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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 19/09/2026

She’s a criminal, she’s been convicted to basically the same exact thing already. The fact that she’s back to being eligible and campaigning as if nothing happened for the next elections right now should put us all to shame.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 19/09/2026

This winter gonna try to adjust automations. But this thing will beat the 50 year old Danfoss mechanical thermostat that was there before

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 19/09/2026

This also exposes to HomeKit (it's an "Apple" kind of household here, sorry) a working looking thermostat rather than one that does not apply and timeout randomly. The fact that the actual temperature adjustment may take 2 minutes behind the scenes is not a concern, as long as it actually works.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 19/09/2026

I have no idea if this can be fixed with a “quirk” in zippy or whatever’s the base library used by HA for ZHA. Maybe I should look into that. But right now I have a Climate Template (also from HACS) that drives the real zigbee thermostat so I can do the update by hand using writes with ZHA Toolkit

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 19/09/2026

(Because it’s obviously battery powered. Hope they last a decent time.)

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 19/09/2026

It's yet another "Zigbee 3.0" device that really only want to live on a Siemens hub. Which o don't want to get and use. This one has the "sleepy end device" syndrome pretty bad. You need to catch it when it repots back temperature every 2 minutes to actually talk to it.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 19/09/2026

It seems the only good option for a Zigbee thermostat if you need one without a neutral wire ther must close a 240volt line, is the Seimens RDZ100ZB. I got it, it works *okay* with ZHA on Home Assistant but I had to write a script to repeatedly write and check attributes with ZHA Toolkit from HACS

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 18/09/2026

The slower of the 2 modems is a v34 (33600) But because signals are mangled by VoIP whatever I'll do, I should be pretty happy with what they can negotiate with each other, which most of the time is: 24000 V34 V42 error correction V42bis data compression

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 18/09/2026

So, *another* french Olitec modem, slightny newer SelfMemory 56000 after a factory resest decided that it was okay wiht the 55 volt rms 25hz signal from the GrandStream and started printing `RING` in the serial console!

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 16/09/2026

I remove some of the good I have to say about it. It generates a 20 or 25hz signal, which my old OLITEC modem (French made!) does not understand It cannot automatically pickup a call as, is, you need to use a ATA command. :-/

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 14/09/2026

In a very long list of useless things I am playing with right now, it seems that NTP does it's job... And my rube goldberg machine of raspbery Pis and ATAs do not add that much latency Dialing NIST Colorado's time service here, from France, the clock pulse is basically in sync with this computer

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 14/09/2026

(Okay, this is only for outbound and inbound calls. Also, letting the phone ring twice before it ever ring anything in the house, so the asterisk server can pick up the Caller-ID data burst. Running a software-defined enterprise-grade PBX at home is the nerdiest shit I've done in a while)

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 14/09/2026

Beside this, I am very annoyed than Free now does not let you simply use your VoIP service you pay them via SIP directly. (since 2019, it's not news, but it's the first time I need/want it) We're doing analog -> digital -> analog -> digital to have multiple phone extensions around the house now 🙈

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 14/09/2026

This is a useless information for most people, but I am very happy about the ringer circuit in a GrandStream HT813. It seems very happy to ring an old mechanical french analog phone, which expect anything between like 50 to 90 volts AC? Does a better job than the phone output of the Freebox Ultra.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 31/08/2026

One gotta *love* when academics name stuff. "ORB-SLAM" (a family of tracking algos used in robotics), fully extending the name comes to: Orientated "Features form Accelerated Segment Test" and Rotated "Binary Robust Independent Elementary Features" - Simultaneous Localization And Mapping

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 22/08/2026

I wish the WireGuard iOS app had integration with control center or widgets

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 15/07/2026

Microsoft decided it was a good idea to not support the "/pt" parameter on mspaint.exe ? So, no more easy 1 liner to print an image file on Windows from a terminal I guess? (yes, I do that sometimes. Don't you??)

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 12/07/2026

Ah, if it’s full of cancerous middleware that does not help

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 09/07/2026

Old school ID used to do that. But I guess this part of the culture has been lost when John Carmack left for OculusVR

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 08/07/2026

I am now* convinced I cannot type tonight it seems, that's the 2nd typo of this kind I just made

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 08/07/2026

I am doing no further reading about this game on purpose, and I am not convinced it is just a a fantasy themed 1st person combat simulator, and nothing else.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 08/07/2026

Oh oh! The French license-less car (it's a Citroën Ami, rebranded by Fiat, that was originally designed thanks to weird French regulations on such vehicles) has reached America. Fun fact: The electric motor in this thing is a re-purposed starter for a "real" engine

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 08/07/2026

Some youtube type people did not like this camera very much when it was released, but it is actually lovely!

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 08/07/2026

I have no idea what that game is, I watched half of the 1st trailer on the steam store page. It's just a bunch of enemies, locations, and weapons.I still don't know what any of this is about. If you are not selling me a story, why would I care about your so-called "RPG" game? Looks boringly bland

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 08/07/2026

Recent reviews on steam for Avowed are "Mixed", and I never heard about this game before today, so the marketing did not do its job.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 08/07/2026

And, to add to the whole thin, (and you'll pardon me because I'm what is known over there as a "French Frog") In the UK they have no rules about residency in a constituency. So Count Binface can present themselves in any of these elections, regardless of where in the country it is

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 23/06/2026

The FN (which has rebranded as RN in recent years) was built around and by, colaborationist, ex-OAS, and neofascist. The many little extreme far right groups banded together to make themselves a bit more palatable for the electorate and the media for 50 years. And its slowly working their way

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 23/06/2026

The GabeCube is cute... It's also too expensive. Part of that is out of Valve's control though

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 23/06/2026

What one can just do with like, a serial port and a dream, is beautiful.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 11/06/2026

Un CV en écriture manuscrite en 2026?

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 11/06/2026

Swift Wars La La Clang Raiders of the lost Arch (Linux (btw)) Bind-Hur

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 09/06/2026

This makes no sense. There are votes to be counted. You are not “ahead” in any meaningful way because we started counting the votes in a place people vote for you more than the other candidates

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 09/06/2026

What these tools are a problem for is junior level / intern positions in these teams. Because those are the people that get the crappy things to do. And this will create a real problem in the long run.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 09/06/2026

As one such “coder” I can tell you that there is a lot of uninteresting part of the job that be skipped, and also it’s pretty much the only thing those LLM powered things are actually god at. Do not let these things do the work though (“vibe code” is crap code). But they are a good assist.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 08/06/2026

AI should not be used to replace artists. AI should be used to gain time so there’s more time and money to let the artists make the art.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 08/06/2026

You definitely need to get it right on the wife first before trying it on the girlfriend

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 08/06/2026

Brains are weird, and I caught myself correcting a point of grammar that was "English" in something that was written in French. I had an "avoir" in a construction that would work with "have" in English, where french uses "être" (be) 🫠

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 05/06/2026

Star City, the spin off of For All Mankind that is following the Soviet side of this alt-history, is starting extremely strong on its first 3 episodes

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 01/06/2026

It's funded already, holly dogcow

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 15/05/2026

Apparently a company called EG&G made such a device that used a Xenon flash light source.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 15/05/2026

It is perplexing that, a sensitometer like the one described in the ISO6 standard for black and white camera film testing, seems to not exist. The ones that seems to exist are made for X-ray film testing Nobody makes a device that expose daylight spectrum? Ilford and Kodak, what do they even use?

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 27/04/2026

Steam Controller 2 is expensive ….

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 24/04/2026

New weird kind of internet spam going on: Reddit DM from random people asking you to try out their one week old, obviously vibe coded application, with a link to their GitHub. 🙊

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 23/04/2026

The Meta Quest experience in a nutshell

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 11/04/2026

Mac people: Is there any reason I should bother learning about `launchd`, or is stashing script that I want to run daily in crontab still okay on *ye goode olde UNIX system*? cron seems to work fine and It even vomit its logs in my local mail spool if I let it do it.

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Arthur Brainville @ybalrid.info · 29/03/2026

Javascript-ness aside, QML/QtQuick is pretty nice.

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