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I’ve been building a plug-and-play controller to use motorized faders with ESPHome and other microcontrollers easily, called FaderBuddy. It’s a small board with a ATtiny1616 and mo…

I think the big question here is how effective can you make training and monitoring across a widespread population in practice? In aviation, commercial pilots have very strict and …

More strictly than firearms, in fact. Some of the proposed 3d printer laws will require printers being sold to be capable of evaluating what you are using them for and blocking “ba…

You are conflating two things: appeasement and actual change in principles. Externally it can be hard to distinguish these, but it is easier to get a sense of it with more signals.…

What you’ve said is true but also misses the point. Licenses have never been about stopping bad actions because a bit of text can’t prevent someone from buying materials and buildi…

It’s rough but I understand it. You can be entirely in favor of the open source ethos, even as a commercial entity, but then certain actors can take advantage of that ethos and jus…

Correction is one of many signals, and it’s better than ignoring pushback, but it’s still usually worse than not needing the correction in the first place. Sure, a manufacturer tha…

I have the original CC. It’s a fine budget machine for single color - plenty fast and good quality prints. They rubbed people the wrong way launching the CC2 with multi-color suppo…

I wouldn’t recommend this outright without recommending some research first. Some brands put the over-discharge protection into the tools instead of the batteries, so using one of …

They’re incredibly wasteful due to inefficient power transfer which is a huge issue with wireless charging. And it’s not just wireless that’s inefficient; with a usb connection you…

This is false. It is only legal in the rare event that a passenger requires curb-side access for accessibility/ADA reasons; any other use is still illegal. To quote SFMTA taxi trai…

It definitely would make sense, especially if they are capacity constrained, but it’s also a losing PR move for whoever moves first in the space unless the big players all shift at…

Subscription models only work when marginal costs are low and/or there’s a good variety of usage that roughly averages out. Or, you need to be able to kick out abuse. Unfortunately…

I was surprised that incident didn’t seem to get as much attention since that was a pretty major data corruption bug, but I guess it was a much smaller scope of impacted repos/cust…

Yep, I’ve bought a few thermal printers recently and webusb support (marketed as Chromebook support) was a major deciding factor. Thermal printers aren’t well supported by built in…

How does the security of userspace drivers compare to having drivers within a sandboxed web environment with access to only the devices you’ve explicitly allowlisted?

GitHub seems entirely uninterested in improving the code review experience (except maybe the stacked PRs thing if that ends up shipping) for well over a decade now. Things that I’d…

Yeah, Tesla gets to blame the “driver”, and has a history of releasing partial and carefully curated subsets of data from crashes to try to shift as much blame onto the driver as p…

The US commercial aviation industry did not get to its excellent safety record by simply shrugging and accepting a “no-fault accident”. There are always systemic factors that can b…

I’ve found that adafruit usually includes a cuttable solder pad for the power led when there’s real estate available. Just cut one of those traces this week in fact!

Heh, many years ago I actually started writing a dedicated diff viewer app for Android [0] that specifically had synchronized horizontal scrolling between the two sides, and I reme…

I’d love this, if only for improved diff reviews possible compared to a terminal window! Would also work better for intermittent connectivity.

How do I use a laptop while standing on a train each day? It sounds like a laptop is sufficient for you, but I suspect (based on myself and other responses in this thread) that a l…

It’s a simple idea but one that hadn’t occurred to me yet. I spend hours each week riding transit, and use Claude for a bunch of side projects and have Tailscale set up already, so…