Biggles @Biggles@social.cleverlibre.org

#picotron userdata can be constructed by copying and pasting a #pico8 sprite as its argument, sure why not.

Shared by my Daughter
"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are"

In response to "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear"

@craigmaloney @atomicpoet show us on the doll where the printer hurt you.

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Stephen King: hey guys guess what? i'm "goblin mode" now
Poe: what mode?
King: the mode with the power
Barker: what power?
King: the power of voodoo
Lovecraft: w-who do?
King: you do!
Koontz: do what?
King: remind me of the mode!

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Here’s another of my monthly-ish “Long Links” blog pieces, which aggregates pointers to long-form pieces that nobody with a job will have time for all of, with the hope that one or two will brighten a few folks’ day:
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/12/04/Long-Links

Featured this time: The Magic of Writing, the Neolithic transition, repunits, and El Paso.

And just to make it clear. "Regular password changing harms rather than improves security."

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/passwords/updating-your-approach#PasswordGuidance:UpdatingYourApproach-Don'tenforceregularpasswordexpiry

Please boost if you’re still masking indoors (in public places)

if women liking men isn't proof that sexuality isn't a choice i don't know what is

We are all stardust.

That oxygen you breath? That comes from dying massive stars, ending their light in a supernova.

The iron in your blood? Some massive stars dying, but mainly white dwarfs, the leftovers of dwarf stars like our own Sun, exploding.

The gold ring on your finger? Mostly merging neutron stars, leftovers from supernovae.

#astrodon #scicomm #astronomy

As an early Christmas present for my Windows-using friends, Disk Jockey, the disk image creator for your retro stuff, now runs on Windows!

You can now create disk images of (almost) any size to be used in Mac emulators and devices like PiSCSI and BlueSCSI.

It's a rewrite of the original application in C# and .NET 5. It runs on Windows 7, 8, 10 and 11 and supports x64, x86 and arm64.

Grab it here: https://diskjockey.onegeekarmy.eu!

Okay, so let me tell you about my doorbell, from a #networking perspective.

When you push the button by the door, it sends a message over the #zigbee wireless mesh network in my house. It probably goes through a few hops, getting relayed along the way by the various Zigbee light switches and "smart outlets" I have.

Once it makes it to my utility closet, it's received by a Zigbee-to-USB dongle, through a USB hub (a simple tree network) plugged into an SFF PC. From there, it gets fed into zigbee2mqtt, which, as the name implies, publishes it to my local #mqtt broker.

The mqtt broker is in the small #kubernetes cluster of #raspberrypi nodes I run in my utility closet. To get in (via a couple of #ethernet switch hops), it goes through #metallb, which is basically a proxy-ARP type service that advertises the IP address for the mqtt endpoint to the rest of my network, then passes the traffic to the appropriate container via a #linux veth device.

I have #HomeAssistant, running in the same Kubernetes cluster, subscribed to these events. Within Kubernetes, the message goes through the CNI plugin that I use, #flannel. If the message has to pass between hosts, Flannel encapsulates it in VXLAN, so that it can be directed to the correct veth on the destination host.

Because I like #NodeRed for automation tasks more than HomeAssistant, your press of the doorbell takes another hop within the Kubernetes cluster (via a REST call) so that NodeRed can decide whether it's within the time of day I want the doorbell to ring, etc. If we're all good, NodeRed publishes an mqtt message (more VXLANs, veths, etc.)

(Oh and it also sends a notification to my phone, which means another trip through the HomeAssistant container, and leaving my home network involves another soup of acronyms including VLANs, PoE, QoS, PPPoE, NAT or IPv6, DoH, and GPON. And maybe it goes over 5G depending on where my phone is.)

Of course something's got to actually make the "ding dong" sound, and that's another Raspberry Pi that sits on top of my grandmother clock. So to get *there* the message hops through a couple Ethernet switches and my home WiFi, where it gets received by a little custom daemon I wrote that plays the sound via an attached #HiFiBerry board. Oh but wait! We're not quite done with networking, because the sound gets played through PulseAudio, which is done through a UNIX domain socket.

SO ANYWAY, that's why my doorbell rarely works and why you've been standing outside in the snow for five minutes.

PLEASE NOTE:
This account will be posting a curated selection of #PICO8 #TweetCart's that were posted on Birdsite from the very beginning of #TweetJam, back in 2016

This is all for preservation, reference and pure enjoyment purposes. For sadly, when "that site" finally goes, we will likely lose a huge part of the PICO-8 community's history.

All credit will of course be given to the creators (+tagged where possible).

However, if this is not your cup of tea - you may wish to mute this account.

This poll will give a much better understanding of society. Please boost to get the numbers up. TIA

#society #sociology #homework

7 things all kids need to hear

1 I love you

2 I'm proud of you

3 I'm sorry

4 I forgive you

5 I'm listening

6 RAID is not backup. Make offsite backups. Verify backup. Find out restore time. Otherwise, you got what we call Schrödinger backup

7 You've got what it takes

The flight of NASA's Artemis (purple) uses two very close encounters with the moon's gravity (green) to changes its trajectory to get back to the earth (blue.) Amazing.

BREAKING VINTAGE MAC NEWS: moof support was added to the FloppyEMU. This means it can read surface-level perfect copies (copy protection or not) for your vintage macs. And the collection of moofs keeps growing and growing these days. Awesome! https://www.bigmessowires.com/2022/12/03/moof-disk-image-support-for-floppy-emu/