Well that's a new level of cheapness lol. Fixing a toy for the kid and the LED doesn't even have a series resistor.

It runs straight off three LR44 batteries and just relies on their ESR to limit current.

And it's not soldered either it's just clamped in place by the plastic body with one side pushing against the negative battery electrode and the positive side of the battery holder - which doubles as the switch - is bent into place to make contact with the LED lead.

No solder. No wires. Literally not a single part you could delete or simplify and have it still work at all.

Other new data I'm starting to collect: stacked plot of per-PDU aggregate load, plus "other lab" loads (calculated as UPS output power minus sum of all managed PDU loads).

Continuing to expand my power instrumentation, beginning to plumb into the APIs on my solar gateway.

My lab power consumption is extremely stable throughout the day. The house, on the other hand, not so much. Massive spikes from the main house heat pump running then stopping. The max in my current dataset is 71.5A which on a 2-phase 120/240V system is about 17.2 kW.

I wonder how much more efficiency I would see if I switched to variable speed mini-splits or something. (this is independent of the gains I hope to see from lab energy harvesting)

Also i would not want to live in a world where pegasi are widespread.

Can you imagine fresh manure falling at terminal velocity from the sky? Each one would probably be heavy and fast enough to cause serious injury in case of a direct hit.

And splattering on a hard surface at such high speed would make an enormous mess.

Are flying carpets the most deathtrap form of magical transportation in popular use? In terms of p(arriving at your destination alive and uninjured)

They go super high in the air, make rapid and often uncoordinated high-G maneuvers, and have nothing in the way of seat belts or even hand holds.

Pegasi can have saddles. Witch brooms can be sat on and are inherently easy hand holds. Pretty much anything that doesn't fly is safer.

Is /proc/cpuinfo on Linux cached at boot or does the kernel do a bunch of cpuid calls each time you open/read it or what?

Every time somebody posts about modafinil my brain tries to correct it to "modanifil" and assumes it's a recreational vasodilator along the lines of sildenafil and tadalafil

The "CA/Browser Forum" really sounds like it should be running phpBB

Wikipedia has a very interesting definition of "common materials"

(and you can always re trust specific roots for specific users if the situation demands it)

Today is one of those days when people might *not* look at me like I have three heads when I say disabling root certificates from smaller CAs in countries you don't do business with can be a good mitigation against MITM by shrinking the pool of roots an attacker would have to compromise to make a cert you trust.

Like a lot of countries have private CAs for signing their own government websites. How many of you would have problems if your users couldn't reach the Turkish or South African government? If you're not in one of those countries, probably not a lot.

Now would be an *excellent* time for someone to go through the list of major trusted root certificates and their intermediates, exhaustively, and spend 30 seconds of CPU time bruteforcing the private keys for each one.

Did we find all of them already or is there more low hanging fruit?

Some guy at NSA is waking up right now furious that the best bug of his career just died.

also @nina_kali_nina this is your fault lol

I apologize for nothing.

"Wi-fi" is pronounced "whiffy". I will not be taking questions.

Inside the house

Found an old animal crossing screenshot

Happt 13:37

The command is called "fsck" because if you have to use it you're probably swearing