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Odd Flex Scaleway
I recently needed to do some MacOS development. Thank god for Scaleway. I
opened a ticket with AWS to get my mac2.metal quota limit raised from 0 to 2.
It's been two days without getting access to the service, but Scaleway had a
simple clickthrough. I'm happy to pay to play. This isn't some rocket science,
I just want to simulate my "runner" while also being able to troubleshoot it…
Bambulab X1C v1.00.00.52 Boot Log
Sitting on the back burner of my "get around to it" list has been messing with
the firmware of the Bambulab X1 Carbon. I knew from the start that Bambulab was
up to shenanigans (at best) and malfesance at worst. So the firmware on my
device has never been updated. I'm sure there is a treasure trove of GPL
violations (beyond the GPL violations in BambuSlicer due to failing to…
I've been here the whole time
A key inspiration for this post is Sam Reich , who lives in my general
neighborhood. 
 Reich has spent seven seasons of the show " Game Changer "
( Wikipedia ) reminding everyone of a single crucial detail: 
 
 

 Sam: thanks for the reminder that there's always some troll hanging out. 😅 The
current tech climate often focuses on uncovering vulnerabilities. So, in…
Ferguson's Clown
I find it fascinating when people think they can just make up bullshit.
Tragically, that means that I'm fascinated a bunch of the time. 
 The most recent time though was earlier today when Steven Rattner was on NBC
misattributing the ideas of someone over at the Hoover Institute for that of a
"Scottish political theorist in the 17th century". 
 Check it out, skip to about 4…
Sorry OpenWrt One
To all of the users of the OpenWrt One device, I need to start by saying
"I'm sorry". My intention was not to break your firmware. 😅 
 Of course, I'm talking about commit 6c8cc862 where one of the onboard
storage drivers was removed. This all comes down to a difference of opinion in
the theory about the job of an operating system. 
 In my (humble) opinion, an operating system…
Reverse Sensor Tracking
Let's look at a map 
 It all started with this air sensor: 
 
 

 Then I took a look a bit deeper: 
 
 

 I found it really odd that the air quality only plummeted in the past few hours.
Due to the overall proximity to the fires, I would have assumed that it had been
high for hours earlier. 
 After looking at that and realizing that PurpleAir also…
NinjaPenguin 17 (2023)
On Saturday May 20th, 2023 the 17th Ninja Penguin event kicked off with a night
of art, dancing, and celebration all themed around cyberpunk penguins. 
 This year featured artwork by Pinguino , David Shorey ,
 Random , and myself as well as music by Keith Myers, James Ford, Mass
Accelerator, Ninjula , Headshot , GRAPHIXX.X, PBOB,
Bubbles, and Michael Walker. 
 The past…
Today I Learned: GNOME Thumbnailers
While tooling around the web I stumbled across a tidbit with regards to one of
the minor workings of Nautilus ... which is really to say what appears as a
core component of the GNOME desktop environment. 
 Dave Jansen wrote up an interesting note on enabling webp image thumbnails in Nautilus .
TL; DR, there's an RPM which it seams the team working on the Workstation…
The Trouble with Gerbers
I tend to dally here and there in electronics. As I'm not a "professional" (but
absolutely in "hacker" category) there are often conventions that end up being
completely foreign to me. The most recent of these was the handling of
Gerber files by Texas Instruments. 
 A little history 
 G-code is a generic term for the text based command language used by CNC
devices. Most…
Blanque Cheque
It's code drop time! 
 Both in the sense of new things in the world but also deprecation of old
nastiness. I'm happy to let folks know that has been "Blanque Cheque"
rebuilt. 




 https://brianredbeard.com/projects/tools/blanque_cheque/ 


 Blanque Check stemmed from shitty corporate payroll companies who insisted on
having sending them a check to…
Site Rebuild
This has been a long time coming. I've been "meaning to get around" to fixing
up this site for quite some time. Looks like I finally got to it. There's
still work to be done with making it look the way that it used to, but once
again I have a platform for running my mouth. 
 At some point in a hot second, I'll make it pretty and get my various hosted
tools back into place. In…