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.
@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.
@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.
@jackeric for us that was a combination of physical testing for the casing (they threw a HUGE ball bearing at it to make sure it wouldn’t shatter) and radio emissions testing on the radios.
@jackeric not the person you asked but I’ve been involved in shipping consumer electronics. The big thing is CE marking, which is a self certification process but involves various third party tests to ensure you’re compliant.
@fesshole everyone needs a hobby. You especially it would seem.
After the terrible Section 31 Paramount made it up to me by reminding me I hadn’t seen any of Lower Decks past the first season, so I watched it all in two days. It’s a truly lovely thing if you’re the sort of nerd who grew up watching Star Trek.
@gsuberland I desperately want a second audio track option which doesn’t bleep out characters swearing.
@gsuberland coincidentally I picked it up again at season 2 today after bouncing off at the end of season 1 ages ago. The first is (like all Trek) a bit rough, and a bit over keen on cooky fan service. 2 manages to get into being proper Star Trek with a wicked sense of humour.
Also it opens with 5 minutes that can only be explained by someone in the script writing team saying “hey, the first Hunger Games was good, let’s do that” and then forgetting to even slightly cover it up.
Despite my better judgement I watched Section 31, the Star Trek film presumably made so Paramount wouldn’t lose the production grants when they cancelled the TV series. It is dire. They compressed the series into 95 minutes of incoherent plotting, characters I couldn’t care less about, and fight scenes which are all at least five minutes too long.
@lynnesbian it’s called The Register, and my is it a miserable place.
I somehow ended up on a mailing list for video editing plugins and I’m not even mad because now I know you can get an After Effects plugin for adding elephants to your video. $40 for all the elephants you want who can “do almost anything (keeping a profile-view)”.
Today in ominous commit messages: “Add a confirmation step for fleet actions”
@mattgrayyes I need to know what the Major Incident ONLY button does.
Late to the party on Severance because I dropped it mid-season for several months just before it really started going hard. Now very up for the second season.
@dramypsyd for now you’d need to run (or paying someone to run) a closed instance which requires invites and doesn’t federate so that posts don’t leak. It appears Mastodon has Facebook style groups in development but unclear when that’ll release.