All I see lately is a router to proprietary api, pfff so tired of this. It is lame that this is in the first page and my post shadowbanned. Same circle over and over. Evaluating forum platform change...
AI Agent – TRMNL
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#22There was a now-flagged comment [0] saying how excited they were until reading the author’s politics. I was curious. The links I found are all offline but sounded unpleasant. This means I can’t say for sure.
I recognize some folk dislike mixing tech and politics, but human ethics and actions impact the world.
It’s fair to feel distrust for any product based on the values that product’s creator expresses.
I saw the author of TRMNL in this thread so perhaps I can invite him to address that — and in replies, let’s keep discourse civil and HN-like please.
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#23I've been buying (2 so far) Seeed Studio reTerminal e-ink screens, flashing them with ESPHome, then using Claude Code to write backends to render out whatever I want to put on the screens (a la TRMNL, I also have a TRMNL). Being able to "speak" into existence what I want is pretty freaking awesome. Note: Yes, I know what I'm about to say could be done using TRMNL (as part of it) I was able to set it up so that it rot…
Have you looked at OpenDisplay? I have recently been playing with 4 color shelf displays from supermarkets. I have one showing max UV in my bathroom and whether I should wear sunscreen. Any Bluetooth proxy can write ODL/OEPL data to the device. There is a designer (https://schlomo.github.io/odl-drawcustom-designer/).
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#24I've been buying (2 so far) Seeed Studio reTerminal e-ink screens, flashing them with ESPHome, then using Claude Code to write backends to render out whatever I want to put on the screens (a la TRMNL, I also have a TRMNL). Being able to "speak" into existence what I want is pretty freaking awesome. Note: Yes, I know what I'm about to say could be done using TRMNL (as part of it) I was able to set it up so that it rot…
Have you looked at OpenDisplay? I have recently been playing with 4 color shelf displays from supermarkets. I have one showing max UV in my bathroom and whether I should wear sunscreen. Any Bluetooth proxy can write ODL/OEPL data to the device. There is a designer ( https://schlomo.github.io/odl-drawcustom-designer/ ).
I have not, I'll have to check this out. While I like my smart home stuff off my network (Z-Wave/Zigbee) I do have a soft spot for ESP32 (and it's own SSID/Vlan). I currently don't "manage" any bluetooth devices but I'll have to take a look!
> 4 color
I guess I should just get over myself but color e-ink (I have one) drives me nuts with its refreshing. At least the one I have can't partial refresh so it's a ~20-30 second flashing-hell every time you want to draw anything different. To be fair, I have these updating once a day and when I'm asleep so "who cares" but doing any active development/testing with one is maddening.
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Holy crap, the ESP32 vs BT comparison is crazy! I would never have guessed it was that stark. Though it makes sense, I have mine deep sleep for all but I'll probably be looking into some BT screens. It looks a little more DIY than the reTerminals I have but maybe this is the final push to get me, back, into 3D printing (enclosures for the board/screen/battery).
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are 249 country codes, which is a possible definition used.
Out of the gate, Canada and the US share 1 as country code and includes entities that aren't countries like Globalstar (Mobile Satellite Service): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_telephone_country_code...
It’s not telephone country codes, but ISO 3166 country codes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_3166_country_codes
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#26There was a now-flagged comment [0] saying how excited they were until reading the author’s politics. I was curious. The links I found are all offline but sounded unpleasant. This means I can’t say for sure. I recognize some folk dislike mixing tech and politics, but human ethics and actions impact the world. It’s fair to feel distrust for any product based on the values that product’s creator expresses. I saw the au…
It seems he had some really “interesting” blog posts on his website. The crazy part is that he took down his blog, but also removed it from The Internet Archive[0]. He’s gone to great lengths to remove his blog posts and that makes me wonder what he really said in those posts.
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#27> Writing code is cool, but wouldn't it be cooler to type "build me a plugin showing populations around the world" and it Just Worked?
I can't think of a string of words more unfitting for this website and its audience than this.
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#28There was a now-flagged comment [0] saying how excited they were until reading the author’s politics. I was curious. The links I found are all offline but sounded unpleasant. This means I can’t say for sure. I recognize some folk dislike mixing tech and politics, but human ethics and actions impact the world. It’s fair to feel distrust for any product based on the values that product’s creator expresses. I saw the au…
It seems he had some really “interesting” blog posts on his website. The crazy part is that he took down his blog, but also removed it from The Internet Archive[0]. He’s gone to great lengths to remove his blog posts and that makes me wonder what he really said in those posts. 0. https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://www.ryanckulp.com
https://thewritingsofryankculp.pages.dev/ is this the blog?
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#29There was a now-flagged comment [0] saying how excited they were until reading the author’s politics. I was curious. The links I found are all offline but sounded unpleasant. This means I can’t say for sure. I recognize some folk dislike mixing tech and politics, but human ethics and actions impact the world. It’s fair to feel distrust for any product based on the values that product’s creator expresses. I saw the au…
It seems he had some really “interesting” blog posts on his website. The crazy part is that he took down his blog, but also removed it from The Internet Archive[0]. He’s gone to great lengths to remove his blog posts and that makes me wonder what he really said in those posts. 0. https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://www.ryanckulp.com
From: https://lobste.rs/s/qj60m9/trmnl_e_ink_dashboard_stay_focuse...
https://archive.is/JWBUj#selection-438.0-438.1
https://d5w6z860qaqqa0.archive.is/3Nu1c/35466b298ffa7adf3e80...
"this is wrong, but women deserve it. for years you've let men chop their d*cks off and pretend to be you. you celebrated it. now it's time to pay the piper, which means never winning a sport again. enjoy"
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
It seems he had some really “interesting” blog posts on his website. The crazy part is that he took down his blog, but also removed it from The Internet Archive[0]. He’s gone to great lengths to remove his blog posts and that makes me wonder what he really said in those posts. 0. https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://www.ryanckulp.com
From: https://lobste.rs/s/qj60m9/trmnl_e_ink_dashboard_stay_focuse... https://archive.is/JWBUj#selection-438.0-438.1 https://archive.is/3C5tR https://d5w6z860qaqqa0.archive.is/3Nu1c/35466b298ffa7adf3e80... https://archive.is/F3Jlf "this is wrong, but women deserve it. for years you've let men chop their d*cks off and pretend to be you. you celebrated it. now it's time to pay the piper, which means never winning a spo…
Yeah, my interest in giving money to this guy vanished after learning about this. It’s not like whipping up some eink dashboards is a huge imposition in the AI era for anyone nerdy enough to want this in the first place.
Afaik there’s never been any apology or statement, just a careful scrubbing after this started making its way around nerd spaces.
Edit: Sheesh, I was only familiar with the transphobic remarks. This guy is a lot worse than I thought.