@ryanc yeah you need an LTE base station but it turns out that Helium made these cheap and easily available
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Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 15:57:05 JST Matthew Garrett -
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Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 15:53:50 JST Matthew Garrett On the off-chance anyone was especially invested in our plumbing travails last year, I'm sure you'll be pleased to know that everything worked on the first attempt this time round - the couplers we used to connect the intake pipes made it easy to disconnect stuff over winter and remain leakless now stuff is hooked up again, the pump had not exploded from freezing, and we apparently successfully emptied all the plumbing this time because there are no burst pipes
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Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 15:53:47 JST Matthew Garrett The pump monitoring stuff I set up (basically a z-wave switch that reports current draw to Home Assistant) seems to work perfectly! When operating correctly the pump draws current in a relatively narrow band, so I have an automation to turn it off if the draw is outside the expected range (which might indicate that all the water has fallen out), and also gives an indication of whether there's a leak anywhere (if the pump is turning on without any water being used, that's a bad sign)
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Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 15:53:45 JST Matthew Garrett This year we're trying to reconstruct the rather more straightforward solution of a spring-fed cistern, but that's on the opposite side of a river and we need to get a pipe across the ravine (we share the water rights with three other cabins - all the infrastructure on our side of the river is fine, the stuff on the other side burned down in the Caldor fire back in 2021, so we need a new cistern and pipe and then just plug that into the stuff on this side and suddenly everyone has water)
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Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 15:53:42 JST Matthew Garrett Also need to replace a 30A circuit with a 50A one and stick in a tankless water heater because using electricity to keep a big tank of water hot is something that England might think makes sense but fuck that noise, and then I think the water project is complete and I can concentrate on setting up a wireless ISP instead (seriously did you know you can just… run LTE in the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands and nobody can tell you not to?)
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Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 23:41:24 JST Matthew Garrett Finally looking at Bruce Perens' "Post Open" licensing drafts and good heavens it's even worse than GPLv3 in terms of focusing on the perceived threats du jour rather than any coherent overall concept. The degree to which it goes beyond copyright law (various things that are plausibly fair use in the US are grounds for termination) is especially egregious. It's explicitly not free software, which I don't think is inherently bad, but it's also just a bad license.
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Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 00:07:32 JST Matthew Garrett Brands stop being weirdly horny challenge difficulty impossible
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Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 21:01:14 JST Matthew Garrett Less Tiny Train
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Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 01:07:08 JST Matthew Garrett The "Recall can't record DRMed video content" thing is because DRMed video content is entirely invisible to the OS. The OS passes the encrypted content to your GPU and tells it where to draw it, and the GPU decrypts it and displays it there. It's not a policy decision on the Recall side, it's just how computers work.
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Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2024 07:25:05 JST Matthew Garrett Just got handed yhis
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Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 00:47:37 JST Matthew Garrett Fucking hell what will they DRM next
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Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 14:07:56 JST Matthew Garrett @ryanc Technically you can still use it for anything, as long as a specific technical requirement is met
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Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 13:56:50 JST Matthew Garrett I'm still curious whether the Free Software Definition's choice to require the ability to use free software for *any* purpose is entirely deliberate - is there any writing on why free software must permit being used to restrict people's ability to exercise the four freedoms?
(I agree with the argument that it would be extremely difficult to write a license that enshrined this without restricting legitimate use cases, but if someone were able to do so, /should/ it be free software?)
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Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2024 15:13:26 JST Matthew Garrett Yeah Twitter is fine
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Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 08:04:18 JST Matthew Garrett -
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Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 12:54:06 JST Matthew Garrett @penllawen I did not! Incredible
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Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2024 22:08:55 JST Matthew Garrett STOP DOING HARDLINKS
INODES WERE NOT MEANT TO EXIST IN MULTIPLE DIRECTORIES
YEARS OF FILES yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for being in more than one directory
Wanted to reference files from more than one directory anyway? We had a tool for that: it was called "SYMLINKS"
"Yes please give me FIFTEEN paths that this file resolves to" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
"Hello I would like different permissions on this file based on path" They have played us for absolute fools
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Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2024 23:35:51 JST Matthew Garrett @hairyears they only have one?
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Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2024 23:35:28 JST Matthew Garrett We also went to extreme lengths to get Fedora 10 codenamed Cambridge purely because that was what the Red Hat 10 codename was going to be before the Fedora/RHEL fork meant there was no Red Hat 10
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Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Sunday, 21-Apr-2024 23:35:27 JST Matthew Garrett We did a release called Schrödinger's Cat and that was probably what killed release names because it turns out the problem wasn't the umlaut it was the apostrophe and the sheer number of things that didn't handle single quotes properly