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jamesoff

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I write a bunch of code (mainly Python), have cats, tinker with and detail cars, and fiddle with FreeBSD. I like taking (making?) photos. Playing with Internet stuff since '96. Interested in kernels, protocols, and inner workings in general. Intermittent cyclist. Cloudy Amazonian, and they tell me my opinions are my own.

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jamesoff, to random
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What do the four lights on a contactless card reader mean? They seem to be standard including virtual ones shown on on "all-screen" payment terminals. I assume they're indicating the stages of energising (for cards) and communicating with the chip.

jamesoff, to homeassistant
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Inspired by @neil, ordered a couple of old NUCs off eBay. Will probably relocate my install from a VM on my Synology to one (mostly so I can do things like Bluetooth and other radio protocols easier).

The others will be servers for homelab-type stuff; my current FreeBSD NUC has a bunch of stuff not in jails so I’ll redo those services properly.

jamesoff,
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@danieldurrans cheers, figuring out dongles/antennae was my next step :) what’s the M5stack unit for? Currently I just have some of the cheap BT temp/humidity sensors to connect, and maybe my Hue lights over Zigbee if they’re going to be ducks about logins etc but I’m sure my install base grow once I have the capabilities to support things…

jamesoff,
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@danieldurrans oh that’s cool. I’m hoping I can place the NUC somewhere which gives it enough coverage. I have a bunch of ESP boards I made my own door/window sensors with which report in to HA over wifi (running Tasmota) :)

jamesoff,
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@danieldurrans currently have 26 integrations 😬

hobbitswife, to iPhone
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‘Apple’ Families with iPhones / iCloud:

If two people pay for more iCloud space and then group into ‘apple family’ with one person as the lead person (but the second person hasn’t stopped paying for their space cos it wasn’t obvious what happened to storage). Then want to move to ‘Apple One’ but with the 2nd person as the lead member, then is there any problems moving over? Would we lose any storage, albeit briefly?

jamesoff,
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@hobbitswife we did that although with the same person running the family the whole time. My wife cancelled her storage plan after I added her, then later I upgraded to Apple One (a year or two - it didn’t exist when we did the first step).

jamesoff,
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@hobbitswife it’s worked well for us! I also added both sets of parents to it and they were able to retire their own storage plans seamlessly

jamesoff, to photography
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Drove some excellent roads today, and droned some excellent scenery, Scotland is A+ would recommend

Drone photo looking along a beach to some rocky cliffs sticking in to the sea from the left. Waves are breaking at the bottom of the picture, and a rainbow starts from the land, arching towards the right as it fades. The water is blue and green, and the sky is blue with some clouds.
A drone photo looking down on a road running up the photo away from the camera. It curves in to the distance around a large rocky hill. There’s water on each side of the road, and more rocky hills in the water and into the distance.
A drone photo looking across a beach at sunset. A large cloud dominates the top half of the frame, catching orange from the setting sun behind the camera. The orange of the cloud is reflected in the blue water, with rocky outcrops and the beach at the right.

jamesoff, to random
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Found an actual working—I assume, I have no coins—BT payphone at a remote Scottish beach!

jamesoff, to random
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Here's one of our cats (the ginger) fighting with a neighbour cat while we're away on holiday. Happy !

jamesoff, to random
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I want a “don’t do it” card with explanatory notes to give people I see in public doing the quit-all-apps ritual on their iPhone

Edent, to Cybersecurity
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Your next job could be in cyber!

We're looking for:

🔧 Security Engineer https://apply.workable.com/our-future-health/j/37977F8472/

☁️ Senior Cloud Security Engineer https://apply.workable.com/our-future-health/j/DB1B867886/

🔒 Senior Application Security Engineer https://apply.workable.com/our-future-health/j/4DA19FE229/

All remote (UK based). Working for a brilliant health-tech charity.

Please spread the word.

jamesoff,
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@Edent salary range for the cloud security engineer starts at minus £65k?! :P

macrumors, to random
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22 New Features You May Have Missed in watchOS 10 https://www.macrumors.com/guide/22-hidden-features-watchos-10-apple-watch/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

jamesoff,
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@macrumors control centre icon details (number 2) isn't new in WatchOS 10, that's been around for a couple of years :)

danieldurrans, to random
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Post Incident Review

Issue: No biscuits arrived in the weekly shop.

Root cause: Dan forgot to add biscuits to the basket.

Impact: No biscuits available at 3.30pm when Dan wanted a biscuit.

jamesoff,
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@danieldurrans no Action Items?

jamesoff,
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@danieldurrans also this should be blameless; “engineer did not add biscuits to the basket” :)

jamesoff,
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@danieldurrans wow, hostile non-work environment :P

jamesoff,
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@danieldurrans that's a mitigation which is good (mitigate before resolve), but you need an Action Item to make sure that they're not forgotten in future orders :P

danieldurrans, to random
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I ordered one cucumber from Ocado, but they gave us a second one for free.

This is way too much cucumber.

jamesoff,
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@danieldurrans cucumbest

yesterzine, to random
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I'm against cruel and unusual punishment normally but one more person who says 30C is fine from their air conditioned home that isn't designed to seal in heat and at 0% humidity is going to change my mind.

I've been in those countries when it's 50C. I would trade 30C Britain for it in a heartbeat.

jamesoff,
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@danieldurrans @yesterzine hold down shift while you open windows for better performance

jamesoff, to animals
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Sonic, Tails and Chaos enjoying the garden (although less keen on the heatwave)

Tails, a dark ginger tabby, walking towards the camera on some grass
Chaos, a light ginger tabby, looking at something in the distance while sitting on top of a wooden fence. There’s a bunch of blackberries from the hedge behind him hanging over him.

danieldurrans, to random
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I am taking Emma’s car through a car wash that claims to have an Infinity Mousse Arch.

I haven’t seen a single moose 🫎

😢

jamesoff,
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@danieldurrans infinity swirls arch

jamesoff,
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@danieldurrans seems mean still :P

willmcgugan, to python
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The cat is out of the bag *

What is Web ?

https://textual.textualize.io/blog/2023/09/06/what-is-textual-web/

We've been working on this for some time! Publish Textual apps and terminals on the webs. In effect turning them in to web applications. 😀

It's beta. I hope you can give it a whirl.

  • no cats were harmed in this toot

jamesoff,
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@willmcgugan the cat(1) is out of the bag

jamesoff, to random
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Deck, before (file photo) and after. What a difference :)

Now for a sit down.

The same deck, minus the table, after cleaning and treating. The wood is no longer grey and is much more wood-coloured. The cat is not in the photo, but was attacking the photographer’s feet.

jamesoff,
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@danieldurrans yeah that’s a generic tv aerial pole off of Amazon or from B&Q (forget where I ended up getting it). Using the official mounts on it, but they seem to be a standard size screw so any third party one would do I expect

jamesoff,
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@danieldurrans I need to move the rain gauge down slight; in high wind the wobble/bounce of the pole can be enough to trigger the see-saw thing in the gauge and make it misreport. Happens rarely enough that I’ve not gotten round to it yet though

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