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amoose136

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Designer of electro-mechanical assemblies. “Do all the things.”

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vik, to homeassistant
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Configured an device up with two buttons on it, and an 18650 battery. Battery doesn't last overnight, which is a bit disappointing. I need something I can stick on a wall that runs forever off a CR2032 (used to have those with the ancient X10 system).

amoose136,
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@stooovie @vik Yep I picked up an Aqara zigbee button for like $18 and stuck it on the wall. Paired with ZHA integration directly to a Home Assistant Yellow. Job done.

amoose136,
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@vik @stooovie You could probably figure something similar out (battery usage wise) with 2 fm packet radios or something but then that’s ✩ ₊˚a project ‧₊˚ and not a simple solution.

arstechnica, to random
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Amazon virtually kills efforts to develop Alexa Skills, disappointing dozens

Most devs would need to pay out of pocket to host Alexa apps after June.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/amazon-virtually-kills-efforts-to-develop-alexa-skills-disappointing-dozens/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

amoose136,
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@arstechnica I don’t think Amazon is going to keep Alexa going much longer. Maybe a couple years more but the demonstrated business case looks more narrow by the day and I doubt they will ever recoup what was spent on it.

h_thoreson, to random
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bool shower 🚿

amoose136,
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@h_thoreson Made this Excel plot in 2015 to illustrate the experience of using a particular type of shower adjustment knob.

stargirl, to random
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This is taking forever but it's so satisfying.

amoose136,
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@stargirl It’s worth it to have standardized containers or you lose track of what you have and end up buying the same thing twice.

foone, to random
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you know how there are compatibility sites like caniuse.com and the old MDN, to let you know which HTML/JS/CSS features are supported in which browsers?

I want one of those but for C/C++ library functions.
Yeah, of course the latest GCC supports std::tuple, but what about Borland Turbo C++ 3.0? this is important information!

amoose136,
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@foone It’s frustrating looking at caniuse because often the thing I want isn’t supported by the whichever of the big 3 is choosing to be TheOddBrowser today so then I have to choose between making a polyfill or using someone else’s library that already wrote a polyfill for the same reason but then I don’t really know how it works and it adds bloat to the bundle.

foone, to random
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ugh. the good news is that I can write some clever xpath that makes this SVG-manipulation trivial

the bad news is that I'm having to use ElementTree, which has "limited support for XPath expressions", so NOPE! my xpath won't work

amoose136,
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@foone A couple months ago I tried to write a simple plugin to drill holes along a cylinder in a helical pattern. Quickly learned Fusion's API documentation is poor quality and the error handling is S level awful. Even though what I wanted should be a trivial task, it was pulling teeth to get anywhere.

arstechnica, to random
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WordPress plugin installed on 1 million+ sites logged plaintext passwords

AIOS bills itself as an "all-in-one" security solution. A just-fixed bug undermined that.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/07/wordpress-plugin-installed-on-1-million-sites-logged-plaintext-passwords/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

amoose136,
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@arstechnica I like my passwords stored like excellently prepared potatoes: hashed and salted.

arstechnica, to random
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Researchers craft a fully edible battery

It has a terrible capacity but shows we don't need to use toxic materials.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/researchers-craft-a-fully-edible-battery/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

amoose136,
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@arstechnica for those referencing the potato battery, a potato only gives you around .9v and a max of .4mA in short circuit configuration and this one does 0.040 mA at 0.6v so it’s way less powerful BUT it’s much more compact than a potato and, most importantly, the reaction is reversible. IE, it’s a rechargeable battery and a potato isn’t.

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