Stargate: Atlantis

I hated how a show about exploring and pioneering ended with them turning tail and running back home.

Also, I know it is an American show, but sometimes I would just love to see the spacecraft landing someplace other than by a national landmark in the US.

What if they had landed in say Norway, or the Gulf of Finland? The diplomacy would have been very interesting.

Carball for Unreal Tournament 2004.

They completely changed the game to be a proto rocket league game many years before rocket league was a thing.

Very good.

Yep, that is the gist of it.

Top tip, see if you can get a present box like this, with the printed ribbons it looks really professional.

To print the ribbons I used a Brother label maker with cloth bands you can print on.

One mistake I made was using a sans serif font, a proper serif font like Times New Roman would have looked way classies

Thank you, I do have the bash code, I have thought about putting it on github or codeberg.

One thing is missing from it however.

I have zero authentication to add data to the database.

I have thought about adding an API key or so just to make it slightly more secure

Well thats what I get when I wake up way too early…

The antagonist of the Garfield comic?

This is my prepared bottles of rum, dedicated to when I no longer needs to share a planet with these bastards

Currently I have bottles for:

Trump, Putin, Musk, Murdoch and Orban.

The last one is what has been declared “The bottle of the unknown bad guy”, it is meant for when I find out about a person dying and my immediate feeling is “Good riddance”.

I built a water temp monitoring system together with my dad.

It monitors the water temperature at a local swimming hole and publishes it on a website so you can check it before heading down.

I did all of the coding, and had never done anything like that before, but breaking it down into five parts made it decently simple.

We use a raspberry pi zero, a DS18B20 temperature probe, and a webhotel with php and MySQL.

Breaking it down into five parts, the code had to accomplish the following.

1. Get the raw data from the sensor.
2. Format and clean the data to be useful.
3. Error check and possible retry if needed.
4. Send the data to the website.
5. Display the data on the website.

1. Was fairly easy, there are plenty of guides on the internet.
2. This was interesting, the data is sent back from the probe in a variable length, depending on how close to zero C it is, if it reads a negative temp it also shifts where the data is read, I remember it being super annoying to consistently format the data close to zero C so after several attempts I just made the script pretend that the temp was 0c when it got too close to bother with it.
3. Here I remember building an install script that would prepare a database for the system, then I wrote a test submission page for manual testing and proper submission page for the real thing, these were written in PHP. The data was sent from the Raspberry Pi with curl.
4. This took the longest, we went through several versions before settling on the current version.

The script on the Raspberry Pi is written in bash, as we are powering the RPi with a battery through a timer, I configured a systemd service to run on start, run the script, and wait 30 sec then shutdown.

This is to give me time to stop the script if I need to perform maintenance, normally it runs the script, shuts down, and the timer cuts power shortly thereafter.

I didn’t want to consistently cut the power as that might corrupt the file system over time, so we made sure that the Pi shuts down gracefully.

To save power we only run it every 30 min, the power source is a motorcycle battery which lasts about six months.

The internet connection is provided by a kind neighbor who has allowed this probe to connect through their WiFi.

I remember having these types of dispensers back in grade school, 30 or do years ago.

Eh, “President Trump memorial garbage dump” does have a certain appeal to it…

You had to monitor the computer, if any program started or did anything weird, it could cause the entire disc to be destroyed, and you had to start over

Great work Ukraine!

Just be ready for a massive retaliation on your own power grid.

Trocadero/Champis/Pommac

That is terrible, I am glad you got out, where do you live now?

I remember watching the brilliant documentary series “Cold War” by CNN/BBC and one episode had a segment on Radio Free Europe, the American radio station set up to counter the Soviet propaganda radio.

It was obviously also propaganda even if it tried to be more open than the Soviet radio.

Anyway, the guy managing the station spoke about how to gain listeners and build trust.

He put it bluntly, saying that you need “Good, solid news” especially information that people can verify on their own, and mentioned simple stuff like accurate weather reports.

Now this obviously require people to be looking for accurate news, something that seems to be less and less important to more and more people.

In a better world, the proper way to counter propaganda is by consistently providing a more accurate and reliable source of information.

I have an airtag in my car, and one in my backpack.

I don’t know what valuable things I would find with an airtag, but it is nice to keep track of my car and backpack

Eh, it only showed up when I plugged it in the first time, but you can find the dll loaded even after.

It doesn’t use a lot of RAM or CPU, but for me it is the principle, don’t install software without asking me.

Drivers are another matter.

It adds a dll that can’t really be uninstalled easily.

This thread has a lot of information:

https://www.tenforums.com/software-apps/147661-how-remove-logitech-download-assistant.html