mastodon 4.7.3Interests: affordable and retro technology, Amateur Radio, sailing, homebrewing (beverages), theater, photography, music, and drawing. And dogs. And cats. And a bunch of other stuff. Pretty much anything goes.
Posts sometimes PG-13 for language, CWs usually on anything NSFW.
Photos on Pixelfed (when it's working).
Should you ever be looking for information on a weird old plug or socket, or are just interested in such things, the online "Museum of Plugs and Sockets" is one of those sites that makes the Internet seem like less of a terrible mistake than usual.
The page on old British "BS 546" is unmatched, in particular: https://plugsocketmuseum.nl/OldBritish1.html
Picked up a fairly nice-looking Honeywell HEPA air filter from a charity shop. When I got home, I discovered it didn't work, and smelled strongly of "magic smoke".
I could have done the reasonable thing, and just chucked it. But did I do that? Of course not. Instead, I invested many hours of time and lost sleep towards turning it into a cloud-free "smart" device.
Really though, it's an excuse to re-learn PCB design after a 20+ year hiatus.
If you have an Aclara I-210 "smart" electrical meter on the side of your house, like I do, the NY State Dept of Public Service (NYS utility regulator) has done you a favor, and put the entire operator's manual for the meter online, despite the manufacturer's protestations about its proprietary-ness in the front matter.
Among other things it contains a handy key to the physical display, which I've always wanted.
Really wish that there was a way to define Pip-based dependencies from inside a #Python script, without the overhead of creating a whole Poetry project (or requirements.txt or any of the other dozen ways of packaging Python "projects").
Mostly because I don't want to create a "project"! I just want a simple, standalone, *one file* script… but you can really only do that if you stick exclusively to the standard library.
Why is "import pip.whatever" not a thing?
Who set the default #Debian networking timeout to 5 minutes and 3 seconds?
What's the extra 3 seconds for?
I've been thinking about this quote a lot lately.
Randomly found a nice little site that's still using Tripod web hosting:
https://cheatthezone.tripod.com/wireless/colinear.html
It seems to be the canonical page that most other instructions / YouTube videos / etc. refer to when describing DIY co-linear antenna construction, too.
@john This is Reddit gossip so take it with a very large chunk of salt, but there are claims that:
The founder of Pleroma, Lain, programed Pleroma to be harder to block from other instances than a comparable Mastodon Instance. Those blocked Pleroma instance Admins tell me their posts sometimes get through to the Mastodon servers.
Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/Pleroma/comments/yu8xof/pleromas_rebased_fork_vs_akkoma_fork/
I don't know what that means from a technical perspective, though. How is an instance "hard to block"? 🤷♂️
