I was worried a wee Arduino Due wouldn't write data to an SD card fast enough for a project. Right now my PC has been brought to its knees dealing with a 3.6 million line spreadsheet trying to ingest the data from a 5 min run. LoL
12.3.2025 10:32I was worried a wee Arduino Due wouldn't write data to an SD card fast enough for a project. Right now my PC has been brought to its...The economic sabotage and chaos in the US is part of the plan. It's how you get the riots, so you can declare martial law. Then you don't have to bother with law, elections, all that pesky democracy stuff
10.3.2025 23:59The economic sabotage and chaos in the US is part of the plan. It's how you get the riots, so you can declare martial law. Then you...@lightweight I'm looking at how to de-google my life - as a trial to make recommendations to friends / family. Photo backups are probably the first thing normal folk care about. Is anyone in NZ you consider reliable hosting NextCloud/OpenCloud for a subscription?
8.3.2025 21:52@lightweight I'm looking at how to de-google my life - as a trial to make recommendations to friends / family. Photo backups are...That was odd. I woke to a dream of a new lover, which was nice, then I said: was it OK getting here? The shared understanding was that we'd intentionally lived through our lives to meet at this point, from other lives.
8.3.2025 21:23That was odd. I woke to a dream of a new lover, which was nice, then I said: was it OK getting here? The shared understanding was that...Princess Bride was a hit with miss 8
8.3.2025 06:03Princess Bride was a hit with miss 8What if big jobs like software updates estimated how many processor / storage cycles they'd take.
"I'm gonna need 20s on a 5 MIPS machine, and 100k iops."
Would the progress bars get better?
I was checking out some power management on a little baby SAMD10 microcontroller.
They run great at 48MHz only ~4mA, I was running it at 8MHz because solar, and it sleeps overnight.
How low can you go?
2Hz. Yep, LoL.
Tick.
Tock.
Stochastic murder, stochastic terrorism should be punishable crimes
2.3.2025 20:41Stochastic murder, stochastic terrorism should be punishable crimesMove slowly and fix things, except cleaning up after *those* assholes
28.2.2025 23:42Move slowly and fix things, except cleaning up after *those* assholesKiddo is procrastinating going to bed, sitting on my lap plating QBert on tiny screen toy like it's 1984
28.2.2025 08:20Kiddo is procrastinating going to bed, sitting on my lap plating QBert on tiny screen toy like it's 1984There's now 4 houses in a row with black cats in our street. I becoming even more convinced a coven has moved in.
27.2.2025 19:37There's now 4 houses in a row with black cats in our street. I becoming even more convinced a coven has moved in.New/old coffee machine is vaguely ominous at night
27.2.2025 19:28New/old coffee machine is vaguely ominous at nightMultiply
Ancient
Germs
Again!
I love how youtube now randomly changes the left/right buttons between scrub and volume.
Love it.
Musk is running facial recognition on every Tesla wing-mirror security cam, right?
5.2.2025 00:37Musk is running facial recognition on every Tesla wing-mirror security cam, right?What if we just stopped bailing out the capitalists
4.2.2025 22:33What if we just stopped bailing out the capitalistsWhat if I could buy the ads on my browsing for the pittance they're worth. Put up a blank page, and boom, subscription based internet, yes?
1.2.2025 00:22What if I could buy the ads on my browsing for the pittance they're worth. Put up a blank page, and boom, subscription based internet,...The *real* problem with fixing the coffee machine is that you're probably doing it in a caffeine deprived state.
21.1.2025 21:03The *real* problem with fixing the coffee machine is that you're probably doing it in a caffeine deprived state.Reading the latest excellent post by Cory Doctorow on social media switching costs (friend groups) etc, and wondering, can we scrape and moderate userside with browser add-ons?
21.1.2025 00:37Reading the latest excellent post by Cory Doctorow on social media switching costs (friend groups) etc, and wondering, can we scrape and...