A mountain house with a pool, looking down at a beach.

Also, with enough tree clearance, and a pool cleaning robot that doubles as a high-pressure fire sprinkler.

Programming.dev seems like a good option.

Since this is meta… however this ends up getting resolved could be a good template for consolidating multiple sparse communities across the Fediverse into a single, more populated one.

Porter v Harris would be an interesting matchup.

People used to do this at tech conferences, but using Twitter. Someone would start a hashtag and people would jump in. There was always a fun side-channel going with people commenting on what was being presented on the main stage.

Fun times, before… sigh

Times have changed: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/arm-cpu-qualcomm-nvidia/

New casual gaming platform, using on-device AI. Hope to have something to share and get feedback in a few weeks.

Get your filthy mitts off her. That’s my future wife. As soon as my check clears, we’re getting married.

• Putting out the app I’ve been working on for the last year.
• More hugging the family (and general appreciation).
• Catching up with friends more often.
• Ignoring the news.
• Not having my back go out and ending up in ER, like last year.

• Practice triage: start with small, achievable projects that can be done on a weekend. Don’t get overwhelmed. Be kind to yourself. Not every problem is immediate or needs fixing.

• If you have access to a local tools library, avail yourself of it fully. The staff are a treasure-trove of wisdom and knowledge. If not, talk to the oldest, crotchiest person at your local bardware store.

• There are so many single-use tools out there (favorite one is so you can unscrew the faucet bolt under a sink). If not, see if there’s a community online board and post a request.

• Vintage appliances, windows, doors, etc are cool. A little elbow grease and they’re in good shape. Junkyards and recycling centers are a treasure trove.

• If it involves anything hazardous or too heavy (gas, electricity, foundation), bite the bullet and seek professional help.

• Ants and cracks are small-fry. Baits and fillers are easy fixes. Focus on big ticket items. And remember, some things are best left alone (see triage, above).

Go back to the Garden of Eden with a bucket, grab all the apples, then head back.

We’re engaged. Will be getting married as soon as my deposit check for half the expenses clears.

Ran a hairdryer all night, propped against my Mac laptop keyboard after a friend knocked over a full pint of beer onto it.

The next morning the whole bathroom reeked of stale beer, the power bill was astronomical, and the left quarter of the keyboard never worked again.

Took it in for repairs and was grateful AppleCare swapped it out without a peep. This was a while back, before the embedded moisture strips that void the warranty.

I tried to offer a gentler backgrounder on this HCI business: https://lemmy.ml/comment/17160273

The opcodes that actually jumped out at me more than the undocumented ones were the ones that erases the flash.

But the conclusion stands. None of this is a ‘backdoor’ unless you can secretly access it from the wireless side and nothing in the presentation points to that. If I had to guess, the opcodes are for QA and tuning on the manufacturing line.

ARM is a UK-based company. If they hadn’t dropped out of EU, it’s possible they would have settled on an ARM-based supercomputer design.

Chalk it up to another WIN for Brexit!

Thanks, am on the beta now. Feedback sent via TestFlight.

Am not. Happy to jump on it if you can point me at instructions.

This sounds like there are some undocumented opcodes on the HCI side – the Host Computer Interface – not the wireless side. By itself, it’s not that big a deal. If someone can prove that there’s some sort of custom BLE packet that gives access to those HCI opcodes wirelessly, I’d be REALLY concerned.

But if it’s just on the host side, you can only get to it if you’ve cracked the box and have access to the wiring. If someone has that kind of access, they’re likely to be able to flash their own firmware and take over the whole device anyway.

Not sure this disclosure increases the risk any. I wouldn’t start panicking.

The first one was tall and skinny and toppled over after a landing leg malfunctioned. So they sent a second tall skinny probe, loaded with expensive equipment. Aaaand it fell over.

Maybe somebody should tell them about center of gravity and redundant systems.

I live in an earthquake zone and have been taking CERT emergency training courses. Have been looking at these as part of a neighborhood emergency network.

Turns out SeedStudio sells these with a base that comes with a display and a bunch of grove connectors, as well as a cheap GPS module. Will have to think a bit more on what else may be needed (keyboard, display, battery, vibration, or other environmental sensors?)

It may be possible to build one of these for < $50USD and hopefully cheaper, then have each emergency sector in the city keep one as part of their emergency cache. Would be useful if cell networks and power go out.

I mostly use it on an iPad mini in landscape mode, when lying down and casually reading. Two things:

1. When scrolling on the main feed, if your left or right finger accidentally touches the screen, instead of scrolling, you’re inside the post, which isn’t what you intended. So you have to be extra careful keeping your fingers away. Be nice if there was a 1 or 2" zone on each side which only does scroll instead of tap. Not sure I’m explaining it right.

2. Again, on an iPad mini, the Post box only shows a couple of lines for editing. Most of the screen is taken by application chrome.

Other than that, love the app. Use it daily.