Mastodawn

OK phew. A week after my boot drive died, I have installed Debian Trixie and migrated much of my desktop over.

Yay Me. Tomorrow I am buying a small UPS.

Ugh. Okay, I Nuked and Paved my desktop machine after a catastrophic series of power failures Cooked my boot drive. I tried fsck(8) from the rescue disk on the /boot partition, but it was well and truly Done. I have now moved to Debian Trixie in the most traumatic way possible.

Tomorrow I'll re-mount my /home and start figuring out what packages I'll need to reinstall.

lemgandi Mar 12

Three power failures in rapid succession appear to have Cooked my boot SSD, I guess this is my signal to move to Debian Trixie. But not today, I am too frustrated to Deal with It right now.

lemgandi Mar 11

This can't be right. I'll believe that the ad itself plus media buys was $2.2 * 10^8

And yeh, I am not defending this.

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lemgandi Feb 25

Very Pleased, especially after an epic battle trying to install the Arduino IDE on Raspbian last night. Looks like the Java interpreter shipped inside the IDE isn't binary compatible with Rasbian Trixie on my slightly older Pi 4 board. And the 1.8.19 IDE that DOES have a binary-compatible Java needs some hideous memory allocation fixing or it runs out of heap. Ugh blech fooey.

lemgandi Feb 25

W000! Successful connection over Zigbee! Ears of the Bull...

#engineering #zigbee #arduino

lemgandi Feb 25

Gotta love the picture!

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/23/a-meta-ai-security-researcher-said-an-openclaw-agent-ran-amok-on-her-inbox/

A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox | TechCrunch

The viral X post from an AI security researcher reads like satire. But it's really a word of warning about what can go wrong when handing tasks to an AI agent.

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lemgandi Feb 19

Coming Soon to a State Near You!

https://politics.slashdot.org/story/26/02/18/2126220/meta-begins-65-million-election-push-to-advance-ai-agenda

Meta Begins $65 Million Election Push To Advance AI Agenda - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Meta is preparing to spend $65 million this year to boost state politicians who are friendly to the artificial intelligence industry, beginning this week in Texas and Illinois, according to company representatives. The sum is the biggest e...

lemgandi Feb 19

Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.

( St Augustine )

lemgandi Feb 9

File this under: What could Possibly go Wrong?

https://printandgo.tech/blog/3d-gunt-solution-to-prevent-3d-printed-ghost-guns

#3dprinting #eff #freedom

3D GUN'T: Print&Go’s solution to prevent 3D printed ‘Ghost Guns’

As illegal 3D printing guns become an increasing concern, Print&Go announces the launch of 3D GUN'T, an innovative system designed to combat Ghost Guns from being 3D printed.