Doug Barry 

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British SysAdmin, electronics amateur (despite a degree in it), tea and bacon addict, skeptic and gamer. ZX Speccy and Amiga owner, general retro computer stuff too. If I like a post, it might just be a bookmark for me. Professionally I do endpoint management with cyber sec hat on top for a HE in the UK. No I’m not interested in your AI snake-oil (generative mostly). Privacy matters. Treat others as you would wish to be treated. Don’t be an arsehole.

https://justsayno.ai/

Domainhttps://gtko.co.uk
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Framework 12Batch 5
CodeBerghttps://codeberg.org/DougBarry
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RE: https://sunny.garden/@firda/116077013765444457

Wow that’s a lot of change. I walked that beach 10 years ago.

Come on #asus ffs
So a few weeks ago I applied the v4 Level 1 #Windows 11 Standalone CIS benchmakrs/baselines to my gaming rig, with a few loosenings for an easy life. And ever since, Defender has been saying this every boot... #ea #anticheat #sus
Brilliant work by Microsoft here. I've received a request to verify my age for xbox.com. Until a few months ago I had Xbox Live Gold whatever its called ultimate. I've been a subscriber since about 2002, so 20+ years. Credit card on file the whole time obviously. Same account, same email address, different postal addresses a few times. My age has though increased linearly with time. Yet now, I _might_ be too young to use their service safely. I can't get away from your services fast enough Microsoft. I get the OSA is a bit broad/misguided depending how you look at it, but I think you can check if the account has existed long enough, no?
An oldie but it holds true
Knocked up a birdnetpi from spare parts on a pi3b+ last weekend, getting some great data. Big blackbird action today. 645 detections so far.
It's been a while since I did an #electronics #hobby #project / #maker thing (pandemic/house moves), but I'm quite happy with this: https://hackaday.io/project/202951-desk-controls-replacement I reused a 'broken' height-adjustable desk and got to mess about with some USB Host on an #esp32s3 and tried out ESP-IDF while I was at it. I think I prefer it to platform.io ...
Desk controls replacement

I was gifted the remaining parts of a height-adjustable desk from a family member. The surface of the desk was being re-used for something else, and the control panel (keypad) was non-functional. That had suffered from either a dog bite, or a child bite, we'll never know. Either way, the bite had severed what I later found out was the trace to GND. The control panel was straight forward as you can see from the pictures, domed contacts pulling 1 of 5 lines to GND, and from the behavior I surmised there was a pull-down inside the brain-box - which I decided not to explore. This was easily tested. Short GND to each of the 5 wires to see what happens. Sure enough, the desks motorised functions still worked. Pretty easy to use some PULL-DOWN GPIO's on a micro I thought.

Where were you when we did the @RSPB #biggardenbirdwatch yesterday?
Quick tip for #openrgb users on #windows that want it to launch on logon. The built in 'run on start-up' stuff doesn't work great. No matter. I use a scheduled task to launch it with highest priviledges (it needs them for SMBus access in my case - yes I am putting some trust in this thing I know - ymmv/you have been warned etc). This was fine until i noticed it doesn't then carry on working after a power transition event (standby/hibernate/modern sleep) unless the application was restarted. So I added another trigger and another action to my scheduled task. Adjust as you need... Works for other stuff that has similar problems!
@popey I know this on FB, but can you help? I think this is related to the RZX archive YT channel disappearing. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15mW6WoB7k/?
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