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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Short answer: It will probably work, since I assume you don't need the timing to be reliable. It could start to glitch if the pi is under heavy load.

Since you're using python I'll assume you're using linux. Linux isn't a real time operating system, so it is generally terrible at doing things like this. The issue is your program can be paused by the scheduler while the OS is doing something else, so any timing you request is not guaranteed. Now, a pi is ridiculously overpowered for this, so you'll probably get away with it if that's all the pi is doing, but under heavy load you could see the OS prioritise other processes and your display will freeze.

You could install the preempt_rt patches to make it do real time better, this changes Linux into something that resembles a real time operating system, I don't have any experience with it though.

Generally something like this is better done by a microcontroller, because it isn't constantly trying to juggle a hundred different tasks like an operating system is.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 12 points 22 hours ago

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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 12 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

"genuine leather" is often reconstituted leather, that is leather scraps ground up and bound together with a binder, like MDF.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

The UK has https://www.legislation.gov.uk/

It only covers statute law, not common law, but most things are codified by statute today.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 143 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a good idea, but some of the ideas around visibility controls seem incompatible with federation and openness. Any federated system has the possibility of interacting with incomplete implementations.

Your idea of message moderation seems well intentioned, but it would make E2EE impossible to implement.

Also anything like this where geography matters will need a way to reach critical mass quickly.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 32 points 2 days ago (14 children)

Technically antisocial personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder are neurodivergent...

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 21 points 2 days ago

Error 418: That's a teapot

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 5 points 2 days ago

Subscribed/scaled normally.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 13 points 3 days ago (4 children)

That's crazy, my over 5 year old laptop has that and it was considered the bare minimum then.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

A coordinated effort to do that on a specific day could be interesting.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 4 points 4 days ago

but people outside of China can get on WeChat, though making an account outside of China is impossible.

No it isn't, I've done so.

 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/40686365

A wild beaver has been spotted in Norfolk for the first time since beavers were hunted to extinction in England at the beginning of the 16th century.

It was filmed dragging logs and establishing a lodge in a “perfect beaver habitat” on the River Wensum at Pensthorpe, a nature reserve near Fakenham in Norfolk.

It is the first time a free-living beaver has been recorded in the county since the species began to re-establish itself in the English countryside in 2015, when a litter of wild kits was born in Devon.

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