Just deleted my Mastodon->Twitter crossposter, which had been off since I rebooted my server last month without me noticing. It's not worth it if I have no way to see or interact with replies. Goodbye for now, Twitter. Find me at mas.to/@comex.

Via HN, an ad for Google’s new Bard AI inadvertently shows it returning false information:

＊checks Twitter profile＊ My Mastodon-Twitter crossposter bot is still running, but if news reports are accurate, it will stop working in 4 days when Twitter removes free API access. Probably a good thing. At this point, with Tweetbot down, I…

Recently learned about Sigsum, an alternative to Sigstore/Rekor for software release transparency (like Certificate Transparency but for executables), developed by a sister company to Mullvad VPN. Looks neat, but AFAICT, neither project has a…

Today I tried to get that HDMI lag detector circuit to work again. It seems like the problem is that everything is just… too dark? With 3.3V -> phototransistor -> 1MΩ -> ground, voltage across the resistor is 350mV ‘bright’, 20mV…