MatStace @MatStace@octodon.social

Briefly removing the redirect on here so I can grab a few things from my profile, but the tl;dr is that for anything new and "interesting" from me, you're going to want to follow @MatStace@hackers.town from now on ;-)

Had a little play this evening to get my #pwnagotchi up to date, and connecting to the internet via my phone over bluetooth tethering.

I was about to have a quick look for a case/USB battery to take it on a quick commute tomorrow, but I should be a "responsible" sysadmin, and make sure that I add my employer's WIFI SSIDs to the whitelist and the reporting exclusions list...

Tonight in questionable decisions: buying #lockpicking tools and having them delivered to my employer's address...

If someone wanted to move from a larger general purpose mastodon instance to a smaller one where registrations are currently closed, how often should I, erm, I mean they, check the homepage of hackers.town to see if it ever opens up, or should they start trying to befriend someone there then gently beg for an invite? 😉

Every now and then I top up my geek credentials by tuning to maritime VHF channel 14 and having a bit of a listen to the radio traffic on the Thames.
It's a busy old river, innit.

£60 is a little excessive for a raspberry pi zero case, but this is absolutely magnificent https://thepihut.com/collections/latest-raspberry-pi-products/products/retroflag-gpi-case-gameboy-inspired
#raspberrypi #pizero #retropi

What fortuitous timing.
Just received an email letting me know that the new issue of The MagPi is now out, which means I can take last night's quick dockering*, run a single command, and have it downloaded onto my NAS, waiting for me

* https://github.com/MatStace/DownloadMagPi

Damn, the display is slightly too tall, otherwise I think I could make the whole thing fit with a small lipo cell.
#hackerspager #pwnagotchi

Actually, maybe not. And nobody else should make one either, to avoid spoiling this...

Just realised that I have a waveshare e-ink pi hat in my box of bits at home, so I guess I'll be knocking together a #pwnagotchi when I get home tonight :-)

More solderings, today I finally got around to putting together my #altairduino kit together, and made a timelapse with the computer set not to go to sleep this time.

Here's almost five hours of soldering compressed down to just over four minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiu9yW1tXw0

#electronics #geekend

Decided to try making a timelapse of some solderings. Not terrible, not going to win any oscars. I did learn a couple things though, so that counts as worthwhile. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwKInvLWlos
#electronics #rc2014

Well if this isn't ace, I don't know what is... https://www.are.na/dena-yago/anime-computing

Now that #gitlab are going to start injecting tracking (sorry, "telemetry" as they call it) javascript, I guess I really should start looking into a #selfhosted replacement.

Managed to get myself locked out of the bird-based hellsite for slagging off #TERF types, so I can't currently access my main account on there.
TBH, nothing of value was lost ;-)

Well if this isn't one of the sexiest DIY audio players I've ever seen... https://imgur.com/a/7NiOgrQ

I'm not sure, but I think @privacyint might be having recurring dreams about 5G...

Just to get this straight facebook, if there's a group/page that I want to hide for my mental health, I have to mute/unfriend every single one of my friends who shares/comments/reacts to that page's posts? Wow.

Wait, what? Amazon doing their own version of #FreeRTOS to make it easier to hook your #microcontroller up to their services? https://aws.amazon.com/freertos/

Not that I'm jumping in with both feet now that I've gotten my #homeassistant install up and running, but today may or may not have seen the arrival of a couple of tp-link HS110 power monitoring smart sockets so I can add my washing machine and dishwasher to my #homeautomation