Adam Casto

@adam_casto
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Linux sysadmin, WordPress developer, general nerd into mechanical keyboards, electronics, 3D printing, and <misc geekery> in Pittsburgh.
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/adam_casto
Bloghttps://coffeewithrobots.com
Websitehttps://iptic.com
"Comment your code"

Florida corruption. Just a staggering report by Ryan Grim

https://theintercept.com/2023/02/05/ron-desantis-florida-villages-oren-miller/

How a Grassroots Revolt in the Iconic Retirement Community Ended With a 72-Year-Old Political Prisoner

Reformers in The Villages retirement community unleashed the fury of the Florida GOP and its business elite, and left two men facing garbage felony charges.

The Intercept
I've kept twitter around using it read-only because it was great for getting info on breaking news and stuff, but it was almost useless for the balloon situation due to the noise floor of hateful ignorant people just flooding the space with the dumbest stuff.
Sure, an electric toothbrush having a sensor that detects if you brush too hard is great, but what they really need is a sensor to detect when you've accidentally dropped them out of your mouth and automatically shut off before you end up diving on it like a grenade.
@jdiannedotson I looked at the quote on the cover and thought the name sounded familiar!
It's here!
The Globus INK (1967) is a remarkable piece of Soviet spacecraft equipment. Its rotating globe showed cosmonauts the position of their Soyuz spacecraft. An electromechanical analog computer, it used gears, cams, and differentials to compute the position. Let's look inside 🧵
HIBI + JWST next to the Silicap.
I'm kind of loving that ChatGPT is good enough to help get my thoughts together and wrapped around a topic, but not so good that I don't have to think about it or look into things. Result is I end up spending more time looking at sources like specs, less time at random Google links filled with ads, and end up learning more than if it didn't exist or was perfectly correct.
Input devices ready for winter.