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Quick photo for reddit
A quick shot of the internals of a quick functional print I did ready for Xmas 2026
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The Trump FBI/CIA nominee acting just as we expect
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fbi-director-christopher-wray-preparing-possible-forced-exit-trump-rcna179684 Talking about the possibility he’ll be FBI or CIA director under Trump we have the following from Kash Patel “We will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government but in the media — yes, we’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens who helped…
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Back online
After some wrangling the blog is back (for what it’s worth), now brought to you by docker and some redirection magic.
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Timer controlled fan
At the UI level I’ve got tap setup to toggle the switch itself for a simple on / off, and double tap to trigger the virtual switch which triggers the flow and starts / stops the timer. The lovelace is setup to change to green for “on” and red for “on and timer” with the…
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HA 2023.7.3
SSL got buggered up, interacting badly with Pirate Weather. Back out didn’t work, removing pirateweather and then “ha core rebuild” appears to have unfucked things. Now back to our regularly scheduled Saturday stuff. On the plus side it was only the phone interface which broke, the underlying system was still working, which would have been…
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Birds on a swing
A photo in an unrestricted series of the birds, doing bird things because I can. Hell if everyone else can post cat pictures I’ll do birb ones.
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Birthday cake happened
A certain young lady is five today, so on Saturday we popped down to see them all and of course cake had to happen. Theme / Inspiration supplied by the recipient of course. I sense a goth in the making.
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“They have a cave troll”
Not really but we do appear to have a bees nest. Looks like it’s white arsed bumbles, which I know are generally placid and need some help. Though could do without hearing the little buggers hovering around waiting for landing permission. They’re dropping down under the steps flags where the downpipe used to go from…
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Another breakdown of where we are
The bottom line is that they’ve decided to “let rip” hoping that they can get the COVID surge controlled before the flu one. Potentially at the cost of wrecking many lives, not death but long term disability. We all know that this and previous governments have protected those in need so, no worries… right?