Didn't have "most trusted VPN co-owned by Nazi, company unapologetic" on my bingo card for 2026. FFS. #mullvad
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Variously part-time as: MicroPython maintainer, embedded systems consultant, EV reverse engineer, patter of good dogs.
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Someone knowledgeable has probably analysed this properly already, but guessing it's no coincidence that the Telstra GPS time server rolled back to Nov 2006 and there are 1024 weeks between 22 Nov 2006 and 8 Jul 2026...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_week_number_rollover
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/10/2006-throwback-took-down-telstra-national-phone-networ
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"Everyone is going through something that you have no idea about" is a great piece of wisdom to carry around, but it's still a bit of a shock when a stranger apologetically tells you that their something is a war.
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@decryption@aus.social hmm, dunno about this - there's only 0.07% difference in actual tyre diameter because the 18s are 60 profile and the 20s are 50 profile. They've probably done that to keep the actual tyre diameter as close as they can make them.
(Can plug the numbers into a calculator like https://tiresize.com/tyre-size-calculator/ to see the diameters.)
The 18s with the extra profile will probably ride a bit nicer, I'm generally skeptical of the auto industry's tendency to go for huge wheels. But not sure if it'll make a difference on range specifically.
EDIT: My % was off by a factor of 10
This morning I noticed that my little home server's Home Assistant OS VM was configured with libvirt domain type="qemu" instead of type="kvm".
(As one does, I suppose?)
That four to three letter change makes quite the difference to CPU usage and power consumption!
I'd quietly judged Home Assistant for being unreasonably resource hungry, but the culprit was me and my footgun collection once again...
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@s0@cathode.church @mike@social.chinwag.org @jpm@aus.social @ifixcoinops@retro.social +1 sicko here. Boot it!
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Viss/116817360307563848
So very good, but the names of all the companies and software products is the 
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this is a spectacular read:
https://nesbitt.io/2026/06/26/incident-report-cve-2026-lgtm.html
[edit: cc @andrewnez@mastodon.social]
Open quoted postAny fellow Aussies have a quality home weather station recommendation?
My parents gave us a Jaycar one when we moved in over eight years ago. It's been limping along for several years now, intermittently works.
I keep thinking about designing and making something, but realistically I don't think I'll ever put that time in. (Although if there was a solid existing open source design then I'd consider building one.)
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@jpm@aus.social @Unixbigot@aus.social @emily@fedi.uni.horse @itgrrl@infosec.exchange @voltagex@infosec.exchange oh wow I leave you lot alone for an afternoon and you go and design a vintage space keypad! Irrepressible.
Er, I own a weird custom keyboard but I don't know much about them. One thing I would say is that taking an existing similar keypad design in kicad (if you can find one), tweaking the schematic a bit to add/remove keys, and doing a new board layout to place the bits is probably not an absurd amount of work for a beginner. Sending the design off to be made is a pretty friendly process these days, too. None of it is totally simple but I think achievable without too much cursing (especially with some help, as offered).
The only other fiddly bit is designing whatever enclosure it sits in and making sure it fits right, but looks like you may be already on to that?
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@itgrrl@infosec.exchange @freecad@social.freecad.org @voltagex@aus.social @jambulance@hachyderm.io @Unixbigot@aus.social Love the feature. Disappointed to learn there is no standard for banana dimensions. 🍌 😀
Pro tip: if you sit by yourself next to a nice dog at the cafe then you get to make friends with the dog, receive compliments on behalf of the dog, and deflect the criticism of people who don't appreciate the dog blocking their path.
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@xssfox@cloudisland.nz @DropTableFoxes@social.stackunderflow.com Huh! I had wondered how I never saw a kid who was bad at this.
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@decryption@aus.social @mattrobertson@aus.social when we got our Sigenergy battery I got them to move our existing EV charger onto the Sigen gateway's "smart port". This feature lets you enable or disable "battery boost" for the connected load (i.e. does it discharge the battery or not). Plus can switch that load on/off manually, or automatically based on PV surplus.
That said, in retrospect I think I overthought the "don't charge car from house battery" thing. When the car has needed charging at full power (rather than only from surplus solar) I have let it discharge the house battery, like Matt says might as well use the free energy you already have stored. Probably if the car was charging like that all the time I wouldn't do it though, to avoid the accumulated charge cycles on the house battery. 🤷♂️
Edit: clarified about surplus solar
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@mattrobertson@aus.social @decryption@aus.social yes, pretty much same. our car doesn't do that many kms and is home most days
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@itgrrl@infosec.exchange @tubsta@social.bsdlab.au @ausfestivus@aus.social @daedalus@eigenmagic.net Back when we were on FTTN I had the local NBN tech stand in my kitchen and complain to me jokingly about how much of a pain ABB is: "your line speed is already better than all your neighbours, but none of their providers make me come out here to improve it!"
He was only there because ABB called me up totally unprompted and said "we reckon your internet could be faster, do you want us to send out NBNCo to have a look?" (And they were right, something somewhere needed de-rusting.)
They earned a lot of loyalty from me then, hopefully it's still deserved!
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@itgrrl@infosec.exchange I want to buy a NIST standard banana to eat with my NIST standard peanut butter. https://shop.nist.gov/ccrz__ProductDetails?sku=2387
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@backupbear The Singularity bros were so worried about the Paperclip Maximiser that they missed the real threat was already here...
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he’s been spending hours helping customers “reconstruct their bookings from Stripe payment histories, calendar integrations, and email confirmations.”
Surely if you're a rental car business and you discover this about your SaaS provider then you'd leave as soon as you can get past the emergency, right?
Or do you just shrug and say "software, it's terrible but what are you gonna do?" and then pay your next month's bill to these clowns?
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@hailey Perish the thought of running an LTS kernel on Windows 98, like some kind of peasant! 😁
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@oxy@social.bsdlab.au @decryption@aus.social I'd love if the "closer look" was just "yep, they're still chippies"
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@tubsta@social.bsdlab.au @ausfestivus@aus.social @daedalus@eigenmagic.net @itgrrl@infosec.exchange Piling on with +1 for ABB. We're "only" on 500/50, but have been consistently impressed by their service. I know I'm paying a little bit more a month than I could be, but IMO worth the trust that if something goes wrong they'll actually work to get it sorted.
(I know they could go bad at any point, but fingers crossed for not!)
RE: @sad_electronics@fosstodon.org
Woah, what a press release!
Some background, and additional inflammatory announcement by Nexperia China, at https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nexperia-china-announces-12-inch-wafer-breakthrough-tensions-with-dutch-hq-2026-03-09/
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@mr_daemon@untrusted.website Memories! I wonder if it's easier to get this to run on modern Linux or modern Windows...
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@jacqueline@chaos.social bbl, I need to check which microcontrollers aren't tolerant of blood
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@Unixbigot@aus.social That is both impressive and a relief!
Did you find it while it was still hot, or had it burned itself out by then?
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@pl@mastodon.social I get this in Firefox Focus (149.0.2) installed from the Play Store on GrapheneOS. Weirdly the "Advanced..." specifics don't give the right reason, but the warning is here.
Vanadium loads the page without any warning, same as others have reported.
If it's useful then I can install the latest Firefox for Android from Play Store and see what it does as well.
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@pl@mastodon.social @markisherwood@kind.social Huh, so this is Firefox for Android freshly installed from Play Store. Basically the same behaviour as Focus...
This is Firefox 149.0.2 with Play Services 26.09.31 and GrapheneOS build 2026040801 on a Pixel 6a.
Happy to test anything else which might be helpful to look at, as this seems odd if others don't see it!
Edit: Sorry, I've replied to the wrong part of the thread here - meant to reply to my reply about Focus showing the error.
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@ThermiteBeGiants@aus.social @mr_daemon@untrusted.website Linus is pretty religious about not making breaking userspace changes, but I don't know if that applies over a quarter century... I figure library breakage is almost certain, too.
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@markisherwood@kind.social @pl@mastodon.social Yeah, interesting. Something like that makes sense to me, or possibly they're doing a deeper "de-Mozilla-ing" pass and falling back entirely to Android's system-level cert verification.
(Total speculation on my part, have not let myself get interested enough to go dig around in source code!)
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@deepfryed Yes, and from what I've seen Nexperia China was somewhat coerced into this situation as well. Now they hold a lot of the cards!
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@mr_daemon@untrusted.website @ThermiteBeGiants@aus.social Oh, yes! I wasn't clear, was thinking of literally the binaries from that CD.
Windows tries pretty hard not to break backwards compatibility a long way back, so I suspect they'd have the edge at first. But on Linux you can compile new builds of random old dependencies which might be necessary...
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@decryption@aus.social Any different on the subaru version? I've heard generally better things about the subaru version.
(With you on automatic seat memory, it's one of the few modern computerised features I reckon is really good, but so few cars have!)
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@markisherwood@kind.social @pl@mastodon.social Hmm, yeah. Vanadium does fine when the cert is revoked via OCSP i.e. https://revoked.grc.com/
And Lets Encrypt doesn't support OCSP at all since last year, meaning CRL revocations only.
There are a lot of old posts claiming that Chromium & WebView for Android don't support CRL revocation at all. I can't find any recent confirmation of whether that's still the case. But that would be a simple explanation.
A more nuanced possibility is that the cert's CRL URL is HTTP (true in this case and most cases) and is therefore being blocked by a no-cleartext policy at some layer. There's a description of that pattern in this (otherwise unrelated) comment https://github.com/rustls/rustls-platform-verifier/pull/179#issuecomment-2971944947
I'm now 100% procrastinating on going outside, so I'm going to go outside instead of either installing Chrome or reading Chromium source code. 😆
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@cypnk@masto.hackers.town @fsphil@mastodon.social I reckon you're right this is very similar part, but may be a incompatible size?
PT4115 is SOT89-5 (4mm long, flat legs, exposed pad) but I think the package in the photo might be SOT23-5 (2.9mm long, legs bend down).
Hard to tell without a measurement though.