Does anyone else have the problem of Tor Browser putting an obnoxious border around pages when the window is maximized? It's almost as if they've set a a maximum display size.

#tor #torbrowser #wtf

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xjOLCgwUMjI

#leomoracchioli #beck #metal #cover

Am I taking crazy pills, or do the python standard libraries not provide a method to recursively merge dictionaries?

#python #wtf

Bucket o' Shiitake

This one's about 6 weeks old. The downside to using an opaque bucket vs a plastic bag is you can't see what's happening, so I decided to dump this one out and have a look. The good news is, it came out really easily. It's clearly quite well colonized, but the only place it's showing the browning which is indicative of maturity is where the holes in the bucket are (see the two dark spots). I'm not sure if better gas exchange is necessary for the browning to occur, or if I just need to wait longer.

#mushrooms #fungi #shiitake #bucket #experiment

I scavenged a small display, hoping to use it with a Raspberry Pi, but the connector is too wide for the Pi's display socket. It appears to be 40-pin while the Pi is 15. Does anyone know if there exist adapters for this, or am I boned?

#raspberrypi #rpi #electronics #hardware

Good on you, Oklahoma

https://time.com/5716643/oklahoma-prisoners-released-mass-commutation/

#oklahoma #usa #prisons #criminaljusticereform #warondrugs

#india #pollution #lotr

This is pretty cool. It's the Nextcloud Maps app. It's still a little rough (e.g. it's complaining no routing engine has been set up, though you can clearly see routing is working), but impressive nonetheless.

#nextcloud #maps #mapping #geolocation #openstreetmaps

I've been stuck at PDX since 0830 local time. Best case scenario has me leaving at 2340. Chicago and its snow can go fuck itself.

#pdx #ord #bleh

Is this a sysadmin conference or a Terry Prachett lookalike contest? 🥁

#LISA2019

I'm like a vampire, but instead of being invisible in mirrors I'm invisible to faucet motion sensors.

I checked into a hotel today and they asked me if I wanted to “go green” and forego housekeeping service. The internet has turned me into such a commie that I saw it less as a way to save the planet and more a way for Marriott to shave a few bucks off their bottom line at the expense of their lowest paid workers. I asked for housekeeping service, and I’m gonna tip.

Why are half the X-Men blue? Limited colors in comics?

#xmen #marvel #comics

HRV Mark II. I made several changes to the design based on what I saw from the first trial run:

1. I made an entirely new ingress tube. The holes I had drilled in the bottom of the cans were too small for the limited air pressure produced by the fan, so instead I cut ~1.5" suqare holes of of the bottoms with a Dremel. The airflow is noticeably better.

2. I replaced the 120mm ingress fan with a 60mm fan. The internal diameter of the intake is only ~50mm, and I was using a canning funnel as a reducer, but I noticed this caused a lot of blowback. Even though the 60mm fan moves less air, there's no blowback, so I think it'll probably be equivalent or better. I was also able to put it in a nicer looking housing.

3. I believe I had an imperfect seal at the end of the ingress tube, causing some egress air to mix in with it as it exited. I stuffed a bunch of polyfil in the gap, which seems to have made a big improvement.

Before, when I stuck my CO₂ meter into the ingress tube, it was registering ~800ppm (the meter reads outside air as 490ppm). Now it reads just above 500. I think the extra few ppm are due to my egress and intake fan being relatively close to one another so there's some inevitable mixing. Close enough though.

In terms of heat exchange, It's about 80F inside, 49 outside, and I'm reading the incoming air at about 79F, so that part of it is definitely working as intended. I can also feel that the air coming out the other end is quite cool.

What remains to be seen is what impact, if any, this will have on the ambient CO₂ level in the room.

#hrv #heatrecovery #ventilation #co2 #airquality #physics #diy #upcycling

If Trump has a shadow State Department run by Giuliani, is that the "Shallow State"?

#trump #giuliani #deepstate #maga

https://github.com/bilde2910/Hauk

I set up a server and started playing with this. It's very cool and works well. It would be a good way for groups of people to keep track of each other's locations (on trips, meetups, protests, etc) without also letting Google keep track of you.

#hauk #location #gps #openstreetmaps #selfhosted #opensource

BBC Launches Tor Mirror Site To Thwart Media Censorship

The BBC hopes people in countries that have blocked their website, such as China, Iran and Vietnam, could now have unrestricted access to the British news service.

#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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https://nextcloud.com/blog/urgent-security-issue-in-nginx-php-fpm/

#nextcloud #php #nginx #security #vulnerability

I vaguely remember stumbling on a utility that looks for gaps in your python unit test coverage, but now I can't find it. Does anyone know what I'm referring to?

#python

My son recited a poem about Columbus that he had to memorize for school, but he prefaced it with, "This is all a bunch are garbage, None of it is true."

#kids #columbusday #christophercolumbus #school