Michael Borcherds

I’ll accept BlueSky isn’t following the same pattern of benefiting off of users when the year of the Linux desktop comes to fruition.

20.06.2023 18:03 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Holy crap! The New Yorker says my book is one of the best books of 2023 (so far)!!!

https://www.newyorker.com/best-books-2023

16.06.2023 12:27 — 👍 183    🔁 27    💬 28    📌 7

FTC files to block Microsoft from buying Activision Blizzard A judge will now need to decide whether to grant the request.

The FTC has filed a request for an injunction to block Microsoft from closing its Activision Blizzard deal. If the FTC is unsuccessful then Microsoft says it welcomes the opportunity to fast track the FTC case in a federal court. Details:

13.06.2023 10:11 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

*Reposting so the picture makes sense.

Bluesky are releasing invite codes to control the rate of adoption. This is important because adoption is generally a complex statistic.

This allows them to control the initial parameters of the system in it's route to chaos and set the trajectory.

15.06.2023 02:20 — 👍 24    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

Recovering secret keys from devices using video footage of their power LED (nassiben.com)

Main Link | HN Post

14.06.2023 20:30 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

pink bookmark

rainbow leaf puddle pendant

rainbow palette pendant

distorted lines pride pendant

hi im nora i make little jewels out of glass in my kiln. please buy them. https://www.nora.jewelry/

14.06.2023 21:17 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Nice! How about a follow up post on the Octopus Flux and Go Fast/Go Faster tariffs? I've had solar + GivEnergy battery + EV for almost a year if you want to know more

13.06.2023 16:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How to get free electricity in the UK Octopus Energy is passing on big electricity savings to British consumers.

here's my story on Octopus Energy's Agile tariff and how you can get free and much cheaper electricity in the UK right now https://www.theverge.com/23755092/free-electricity-uk-how-to-octopus-energy-agile

10.06.2023 09:26 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Hi! Investigating Arduino / WebUSB at the moment

13.06.2023 13:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Need to find electronics DIY Arduino rpi esp32 microcontroller type people on here, help

03.06.2023 01:16 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 4    📌 0

One example that I did years before iot was a thing was to measure the temperature in different rooms to determine where heating needs to be activated based off a set of rules (schedule). I just had a relay wired into the thermostats controlled by an Arduino that sent data via zigbee to a server.

09.06.2023 09:36 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Solar and wind produced more electricity than coal in the US over the first half of the year for the first time! https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-a-first-wind-and-solar-generated-more-power-than-coal-in-u-s/

12.06.2023 18:33 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

"more expensive" than solar is missing the point - even expensive solar can still pay you back but residential wind never gets close to payback. Big difference 😁

13.06.2023 13:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm now "verified" and it took a few minutes to add a TXT entry to a domain DNS I own.

This is a much better system. DNS is pretty secure and a great way to verify people.

25.04.2023 16:05 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

anybody watching bouldering finals this evening?

11.06.2023 23:34 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

To answer my own question: https://github.com/charliegerard/webusb-rtlsdr-aircraft-radar-system

13.06.2023 08:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Physics of Wind Turbines | Energy Fundamentals An overview of the basic ideas related to the concept of energy

It's more that it basically doesn't work in residential areas (ie will never "pay back") - you need a fast wind speed to be worthwhile as it goes with (wind speed)³ https://home.uni-leipzig.de/energy/energy-fundamentals/15.htm

13.06.2023 07:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ah, cool! Is that for controlling stage lighting?

I've been playing with WebUSB/WebHID/WebSerial/WebBluetooth a lot recently eg https://murkle.github.io/utils/webusb/

13.06.2023 07:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Looks interesting! What USB hardware is that using?

12.06.2023 22:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Omg I LOVE the illustration of the talk I just gave at JSHeroes about getting live data from airplanes using an antenna, SDR and the WebUSB API!! 😃

19.05.2023 14:21 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Have you done anything interesting with WebUSB?

12.06.2023 22:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Mandelbrot time

22.05.2023 21:02 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Expect a flood of slapped together AI products. EVERYTHING will claim to have AI built in. That is about as useful as saying your car uses gas. Don't be duped by shiny robots quickly spitting out stuff... analyze and be skeptical! SOLID PEDAGOGY FIRST.

#EDUsky

28.05.2023 21:12 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

@alicekeeler.com Did you try the beta Python / GeoGebra environment yet? https://www.geogebra.org/python #pyggb #EDUsky

12.06.2023 19:28 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0