dognotdog (u/dognotdog)

dognotdog commented on iPhone Pocket apple.com/newsroom/2025/1... · Posted by u/soheilpro

Us iPhone 13 Mini holdouts need to get a little louder. It feels like I find more and more on the internet every month -- I'm pretty sure there're far more than just "dozens of us" who want a reasonably-sized phone.

dognotdog · a month ago

Indeed, how exciting a phone would be that fit in... you know... bear with me... your pants' pocket you already have... lol

dognotdog commented on Fossil versus Git fossil-scm.org/home/doc/t... · Posted by u/susam

Culonavirus · 2 years ago

Not in gamedev where you can have hundreds of gigs of art assets (models, textures, audio...), but you still want to version them or even have people working on them at the same time (maps...). But that is a different can of worms entirely.

dognotdog · 2 years ago

Indeed I have 3D assets in this case. Would this be done differently in an enterprise that has all kinds of tools to manage specialty workflows? Sure. Do I want to spend my days configuring and maintaining some binary blob / LFS storage system? No.

I’ve migrated a lot of projects from fossil to git eventually, but I dare say they never would have made it that far, had I started out with more friction, including fighting vcs tools.

dognotdog commented on Fossil versus Git fossil-scm.org/home/doc/t... · Posted by u/susam

dognotdog · 2 years ago

I keep coming back to fossil again and again, despite git having a huge pull because of the easy publishing and collab on github/gitlab.

Just the other day I was starting an exploratory project, and thought: I'll just use git so I can throw this on github later. Well, silly me, it happened to contain some large binary files, and github rejected it, wanting me to use git-lfs for the big files. After half an hour of not getting it to work, I just thought screw it, I'll drop everything into fossil, and that was it. I have my issue tracker and wiki and everything, though admittedly I'll have some friction later on if I want to share this project. Not having to deal with random git-lfs errors later on when trying to merge commits with these large files is a plus, and if I ever want to, I can fast-export the repo and ingest it into git.

dognotdog commented on eSIM is altering how consumers interact with operators opensignal.com/2023/07/25... · Posted by u/signa11

TechBro8615 · 2 years ago

Also (at least for my iPhone 12 mini), you can only have one esim. I have a SIM for two countries and one of them has to be physical, which is unfortunate.

dognotdog · 2 years ago

I was under the impression you could only activate one esim at a time, but store up to 6(?) on that phone?

dognotdog commented on Air quality monitors: paying more does not get you more accuracy airgradient.com/open-airg... · Posted by u/ahaucnx

ahaucnx · 3 years ago

The R2 is between the tested monitor and the AQMD reference instruments (BAMs and Grimms). They also test if the two reference instruments agree with each other before calculating the correlation to the tested monitor.

So I believe their testing method is quite accurate.

dognotdog · 3 years ago

This is probably a longer discussion, but PM0.3 (anything less than 0.3 microns) is quite difficult to measure, especially optically, as light scattering drops off very steeply once your particle sizes are around the wavelength of the light being used. Anything short of an SMPS class instrument that “grows” small particles through condensation so that they appear large enough to be counted, will not see much below 0.3 microns. Also, the total MASS of small particles might be low, but if you look at count, or lung-deposited surface area, we get a different picture. Especially around 0.3um, particulate matter is prone to get deep into the lungs, instead of being caught in the upper airways, and the small size means larger relative surface area, and thus higher reactivity. Even smaller nano particles might not go as deep, but are more likely to enter cells or the bloodstream due to their minuscule size.

dognotdog commented on Air quality monitors: paying more does not get you more accuracy airgradient.com/open-airg... · Posted by u/ahaucnx

ahaucnx · 3 years ago

Author here.

I wrote this article a few weeks ago after discovering that a well known air quality monitor in the market that retails for more than USD 1000 actually uses a PM module that costs less than USD 20.

Often people assume that the more expensive, the better but as you can see in the article this is often not the case -especially when it comes to the accuracy of the monitor.

If you are looking for an open source / open hardware air quality monitor kit that uses high quality sensor modules and is very easy to assemble, have a look at the project we maintain. Instructions to built an indoor monitor [1], instructions to built an outdoor monitor [2] and overview of the kits [3]. All is open source (firmware, schematics, 3d files for enclosure, etc).

[1] https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/instructions/di...

[2] https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/instructions/di...

[3] https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/kits/

dognotdog · 3 years ago

While I admire the efforts of the SC-AQMD, and generally agree with the article, using R2 from a higher-end, but not quite perfect instrument, can be quite misleading, and is not a great indicator of actual sensor performance. Also, there are a lot of potential improvements in sensor tech, but instead almost everyone is relying on the same cheap sensor modules instead of innovating, which have have pretty bad deficiencies, especially in detecting particulates in the ultra-fine range, and don’t age very well. But, they are the cheapest.

dognotdog commented on The Untold Story of SQLite (2021) corecursive.com/066-sqlit... · Posted by u/xrayarx

maxk42 · 3 years ago

I've used git since it was first released to the public and recently I feel like I know less about it than ever before. I switched to fossil for personal projects around a year ago and haven't regretted it one bit!

dognotdog · 3 years ago

I kind of went the other way as github/gitlab took off. I was using fossil for years because it was so self contained with issue tracking and everything, and it is great, but the lack of easy two-way interop with github had me gradually drop it for new projects, when I anticipate some level of other contributors. That being said, going from fossil->git via git-export is very simple and painless.

dognotdog commented on How to use your DSLR from 2008 as a webcam in 2022 (NixOS) tomoliver.net/posts/using... · Posted by u/revilotom

codazoda · 3 years ago

This works better than the Canon EOS Webcam utility for me, even though my DSLR isn't officially supported. It works fine in Zoom. Unfortunately it doesn't work in Quicktime. I'll take a look at some of the code signing info in your docs and see if I can fix it.

dognotdog · 3 years ago

My understanding is that Quicktime Player has been in the SIP domain for recent OS releases, so it just won't load 3rd party libraries at all :/

dognotdog commented on How to use your DSLR from 2008 as a webcam in 2022 (NixOS) tomoliver.net/posts/using... · Posted by u/revilotom

sjs7007 · 3 years ago

If you have an iPhone+mac you can use continuity camera which is pretty seamless in comparison: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213244

dognotdog · 3 years ago

I've created PTP Webcam [1] during COVID to get DSLRs working for video conferencing on the Mac.

[1] https://ptpwebcam.org/

dognotdog commented on Ford F-150 Lightning: Fast Truck, Slow Computer theverge.com/23307298/for... · Posted by u/stalfosknight

karamanolev · 3 years ago

Yet, it's not what people are doing. The UIs of cars and other objects should take into account how they're going to be used, not how they are designed to be used. It's been proven again and again that you can only marginally educate or tell people how to behave. It's better to make a system that is safe 7/10 in real world usage, instead of one designed for 9/10, but actually getting 5/10.

dognotdog · 3 years ago

I'd claim things are more nuanced. There are many reasons why UIs in many places, not just cars, suck. In cars, wether warranted or not, there is also pressure from legal to err on the side of building a cludge that is unassailable vs. a smooth user experience that could be grounds for a class action because it doesn't make enough of an effort to discourage dangerous user behavior.