@edent (shkspr.mobi)After my rant a few weeks ago, I finally found a cheap WiFi smoke alarm. A few disclaimers before I get into this review:It was shipped from China, not from the UK as stated.The device doesn’t exist on the manufacturer’s website.Stock on Amazon keeps appearing and disappearing, so may be difficu...
Cracked one open already to see what’s inside?
T-Minus 6 hours until the podcast comes roaring back into your RSS feed! pic.twitter.com/vuYOVyoqQ9
I’m a simple man. I see #RSS I subscribe. 😄
Can you get 1080p/60 HDMI capture for under $20? The LYLEE Upgraded Video Capture Card seems to think it's possible. After contacting both Amazon and the seller the item went POOF! We might have accidentally did a good :D/
Meh… that’s exactly the HDMI capture I got months ago. I needed it mostly to debug some Raspberry boot trouble that would show way too short to be parsed by a human before the device would reboot again so it’s okay. I did wonder though why the framerate was so jacked up but blamed the undervolted HDMI splitter (It came without a fitting PS so I’m happy that it does _something_).
Lesson learnt. I suspect similar for a dead cheap SD-card writer at work.
@edent (shkspr.mobi)I’ve had a Nest smoke alarm for about 7 years. It connects to my WiFi network and occasionally pings a message to my phone that I’ve burnt my toast. Nifty! But, due to planned obsolescence regulatory requirements, it needs to be replaced. In app warning that my Nest smoke alarm needs replacing. ...
I love reading about your IoT journeys @Edent whilst completely ignoring my own. Like that washing machine I have, that in theory is able to connect over the wifi to… yes to what? I guess to some vendor API and I assume it does so over WEP only too. Or our central heater, that used to have it’s own gateway but since the company never got it running they patched it out so now it sits on my regular subnet and sends an occasional mail unsecured to some SMTP gateway. Don’t think it even uses hardcoded credentials for this. Oh the possibilities (and dangers)…
I know. And weep. And I ignore it. I’m too busy with other things than “fixing” or getting this zoo under control. It’s a mess. It’s the Internet of Shit.
Whenever you buy a second-hand book, you are stealing revenue from the author and publisher. It makes no difference whether you buy from a charity shop or a for-profit store. All the money goes to the seller of the book, and none of it flows back to the copyright holders. (The situation is slightly ...
It was a rather long-winded way. And I even read it to the end despite that I was bewildered by the initial thought 🤷
Hypolite Petovan (blog.mrpetovan.com)LEGO Ideas is a program enabling amateur designer to have their work become an official LEGO set. However this makes submitted designs unavailable for everyone else to build whether they are selected or not.
Wow. LEGO Ideas or not, I totally enjoy ogling some of the designs there 👍
Jan-Lukas Else (jlelse.blog)Sometimes the problem with programming is that you can’t turn off your mind as easily as you can turn off your PC. Practically, you don’t program anymore. But the brain still continues to program.
When a project really gets to me I do even program in my sleep and when I wake up my brain is already busy revising the results to implement later 🤣
We've got one last teaser for you before Update 4 drops on the experimental branch on March 16th. Stay safe until then! - Snutter
Meh. Collides with X4 Cradle Of Humanity. Too many games 😵
A month ago I flipped back from Jekyll to WordPress and nobody noticed. That, my friends, it how performant WordPress can be. Back in early December I switched from WordPress to Jekyll. Since then I went all in on the whole static site generator bandwagon and life was good. However, the writing work...
This is also how awesome RSS can be. As long as the feed url is kept intact or redirected you can change your setup weekly for all I care 😜
Das Land hat sich im Bundesrat erfolgreich für den Einsatz automatischer Kennzeichenlesesysteme eingesetzt. Der Einsatz von automatischen Kennzeichenlesesystemen zur Strafverfolgung schafft mehr Sicherheit, da er die Fahndung nach gefährlichen Straftätern erleichtert.
Bullshit. Gefährliche Straftäter registrieren ja auch brav den eigenen Fluchtwagen.
Damit werden früher oder später Bewegungsprofile gebildet, ein Träumchen für den nächsten Polizeistaat.