Notices by Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org), page 5

I'm not sure how that aluminum plate is held in. Pressed? Glued? Dunno

Hey yeah! Esp32 pico!

@botvolution how do you know you actually woke up from that? what if you're still on the couch and just dreaming that you woke up from dreaming that you were sleeping on the couch?

Dreamt i feel asleep on the couch, and when i awoke in the dream, i was so confused to find myself there with all the lights on in the house when i was sure i remembered having gone to bed.

I got up to go to bed, but when i walked into my bedroom, i found two bikes, bikes that weren't mine, parked on the bed.

As i looked around, i saw more things that weren't mine. In the kitchen we even more things. I opened the fridge and it had been stuffed with a bunch of prepackaged pies.

Then i heard a noise at the window. A man was standing there smiling. "Emily, do you like all the things i brought you?" he asked.

"I don't know who you are! What is all this stuff?!" I shouted back at him.

He smiled. "You don't have to yell at me," he said. "It seems like you're in a mood though, so I'll come back later."

Then as I watched through the window, he walked down my driveway and disappeared into the night.

#lunarnewyear

If you haven't been keeping up with my latest quixotic endeavor, I am collecting these brass valves from the nitrous tanks for that people leave everywhere after they are done huffing them. It started as a byproduct of me building a wind chime out of the nitrous tanks, but now that I have quite a few of these valves, I'm grabbing them whenever I find their tanks lying in the gutter.

Once I have enough, I'm going to see if I can melt them down into one ingot of brass to be reused for machining

Home Depot is rounding up all totals to the nearest five cents, even when they should be rounding down

@botvolution All the windows in this place are that style of window. I like them, but they are are a pain to ope and close

This plant of mine may not look much like the rest of its cactus brethren, but it sure has the spines of a cactus.

I did it!! I hacked the e-bike motor!

It's only running off of 36 volts here rather than the 48 it's designed for because i don't have a generic 48v controller, so it's going slower than it should, but it works.

Now that I know this is possible, I will go ahead and order a 48 volt controller and a 48v BMS for rebuilding the battery pack

In situ hacking

Even if this bike had worked, I probably would have done this anyway because this bike was designed to be controlled with an app on your phone and I'm not about having to use apps to use other things.

I am freeing this bike from the prison of surveillance capitalism

I need to buy parts from AliExpress. The scotus ruling on tariffs came just in time

@steter I did but I don't know anything about hacking computer code. This is just bypassing circuitry. I wouldn't have any idea where to start with a ring camera because it would be all code stuff

Promising signals from the hall effect sensor wires

I am attempting to hack this ebike motor to bypass all the proprietary stuff and what I'm seeing so far is encouraging

Yesterday at work we were discussing the news that an employee had been murdered in confusing circumstances far away, and decided that the news media were unlikely to contact us about it.

I've just received an email from the news media asking me if i can confirm that the person murdered under confusing circumstances is one of our employees.

It's gonna be one of those mornings.

Friends and I are developing two games:

The first one involves two friends blindfolding the third friend and driving them up to four hours away, removing the blindfold, and then making them drive home without looking at a phone for directions.

The second one involves one friend leaving a note with clues for the other two friends. The other two friends have to use those clues to find the friend -- wherever they're hiding in Los Angeles County

If you were blindfolded and driven four hours from home, do you think you could drive home without looking for directions online?

@401matthall @botvolution I rarely block people. But they sure take care of it for me by blocking me