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gadgetoid

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I’ve been a hobbyist games and technology writer for over 20 years. I keep the lights on by writing MIT-licensed embedded hardware drivers at Pimoroni in Python, MicroPython and C++.

Hobbies include music, videogames, skateboarding, baking and making videos about frothing milk.

Tech @ https://gadgetoid.com
Software @ Pimoroni
Pi pinout - https://pinout.xyz
Pico pinout - https://pico.pinout.xyz

He/Him.

#Technology #RaspberryPi #Making #VideoGames #MiniComputers

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gadgetoid, to random
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A text adventure except your character is ADHD and all the things you find and mysteries you unravel are just benign things you’d forgotten about from twenty minutes ago

gadgetoid, to random
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I am so deeply, deeply tired of every god damned "can be answered with a tutorial" technical question search being overwhelmingly flooded with videos. I don't want videos. I don't want to listen to something I can read. I am at least 50% deaf. GIVE ME WORDS DAMN YOU. WOOORDSSSSS!

NormanDunbar, to random
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This scandal in the UK. I'm a retired DBA, I had access to everything in every database under my control.

I'm puzzled that anyone in IT would believe that "there's no way Fujitsu staff can access the individual post office accounts; or change values".

This is complete garbage! Any DBA looking after the database can do what they like with the data, and if they wished, cover their tracks too!

It beggars belief that anyone would believe otherwise!

gadgetoid,
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@NormanDunbar honestly I don’t think anyone does believe otherwise- but the implications of admitting “oh yeah, sure, Fujitsu staff are literally god on this system” in any formal, much less legal, capacity are probably pretty severe.

That’s the crux of technology and privacy- we know the sys admin or db admin has god level access, they know they have god level access, but it remains unspoken because it’s too spicy to think about and too costly to fix 😬

gadgetoid,
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@NormanDunbar believe because they sincerely believe, or believe because if they admit otherwise - even to themselves - they've just achknowledged a critical security oversight? 😆

Didn't know because they didn't know. Or didn't know because admitting they did know, implies they are culpable for not blowing the whistle.

I mean we all know, right, we've all been the admin getting the user out of a bind, or the user calling the admin for some workaround? 😆

gadgetoid, to random
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What was that breakout-like game from the 80s/early 90s that had bow-tie shaped pieces? Maybe Acorn or Amiga? On the same system as a version of Chuck Yeager IIRC. And a really good paint app…

gadgetoid, to random
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The value of a programmer is not only their achievements, but their failures. Not their raw productivity but the hours they wasted teasing out an obtuse bug. Fancy next word predictors don’t replace domain experts any more than StackOverflow or Ask Jeeves did.

gadgetoid, to random
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I’ve been wanting to try this for ages!

Fan heater, plugged into an EcoFlow portable battery that was charged with free, green energy from Octopus, running inside a petrol car for an environmentally sound, low effort defrost 🤣

gadgetoid, to random
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December should be a national holiday

gadgetoid, to random
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Baby C was eating dark muscovado out of the packet and I can’t even be mad ‘cos he probably saw me doing it 🤣

gadgetoid, to random
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I don’t think I own enough GBA cartridges to justify this… but kinda want…

gadgetoid, to random
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If you’re a DMA/PCM/PWM wizard with a Pi 5 handy, the rpi_ws281x library might need your help - https://github.com/jgarff/rpi_ws281x/issues/528

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@Daft_Freak would be proud!

gadgetoid, to random
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Scam people out of money with a phone call and an Apple gift card and you're a criminal. Scam people out of money with a countdown timer and a bag of gems and you're a "game developer."

gadgetoid, to random
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If you ever wanted a glimpse into how pathologically dysfunctional my life is… here are the stray mugs I’m carrying downstairs this morning…

gadgetoid, to random
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My vacuum cleaner does better alt text than some of ya’ll

gadgetoid, to random
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Saw this and thought of Stef @LauraKBuzz

gadgetoid, to random
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Live in fifteeen, eeeeek! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzwaTmrvmQQ

gadgetoid, to random
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Requiring a login to download tools is a sure-fire way to fill your email database with moderately offensive, incensed garbage entries.

Just stop it.

gadgetoid, to random
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Sheesh I can't find any old HATs or pHATs in my collection. Anyone got a Drum HAT / Piano HAT and grappling with Bookworm/Pi 5?

I've been updating the Cap1xxx driver - https://github.com/pimoroni/cap1xxx-python/pull/23

gadgetoid, to random
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Okay, which galaxy brain at GitHub took down the xz repository?

So if I grabble with a vulnerability in some of my software and am working to fix it, are you going to tear down my code, block my account? 💀

gadgetoid, to random
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Here's the image I posted of the RETRON Sq with the original alt text, plus a separate image generated by running that alt text through some AI tomfoolery. Does this imply that the alt text is good, or does it imply that it's insufficient for someone who's only encountered a SNES to imagine what sets the RETRON apart visually?

AI recreation from the alt text: "A product shot of the Retron SQ- A small, semi-transparent turquoise cube with bright pink power and reset buttons in the front, accompanied by a turquoise and pink controller in SNES style with a wired, USB connection. In the top of the console is a slot for GB/GBC/GBA cartridges. In the background the pack shot depicts the same cube-shaped console and controller." The result has more than a passing resemblance to the super nintendo, and is not cube shaped. Pink and turquoise make a rather less impactful appearance, but it's kind of trending in the right general direction.

gadgetoid, to random
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Soooo who wants to buy my 512GB Steam Deck that I’m suddenly selling for absolutely nooo reason whatsoever… 🤣

gadgetoid, to random
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Smart homes are a really complex answer to the "pressing a light switch with a full cup of tea" conundrum.

gadgetoid,
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I am so glad it's not just me flirting with caffeine-assisted electric shocks.

joel, to design
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So, right now I'm kind of winging these kind of things.

But to any gurus? How do u approach joining two circles like this?

gadgetoid,
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@joel haha you totally nerd sniped me into this 😭 I used to spend hours in Fireworks vectoring up fantasy game controllers and PDAs 😆

A fun nostgalgic diversion from writing a review of some keycaps. Thanks!

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