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I’d completely agree - the transition to and instability of esp-hal has been a complete nightmare and I’ve also given up on trying to keep up with this. I have transitioned to usin…

Slightly strangely I did see that the .h export does contain temp / press registers (but not the trimming params) but they dont show up in the interactive display: https://passthea…

It shows the 0xD0, 0xD0, 0xF3, 0xF4, 0xF5 registers but misses 0xF7-F9 (pressure) and 0xFA-FC (temp) - which are the actual measurement registers - plus all the trimming parameters…

This would be a good idea of it was reliable however browsing the parsed data for the BMP280 [1] (which in familiar with because I’ve written a driver for this) it looks like it mi…

If you need GPIO support on a mini-PC you can just use a cheap FT232H breakout [1] with either PyFTDI [2], which supports pretty much all the protocols you need (UART/GPIO/SPI/I2C)…

> FreeBSD has committed the original sin of UNIX by deliberately dropping support for all non-Intel architectures, intending to focus on optimising FreeBSD for the Intel ISA and pl…

It looks like it is a Direct Conversion (Zero IF) rather than a Direct Sampling Receiver [0] - ie. it uses does a quadrature LO to down convert to baseband I/Q (in this case a Tayl…

As a long term FreeBSD user (since 2.0) and advocate, my view is that FreeBSD should focus on its niche as a rock-solid server operating system. For most developers buying a MacBoo…

If you want to automate FreeBSD deployments on Hetzner Cloud you can try: https://github.com/paulc/hcloud-freebsd (Allows you to provision instances using either the hcloud utility…

That's really useful (I was trying to work out how to do this without using a custom image) but I would just note that there actually is a FreeBSD 13.1 image available under Images…

If you want a simple lightweight symmetric crypt CLI utility try ccrypt: http://ccrypt.sourceforge.net/

The Colossus tape reader could read at c.5000 cps (with the tape running at 27mph [1]) - which is 2.5 x faster (and 20 years before). Worth seeing the replica Colossus at Bletchley…

Keep trying apparatchik - we’re not all as weak and stupid as you think.

6 day old account that has only posted Russian talking points - hmmmm

Simple python version which does a bit more validation (checks response matches query) and also supports CNAMEs and different record types (37 lines - using dnslib library) - thoug…

dnslib author here - wasn’t expecting to see this so thanks for the reference. Key thing I learnt writing dnslib (which was originally to provide a DNS API for an application) is t…

If you are looking for an authoritative DNS server with a sane API try KnotDNS [1]. Really easy to automate dynamic updates using `knotc` [2] without worrying about manually updati…

The more surprising point was the disparity in staffing levels which multiplies the cost differences: “For example, in New York, the number of workers at the face of the tunnel can…

I've been a FreeBSD user since 2.05 (1995) and a strong supporter - FreeBSD still excels as an ultra-stable 'old-school' UNIX server OS (which to be honest meets a lot of use-cases…

To be honest it’s probably not worth running FreeBSD on a laptop/desktop - it’s really a server operating system. If you are looking for a well engineered, stable, ‘traditional’ UN…

As it's not on Drew's list: Nim: $ cat hello.nim stdout.write("hello, world!\n") Static (musl): $ nim --gcc.exe:musl-gcc --gcc.linkerexe:musl-gcc --passL:-static c -d:release hello…

This looks really good, I've used ccrypt (#1) for years as a simple Unix-y encryption tool to avoid the complexity of GPG (though this is symmetric encryption only so you need to h…

Also see the 32blit by Pimoroni: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pimoroni/32blit-retro-i...

> I couldn’t get networking working Try using the e1000 network adapter emulation - Win10/Server 2016 work fine with this.

Actually this is pretty simple if you use ConfigParser properly: # test.ini [host1] ip = 1.2.3.4 [host2] ip = 5.6.7.8 [host3] ip = 9.10.11.12 # config.py import configparser c = co…