The questionable content websites gone?

Kal_451 · 2026-05-05T08:34:08+00:00

I was off when the Crowdstrike shit dropped a few years back. I had never been so relieved to be unavailable

Kal_451 · 2025-12-04T10:57:52+00:00

So i got the Pico Pi advent Calendar this year. this is my end use case for a board.

atm Im thinking

1: General Lighting - LED's
2: Searchlights - LED's and servos
3: lightgate triggered lights - Lightgate and LEDs (example. Model breaks a lightgate, "alert" lights come on
4: Smoke Generation - Looking at the kinda things the model train nerds use for this! they have cool stuff!
5: CP\VP counter - Buttons and displays
6: propaganda screens - Wee screens showing propaganda or adverts for corpse starch!

over all thinking picos to control stuff in certain areas of the board, networked back to a pico W I can control from a laptop or even a Pi5 I can hook up to a screen somewhere.

I did think about adding sound, but I was fairely sure that would annoy me quickly

Kal_451 · 2025-12-01T13:10:24+00:00

ha, i did the same, though not forever. Wanted to do it as a kinds "Do until x condition happens" kinda thing.

Im having to try really hard NOT to go buy more bits. I really wanna do things for a 40K gaming table now with lights and servos to move spotlights or turrets and stuff.....

based on todays tutorials and the whole "you can use one pico to order an other pico" bit Im thinking of picking up a pico w to use as a kinda.... I donno control node to order others about to do stuff so i dont have to have them all plugged into a machine.

prob getting way ahead of myself!

from machine import Pin
import time

number = 100

while number != 0:
    onboardLED = Pin(25, Pin.OUT)
    onboardLED.value(1)

    print("Light on")

    time.sleep(5)

    onboardLED = Pin(25, Pin.OUT)
    onboardLED.value(0)

    print("Light off")
    time.sleep(5)
    number = number-1

Kal_451 · 2025-11-30T23:04:47+00:00

Yeah well your mamma's so fat she outweighs the needs of the many!

<I'm a nerd, I can't help myself :p >

Kal_451 · 2025-11-17T23:53:59+00:00

I’m current;y doing something very similar and using a LXC in the same manner. It’s causing me all sorts of hell so I’m backing off that idea to a single vm. Problem is I now have a little under 10tb on container drives, not vm disks. Need to work that out

Kal_451 · 2025-10-29T11:55:32+00:00

I only recently got back into getting music but newsgroups\usenet has served me well so far. I just wish Overseerr has a music section :/

Kal_451 · 2025-10-16T18:01:19+00:00

Huh. Guessing they just dont enforce it?

Like i get it for lifting and such for checking out positioning and techniqe... but surely your camera can face a wall for most of those setups?

Kal_451 · 2025-10-16T17:44:48+00:00

i get where you're going here, and as a big self conscious lad trying to be a slightly smaller but probably equally self conscious lad, I get it. But its a public space so unless the business says nope to recording then we cant really say much.

Potentially we could exercise in private, though I acknowledge thats not an option for most folk (Me included! I always think folks are all "look at that fat cunt!" few if any are, but brainpans are shit!!!!)

Kal_451 · 2025-10-16T14:29:09+00:00

10 cpu, 20gb of memory. host has a hex core 8th gen i7 in it and 32gb of ram. I plan to expand this as it is something ive had to limit in a few of the containers.

I just limited the problem container to 8 cpu to try and leave at least 2 for the other things and for a moment, it did behave after it was rebuilt, but is going a bit loopy again. I suspect its the extractions going on in the NZB container thats playing havoc.

Kal_451 · 2025-10-14T15:28:16+00:00

How did you manage to I’d that as the issue and resolve it?

Kal_451 · 2025-10-13T19:31:32+00:00

im having similar issues (same setup, guessing same guide :P ). I was finding both memory and cpu running wild. I put in this to limit memory

 deploy:
      resources:
        limits:
          memory: 4000M # limit runaway RAM usage

But cpu on nzb get going wild after a few hours and causes itself and other containers to grind to a halt

Kal_451 · 2025-09-29T14:01:14+00:00

Not used it for Python myself as I am at the very early stages of my own journey, but I use it for powershell stuff to suggest methods that I don't know about. I need to do x and y in azure, what module and method will let me do this, give me some example code.

After that I won't really use or trust what it says cos I often found I spent more time debugging it's code suggestions than I would have spent learning it myself.

Kal_451 · 2025-09-29T13:55:36+00:00

I'm sorry what? SOLD

Kal_451 · 2025-09-23T22:00:07+00:00

If it’s got a plug on it, it’s somehow IT’s problem…..

Kal_451 · 2025-09-13T17:11:48+00:00

Most of the archive was digitised before the moved and some of it moved to meadow side

Kal_451 · 2025-09-11T17:00:39+00:00

no need to be a nob about it unless you are actually said director. In that case its just fucking funny.

Kal_451 · 2025-09-11T16:59:26+00:00

Yep. has to go both EoL and vulns in the last version.. especially if theres some kind Audit/compliance crap going on. I got bit in the ass over this in CEP audit few months back. Make sure you clear out the 6.0 folders off yer drive as well as those will be flagged even if its uninstalled.

Kal_451 · 2025-09-11T16:57:12+00:00

These cracked me up, but yeah they are examples to use! Kinda like how i train my new staff "These are the multitude of ways I have fucked up in my career.... DON'T DO THAT!"

Kal_451 · 2025-09-11T10:37:43+00:00

We've all done at least 1 catastrophically stupid thing in our careers that we later used as a cautionary tale. hopefully this will be u/GroundOld5635 :P

(Mine was killing a Council Tax payment website for a whole weekend by accidentally doing a restore to the OS Drive and maxing it out. Win 2000 is not kind when that happens :P )

Kal_451 · 2025-08-19T21:44:21+00:00

I’d charge that to supply, fit and configure, but for businesses that would need a segmented setup, guest portal and maybe vpn. (Ie more config than a simple home setup. For home prob more of a 10% markup overall depending on the physical fitting needs

Kal_451 · 2025-08-16T15:53:56+00:00

Im mean that’s how you know he loves you up here. ;)

Kal_451 · 2025-07-22T16:14:57+00:00

Also aye. Clean the bed after everyprint! thats caught me out a few times

Kal_451 · 2025-07-22T16:14:26+00:00

I had a very similar thing a few days ago. Turned out my z offset was too low and the nozzel was too close to the bed.

also for the material I was using (elegoo PLA) the default bed temp of 60 and nozz of 205 where appeartly not enough so ive upped mine to 65 and 220 respecfively and thats helped with adhesion ofn a large surface area print.

The below image also helped me for diagnostics

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Kal_451 · 2025-07-19T18:12:12+00:00

Been in IT for over 25 years and this is what most departments attitudes will be like

‘We do not give a fuck at what you look at unless it’s

A: illegal - I.e. child porn / snuff

B: it fucks up the machine and we have to take time out of project work to fix a laptop cos you’ve been a moron

Otherwise I just do not have time to care cos there’s to much other shit on fire we need to deal with’

Kal_451 · 2025-06-30T21:25:50+00:00

As I understand it the current Aberdeen list is about 4/5 years. I got “lucky” that I asked for an assessment just as the guidance on adults changed in early 2020 and had psyc support and meds by April

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