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shtrom

@shtrom@piaille.fr

Random geek randomly geeking.

Topics of interest are mainly #FreeSoftware, #SelfHosting, #Electronics, #AmateurRadio, and #InfoSec, some #Politics and, sadly, the ongoing #COVID19 pandemic.

Mostly retoots on all of the above, with the occasional original material and/or follow-up discussion.

Also blogging at https://blog.narf.ssji.net/author/shtrom/

Mainly in English, some in French.

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cedesguin, to random French
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J'ai un ami pas francophone mais qui aimerait le devenir. Je le cite : "LA chèvre, LA feuille, LE chèvrefeuille. Vous faites ça rien que pour nous emmerder où il y a une motivation plus noble?"

shtrom,
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@cedesguin un amour éperdu, des amours éperdues

shtrom, to random
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The World is Throwing a Fit of Collective Amnesia

“Four years ago, a dangerous new virus started spreading. Nobody knew anything about it. We had no choice but to use masks and social distancing. They protected us. We wore masks that were okay but not great. We got vaccines, but not great ones. Now we know better. We have better masks. We have better air purifiers. We're developing better vaccines. We have nose sprays. We could actually control Covid instead of submitting to constant infection that results in inevitable disability and slow death. We don't have to accept it.”

https://www.okdoomer.io/collective-amnesia/ via @wallabagapp

shtrom, to Tasmania
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from southern

Barely visible to the naked eye, but the camera doth see.

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evan, (edited ) to random
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Do you judge a Web page by its embedded ads?

shtrom,
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@evan I would, but I can't see the ads.

gnuhealth, to linuxphones
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Hello, community!

We need with so we can link them it to .
Currently we have @pine64eu smartwatch, but we'd love to integrate scales, glucometers, blood pressure monitors...
Just reply to this toot or send us a message if you know of any device. We'd love to test them!🤗

shtrom,
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@flameeyes I think you know a thing or two about glucometers? Not , though, but I guess this may be useful nonetheless.

@gnuhealth @pine64eu

shtrom, to random
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I've been using on Xitter to make threads into single pages that I can import into @wallabag (also doubles as an ElonWall bypasser as replies are no longer reachable to unlogged plebes).

I just discovered the Mastodon version, @mastoreaderio. Thanks @badlogic !

It has some JS-loading logic, so doesn't work with the backend-only mode of , but it works fine with the browser extension pushing the rendered page.

It does needs a little magic https://github.com/fivefilters/ftr-site-config/pull/1370. It would be handy to have some HTML5 semantics to find content and author more easily.

But all in all, the basic functionality is here!

olimex, to esp32
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ESP32-POE2 open source hardware board offers WiFi, Bluetooth, Wired Ethernet and POE up to 25W power for external circuits and sensors. https://olimex.wordpress.com/2024/04/25/esp32-poe2-open-source-hardware-poe-iot-board-provides-up-to-25w-power-supply-to-external-circuits/

shtrom,
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@olimex You mean... I don't need to build a dodgy separate power circuit feeding off the 46v to power my 4-20mA sensor? https://blog.narf.ssji.net/2024/01/21/the-burninator/

Is this version for sale yet?

backupbear, to random
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Australia's new DigitalID will feature an advanced 2FA mechanism. You'll have to listen to a random pronunciation of "Maaaate" and determine whether it was friendly, neutral or a deadly-enemy statement.

shtrom,
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@backupbear That's not 2FA: that's a CAPTCHA (for the next 2 minutes before AI gains a mastery of 'strayan accents).

brunus, to random French
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J'avais la crève, un truc du diable, que t'as l'impression d'avoir été mâchouillé par Belzebuth.
Du coup je me suis fait un grog : rhum blanc Dillon+eau chaude+citron+miel+canelle.
Pis un 2e grog, pis un 3e, pis j'en ai eu marre de faire chauffer l'eau...
Notes que le métaleu pété au rhum, et c'est à ça qu'on le différencie du pécore, gueule "WE ARE THE PIRATE METAL DRINKING CREW ! FUCK YOU !" et non "Du rhum des femmes de la bière nom de dieu !" (Soldat Louis, une honte nationale...)

shtrom,
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@brunus keelhaul that filthy landlubber, send him down to the depths below!

drewdevault, to random
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So, you're confused about Redict using the LGPL. I thought you weren't allowed to change the license of a FOSS project like that?

Well, you're right to raise an eyebrow at that, but note that this only applies to copyleft projects. Permissive licenses are characterized by, perhaps even defined by the fact that you can sublicense them.

To relicense a copyleft project you would need all of the copyright holders to agree. A CLA is designed to grant a single entity[...]

shtrom,
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@drewdevault I just occurred to me that using Free software licenses was a Ulysses Pact. And that having CLA was a way to wiggle out of it.

I'll view all CLAs with suspicion from now on, and likely avoid contributing if I can.

ALoneMasker, to random French
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I sometimes say, half jokingly, that I have PTSD regarding my kids being sick (mostly from stomach flu, not from a life threatening sickness thank god).

Last weekend I was told by a loved one that I might have PTSD from covid pandemic.

I'm not sure what to think of that comment. Yes, I still take precautions. The pandemic never stop in my view. And I'm definitely angry at how everything was handled. "We tried nothing and we are out of ideas".

People have moved on, but we are not in a good situation. Nothing I read shows positive signs. When I point that out I get told that such studies need to be taken with a grain of salt, for example the methodology wasn't sound enough. Sure I get this, it's never all black or white, that's how science moves. The issue I have is that I don't see positive studies at all, good or bad methodology. So all the signals are mostly negative, the question becomes how much negative. Debating how bad a situation is does not make it good.

What I find difficult is to protect my family when the world does not care. I can't put my kids in a bubble. I can't control what my spouse is doing (and I don't want to!) I know I can protect myself, but my efforts are moot if the kids catch anything at school where nobody cares.

shtrom,
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@trendless @ALoneMasker It sucks so much. These generations will look back at us in anger. And rightfully so.

One of the biggest myths is that “kids can't protect themselves, so don't even try”. Kids are little information sponges. They can learn, very quickly, how, why and when to wear respirators, and how to do it better than most adults.

It's not a 100% guarantee against school-acquired airborne diseases, but that's one effective step, and this is teaching them how to get some control over the situation, rather than giving in.

I suspect there is always a risk of bullying, but I've only read of well informed kids who stood strong with their masking.

mikemathia, to random
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shtrom,
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@mikemathia Here's a life hack: put dishwashing liquid in a liquid hand soap push-dispenser on the side of the sink. Conveniently dispense soap for both hands and dishes!

shtrom, (edited ) to thumbkey
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Err so. While I've been meaning to give money to for years of use, I very much dislike being forced into a subscription. Just a reminder that it is not Libre Software, and that it's not under my control and can be taken from me on someone else's whim. Particularly for something as important as my main input method.

I'll give a go to the Pro app, and see what the subscription looks like, but it feels like it's time to reevaluate @thumbkey , I guess.

shtrom, to firefox
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Just upgraded , and got greeted with this nice table on protection across various

shtrom,
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@Montag They can give you urls with embedded trackers, so they can track accesses to the link that was initially shown to you.

Firefox can automatically strip that, and you can add custom patterns to strip.

https://piaille.fr/@shtrom/111550570493058419

olimex, to PoE
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The open source hardware Power over Ethernet ESP32 boards ESP32-POE and ESP32-POE-ISO now are available with 16MB Flash https://olimex.wordpress.com/2024/01/29/esp32-poe-and-esp32-poe-iso-open-source-hardware-boards-now-have-version-with-16mb-flash/

shtrom,
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@olimex I just got a couple for a project, and was impressed at how versatile this little thing was. What did it for me was the LiPo charging from pretty much any other source of power.

A+++, will PoE again.

Teri_Kanefield, (edited ) to random
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I have my weekend blog post ready. I always put it here first. The first few people will get that error. Just wait a minute and try again.

I plan to demonstrate that any democratic government—by its very nature and under its own terms—will have a dangerous anti-democratic opposition because eliminating the opposition cannot be done using democratic means.

The opposition can be blunted and, with constant work. . .

1/

https://terikanefield.com/the-anti-democratic-opposition/

shtrom,
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@Teri_Kanefield Have you tried attaching a screenshot (or any image) of the link in your post with URLs?

My understanding is that each instance creates a screenshot separately for previews. The key, though is that they won't do it if othe} media is attached.

@weezmgk @timo21

shtrom, to random
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I just realised, while looking at my electricity bill, that GST is not paid over the final bill amount, but on each item separately, and the feed-in tariff is applied last. So the GST ends up being about 12.5% of the bill, so about 14.5% rather than 10%.

Is this a common way to calculate tax on a utility bill with feed-in?

revk, (edited ) to random
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The joys of telling a device to change its baud rate over the serial link it is using.

P.S. Now is the time I am very glad I have a power control on the device allowing me to cleanly reset it to known default Baud rate when needed.

shtrom,
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@revk I once did that to a Cisco RomMon. Amusingly, it accepts any baud rate, so of course I set it to a non-standard baudrate that I couldn't work out how to make Linux TTYs work at.

Fixing included pain, a MAX232, and an arduino pretending to be a human admin.

brunus, to Help French
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Rhaaa Je dois (peut être) rejoindre une réunion MS Teams dans la matinée.
J'ai l'ID et le pssw de la réu... mais là pour le moment je ne peux pas check si ça va juste marcher avec ça... est ce que ça va me demander des credentials d'un compte perso ou juste de taper un pseudo pour rejoindre la réu ?
Faut un compte quelconque MS aussi genre mail ou autre ?
(je connecte depuis mon smartphone)

Merc d'avance ! Joie, félicité et bon karma !

shtrom,
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@brunus De mon expérience, l'interface web sans client lourd te demande juste un nom, et zou.

De mémoire il faut chercher un peu le bouton qui dit “utiliser la version web” sur la page de connexion, qui suggère le téléchargement du client lourd, mais il est là.

backupbear, to random
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Pet theory: the paywalling of valid, useful information while misinformation is freely available everywhere is a leading contributor to our societal problems.

shtrom,
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@backupbear It's high time for the enshitification of misinformation.

What are they waiting for to paywall it?!

drewdevault, to random
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In general I do like this pattern, though: if you have a daemon which needs to be root for some reason, fork into a second process that keeps root, setuid the main process to non-root, and use a Unix socketpair to provide a small API surface for the non-root process to use to ask the root process to perform privileged operations

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/digitd/tree/master/item/cmd/digitd/root.ha

shtrom,
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@drewdevault “send back the fd” like... an int?

shtrom, to auspol
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The (Australian) Victorian government has improved their stance quite a bit. They were probably the least bad of the states, but they are truly leading on communication now.

> Jordan got COVID in January 2022, & his life hasn’t been the same since.
He shares how his life has been impacted by long COVID & urges Victorians to stay ahead of the virus with protective steps.

https://twitter.com/vicgovdh/status/1743105174183223502

flameeyes, to random
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Okay has anyone built a tool that can look for filenames across tarballs in a tree?

I think some of these have the file I need but I'm not sure which.

shtrom,
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@flameeyes The year is young q:

Start it now while looking for a better solution.

That said, there might be a way to parallelise the tar bit. You'd also need the tar file in the output.

It woud be a pity to find yourself 5 days in, having confirmation that the file is present, but still not where 😅

shtrom,
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@flameeyes Enters the pressure of “how far can I get away with just a shell” vs. “how long ago should I have given up and used a more task-adequate language”?

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