Unixbigot

@Unixbigot@aus.social

I created https://Accelerando.com.au IoT Lab, and I host the Brisbane Internet of Things Interest Group. Hacker. Parent. Scientist. Rantist. Atheist. Roboticist. Treehugger. (he/him¹). was @unixbigot

I design and build custom IoT solutions...fast!

Every day I write a #PowerOnStoryToot over morning coffee, as a self-test of my brain. If you like them, buy me another coffee? https://ko-fi.com/unixbigot

¹ subject to change without notice 🐣

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Unixbigot, to random

I may have just emptied my entire "get this circuit board made someday" folder into JLCPCB's website. I couldn't help it, they drove a $3/5pcb special up to my house.

Unixbigot, to random

The hole-in-the-wall lunch bar had a sign “SPECIAL TODAY $1 PER ADJECTIVE”.

I had to ask. “What does the sign mean?”

“Did you ever notice how the menus at expensive restaurants are just simple food with extra adjectives to make you feel better about paying so much?”

“Not really” I replied, stepping back to read the menu board in more detail.

Another customer stepped up “I’ll have the creamy roast chicken soup with toasted sourdough croutons please”

“Coming right up, four bucks”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

Unixbigot, to random

The issue with battery-powered long-distance air travel is that you have to lug weight of those batteries with you for the entire trip.

The whole problem would be considerably more tractable if airliners could do as rockets do---jettison exhausted fuel storage as they go, especially since maximum power requirement is at takeoff. We've done the math and it absolutely works, we use our support drones to catch and reuse the jettisoned batteries.

Well, most of the time. Sorry about your cow; we'll get you a new one.

#TootFic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #BonusEdition

Unixbigot,

@vik what, like the paired-bussard-ramjet hack in Larry Niven’s Protector?

Unixbigot, to random

I was today years old when I realised that the reason that the intro to every youtube video sounds like setting an ad break, is that it is setting up an ad break. I've had whatever they call the no-ads subscription to google for years, and hadn't realised how awful the default experience was. How do people stand it? Where are the pitchforks?

Unixbigot,

@zdl wait you can do that last one?

Unixbigot, to random

The owner of the facility was famous. Well, Meta famous if you know what i mean. Famous for being a famous rich asshole, dedicating his twilight years to outliving all the other famous rich assholes.

Collectively the six trillionaire oligarchs who had built their burrows—each on their agreed post-apocalypse continental domains—had all hired the same experts to design those enclaves. Location: deep in the ancient stable rock of a continental craton. Supplies: Food, water and medicines to last a century, until farming could resume. Knowledge: a full archive of the Internet. Technology: every conceivable machine and the parts and tools to maintain them. Serfs: entirely separate accommodation for necessary technical staff, and hibernation for many more. Security: no, not the armed-thugs-with-shock-collars you’re thinking of; spider drones are what’s in favour with apocalypse consultants this decade.

When the Event came it blindsided even the Six. While everyone was watching the climate fall apart, the brown dwarf grazing the Oort cloud went unnoticed, obscured by the glare of the Starlink Belt. A million comets had their orbits stirred up by the visitor. It only took one, impacting in the south atlantic ocean, to tip the biosphere into chaos predicted to last three to five decades.

The balloon was up, the Six and their families executed the well rehearsed Plan Scram, and settled into their cosy bunkers to wait out the Dark Times. Serfs (sorry, “employees” in this decade) likewise. Human security personnel (unknowingly already inoculated with a delayed death sentence once their mechanoid replacements were online) set about battening down the hatches and bringing up the Evironment (2.0).

“Hey Sarge, this droid won’t boot!”

“Yeah this one too. What does ‘502 License server unreachable’ mean?”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

Unixbigot,

Some historians say that the oceanic impact wasn’t the killer blow, but instead the broken off fragment that impacted an ancient site—exact location and purpose lost—known to us only as “us-east-1”.

18+ mattcen, to random
@mattcen@aus.social avatar

My Fitbit Charge 5 won't hold a charge as of yesterday. Usually I charge it each 3-4 days. I've charged it 4 times today.
Top search results (NB: I am not soliciting advice) show click-baity pages like "Fitbit Not Holding Charge? Here’s How to Fix it!" (https://thewearify.com/fitbit-not-holding-charge-heres-how-to-fix-it/)

I get that maybe some users may find this useful, but, if I'm searching for this, it's probably because this has just started happening unexpectedly! Sigh.

Unixbigot,

@mattcen okay the first thing to determine is whether it’s a case of “battery is cactus” or “software/settings went berserk and draining battery”. Do you have a usb power monitor or any kind of amp-hour meter? Fill it up, run it flat, fill it up again - did recharging it take ${approximate rated capacity of battery} (battery is ok, software is bad) or much less (battery is bad). Replacement battery will only be a few bucks.

Unixbigot, to random

Universal Basic Transport Experiment: Translink travel will be a flat 50c, any distance: https://statements.qld.gov.au/statements/100402

Unixbigot, to showerthoughts

As the BirdChan completes its re-brand, the infinitive “to tweet” nears retirement. The new term: to X-crete

NanoRaptor, to random
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I don't like to make a constant huge deal of it because the world concentrates too much on numbers and the baggage around them, and constant running totals are probably bad all up, but this morning I hit a 30kg weight loss.

Left, September 2023. Right, today. Also yes I am fifty something and my mother bought me a bun hoodie.

A photo of a nanoraptor looking a little bit more nano and a little less raptor too. Also I'm wearing a pink bun hoodie.

Unixbigot,

@NanoRaptor have you joined the ⦕glances around to be sure of escape route⦖ Bunny Gesserit?

gsuberland, to random
@gsuberland@chaos.social avatar

today is "attempt to bring up the CO2 sensor boards" day.

I am remarkably nervous about this.

Unixbigot, (edited )

@jpm @gsuberland for is it not written “let the one who has never gotten scl/sda backwards cast the first reel of bodge wire?” I’ve done this so many times i now design a bodge footprint into every two wire comms connection.

MLE_online, to random
@MLE_online@social.afront.org avatar

Someone in my neighborhood threw away a whole set of lockers, so I guess I have to own lockers now

Unixbigot,

@MLE_online got room for seven cats and a pygmy giraffe there!

Unixbigot, to random

LBT¹: this guy IRL @NanoRaptor ‘ed an Apple II

¹ https://oldbytes.space/@mozzwald/112473700419520929

luciedigitalni, to random
@luciedigitalni@aus.social avatar

reasonable

❌✅❌✅✅✅✅✅❌❌
The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 501
I got 6/10!
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/quiz/2024/05/25?rival=0101111100

Unixbigot,

@luciedigitalni same. and i appreciate your posts reminding me to exercise my brain.

Unixbigot, to random

The world is unequivocally a better place since we stopped burning coal for domestic heating. However I’ve always been a little sad that Kids These Days (™) don’t get to experience soot sprites.

Then just yesterday I walked into the garage, flicked on the light, and I got that familiar scramble in the corner of my eye. They’ve evolved! My inverter has Solar Sprites!

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

Unixbigot, to random

Okay, a couple of analgesic martinis and I am about dumb enough to enjoy The Meg 2: The Trench.

Unixbigot,

Let’s hear it for Checkov’s Box Stenciled With Explosives!

Unixbigot,

Quick it’s cute kid, save her! Wait no what if it’s just an extra? Surprise Octopus!

Unixbigot,

I cannot even with this movie. The shark. The jetty. The octopus. Budget Danny Trejo with the machjne gun. Mano a Mano. The second gun. CHOMP.

Unixbigot,

Checkov’s Explosives are BACK BABY.

Unixbigot,

Shark eats octopus. MICHAEL MOTHERFUCKING CHRICHTON has risen from the dead and is on line five.

Unixbigot,

Wait why are we back in the ocean again. you know there are sharks in there?

Unixbigot,

i have the estate of Peter Benchley on line, uh six I think.

Unixbigot,

This concludes our livestream of Six IP Lawsuits in a trenchcoat, aka

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