Open post George @G6eorge@hostux.social · 3mo ago Replying to @jaseg@chaos.social This is awesome: Someone actually made a truetype font encoding QR codes, including reed-solomon encoding! https://qr.jim.sh/ @jaseg@chaos.social @revk@toot.me.uk one to get your head around…
Open post George @G6eorge@hostux.social · 4mo ago Replying to @revk@toot.me.uk @G6eorge@hostux.social it is OK, my wife is here (avoiding me), but thanks. @revk@toot.me.uk copy that. Standing offer if ever you need it, especially for larger items etc.
Open post George @G6eorge@hostux.social · 22mo ago Replying to @themariday@mastodon.social @G6eorge @geekmomprojects I can't answer directly but what I can say is marimapper should work with pretty much any webcam and any position as long as a reasonable amount of LEDs are in view and overlap with the previous view. The unit tests pass with 9 leds in view with a 50% overlap @themariday @geekmomprojects Awesome - thanks
Open post George @G6eorge@hostux.social · 22mo ago @geekmomprojects @themariday Which web cam model did you use? Also roughly how far away did you film?
Open post George @G6eorge@hostux.social · 16mo ago @bloor@bloor.tw looks like a May bug loads of them about at the moment.
Open post George @G6eorge@hostux.social · 16mo ago @flashingjanet@leds.social are you ableTo provide any details on the design? Type of LEDs and how you diffused them
Open post George @G6eorge@hostux.social · 2mo ago Replying to @MikeFromLFE@cupoftea.social Home repair advice sought (UK) I'm looking at replacing the skirting board in a curved bay window wall. Has anyone any experience of the flexible skirting that's now available? It looks almost too easy to be true - heat, press into position, fix to the wall. But it looks very expensive. Any thoughts? #DIY #HomeRepairs @MikeFromLFE@cupoftea.social never seen or heard of it. Sounds interesting, do you have link to the product online etc somewhere?
Open post George @G6eorge@hostux.social · 15mo ago Replying to @Edent@mastodon.social <p>🆕 blog! “It is 1939 and you want to use public-key cryptography”</p><p>Imagine, just for a moment, that a mathematical breakthrough had occurred on the eve of the second World War. Perhaps Turing or Rejewski or Driscoll realised that prime number theory held the key to unbreakable encryption. This blog post attempts to answer the question "could public-key …</p><p>👀 Read more: <a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/it-is-1939-and-you-want-to-use-public-key-cryptography/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/it-is</span><span class="invisible">-1939-and-you-want-to-use-public-key-cryptography/</span></a><br />⸻<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ComputerScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/encryption" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>encryption</span></a></p> @Edent@mastodon.social @revk@toot.me.uk you’ll enjoy this read me thinks
Open post George @G6eorge@hostux.social · 4mo ago Replying to @revk@toot.me.uk <p>Thanks everyone for the well wishes.<br />Yes, I am hardly sleeping, feeling like crap. Counting down to next paracetamol. Hopefully this won’t drag on for too long…</p><p>What worries me is longer term issues. I have spent years recovering from a stroke after my last bout of Covid, and was finally feeling a lot more “myself” again, at last.</p><p>I hope nothing that bad, but it could easily be a thick head for months, or years.</p><p>It was bad watching my dad die of covid.</p><p>Take care everyone.</p><p><a href="https://toot.me.uk/tags/covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>covid</span></a></p> @revk@toot.me.uk rest up! On a more practical sense, I live not very far from you and have a van. So if you need anything collecting/dropping off just shout. Just drop me a DM.
Open post George @G6eorge@hostux.social · 4mo ago Replying to @enfys@wetdry.world <p>felt a bit shit the past few days, so just sank it all into an openttd run, started in-game year 1985 up to 2055.</p><p>by the end of the playthrough the most populated city ended up being coventry, with ~3,000 more than london, and ~35,000 more than neighbouring birmingham</p><p>some endgame stats and stuff:</p> @enfys@wetdry.world sooooooo much nostalgia