Notices by Incident Creator ❎ (vik@mastodon.nzoss.nz)

Our #HomeAssistant solar power indicator. It used Athom bulbs. Top light is solar (red=low generation), middle is battery (yellow=half charge), bottom is load (green=low).

The family can look at the hallway and figure out if they want to run the tumble drier yet etc. All reds=No.

Hit me up if you want the automation.

Another reason for #ActivityPub / #Mastodon to figure out a protocol that doesn't rely on static IPs and DNS: If you're not relying on an IP address or domain name, it's bloody hard for someone to block it. (And yes, I know this is hard but sadly, they're coming for us https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/29/mastodon-says-it-doesnt-have-the-means-to-comply-with-age-verification-laws/ )

@spiralganglion
If you'll let an Austrian (🇦🇹/🇬🇧/🇳🇿/...) muck it up:

Enterangstverwechslungspanik

Basically Enter fear confusion panic

or for slow typists:

Tastenterror

"Key terror"

Though you're not supposed to do that to German these days...

@Unixbigot

Tiny things, 500μm = 0.5mm . I've got the #RepRapMicron #3Dprinter drawing things as a series of dots. This is a prelude to actually make the thing deposit resin into a recognisable solid form using #Prusa's PrusaSlicer and a filter to slice the object model. The (awful) #python code for the filter is here if anyone can stomach it https://github.com/VikOlliver/RepRapMicron/tree/main/gcode_segmentation

@Cr_Sky
ET?

@Cadbury_Moose @nic Which is why you won't find the full document online, of course.

@nic Girl Guide Biscuits, known as Girl Guide Cookies in America, must contain at least 15% Girl Guide according to International Organization for Standardization requirement ISO/TS 19657:2002.

China looks set to achieve its 2030 installed renewable power goals at the end of the month. I doubt they'll just stop, as a lot of coal plants are just about to go uneconomic...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-07-16/chinas-renewable-energy-boom-breaks-records/104086640

@astrid I understand that like emacs there is a vi emulator so you can use a decent editor.

[Rapidly dons asbestos overalls]

@miki Fair point, but provided the manufacturer makes their codebase available, the legislation would give 3rd parties the option to seek those licences or patch around them. You can probably see that while possible, it would not be in a 3rd party's best interest to be deliberately obstructive when their client is seeking device approval. Particularly if there are competing component/software vendors that would actually like a slice of a market they are otherwise bullied out of.

Folks in the #UK, my old colleague Dr. Adrian Bowyer is running a petition:

"New rules for manufacturers of medical device implants

We believe it should be made illegal for manufacturers of medical devices implanted into patients to regularly charge the patient for upgrades or maintenance."

It also calls for "IP" to be released if a manufacturer fails. I feel this subject is important enough to ask you to disseminate the link. Thank you.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/656376

@josh
You would have thought that NPR would fire up their slightly stale Mastodon accounts, but nothing doing last I checked.

Shout out to Stihl for making their electric power modules compatible with the IC ones. Chopped down a tree, made logs, slashed the edges around me cassa, and battery back on to charge.

Just enough time for a beer and I can go out with the chainsaw again*.

* NO NONONO. Really no.