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Indeed, more people are getting an accident today in driverless cars because they didn’t die of COVID, as their immune system had training to fight it via vaccination.

Immunity

Obligatory @xkcd.com.

Omg, congrats on him saying his first xkcd-style passphrase.

Gloria Gaynor revealed as MAGA donor after Trump picks her for Kennedy Center Honor ‘I Will Survive’ singer has reportedly donated nearly $22,000 to right-wing politicians and organizations since 2023

For anyone who missed it:

Better than the hoisin bao'buns?

Autistic woman sets new world record in running from demands An autistic woman has set a new world record for speed in avoiding all direct requests made of her, it has been reported. Ffiona Maw, 29, has managed to successively run away from all tasks that have ...

Exactly, tasks are like the Weeping Angels from Doctor Who, they only get resolved if you don't look at them. Preferably, you should run away from them entirely.

GET OUT OF ALEC'S BRAIN!

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YouTube video by Technology Connections It's the Christmas light video again - 2025 edition

1. Eww why cat, why?

2. On the topic of Christmas decorations, are you aware of @techconnectify.bsky.social's decorative light rants, and that companies are now selling really nice incandescent-looking coloured LED lights?

*sends bread and roses to your table*

Ngl, I’m almost impressed at them managing to make a salad that has 840 calories in it.

A photo of the top of a white box with the text “Rhys-Davies Exsanguinator REF: 40400 Serial NO. C968” Gray shapes have been overlaid to cover apartment numbers written on boxes in the photo for privacy.

Okay, so is it just me who is a bit worried by seeing that someone in my building ordered a medical device seemingly normally used to remove blood from a limb before surgery/amputation?

@medcrisis.bsky.social is there something I’m missing here as to why else someone might want one of these?

Yeah I've tried that, and while it's impressive, as someone who prefers a native desktop app and being able to use circup, and whose programming skills require fast iteration (read: I'm bad at it and need to make a lot of edits), the USB drive side of things is just so nice.

Okay, but is the cupboard refrigerated, and does it have a crisper drawer?

Ben in Parks and Recreation, looking serious, holding one hand up with his thumb and index finger together, with the cones from The Cones of Dunshire in the foreground, with text that says "IT'S ABOUT THE BEES".

Dear god, this is like Ticketmaster level fee gouging.

RJ45 Ethernet Development Board (ESP32-S3) This ETH board is a development platform built around the ESP32-S3R8 chip, with both wireless and wired connectivity options. It supports 2.4GHz Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 5 (LE) and includes an RJ45 Ethern...

Then I've got one of these plugged in receiving those messages over ESP-NOW and sending them to HA over MQTT via Ethernet.

I wanted to use Matter-over-Thread on a C6, but couldn't work out how to get it to accept me doing deep sleep for extended periods and also have the wake time be so short.

Depends what sensors you want to run, though for less power hungry ones I've ended up using ESP-NOW on sensor nodes so they can stay in deep sleep almost all the time, only waking up to send a reading (takes roughly 2 seconds for temp+humidity), enabling very good battery life even on AA NiMHs.

Pololu - Step-Down (Buck) Voltage Regulators Switching buck converters reduce an input voltage to a lower, regulated voltage much more efficiently than linear regulators.

It depends on the board as to whether it can support that (pretty sure the C-series Espressif chips can't). Not sure what project you're working on that'll be powered from 12V, though Pololu have some nice buck boards if that'd be useful for you:

Thank you Robert/somecallmeDC.

This little boy was 9, Farage was 17. The epitome of a school bully.

This may or may not have prompted me to confirm that Drake is actually still alive..

Have you tried an ESP32-S2/S3 as well? Asking as the native USB support is so damn nice with CircuitPython in terms of them mounting as USB drives and your code just being a code.py file you edit/save. Not having to wait for code to flash over is so nice.

Yeah, I've got a bunch of sensors in Home Assistant via CircuitPython code and Stemma QT boards, though I'm using MQTT, especially as HA's support for it is so good that you can make it autodiscover everything, even telling it which icon to use for it by default.

It me, only there was light, and I think I actually broke my little toe in the process..

@swaledalemutton.bsky.social any chance you or someone you know still has that parody video someone on Twitter made, where Malone claims to have invented literally everything, including dogs?

I have a bunch of mutuals on here I enjoy interacting with, and I would never even consider proposing to have a call with them, *especially* with those who are not dudes, even if my gayness could in theory reduce some concerns they could have about my intentions.

Aside from how even the best reading of this is probably that he thinks a live chat will help him by highlighting performance over substantive points, it's utterly bizarre to me to ask this of someone you don't really even know online. Even my neurodivergent ass knows this is not appropriate.

I cannot overstate how delightfully fun @gastronauts.bsky.social is.

It's one part MasterChef (professional chefs), one part comedy (unhinged creative challenges from comedians), and is delivered in a brioche bun of positive critique, seasoned with @jordanmyr1ck.bsky.social's excellent hosting.

If only she had a pinned post, and many follow-ups from her and others to it, that might help you answer this..

Posting on social media invites responses from a very wide range of people, many of them very critical, and the most scathing stuff will usually float to the top of your replies, and where any response you make, with a limited number of characters, is easy for others to take apart.