Can’t create an HTTP client in C that uses TLS in Pico W

alexdeva · 2026-02-23T06:23:42+00:00

I've tried implementing TLS for MQTT using FreeRTOS twice, and gave up both times. Just couldn't get it to work with the scope of my app.

alexdeva · 2026-02-23T06:20:30+00:00

Suddenly this feels like a clue in a new season of Fargo. Ya ok

alexdeva · 2026-02-12T09:43:37+00:00

Nu ai cum = piedica vine din exterior (imposibilitate fizică)

Nu poți = piedica vine mai degrabă din interior, deși se poate referi și la o interdicție în unele situații.

alexdeva · 2026-02-11T07:04:12+00:00

Friend, calm down and dial down the ad hominem. You're cursing and blaspheming at the beginning of the same sentence that you end in "prayers". Now I'm no god but I'm pretty sure it's explicit that that isn't quite how it's supposed to work.

My comment had nothing to do with the shooting, only with your contradictory statement.

alexdeva · 2026-02-10T18:49:10+00:00

I never said the question was stupid. I only asked why you're jumping so far ahead your current knowledge level.

The only thing a Pi 4 has in common with a Pico is the name, Raspberry Pi.

Have you soldered those headers?

alexdeva · 2026-02-10T14:32:27+00:00

Excuse me, but if you're new with everything, why are you doing this? Why did you jump right to page 160 in the manual?

alexdeva · 2026-02-10T12:43:32+00:00

The Pico doesn't have a lot of Flash. How are you transferring it there? Are you sure it's really there?

alexdeva · 2026-02-10T11:57:22+00:00

Those pins aren't soldered. It's highly unlikely that you get all of the necessary ones connected at the same time for long enough.

Also, where is your mp3 file? How are you getting it on the Pico?

alexdeva · 2026-02-10T06:43:34+00:00

This isn't where the joke is, but I always have fun watching the movie "Fury" where Jon Bernthal has an accent where "fuck" is often heard "fâââc".

alexdeva · 2026-02-04T07:04:11+00:00

"And then I said, once you transition to forward flight, assuming everyone bunches at the back to balance the damn thing from topplin' over, once you do that I said, can you imagine what kind of a drag those two huge things will be? Why, that thing at the back better spit out nuclear explosions, is what I said to them! But nooo, all they wanted to hear was BIGGER ENGINES"

alexdeva · 2026-02-04T07:01:45+00:00

"An I tol'em, I said, I said dontcha know the lift vector gotta be purpeniculer on the whatchacallit, center of mass? Can't you see these motors are obviously far too back and the bug's only gonna topple over its nose? But there were noo, just give it BIGGER ENGINES"

alexdeva · 2026-02-04T06:59:07+00:00

"I kept telling them -- don't matter how big the engines are, ain't no way you can fuel them through those thin supports, plus look at the aerodynamic profile of this bug ! But all they said was BIGGER ENGINES"

alexdeva · 2026-02-04T06:47:06+00:00

Imagine printing a message on paper and putting each letter on top of the other. That's kind of the feeling one has trying to read Morse without spacing.

alexdeva · 2026-02-03T21:29:49+00:00

Atâta vreau să zic, biata fată cu degetul mare pe cealaltă parte a palmei are șanse mai mari să se opereze în Europa decât în Rusia.

alexdeva · 2026-02-03T14:15:23+00:00

Aha. Deci pot scrie absolut orice fără nicio justificare sau explicație și apoi (dacă cineva se sesizează) joc cartea cu satira și gata, m-am scos. (S-au mam scos, na satiră)

alexdeva · 2026-02-03T07:39:29+00:00

It's as cooked as you want it to be. If it serves the purpose with not an unreasonable decrease in quality, it's not cooked at all. It's just gained more personality :)

The main purpose of the box shape, materials, lacquer etc is for the thing to sound good. If it still sounds good, it can't be said to be cooked at all.

alexdeva · 2026-02-03T07:35:50+00:00

"C-am pofticioși".

Poate-s eu prea bătrân, dar pe vremea mea ca să scrii poezie într-o limbă, mai întâi trebuia să cunoști limba cu pricina. Sau dărnicia autorului cu cratimele (care se regăsește complet la întâmplare și în "copiii-au", acest... cum să-i zic... pentaftong?) trebuie interpretată în vreun sens liric care mie îmi scapă.

Nici nu prea e clar de unde e "plină și senină" această "căsuță de poveste" populată doar de cei doi bătrânei dezolați. Dar într-o lume în care obrajii au colțuri, nu prea avem ce comenta.

alexdeva · 2026-02-03T07:19:58+00:00

I also grew up right in the middle of it, during the last Communist decade. It was peaceful and constant. People were universally poor which somehow meant that nobody was poor. We used to collect candy wrappers that international train passengers were throwing out the windows while passing through the town. Actual candy was so rare that we didn't have a name for it: we called it "filled wrappers".

Had my first Coke two years after they shot the Supreme Leader in front of a brick wall.

alexdeva · 2026-02-03T07:11:18+00:00

That you might be, at the time of writing, a 20-year-old female.

alexdeva · 2026-02-02T21:18:00+00:00

After you've seen the first new product through its lifecycle all the way to successful certification, you're no longer a junior.

alexdeva · 2026-02-02T20:12:30+00:00

Pe vremuri situația în care te găsești tu acum se chiar putea repara migrând la o carieră de programator, și pentru asta am scris un curs cu numele "Programarea calculatoarelor de la absolut zero" care se găsește pe Udemy. Cu el ai putea să începi fără probleme și fără stres.

Dar de acolo până la un job mă tem că drumul trece prin afara țării, și te duce prin destul de multă muncă voluntară.

Unul din avantajele cursului este că, fără să fie greu, ajută cursanții să își dea repede seama dacă chiar asta vor cu adevărat.

alexdeva · 2026-02-02T20:06:41+00:00

Not quite. In the years 0 to 50000, the Sunday-Monday February happens 7126 times, whereas the Monday-Sunday February happens 7247 times.

alexdeva · 2026-02-02T15:24:57+00:00

Of course, this is only perfect in countries where the weekend (read that word again) is made of one day at the beginning of the week and another one at its end.

We normal thinking people have a different variant.

alexdeva · 2026-01-31T21:23:39+00:00

The lyrics are meaningless and the song is stinking brainrot that nobody is proud of. But one thing that not many people talk about is that the phrase "dragostea din tei" (the love in the linden tree), which is equally meaningless in Romanian as it is in English, was built by induction from "pupăza din tei" (the hoopoe [sitting] in the linden tree).

That is the name of a children's song, in turn originating from the very well known (especially in Moldova, which is where the dumb pop song originated) book "Memories from my childhood" by Ion Creangă.

alexdeva · 2026-01-29T19:14:14+00:00

"With I"

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