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McMaster-Carr won’t sell to small companies, my friends and I have tried several times, only to have orders cancelled for the above-mentioned reason. It’s a shame because their website has a wealth of information (CAD drawings, measurements, etc.), one of the best I’ve seen.

I would like to hear any advice you/others have about finding a product in your niche to manufacture!

This is something that absolutely blows my mind. The bank's terms of service say you can't hand over your password to anyone, and here is Plaid asking users for their login information! I can't understand how they can ask users to breach terms of service, and have gotten so far.

I am inclined to agree - intent matters.

RCE/SQLi, then contacting the relevant company to notify them about the problem, shouldn't be a crime. RCE/SQLi, then dumping all the data and exorting the company with it, should definitely be.

There are some mic suggestions discussed on the github page[0].

[0] https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi/discussions/39

Tangentially related: I live in a border town, and my Meetup search results/suggestions are all in the neighbouring country. This was especially irritating during the pandemic, when the border was closed and couldn't be crossed for Meetups. Presumably they do a lookup on location+radius and don't consider the user's country.

I have contacted them to ask for help, and I follow up every month to remind them that it still needs to be fixed. But no luck so far.

Any suggestions a) how to get this specific issue resolved and b) general advice for getting menial (but "important to me") things like this fixed?

"Reversing With Lena" [0] is a great beginner walkthrough, including pictures.

[0] https://archive.org/details/lena151

Darknet Diaries [0] does an episode that involves DarkMatter

[0] https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/47/

See also: "nightmare tripping"

For disassembly practice, I used to collect broken electronics, and desolder various components for fun. You learn the different heat requirements of eg 2 layer boards vs motherboards with many layers.

For assembly practice, you can buy "SOIC breakout boards", the cheapest chips you can find, and go to town. Either with a solder stencil and some paste, or a syringe of paste and a blunt needle (this gets old fast!)

Coatings tend to make lots of nasty fumes when heated. Some can also prevent solder from wetting the pads or legs. Depending on the coating, overheating/burning may change its electrical properties.

I have an AccuRite weather station, it has an indoor and outdoor component. The indoor display is connected via USB to a Pi running WeeWX under Raspbian. It works well, I would recommend it.

Appreciate the kind response. Those pages are linked right on the homepage, I clicked on the Paris[0] one.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/7ey6spH.png

They actually tease you by pretending to show results on their website [0] but when you click on any of the flights it just takes you to their homepage.

[0] https://www.hopper.com/deals/best/from/city-toronto-YTO/to/c...

Working for me now too. Sorry - thanks for checking!

Also would be interested in this. I've looked but haven't found anything that has 2 voltage inputs (for split-phase) and 20-40 current inputs. Tempted to build it myself, basically this[0], pared-down, pluggable into a common backplane that would have ethernet, but haven't got around to it yet.

[0] https://github.com/CircuitSetup/Split-Single-Phase-Energy-Me...

Same! From the other comments it appears "not very common". Or maybe just selection bias! I find it interesting noticing the different kinds of "diesel smells" - new cars vs. older, tractors, semis, etc. For the record I also enjoy the kerosene-type fuel smell of jet engines.

I really enjoy the little mod PCB "TMS-RGB"[0] that makes this possible. Takes me back to my modchip days. I'd like to find a project that needs one of these designed - always wanted to make one myself but never had a reason.

[0] https://github.com/npiegdon/tms-rgb

Maybe someone with more experience than myself can chime in. At a previous startup we used regular pH sensors, from Atlas Scientific (exactly like the ones in the article), submerged in a tank of nutrient water. After a few days (a week tops) they would drift out of spec, and would need to be taken out, re-calibrated, and put back into the process.

Short of a system that takes samples and feeds the probe, and can calibrate automatically, how do you measure pH in-system long term? Is there a special kind of probe that stays in calibration for longer?

I've scraped MLS for personal use to build a very similar tool (draw on a map, highlight new listings, able to hide listings), and had no technical issues at all, just a simple curl call. This was a few years ago, though.

Genuinely curious about the fuse indicate you mention. On one hand it seems very useful! On the other hand, wouldn't this: a) pass a small amount of current in what would otherwise be a 'fault' condition? a few mA or so to light the globe/led b) depend on the load you have? a resistive load would allow the few mA to pass, but what about a regular led lightbulb (with a driver inside)?

Unfortunately McMaster-Carr won't deal with Canadian companies they believe could be associated with the cannabis industry "due to US Federal Laws". I've been at two companies where we've placed an order with them, then had it immediately cancelled. Only after following up did I learn the reason.

When I tried to re-order through my personal company (not in any way cannabis-related) I was told I'm not a big enough company for them to deal with (and they cancelled the order).

From a CAD/dimensional standpoint, their website is a goldmine. I just wish they would take my money.

Relevant XKCD [0]

[0] https://xkcd.com/1217/

In my log window I see:

  GPUs: 2
  GPU 0: Bus:1 Slot:0 Func:0 AMD:4 Barts XT [Radeon HD 6800 Series]
  GPU 1: Bus:2 Slot:0 Func:0 NVIDIA:7 GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 LP] 1862
  CUDA Device 0: Platform:0 Device:0 Bus:2 Slot:0 Compute:6.1 Driver:8.0
  OpenCL Device 0: Platform:0 Device:0 Bus:2 Slot:0 Compute:1.2 Driver:378.49
  OpenCL Device 1: Platform:1 Device:0 Bus:1 Slot:0 Compute:1.2 Driver:1800.8

I want to use the GTX1050, so I set gpu-index to 1. Only 1 CUDA device so I set cuda-index to 0. To use the OpenCL device for the GTX, I looked at the bus # (bus 2), found OpenCL device on bus 2 (device 0), so I set opengl-index to 0. Not sure if this is the right way, but it worked for me.

Same problem on my GTX 1050 (just tried updating drivers, no change). However, my laptop's GTX460M has pulled down project 11745 and is folding away.

EDIT after fiddling with gpu-index, cuda-index, and opencl-index (had to manually set them to point to my GTX 1050 [also have a BARTS card that is unsupported]) I was able to get a WU to download :)

+1 for Bosch. Their service/repair documentation (eg. [0]) is especially fantastic.

[0] https://www.frontloadbearings.com/bosch-800-plus-series-dish...

Going from dd-wrt to openwrt should be as simple as a firmware flash from the web gui, and an nvram reset. Worst case, you can flash a "revert to stock" image from ddwrt to go back to factory, then flash openwrt as if the device was factory.

Openwrt also has a handy failsafe built into a lot of models. It boots a stripped down http server where you can upload recovery firmware.

Used to swear by dd-wrt, now I prefer openwrt.

Do you know if WireGuard supports DHCP yet? I can only find wg-dynamic[0] but it doesn't look like it's functional.

[0] https://github.com/WireGuard/wg-dynamic/blob/master/docs/ide...

You are correct. Here's[0] a great video on the subject if you're interested.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SCplhq1xoYE

+1 for FreePBX. No affiliation, just a happy user.

Fantastically easy to set up a PBX at home in under an hour, with no prior Asterisk experience.