2 USB NFC readers made by ACS. One is white and unpacked, the other is still in its bubble wrap.
I ordered an NFC reader for my passport. Then another when the first didn't arrive. Inevitably both arrived today, within minutes of one another.
The UK EV chargeport grant scheme is has been extended by a year and from 1 Apr 2026 the maximum increases to £500 for private residences www.gov.uk/guidance/ele...
Annoyance that a perfectly good smartphone couldn't install Nationwide's app, because (I presume) Huawei aren't allowed to ship Google Play and banks insist on it for mumble mumble security.
Having helped a 2 Persian speakers this afternoon - completing a Home Office form and installing Nationwide app for Android - I'm equal parts in awe and annoyance at modern tech. In awe of quick, accessible machine translation.
Tried Asahi Linux for the first time. It's close to Willmer Ready, but not quite. I just want DisplayPort over USB, which isn't enabled yet. Scrolling/graphics may have been jerky in places, or might have been my imagination. One casualty of the trial: I'm now stuck with macOS 26 and Liquid Ass.
Removed the access panel and gave the insides a good dusting. No more buzzing (for now).
PyTV Python Unplugged starts in 11 hours. A free Python conference streamed online. It's free and registration is still open lp.jetbrains.com/python-unplu.... Kicks off 10 AM in the UK (UTC), 11 AM in Europe (CET).
#PyTV #PythonUnplugged
My 5 year old M1 Macbook has developed its first fault - the left speaker buzzes/rattles. Just a loose screw, right? Nope. The speakers are glued in & of course require near disassembly to get at. www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBoo...
I wrote a new post on anonymous credentials and how to build them. All of this is in service on a longer future post on how these will fit into age verification systems. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/03/02/a...
Gold: £123/gram (+£5). DDR5 64 GB DIMM: £626 & out of stock = £42/gram (-£3). RAM-gold gap has widened again, or -infinity depending how you calculate
#TIL There's an NFC API for web browsers. Only Chrome for Android and Baidu Browser support it, even partially caniuse.com/webnfc
If my Mastodon goes down today, it's pre-meditated DNS. I'm attempting to resurrect my blog on that VM.
An electronic price label for LIDL Parkside Safety Glasses. New price: £2.99. Crossed out price: £NaN.
0.0/0.0 of the LIDL
An XKCD-style cartoon with 2 stick figures talking. Her: XKCD is second nature to us nerds, so it's esay to forget that the average person probably only knows KXCD 327, 386, 927, 936, and 2347 Him: And 2501, of course Her: Of course Caption: Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field.
Someone pointed me to marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-gen..., so obviously I had to
Violets are blue
Roses are too
When they're moving
Relativistic to you
Giving Ubuntu 26.04 snapshot a spin, to see how well Mitogen plays with sudo-rs
#TIL GitHub Actions runners don't guarantee presence or absence of AVX512 or other instruction set extensions
Remember: Once finished with your Zamboni, dismount and push it to its parking area. Never ride it off the ice.
Don't derink and drive
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@cstross.bsky.social has the entire Hugo-Campbell-Clarke-BSFA-awarded novel 'Accelerando' free for reading on his website:
www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...
It starts with mind-uploaded lobsters and ends with a galaxy filled with Matrioshka brains.
Gold: £118/gram (+ £10). DDR5 64 GB DIMM: £670 = £45/gram (no change) uk.crucial.com/memory/ddr5/.... The RAM-gold gap has widened.
"J'en ressens le besoin, le besoin de vitesse" doesn't have quite the same ring www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A 100 watt equiv. bulb is about 1 600 lm. One downlight is about 500-750 lm.
I'm currently lit by 5 metres and 120 watts of LED tape. About 9 500 lumens if the specs are accurate. It's not the most cost effective way to get lots of light, but I do like the softer shadows and ability to do it without calling an electrician.
Linking to some Python package docs? Replace <pkg>.readthefinedocs.io with <pkg>.rtfd.io to save a few precious characters. It's an official redirect docs.readthedocs.com/platform/lat... #Python #ReadTheDocs
Python 2's StringIO.StringIO was weird. It accepted a mix of bytes and unicode input, then changed the return type of its getvalue() method based on them gist.github.com/moreati/6e02...
rats, wrong Cambridge
