Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

@bruces This is the problem with things like iCloud backups: even if you factory reset your phone, if you're made to give the nice officers access to it, they can restore whatever they want. Best thing is to delete all cloud backups, back it up to a computer you control instead, wipe it and do the "new phone" initialization before coming to the US. It'll still work as a phone, for browsing the web, etc. Restore it when you get home.

@heartofcoyote @TofuTheSquirrel @ct_bergstrom

I'm from the US Southwest, where evaporative cooling, aka swamp coolers, is the norm. It works really well, is more comfortable than AC and you don't feel guilty with doors or windows open since that changes nothing about how much power you're using.

@ct_bergstrom Truly we live in an age of wonders. The other day I saw a bin, with wheels affixed, that could be moved freely upon the Earth.

Thanks to the risks and burdens imposed by the preposterously draconian blunt instrument that is the #OnlineSafetyAct (UK) of 2023, I've just unceremoniously closed down a collaborative website I've operated for almost exactly 27 years.

@bruces Oh, this one (patsy) based on another Pico uses a 3.7" e-paper display to present an overview as well as a simple forecast formulated from current NOAA data for the next few days. It sits on a bookshelf at the other end of the room.

@bruces
Hm. I built something similar using the Pi Pico and the same sensors, about a year ago. It sits in a shaded spot strapped to the outside of the back deck railing, using the case of a scavenged obsolete router -- much larger than necessary -- for an enclosure, and communicates by wifi with a server and a couple of displays.

(Its name on the network is "tim", after the Enchanter from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Other elements of the system are dennis, patsy and concorde. Dennis uses the same Adafruit ESP32-S3 Reverse TFT used in the video. It sits on the media console in the living room displaying things from its own and other sensors, including indoor CO2 concentration.)

A week or so ago I received a rather bizarre email from the London Transport Museum Shop, telling me that if I didn't want to see Mothers' Day spam, I could opt out now. In other words, encouraging me to engage in a whole interactive experience with specific reference to Mothers' Day, in order to spare myself any potentially traumatic references to Mothers' Day.

The thought processes involved in creating this campaign beggar rational comprehension.

@thisisrjg Yes, I've just shut down a participatory server I've been running since 1998. It was never hosted in the UK but it unambiguously served a UK-centric user base, and as you say -- between steep, costly, onerous requirements and unclear but potentially huge penalties, there was simply no case for leaving it up.

I'll be damned. All of my #Chromecast Audios are back, not even one day after a fix was announced. Unusual for a surprise to be pleasant lately.

@Fife4Europe Still, the Streisand Effect never fails, does it?

Brussels Government: Seven-party coalition option to be decided by Monday

https://www.brusselstimes.com/brussels-2/1487057/brussels-government-seven-party-coalition-option-to-be-decided-by-monday

Google support has announced in the Google Nest forum that they're pushing out a fix for the #Chromecast #ChromecastAudio expired cert problem

And the third one is working for this purpose as well, after unplugging it and plugging it back in. (No factory reset for me!) #Chromecast #ChromecastAudio.

Was wrong about the #SomaFM app though, it's no longer finding the devices.

Hang on, they're still working, for that purpose. Enjoying some Brubeck streamed off my own file server while making dinner.

#Chromecast #ChromecastAudio

Well, until this morning two of my #Chromecast Audios were still working with noncommercial apps like #VLC and #SomaFM, since they don't ask the devices to authenticate. But today those have dropped off the network as well.

@EugeneMcParland This time Trump will have 60 guys in his office to gang up on Zelensky instead of 30. Some of them will be placed between Z and the cameras so nobody gets to see how strong he looks.

@EugeneMcParland Oh look, the rule of law is still alive in some parts of the world.