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Jon Wood

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@an0key Christ, X-Files as well. Someone’s doing Buffy, with (some of) the original cast.

Just let these things die. Make something new.

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@anon_opin be easier to give it to the one person on the plane who can’t bear the fact other people exist.

@SecurityWriter it sometimes saddens me that everyone having a portable computer with constant internet connection in their pocket has more or less killed specialised devices like this.

@gsuberland I think at this point a GUI editor with vi mode for text editing is the sweet spot. For me that’s VSCode. Modal editing is so much less fiddly for me then anything else but vim itself is a bit of a nightmare to make do some of the things a modern editor can do now.

@andrew I’ve been watching your van videos and finding them really interesting. I have no intention of building a campervan but it scratches my itch to know how everything ever is done.

Also, it’s slightly odd seeing you without a radio and a look of low level panic on your face.

@anon_opin excellent plot twist, well done.

I regret taking the advice of the great poets Disturbed and getting down with the sickness. It’s nowhere near as cool as they make it sound.

@benjojo brb, writing an AR game.

My brother and I have just replaced degrees of Kevin Bacon with hops to the bridge a USS Enterprise. It’s surprisingly quick for most actors.

@NAB it doesn’t need to be super accurate, mine was mostly just boxes representing the key dimensions.

@NAB if you’re familiar with any sort of CAD software you can use that. I modelled a room a while back along with different furniture options so I could move them around like a doll’s house.

Putting speakers on phones was a mistake and when I’m elected Benevolent Dictator of the World I will outlaw them. I will also require a headphone jack in their place though, I’m not a monster.

@anon_opin but why? Maybe if you’re in such a rush you can’t handle one extra car in front you should have left five minutes earlier rather than raging at everyone else about it.

@SecurityWriter the result of training a machine to have the confidence of Silicon Valley techbro in all matters.

Jon Wood boosted

It's 2am, you get a riddle on Signal from a number you've never seen before. You don't reply. By 4am you have an answer and a set of GPS coordinates, a date range, and a size in gigabytes. You wait. You go. You find a single board computer running off of a dingy solar panel; it copies everything to your drive as soon as you insert it. When finished, the machine goes silent. The internal drive wiped.

You're the bearer of the library now. You know your solemn task.

A light in the dark.

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@pikesley I feel they should have led with that chance of collision being 1%.

No, Gemini. I don’t need your help to summarise this one line email.

@fesshole never, ever, let your partner know you have human emotions.

@hugh or if you pay them money you can have the version which does what it should have done in the first place.

@hugh oh fuck, I hope that’s not yours.

@an0key ohh right. Surely someone has reverse engineered the IT signals so they can integrate their treadmill into Home Assistant.

@an0key clearly you just need to build a small device which reads the IR signals and sends them as Bluetooth.

@jackeric firstly, I am not a lawyer. Having said that assuming the components you’re attaching aren’t too exotic I wouldn’t worry too much. It’s worth reading the requirements for CE marking and seeing if you can entirely self-certify, what you’re talking about is very different to getting buyers from major retailers involved. Emissions is the hard hit and the ESP32 more or less has you covered there unless you’re adding extra radios.

@jackeric how involved all this is depends what you’re shipping. The first time round wasn’t too bad because it was mostly pre-certified components put together. The second time was a nightmare involving coordination between our testing company and the hardware engineers in China, who would provide barely coherent test documentation. At one point I ended up on a two hour taxi ride to reflash the device being tested with new firmware.