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Japan: Jail for cyclists who text and ride under new laws - BBC News
  • This article lacks some details, but I believe this is largely just treating a bicycle more like any other vehicle. As far as vehicle crimes go here, the existence of jail time as a punishment only exists if you don’t pay the fine, and these new laws just increase the fines.

    Anyways, these changes are largely worthless for a couple of reasons. First it’s already a crime to use your phone while riding a bike, or riding drunk, or riding with headphones, but it’s basically totally unenforced. Same thing with riding using an umbrella, but even the police do that here!

    As for drunkards getting home from the bar, they wouldn’t have a car available to them generally, so people riding drunk are usually doing so because they missed their last train, and they don’t want to pay for a taxi.

  • Executive Director Of WordPress Resigns.
  • The problem is Matt Mullenweg, he’s the source of all the drama (and to quote someone else, he’s Musk, but coded in php lol).

    There’s a good long form write up here: https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/fire-matt (Sorry, not exactly a tldr, but I found this article this interesting)

  • (Toy) Woodpeckers seen in Tokyo
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    I have found some very cool woodpecker magnet gatcha toys at a place in Tokyo. Gatcha are vending machines you pay a few dollars to get a random item from a set, and they change constantly.

    I kept going till I had all four woodpeckers (took 5 tries), there are:

    Now I just need to find the same ones in real life 😅

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    Ridiculed Stable Diffusion 3 release excels at AI-generated body horror
  • Maybe I’m out of the loop, but I was under the impression people paying for the enterprise tier were largely using the model on their own hardware, and that the removal of this tier was largely just rent seeking by SD against people improving on their model and selling access to a better version.

    Did SD really sell unlimited access to their compute/ image generator for a fixed price? If so that’s just so dumb it’s hard to believe. I only started paying attention to the company recently though, so maybe I’m missing something.

  • Let's discuss: Half-Life
  • To provide a counterpoint, I think it can definitely be worth it to throw together a cheap VR setup for this game.

    I personally went through Half-life Alyx on my original Oculus Rift CV1 and it was still an amazing experience. I don't know where you live, but in my market a good condition CV1 is selling for about 10,000 yen (so that's equivalent to 65 USD, but your market will probably vary).

    This is PC VR though, so you'll probably want a PC with at least a 1080-class GPU. Once you have the headset though there's a few games from the same era which had simlarly incredible experiences like Lone Echo.

  • Matter Support arrives for Switchbot Vacuum
  • For me, it didn't prompt the upgrade when I went to the firmware page, but it did prompt for it when I went into the matter settings page.

    I think Switchbot does slow rollouts, but if it's not available for you yet you can just send them a message in the feedback page of the app and they'll probably be able push the upgrade to you (I've done this a couple of times for previous matter releases).

  • Matter Support arrives for Switchbot Vacuum
  • It's not thread-based matter to the vacuum directly, but matter over wifi using their Hub 2 as a bridge, but I just tested and it works! The vacuum shows up as a binary OnOff plug, toggling it on starts a cleaning session, and off cancels the session and returns the unit to base.

    I should note, I had to update my Hub 2 firmware to V2.0-1.2, which also adds the ability to swap out the temperature and humidity sensors to other devices for being a matter bridge, which is nice.

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    Pi 5 Combined POE and NVME Hat
  • I don’t have raw numbers, since it’s running Home Assistant that doesn’t give you a nice way to test disk speed, but the startup is significantly faster. I found it could take a minute or two with the microSD card, but on NVME it seems to be only around 30 seconds until I can SSH in.

  • Pi 5 Combined POE and NVME Hat
  • I don't have raw numbers, since it's running Home Assistant that doesn't give you a nice way to test disk speed, but the startup is significantly faster. I found it could take a minute or two with the microSD card, but on NVME it seems to be only around 30 seconds until I can access the web UI or SSH in.

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    I wanted to share my most recent delivery from AliExpress, an MCUZone MPS2242-POE A hat for my Pi 5, that combines an NVME controller, and POE circuitry. I couldn't find any info on these before buying, so I thought it would be good to share with the raspberry Pi community here.

    I think these hats would be useful for merging the functions of both devices if you were planning to buy them anyways. You can already get the same functionality of this with combining a NVME base (ex. Pimoroni) with the Waveshare POE hat, but I didn't think the combo would fit in my little 1U pi rack, since the base adds some height (see attached photo album for checking our the sizes)

    Costs seem similar to buying the hats separately, this combined hat was 3,980 yen with shipping for me, and the waveshare POE hat was about 3000 yen, plus 1500 yen for a NVME base (costs might be more or less depending on where you're shipping it to, I'm in Japan).

    It supports disks of 2230 or 2242 size only. In the case of 2230, there's no standoff included for the hole, and you need to supply your own. I used a small bolt (M3 I think) to fix my 2230 disk in place. This hat does block the CSI/ DSI port, but there's a B version that has holes in the PCB so you can use these plugs, but it's taller then the A version I bought.

    There's also a USB-C port on the board, I initially though this could be used for mounting the drive on another machine, but it doesn't seem to work for that. It's just there to supply power to other accessories (5V 3A according to spec-sheet)

    I only installed it earlier today, but as a first review it works great. I have my Pi setup with two USB devices (zigbee stick and connection to a UPS) and power is working fine.

    The tricky part for me was moving/ installing an OS on the NVME drive, as I don't have a NVME to USB reader to access the NVME disk from the normal raspberry Pi Imager tool I use on my laptop. To anyone in the same position these steps will work with any NVME hat for the Pi 5 to install:

    • Create a generic Rasperry PI OS image on any microsd card, then boot that up from the on your Pi 5 with NVME hat installed.
    • Use this environment to update the EEPROM, which depending on your version might be necessary for the NVME hat to work. sudo rpi-eeprom-update sudo raspi-config
    • You can then use the built-in raspberry pi disk imager tool to install whatever you want with the NVME as a target, or if you have an existing Pi 5 image you want to copy over you can do so with dd to clone it (In my case this was a Home Assistant image), as long as you can plug in your existing microSD card with a USB reader to the Pi5 so it can access both disks. (Check the names of your disks with lsblk) sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/nvme0n1 status=progress
    • Once this is done, shutdown the pi and pull the microSD card (and USB microSD adapter if you were using one). If everything worked you'll boot up into your NVME environment. You can also use the raspi-config tool to setup nvme boot as a priority over microSD boot, but I left mine as default in case I need to go back to another OS quickly for any reason by just plugging in any old microSD installation.

    Hope this info is useful to people here! If there's any questions about this guy let me know.

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