Danny Boy @dannyboy@qoto.org
Joined Nov 2020
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Fuck Proprietary Skills
People don't learn how to program, but learn how to S3 or EC2, people don't learn how to illustrate but how to Photoshop, or how to C4D. "Oh, I couldn't possibly make music without Ableton.." This is sad.
Added a Raspberry Pi Zero W to an old radio to make a physical internet radio. The tuner output is routed into the Pi's microphone input and can be sent to the loudspeaker, or music can be streamed from the internet, a local NAS, or from an attachable USB storage.
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New #blog post: “A look at search engines with their own indexes”.
Most “alternative” search engines to the big three (Google, Bing, Yandex aka GBY) just source their results from GBY. I took a look at 30 search engines with their own crawlers/indexers to find actual alternatives.
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In the last year Google has banned: the Element app, the LBRY app, and several Fediverse apps. If you get all of your apps from a single corporation, be it Google or Apple, you should make an effort to change that.
If you have an Android phone F-Droid is an alternative app repository, and it’s very easy to install! All of the previously mentioned apps have been available from F-Droid throughout being dropped from the Play Store.
If you have an iPhone, please consider other options for your next device. Apple does not respect you enough as a user to consider you possibly more capable of deciding what you should install on your phone than they are. That is absurd; please stop rewarding this behavior with your money.
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To help some of the newcomers make connections: name 5-7 things that interest as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same. Add #introductions to the post.
#Photography
#Astrophotography
#Netherlands
#utrecht
#QuantumPhysics
#Philosophy
#Science
#Nature
#SCUBA
#Chemistry
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#Biology
#bioalgorithms
#Programming
#ClassicalLiberal
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Man I wish the American economy still had small stores like this... Radioshack put them all out of business then stopped selling it when places like digikey put THEM out of business.. now you can only order from a catalog and its just not as satisfying.
https://ledpixelart.com/shenzhen/
#Electronics #EE #Engineering #ElectricalEngineering #Science
@Science
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I am seeing more and more people on various social platforms finally realize what a cancer Python is.
Me, a glorious embedded C programmer, who knew all along.
Might make a bike computer or add this to a set of garden sensors I made previously. These displays look great in full sunlight.
Set about playing with a cheapo e-paper display over the weekend. Waveshare has some great code for use with the STM32 that I adapted for use with STM32CubeIDE.
I could have chosen a better test image, though...
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Pirate Bay Founder Thinks Parler’s Inability to Stay Online Is ‘Embarrassing’ https://www.vice.com/en/article/3an7pn/pirate-bay-founder-thinks-parlers-inability-to-stay-online-is-embarrassing
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Set about talking to some WS2812 addressable LEDs over the weekend and made this demo up. There's a sheet of paper in front of the LEDs to make the colors more pronounced.
The processor is a cheap STM32F401 board which sends the whole string of all 7 LED colors to its PWM timer over DMA.
Colors are advanced every 10 ms. Every 1 ms, the colors are blended by a weighted average to smooth out the effect. Overall, the LEDs look like they update at 100 Hz.
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Hackable E-Paper Smartwatch
https://blog.tindie.com/2021/01/finally-a-pebble-like-hackable-smartwatch/
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Hi, @freemo. Any plan to support webm/video uploads on the server? I've been looking to upload some clips of projects.
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An explanation I gave a while back as to why gun statistics generally favor the fact that less restrictive gun laws means fewer violence and homicides.
I basically explain why the typical argument of "countries with more guns have more violence" is inherently anti-scientific as it violates fundamental statistical analysis good practices. Instead we would use statistical causality tests for this, not correlation tests. When we actually look at the data from that perspective it generally shows that countries with less restrictive gun laws effectively lowers a nations homicide and violent crime rates.
Reattached the graphs from that post, but best to click the link to the original post where I go into more detail (the graphs are there as well).
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@hansw@mastodon.social Great I think that will giveus a foundation to work with. So Now ill provide some data, let me explain a bit how the grange...
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Can someone teach boomers how to use source code management without checking in gigs of binaries, IDE preferences, and configuration files?
Joined Nov 2020
