What is some open source #maker hardware you have purchased recently?

Yesterday I learned that all recent #Bafang motors and controllers for ebikes use #CANbus for communication. Their #BESST configuration tool https://bafang-e.com/en/oem-area/service/besst/ is an electron app which conveniently includes source maps, so I was able to reconstruct the original #Vuejs source code. I’ve posted my findings on GitHub https://github.com/kasparsd/besst-reference

Finally a good review of the n305 NAS board https://nascompares.com/2024/03/15/the-topton-n305-nas-motherboard-hardware-deep-dive-review/ — information about the actual power consumption to be coming soon from what I understand.

Responded to @kasparsd:

The actual video quality is not great with a lot of background glare and the contrast changing drastically depending on the viewing angle.

Found this 11 inch HDMI and USB-C monitor for 50 EUR that works with Beelink EQ12 (n100) and Beelink U59 Pro (N5105) over USB-C with both Ubuntu and Windows 11 out of the box https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005650269591.html #homelab

Responded to @kasparsd:

It is now pulling in images as well 🫰 That should be enough of tinkering for a Saturday morning.

Responded to @kasparsd:

Turns out it was due to a bad conditional — it was checking for “Note” type on activity instead of the activity object.

Ok, who did the networking for the Google’s campus and why doesn’t it work? #homelab https://www.reuters.com/technology/googles-newest-office-has-ai-designers-toiling-wi-fi-desert-2024-03-07/

Responded to @kasparsd:

Well, looks like it didn’t pull in any new content over night.

Responded to @zrail:

@zrail That’s lower than I expected. I have my UPS draw additional 15W on top of the 30W from NAS https://kaspars.net/blog/powerwalker-vi-500-r1u

A 10W source in a 20x20x20in box gives you 6.6W per m2 or 0.33W/m2 at dT=20K which is achievable with 4in of pretty much any insulation board.

Responded to @zrail:

@zrail all the power used by the gear is dissipated as heat so you could build an insulated box to house just the gear and it should keep it warm enough. Do you know the total power consumption?

Used the public JSON activity feed from Mastodon to pull in toots into my WP site as a custom post type https://kaspars.net/notes

Doesn’t support images, yet. Should be relatively easy to implement. #PESOS

Noticed that #ActivityPub plugin for WordPress added a new reply to comments feature two weeks ago which started enqueueing 2MB of Javascript on all single post views. Created a pull request to fix that https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/pull/706

Responded to @janboddez:

@janboddez Thanks for sharing this! Which Micropub app are you using? I can’t seem to find anything for iOS.

Responded to @kasparsd:

@janboddez I wonder if I could extend it to also pull in content from Mastodon… just purely to use the Mastodon apps for publishing instead of WP admin.

Responded to @kasparsd:

@janboddez Haha, I assume it is this https://jan.boddez.net/wordpress/share-on-mastodon 🤦‍♂️

@janboddez How are you posting Notes https://jan.boddez.net/notes to Mastodon and then capturing their URLs?

Responded to @janboddez:

@janboddez There are a few individuals and companies who are batch-submitting “vulnerability reports” that rely on DB read access. Plugins storing any kind of secrets in WP options are all targeted.

I do understand the benefits of encrypting those secrets but that would require asking site owners to update wp-config.php which is the only “safe” place to store secrets in WP. Imagine each plugin asking for its own constant…

Something enabled the default webserver on ports 80 and 8081 of our home QNAP NAS which prevented the my reverse proxy container from starting on the same port. Maybe enabling home folders does this?

Responded to @kasparsd:

If only I could count 😅 — it is clearly 6 full days which brings it to 6.6Wh / 6 days / 24h = 0.046W or 12mA@3.7V on average.