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jeffalyanak

@jeffalyanak@social.rights.ninja

Boring enough to use #Debian, fun enough to use #Arch • #Hardware & #Software Development • #RapidPrototyping • #EmbeddedSystems — he/him

I don't post exclusively about one topic. Expect random stuff on #coding, #retrocomputers, #DIYsolar, or things I'm passionate about like #livablecities, #a11y.

I love to chat about my own interests, but also boost/share things that are new to me that I find interesting. #art, #literature, #food, and whatever else, I'm excited to explore it all!

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jeffalyanak, to opensource
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Got that little firmware done and dusted!

https://github.com/JeffAlyanak/cyberpunk_netwatch

PCB watch with four individual 7-segement displays arranged in two rows, a lightbar LED on the righthand side, two buttons on the lefthand side, and a six-pin header above them. The top button is being pressed which is toggling on the display of the time and the LED lightbar.

jeffalyanak, to random
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Any nerds in / ?

A few folks in the local hackerspace are looking at setting up a small mesh here and I've been doing some testing. It's a heck of a lot of fun.

Interior of small black and grey box revealing an 18650 battery wired to a small Heltec LoRa board.
A tin of Barkleys cinnamon mints, a hole is cut out to reveal an LCD with a meshtastic message and an antenna is sticking out of one side.

jeffalyanak, to infosec
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A hardware bypass for TPM bitlocker? Yes, please!

https://invidious.rights.ninja/watch?v=wTl4vEednkQ

jeffalyanak, to uk
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Any folks in interested in electronic and/or computer music?

We're doing another event at tonight!

Please come by and/or boost!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oxford-generative-music-exchange-tickets-766396260847?aff=calendar

(please pardon the title of the event, we're not focusing on generative music in specific but the title of the event hasn't been updated)

jeffalyanak, to mead
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And now comes the hardest part of making mead … waiting.

Collage of photos showing jars of honey, honey being dissolved into water in a large vessel, yeast being added, and a sealed carboy with an airlock on top. There is animated text which reads: You've got the need The need for mead

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    jeffalyanak,
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    @ChrisWere @robert @newpipe

    Syncing is fine, but I want to be in control of what is doing the syncing.

    gabek, to random

    I just watched a YouTube video where the host said "in the description" and "in the comments". I thought YouTubers legally had to add the word "below" any time they said those words. I wonder if they were fined.

    jeffalyanak,
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    @gabek

    Do you remember when a good percentage of people called it "the doobly-doo"?

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    The same people who understand that it's a Bad Thing if they mess up the economy so the banks can't lend any money and nobody is investing in anything, and then merry go round stops... will scoff and dissemble when encountered by this kind of study.

    But this kind of "jump start" is less expensive, and probably more grounded in "sound economic reasoning" than your average bail out.

    https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2222103120

    jeffalyanak,
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    @futurebird Similar success was seen by cities like Medicine Hat which simply provided free housing for the homeless population.

    While it's definitely still difficult to address the underlying issues that lead to homelessness and poverty, actually solving homelessness and poverty themselves isn't that hard for a rich nation like Canada to achieve.

    jeffalyanak, to random
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    Now I can rep everyone's favourite onion-based scripting language wherever I go.

    notjustbikes, to Trains
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    The departures board at Frankfurt airport includes high-speed trains as well.

    Everything marked as terminal T is a train departure from the train station that is directly connected to the airport. They have Lufthansa flight numbers too!

    jeffalyanak,
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    @notjustbikes

    I absolutely love this both because of the well-designed transit but also because I absolutely love split-flap displays!

    jeffalyanak,
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    @notjustbikes

    That's such a shame. I find the sound can actually be really useful in a transit setting.

    I often find myself sitting somewhere with a less-than-ideal angle for viewing the board and a sound queue keeps me from obsessively craning my neck to look for updates every 30 seconds.

    jeffalyanak, to random
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    Awesome little write-up about connectors!

    https://www.digikey.com/en/articles/connector-tutorial

    evan, to random
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    It makes me angry to hear that Florida schoolchildren will be taught that enslaved Black people in the Americas benefitted from slavery by learning valuable skills.

    On. the. contrary.

    Skilled enslaved people were crucial to the development and running of colonial American industry.

    Enslaved experts provided techniques and technology from West Africa to create the American rice market.

    https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/22/reviews/010422.22faustt.html

    Enslaved experts built the indigo industry.

    https://history.howstuffworks.com/world-history/indigo.htm

    jeffalyanak,
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    @evan

    This is an absolutely insane, immoral thing to teach kids.

    I suspect that these people wouldn't be okay with the equally stupid and incorrect claim that "9/11 was a good thing because it brought America together."

    jeffalyanak, to random
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    It's , you are obligated to post a picture of a taco.

    Bonus points if you post an original photo or illustration.

    jeffalyanak, to ai
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    Apparently some folks have been trolling AI bots scraping subreddits and it resulted in this amazing article about the introduction of "Glorbo" to World of Warcraft.

    Now I really want to add Glorbo to my WoW server. 😂

    https://archive.li/2023.07.20-203104/https://www.zleague.gg/theportal/world-of-warcraft-wow-players-excited-for-glorbos-introduction/

    slothrop, to random
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    I know is a PITA to set up, but have you tried formatting documents in MS Word late on a Friday afternoon?

    jeffalyanak,
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    @slothrop

    Yeah, it might be a bit of work to set up, but it makes it easier to keep things consistent.

    scopique, to random
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    jeffalyanak,
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    @scopique I like the red splotch that looks vaguely like a maple leaf if you look at it from an oblique angle and squint real hard.

    ifixcoinops, to random
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    So I downloaded a whole bunch of free or pay-what-you-want Game Boy games off itch.io for my Game Dad. They're all made with GB Studio (which is a free super-easy game-making program to make Game Boy games) and so far they're all pretty chill.

    A highlight is Analog Age Rainy Day, which has you playing as a kid trying to survive a rainy day; catch is it's 1984 so there's no phones or game boy or anything so you've gotta find ways to amuse yourself.

    A lovely benefit of using the Game Dad for Game Boy games is the ability to shift the palette so that it's red-on-black for playing in bed without giving me insomnia. It only works for Game Boy games though, not Game Boy Colour or Advance; I wish this were an option I could toggle in Retroarch for all my games.

    I'm getting into the idea of writing my own Game Boy game and I think I want to make it about a tiny smol officeboy/retailboy who gets laid off and joins a moving company to make a bit of quick cash, and finds that he loves using his body and feeling those aches and becoming stronk. And like this is possible now, it's very do-able to make a game that isn't about saving the world or whatever, doesn't have to have mass appeal enough to justify burning a bunch of ROMs and moulding a bunch of cartridges, you can chuck it up on the internet as easily as we could copy a tape game in a boombox thirty years ago and if ten people fall in love with it then Hooray.

    jeffalyanak,
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    @ifixcoinops

    My ereader has lasted me ages and while it does have wifi, it's only for syncing books and articles from my calibre-web server.

    It's truly amazing how great a single-purpose device can be. Hyper-converged devices might be convenient, but they're also a big heap of compromises.

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    @ifixcoinops I do accept touchscreens on public kiosks, though.

    They're just so much easier to keep somewhat clean.

    jeffalyanak, to emacstory
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    Does anyone on the fediverse know enough to translate this page from my family bible?

    Also, any religious scholars who might be able to tell me about what's on these pages?

    Boosts very welcome so I can reach people in and circles.

    jeffalyanak,
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    @DontMindMe @medievodons

    Yeah, my wife took a look and was able to identify that the pages at the front are very old. I can get the details if people are interested.

    She's very knowledgeable in codicology but her academic focus is on pre-christian and early christianization in old norse literature.

    She doesn't know Armenian and I only learned a tiny bit when I was very young.

    jeffalyanak,
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    @DontMindMe @medievodons

    It's been a while since she's looked at it—it's in an archival storage box with my father—but here's what my wife remembers about it:

    "I'm not sure of the exact animal the vellum is made from but probably cow or goat, the oldest leaves at the front and back could be sheep."

    "The oldest leaves I think are 11th century, the majority of the leaves look like 14th-16th century, I'd have to look at it again."

    "It's illuminated and the younger leaves may be 'uterine vellum' […] made from splitting a sheet of vellum to produce very thin leaves."

    jeffalyanak,
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    @llamasoft_ox That's exactly what we're hoping to get to the bottom of. ;p

    jeffalyanak,
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    @liaizon Ha, this is amazing!

    Yeah, I suspect that this isn't what it says but I'm still saving this translated image. ;p

    evan, (edited ) to random
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    Did you sign up for Threads?

    jeffalyanak,
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    @evan This is one of the most definitive poll results yet. ;p

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