A few years ago I came into a couple of e-ink displays that had been previously used for storefront/product pricing. The hardware to drive them was locked down but I was able to reverse engineer the panel by finding a datasheet that was close enough and hacking up an adafruit thinkink. I had a lot of fun writing my own driver/abstraction layer. I originally intended to support a bunch of different panels but ran out of steam after the first one did exactly what I wanted.

https://github.com/jaygreco/MagInkCal

What? 1920 called and wants its electromechanical relays back

ChatGPT has ruined bullet points for the rest of us…

No offense but writing this blog post couldn’t take more than a few minutes, why spoil it with LLM? Shoot, use one to check grammar and recommend edits even.

The smart kids (whom I’m sure look like they are learning that precious openssh client) are doing their assignment locally or on a free tier VPS with VS Code and scping the thing over when it’s done.

They’re also smart enough to learn openssh when they need it IRL.

I would hope the NPU on Elite X is easier to get to considering the whole copilot+ thing, but I bring this up mainly to make the point that I doubt it’s just as easy as “run general purpose model, expect it to magically teleport onto the NPU”.

In the rush to move to whatever the next big social media was, I’d never thought about backing up my stuff because why would it ever be gone and why would I care? Lesson learned.

I was weirdly bummed out about it. Back when the site first launched I spent loads of time learning HTML just to customize my page before I realized site profile generators existed.

My ideal homebrew app is just like the 1p Spotify one, but with the ability to use network over usb or the like so that it doesn’t need to sync the play status via Bluetooth. I guess the imminent shutdown might actually motivate me to do something along those lines.

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Fingers crossed they find a good buyer.

1: https://nullbits.co/scramble/

> Prusak explained that one Bitcoin is equal to about $35,000 in U.S. dollars, adding that he doesn't have a specific number on how many Bitcoins the site is able to produce in a day.

> "There's a lot of math, so I can't say we make 10 a day or anything like that," he explained. "I can say that they're worth about $34,000-$35,000, and we've got, you know, tens of thousands of machines running to do that."

This really rubs me the wrong way because it’s patently untrue. It’s _very_ possible and in fact is quite easy to calculate the expected daily returns. Prusak might be dull, but I’d lean more toward deceptive. He just doesn’t want the locals to know how much he’s profiting at the expense of their comfort.

[1] https://www.hcnews.com/stories/granbury-us-bitcoin-corp-erec...

I’ve been wanting to set something like this up for the nullbits server for a while. When I picked discord instead of a forum, I wasn’t counting on the growth we saw. There’s a lot of friction for new folks who aren’t yet on discord, and there’s a lot of knowledge in the server that’s locked behind discord.

Just set everything up! My only feedback is that enabling indexing for all of our text channels took a while doing them all individually, but that’s kind of on me for not enabling forums for help requests until now.