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ben

@ben@hardill.me.uk

Working on https://social.nodered.org/@nodered at FlowFuse Inc.
Also Director/Founder Hardill Technologies Ltd.
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ben, to random
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UK Telephone/FTTP question.

My parents have FTTP from EE. It came with a wall wart POTs adaptor, I had assumed that this was WiFi, but I'm starting to think it's DECT.

I can't seem to find anything online to confirm this.

tante, to random
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I am looking for some visual programming environment that allows not only small processing nodes (like NodeRED) but that also includes objects with state. Think NodeRED but with a another dimension that contains objects that the flows interact with.

Anyone knows something like this?

ben,
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@tante does Node-RED's context not work for you?

The context also supports backend plugins to allow storage above the default in memory/file based defaults.

Also happy to talk about what could be added to Node-RED with @knolleary

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Question for election psephologists: is Elpicke likely to win re-election in her own constituency as a Labour candidate?

(Genuine Q, I have no idea how popular/unpopular she is locally.)

ben,
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@cstross I thought she had announced she is not standing at the next election

ben, to homelab
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Any suggestions for the cheapest place to get hold of a USB Coral TPU in the UK

Looking to play with Fargate

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    ben,
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    @jpmens customers make the best test engineers, you can even get them to pay to test...

    mjg59, to random
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    Debian has traditionally followed a model of it being possible to upgrade systems between releases in-place while they're running. This makes upgrade logic much more difficult - at various stages you're replacing the components that are currently running in order to perform the upgrade! And at the end of all of this you're going to reboot anyway because you've got a new kernel.

    ben,
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    @mjg59 I thought fedora upgrades were in place (I'm sure it ran the updated before the reboot last time I tried, 36 to 38, just summoning the courage to do the next upgrade...)

    revk, to random
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    LOL, just emailed someone a text based eSIM QR code, using "█" and " " characters, as I know he uses a text based email client.

    It worked!

    ben,
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    @revk There is a linux cmd line tool called qrgen that will create them (and images) I've used them for one time code seeds in the past

    ben, to random
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    Ordering yet more PVC window handles.

    I can't see why the locking tang keeps failing, they are totally hidden from all sources of UV

    ben, to random
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    Do UK Driving licences still come in Manual/Automatic?

    I assume that passing a test in (most*) EVs would limit you to a Automatic license?

    • I believe there is a Toyota with fake gearbox...
    ben, to random
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    First attempt at a Multi Tenant MQTT broker

    https://www.hardill.me.uk/wordpress/2024/03/23/multi-tenant-mqtt-broker/

    https://github.com/hardillb/mosquitto-multi-tenant

    Edent, to Health
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    🆕 blog! “The tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth”

    You know that ice-breaker game "Two Truths And A Lie"? When I'm forced into some mandatory office fun, I always say... I've sat in the seat of a space shuttle. I still have two of my baby teeth. I used to be a voice-over artist. Well, one of those truths is about to come crashing […]

    👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/03/the-tooth-the-whole-tooth-and-nothing-but-the-tooth/
    ⸻

    ben,
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    @Edent I suppose it could be used to identify you, but only in probably the worse of circumstances....

    revk, to random
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    Anyone else with me on this?

    https://www.revk.uk/2024/03/missing-unux-file-open-option.html

    @torvalds

    ben,
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    @revk typo in the title...

    [edit] not the title, just the URL

    Sorry, didn't mean to be that guy...

    ben, to random
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    So that's both McDonald's and Sainsbury's with no digital payments handling in 2 days...

    ben,
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    And apparently Tesco is in a similar situation.

    Once is an accident, Twice is a coincidence, Third is enemy action...

    ben, to random
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    Companies that call you then expect you to answer security questions....

    coldclimate, (edited ) to random
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    Anybody know how to submit a GDPR request to PayPal? Can't find anything on their site (as expected)

    Updated: I've not got an account with them any more. I wish to make a right of deletion request.

    ben,
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    @coldclimate Just for clarity, you mean a Subject Access Request (tell me all you know about me) type thing?

    mjg59, to random
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    Thought experiment: imagine a language model where you can describe exactly how you want software to behave, and it produces a binary that does that. You don't get the source code, but it works 100% of the time. As long as you can install this binary on whatever device you have, does this achieve the goals of free software?

    ben,
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    @mjg59 Assuming the model and the tools/hardware to run it as freely available then yes, but if the model is e.g. SaaS then no. (Thinking the model is effectively a compiler, the description is the source code)

    revk, to random
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    Fun with latest CCTV stuff, and made this...

    My internet fibre goes via a star gate.

    https://youtu.be/iOpvIFPiH5g

    ben,
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    @revk would that not be more suitable for the StarLink backhaul?

    ben, to random
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    Cache busting npm install

    ben,
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    @sldrant I'm doing the same, but I need the copy priming the cache not to use the local on disc cache. I believe I have a working solution for an air gapped network.

    Vidaccio works well, I'll write it up at some point

    sldrant, to random
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    My work has started deploying spyware that decrypt all our network traffic. I detest the idea of breaking encryption in the name of security.
    Also they clearly didn't test it with any developers (our company is a software dev company) as it stops me doing my job so I've been told to turn of this awful tool for now.

    ben,
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    @sldrant @Dragon at a previous employer I ended up building a Pi Zero W bridge device that showed up as a USB-ethernet device I could use as a bastion device on the guest network to ssh/git with github because the "production" network didn't allow it. It was easier to break the rules than follow them.

    (and lets not talk about me re-writing the python tool that used to check password expiry for certain accounts to just lie...)

    Edent, to linux
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    I'm looking for an reader to connect to my laptop which can be used with / .

    Anyone have a personal recommendation?

    Boosts appreciated 😀

    (Not looking for search results or opinions on alternative tech, thanks.)

    ben,
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    @Edent surely this will be a software thing with the pam and the smart card library, not something hardware specific? Or just to clarify, you are looking for hardware known to work with that stack?

    Johann150, to random

    just found this silly bit in my nginx config :3

    location /wp-login.php {
    return 301 "https://speed.hetzner.de/10GB.bin";
}
    ben,
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    @Marcus @Johann150

    I may have:

    if ($http_user_agent ~* jndi:) {
    rewrite ^(.)$ /10G.boomgz;
    }
    if ($http_referer ~     jndi:) {
    rewrite ^(.*)$ /10G.boomgz;
    }

    location ~* .boomgz$ {
    add_header Expires "Sat, 1 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT";
    add_header Content-Encoding gzip;
    add_header Content-Type text/html;
    limit_rate 100k;
    }

    iirc it was for the log4j stuff...

    ellie, to random
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    Beginning to think that a remote devenv might be worthwhile. Lots of compiling Rust on battery means my laptop isn't lasting quite as long as I'd like

    Just something beefy I can SSH into

    ben,
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    @coldclimate @ellie And things like VSCode can run over a SSH connection on a remote filesystem so you can still use the fancy tools.

    ben, to random
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    OK, so my smart gas meter appears to have disconnected it's self from the PAN (and did so middle of last year).

    All attempts to contact British Gas to get them to even talk about this are proving fruitless, you get forced to talk to a bot on the web page, which just cuts you off saying their too busy if you get to the point of trying to talk to a human. And the phone system did the same....

    The point of a smart meter is not to pay BS estimated bills.

    ben,
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    @sldrant dead dead, nothing on the screen no mater how much you press either button A or B.

    Now I've told them it's dead they are coming to fit a new one (actually 2 since even at only 5 years old the current meters are both SMETS1). But I've been and looked at the bill I got in the middle of this period and there is no mention that they switched to estimated readings.

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