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New comment by spogbiper in "Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors"

spogbiper — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:12:33 +0000

I've used these: https://sensirion.com/media/documents/213E6A3B/63A5A569/Data...

They claim accuracy of +-0.2 c across a wide temperature range and in my use they seem to be. easy to find on a support board for under $10

New comment by spogbiper in "Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot"

spogbiper — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:49:23 +0000

I get the impression that it is, at least to some degree

New comment by spogbiper in "F-Droid 2.0"

spogbiper — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:44:24 +0000

On my Pixel I don't even open the Play store for this

Settings, System, Software Updates, App updates

Bonus that any OS or Google services updates are here too

New comment by spogbiper in "WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE"

spogbiper — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:31:16 +0000

> If you know what you're doing, WordPress fine.

Probably true, but for whatever reason Wordpress seems to attract an awful lot of people that do not know what they are doing

New comment by spogbiper in "I said no and Apple said yes"

spogbiper — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:54:26 +0000

it really is like the meme..

Apple users to Windows users: I feel bad for you

Windows users to Apple users: I don't think about you at all

New comment by spogbiper in "Grand MS-DOS Gaming General MIDI Showdown"

spogbiper — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:25:53 +0000

Some keyboards of the time period even came with a special "general midi mode" specifically for this, i recall the ensoniq TS12 I used at the time did

New comment by spogbiper in "Florida revokes permits for license plate readers on state highways"

spogbiper — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:58:03 +0000

"On Monday, Aug. 31, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) issued a memorandum revoking existing permits for automated license plate recognition (ALPR) systems, commonly referred to by the brand name "Flock cameras," that are installed within the right of way of roads on the State Highway System."

Very first paragraph. "Flock" is basically being used like "Kleenex" here

New comment by spogbiper in "ChatGPT Is Throwing 404"

spogbiper — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:22:42 +0000

downdetector.com is showing Gemini issues as well

New comment by spogbiper in "Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business"

spogbiper — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:01:33 +0000

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/apple-maps-changes-name-lak...

Apple updated it yesterday. If I were Google I'd turn down that refresh rate and let someone else take the bad PR next time

New comment by spogbiper in "I Don't Have a Smartphone"

spogbiper — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:55:13 +0000

calling it "Google's war" is an interesting take. No doubt they have added some hoops to jump through and reduced freedoms, but Apple has been leading the charge against installing arbitrary software for decades.

New comment by spogbiper in "Harvest (IBM 7950): Supercomputer for cryptanalysis at the NSA in the Cold War"

spogbiper — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:24:02 +0000

sometimes I wish I was born a few decades earlier. it would have been fun to work on things like this when they were new

New comment by spogbiper in "Windows 95 released August 24, 1995"

spogbiper — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:23:21 +0000

Yes, I recall that not all hardware was supported (or well supported) although it wasn't a huge problem and I was able to find drivers for everything I personally needed. Video drivers that supported the full capabilities of the card were the biggest issue as I recall

New comment by spogbiper in "Windows 95 released August 24, 1995"

spogbiper — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:33:55 +0000

I remember that campaign, me and a couple of college buddies convinced an IBM rep that we were an OS/2 User's Group and they sent us a crate full of Warp T-shirts, posters and buttons.

New comment by spogbiper in "Water Behind the Watts: The Hidden Risk of Powering Data Centers"

spogbiper — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:33:35 +0000

This study is using water "withdrawal" figures rather than consumptive use. Hydroelectric plants withdraw tons of water, but it goes right back into the river it came from.

Edit - good information on this here: https://news.bgov.com/environment-and-energy/data-centers-us...

The "Consumptive Use vs. Withdrawals" section discusses the trouble with using withdrawal as a meaningful data point.

New comment by spogbiper in "Windows 95 released August 24, 1995"

spogbiper — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:11:13 +0000

Kind of but not really. As I understand it some of the OS/2 dev team at Microsoft was involved in NT (after MS and IBM stopped working on OS/2 together) but they aren't the same code. The NT core is more closely related to DEC VMS than to OS/2. It can be confusing because the name OS/2 was applied to things that are NT at certain points along the way, and NT did have an OS/2 compatibility layer

New comment by spogbiper in "Windows 95 released August 24, 1995"

spogbiper — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:58:10 +0000

I remember being a big OS/2 user/fan and thinking surely everyone would realize that Win95 was inferior. I was wrong.

New comment by spogbiper in "US data centers tripled annual water consumption to 17B gallons"

spogbiper — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:58:43 +0000

Only 0.5 trillion gallons is precious water, the rest is just regular water

New comment by spogbiper in "Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance"

spogbiper — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:49:30 +0000

that would be nice, but unfortunately I think the supply vs demand situation is quite different this time

New comment by spogbiper in "Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded"

spogbiper — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:45:00 +0000

There's NDK which seems supported. It's been some years since I messed with mobile stuff but https://developer.android.com/ndk

New comment by spogbiper in "AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late"

spogbiper — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:17:02 +0000

https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/mandatory_deposit.html

some form of mandatory deposit law has existed since 1790 in the US. other countries have similar laws. there is a very good chance the government already has a copy of anything that has been copyrighted