Massive turnout was the most important gamechanger: 74%, highest ever. In big cities, more than 80%. In the Warsaw neighborhood where a friend of mine votes, 91%. Anger was a big motivation: nepotism and corruption, a byproduct of the authoritarian assault on the state, finally made people angry.
(Actually the Pico can do all of that just fine, but doing dynamic text generation in arbitrary fonts on the device itself is a rather painful chore for memory and storage reasons. As I've got spare capacity on one or two always-on servers thought I'd delegate it to a web application that's running anyway.)
While I'm talking about #RaspberryPi projects, here's my just-completed weather widget, based on a Pi Pico W and a 3.7" e-ink display. It reads the temperature and humidity from another Pico with a sensor attached that's out on the back porch, and the forecast from the National Weather Service, uses a bit of fuzzy logic to select icons, and displays as many as can comfortably fit into the allocated area of the display.
This is rather more than the Pico can do well by itself, so this is all done by a script on another machine; this device just requests it at suitable intervals and displays it.
It all started because I got tired of going and looking at the mercury thermometer out back to find the temperature, toyed with the idea of pointing a camera at it, and ultimately decided to make this instead.
Ha. Ten minutes with a utility knife and I no longer have to remove this #RaspberryPi Zero 2 W from the case to access the SD card.
#PiZero #Casemod #BeAmazed at my #MadSkillz
For every Shakespeare, Galileo, Bach or Newton this species has produced, we've also come up with at least a million actual or would-be Torquemadas.
I used to have Star Trek daydreams of humanity expanding out into the universe. Now I'm kind of hoping we don't. My ideal scenario is that the best we've done is preserved by some alien civiization in their museums and libraries and used to inform -- or caution -- some rather better beings that what we on balance are.
Whoa whoa Laura, may I remind you some of us are doing very well. My wife has contracts with oil companies I’ve just give new contracts to, she also owns Catamaran Ventures UK they did very well out of the tax payer, so it’s not all doom & gloom #brexit #ToryLies #tory #tories #ToriesOut #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #Corruption #bbc #news #costofliving #EU #covid #COVID19 #immigration #inflation #Sunak #nhs #energy #rishisunak #woke #netzero #HS2 #torypartyconference #ToryConference
📰 FLASHPOINT UKRAINE: NATO Secretary General Pays Surprise visit to Ukraine.
Here is a photo I took of that beautiful, iconic tree when I walked Hadrian’s Wall in 2016.
If you can get a lighter sentence for such mitigating circumstances as undue provocation or whatever, couldn't we also have heavier sentences for sheer unmitigated shitheadery?
Bulgaria plans to revise defense policy due to Russian provocations in Black Sea
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3767779-bulgaria-plans-to-revise-defense-policy-due-to-russian-provocations-in-black-sea.html #Ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar #UkraineRussiaWar #Russia #UkraineWarNews
Romania bolsters air defenses near Ukraine border due to Russian drones - Reuters
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3767739-romania-bolsters-air-defenses-near-ukraine-border-due-to-russian-drones-reuters.html #Ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar #UkraineRussiaWar #Russia #UkraineWarNews
Russian officers helped Ukraine target the Black Sea Fleet headquarters in exchange for a cash reward, Kyiv Post quoted the Atesh guerrilla movement as saying
It was not specified exactly how much was paid for such information, but the guerrillas said that it was enough to "cover the risks" for the officers and their families
D'you suppose Orbán wakes up in the morning hoping that today will be the day that the Russian tanks roll into Budapest again? I mean, it must poison every moment of his life that he missed out in 1956, it would have meant everything to him to see his fellow citizens crushed by Russians; the thing he longs for more than anything else in the world.
When did the Babylon Bee acquire The Onion?
Software Engineer, mostly in the Pacific Northwest of late
Medical Informatics - Carrier-Grade Network Video Distribution - Real Time Clinical Telemetry
Formerly: Motorola, Tektronix, Intel, HP, Qualcomm, Nintendo; others you're less likely to have heard of.
Will code for pie. 🥧