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Commitin programming crimes }:->
Few weeks ago I seriously looked to the mine OpenHAB installation and asked a question for myself: "Am I really need it?" Look, I have a few ZigBee devices, which are connected to the my server with the help of ZigBee2MQTT. Thusly, all necessary values and knobs are accessible through the MQTT topics.
And I'm using the OpenHAB (big Java application which eats ton's of RAM and constantly swapping) just to:
1) Read values from MQTT topic
2) Read weather forecast from Open-Meteo through simple REST API endpoints
3) Store all the data to the PostgreSQL DB.
4) Display these data in the nice Web page which works only in browsers with JS engine.
So, basically, I trade tons of RAM and processing power just for a nice web-page with few indicators. While retrieving data from my ZigBee devices processed by the another service.
After that thought, I started to think about replacing this monster with small hand-written program, which will not eat 700 MB of RAM. Just Nginx, small FastCGI script on C, which will read values from DB and display them on the simple HTML page. And another small daemon (also written in C) which will take data from MQTT topic (and from REST API of Open-Meteo) and will write them to the DB. And possibly some PGSQL procedures to analyze these data.
At least I'll have fun 
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Spending my day here today. I need the escape.
Thanks to #AI (mainly, there are other factors involved) I have to wait weeks or maybe even a month for a couple of 2TB mechanical hard drives.
It's not a big issue for me, I needed them for my home machine (I want to move my data archive from external hard drives to a small #zfs raid accessible from NFS and DLNA) but I can wait before doing that. Yet, this leaves me pretty scared for the future: in 2008 short term financial prospects were dire but at least we had cool tech and the promise it could have helped us towards a better future. Now we have dire prospects, tech shortages and optimism in even shorter supply.
Renewed my 
@lwnLWN.net subscription for another year 😤 as always, such a great value news source! #LWN #Linux
Thanks to #AI (mainly, there are other factors involved) I have to wait weeks or maybe even a month for a couple of 2TB mechanical hard drives.
It's not a big issue for me, I needed them for my home machine (I want to move my data archive from external hard drives to a small #zfs raid accessible from NFS and DLNA) but I can wait before doing that. Yet, this leaves me pretty scared for the future: in 2008 short term financial prospects were dire but at least we had cool tech and the promise it could have helped us towards a better future. Now we have dire prospects, tech shortages and optimism in even shorter supply.
代理ことミヅキさんもまとめたーの
季節の行事系だいたいこの子で描いたから一番多いぜ！（30
If you are interested in #nopaywall news about #digitaleuro ...
"Online transactions would involve immediate processing through the central bank's ledger or through authorised intermediaries, while offline transactions can be recorded locally and later synchronised with the central ledger when connectivity resumes, meaning the system can be used even in areas with poor connectivity while preserving cash-like privacy for its users."
...
"The Council's mandate sets out key design features, including limits on digital euro holdings to prevent it from endangering financial stability by draining away deposits from banks."
代理ことミヅキさんもまとめたーの
季節の行事系だいたいこの子で描いたから一番多いぜ！（30
First case of Apple Notes real-time sync producing logical garbage from constituent conflict data of our shopping list:
Lleis
8- 66 fack
henelchs
Nudom
Caelat
raak, owhe X rohiren, Rucolao. Ron Aldi- Sahecis-Saenlre Essif bssez 2x
Aedi
This is your reminder that CRDTs don’t solve or avoid conflicts for you, they just predictably converge into nonsense.
コミケ行く方々楽しんできてなー
TIL "Gabentheorie" (soziologisch, != Garbentheorie!) #39c3
Phnom Penh, #Cambodia
More than 2,500 people including monks and citizens take part in a Buddhist ceremony at the Win-Win memorial to mourn the victims of the recent border conflict. The monument was established in 2018 to mark the end of civil wars in Cambodia.
Photograph: Daniel Ceng/Anadolu/Getty Images
"Looking forward by looking back."
https://michael-simons.eu/p/looking-forward-by-looking-back.html
All the best for 2026.
Thanks for the inspiration, 
@stefanoStefano Marinelli
@appassionatoearthling AI. I don't think it's possible to do a resin pour that large.
Aceh Besar, #Indonesia
Workers carry sacks of rice at the Perum Bulog warehouse of the Aceh regional office. The Indonesian government has prepared rice reserves to three times the needs of the areas affected by floods and landslide disasters.
Photograph: Khairu Syukrillah/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock
え～！？ゲームもできて歌もできて楽器もできてDJもできて配信もできて写真もできて絵もできちゃう俺って天才～！？
OH: "Man geht von einem aufmerksamen, verständigen Durchschnittsverbraucher aus"
LOL, der war gut 🤣
蒸気でホットアイマスクが高いので代わりに繰り返し使える小豆の入ったアイマスクを買ったんだけど、温めるとめっちゃお汁粉のニオイしてお腹空く
My fourth and final morning workshop at #39c3 is taking place tomorrow (day 4), at 11:00 in workshop room D (2nd floor):
Draw your own mouse cursor theme!
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/en/event/detail/lets-build-our-own-cursor-themes-for-linux
「昔のうま年絵じゃないか、12年前かな？」と思ったら23年前の2002年のやつでやばい
🦊 Firefox 146 is out! What's new:
• Inspector: auto-hides unused CSS custom properties
• contrast-color() + text-decoration-inset support
• scope enabled by default
• WeakMap/WeakSet now accept Symbol keys
• WebDriver BiDi upgrades
Release notes 👇
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/146
流石に眠いかもしれない
판교에살으리랏다. 운무데리고 판교에살으리랏다 ㅠㅠ
さて、そろそろ寝まーす
皆さんもゆっくりお休みください
おやすみなさい
ミスキー・ウイスキー・ダイスキー！
私は今、嵐の前の静けさにいます。
来年のスケジュールを確認してたら、5月のスパコミと商業の原稿締め切りがばちばちに被っている事に、今気づきました。
とりあえず
PC関連パーツが値上がりする
↓
スマホも値上がりして悪質な『スマホ狩り』が流行る
↓
外出時にスマホを出すのがリスキーなのでみんなカセットテープ（ウォークマン）で音楽を聞くようになる
今のうちにウォークマンを買うのがお得
#嘘
指先でネットに流す我が思考
I forgot about this one.
39C3: Hacking Washing Machines
https://hackaday.com/2025/12/29/39c3-hacking-washing-machines/
A woman holds a child in a makeshift camp for displaced Palestinians.
Photograph: Jehad Alshrafi/AP
なんか指が痛い。
ちょっと前もおんなじ症状になったような・・・？
변명을 좀 하자면 얒잘 라벨링 잘 해놓으셨길래 라벨 안 달아둬서 야짤 아닌 줄 알았음...
I don’t normally use Claude for sysadmin but I figured I’d give it a try.
古いハードディスクの中身漁っていたら記憶にないデーターが出てきて「こんな事あったけ」になっている
Question for 
@Codeberg Anything we can do to get links to show up as "verified" in our Mastodon profiles like they do with Github?
"Looking forward by looking back."
https://michael-simons.eu/p/looking-forward-by-looking-back.html
All the best for 2026.
Thanks for the inspiration, @stefanoStefano Marinelli
아Tnlqk야짤알티함 죄송합니다...죄송합니다...
프렌드십컵 결승도 그렇고 vs에드 2차전도 그렇고 vs레이지도 그렇고, 이야기 마무리하는 단계에선 늘 듀얼 자체는 로그도 연출도 기깔나게 말아놓고선 스토리 때문에 영 불탈 수 없게 만드는 것도 참 재주야
（仮）
Olivier Forget
jnkrtech
동부장발마탑주❥현실도피자(REALITY IS ALSO A PIZZA) 
쯔방 
🕊️ 
Kat Marchán 🐈
