Notices by Tom (tomk@mastodon.sdf.org)

@cy How good would it be if password management was part of HTML...

@cy Those are javascript too. :) There was a serious effort at a Chrome extension chat app few years ago called Syme but I think they shut up shop.

The bitcoin wiki on early adopters being unfairly rewarded:
"fairness is an arbitrary concept that is improbable to be agreed upon by a large population"
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Myths#Early_adopters_are_unfairly_rewarded

Programming word of the week: twingleton https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/60akIjhaYZ2f0c5S8Zw

Playing with a spare lightning cable... if I short D+/D- to create a USB dedicated charging port (DCP) both an iPhone and iPad choose to draw almost exactly 1A https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/JbenvyapVLm4g6WmO2M https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/TXxomObLSU0IAsoOfNE

I thought I was doomed to google the Raspberry Pi pinout forever until I found the "gpio" utility https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/FkT1i2YYBqcJRQ40-ps

TIL Apple lets developers store two bits of data tracking real physical devices. It is quite literally two bits - bit0 and bit1, Boolean values https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicecheck

@maiki Sorry man, I didn’t mean to make it personal though I can see how it could come across that way. I’ll leave it alone now - take it easy

@DC7IA You inspired me to do a search - it looks like nicely rendered equations won't be in scope for Mastodon any time soon https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/822

@maiki Aha I see. IMO "malware" is a little disingenuous seeing as it's a property of the OS. Still, if it's any consolation, if an iOS user doesn't consent to push notifications for a given app, the app simply cannot obtain a token and there is no way for the matrix homeserver to push anything to that device. So ultimately an end user has control over that part.

@maiki What do you mean by "push-malware"?

Moved most of my electronic bits and pieces onto my little 800W solar inverter today. It's annoying but not surprising at this latitude - during winter rain I can barely sustain a router and my home server, while in the summer I can have the fridge, my laptop, my radios, a low wattage kettle...

@bcshort I’m not too fussy about my base speed but if I can put down twenty bucks or whatever for a phat pipe on LAN days I’m there for sure :p

@maiki Haha well there was a plan to give most houses in Australia a fibre connection, which is capable of at least a gig, though residential retail is typically only 100/40 Mb/s. I was lucky enough to get one before the program was stuffed up. This new ISP launtel is getting started and promoting faster services, including buying e.g. high speeds for one day at a time, which is exactly my use case. I emailed them and they offered a freebie.

@bcshort I bought this one myself a couple of years ago. Launtel’s the ISP

I've set up the 250 Mbit/s trial with a gigabit Mikrotik router and 802.11ac WiFi and all seems well so hopefully the setup copes with the higher speeds.

In a strange turn of events a local ISP is providing gigabit internet for a LAN party I'm hosting next week. Fibre to the premises is pretty good... so grumpy with the current .au government for messing up the national deployment.

@maiki Though I was briefly considering defenestrating the laptop

@maiki Your story would be more exciting than mine!