Jeffrey Nonken

Why One Man Is Fighting For Our Right To Control Our Garage Door Openers - Slashdot An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: A few years ago, Paul Wieland, a 44-year-old information technology professional living in New York's Adirondack Mountains, was wrapping up...

Interesting. I'm using a MyQ, but just for opening and closing manually or on a timer. But I'm gonna take a look at this one.

It'll detach me from the company's servers, at least.

I only just noticed she's playing left-handed...

Not a criticism, just noticed it.

I just learned about Melody, like, two days ago while hoping to find some wallpaper art of Fall Barros. I see my coincidence field is still going strong.

Melody, right? I was just reading a bunch of your stuff on DA.

Every new attack aimed at a boat of fishermen makes me want Pete Hegseth blown up and sent to the bottom of the ocean.

Though the "blown up" part is optional.

I mean the government fired them, not USGS

It's probably because they fired everybody who knows how the earthquake thingies work

[text only] Some of y'all never had to push your own car then jump in and pop the clutch and it shows.

It's Boomers like Kamala Harris. She should be ashamed.

And Bernie. Let's not forget Bernie.

I certainly didn't notice anything.

YouTube video by Representative Pramila Jayapal Being undocumented is NOT a crime.

youtube.com/shorts/T50iN...

At least they took a still from the crap movie that completely ignores everything about the comic and pissed off the entire fan base.

They probably don't know the difference.

Kidding about years off my real life.

Not kidding about being passive-aggressive. I honestly don't think I can do it, but I keep trying anyway.

Sometimes I think the boss just gets sick and tired and dies just so I'll piss off and stop bothering him.

But it took years out of my (real) life and half my cash for the resurrections and ammo. *sigh* I'm not as young as I used to be.

But I respecked (re-specced? respeced?) my character and got better weapons that don't all use the same ammo pool.

I'm not a complete idiot. There are parts missing.

Get whiny and passive-aggressive and keep trying.
Again.
Again.
After about 10 or 15 deaths I finally fine-tune a combination of strats that optimizes my weapons and ammo and skills and baaaaaarely manages to take him down.

Well... damn, I guess it wasn't impossible for me after all.

Mark and I take on a boss, Mark has him dead in 30 seconds while I'm just trying to keep the scrubs off his back.

Later I solo the boss and get curb-stomped due to crap weapons, crap skill tree, crap ACTUAL skill and the reflexes of a sedentary 68yo. Also I keep running out of the good ammo.

Only a few thousand miles away. 😉

Nice little road trip followed by a quick swim across a pond... but with the Internet, we're practically neighbors.

Photo of a car pulled off the side of the road with its hood up. There are two priests standing in front a few feet away, watching while a third person -- possibly a helpful passer-by -- is looking under the hood. Caption: You know it's bad when your mechanic calls in two priests

Done! Also Darken.

PDFs because the bookshelf I no longer own doesn't have room.

Also, my shoes are IN the next room.

Earthquake warning and safety info, screenshot from my phone. Includes the advice "Get Shoes: Before going anywhere, even to the next room"

Me, sitting on the can, starkers, waiting for metabolism to finish its job so I can start my shower:

Yeah, shoes. That'll be the priority here.

It's a bit surprising that Pete Hegseth asked for two shots when he usually asks for four or five.

Phone text message thread: Dad there's a moth on the outside of the bathroom door can you get rid of it? Pls hurry because I'm going to cry Dad Dad Dad is dead. You're next. Love, Moth

😮 Leaves need love too!

Oh yeah, and his 3.3v outputs are fine for our nominal 5v inputs, but I'm not sure how they'd fare through the diode drop. I'd have to check the specs.

Gahan Wilson cartoon of a war-torn soldier standing alone in a wasteland surrounded by toxic gasses and holding a gun and a knife. He has a crazed smile on his face and is wearing a badly-neglected beard. Caption: I think I won!

Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

Also: shooting mice with a cannon.

In retrospect, one design would work for both my multiplexed diode-decoded BCD circuit and the 4051 multiplexers. AS LONG AS it's one of the current designs and, say, not one I've forgotten where maybe I reversed the diodes and drive high, pull low instead of the current way.

Or just use a switch.

Or, you know, we could use a fucking switch. Wire it up, presto. Done.

So glad the five of us spent an hour deciding that. It's not like any of us had real work to do.

At least there is +5v available on nearby connectors. If they're not being used for something else.

Alternatively, we could agree on an interface and add a new connector. But oops, there goes backwards compatibility. And also firmware changes, but I guess those would go along with the new board.

Except on the Circuit Breaker board. There I'm running the switches through a pair of 4051 analog multiplexers that work as independent pulled-up inputs, I just read all of them in sequence and look for a 0 input. Common is ground.

That requires he detect a low input on one pin before driving any other pins low so they don't interfere. Also requires adding power and ground pins. Oops, just lost backwards compatibility.

My circuit does NOT have a ground common, but it doesn't matter, because I also don't provide power.

Screenshot of the circuit schematic.

...explaining why his idea for a backwards-compatible interface would require his firmware to do more gymnastics than he ever thought. Not egregious, but more complex than he realized because he had no idea I was multiplexing two switches through a diode array to create a reverse BCD input.