Notices by Adam ♿ (voltagex@aus.social)

@aral Unsure if Scaleway or UpCloud have also increased their prices (I'm in Australia so EU is normally too much latency for me to consider)

You could also play the LowEndBox lottery.

@ryanc whoops! I only saw the gist, I'll look again tomorrow. Thanks!

@ryanc how did you extract the encryption key from the EnGenius WAP all that time ago? I grabbed an ECW516L - great hardware, godawful software.

@ryanc silly question but have you tried posting on their Discord? (I know)

They may have spares.

@ryanc is AVX-512 still considered that unusual?

@ryanc OOI have you written about your Debian setup anywhere? I have had problems with every single router/AP vendor and OS I have tried (the common factor is me) and it might be nice to try something "barebones" @StarkRG

@wezm surely that's worth vendoring or rewriting code

@gsuberland Let's do it, I don't like any of the commercial SATA chips.

Australians - every single one of you who reads, boosts and scrolls past this message. I need every single one of you to write to your representatives. Every. Single. One.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/03/ndis-plans-computer-generated

The #NDIS changed my and so many others' lives for the better - no it is not perfect but gutting it is not the answer.

It should be available for every single person who needs it. It should not be left to a "computer" - there should be experts involved who know how to help and support Disabled people.

Write to your representatives, please.

#AdamSells #GroupBuy This is a long shot but does anyone in Australia want to do a group buy from https://gigaplustech.com?

They unfortunately won't give me the pricing details yet but it's shipped from China and paid for in USD.

Some people here think this place is PvP when it's actually co-op.

Hey Australians, TERFs from Victoria might fuck up half the Internet. We might want to do something about that. https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content

#BoostPlease

I think all Internet connected devices should have to ask for permission to connect first.

I'm using my iPhone's 5G connection until my NBN is fixed, Windows managed to slurp down 2 gigabytes of data doing fuck knows what before I caught it.

Before you advocate #Linux as an alternative for #Windows, it has to be fit for purpose first. This requires understanding and empathy for your (potential) users, which I am not sure a large chunk of the community is capable of.

#AskFedi which USB flash drives do you trust?

I require: >=50 megabytes per second read and write, 32 gigabytes minimum capacity, probably 10 total drive write lifespan minimum.

I was using Patriot Rage Lite which were reasonable, but I seem to have hit a weird failure mode with one of them.

I know about iodd and USB to NVMe, I am asking about giving money to a probably terrible store and receiving a USB flash drive for my money.

#Hardware #USB

@nafmo are you OK if part of this clip ends up in a blog post?

@nafmo huh! What is the transport format for 3? 30 seconds or so should do it, I am interested in how closed captions are encoded and in differences from the TS captured from DVB-T in Australia (which uses teletext subtitles)

#AskFedi mostly for my interest, can anyone send me a *raw* MPEG2 TS file from an ATSC(3?) capture?

If this is from a HDHomeRun it must be done from the command line with all filters off.

I am particularly interested in subtitles and closed captioning

#Broadcasting #FFMPEG

Inventing a reverse NDA so no one talks to me about #AI

Please make sure you are dialling correctly on the Fediverse