@hi

I use VLC

@jpmens Hah, I'm a poor archivist/historian of version-particulars and clones. @oclsc tends to be more of an ed(1) historian, so I defer to his expertise.

In Apple history, the earlier notebooks had "for me when closed" logos, with a permanent change to "for others when open" shortly after.

@a they are all so painfully not punk...

@a I'm kinda torn (I voted IBM). IBM have never ever given or wanted to give any punk vibes, in fact, the opposite. But Microsoft, on the other hand, have at times tried and failed spectacularly to be punk.

Which of the two attitudes is the least punk? I do not know.

@mntmn you have no idea how long ive wanted a device like this, im so freaking excited

@mntmn try @phosh , it looks and works great on mobiles and is very GNOME'y.

@mntmn love to see more of the mnt tablet. I hope it won't be too chunky in the final version

@neauoire Beautiful! Do you mind me asking for the typeface's name? It looks good

@neauoire c'est pas très bon pour la santé mentale je crois bien 😂 j'ai passé la journée a me demander comment faire de l'arithmétique avec des nombres entiers (int64)

@neauoire Well thanks for giving me the thing I'm gonna be studying the next few days!!!

@flaki looks good!

I built a 25Ah 48v battery a few years ago. The cells were great (I've still got them here) but my BMS was always the weak point.

I chose Daly (who seemed to be a big player) but, despite using 30A or 40A rated BMSs and only charging/discharging at a max of 10A, i had to replace the BMS three times in four years.

Last year I got fed up of fixing it (and LFP cell prices had plummeted) so I bought a 315Ah / 16kWh kit from Fogstar and retired the 25Ah cells.

@coldclimate FYI.

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Sixteen blue 25 amp-hour lithium iron phosphate cells, connected in series by silvery aluminium busbars. Thin red wires connect each cell to the battery management system, while thick black wires lead to a yellow XT60 plug at the far left of the photo. All packed within a plywood box with a hinged lid.

@vga256 I love this so much. It reminded me of this 21-line spelling corrector in Python https://impythonist.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/peter-norvigs-21-line-spelling-corrector-using-probability-theory/

@vga256 This is also a great example for code style best practices.

@libreleah of course this is probably in their ball court as much as yours but I'm curious if you have any plans or interest in doing framework laptops with libreboot?

@libreleah You make the same mistake like most selling laptops. You didn't put the screen size anywhere. Its not even in the specs.

Screensize is mostly the first decision when buying a new laptop. And there are few who already know how many inches has a Lenovo T480...

@bigzaphod ugh I want one. How is it?

@bigzaphod wonder how many of these you’d need to cut your yard.. https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/01/iphone-controlled-anthbot-m9-robot-lawn-mower-has-replaced-cutting-grass-for-me/

@bigzaphod @davidfindley I love EVs. I have EV cars and two EV bikes in my house but when I was looking at this lawnmower, I didn’t get the sense that it would work for me. Picked up a used John Deere instead and it’s been working great. Seems like I made the right choice.

@gloriouscow neat! There was a similar demo that turned a webcam or video into PETSCII via the PET's RAM.

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Scene of leia meeting Vader rendered with low res characters.

@db So how many DHCP leases does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

This really is a new twist on an old joke.

@db I misread DHCP for HDCP and thought you had DRMs on your lighting...

CC: @OpenBSDAms@bsd.cafe #activitypub #snac

@hi

$ chmod 1777777777 test.txt
chmod: invalid file mode: 1777777777

😆

@hi just you? :)

@rl_dane

it was mostly correct, though I'd have recommended copying the window manger (around @11:24) to /usr/local/bin rather than /usr/bin.

And overriding the resolution with xrandr in the .xsession file felt a little weird.

For a from-zero tutorial, I might have stuck to using vi/xterm/cwm instead of installing extra packages for vim/alacritty and building the WM, but there's value to installing zig and showing the build process if that's a goal.

But otherwise it wasn't too bad.

@neil

while I tried it on more than one occasion, it almost never produced useful answers. very much like modern LLM results in search-engines. If it's something simple and factual like "What's the capital of Morocco?" or "What's the current population of Texas?" it can usually succeed. But that deeply technical question? right out.

tip: when i want to like, boost, or follow i open the post in a new tab so i don't have to reload the whole page with the feed...

@gosha and then, some free time comes back - and some things become things to share with children instead of just being personal ❤️

@gosha exactly the same situation! Our 2nd is nearly five months old now and the biggest difference is basically the lack of free "doing" time (especially laptop time is totally gone). Free "thinking" time is kinda there though, so yes, I have been planning a myriad of little things (programming language ideas mostly, for some reason), but without *actually* implementing them.

I do enjoy spending my time with my daughter and son though, and I feel I should enjoy that while it lasts...

On top of that, the whole IT world around me has gone bonkers for... well, you know what. So yes, it is a strange time to live in and raise kids.

@evan I don't get it, isn't the point of these four supporting AP?

@mntmn so now I’m looking forward to my reform next AND the quasar board for whenever that ships. Would it be after the first next shipments or more 2027 territory? Really cool!

@mntmn Sick! I am playing around with Radxa Q6A (same cpu as far as I know). Great performance - especially single thread. However, not great support for encode and the npu mainline yet. But for laptop yes - homeserver - not so much (yet).

@paco @davidgerard Former chemist, so a nerd snipe on anything to do with rapid oxidation and other fun material transformations is possible, but I'm going to give it the ol' Fermi problem try first.

A US note (regardless of denomination) is 156x66 mm, or about 0.01 square meter. Let's start by laying them all flat, in a single one-bill layer, to keep things simple. Assuming we're going to burn $100 bills (to maximize our literal cash burn), that's about $10,000 per square meter or 20,000,000 square meters to equal $200B.

This works out to a circular disk of $100 bills about 2523 meters in radius.

Individual bills are thin. They'd burn pretty fast, once lit. If we light the middle of the circle and the flame front expands radially outward by 25 mm (about an inch) per second, that's enough to consume an entire bill (lengthwise) in 6 seconds. Sounds about right, based on how fast thin paper seems to burn. At that rate, it'll take 2523 meters / 0.025 meters/second ~= 100,000 seconds or about 1.15 days to burn the entire disk of flammable currency.

But I suspect that past a certain point, the expanding fire might be hot enough to start igniting things further ahead of the immediate flames, in which case the flame front would expand much faster. Also, you'd likely get some updrafts that would carry burning Benjamins further afield, which would start spot fires in other pars of the gigadollar disk some distance away, each one burning at a similar rate. Spot fires could sharply reduce the total time, easily a factor of 10 or more, especially if they started fairly early on. My Fermi-inspired guess is you're looking at "a few hours, maybe longer if the fire is extremely well-behaved, maybe less if it goes total chaos muppet", to torch things that way.

I don't have a good sense of whether making stacks (more to burn per area, but less area) makes things go faster, and that's a branch of material science I'm not super familiar with, so I'll leave it at that.

@paco @davidgerard @briankrebs it definitely depends also on the sort of currency you burn too. Australian $ are all polymer, not paper. They probably give off noxious fumes when they burn

@paco @davidgerard Depends if you burn them in parallel or not and it depends on the oxigen supply. If you would burn this as one big connected line of paper, you would burn something that would go 7800 times around the world, so that would be a roll almost a meter thick going around earth. If you would burn that in parallel, I am lacking imagination how long it would take.

@gosha @OpenBSDAms Self-host all the things ! E-mail (openbsd smtpd, rspamd, dovecot), documents (seafile), caldav & carddav for contacts and events, restic for backups, instant messaging (xmpp & matrix). It's a joy!

@gosha I use @OpenBSDAms for mail, vpn gateway, and webserver. Love it!