to be more efficient already” angle and just under the surface political rage.

I know my prius isn’t as good as an EV for most of the driving I do, but it’s way better than any other internal combustion system on the market. When my wife’s beater kicks the bucket we’re definitely replacing it with an EV and keeping the prius for long hauls.

I’m so tired, man

looking at the schematics of the device I want to monitor more closely, it looks like it’s actually using addressable LEDs with a two-wire protocol, which actually makes things even easier because I can just sample on the provided clock edges. I think these are colloquially DotStar rather than NeoPixel devices. For reference I’m designing some mods for a modern pinball machine and it would be useful to know the state of lights on the playfield since I can’t hook into the code directly.

well, it’s more being able to detect long vs. short pulses, as it’s not the logic level but the pulse width that encodes the bits.

fortunately the RP2040’s programmable IO can run at 40x that 3MHz rate, so with a working program I should be able to differentiate short and long pulses and convert them back to bits. My application shouldn’t need to know exact colors, rather just detecting certain patterns or an on/off threshold state for a specific light in the chain.

This is not true, datacenters are bad, but this is not why. Here’s a good post re. this “study”

Data centers’ heat exhaust is not raising the land temperature around where they’re built

I’m selfhosting a gitea instance now. If anyone wants to host some code on an optiplex tower in my spare bedroom, pm me and I’ll make you an account. Absolutely zero uptime guarantees, but also absolutely zero AI.

https://git.yuno.jack-case.pro/explore/repos

all of the computers in my house run linux, and other than a few laptop hardware issues my non-techie wife uses it for all of her work happily. Sure I can’t play Fortnite, but other than that sort of edge case I never see myself going back. My dual-boot windows install has been left to rot on my desktop and I don’t think it’s even worth the time investment of updating by firing it up again.

bookmarking this to read later, thanks for sharing! Loved the game as a kid, and it’s still fun to pick up and play on literally any hardware now :D

I just went in and opted out, but setting up my sellfhosted gitea instance has just moved to the top of my todo list. I already have a postgres database server running, and a VM where I can run docker containers so I’m excited to get all of my code out of there.