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Thermoelectric coolers can cool below ambient. You can get them for CPUs, I saw one on a Linus YouTube video.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_cooling

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I also follow my cat while asking questions! It's almost always food, water, catnip or litter.

Regarding the water: he won't drink chlorinated water. In his previous home, he developed urinary stones because they didn't figure this out. Cue a BS prescription diet sold by "vets". Nope, he just needed fresh, non-chlorinated water.

Well I guess I will have to transition to another DE in the future. I'm curious which DEs people are using with Debian.

I have so many of these things that I use daily.

I made a CLI password manager in Bash. It grabs random bytes from /dev/urandom, filters out the non-ASCII, then GPG encrypts with my key. Months later I realized I had reinvented the common utility 'pass'.

I made a utility to type accented characters on Linux. I learned to type French on an English keyboard under windows as a kid using Alt + 0NNN where NNN is the decimal character code. I made a delightfully hacky solution: when I press Alt+0 a tiny window is popped for a fraction of a second to capture the next keystrokes. If they are 3 digits, it spits out the relevant character into the active window. This one is also in bash.

The car share service I use got rid of their web interface. I reverse engineered their android app and created my own unauthorized web app so I can find available cars.(evofinder.ca)

I built an embedded device that connects to the door buzzer in my apartment so I can let myself into the building. It's built with a cheap esp8266 dev board and programmed with the arduino IDE, yet it has been running reliably for years.

I built a mobile trivia game web app that is simple and lightweight with no ads or tracking. I made it pre-COVID to kill time when I was out and about. (Justtrivia.fun)

If you want more info about any of these, check out https://jeremypoole.ca/posts

Thanks for the details! I just came here to post them, because I found them interesting. I certainly didn't realize that the image was just added nor that I would have the chance to thank the contributor.

A single crow chased me off recently by swooping at my head repeatedly. I was just walking down a sidewalk in Vancouver, minding my own business.

It must have had a nest in the tree above the sidewalk.

I'm hoping this will be useful for improving react native performance on iOS. Due to restrictions on that platform the JS is currently interpreted and performance is terrible.

A WebWorker can free up the main thread so the UI doesn't grind to a halt. Unfortunately they might not help you here. Data in/out of the worker is string only[0], so the extra parsing/serializing usually ruins any perf benefit.

You can access indexedDB from the worker, though. So you load the DB from the main thread, then you can do the filtering from the worker. You could return indexes then fetch those from indexDB on the main thread.

None of this will help with parsing large strings though, you are probably stuck with doing that on the main thread. And it is also not going to reduce the total time to perform the work. But hopefully it will avoid pinning the main thread, because that is bad.

I really enjoy this stuff, so feel free to contact me if you wanna talk it through. My email address is in my profile.

[0] SharedArrayBuffers were recently re-enabled according to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

I agree!

They are also very concerned about fraud. A great way to ensure a real user saw your ad is to... wait for it... invade your privacy!

I have no sympathy for these parasites. Surveillance capitalism needs to die in a fire.

As someone who also traded drugs for programming, I find this incredibly inspiring.

Programming has become my purpose and the thing that brings me joy. Unfortunately, they way I have to program at work really sucks the joy out of it. I would gladly take a pay cut to be able to work on things and in a manner that bring me joy again.

rsync is where I first encountered it. I've made it a habit to always do a dry run first as a sanity check and it has saved me some headaches.

This article reminds me of a saying, along the lines of "the mission of any organization eventually becomes self-proliferation". No matter how noble the original mission, it devolves into selfish pursuits.

I can't find the actual quote nor its origins. If anybody knows what I'm talking about, please let me know.

A VPN service could have caused this issue. Plenty of them route traffic through their users internet connections. It's the easiest way to get residential IPs that won't be blocked by streaming sites.

Seriously, can you list those 5 companies? Because where I am currently at, this level of ineptitude is something to aspire to.

Some poor lost souls are still using ColdFusion. Pity me.

Rent a seedbox for a few bucks a month

> aren't rich yet

This is the real reason the ultra-wealthy aren't taxed. People think that they are obviously going to become rich any day now, and they won't want to pay high taxes when it inevitability happens. Some strange, shared delusion of the middle class.

Everyone is unlikely to agree, but I'm pretty sure we could find a range that the majority of people agree with.

> KPMG, Deloitte and PwC

But aren't they in bed with the companies using these schemes?

> "delegated advocates"

I've sometimes pondered a system like this, but I never had a name for it. I will have to check David Graeber out.

Addiction is addiction. Find a therapist and get help. You don't need to figure this all out yourself.

I went to rehab and it was very good for me. I wouldn't still be here without it.

> You have to read huge manuals to know how to "only give access to s3" through a key

I have to disagree with this. It really is pretty straight forward.[0]

[0] - https://objectivefs.com/howto/how-to-restrict-s3-bucket-poli...

The first requirement is: An Apple Developer Program account. Presumably for creating the "passes".

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In what kind of situations is it socially awkward to not be on your phone? Genuine question, I'm not great with social stuff.

PWAs will continue to be neglected. They don't allow invasive tracking like native apps, and they don't get a 30% cut.

The web is dead. Kids today grow up using the "google app". They did what AOL couldn't.

I'd love to be wrong.

I know one case where Google appears to be actually using "AI", and the results are terrible.

A client of mine is continually having their listing on Google Maps "helpfully" updated by Google to be wrong. They change the services, they change the hours, all to be wrong. They added a new services section, duplicating their existing services and adding back ones that had been removed post-COVID.

There is no way to make it stop. They show the changes in low-contrast yellow and through dark patterns make it difficult to revert the changes. All they can do is check it daily and revert the changes one-by-one.

I'm trying to get API access so I can automatically revert changes that weren't made by the business. It requires manual approval which takes 2 weeks. Months later, I haven't heard back.

Absolutely! I'm also a web person and I got into embedded as a hobby using ESP8266 w/ the Arduino IDE (The ESP32 is a newer, better ESP8266).

I cannot recommend it enough. I've built some neat stuff, like this device[0] for triggering my door buzzer over the web.

[0] - https://jeremypoole.ca/posts/put-your-door-on-the-internet/