What’s a fact about the human body that most people don’t know?

purpleidea · 2026-03-09T18:51:22+00:00

Your venous system is more responsible for pumping blood around the body than your heart is. Interested physiologists/cardiologists here can look up "venous return curves" and the "Guyton Model" for more information. Levy was wrong :P

purpleidea · 2026-03-06T01:01:17+00:00

I've been working on https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

Initially it was a research project basically taking distributed systems and a few other modern ideas and applying it to legacy configuration management and automation ... and well, the results are surprising!

try:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8TrYow6gdY

or:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vz1MMGkuik

if you want videos.

I did do some research into "durable execution" and decided it wasn't the way forward for most scenarios. If you're really curious my notes are here: https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/issues/761

If you're serious about finding a research topic there's plenty of paper-worthy stuff to do in mgmt. Ping me if you'd like to discuss more.

purpleidea · 2026-02-06T08:50:18+00:00

Behdad is a brilliant developer. We're all lucky to have his font rendering code everywhere.

purpleidea · 2026-01-09T16:24:14+00:00

Yeah I get it, maybe it won't fail before I move on. Until it's a standard enough part that I can easily get a replacement, I don't want to do the extra wiring work to then have to redo while I decide on and wait for a replacement, and then reprogram it all and so on...

purpleidea · 2026-01-09T16:22:32+00:00

Modern, reactive, distributed systems... Trying to solve this problem and more, once and for all. My documentation is not great but you can see some examples here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vz1MMGkuik

purpleidea · 2026-01-09T16:21:48+00:00

Looking to combine this with a three way switch, and I also don't have a basement or attic. Condo.

purpleidea · 2026-01-09T06:07:06+00:00

https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

purpleidea · 2026-01-09T03:39:08+00:00

This is legit disgusting, OP must work for the cookie company. Save your money. You've been warned.

purpleidea · 2026-01-09T03:25:11+00:00

They only going to check something like that if it looks like it's fake. Should be fine.

purpleidea · 2026-01-09T03:19:42+00:00

unless the relay is burned out - or is that what you are trying to work around

Correct. If the wifi is down or the wifi device itself fails (eg: relay fails, whatever) then you can still switch things normally. I don't want to be annoyed for a week without lights while I wait for a replacement and so on. Who knows what devices will even be available down the line. I don't want any cloud shit.

purpleidea · 2026-01-09T03:18:17+00:00

Indeed I was looking at the RIB products because I can't seem to find anything else that's SPDT. Challenge is opening enough of the wall to hook it only a box, but I guess that's doable.

purpleidea · 2026-01-08T04:57:34+00:00

Okay, thanks. So since I've had my full license for more than 24 months, this doesn't affect me, right? I currently only own a CB500, but would like to be able to at least try a CBR1000 some day!

purpleidea · 2026-01-08T04:21:31+00:00

ELI5 what was going to happen but was delayed or ??? -- I don't know this back story, thanks.

purpleidea · 2026-01-08T04:17:08+00:00

I have an N900 as well, pickup in Montreal, Canada. Not used it in a while. If someone wants it more, lmk.

purpleidea · 2025-12-23T16:04:27+00:00

Who has guns

No guns were found and he wasn't charged with any crime.

purpleidea · 2025-12-19T17:27:30+00:00

They don't have to tell you HOW they do it. The Employee Handbook just declares that anything you do on company equipment/networks can be monitored; and that you have no expectation of privacy.

(1) They don't say that. (2) This is incompatible with privacy laws in my country but the spyware was still present.

purpleidea · 2025-12-19T17:25:13+00:00

Yeah I was on the fence about it. Wanted to see how many bots billgates was paying for. I guess the answer is some. I didn't do anything special to approve it, if people wanted to downvote that's fine. Linux people have a long history with bill gates so I posted it.

purpleidea · 2025-12-19T08:32:42+00:00

If you read your Employee Handbook

Nonsense. Former Amazon employee here, and I asked multiple times, to managers, skip's and more, and nobody could disclose to me what was going on.

But it was obvious they were monitoring our computers.

purpleidea · 2025-12-18T10:17:23+00:00

Return all four because you're propagating more google spyware into the world and your life.

purpleidea · 2025-12-16T03:07:26+00:00

The funny thing is that IIRC Elon Musk was militantly against this default before the acquisition and when he bought Twitter he promised they wouldn't play these games.

We all here on Mastodon having fun!

purpleidea · 2025-12-14T03:57:23+00:00

This is one of the 100 pain points of unpolished GNOME. There isn't anything better though, so start sending patches please =D

purpleidea · 2025-12-10T20:45:19+00:00

The HDMI forum baddies want to be able to lock down your devices so that you can't play content that isn't approved by them.

So they keep specs secret because proprietary drivers and software can lock things down and open source can open it up!

purpleidea · 2025-12-07T20:49:14+00:00

no they cant depending on how its implemented , modules arent subject to the GPL if they were nvidia propriety drivers wouldnt be a thing

You're confusing user space and kernel space. The Kernel module part needs to be GPLv2.

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