I dabble in programming, administration, linux, gaming, historical european martial arts, reenactment, live action role play, e-mobility, carhacking, simpits and… parenting?
I’d say we had a different kind of “content pressure” when creating a blog back then. I mean how else would we explain the amount of under_construction gifs? 🙃
It is indeed a shame though that any activity on the net is associated with the question how to make money of it 🙁
With the #meta #Project92 or #Threads Fediverse offering, there has been a, well, robust discussion of how to avoid threats looming. Those advocating mass-preemptive defederation make three cases for it.
➡️ To avoid data mining …
However, defederation does virtually zero to avoid any big tech ...
Readers with long memories will remember my post “All the (active) sites using Webmention that I find (sic) so far” – the May 2022 edition and then the June 2022 edition. This is that list but updated for March 2024 and put in some sort of logical order in a post with a grammatically improved […]
Wonder where you look, because that list doesn’t look _that_ exhaustive 🙃
I like my #Gnome desktop but some things really drive me mad. I recently switched to an AM5 board (yeah yeah first world problems) which came with an integrated #bluetooth adapter. Which sucks. Badly. Dunno if it’s the driver or interference from the board itself or due to the case shielding the signal. I don’t really care as well. It can however not be deactivated in the UEFI settings.
I’m using a BT adapter plugged in via USB for years now and moved this over to my new system. It works _excellent_ even with multiple devices. I get clear sound without crackling on my headphones, which is what I really care for to stay “in the zone” for work.
Alas Gnome does not let you choose which BT adapter is used – unlike we know this e.g. from the NetworkManager. Apparently it even defaults to the _first_ adapter it finds, which is by design the integrated one – that I do not want in my case. I can basically only tell them apart by their addresses that I can obtain via the hcitool command:
$ hcitool dev
Devices:
hci1 10:B1:DF:AA:63:50
hci0 00:1A:7D:DA:71:06
And everything mentioned there is still true and while I usually can understand Bastien’s reasoning in this case I can’t. Alas not all is lost. It’s a little tedious but the following example script was added to unbind an adapter:
#!/bin/sh
ADAPTER_TO_DISABLE=${1:-hci0}
SYSFS_PATH=/sys/class/bluetooth/$ADAPTER_TO_DISABLE
if [ ! -h $SYSFS_PATH ] ; then
echo "Could not find adapter $ADAPTER_TO_DISABLE"
echo "Usage: $0 [hciX]"
exit 1
fi
USB_DEVICE_PATH=`realpath $SYSFS_PATH/device`
USB_DEVICE=`basename $USB_DEVICE_PATH`
echo $USB_DEVICE > $SYSFS_PATH/device/driver/unbind
The adapter will be back on the next reboot so it’s a little tedious but at least I can now kill the malfunctioning one. It’s a hammer to a nail but it works. Put in a script it may be called like this:
sudo unbind-bluetooth-driver.sh hci1
Oddly enough something in the gnome-shell extension acts up now and duplicates the device list.
I can live with that though and it may even be fixed with a more recent version already. I’m still on 44.9 and somewhat behind on this currently.
I touched #Ardour and I’m in awe (or should I say #DAW? 🤓). What an awesome piece of software for all audio recording and editing needs.
And I’d never have found it if it wasn’t for #Audacity quitting on me yesterday. Which, in all fairness, could be tracked down to an Oopsie in the USB stack for the microphone. A good old fashioned reboot fixed this in the end.
Mebbe of interest for my #SimPit (home cockpit) shenanigans.
TIL: google-chrome ships a script to maintain and update signatures to `/etc/cron.daily/google-chrome`
This failed and brought down the whole update progress in the background due to an unknown signature for the google-chrome package
Found out by chance today – #Fedora updates are usually that smooth that I didn’t notice they stalled for weeks o0
> The GPG keys listed for the “google-chrome” repository are already installed but they are not correct for this package.
> Error: GPG check FAILED
Solution was to run that script manually (as root) so it could update it’s repository config.
Still using our old Thermomix for grinding coffee beans 🤓
Hello, this note is written with #WordPress. If you are reading this with any other software via #ActivityPub: Gratulation.
Apparently there is a lot of rage about WordPress COM (that’s the company) changing their terms of service.
This here is just another self hosted WordPress instance (that’s the software) federating with the Fediverse *since 2019* – just like a shiton of other software you may never have heard about – and is not affiliated with said company in any way.
So… mebbe cool your jets. It’s not the software that makes weird policy decisions.
Still have the urge to block, bEcAusE WoRdPReSs? Go ahead 🤷 Just waiting for FediverseIsGoingGreat to pop up any day now.
Tried #wokwi – an online Arduino simulator – and ditched it again after fiddling with it for 5 minutes.
Looks good on first glance, admitted.
Raised my first eyebrow after not finding a diode. Ah well, used a 0-resistor instead as placeholder. I don’t see how I can demo a button matrix like that though.
Checked the download as ZIP function. Hm, there is no upload function, guess I have to register for saving online. Guess I can also just import the project text files via copy and paste again. Not comfortable but I can live with that. Found open tickets for both btw.
Made a little power distribution strip on a mini breadboard. Annoying, I have to adjust the colour of each connecting wire. Nice: The text editor allows mass selection just like vscode, so I can easily update a bunch of colours after making all connections. That’s something at least.
Added and wired up two Neopixels. That was annoying, they default to a perfect rectangle wich results in overlapping connection wires on the auto grid. Always. Tried to add a rotate property of 45 deg on a hunch – that worked! Why is there no option for this like with the resistors?
Eventually I tried to upload the Adafruit NeoPixel lib to get some blinken lights going… please subscribe to upload a library with a monthly fee of (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
I get it, we all want to earn money. I added whopping _5_ objects and run into the first brick wall. Not like this!
Guess that was a futile exercise.
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