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The amount of people that look at me as if I lost my mind when I launch in essentially the same rant is astounding. Don’t people think anymore or have they just given up.
Most tech companies getting rid of their ethics departments (if they had one) doesn’t help as well.
#tech #entshittification #ethics #badtech
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#AskFedi #cars, what new hotness exists in the world of windscreen washer fluid since the last time I bought a bottle like a decade ago (which has just run out)? Any special formula to get? Anything with rain repellent or anything added in? Anything specific to avoid? Any and all suggestions and boosts welcome.
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Top tip: if you own an #Anbernic or similar handheld gaming console, and find you get awful lag when outputting to a TV but it's fine on its internal screen, you probably need to enable "Game Mode" in the TV - I think modern TVs automatically detect Xboxes and PlayStations and do this automatically, but I think my Anbernic ARC's bog standard HDMI smarts looks no different from a DVD player to a TV, so I was getting half a second or so of lag trying to game on a big OLED.
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#Mozilla say they used AI to find 22 vulnerabilities in #Firefox v148, and *271* in v150: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-security-zero-day-vulnerabilities/
Stepping away from the usual discourse around AI in software development for a moment - is that realistic? Literal hundreds of unpatched, unknown flaws in software used by millions every day, just waiting to be found and cracked?
Like, is it just changing variable types and claiming it's fixed a buffer overflow 200 times, or *is all modern software* actually that fragile and risky?
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#Electronics fedi, what make and model are these tactile switches? They don't match anything I'm seeing when searching for "slim round smd tactile" and the like - everything has too big a base and often the wrong colour. Is it possible they've just rolled their own mechanism to make it super tiny? They snap satisfyingly in and out but take a surprising amount of force.
These are in a weirdo gamepad I want to write about this week.
EDIT: solved, they're not off-the-shelf tactiles at all! Read ⬇️
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Today's a good day to point out the link in my profile to things I've preserved at the #InternetArchive: https://archive.org/details/@timixretroplays_gmail_com
In 2022 and 2023 I collected several vintage programmable game controllers and their user manuals for SEGA, SNES and the PC. Most of these were hard to find, physically or virtually, and took some hunting, but thanks to the @internetarchive these controllers can live again, to their full function, in your home. Most of those manuals now have hundreds of views.
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Another "no longer fit for purpose" for me is #LastPass, which has begun enthusiastically filling my username for websites into search boxes, which is an unbelievable time waster.
LastPass's official solution to this - provided 17 months after someone asked for help with it - is to add a "never URL" which prevents LP from autofilling on individual pages: https://community.lastpass.com/discussion/2554/how-to-stop-lastpass-from-automatically-filling-in-a-search-bar-on-a-site-where-i-am-already-logged-in?tab=all
My subscription to LastPass is due in July, so I've got til then to find time to migrate to a different thingy.
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Another "no longer fit for purpose" for me is #LastPass, which has begun enthusiastically filling my username for websites into search boxes, which is an unbelievable time waster.
LastPass's official solution to this - provided 17 months after someone asked for help with it - is to add a "never URL" which prevents LP from autofilling on individual pages: https://community.lastpass.com/discussion/2554/how-to-stop-lastpass-from-automatically-filling-in-a-search-bar-on-a-site-where-i-am-already-logged-in?tab=all
My subscription to LastPass is due in July, so I've got til then to find time to migrate to a different thingy.
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Another "no longer fit for purpose" for me is #LastPass, which has begun enthusiastically filling my username for websites into search boxes, which is an unbelievable time waster.
LastPass's official solution to this - provided 17 months after someone asked for help with it - is to add a "never URL" which prevents LP from autofilling on individual pages: https://community.lastpass.com/discussion/2554/how-to-stop-lastpass-from-automatically-filling-in-a-search-bar-on-a-site-where-i-am-already-logged-in?tab=all
My subscription to LastPass is due in July, so I've got til then to find time to migrate to a different thingy.
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Another "no longer fit for purpose" for me is #LastPass, which has begun enthusiastically filling my username for websites into search boxes, which is an unbelievable time waster.
LastPass's official solution to this - provided 17 months after someone asked for help with it - is to add a "never URL" which prevents LP from autofilling on individual pages: https://community.lastpass.com/discussion/2554/how-to-stop-lastpass-from-automatically-filling-in-a-search-bar-on-a-site-where-i-am-already-logged-in?tab=all
My subscription to LastPass is due in July, so I've got til then to find time to migrate to a different thingy.
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Another "no longer fit for purpose" for me is #LastPass, which has begun enthusiastically filling my username for websites into search boxes, which is an unbelievable time waster.
LastPass's official solution to this - provided 17 months after someone asked for help with it - is to add a "never URL" which prevents LP from autofilling on individual pages: https://community.lastpass.com/discussion/2554/how-to-stop-lastpass-from-automatically-filling-in-a-search-bar-on-a-site-where-i-am-already-logged-in?tab=all
My subscription to LastPass is due in July, so I've got til then to find time to migrate to a different thingy.
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Do you use a USB switch (to use a keyboard/mouse/whatever on multiple PCs)? Do you find your devices stop working on one #Windows10 PC after switching away and back to it?
Your PC is probably turning off that USB port for nonsense power-saving reasons. You'll want to dig deep into your power settings and disable "USB selective suspend setting".
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Tonight's plans to entirely re-cable my workspace have hit a snag. A very sassy, floofy snag. #Cats #SiameseCat #CatsOfMastodon
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If you're floofy and you know it, show your beans 🐾🐾
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Uh, I was expecting to spend all night writing a thread about the trials and tribulations of getting my #Surface Pro 6's touchscreen working under #Linux, but the steps I took can be summarised as 1. Install #LinuxMint, 2. Copy and paste a few lines from here into the terminal: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Installation-and-Setup 3. Reboot, type "surface" to enroll the touch-enabled kernel in secure boot (or something), and it just magically works. Less than 30 minutes from Windows 11 to touchy-feely Linux.
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Starting to properly look into an alternative to #Dropbox or #OneDrive. I'm currently paying AU$109/year ($9/month) for my home Office subscription which includes a terabyte of OD space. Dropbox is $184/year ($15/mo) for 2TB of space. I currently have about 100GB of data to house.
Looks like it costs about AU$80/month to put 100GB of data on a webhost in Australia.
Can anyone suggest somewhere priced in between that'd let me use NextCloud or similar? Boosts and suggestions welcome. #AskFedi
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So here's where the project sits at the end of day 1 - It's a #Blackberry Q10 keyboard working through a #PiPico #RP2350 controller. I'm making a physical keyboard case for my phone because I'm outrageously tired of virtual keyboards.
That's a PMOD implementation of the Q10 keyboard by Solder Party (shout-out to @arturo182) - I don't think you can buy these anymore but I bought two of them years ago and squirreled them away for the day I'd have a suitable microcontroller for the project.
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Okay so, to upload new firmware to a #SpotPear #RP2350 Core-A using the #Arduino IDE, you need to:
- Install the RP2350/2040 boards from here: https://github.com/earlephilhower/arduino-pico
- Select the "Generic RP2350" board
- Hold the microscopic BOOT button in while you plug it into USB
- Select the "UF2 Board" under "uf2conv ports" instead of "Serial ports"
- Hit upload - it should do that and reboot your board with the new firmwareThere's a WS2812 LED on port 25 for status/disco: https://spotpear.com/wiki/Raspberry-Pi-Pico-2-RP2350-Core-A.html
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If you start reading enough about #AQI, you will start to see some rigorously scientificised recipes - this article, for example, suggests ensuring your steak (230g) and asparagus (217g) ingredients are within one standard deviation of their specified weights. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8224830/
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It's #Caturday somewhere in the world. #Cats #SiameseCat #CatsOfMastodon
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I wish #Ploopy had a bit more technical information available - stuff like "Ordering the components is left as an exercise for the reader" comes across as a bit snide, bordering on hostile, and it looks like I'd have to be able to read Altium files to even find out what sensor IC this thing uses. But I don't think I can fault them for making a high-precision scrolling / volume / whatever reprogrammable dial available off-the-shelf for CAD/AUD$50.
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I wish #Ploopy had a bit more technical information available - stuff like "Ordering the components is left as an exercise for the reader" comes across as a bit snide, bordering on hostile, and it looks like I'd have to be able to read Altium files to even find out what sensor IC this thing uses. But I don't think I can fault them for making a high-precision scrolling / volume / whatever reprogrammable dial available off-the-shelf for CAD/AUD$50.
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I wish #Ploopy had a bit more technical information available - stuff like "Ordering the components is left as an exercise for the reader" comes across as a bit snide, bordering on hostile, and it looks like I'd have to be able to read Altium files to even find out what sensor IC this thing uses. But I don't think I can fault them for making a high-precision scrolling / volume / whatever reprogrammable dial available off-the-shelf for CAD/AUD$50.
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I wish #Ploopy had a bit more technical information available - stuff like "Ordering the components is left as an exercise for the reader" comes across as a bit snide, bordering on hostile, and it looks like I'd have to be able to read Altium files to even find out what sensor IC this thing uses. But I don't think I can fault them for making a high-precision scrolling / volume / whatever reprogrammable dial available off-the-shelf for CAD/AUD$50.
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I wish #Ploopy had a bit more technical information available - stuff like "Ordering the components is left as an exercise for the reader" comes across as a bit snide, bordering on hostile, and it looks like I'd have to be able to read Altium files to even find out what sensor IC this thing uses. But I don't think I can fault them for making a high-precision scrolling / volume / whatever reprogrammable dial available off-the-shelf for CAD/AUD$50.
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I was all set up to do a mini project today, then accidentally found an open source project that has already achieved exactly what I wanted to do AND still has complete units in stock ready to purchase so you don't have to order PCBs and do some dodgy surface-mount soldering and program the controller and tweak the 3D prints to fit.
That project is the #Ploopy Knob, a USB-connected high-precision scrolling dial: https://ploopy.co/knob/
(Ploopy also make cool trackballs and a trackpad)
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I was all set up to do a mini project today, then accidentally found an open source project that has already achieved exactly what I wanted to do AND still has complete units in stock ready to purchase so you don't have to order PCBs and do some dodgy surface-mount soldering and program the controller and tweak the 3D prints to fit.
That project is the #Ploopy Knob, a USB-connected high-precision scrolling dial: https://ploopy.co/knob/
(Ploopy also make cool trackballs and a trackpad)
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I was all set up to do a mini project today, then accidentally found an open source project that has already achieved exactly what I wanted to do AND still has complete units in stock ready to purchase so you don't have to order PCBs and do some dodgy surface-mount soldering and program the controller and tweak the 3D prints to fit.
That project is the #Ploopy Knob, a USB-connected high-precision scrolling dial: https://ploopy.co/knob/
(Ploopy also make cool trackballs and a trackpad)
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I was all set up to do a mini project today, then accidentally found an open source project that has already achieved exactly what I wanted to do AND still has complete units in stock ready to purchase so you don't have to order PCBs and do some dodgy surface-mount soldering and program the controller and tweak the 3D prints to fit.
That project is the #Ploopy Knob, a USB-connected high-precision scrolling dial: https://ploopy.co/knob/
(Ploopy also make cool trackballs and a trackpad)
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I was all set up to do a mini project today, then accidentally found an open source project that has already achieved exactly what I wanted to do AND still has complete units in stock ready to purchase so you don't have to order PCBs and do some dodgy surface-mount soldering and program the controller and tweak the 3D prints to fit.
That project is the #Ploopy Knob, a USB-connected high-precision scrolling dial: https://ploopy.co/knob/
(Ploopy also make cool trackballs and a trackpad)