Readit Newsjustaj commented on Learning basic electronics by building fireflies a64.in/posts/learning-bas... · Posted by u/signa11
The juxtaposition between the cleanliness of the software and the absolute travesty of a schematic is jarring. But it still works!
I applaud the author for wading into analog electronics. Pretty much everyone nowadays would just put a timer on a micro and be done in 2 minutes. No fun in that. There is something to be said about the minimal elegance of purely analog designs, and a special rewarding feeling for wrangling electrons in their native habit rather than their boxed up binary bins.
I still can't get over the fact that all electronics schematics is actually in reverse and everyone is still fine with that.
I love this implementation approach.
At first glance I questioned your choice of bash over something like Python, but you're right - bash is everywhere and every competent Linux admin knows how to use it. There's a zillion unprotected Linux servers out there where this would be very handy.
In terms of next steps, it might be worth documenting more about the notification framework and some simple examples of how we might use it. I can see you've mentioned integrations with email, Slack and webhooks in the tech paper, but I can't spot anything about how to use them
Congratulations on a really worthy project
> bash is everywhere
...except on systems like Alpine Linux and other such minimal distributions.
justaj commented on It's rude to show AI output to people distantprovince.by/posts/... · Posted by u/distantprovince
I think in any real conversation, you're treating AI as this authority figure to end the conversation, despite the fact it could easily be wrong. I would extract the logic out and defend the logic on your own feet to be less rude.
And what if you let a human expert fact-check the output of an LLM? Provided you're transparent about the output (and its preceding prompt(s)) ?
Because I'd much rather ask an LLM about a topic I don't know much about and let a human expert verify its contents than waste the time of a human expert in explaining the concept to me.
Once it's verified, I add it to my own documentation library so that I can refer to it later on.
justaj commented on The new literalism plaguing today’s movies newyorker.com/culture/cri... · Posted by u/frogulis
PSA: Beginning of the article contains spoilers.
justaj commented on The new literalism plaguing today’s movies newyorker.com/culture/cri... · Posted by u/frogulis
I'm surprised they call out the Conclave as an example of a good movie. It's not a bad movie, but the final twist (I'm not going to spoil it) is way over the top and almost absurdly Hollywood.
> ...but the final twist (I'm not going to spoil it)...
justaj commented on I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years gist.github.com/Kaldaien/... · Posted by u/haunter
> "Stores should only provide DRM, and anything else that they do must be optional."
Why would I buy at ${store} then? If a store has features, while piracy does not have them, I have an incentive to buy at the store. If a store only has DRM, while piracy does not, I will be incentivised to use piracy.
I need to use a crack anyway to play the official steam distribution of Medieval or skip the Windows 11 installer of CnC Generals anyhow, so piracy is needed anyway. The store seems to never be needed.
The nice thing is having a community page tell me to skip installers or the faulty DRM in just one place, but $store pays their community zero worth back for doing their tech support.
...because running applications from untrusted sources is a _really_ bad idea?
justaj commented on CoMaps: New OSM based navigation app comaps.app/news/2025-07-0... · Posted by u/gedankenstuecke
Talking about the app features, here are some of the bigger / easier to notice differences:
- added automatic backups for bookmarks and tracks
- added 100m-step altitude isolines to all regions that had worse or no isolines
- a big rework of the map colors - lighter, warmer, friendlier
- add a setting to customize the leftmost button or hide it
- removed semi-transparent background in Subway layer
And there is a bunch of smaller changes, for details check the release notes: https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/releases
Oh man, if automatic dark mode (dependent on whether dark theme is engaged on phone) is added, I would switch immediately.
I rather take my chances with googles hardware but decent software (or even amazing with https://grapheneos.org) than guaranteed awful samsung software
Speaking of, will GrapheneOS push this particular update?
It's hard to understand how someone who claims to have a lot of experience with Linux would go back to Windows. They may have been in fact primarily a Windows user if they're willing to put up with Microsoft's spyware, SSD crashing bugs, dark patterns and ads.
The article itself appears to have been edited or written with an LLM. This article is even less relevant due to the apparent AI slop.