keverets @keverets@librem.one

TIL those flickering LED tealights are often made with music chips from old greeting cards as the source of "randomness" https://www.instructables.com/Listen-to-a-led-tea-light/

‘A new report on foreign interference in Canada has confirmed that a Russian disinformation operation has been producing content with the purpose of “boosting support for Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre and undermining support for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.”’

Foreign interference: Playing dumb doesn’t keep Canadians safe | CultMTL

#cdnpoli #canpoli

https://cultmtl.com/2024/10/foreign-interference-playing-dumb-doesnt-keep-canadians-safe/

Open source router firmware project OpenWrt ships its own entirely repairable hardware

'Forever unbrickable' Wi-Fi 6 box from Banana Pi comes packaged or in kit form Open source Wi-Fi router project OpenWrt and the Software Freedom Conservancy have delivered their first jointly developed hardware platform – the OpenWrt One – and are trumpeting it as a triumph of the right to repair mov…
#theregister #IT
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/02/openwrt_one_foss_wifi_router/

SFC and its OpenWrt project just released the OpenWrt One: the first router built from the hardware up by OpenWrt community. We begin today a new era in software-freedom-focused hardware design. The One puts your rights and freedoms first and an unbrickable device that will last.

OpenWrt One is available today for US$89. For every purchase of the One, a US$10 donation will go to the OpenWrt earmarked fund at SFC. If you're looking to shop for gifts today, as many in the USA are, we encourage you to put the OpenWrt One on your list!

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/nov/29/openwrt-one-wireless-router-now-ships-black-friday/
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007795779282.html

Time-lapse of the Sun circling the horizon at the South Pole during early March.

Video credit: Robert Schwarz
Source: https://vimeo.com/208466944

Yes, you can host your own PDS. You can also host your own blog. But try hosting your own PDS and NOT hosting a relay or AppView and you can't do much.

Blogs are decentralized, Google is not.
PDS'es are decentralized, Bluesky is not.

How Decentralized Is Bluesky Really? https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

A technical deep-dive, since people have been asking me for my thoughts. I'll expand a bit on some of the key points here in a thread. 🧵

A thermostat using the #esphome climate platform.

Gets temp data from a #homeassistant entity that is the average of many temp sensors. If that's unavailable, it uses the on-board temp sensor.

Could be minimized to just the #esp32 and relay, and use home assistant's interface but I want a device that can also be used if my #homeassistant is down.

Parts: Lolin C3 pico, a relay, SHTC3 temp sensor, OLED display, buttons.

yaml: https://gist.github.com/tkroo/014696aeb0e760bbe80b2a31aa90603d

If you're on BlueSky and want to bridge to Mastodon, follow @ap.brid.gy

That's it. Nothing to install, no terms of service to sign, no complicated garbage. If you want to stop, just block @ap.brid.gy

Details here: https://fed.brid.gy/docs

If you want to bridge your account to BlueSky, simply follow this account: @bsky.brid.gy

Why am I encouraging this? Because when BlueSky inevitably goes bad, people there will have friends in the Fediverse to help them move here.

Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon whether or not it's more popular than Bluesky.

can’t win them all i guess

New* on the blog: “Privacy, Why?” https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/11/14/Why-Privacy

It argues that a lockable front door is a key benefit of civilization. And I think it offers useful talking points for anyone who finds themselves having to defend their desire for privacy.

[*Well, not *that* new; it’s adapted from a piece I wrote in 2013 but published elsewhere.]

#Privacy

"It took 68 years for the world to reach 1 terawatt of solar PV capacity. It took just two years to double it"

#solar #ClimateChange #renewables

https://reneweconomy.com.au/it-took-68-years-for-the-world-to-reach-1-terawatt-of-solar-pv-capacity-it-took-just-two-years-to-double-it/

anyway, "world standards day", to celebrate international standards, was on october the 14th

unless you're in america, in which case it's next week, the 14th of november

@dangillmor My experience is that any article with Twitter embeds isn't an article at all, it's a "some people are saying" listicle. I might as well be watching a local weatherman doing man-on-the-street interviews about how wet the rain is.

"Nothing of value was lost", in other words.

FYI, wrapping a tortilla around a handful of Halloween candy counts as breakfast burrito as long as you eat it before noon.

@uint8_t In March 2024, the was a ruling by the European Court of Justice, which basically said that all standards that are mandatory for products must be free of charge.

I just looked up what's the current state of this:

There is now an official web site where you can request free access to european standards, and access those that were sucessfully requested by others: https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/documents-request/home

It explicitly says that everyone may use it, not just people in the EU.

1. interview with the vampire
2. HR screening with the vampire
3. technical interview with the vampire
4. team interview with the vampire
5. Good evening vampire, unfortunately we're not able to extend you an offer at this time. We'd like to keep in contact and notify you of any available positions in the future