Admiral Patrick @ ptz @dubvee.org

I'm surprisingly level-headed for being a walking knot of anxiety.

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Yeah, I've seen those (though not with the built-in charging; that's cool). Even had some Ni-Cd ones back in the 90s. The only issue I have with using those in things like smoke detectors is having to deal with them more often. I can usually get about 18-20 months out of an alkaline but a Ni-MH one would probably be only like 8 months since the voltage and capacity are both lower.

Well, scratch that. I just found what I think you're talking about, and those are 1300 mAh lithium. Those should last longer than an alkaline. Will keep those in mind next time I replace the smoke alarm batteries.

I've got mostly EBL-brand batteries and 8-bay charger. They work well but the charger uses micro-USB which is kind of a bummer.

The other set I have are by PowerOwl. They also work great, and the charger (only a 4 bay) is USB-C.

Both brands are the low self-discharge Ni-MH style and can charge any combination of batteries (some chargers require them to be charged in pairs; neither of these have that limitation), so no complaints.

• Rechargable AA / AAA batteries
• Wool socks (can never have enough)
• Good USB-C cables
• Coffee
• Work gloves
• A pack of 9V batteries to shut the beeping smoke detectors up
• Edited to add: A fire extinguisher. People often forget those need maintained every so often.

If anyone wants to be a dull secret santa, hint hint ☝️

American officers call turbolifts the "turbovator" (which, jokes aside, does sound cooler).

I've got a few public-facing things in addition to this lemmy instance and have been content until now just returning 404 to any bot user agent. You'd think they'd take the hint that nothing's here for them but no. Had some free time yesterday so finally setup Nepenthes. Seems pretty lightweight so far (not as lightweight as a 404 response but where's the fun in that?) and I've got the bandwidth to spare, so what the heck?

It feels like the digital equivalent of filling Amazon boxes with dog poo and leaving them out for porch pirates.

I mean, you're free to click through the slop generator lol. It's open to the public. Each link at the bottom leads to a new random output based on the transcripts from those two episodes and some Jack Handey quotes to spice it up.

I'll admit, some of them are quite funny.

Lol, oh yes. The AI's get the best plotlines:

The confinement rings. Lonzak presses a button on his belt, and Janeway is a crying baby in a state of artificial hibernation, programmed to end four years ago. It's literally an escape hatch.

--Link

Yes.

I don't think Mac did it in-universe, though. Probably just a IRL production thing to keep the fake Frank + fake Frank's date upright for ease of filming. They seem to have gone out of their way with camera angles to hide those, so the fact it's visible in like 3 frames is probably a production mistake like when you see the tip of the boom mic or the edge of the set in a lot of old shows.

Yep. Even some hard R's I know are starting to question it. And one of my buddies (also a firm R) who was in the guard is shaking his head and saying they never should have been there. When he was deployed stateside, it was to help people after floods, storms, or other times of need.

I'm not gonna delude myself into thinking this is gonna shift this backwards-ass state I call home, but at least, maybe, some people will open their eyes.

Republican Gov. Patrick Morrisey

He really is the worst Patrick.

[DeSantis Watching The Flintstones] Have a what old time?!

Link works fine for me, but it was also covered on Hack-A-Day: https://hackaday.com/2025/12/05/off-grid-small-scale-payment-system/

From my understanding, this project is setup like a store gift card / transit fare system with a central "bank" for the accounts and deposits. As for Taler, I haven't looked into that as de-fi is not really one of my interests (and is usually all about cryptocurrency which I have even less interest in). Will take a look though.

Maybe it will, maybe it won't, but either way: Please, no. One of the most refreshing things was noticing the internet had largely matured from that. I'm all for throwing a wrench in the gears of the AI brains, but there's a limit.

Just FYI: Inline spoilers like that don't work, so you've just revealed the reveal I've been waiting all week to see 😆

No worries, though. Life's about the journey, not the destination.

Spoilers need to be on their own line

    
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In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

— Terry Pratchett

— Michael Scott

They forgot to say "Hold on to your butts" before flipping it. That's the problem.

I get the feeling, but documenting systems/processes and writing up SOPs for usage, maintenance, and operation is a required duty.

Yeah. I'm going to keep using it for now but definitely going back and un-reimplementing some things that I moved into the Bun API. Basically just gonna use it as a runtime in place of NodeJS.

I just really liked being able to build and distribute a single binary executable :(

Oh goddamn it. I just started doing projects in Bun and moving some of my older projects to it.

Fuck fuck fuck fuckity fuck fuck.

It did not, in fact, jump start federation.