Tom K @tk@mastodon.social
Australian computer enthusiast
- Website
- https://thomask.sdf.org/
Blog post: Bluetooth LE for mobile part 4, the Android peripheral https://thomask.sdf.org/blog/2018/07/02/bluetooth-le-mobile-4-android-peripheral.html
I should finish my blog posts about Bluetooth LE before I forget the quirky bits. I probably won't do more mobile BLE dev for a while... not missing it so far. It'll be more fun after all the Android 5 phones die out.
Question concerning #Peertube :
I want to take old movies that are currently available on archive.org and make a classic movie Peertube instance.
But I don’t want to seed from scratch.
Since archive.org already seeds these movies, can I add their tracker info to my peertube instance? Share the load with archive.org?
(If there’s a better place to ask this question, than the public fediverse, let me know!”
It's a real shame Apple hasn't refreshed their mac minis for 4 years. I would be kind of perfect for my day-to-day computering. I have a new PC laptop for work stuff. I just need a little box that works.
I haven't done a lot of video but I wanted to give #PeerTube a go so I've uploaded my slightly dry exploration of the Yaesu 500 Hz mechanical filter for CW. :) #amateurradio https://peertube.video/videos/watch/a2006207-6b19-4bad-b310-21a26ddf491d
I should prob watch this "Hackers" movie since everyone keeps talking about it
A cool feature of GNU date I didn't know about: timestamp arithmetic
$ date -d "2017-06-04 - 7 days" +"%d/%b/%Y"
28/May/2017
For me shellcoding is the perverse joy of doing naughty things like ignoring the return values of syscalls
There's some nice stuff coming in WPA3 https://www.welivesecurity.com/2018/06/26/113523/
All the fuss about tech workers doing military work calls to mind a little song from a past era https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDEsGZLbio
It would be nice if the Ubuntu live CD had universe enabled by default, even if it doesn't for normal installations. Just another step when you're trying to remotely help someone fix their stuff.
That right there is some good synthwave https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZfOht7ap7g
New blog post: How to implement a basic ActivityPub server https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/how-to-implement-a-basic-activitypub-server/
The Russian word for "discourse" sounds exactly like "retch" in English and I never have any trouble remembering it
There are lots of dubious things about modern computing but at least I'm not configuring IRQ numbers any more
Augur, an attempt to build a decentralized prediction market on Ethereum launches on July 9th. For me, if it works, it will be one of the last pieces of the 90s Cypherpunk gameplan to go live — and that’s pretty scary, because this is the one that *even people in that community* conceded might be too much power to give to everyone in the world, willy-nilly.
Things got very real when Jim Bell wrote Assassination Politics and ended up in jail https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bell
So I am looking for input—I've had a talk about push notifications accepted at /dev/world this year, an Australian Apple conf. It's a mildly contrarian take about how push implementation can limit innovation. Themes I'm across:
- Costs of running push services for volunteers
- Trickiness for federated servers vs clients apps (e.g. matrix, masto)
- General centralisation
- Metadata leakage to 3rd parties
If anyone has thoughts or examples please @ me - I'd like to be thorough.
