I tried to hand-solder a Hirose .35-pitch connector onto a custom OSHPark board once. Let’s just say it was a humbling experience. Thanks to a generous friend, I learned the value of solder masks and owning a home reflow oven.
Respect to whoever can do this sort of thing, but life is too damn short and my eyesight and hands don’t need the abuse.
How you solder those without dropping a blob and causing a short is a mystery.
Was just listening to the latest episode of Dot Social podcast where there was a discussion with CEO of Ghost (alternative to Substack). They’re integrating ActivityPub into the platform, but where they’re going with it is that you can use your Fediverse ID instead of email to sign up.
Once they have that worked out, any likes or comments automatically migrate back to the fediverse. Replies back to replies also show up in your timeline and your followers can see them. This makes discovery pretty effortless. They can also use the stats to keep track of engagement across all fediverse services.
It also means turning one-way streams like RSS (podcasting), email services, and commenting services into common two-way communities.
You’re now going beyond just catching up to existing services and doing things just not possible in closed silos. Real “Aha!” moment.
Someone should build a little AI app that scrapes a job listing, then takes a resume and rewrites it in subtle ways to perfectly match the job description.
Let your AI duke it out with their AI.
‘Steve and I were talking about children one time, and he said the problem with children is that they carry your heart with them. The exact phrase was, “It’s your heart running around outside your body.”’
– Eric Schmidt, quoting Steve Jobs.
Had totally forgotten about the movie. Grew up reading the graphic books.
Just checked and both the movie and the old animated TV series are available on streaming. There goes my day.
We have an annual contest to see who spots the first Xmas display. So far, the earliest has been mid-September.
Toss-up between, Costco, ACE Hardware, and Daiso.
They got a PhD in science from a well-known university and worked on research for a while. Last I heard, they got married and ended up selling real-estate.
Don’t know about kids, but “Clifford, the Big Red Dog” sure traumatized Grandma.
For starting basic structure, have had good luck with Plottr. If there’s a complex timeline, Aeon Timeline is pretty handy. And once ready to write, Scrivener.
All 418 error codes. We good.
I just met someone who was going through the same question. They decided to take a two-year course and become a Physical Therapist, focusing on the elderly.
Said options were working with a medical group, at a nursing home, visiting people at home, or opening an office. Maybe a combination.
Their thinking was there was no way to get ‘disrupted’ and there would be endless demand. Made a lot of sense.
That was amazing! Watched the video with my Trackmania-crazy kid. I’ve played it a few times but I’m total crap at it. We couldn’t peel our eyes off the action. The first external shot of the track shows how insanely difficult it was going to be.
In our neck of the woods, membership in the Automobile Association comes with free maps. You have to go into their offices and request them, and they’re very helpful about which maps may come handy.
I usually get them before a long roadtrip into areas where they may be weak cell service. To be safe, I also download digital maps, but a paper map gives better broad context on where we are and what is nearby.
Problem is, we’re terrible at getting rid of them after the trips…
On Mac/iOS, Ivory is pretty dope: https://tapbots.com/ivory/
Chocolate Stout beer and a scoop of vanilla ice cream (gently lowered – otherwise it’s all foam gushing about).
I take no credit. A deadhead, traveling beer blogger in a Winnebago (how he described himself) told me about it years ago.
Beer float.
I saw an exhibit on Octavia E. Butler at the African American museum in DC. Had heard her name, but never read any of her work. “Kindred” sounds really interesting.
Once I’m through my current reading backlog, I might just start going down this list over the Summer. Appreciate the posting.
Many years ago, folks figured out how to crack firmware and find embedded keys. Since then, there have been many technological advances, like secure enclaves, private/public key workflows, attestation systems, etc. to avoid this exact thing.
Hopefully, the Rabbit folks spec’d a hardware TPM or secure-enclave as part of their design, otherwise no amount of firmware updating or key rotation will help.
There’s a well-established industry of Android crackers and this sort of beating will keep happening until morale improves.