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by masto 2y ago
ESPHome is a good start, as it provides a great framework for layering components together. For example, you could assemble what you want out of: * The display component that handles drawing into a grid of pixels ( https://esphome
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by masto 2y ago
I have friends and relatives on Facebook who repost not these Jesus things, but other categories of similar AI-generated garbage. The ones I've seen the most of are fake houses - elaborate log cabins in the woods with massive swimming
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by masto 2y ago
It was actually Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged who decided to insult everyone in the universe, individually, personally, and in alphabetical order, and who briefly showed up while Arthur Dent was stranded in a cave on prehistoric Earth
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by masto 3y ago
I remember when I was a childish Perl fan trading insults with the childish Python fans of the time, one of the things "they" always chided "us" about was that we had too many different ways to accomplish the same thing.
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by masto 3y ago
Vernor Vinge has an outstanding catalog of invention and accomplishments. One of that's threaded through many of his stories and has become even more relevant lately is ubiquitous computing and networking, and in particular augmented r
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by masto 3y ago
Scotty from the Strange Parts YouTube channel (fantastic) got a very serious concussion that he struggled to recover from for a long time. He made a few videos about it, and has more on his second channel regarding the interesting treatment
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by masto 3y ago
I realize one needs a catchy title and some storytelling to get people to read a blog article, but for a summary of the main points: * This is not about a build step that makes the app perform better * The app isn't 10x faster (or fast
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by masto 3y ago
Sometime around 1999/2000ish, I built a sort of distributed database application. Early web app days, Perl and PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, and almost no JavaScript. It was for fairly sensitive data that the users were a bit squirrely about
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by masto 3y ago
I love this subthread; I've tried to explain this for years and I've concluded it's simply impossible to convey to someone who never experienced it. It's sad, and really frustrating, to just hear the same clueless commen
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by masto 3y ago
A nontrivial amount of macOS software, even from large, well-known vendors, has some step during the installation process where it puts up its own dialog asking for your password (and, I strongly suspect, shells out to "sudo" when
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by masto 3y ago
I too got my start in 1984, when Santa brought me a Commodore 64. I'm not good at remembering things like anniversaries, so I'm glad not only to read this essay, but to be reminded of the occasion.
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by masto 3y ago
It was kind of a weirdly written intro, but I think it was meant to set up "here are some examples of how ridiculous things were before deregulation".
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by masto 3y ago
Apparently Fig was a terminal enhancement that provided a fancy autocomplete system.
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by masto 3y ago
Apparently Bevy is a game engine.
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by masto 3y ago
They're trolling.
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by masto 3y ago
I was about to make an argument that "there's no DRM" because it's a simple flash memory chip used to keep track of how much detergent is left, and it's totally unencrypted... But wait, could it be that the reason f
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by masto 3y ago
It's a tired argument. Running any program has risks.
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by masto 3y ago
I don't know why this particular thing set off my pedanticism. Someone is slightly wrong on the Internet! Maybe because it started right off being needlessly Linux-centric. Or that I thought it would be one thing but it turned out to b
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by masto 3y ago
Every little bit helps, by definition. At the same time, by distracting us with arguments about plastic straws and meat, the fossil fuel industry shifts the focus off of their enormously outsized contribution to climate change. It can also
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by masto 3y ago
I rushed to buy AppleCare just in case this happens to mine, so.. working as designed? But seriously, I hope that there will be a repair program for this issue. Right now it's hard for me to be upset at Apple since there are inevitably
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by masto 3y ago
The oversimplification and promises that if you just buy their thing you'll have a distraction free life in 14 days really irks me. I struggled with this stuff for over 40 years. Only last year, after a disastrous crash, did I start le
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by masto 3y ago
To be honest, I'm kind of at that point. At first I was using it every day because it was new and I was curious, then I was using it every day because I wanted to give it a good try, then I was still using it but increasingly thinking
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by masto 3y ago
Step 1 is to question why you're using a Raspberry Pi. It's almost never the correct answer. If there's a really really good reason, step 2 is to get rid of the SD card. Personally, none of mine even have an SD card inserted
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by masto 3y ago
Seems like this was originally built for SARS-CoV-2. Here's the paper from 2021: https://pubs.aip.org/avs/jvb/article-abstract/39/3/033202/59... and then in 2022 for detecting oral cancer:
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by masto 3y ago
The question was "What's the benefit for you as a user to side with Apple on things like this?". There's no vitriol there. Jumping to the defense of a trillion dollar corporation seems religious or at least tribalistic t
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by masto 3y ago
That was the one. Two for $70 in my case.
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by masto 3y ago
There’s a time and a place, man. Well actuallying on an obituary isn’t it.
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by masto 3y ago
Me too, though it was more like 25 years. If someone asked me "who is your hero", I would answer John Walker. To be honest, I didn't know all that much about him beyond The Hacker's Diet, his own autobiography/Autod
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by masto 3y ago
I like to think I'm pretty scam-savvy, but it only takes a moment of the holes in the swiss cheese aligning. I saw a recreation of a movie prop that looked like a good gift idea for a friend and made an impulse purchase. Something was
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by masto 3y ago
And if you have an obscure Canadian TV computer from 1982 and want to use a USB keyboard with it, check out my https://youtu.be/93LBVhSx8cs?si=bC8OW3SpWIIlsgNN (I should really get around to taking that project beyond the p

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