Less than a year ago, in August 2023, we installed a 4.8kWh Solar Battery at a cost of £2,900. Whenever I talk about the upfront capital costs of solar power, people rightly want to know what the payback period is. Well, after less than 10 months, the battery has given us 1MWh. To put that […]
@Edent Hah I think my brain skipped the bits in () :P
I'd say it's clear enough tbh.
I was wondering if there is a HTML attribute for referrals (Where the author is compensated by the visitor clicking the link) and haven't found anything which is kinda interesting.
It'd be nice for the person clicking a link to know if their a financial motivation in the author sharing that link with them, y'know?
Great. After a couple of years of using the Starling Bank app with @GrapheneOS with zero issues, I received a warning today that "your device hasn't passed our security checks"
13 days to factory restore to stock Android, apparently, or I won't be able to use the app on this device.
Anyone else have this issue? I haven't ever been able to use Google Wallet with bank cards on #GrapheneOS but that hasn't been a problem.
Today I soldered the tiniest thing ever. This resistor (red circle) is 0.8mm long.
Who designed this s**t?
(it's for selecting internal-external antenna)
You don't want to see my burned fingers. #esp32cam
I admin an old community FB page for a place we used to live. We've got a few clear and simple rules but nobody likes it when they get applied to them personally, despite agreeing to them when they sign up. One rule is: no for sale ads.
This week someone is angry that we've removed their £435k house for sale advert because they think it's more interesting to the community than other posts we've allowed, and an example he gives is: somebody DONATING BABY FORMULA TO ANYONE IN NEED!
Turns out the vodaphone PAYG 1 contract has a bit of small print which renders it near useless as if you don't use it for a duration the service is terminated without warning.
@Edent ACS just released a new ACR-esque reader called "walletmate" that will allow you to handle tokenized/merchant based requests such as the experience of Google Wallet/Apple Pay.
This means instead of the request looking like this.
READER: Gimme info > ACTIVE: have tokenized random info
It's
READER: I'm Merchant Terence, gimme the info you got for me. > ACTIVE: have info I have for you.
I'm yet to abstract that yet but it's on my lengthy TODO list and if I get a use case I'll do it
@Edent Final piece of info but this is vague memory, afaik it has a NXP PN532 IC inside driving most of the NFC functionality but that is blurry and could be wrong.
Just installed my first doorbell security camera and FML the lack of consideration to security is mind boggling.. A thief could steal one of these in < 5 seconds.. The advice from the manufacturer is to have a secondary camera monitoring the first one...
Had a hunch that LTE reception would be better up the drive than where the antenna is currently, up on the chimney.
Our drive goes uphill, much higher than the house and, unlike the chimney, has no trees in the way, so is a bit of a no-brainer but somehow hadn't occurred to me.
So strung a bunch of extension cords together and took the router for a walk....
The IT department of the company I work for just emailed me. They noticed that I have a “user installed version of Firefox that they cannot update” and said that I need to uninstall it. They can replace it with an IT-managed copy of Firefox, but this still bugs the crap out of me.
I’m a programmer. My whole job is to create software on this machine that they can’t update. Stupid policies.
@tylermumford@dmnelson "Please provide me with an automated daily report of the software packages and version numbers you require as a minimum and I'll adhere to that requirement as part of my daily workflow, thanks".
That should tick yours and their boxes but it does put the responsibility on you to action this so ensure your line manager is okay with this time usage.
The FIDO specification defines a form of Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) when users log in to a system. Rather than relying on one-time codes sent via SMS, or displayed on a phone screen, these are physical hardware tokens which are used to supplement passwords. When used with websites, this technology is also known as WebAuthn.
I worked on it nearly a decade ago but getting silicon made for u2f was expensive and the appetite by consumers was insignificant.
I met Google team re u2fs in I think 2017... There was an appetite there but it was unclear if they would acquire ubikey at the time and legal problems.
Afaik multos has an applet now so it's likely any ring using multos (instead of global platform) should be able to provision the applet.
