Not to dis their service, but the advice to deploy with plain Docker is solving for a problem from 10 years ago.

Does “Please shut up and get to the point!” count?

Blocked all the server domains. There are a bunch of lists out there for various TV brands.

Blocked all this crap at the network level. Don’t get any ads now.

More details here: https://www.eufymake.com/eufymake-uv-printer-e1

Not clear how much the refills will run.

Be funny if someone started a gofundme.

Was working on a simulator and needed random interaction data. Statistical randomness didn’t capture likely scenarios (bell curves and all that). Switched to LLM synthetic data generation. Seemed better, but wait… seemed off 🤔. Checked it for clustering and entropy vs human data. JFC. Waaaaaay off.

Lesson: synthetic data for training is a Bad Idea. There are no shortcuts. Humans are lovely and messy.

Big fan of Geerling, precisely because he goes down these obscure rabbit holes. Found out about Meshtastic through him, and now BPS.

There are lots of applications to having a super-accurate time source, without having to have antennas and view of multiple satellites.

Synchronizing time is tricky. WWVB is too coarse resolution. NNTP requires access to the internet and all the inherent lags and delays. GPS was the only accurate source, but the super high resolution time signal is classified, and you are at the mercy of view of the sky. Also, signal jamming, thanks to what’s going on in Europe and Ukraine.

BPS could be a niche experiment, or a Big Deal.

A caterer at a wedding showed me this. If gold, red, or purple potatoes, wash, dab dry, then cut into 3/4" cubes with skin. If russet, peel then cut into 1/2" cubes.

Pre-heat oven to 350F.

Toss potatoes in a bowl with a LOT of olive oil, then add salt, pepper, and dried mint. Stir till coated. Pour into a shallow metal baking pan. Make sure it’s only a single cube deep.

Bake for 15m, then flip all the cubes with a spatula. Another 15m. After that, raise the heat a little, then flip every 5m until outside is to your level of crispiness. The larger the cube, the longer it takes. Too small and it ends up dried inside and out.

You want to end up with crispy outside and fluffy inside. So good.

I use it everywhere because it signals intent. You never know when someone might pull up fast or walk into your blind spot. This is the only indicator they have that you’re about to pull into traffic, or change lanes.

Sans Serif strikes again.

I tried this with velcro ties. Looked good for a while. Then I had to replace one and add another cable. It was a royal pain unwrapping everything and rewrapping it.

Haven’t used them, but look interesting:

We might take Bentham a lot more seriously if he didn’t spend a substantial part of his life trying to make prison management more efficient: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon

He also "referred to his walking stick as 'Dapple, and his cat as ‘The Reverend Sir John Langbourne.’

Not to get pedantic, but more humorous utilitarianism examples would have been Mill or Hare.

USB hubs.

Plain old splitters will almost certainly damage the port, and if this is with a machine where USB-C is part of the motherboard, it could cause even more damage and be really expensive to repair.

The power-only ones are not too pricey. But if you also need high speed data transfer (like drives) those cost a bit more. Be careful that even the ones that claim data exchange may not support drive speeds. It took me three tries to finally find one that worked.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/sep/21/carly-fiorina/trumps-four-bankruptcies/

Worth it.

For those wondering who he is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Marcus#Artificial_intelligence

Google’s instructions are generally good: https://source.android.com/docs/setup

But if you want something a little gentler: https://www.androidauthority.com/build-custom-android-rom-720453/

NTP is one of those fundamental working parts of the internet that nobody has to think much about, because it works so smoothly.

It’s taken for granted, like the lights will come on when you flip a switch. But there’s SO much more to make that happen.

Came across this a few weeks ago. ATProto plugin for Wordpress: https://wordpress.com/plugins/neznam-atproto-share

Combined with the existing https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/ ActivityPub and RSS/Atom support, it should be possible to post once / share everywhere.