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peter

@peter@area51.social

Geek, Developer (Java, Go, C, 6502, Z80, 68K & many others), Retro-Computing (Acorn BBC, Amiga, C64, Sinclair Spectrum), Open Source, 3D Printing, Electronics, Weather, Space.

Works in the online games industry during the day time...

I do need to restart my YouTube channel

@peter_mount on twitter

#coding #3dprinting #opensource #making #homelab #homeautomation #electronics #java #retrocomputing #weather #railways #opendata #java #c #assembly #fedi22

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peter, to InitialD
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The 3D printed arcade cabinet's been completed & it does look beautiful with it's resin coating

https://shop.heber.co.uk/blog/computer-space-replica-3d-printed-full-size-arcade-cabinet/

lw, to random
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so i got a "sip2sim" eSIM from @aaisp... now my phone connects straight to whatever SIP server i configure (via VoLTE, not an app) instead of going through some awful telco services.

and as a bonus it can roam between EE and O2 so i get much better reception at home.

i'm glad they managed to "un-cancel" this service because it's pretty handy.

peter,
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@lw @aaisp I need to check if it's a setting on my phone but I've had the latest SIM in my phone since yesterday & I'm thinking it's not roaming from EE & O2, as there's been the odd time I've had no signal but the primary SIM is Giffgaff which is O2 but has had signal.

So far though the new Sims working well as I have it connected to my home PBX (Firebrick).

Testing it right now but good timing as I used the old service for work & I'll be needing it as I'm starting to look for a new job

peter,
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@lw @aaisp that could be affecting it.

Will be testing it more over the next few days.

Just that a couple of places I go, eg the pub, had poor signal but the old SIM handled that (was an EU SIM so it did roam).

mcc, to random
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Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here

peter,
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@etchedpixels @emmatonkin @rrwo @ocdtrekkie @mcc for a start the posters name is personal identifiable information, so if said user asks to remove it then under gdpr they need to do so

peter,
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@mrotteveel @etchedpixels @emmatonkin @rrwo @ocdtrekkie @mcc yes I did read an article this morning which mentioned that, the post stays up but no longer attributed to the original poster 🤬

vwbusguy, to random
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Kids these days can't possibly appreciate what the internet was like before we had browser tabs.

peter,
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@vwbusguy I'm thinking of the internet before the browser, let alone tabs

TechTangents, to random
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moo

peter,
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@TechTangents in the UK some of their case designs were pretty good, e.g. got a desktop but wanted a tower, just rotate the logo & even the 5.25 bay's could be rotated.

themagpi, to random
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Hook up retro machines with modern printers with Retro-Printer https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/articles/retro-printer

peter,
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@themagpi

18+ peter, to UKpolitics
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Well, another Tory MP defects to Labour. Wasn't expecting one from Kent to do so though, as, other than Canterbury it's sadly a Tory region here in Kent

peter,
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@psychotimmy that's true & Maidstone is still noc but for MP's it's mostly blue here

peter, to random
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The new @aaisp Sip2sim arrived this morning & is working perfectly with my pbx.

peter,
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@piofthings @aaisp it's a sim card which the phone thinks is a normal connection but the other end is VoIP so you can connect your mobile as an extension like I have, or to a different non mobile number.

https://www.aa.net.uk/voice-and-mobile/sip2sim/

There's a retro community which use old school analogue pbx's & I know some used the old service (which ended in April) to connect to that system

peter, to random
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No...

Bernard Hill, best known for roles in Titanic and Lord of the Rings, has died aged 79.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68962192

peter, to random
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They should be sanitising their database inputs rather than change the input data!

"A local authority has announced it will ban apostrophes on street signs to avoid problems with computer systems."

North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321

peter,
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@JorgeStolfi that's the classical SQL exploit with unsanitised inputs & that xkcd is why I included the hash tag 😉

peter,
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@JohnJBurnsIII yes I did see that for the 102 year old, totally ignoring what we all did to ensure y2k didn't cause an issue.

As for the limitations, yes it is the third decade in the 21st century but I'm still seeing lots of developers getting temporal mechanics wrong

quixoticgeek, to random
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Do you have a favourite pen or mechanical pencil? How long is it ?

(Sorry for the weird question, need some data for a design)

peter,
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@quixoticgeek just a standard bic pencil - buy them in a box every few year's when I run out

ai6yr, to RaspberryPi

This looks decent for powering a Raspberry Pi or equivalent off POE. https://jcutrer.com/iot/howto-power-a-raspberry-pi-poe

peter,
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@jlamoree @ai6yr I've tried many poe hats but they've not worked well.

What I've found worked is just simple splitters, where you plug the rj45 into it & it has rj45 for network & either usb c or micro usb depending on the pi.

The latter had worked better & more reliably than any hat

freakazoid, to random
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Is it still possible to obtain and use a cellular modem in a USB stick form factor? Everything I'm finding comes in a standalone WiFi hotspot form factor.

peter,
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@freakazoid you should be able to as they are still used a lot to provide backup mobile links for routers if the main connection fails.

peter, to Youtube
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Something odd going on with the Android YouTube app.

Every so often it just starts downloading a random video on my phone when I connect to WiFi.

It's been doing it since last weekend & it just did another one just now.

aaisp, to random
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We have some physical SIMs for service now, finally.

They have all the knock outs to nano SIM.

They don't print properly, so they will be a tad plain, sorry.

We are just testing now, so hope to offer ordering Monday.

We still don't have data allowance setting yet, hopefully soon.

Getting there.,

--
^RevK

peter,
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@aaisp @revk Monday's a bank holiday, but I'll be ordering when it's available

peter,
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@aaisp @revk done

area-51.blog, to Arduino
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Just over Ten years ago, in February 2014, I wrote an article on how to connect an Arduino Uno to a Raspberry PI using I2C directly without using a level shifter between them – which would normally be needed due to the PI running on 3.3V whilst the Arduino is 5V.

This morning I came across this blog article by Adafruit posted some 9 months later which looked eerily familiar to that article but was on someone else’s blog.

The link is now dead due to bit rot and the domain is now on a holding page, so I did a search on WaybackMachine and found the original article which was posted on November 12, 2014.

Note: the page is unreadable, but if you go into the browsers inspection tools, find the body element and disable the background-color and background-image css styles, the page is then readable.

At first glance, it looks like they were trying to do exactly what I originally did, but as I continued to read it, comparing it against my original article, other than the odd word being changed, and the section configuring the PI for I2C is different, it’s virtually a copy-n-paste of my original article.

After that configuring section there’s then two sections of C source code, one for the Arduino and one for the PI which are completely identical to mine.

They even left this comment in the PI source which mentions PiWeather, which is the project name for my Weather Station, which this was why I was looking at using I2C:

// The PiWeather board i2c address#define ADDRESS 0x04

The only differences after that is where they’ve added an image on the wiring, changed a few words or values from when they ran it, but it’s then virtually word for word the same.

Now I don’t mind if anyone picks up on anything I write on the blog, but I do mind if they just take the entire article as-is and make it look like it’s their own work. Even though their article is no longer accessible, it’s on the WaybackMachine which is good as I’ve managed to dig down and discover what they had done.

References:

https://area-51.blog/2024/05/03/plagiarism-of-one-of-my-old-articles/

peter,
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@area@area-51.blog I have to say that was an interesting exercise trying to locate the article going through and recognizing it was virtually a complete copy of what I had done

peter, to gaming
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The UK Gov petition for "Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state" has had a response as it's passed 10k signatures.

The response is long and for once detailed, with some interesting points

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/659071?reveal_response=yes

philpem, to random
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What kind of person mounts a 10-way "rackmount" BS1363 PDU on the wall to run the PC? Answer is, apparently, someone like me.
It was cheaper and better built than a trailing socket...

peter,
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@philpem for a 10 way it is definitely cheaper & has proper mounting hardware attached to it

veedems, to mastodon
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Between app purchases and donations to the network itself, I’ve spent more money in a year on Mastodon than I have in a lifetime on traditional, centralized algorithmic social media.

I appreciate not being the product, just the user.

peter,
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@lenzgr @veedems for area51.media it's linode's own S3 storage option, but I do have it fronted by an apache instance so I can move it if needed.

That said linode for S3 is cheaper than Amazon.

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