There's an email thing called dovecot. (Details irrelevant, if you've never heard of it all you need to know is it's an email thing.)
TIL there's a physical thing called a dovecot, which is a cot (bed) for doves and pigeons.
Upon learning this, I was like "oh! like carrier pigeons! that is a clever pun!" but no it turns out they mostly just kept pigeons to eat their eggs and use their poop as fertilizer :( (I probably have vastly inflated ideas of how often pigeons were used to carry messages)
Also I realized just now while typing this that the word "cottage" comes from "cot". Language is fun!
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"Regex is how I imagine eldritch horrors work.
You look at it and it makes no sense and it's scary.
As you stare, for a split second there is understanding. The universe expands before your eyes, reality unraveling.
Then the madness sets in."
- me, earlier today
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Thanks to “digging through a box of old microcontroller boards until I found an #arduino leonardo compatible one and digging through another box until I found an IR receiver and a random cheap remote labeled car mp3” I now have a remote I can use to control mpv to watch videos when I'm further away from the laptop/pc keyboard than the length of my arm (or when there is an ironing board between myself and the laptop).
18 out of 21 buttons have been assigned to a function
3 out of 21 buttons actually have the function that is labeled on the remote
3 additional buttons have a function that may be vaguely hinted at by the label on the remote (very vaguely)
everything else is completely unrelated.
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Tonight an early victorian gentle woman embraced me warmly, moved her mouth close to mine and sensually told me of the virtues of a sontag when walking in the cold season.
(yes, early victorian is probably too early for sontags, and yes, that's the only odd thing in the dream, right?)
@Dún Piteog uops, no, era più una situazione tipo “non esiste maltempo, esiste abbigliamento non adeguato”
(in effetti noto che cercando sontag e basta non si trova molto di correlato, serve almeno “sontag garment” o simili)
Per fare un esempio di quote toot (o meglio “cita e ricondividi”), @peaceful aggro
Non sono d'accordo con l'introduzione della possibilità di citare i toot (il "quote post" di twitter). Non solo rischia di portare la sciagura della polemika tipica del birdsite, ma secondo me rende più facile un uso mentalmente pigro, anzi siccome la pigrizia è una bella cosa, forse direi superficiale del mezzo.Poi oh magari mi sbaglio
@peaceful aggro c'è da dire che questo era il modo di ricondividere con friendica da molto prima che esistesse mastodon, il boost è stato aggiunto negli ultimi anni per compatibilità con mastodon (e/o con activity pub), missà
secondo me è questione di comunità tossica che viene incentivarne a farne uso tossico (e probabilmente la cosa si reinforza)
mentre quando ai tempi su friendica eravamo quattro gatti che al massimo litigavano su quale fosse la distribuzione linux migliore non è che si fosse santi, ma i numeri erano bassi e probabilmente mancava l'effetto rinforzo.
/me, yesterday evening: listened to Barbero talking about villagers in a certain part of the Middle Ages weren't too unhappy about paying the right¹ amount of taxes to a local lord, because they *did* have a need for the service they provided of protection from raiders and outside threats.
/me, just afterwards: pays a kibble tribute to the local lord, who provides protection from mice and other critters, and sometimes even gracefully allows us to pet him.
¹ how much the *right* amount was was of course a completely different matter :D
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/me ieri sera: ascolta Barbero spiegare che gli abitanti dei villaggi in un certo periodo del medioevo non erano così scontenti di pagare le giuste¹ tasse al signore locale, perché avevano effettivamente bisogno del servizio che questo forniva di protezione da scorribande ed altri pericoli esterni.
/me subito dopo: paga un tributo in croccantini al signore locale, che fornisce protezione da topi e altri animali molesti, e a volte concede generosamente di fargli persino due grattini.
¹ decidere quanto fosse *giusto* ovviamente era una questione totalmente diversa
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Filed under: questions I'm not sure it was wise to ask myself.
Is it possible to #weave a twill tape with tablets on a #backstrapLoom? (apparently yes)
Is it a good use of my time to do so, when I can buy twill tape from the haberdasher? (not in linen, and not in the colours I can buy linen thread in)
Does Nm 24 yarn / thread mean that it will take forever?
Note that I've started with a few rows of plain weave, just to stabilize everything, and I've only woven the bare minimum I felt confortable with before removing the warm from the clamps and moving it to the backstrap loom.
Also, this brown yarn is cotton, not linen, I'm keeping the nice linen for when I'm sure that this whole thing can actually work.
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Quella tecnica ha funzionato 5000 anni, non vedo perché non debba funzionare ora.
Se poi ti serve per fare cose che non si trovano in commercio ancora meglio, altrimenti cosa avresti come alternativa, comprare uno stabilimento che produce 5000 km di fettuccia l'anno?
@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua ecco, non lo so se ha funzionato 5000 anni fa, o se sono combinazioni di tecniche che hanno funzionato 5000 anni fa, ma non assieme: di solito con le tavolette si fanno cose con più di due fili, e per fare la fettuccia spigata credo che ci siano strumenti più semplici.
Però è sono tutti strumenti che ho sottomano, e quindi perché no?
(Come alternativa avrei cercare meglio siti che vendono materiale specializzato in giro per l'europa, ma dov'è il divertimento così? :D )
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/me, ieri sera: guarda un video¹ che parla dello stato dell'aviaria negli stati uniti, e prevede (in modo non particolarmente affidabile) che ci saranno nuovi lockdown
contesto: siamo a metà di un trasloco che si sta trascinando nel tempo
/me stamattina: ok, va bene tutto, ma se Meloni o peggio Salvini fanno dichiarazioni sull'argomento e dicono che non ci saranno lockdown io prendo un giorno di ferie, salgo in macchina e vado *subito* a prendere i vestiti estivi da casa vecchia
¹ era da un canale di notizie scientifiche, che è interessante soprattutto quando parla di fisica e argomenti correlati, su altri argomenti quando da interpretazioni delle conseguenze delle notizie va preso pesantemente con le pinze
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The Internet is mostly shit these days, but every once in a great while I stumble across an incredible, passion-project website.
This one is hand-animated weird art and it is worth your time as a fun decompressing thing in between your doomscrolling sessions.
I don't even know what hashtags this deserves, so it's not getting any. Boost to your friends!
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@LaVi hai visto? cambia la persona da insultare quando i treni non vanno
varesenews.it/2025/02/finisce-…
(consiglio l'apertura del link con opportuno preservativo)
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Sciopero dei trasporti locali, ecco chi si ferma il giorno di San Valentino
Mezzi pubblici a rischio a Milano, Firenze, Pavia e Latina. Mentre a Roma...Tgcom24
I've just watched Bernadette Banners' video “How to Identify Quality in Clothing (A Rant)” and I'm a bit surprised by the way serging is basically condemned as evil.
I do hate the serger (and the serger hates me), so on the clothing I make I tend to use french seams, bound edges and all those finishes, but other than the odd flat felled seam on sportswear I don't think I've ever seen a professionally made garment where the raw edges weren't finished with serging, even when it was an actual seamstress doing custom work.
Of course there is serging and serging, and the video does mention what to look for for better (or less worse, as they framed it) serging, but I just don't understand how one is supposed to find garments that aren't serged at all for sale.
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What really stung me was the reminder about seam-allowance size and ease of modifying seams. Do I think she was right in that department? YES! How often I've seen of-the-rack pants with easily modifyable mid-back seam? Once in several years!! (I look always, because most pants don't fit my curvy figure) ...
I'm just generally very sad how shit most of contemporary clothing has become, and I wanted to complain a bit more about it. 😅
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I had just finished listening to an 1976 album (from a cd ripped to flac stored on a media center and played by a pinephone connected to the line in of the stereo) and there was a clank sound, possibly coming from the neighbors that sounded very much like the sound the turntables makes when stopping and returning the arm to the resting position.
I had earlier decided against listening to music on vinyl because I was also cutting fabric at the same time.
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Avevo appena finito di ascoltare un disco del 1976 (da un cd rippato in flac, salvato sul media center e riprodotto dal pinofono collegato al line-in dello stereo) e c'è stato un *clank*, probabilmente proveniente dai vicini, che sembrava il rumore che fa il piatto quando si ferma e riporta il braccio alla posizione di riposo.
Prima avevo deciso che non avrei ascoltato musica su vinile perché nello stesso momento stavo anche tagliando della stoffa.
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c'è qualcuno che ha studiato stenografia? Avrei bisogno di decifrare una parola trovata sul retro di una vecchia cartolina.
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Vorrei poterti aiutare.
La mia nonna, che purtroppo ci ha lasciato qualche anno fa, aveva studiato stenografia. Ero molto affascinato dai segni criptici che tracciava sul foglio.
Non posso aiutarti, ma mi hai fatto pensare alla nonna Enza. ❤
Grazie.
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Have I mentioned that #handsewing water resistant cotton by hand (four layers of it, because I'm whipstitching two finished edges together) is *interesting*?
(it may not be the best way to keep the seam watertight, but I may treat it with seam sealant later if I really need it. not that I intend to wear this hood under a downpour, I have a full plasticy cape for those, this is just intended for light rain)
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and since I want to make things even more *interesting* for myself, now I'm adding a border of blanket stitches all around the edge of the hood, in a thread made of *glass fibre*.
(I think it was meant for knitting, but I have had it in my stash for ages, and I decided that I wanted something visible on a black garment meant to be worn while walking in the rain and gloom)
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e per rendermi la vita ancora più *interessante*, sto aggiungendo un bordo di punto coperta(?) tutto attorno all'orlo del cappuccio con del filo fatto di fibra di vetro.
(credo che fosse pensato per il lavoro ai ferri, ma ce l'ho in giro da secoli, e ho deciso che volevo qualcosa di visibile su un capo di abbigliamento nero da indossare quando si cammina sotto la pioggia)
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l'immagine in testa all'articolo è stata scelta totalmente a caso, vero?
ilpost.it/2025/02/06/quanto-ci…
Si fa presto a dire andare su Marte
Per farlo veramente come vorrebbero Trump e Musk c'è una finestra ogni 26 mesi, a causa di come si muovono i due pianetiIl Post
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Filed under #sillyQuestionsAtDinnerTime
Does the fact that the name prescinsöa has a umlaut in it mean that it is metal? \m/
(it's a cheese-adiacent food from Liguria)
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Nella categoria #domandeStupideAllOraDiCena
Il fatto che nel nome prescinsöa ci sia un'umlaut vuol dire che è metal? \m/
(per chi non la conoscesse, è un quasi-formaggio ligure)
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@Justin Time avevi in mente di fare qualcosa questa sera?
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php…
(attenzione, link ad una wiki dove si perde un sacco di tempo)
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have you had a look at #Streams yet?
«Link your scattered fediverse accounts and their separate logins, with one channel and one identity to share them all.»
codeberg.org/streams/streams
streams
Consent based public domain federated communications server. Provides a feature rich ActivityPub and Nomad communication node.Codeberg.org
And this is when I'm sorry that friendica doesn't support creating polls.
This night at about 6:20 somebody tried to check the time, let the phone¹ fall on the ground, hitting other things and causing a lot of noise. who could have been?
* The dog (we don't have a dog)
* A black cat (there are a few in the neighborhood, none of them enter our bedroom
* The naked monkey in a black pajama
¹ an old nokia. the floor is still intact, thankfully.
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Some nuanced privacy advice:
- Signal is good, and you should use it because it strikes an effective balance in the optimization problem that is getting people to use secure technology.
- You should think really, really hard before using any technology whose entire threat model depends on centrally operated infrastructure remaining trusted and uncompromised. Especially ones based in jurisdictions without effective democratic institutions.
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Ultimately, the main questions you really need to ask yourself are:
- "What are you trying to protect"
- "Why?"
- "For how long?"
Privacy itself is a technology, a powerful one, and you should learn to wield it effectively to accomplish the goals you have.
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Conference Talk Timeout Ring, Part One
Posted on February 4, 2025
Tags: madeof:atoms, madeof:bits
A few ago I may have accidentally bought a ring of 12 RGB LEDs; I soldered temporary leads on it, connected it to a CircuitPython supported board and played around for a while.
They we had a couple of friends come over to remote FOSDEM together, and I had talked with one of them about WS2812 / NeoPixels, so I brought them to the living room, in case there was a chance to show them in sort-of-use.
Then I was dealing with playing the various streams as we moved from one room to the next, which lead to me being called “video team”, which lead to me wearing a video team shirt (from an old DebConf, not FOSDEM, but still video team), which lead to somebody asking me whether I also had the sheet with the countdown to the end of the talk, and the answer was sort-of-yes (I should have the ones we used to use for our Linux Day), but not handy.
But I had a thing with twelve things in a clock-like circle.
A bit of fiddling on the CircuitPython REPL resulted, if I remember correctly, in something like:
import board
import neopixel
import time
num_pixels = 12
pixels = neopixel.NeoPixel(board.GP0, num_pixels)
pixels.brightness = 0.1
def end(min):
pixels.fill((0, 0, 0))
for i in range(12):
pixels[i] = (127 + 10 * i, 8 * (12 - i), 0)
pixels[i-1] = (0, 0, 0)
time.sleep(min * 5) # min * 60 / 12Now, I wasn’t very consistent in running
end, especially since I wasn’t sure whether I wanted to run it at the beginning of the talk with the full duration or just in the last 5 - 10 minutes depending of the length of the slot, but I’ve had at least one person agree that the general idea has potential, so I’m taking these notes to be able to work on it in the future.One thing that needs to be fixed is the fact that with the ring just attached with temporary wires and left on the table it isn’t clear which LED is number 0, so it will need a bit of a case or something, but that’s something that can be dealt with before the next fosdem.
And I should probably add some input interface, so that it is self-contained and not tethered to a computer and run from the REPL.
(And then I may also have a vague idea for putting that ring into some wearable thing: good thing that I actually bought two :D )
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e per cena spezzatino cucinato in modo da rispettare una serie di restrizioni alimentari con — oltre ad altre verdure — insalata belga stracotta e sciroppo di Liegi.
come contorno patate lesse, perché non posso mangiare patatine fritte.
e una bottiglia di Rochefort 10 (divisa con @Diego Roversi , perché siamo troppo vecchi per bere una bottiglia di birra a testa, figuriamoci una bottiglia di birra *belga*)
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and dinner was spezzatino cooked to accomodate a number of food restrictions, with — among other vegetables — overcooked belgian endive and syrop de Liège.
the side was boiled potatoes, because I can't have frites.
and a bottle of Rochefort 10 (shared with @Diego Roversi , because we are too old to drink a bottle of beer each, nevermind a *Belgian* one :D )
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This afternoon's project: "A self-hosted Wikipedia (and other bits) clone, using kiwix on a Raspberry Pi 4"
I thought that it might be a good idea to have a local (well, on my local network) copy of Wikipedia, and some other bits.The go-to tool for this seems to be kiwix, and that’s what I used, running on a Raspberry Pi.
The hardest part was faffing around with the SSD...
neilzone.co.uk/2025/02/a-self-…
#Linux #FOSS #selfhosting #kiwix #wikipedia
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Speakers: If you have a weird "cut" on the start of your #FOSDEM video recording, tell the video server that it the video starts too late. The next version the video server sent me had much better source video (all three talks I gave had this problem, I assume others might as well - but don't panic!)
I love my annual interaction with the FOSDEM video servers!
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TIL that Sirop de Liège from Belgium (and variations) goes quite nicely with re-heated lake Como style polenta
(and these are the kind of things you do while remoting #fosdem)
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Materiale ciclistico (telai, ruote, selle, manubri, freni, leve, ecc) a Turate (CO)
Tendenzialmente vorrei vendere il lotto intero, ma nel caso ci si può accordare per singoli pezzi. Anche bici da corsa complete. A richiesta, ho anche un sacco di altre foto 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
EDIT: venduto
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Happy Groundhog Day! I am a fan of the absurdity of weather prognosticating rodents and celebrate Groundhog Day with my thermochromic linocut. The shadow is visible if the ambient temperature is <30°C and disappears when >30°C (and it’s a safe bet winter is over or you are overheating your home. So I argue my print is as dependable as any celebrity rodent! The reaction is reversible so 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #mastoart #thermochromic #GroundhogDay #groundhog #folklore #printmaker
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New metasyntactic variables: sex, gender, trans (to replace foo, bar, foobar).
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Linux kernel source:
$ git grep -wi trans | wc -l
15291
Short for at least transcoder, transaction, and transport.
Dear federation obsessed people of the fediverse,
does anybody know of a #xmpp web client with the look and feel of slack?
we are looking for it, and it feels strange that nobody ever wanted something like that
@Alessandro @fabrixxm@gl-como.it
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They are in development, currently still alpha I think.
@alorenzi@livellosegreto.it @tag-xmpp@relay.fedi.buzz
Prose – All of your workplace communication lives here
Prose is a decentralized, open-source and native workplace communication platform.prose.org
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@Menel @Alessandro @Zash uhm, do you have experience with prose?
looking at the websites there are a few things that aren't very encouraging (e.g. the limit of 100 users for the self-hosted version, and the fact that their hosted proprietary version has more features)
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No, I've no experience there, as I said, as far as I know it isn't production ready. I guess we'll have to wait what will come of it.
I guess this limitation is easily to overcome, since it's open source and the underlying xmpp server doesn't know such a limitation.
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Tomorrow begins #IncoWriMo with the First of February. International Correspondence Writing Month is a means to slow down and to listen to the rhythms of your own handwriting and the meditative thinking that goes along with it. It's an excellent time to reconnect with others through the hand written word. It's a time to have some fun. It's not about pressuring you about doing it right or wrong.
You can find out more about the goals at the official website incowrimo.org/faqs/
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@Tobias said:
“it [Friendica] looks like backend developers doing frontend”
and this is one of the reasons I love the way it looks :D
(plis, plis, plis keep this look as an option even if you get a frontend dev!)
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And we're ready to remote #fosdem
(I know, the couch is not full *yet*, but will be later in the weekend)
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sadly, our home wifi is not ipv6-only. And the morning of fosdem is not a good time to try to set it up as such
maybe we will do it for the next year? :D
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There isn't much context, but, on the topic of debian packaging plugin-style things that could be downloaded from some software:
“There was also some confusion about why we bother when there's now a
builtin contentdb (which didn't exist when the first mods were
packaged). I found this quote about minetest use in prisons:> The context of this is, I ship Debian to people in gaol, and they
> can't just download random shit off the internet, or watch tutorial
> videos on youtube. If I can't provide them a "basically fine" default
> setup, there's no point shipping anything”
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This afternoon I've received 5 sensors of a certain type¹ I've bought in the weekend.
They were in individual plastic bags (purple), I've put them all in a single plastic bag, and put the bag back in the box they came in.
In the last hour or so I've taken one of them out, connected it to the microcontroller on a breadboard I use for these things, programmed it to use it, it worked. Then I decided to take another microcontroller whose sensor² was broken, and change it with one of these.
So I picked up the soldering iron, all of the accessories, and changed³ the board that connects the microcontroller and the sensor, soldered headers to *another* one of the new sensors, and update the firmware, and everything worked.
And now I wanted to put away the remaining ones in their right place, and I can't find them anymore.
They aren't near in the box, they aren't near the upgraded microcontroller, they aren't in the plastic box where they are supposed to end up
Aaaand thanks everybody, while writing this I looked under the soldering mat (which I had put back into its place) and the sensors were there!
¹ BME280 on a breakout board, but that's not the issue
² SHT20, it had started to give absurd humidity values
³ it's an I2C device. There are 4 pins. *why* is everybody putting them in different combinations??? why can't they settle on something like always putting them in the same order??? (maybe the one used by easyC / StemmaQT, since it's already out there?)
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Oggi pomeriggio ho ricevuto dei sensori¹ che ho comprato nel weekend.
Erano in bustine di plastica (viola) individuali, li ho messi tutti nella stessa bustina, e rimesso la bustina nella scatola in cui erano arrivati.
Nell'ultima oretta li ho ripresi in mano, collegati al micro su breadboard con cui faccio le prove, programmato il micro per usarlo, funzionava. E poi ho deciso di prendere un altro micro il cui sensore² si era rotto e sostituirlo con uno di questi.
Quindi ho preso il saldatore e tutto quanto, cambiato³ la schedina che collega microcontrollore e sensore, saldato headers su un altro dei sensori nuovi, aggiornato il firmware e tutto funziona.
E poi volevo mettere i sensori rimasti al loro posto, e non li trovo più.
Non sono nella scatola, non sono vicino al micro aggiornato, non sono nella scatola di plastica dove dovranno andare.
Eeeee, grazie mille, mentre scrivevo questo post ho guardato sotto al tappetino per saldare (che avevo rimesso a posto) e i sensori erano lì!
¹ BME280 su una breakout board, ma non è quello il punto
² SHT20, aveva iniziato a dare valori di umidità assurdi
³ è un dispositivo I2C. Ci sono 4 pin. *perché* li mettono in tutte le combinazioni possibili? perché non si mettono d'accordo per usare sempre lo stesso ordine???? (magari quello usato da easyC / StemmaQT, visto che esiste già)
“Per quale motivo vengono soppresse le corse di #Trenord” (secondo i dati 2024 pubblicati dall'azienda)
(consiglio l'apertura del link con opportune precauzioni)
varesenews.it/2025/01/per-qual…
Per quale motivo vengono soppresse le corse di Trenord
I dati complessivi registrati nel 2024, tra scioperi, guasti ai convogli o alla rete. Lo scorso anno il numero di treni totali in programma è comunque aumentato del 4%Roberto Morandi (Vareseweb Srl)
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Tramite la tecnica “scavare in una scatola di schede a microcontrollore fino a trovare un compatibile #arduino leonardo e scavare in un altra scatola fino a trovare un ricevitore a infrarossi e un telecomando cinese con scritto sopra car mp3” adesso ho un telecomando che posso usare per controllare mpv quando guardo video a distanza dal pc/portatile maggiore della lunghezza del mio braccio (o quando tra me e il portatile c'è un asse da stiro).
18 bottoni su 21 sono stati configurati per avere qualche funzione
3 bottoni su 21 hanno la funzione che c'è effettivamente scritta sul telecomando
altri 3 bottoni hanno una funzione che potrebbe vagamente essere richiamata da quel che c'è scritto sul telecomando (molto vagamente)
tutto il resto è completamente scorrelato
#cosaMaiPotrebbeAndarStorto
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