Did well at a casual pinball league night last night, working on a lot of self hosting stuff, and trying to find time to design some posters to put up around town for a socialist U.S. Senate candidate and connect with more like-minded folks in my area.
Pollen season has started so trying to navigate that while enjoying the weather. Hoping to get out for some exercise this weekend.
FFS this country is so backward. I’m trying to get out there and get more involved in organizing, but it feels pretty hopeless at times.
I host my own gitea instance and have been migrating my code off of github. Trouble is there isn’t much traction on federated code forges seemingly, so if I want people to be able to collaborate on my code they’d need to set up an account on my gitea, and I’d have to set up an email server to send the transactional emails to enable that, etc.
Selfhosting is great, but I don’t expect everyone to do it. I think the next step for data sovereignty is making it easier for the folks who are able to set up selfhosting to provide access to their services to members of their communities.
also, now having a gitea server running it’s an LLM scraper bonanza, so I have fail2ban blocking IPs as they come in but that only works on scrapers that identify themselves, and the big ones have so many IPs it’s still pretty overwhelming. Perhaps I’ll start redirecting them to a tarpit when I have bandwidth to spare 🤔
It was probably when I bought my Link Between Worlds 3DS XL. I bought physical cartridges for it, but I think I was getting them on Amazon mostly. When I got the switch my whole collection was digital downloads.
ah that stinks, yeah it’s not the most comfortable for long sessions. Might be worth checking out emulation and playing with a control method that works better for you. You’ll lose the 3D but you’ll still get to enjoy some really solid games.
Haven’t really had a garden of my own before so starting small with a little patch I’ve cleared out and added some compost into. So far I’ve put in a few beets which I started indoors, and planted some Broccoli seeds. Also planning to clear out an area of grass and replace it with wildflowers. Why mow?
Such a huge fan of what Technology Connections is doing, especially more recently with his “we have the technology to be more efficient already” angle and just under the surface political rage.
I know my prius isn’t as good as an EV for most of the driving I do, but it’s way better than any other internal combustion system on the market. When my wife’s beater kicks the bucket we’re definitely replacing it with an EV and keeping the prius for long hauls.
I took my 3DS XL on vacation because I knew I’d be waiting in lots of lines. Dipped in to Tomodachi Life (3DS), made some more progress in Pokémon Omega Ruby, and had some fun with a bunch of arcadey titles like pac-man championship edition and the 3ds version of Dr. Mario. Also took some 3D photos with the 3DS’ camera, which I didn’t really give much appreciation to back in the day.
Back at home and I’ve gotten back into the Sims 2 which I’m playing on my Steam deck after tinkering around with a custom control scheme for a while.
I’m so tired, man
Pretty good! I turned 30, I went out for various meals and activities with friends and family, my wife and I saw Getdown Services in Boston last night which was an awesome time, and next week I’m taking a week-long vacation.
Just went to a concert last night at a newly acquired livenation venue. All acts gave a rousing “Fuck Livenation,” but who knows if anything will really change 😔
looking at the schematics of the device I want to monitor more closely, it looks like it’s actually using addressable LEDs with a two-wire protocol, which actually makes things even easier because I can just sample on the provided clock edges. I think these are colloquially DotStar rather than NeoPixel devices. For reference I’m designing some mods for a modern pinball machine and it would be useful to know the state of lights on the playfield since I can’t hook into the code directly.
well, it’s more being able to detect long vs. short pulses, as it’s not the logic level but the pulse width that encodes the bits.
fortunately the RP2040’s programmable IO can run at 40x that 3MHz rate, so with a working program I should be able to differentiate short and long pulses and convert them back to bits. My application shouldn’t need to know exact colors, rather just detecting certain patterns or an on/off threshold state for a specific light in the chain.
This is not true, datacenters are bad, but this is not why. Here’s a good post re. this “study”
Data centers’ heat exhaust is not raising the land temperature around where they’re built
I’m selfhosting a gitea instance now. If anyone wants to host some code on an optiplex tower in my spare bedroom, pm me and I’ll make you an account. Absolutely zero uptime guarantees, but also absolutely zero AI.
I just wish SLS wasn’t such a compromised project from the start. Sure it’ll be kinda cool to see, but its just the least innovative rocket possible. If only some of spacex’s contract budget could’ve gone to funding NASA instead 😔
Still plugging away at Pokémon Omega Ruby, my wife is playing Alpha Sapphire. Remembering just how fun and cool the 3DS is as a console. Also played a bit of Dragon Quest Builders on Steam Deck.
bookmarking this to read later, thanks for sharing! Loved the game as a kid, and it’s still fun to pick up and play on literally any hardware now :D
thanks for the info, fortunately with it self hosted I can migrate if/when I have problems, but it’s working fine for me for now.