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by zh3 8mo ago
And of course the Ping of Death (which I thought was windows-only, but according to the linked article also affected linux and mac). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_of_death
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by zh3 8mo ago
It's pretty easy to do, a Pi (of any kind) and an IR LED that sends the power button codes for the common TV brands will do it (since it's often a toggle, it'll also turn TV's on if they are off). RF remotes are harder t
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by zh3 8mo ago
In a similar vein, many years ago I helped someone with a similar problem with a neighbour who had the volume too loud. As the aerial cable was accessible, I suggested he stick a pin through the neighbour's cable whenever the volume go
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by zh3 8mo ago
A spinning mirror is certainly an option, there are many projects around using them as projectors e.g. [0]. It would need precision faces and be a larger volume than the flapping mirror approach. Because the mirrors are spring-mounted and d
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by zh3 8mo ago
Unfortunately you can't get the LEDs any more - they were originally from LED printers and those all now use infrared LED arrays. I'm actually working on something similar, and am even using a few VB scanner mechs in development (
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by zh3 9mo ago
NP, and the exact definition of vibe-coding is, I think, yet to be determined. This wasn't a yolo, it was read all the prompts and generally accept them. Overall I'd say the code and web page are at least of a quality I've se
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by zh3 9mo ago
Far short of a proper review, however I have scanned the code. Bear in mind this was a purely personal project, never intended to see the light of day and initially just done to create a small but operable chunk of dbus/blueZ glue code
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by zh3 9mo ago
Fair enough, I did ask for "inspiration" through rather than "motivation" - mainly because I recall a comment on here a few days ago that LLMs are carefully trained to never reveal where the training material came from.
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by zh3 9mo ago
Yes, I haven't even read most of the files, just threw it up there as an example for the OP (I too am tired of the lack of examples, so stepped up to the plate on this one). As a personal bit of development last weekend. I can see inco
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by zh3 9mo ago
I didn't ask for a style, it's just what Claude came up with by default. Here's what happened just now when I asked it:- What was the inspiration for the CSS styling of this web page?
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by zh3 9mo ago
I'll bite. Here's my realtime Bluetooth heart rate monitor for linux, with text output and web interface. https://github.com/lowrescoder/BlueHeart This was 100% written by Claude Code, my input was limi
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by zh3 9mo ago
Same solution here - keep a base diskless image on the server, copy it to the diskless area, pxeboot the machine. Works for Windows too (iscsi). Could do the same thing on EC2 of course.
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by zh3 11mo ago
AI following the Libet ([0]1983) paper about preconscious thought apparently preceding 'voluntary' acts (which really elevated the question of what 'freewill' means). * [0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F
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by zh3 11mo ago
Bertrand Russell: "The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." That's actually from "The triumph of stupdity" [0] rather than Co
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by zh3 11mo ago
In some early computers, the bootstrap was actually a matrix of diodes where you'd remove a diode to get a one and leave it in for a zero. I had a bunch of these boards sometime in the mid 1970's and found you could program a full
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by zh3 1y ago
Debian works fine without systemd (at least for now) though Devuan does indeed make like easier.
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Live stream of comet flyby – 20th Octo 2025 17:30 UTC(virtualtelescope.eu)
2 points by zh3 1y ago|0 comments
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by zh3 1y ago
Having had a twiddler since they came out, seeing this topic the first ting I did was search the thread to see who mentioned it first :) Not sure of the timeline, probably a little after that the Playstation Glove looked like a great idea b
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by zh3 1y ago
Fairly obviously a 1Gbps network is not going to compete with 5Gbps SATA or 20Gbps NVME. Having said that, for real performance we load stuff over the network into local RAM and then generally run from that (faster than all other options).
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by zh3 1y ago
It's down to the mount options, use 'soft' and the program trying to access the (inaccessible) server gets an error return after a while, or 'intr' if you want to be able to kill the hung process. The caveat is a lo
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by zh3 1y ago
Don't know about FreeBSD but hard hanging on a mounted filesystem is configurable (if it's essential configure it that way, otherwise don't). To this day I see plenty of code written that hangs forever if a remote resource is
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by zh3 1y ago
On a smaller scale, I run multiple PC's in house diskless with NFS root; so easy to just create copies on the server and boot into them as needed, it's almost one image per bloated app these days (server also boots PC's into
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by zh3 1y ago
Andy Grove, "Only the paranoid survive":- Quote: Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. - Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel F
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by zh3 1y ago
Or even the similar story on CNN - "The media is learning what happens when you give a mouse a cookie" (as the article says: "Spoiler alert: The mouse has some more demands") * https://edition.cnn.com/202
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by zh3 1y ago
Similar to the Massive Attack gig that used facial recognition on the crowd - they put the captured faces (with labels against them) up on the big screens. Discussed a day or so ago on here:- https://www.gadgetreview.com/mas
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Video of US missile fired at mystery orb shown at UFO hearing(bbc.co.uk)
5 points by zh3 1y ago|4 comments
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by zh3 1y ago
Also on CNN etc
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by zh3 1y ago
You can also get GT730's with 4xHDMI - not fast, but great for office work and display/status boards type scenarios. Single slot passive design too, so you can stack several in a single PC. Currently just £63 UK each. [0] https:&
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by zh3 1y ago
Ref. the UK ('British people'), there's currently a thing where peacfully protesting a ban will get you arrested (I have a lot of sympathy for the police in this case, whatever they do will be wrong in the eyes of one side or
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by zh3 1y ago
Like the legal principle of "De minimis" ('the law does not concern itself with trifles'). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_minimis

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