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Electronics design and hardware hacking, especially passenger information systems • Furry • Be excellent to each other ❤️ • Happy to talk to you! • I'll accept nearly all follow requests unless your profile is empty.
Toots are mostly in English, occasionally in German.

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nvm

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nvm

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@miketango Being able to book earlier doesn't change that though...?

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@Katti yeah, FCFS is fine. I just prefer to have a fixed schedule when I go into an event. And I would prefer the shifts that are already foreseeable in advance anyway.

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@Katti then the way angels operate is just fundamentally incompatible with how I operate. Kinda sad :(

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@feuerrot ja okay wow

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@miketango If I want to do a lot of work, what's bad about that? I guess I just have a different mindset

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@michik also a good solution

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@michik @pennylane @miketango my idea was kind of that in reverse, as I said in my second post. But it seems that the core objectives of the Engelsystem are different from what I thought

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@miketango yeah okay

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@Katti I can only compare it to the security team at the furry con I volunteer at. There, you click together a shift schedule weeks before the event, everyone knows when they need to do what, you can choose between various tasks, and that works great. For ad-hoc shifts, there's a supervisor / shift coordinator that takes care of finding people spontaneously. [...]

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@Katti [...] But I also realise that this is a bit different in scale, since the team is usually around 100 members and everything is well planned out in advance.

I guess being in a specific team at Congress would lock me in to a specific kind of shift, which I would find too restrictive

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@Katti yeah... I guess I'll never be able to get a reward for doing shifts, it'll have to stay at a few hours just for fun

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@Katti yeah, no I get that, I didn't mean to say it was the only reason I'm doing it. It's just a bonus I'll never be able to reach, so I do some shifts for fun but not overdo it

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what weird edge cases am i missing now that apparently make it reasonable to disallow subtracting one time from another one?

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cato stop you're making assumptions about date and time again. this is when a big red warning light should activate

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@scy i would think so but hmmm

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Spotify you fucking dipshits. They just cancelled my subscription because I forgot to agree to the new price. They initially reminded me THREE MONTHS AGO. They could have at least sent out a reminder like "hey, we're gonna cancel it if you don't agree within the next week". Now I gotta re-subscribe in February.

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@SirTux I didn't open the app, I just use it via Android Auto haha

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@darkrat I'll have to wait until it runs out in February... and I didn't get a reminder in December

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I just noticed that Mastodon, that party pooper totally ignores the "Speak as a cat" rewritten text. ​:neocat_sad:​

Mastodon, the official party pooper of the fediverse.

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@garfieldairlines huh, doesn't your server change the text in the post itself? or what do you mean?

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@garfieldairlines yeah i don't. but how, if not by changing the content of the post itself, would that work? Like, how can Mastodon just "ignore" it?

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@Violet @garfieldairlines meow!!

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It just hurts to read through 20 year old forum threads and stumble across one deleted hotlinked image after the other...

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"Ein Brief von Bundespolizei ist unterwegs zu Ihnen" - die haben also erstaunlich schnell auf meine Anfrage über meine persönlichen Daten geantwortet :D

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@SirTux oh gott :D

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Was war eigentlich das "DLF Sendezentrum" auf dem ? Deutschlandfunk wird es ja wohl eher nicht gewesen sein?

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@leyrer oh? Hatten die echt von dort gesendet? Ich finde dazu nicht wirklich was

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@leyrer ohhhh cool. danke!

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@OchmennoPodcast nice!

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Ich habe zu Weihnachten einen Katzenkalender mit offensichtlich KI-generierten Bildern geschenkt bekommen. Habe daraufhin dem Verlag (Seidel) eine E-Mail geschrieben. Die Antwort ist nicht gerade überzeugend. Der Verlag sieht kein Problem dabei. 🙄

vielen Dank für Ihre freundliche E-Mail. Es sind ja gleich mehrere Themen die Sie in ihre E-Mail ansprechen. Natürlich ist es uns bewusst, dass wir Material verwenden, welches unter Umständen auch mit KI erzeugt wurde. Wir haben diese Bilder nicht selbst generiert, sondern sie über Agenturen lizensiert erworben. Insgesamt haben wir in der aktuellen Kalender-Saison zehn Titel coole Katzen in der Kollektion, davon sind auch vier Titel mit authentischen Bildmaterial enthalten. Der Kunde hat somit immer die Wahl, was er kaufen möchte. Und so werden wir auch für 2025 beides im Programm haben und den Kunden entscheiden lassen, was er kaufen möchte. Ich wünsche Ihnen einen schönen Mittwoch.

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@garfieldairlines ich habs ja geschenkt bekommen. Aber trotzdem scheiße xD

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@Ramonsta72 Auf den beiden, die mein Freund und ich geschenkt bekamen, steht kein Hinweis drauf. Wäre mal interessant zu sehen.

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@Zelzius @Ramonsta72 ja eben, das ist ja der Scheiß

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Ich brauche mal etwas Hilfe. Ich suche Systeme, wo Anzeiger der SaF Kassel GmbH in Betrieb sind, damit ich auf diesem Weg Informationen zur Ansteuerung erfragen kann. Der Hersteller ist insolvent, daher ist dort nachfragen keine Option mehr. Wenn ihr dieses Logo an einem Display am Busbahnhof, Flughafen o.Ä. gesehen habt, sagt mir doch bitte mal Bescheid! Gerne Boost :) danke!

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@mwfc @flipdot stimmt, guter Punkt. Mal schauen, was sie sagen :D

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Habe zumindest schon mal recherchiert und herausgefunden, dass in Peine 2021 Anzeiger von SaF installiert wurden. Außerdem habe ich eine Firma gefunden, die angibt, dass sie Erfahrungen mit dem "SaF S2"-Protokoll hat, und dort auch mal angefragt. Mal schauen - natürlich suche ich weiterhin nach mehr Infos!

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@casandro meiner hat zumindest kein Funkmodem. Aber das ist ja auch egal, mich interessiert ja, was aus einem etwaigen Modem dann zum Anzeiger hin rausginge.

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ah yes i love seeing this entire super tall image pop up in my notifications and fill up the entire column every time someone favs or boosts it

garfieldairlines, to random

✅ Mails have now backup with instead of a daily .tar.gz
Now let's see if it is more efficient in bandwidth, and next, shorkey and Postgresql. ​:blobcatnomfloppy:​

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@garfieldairlines I love borg! :3

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@garfieldairlines oh, okay, I just use it in a cronjob every day to backup some system dirs, and a weekly manual backup to an external drive, so it's just a shell script ^^'

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"Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in WebSocket Handling".

A bot? An AI? Just a silly reporter? Another fine waste of maintainer time.

https://hackerone.com/reports/2298307

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@manawyrm @Purple @bagder right?? Exactly my thought. Looked like a textbook chatgpt answer x.x

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I got two new displays today!

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As expected, the font EEPROM dumps clearly show that the font image data is just uncompressed pixels.

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Funnily enough, back in 2013, I came across a geocache in Kassel that had an LED platform display mounted to a lamp post on a sidewalk. When you came close, it showed you the coordinates for the next stage. I have now learned that this was actually right next to SaF's (the manufacturer) premises - hence why there was just a random display mounted there - and the geocache owners got them to collaborate. And now, I finally have a display made by SaF myself. Too bad they're bankrupt now.

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Interesting - the LED modules in this display aren't actually made by SaF themselves. They're off the shelf LUM-512H modules by Rohm Semiconductor. Never seen that before!

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Strange - if I press the reset button on the controller, it shows the Hello world message for a few seconds. That doesn't happen on a power cycle.

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Giving up for now since I have no lead on how to find info about the communication protocol. I could always reverse engineer the protocol between main controller and LED row controllers, or even control the LED modules directly, but that's for another day.

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@Mlice don't mind if i do uwu

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