天空вℓσи∂ @skyblond@qoto.org

I bought a stationary bike and found it much more tiring than riding a real bicycle. A regular bicycle can go downhill for 500 meters with ease, while the stationary bike can't glide at all.

Hopefully I can lose some weight with this. Yesterday I talked to the doctor about the pain in my right knee. The doctor said there is nothing wrong with the knee (for now), just me being overweight and my knee is not happy about that. If I don't start losing weight immediately, there will be serious issues with knee in the foreseeable future.

Luckily no one uses my shit I created as side projects (hopefully)

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The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew
by Veritasium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ

Now I'm using MeshCore, which is much much better than meshtastic.

Humanity won't have any hope as long as they are still using python.

I hate python.

You are being misled about renewable energy technology.
by Technology Connections
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM

I really hate people or LLM talking to me like this. It sounds either obsequious or sarcastic.

Me, feeding in a section of a novel written by Hitomi Iruma, which is not age-limited (not R18, not R15, but for all ages).

Gemini: **PROHIBITED_CONTENT**

I should know that the tech world is going worse when they force everyone to rename master branch to main.

Don't be python, just use proper semantic versioning.

Yet another day to advertise for semantic versioning (and Linode database).

Today I was trying to upgrade my blog from typecho 1.2.1 to 1.3.0, which seems to be a not-so-big upgrade. Despite very slow update from the dev team (1.2.1 was released 2.5 years ago), they tend to maintain a relatively good backward compatibility. So I upgraded, and everything failed.

Turns out this update changed a lot of the internal stuff, especially how data is stored. So the themes and plugins are likely to be broken with the new version. In this case, by following the semantic versioning, they should release this version as 2.x.x. But they didn't. Shame on them (well, probably shouldn't say this, because the dev teams are working on this for free and for passion. I really appreciate their work and efforts, but I still feel a bit annoyed by them not following the proper versioning rule).

I create a snapshot for my server, so when things are not working, I can revert the files pretty fast. However, I do forget to back up the database, since during the update, the database schema has been changed. And the old version can't work with the new schema. Luckily, Linode (yes, I know they are now Akamai) offers amazing backup service. From their words: Databases are automatically backed-up with full daily backups for the past 14 days, and binary logs recorded continuously. Full backups are version-specific binary backups, which when combined with binary logs allow for consistent recovery to a specific point in time (PITR).

Yes, I can rewind to any point in time in the last 14 days, accurate to the second. Linode (and the low traffic of my blog) literally saved my day.

Also tried Qwen3 TTS, it can clone voice, you can give instructions, but you can't do both :(

Tried Reticulum with RNode. Sending messages over Lora works, but the UI is barely usable. Considering the main maintainer stops responding to the public, I think the project will die eventually. Very pity, but very likely to happen.

I don't like meshtastic, especially how it only works with certain hardware, and it must be Lora. I like reticulum since it works on multiple interfaces: local, internet, i2p, Lora, even KISS tnc using ham or not ham radio bands.

It is an ambitious project that you must build a lot to a certain point that your project is usable for the majority. Generally you can't count on them to use meshtastic factory erase firmware to reset the broken fs when the RNode firmware doesn't boot at all (blank screen, no response to rnodeconf CLI tool).

I do like this project very much, but the environment is not there (yet). And I'm not an adventurer. This is a very amusing 2 hours in my life, and I will keep moving on. Goodbye, Reticulum.

https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/1qi1ic2/mayday_from_belarus_licensed_operators_facing/

I don't think my government will classify all licensed HAM as criminals. However, I do think in the foreseeable future, HAM in China will be too hard to stay legal, and eventually I will get bored of those red tapes and quit.

(In case you don't know, if you want to apply for a license that allows you to use your gear at everywhere inside China with 100W on HF, it takes more than a year for MIIT to finish those red tapes. And you're not guaranteed to be granted with this license after a year of waiting)

Well, considering Chinese gov has reduced the power limit from 100W to 10W for class B license on HF, now I start worrying about myself.

Mysterious Eastern Technology (not Huaqiangbei):

Creating a 48GB NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPU | Brother Zhang's Repair Shop (ft. 张哥)
By Gamers Nexus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcRGBeOENLg