…to a rich guy who allegedly thought he’d be getting Tower Bridge

Yes, most millionaires are cringe but you should go after billionaires first.

It’s especially good for the Czech Republic, the rest is just an OSM reskin (still good though). If you stop updating at 9.55.2 (9550200), you will still get the premium feature (multi-country offline maps) for free and without downsides, AFAIK. However, they have stopped server support for old versions before and it’s pretty much impossible to unofficially import the map data without root.

Interesting that the post is showing Prague. I think it’s a nod to the influx of Czech users after our most popular map app, Mapy.cz by Seznam.cz, underwent enshittification to accomodate a premium tier.

I didn’t say voting is pointless. You should go vote too. But if I go vote in the US I’ll be arrested.

Yes, which is why voting is not enough: you have to campaign for the candidates you want to see. The ranked-choice system would fix this but that’s off-limits for now.

The time to vote for someone good is the primaries, which set what the dichotomy of the actual election is going to be like. In the November dichotomy, voting for the lesser evil is kinda the only option unless you want Big Evil to win.

Yes, it would be better to “merge” the main election and primaries into a ranked-choice vote but that’s not happening anytime soon.

No. I like the “ew”.

Universal Grotesk

It’s U+E001 from a Private Use Area. The UnicodePad app renders it as something between 鉮 and 鋁 (separate boxes stricken through; I wasn’t able to find it even with Google Lens)

o1 without Markdown misformatting:

\\id:\\[^]]+\\\\\[^]]+\\\

No idea what the rectangles are supposed to be, I just copy-pasted it

Oh well, at least the error animals are foxes and not a really weirdly drawn dinosaur

Which pointless rebrand? I actually like “moz://a”.

Yup. My grandpa had 10 MB in his DOS machine back then.

I can’t believe they still made Hot Frosty after this comic came out. At all, really. Even kept the obviously working title.

Edit: Never seen the movie, just the Pitch Meeting video

Thanks but it will take a while before I get my hands on a Raspberry Pi or another computer to install HA on. The bulb may have been fully reverse-engineered or not at all, I have no idea yet. It’s a Tapo device from TP-Link.

Yup, that’s what it’s called

I found a “smart” Wi-Fi bulb in the trash and used a throwaway phone to pair it through its app. It was adjustable white and RGB, so I put it in the bathroom and thought I’d trigger it to be dim red (cicardian rhythm, you know) whenever it was night (using a built-in RTC, NTP or light sensor, whatever it was capable of). Well, nope! It only connects to Wi-Fi when powered on (understandable) and only takes orders from an external server god-knows-where, with limited local functionality (party-light cycling, WB matching, optionally remembering the last setting). It does not notify the server when its power turns on (only when switched via app or smart button) so it cannot be configured as a “smart event”. The closest I could do would be to create a time event every minute:

22:00 turn on 25% red
22:01 turn on 25% red
22:02 turn on 25% red
•••
04:29 turn on 25% red
04:30 turn on 100% warm white
04:31 turn on 100% warm white
•••
21:59 turn on 100% warm white

I’m pretty sure there is a limit to timed actions so I can’t just do it this way. I guess I know why it got trashed while still working as intended.

I’ll be looking into Home Automation *Assistant and see if there is a compatible firmware to flash on this piece of shit. Or I’ll just use my electrical engineering skills to combine red and orange LEDs into another bulb and give it a separate switch. *(Edit)

I heard they had to make it freeware to put into web standards. So they didn’t and still made it annoyingly ubiquitous? Bastards.

Comic Sans is freeware. Also, they can use CSS to force Comic Sans if installed.