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thegreekgeek

@thegreekgeek@mstdn.io

Intoxicologist by night, Nerd also by night. And day.

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KarenDorman, (edited ) to Fashion
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Hey friends, does anyone know what either of these objects are?
(They were found in a deceased relative's jewelry box.)
Please boost for added eyes, thanks! 😊

The lettering on the object on the left says:
Hadley Made in USA
Both ends open up to 90⁰ and the main body expands and contracts about a centimetre.

A clever person has said that the object in the right is a Writescope telescoping mechanical pencil. Thanks!

@sewing

thegreekgeek,
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@KarenDorman
What does the lettering on the clip in the first picture say?
@sewing

rayckeith, (edited ) to random
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    thegreekgeek,
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    @rayckeith if anyone's interested, here's someone who rolled their own period tracker:

    https://www.alizaaufrichtig.com/period-tracker

    Unfortunately it relies on Google Sheets but hopefully this will be enough of a starting point for someone to adapt it to something that's not Google.

    dansup, to Pixelfed
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    ICYMI: Pixelfed beta is on the Google Play Store.

    Join via link on our website!

    https://pixelfed.org/mobile-apps

    thegreekgeek,
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    @toran
    I joined the beta and it already said it was installed so I think that's the current version.
    @dansup

    kaiserkiwi, (edited ) to homeassistant
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    I still think automations in should be groupable.

    Folders, collections, tags. Whatever. At least give me an option to filter them quickly based on my metrics.

    The current filters are pretty useless once you have more than 20 automations.

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    @kaiserkiwi
    You totally can! But not through the frontend unfortunately. https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/configuration/packages/

    thegreekgeek,
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    @kaiserkiwi
    Spoke to soon! Check the 2024.4 beta!

    thisismissem, to random
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    Fedi-Badge is a cool new shields.io style badge generator for the Fediverse, built on Fedify: https://github.com/dahlia/fedi-badge/tree/main

    thegreekgeek,
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    @failedLyndonLaRouchite
    It's an embed that you'd put in a web page if I'm not mistaken.
    @thisismissem

    EvangelosSciFi, to random
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    I can't get over the whole Star Trek transporter thing. It still messes with my mind. It belongs on a Twilight Zone episode, not in ST.

    thegreekgeek,
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    @EvangelosSciFi
    Or a Twilight Zone-like Star Trek episode?

    werefreeatlast, to Nintendo
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    is here on !

    Hurry show them what we think about them!

    🤔? Or just let the hear all about the way you play so they can go sue some other group.

    thegreekgeek,
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    @werefreeatlast
    Or how about instead of yelling into an unofficial fan community like an arch evangelist you do something actually constructive and donate to your favorite emulator?

    freakazoid, to homeassistant
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    Any recommendations for small, cheap hardware for a UI?

    thegreekgeek,
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    @freakazoid
    I've been hearing about the Lenovo ThinkSmart View 8" lately, been considering picking up a few for myself. It does look like you need to put in a custom ROM for it but it seems pretty painless. https://community.home-assistant.io/t/is-this-the-perfect-standalone-tablet-for-ha/658422

    thelusciouslibra, to random

    Anyways Linktree broke adult links, happy Thursday 🥳
    https://twitter.com/baxxxbox/status/1770879645015015564?s=46&t=TWTg95Sf_8le5bpaHL9MxQ

    thegreekgeek,
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    @thelusciouslibra
    When I was trying to bring my old union into the 21st century I got away with not hosting by making a glitch.com landing page (one of their default projects) and just redirecting my domain to it. It requires a little bit of html knowhow but everything is commented pretty well.

    JenMsft, to random
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    This is the way

    thegreekgeek,
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    @JenMsft
    Lol there's another way?
    @yogthos

    thegreekgeek,
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    @yogthos
    Oh I very much need this. Also GNU Sir Terry.
    @radlich @JenMsft

    gnomon, to random
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    If you have a few little scripts hanging around in your ~/bin/ that use regexes to destructure and/or synthesize URLs, give @bagder's trurl(1) a look. It's small, simple, speedy, and super useful; it makes the intent of the transformation a lot easier to infer from its implementation. I don't know whether it'll grow to be as popular as its big brother curl(1) - the niche is smaller - but I hope it does!

    https://curl.se/trurl/

    https://curl.se/trurl/manual.html

    https://github.com/curl/trurl

    thegreekgeek,
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    @gnomon
    Oh this will come in handy! Thank you!
    @bagder

    23Sonics, to random
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    I'm forcing myself to use light themes everywhere for two weeks, as a challenge :firemc: send help

    thegreekgeek,
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    @23Sonics
    Why would you do this to yourself.

    jon404, to homeassistant
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    What are people using for presence in ?

    I find I suddenly need presence to shut off an automation that is based on...presence detection for SleepIQ (TL;DR: I have an italian mastiff that sneaks up on the bed while I'm working in my home office, re-triggering my morning automations over and over during the workday).

    I could use RFID or NFC or the like, but if there are rock-solid presence detectors that are more automatic, I'd prefer that to manually scanning stuff.

    thegreekgeek,
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    @jon404
    A Bayesian sensor might just be what you're looking for. For presence and you could wire up one of those car seat sensors to your chair office presence if you can't install something like HASS-agent on your work machine.
    @jhulten

    metin, to web
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    In the 1990s and early 2000s, tiny animated GIF banners of 88 x 31 pixels could be found on lots of sites, usually functioning as a button or clickable ad, linking to a different site.

    @booters has collected a truckload of those old school banners for your nostalgic pleasure:

    https://hellnet.work/8831/

    thegreekgeek,
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    @metin
    Oh man, this brings me back. I only ever caught the tail end of this though, userbars were more my thing.
    @booters

    mdimjasevic, to homeassistant
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    Dear @homeassistant users, do you have any smart light bulb to recommend that works fully locally and it integrates with ? I am open to WiFi and Zigbee variants.

    I just ran into a WiFi-based TP-Link Tapo bulb for half of its usual price. I bet it phones to the headquarters. It'd be great if it can be flashed with a libre firmware. Any thoughts?

    thegreekgeek,
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    @mdimjasevic
    Home Depot's Ecosmart brand had some really good zigbee bulbs but they've seemed to stop manufacturing them which is a shame. As far as I can tell tradfri has the next best offering for price.
    @homeassistant

    selea, to homeassistant

    What kind of temperatur and humidity sensors do you use for measuring outdoor and/or in the attic?

    thegreekgeek,
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    @selea
    I would go with the La Crosse TX141TH-BV2 myself.

    ottaross, (edited ) to random
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    It looks like there are almost no thermostats available now for the typical low-voltage forced air gas furnaces.

    There are several for hot-water systems, and a few for electric baseboard heating.

    A couple that were available are have gone. The Zen product (designed & made in St.John's NL Cda) is gone, after they were bought out by Mysa.

    Maybe the only option is KONOz, which is expensive and has sketchy specs.

    thegreekgeek,
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    @ottaross
    I had a sensi at my old house, I haaaaaated it. At my new house I ended up spinning up a z-wave network specifically for a Honeywell T6 and that's been rick solid.

    Julie, to random
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    Remember web directories? Back in the mists of Internet time, it was clever to know that they existed and know which ones were relevant to the subjects you were interested in. That was when the web was still small enough to imagine we could catalog and curate content.

    thegreekgeek,
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    @the_roamer
    Been thinking about this recently, wouldn't this be a perfect fediverse-type project? Like an addon service for federated communities to post and rank links in a list and search other lists?
    @Julie

    joesteel, (edited ) to random
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    Is there an alternative to Google Analytics that is:

    1. Not creepy.
    2. Just shows simple data about whether people visited a page.
    3. Does not require installing anything server side.

    People are replying to this and not reading the thread. I went with Tinylytics. Things are fine.

    thegreekgeek,
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    @joesteel
    Goatcounter! https://www.goatcounter.com/

    TNLNYC, (edited ) to reddit
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    Thinking through the Reddit crisis, I'd recommend that @ernest and @dessalines contact the creators of the most popular reddit clients and work together to piece a bridge that would take the calls that were made to and translate them into API calls that would go to and

    Having those clients run in the same way against the equivalents would reduce friction for end-users and potentially help a lot of moderators who rely on them.

    thegreekgeek,
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    @TNLNYC
    Somebody's already working on that exact thing, I saw a project on GitHub that took Reddit style API calls and basically converted them to Lemmy calls (could have sworn it was Lemmy) to act as a bridge for current Reddit apps.
    @Bidgehop @ernest @dessalines

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    @sparkit
    YASSS
    @dessalines @TNLNYC @ernest @Bidgehop

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