https://youtu.be/rnm1w6iMotk at this rate, my mqtt christmas light strip may even be installed by christmas

(wemos d1 mini, 74hct04 to convert to 5v, neopixel strip)

1920.

I don't understand why "Rails is the best because it makes the decisions for you" is made as an argument in its favour. You can pick any other combination of technologies you like and still make the same decisions as Rails did, if indecisiveness is what's stopping you from work

https://lobste.rs/s/unafsx/ruby_on_rails_still_best_web_app_framework

My interest in graphing my weight seems to correlate very closely with my perception of whether I'm losing any. Funny, that

using love2d and #lua to prototype the colour transitions I want in my christmas neopixel string, because shorter feedback cycles than uploading to an arduino every time I make a change. I think I may have a bit more floating point in this program than the target hw is going to like, though

Also: 128 byte limit on mqtt packet size? That's not a lot of bits for 144 rgb leds

Elite Dangerous (including the Horizons DLC which is pretty core to the current galaxy) is FREE from the Epic Games store for the next week ...

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/elite-dangerous/home

The game is completely free-to-play once you have it - there is no mechanism for players to pay money and get better resources, only cosmetics. This means that if you end up competing with other players (which isn't necessary anyway, and you can exclude this by settings) you are on an equal footing with only time/skills invested.

Elite Dangerous is a beautiful and immense, absorbing game. It's almost a "space simulator" with a 1:1 model of our galaxy and for the populated regions a well-balanced economic model.

Seriously, to search for screenshots and videos. If you don't already have a copy of this game, get one while its free!!

#elite #elitedangerous

Who'd like to recommend a UK source for decent (robust plugs, wire thicker than a piece of string) micro-USB cables that isn't Amazon?

✓added doors to daughter's ikea wardrobe (only ... 2 years? ... after putting it together) ✓ removed nfs exports on home server ✓ switched kodi box from nfs to sftp, added ssh key for it on home server ✓ retagged most of my digital music collection (beets ftw) ? stopped home server from going to sleep 20 minutes after I log out on the console (https://discourse.nixos.org/t/stop-pc-from-sleep/5757 - tried this but waiting for 20 minutes to elapse)

Since we now have a Google phones-Home in the house, I'm clamping down on any service on the lan that's not authenticated/encrypted

Interesting OS security project: https://spectrum-os.org

* each app runs in a separate KVM container
* each VM is generated by a #Nix derivation
* graphics output is composited together via wayland/virtio

The idea is not too dissimilar to #QubesOS
, with the following main differences:

* Xen -> KVM
* Fedora/Debian -> #NixOS
* Xorg -> wayland/virtio

You can read more about the details here: https://spectrum-os.org/design.html

Using airsonic (Linux) to serve music to ultrasonic (android) via sniproxy (to make my ip6 web servers available over ipv4) I finally have music streaming from my home media collection to my 4g phone. And the UI is not awful either

Writeup to follow

I just impulse-bought a No.4 plane on ebay. Not only do I not know how to sharpen it, I'm frankly a little sketchy on how even to use it.

This is going to go well.

@dan Nice! @mothacehe & others have been working on #Guix system cross-compilation, which is a nice way to target low-end ARM devices:

https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/ggaaattyp/

I am very very tempted to switch all the #nixwrt startup scripts from #lua to #fennel just because I keep burning myself on uninitialized variables (typos, or writing e when I meant event and vice versa) and it's painful. But I mean, the whole nixwrt thing is already prettty niche, am I going to make it even nichier?

(Probably, yes)

seems my twitter tab is harder on firefox when it's sitting there invisible in the background than my fediverse tab when I'm actively scrolling

Thinkpad BIOS/UEFI changelog entry

(Fix) Fixed an issue where SAMSUNG PM871 SSD might not be detected correctly after system restart.

Hmm, let's hope this helps with the PM951 as well

NOOOOOO!!! YOU CAN'T JUST SCALE DOWN A PATTERN FOR THE LARGEST LIVING NON-MAMMALIAN VERTEBRATE TO FIT THE ONLY SOLID-BLACK EYES YOU HAVE!! YOU ARE DISTORTING THE NATURAL SIZE OF PLSIHUES NOOOOO!!!!

haha sewing machine go brrrrr

#WhaleShark #shark #shork #plushie #smol

I did a blog about my latest #nixwrt-adjacent partially shaved yak - https://ww.telent.net/2020/10/30/can_i_speak_to_your_supervisor

Fun fact: the "y a" in "yak shave" stands for "yet another"

Accidentally building gtk3 emacs from source on my son's minecraft laptop, because I forgot its nixos config includes my personal package list in case I have to login and admin it

It's already got past the undump, I may as well let it finish now

#NixOS 20.09 is out https://nixos.org/news.html!

Bootable NixOS SD image for MNT Reform https://source.mntmn.com/ehmry/nixos-installer-mnt-reform

Accidentally upgraded my work Mac to Catalina :-(

Today is going to be fun-with-#nixpkgs day, I fear

Don't know if the difference will be visible by the time the image has been around the fediverse, but: on the right, my regular emacs; on the left, pure gtk3 (thus, wayland) emacs built from https://github.com/masm11/emacs/

Will be quite excited if this works, emacs is the only thing I use regularly that looks this awful on a hidpi screen

For the past year I've been doing independent software research, funded by an Open Tech Fund grant. This summer the Trump administration de-funded the OTF, cutting off my income.

I've been living off my savings since then, and while I'm looking for alternative funding sources, applying and getting that money will take time and so in the meantime, if you can, please support my work via GitHub sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/spacekookie, or Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/spacekookie/.

Thanks! Boosts appreciated.

My incoming feed on my personal #microblogpub instance seems to have stopped coming in. That or all the people I follow have stoped talking at the same time

Can't quite believe that the last two weeks of #nixwrt development have mostly been about "writing an init replacement in lua" but, hey, here we are.

(Although it'd actually be more accurate to call it a monit/supervisord replacement, I don't plan on running it as PID 1)