Updating the firmware on my Xmas tree lights, what a world.
@jamesthomson the cyberwar on Christmas is coming, is your firmware up to date?
@ja2ke If I get hacked, I want to get hacked through my xmas tree.
@jamesthomson when viewed from just the right angle, they twinkle to form a QR code. Do not photograph your Christmas tree under any circumstances
Naughty kids get a dump of passwords
@jamesthomson One. Bulb. At. A. Time. And please update bulbs in order, or else you may brick the whole string.
@jamesthomson you’re going to have to send $2000 in bitcoin to a wallet in Uzbekistan if you want Christmas back.
@MyLittleMetroid @jamesthomson If only it was that easy.
Could be worse. Could need a subscription to disable blinking or to enable all bulbs.
@davidhmccoy Shh, they will hear you!
Ha! Noooooo!!!!
@jamesthomson Dear Lord please tell me you're joking
@jwcph I am not! They are cool though.
@jamesthomson they better be!
@jamesthomson I used to put a Raspberry PI in mine with a custom LED screen message scrolling. My family got quite tired of me.
@jamesthomson please tell me they aren’t on wifi
@reiterator I wish I could tell you that.
@jamesthomson I think I saw that Doctor Who episode. Make sure you have some gold handy.
@jamesthomson next, Decorations As Service
@jamesthomson hah also me. I had to swap out a white tipped fuse bulb. Same same right?
@jamesthomson the best species of Christmas tree is a Douglas Fir(mware)
@jamesthomson last Christmas I had a stack overflow on my Xmas tree lights.
@jamesthomson Well … I got IKEA Trådfri a couple of years ago (yeah, no Philips Hue ecosystem for me, although I think those iOT devices are compatible). The first couple of days after setting it up, turning on the lights was weird, because they would pulsate and eventually turn off, because of initial sync stuff and firmware updates. >>
@jamesthomson They do calm down eventually, though. Also, if you go far, far away for the holidays, say being gone a week or two, you’ll find after getting back home, it will pulsate again, getting an update, syncing … . PS. If you ever wondered what the heck ”trådfri” means, it’s ”wireless” or more specifically it is composed of two words: ”tråd” (wire) and ”fri” (free as in freedom) … so: ”free from wires”.
@Arcticulate I actually learned the meaning earlier this week, randomly!
@jamesthomson Ah, this WEEK. Week! Oh, the timing is … a perfect 100
@jamesthomson Right, I will relay this two-parts plan B explainer, then, which I separately posted, on SMÅLAND: https://toot.community/@Arcticulate/111490325262081656
@jamesthomson I was not planning on posting twice about IKEA but I had IKEA stuff appear in my feed and had questions about the whole Blåhaj meme. I had never seen them in my nearby store, only in memes
@Arcticulate Haha, I was definitely aware of the Blahaj!
@jamesthomson Changelog:
- added new option to show ads
- added multiple subscription options
@mike @jamesthomson That was true in 2015. But now everything has firmware.
@tewha @jamesthomson That's kind of the point.
@mike @jamesthomson Yup, i got it.
@jamesthomson are they able to use positrons instead of electrons now, and do they emanate Photinos and well as Photons?
@jamesthomson I’m going to suggest this is the one time the lyric “Do they know it’s Christmas?” May actually be appropriate.