Eric Belanger

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Geek of many trades: IT guy, GNU/Linux (+FSF Supporter!), Photography, EDM/Trance/DnB/Eurobeat, Rocket League.... So many things, no free time!

Toots (Mastodon posts) are mostly in English, otherwise en Français.

See my website for quick links to other all social networks, "linktree" style.

Websitehttps://bilange.ca
LanguagesFrench (Native), English (Fluent), Portugues (interested, but knows too little)
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Eric BelangerMar 22

I'm 99% sure that my GrapheneOS install previously ignored Amber Alerts while in Do not Disturb mode. Now I explicitely disabled them because of repeated alerts of this type during the night.

I've seen a comment that CRTC hard codes all alerts as a Presidential/National types? Hopefully that's not the case...

Eric BelangerFeb 4
Are you trying to tell me that putting a WinXP box directly on the internet is not secu--CONNECTION RESET BY PEER
Eric BelangerDec 28
I just received a unsollicitated SMS asking if i'll attend to work's "golf business meeting"; as a Canadian, playing golf at Christmas is simply impossible. I don't think you could have picked a worse timing for that spam SMS!
Show threadEric BelangerSep 5, 2025
@Yuki On leur a donné une bonne vollée dans Arthabaska, je suis content. (Ou une bonne "CAQ"!) À ce qui paraît , le vote a été surtout PCQ en campagne, mais encore plus PQ en ville. Juste 2600 votes pour la CAQ total 😂
Show threadEric BelangerAug 14, 2025
@garlickles Gotta admit I feel like I'm in the same boat at times. And same field as well, so this hits home. Just keep on swimming , internet stranger!
Eric BelangerAug 5, 2025

Say what you want about #chatgpt , but it has saved by butt right now. Bought an el-cheapo USB panel light that came with a desk mount (I now have 3 of the same type of those cheap desk mount, those work rathel well IMO). The panel light had an 1/4" thread insert while the desk mount I received with it had a male 3/8" threaded pin. This means I can't screw the panel on to the provided desk mount.

Asked ChatGPT to create an adapter using OpenSCAD (pictured). One go, straight to the 3D printer, first model using PLA was FLAWLESS. This saved me the hassle of either asking for support/refund or finding an overpriced adapter on online stores.

Total cost of filament: 0,11$ CAD, 0.08$ USD.

I still get the same feeling of excitement like when I discovered the "world wide web" back then for things that magically works like this situation.

Show threadEric BelangerAug 2, 2025
@Yuki Same here, but in my case, it was kinda required :/
Eric BelangerJul 31, 2025
I just stumbled upon Algorave by accident. That led me to Strudel, and i'm having my mind blown currently. I don't have enough music (theory) knowledge to fiddle around with it, but this looks REALLY cool as a concept.
Show threadEric BelangerJul 24, 2025
@lfa Thank you! 24 h later it still works, except one or two instance of mysteriously stuck keys. I might have to order some PCBs, thankfully the Kicad source files are also provided in the repo. Project maintainer is the MVP in my book.
Eric BelangerJul 23, 2025

Phew, I made a handwired keyboard! I don't know soldering much, so it barely holds in a functional state 😅

I've been using the Redox keyboard for 5 years now but one I bought commercially started to be unstable for use, so I had to make one. In this economy, I don't have 250+ euros for a keyboard anymore.

Link to the Redox project: https://github.com/mattdibi/redox-keyboard