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  Why the fuck am I “The dogs trust” so much for calls lately?

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  OK this looks cool. #3D Resin

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  So #eufymake replied to my complaint as to not shipping a yellow ink yet. Finally (and on a Sunday). They issued to a warehouse that has no stock and so the order just stalled, FFS. They have now issued to a warehouse with stock. They are complete muppets (sorry Kermit).

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  FFS people poking AI at my circuit designs now. May be time to retire - I don’t want this shit. And it was crap... Saying 196mA charge rate is close to the 200mA limit. Yeh, well, and, well, FFS. Saying a GPIO has no pull up, so may not read properly until initialised with internal pull up - well Duh! So I'll initialise before polling it, FFS. Why even post this crap to me?!?!? I need to instant ban/block any AI crap!

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  @catsalad@infosec.exchange but really, am I actually any good at being an imposter? I’m not convinced.

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  I tried to explain the time servers I have made to grandkid. They have decided that I am a time lord now.

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  Watching x-files, always fun. We live in interesting times. For a lot of their story lines, if everyone in the vicinity had an always available, in their pocket, video and still camera, a lot of stories would fall apart, or be proved supernatural. A UFO landing then would be one guy with an iffy photo still. Now it would be 100 live streams. We have that now, but we are weirdly in a period beyond that. Now, we can have 100 AI generated live streams at a whim, and nothing can be trusted!

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  @ahnlak@kavlak.uk Oh if/when(?) I make a bomb, it will not have a countdown display. Or, if it does, it will be at least a minute out.

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  I know film tropes are special, and I wondered on this. Seen on old x-files, the notion of a "call trace" - Takes time - Have to stay on call - Gets more and more digits over time I wonder how much is based on reality, albeit distorted. I imagine analogue exchanges, someone at exchange checking mechanical selectors, or a (non audio) "buzzing" out the circuit, and it taking time. The second anything digital it (a) takes no time and (b) can be done after the call has ended...

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  Dental is mental! We have NHS and covers some huge possible costs. Why the fuck are eyes and teeth separate. I have good dental insurance, at some notable cost, but a filling, 30 minutes, was £230 and insurance only covers £125. We need healthcare in UK to cover eyes and teeth as well, really.

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  Well, I have emailed the dentist for an appointment.

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  Can't data centres pump the water back to the reservoir once it is heated a bit?

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  Local stratum 1 GPS NTP time server, yay! Now to see how it copes with sun and rain. The bag is an extra precaution. Tracking 36 satellites and using 19, over three networks. Current PPS tracking with σ=16ns Current jitter measured at FireBrick (NTP client) of 0.08ms, and latency of 0.7ms. Selected over any pool (via Internet) servers, understandably. PoE #PCB #ESP32 #GPS #NTP

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  FFS Companies House get worse. Not only is the whole Director/PSC ID thing a mess and has a 14 day window not a deadline, and so on. The Director==PSC logic is broken, they make it all the date for filing confirmation statement but that does not identify PSC, even though PSC is director and director is verified. So letters, etc. Latest is an email saying not filed. DOES NOT SAY WHICH FUCKING COMPANY IT IS FOR DOES NOT SAY NAME OF PSC THAT HAS NOT FILED. FFS!!!! Utter incompetence!

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  I have generally managed to use gcc on mac, but now it is all broken. So annoying. The Man clang does not handle nested functions even gnu99, so I brew installed the native arm gcc, which is a good start. But it cannot find err.h and no amount of googling is helping me find it. It should be standard clib stuff. Any clues welcome - what formulae or whatever it is called do I need to install? #macos #clib #brew #homebrew

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  This is an odd one. Just wanted to check next full moon. Google popped asking for my location and I said NO! Then it get this. So it knows my location anyway. But why say location. The full moon is a specific point in time regardless of where you are in the world. Maybe it is just time zone related.

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  Competitive toileting is a new one on me!

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  Me, reading microwave instructions.

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  Another variant of @aaisp logo in #3D

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  Annoying.. Yes, I went to bed early - was awake most of last night for other reasons. Then saw a new bug report on codeberg. It is suspiciously well worded, but comes to totally wrong conclusions. It completely makes up the idea of my Faikout code downloading a "manifest" file, and then finding a TLS issue with the binary. Neither are true. The manifest file is only used for my "Flasher" modules, and the TLS cert is also fine. I suspect AI, so had to reply and close the i...

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  Yay, IPv6 Ethernet working properly now I fixed my own stupid config error. To elaborate. I had set the subnet to explicitly not have "autonomous" (A) setting and to have "other (O) setting and DHCPv6 (experimental). This stopped the ESP getting an address (sensibly so). The WiFi VLAN was a more normal config, and so worked. We will have full DHCPv6 on FireBrick in due course, but for now it was testing I set up long ago, and forgot about. Kicking myself a lot.

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  Well, this should be fun. #Faikout #PCB #ESP32

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  The #Faikout boards work well, but it occurs to me that Ethernet connection for air-con units would be really good for some installations (more reliable and secure). A simple Ethernet version may be as little as £5 extra, but there is a concern if using with an X403 connection which is at grid power levels. It has isolating magnetics and margins, but still, not certified grid power safety isolation. So now pondering a PoE version with opto-isolated S21 connection to aircon as an alternative.

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  I can’t say I don’t like the idea of a “n/a” balance, as long as it stays that way #Amex Sadly it did not

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  Hmm. My beta release of #Faikout on 12th was broken. I had got a long way in debugging when someone suggested that the build had used v6.0.1-dirty of the ESP IDF, and had me previous debug/meddling with LWIP inadvertently broken something. I am very sure I would have got there soon. A clean IDF install fixed it. Well spotted. Now he owns up and says he used claud! It gave a sensible explanation even (well, did not find the bug, but concluded I must have fucked up LWIP). I feel -dirty now.

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  This is a good start - only 3.3V connected, nothing else, and Ethernet is "up"... Yay!

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  Fuckity fuck fuck.

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  Thanks everyone for the well wishes. Yes, I am hardly sleeping, feeling like crap. Counting down to next paracetamol. Hopefully this won’t drag on for too long… What worries me is longer term issues. I have spent years recovering from a stroke after my last bout of Covid, and was finally feeling a lot more “myself” again, at last. I hope nothing that bad, but it could easily be a thick head for months, or years. It was bad watching my dad die of covid. Take care everyone. #covid

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  FOTLGTL Fear Of TODO List Getting Too Long Whilst lying in bed for over 24 hours now, and seriously fed up with being ill. #covid19

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  @maxleibman@beige.party [joke not missed] water is one of those weird things. Yes, there are energy costs in processing and pumping and so on, and we are slowly fixing the negative impacts of sourcing energy. But where a local area has “enough” then “using” is basically the same as not using it, it flows to the sea and cycles back as rain either way. Only when “not enough” in an area does it matter. Even data centres “using it” are just passing it along its normal cycle eventually, right.