Apparently, in current versions of the amdgpu driver, there is a bug leading to
screen flickering with rx470/480. To workaround, the corresponding
bug report suggests
switching the power saving performance_level away from auto:
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Repitition sucks. Repeating the same things manually over and over again. All of
this boring, unnecessary manual work needs to be annihilated,
Today: Creating new feature branches
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This is a walkthrough for setting up a NodeMCU with a Si7021 temperature and
humidity sensor as an IOT device.
It will collect sensor information, and continuosly report them to Grafana and
MQTT.
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I've been trying to set up git commit signing, and was treated with the following
error:
error: gpg failed to sign the data
fatal: failed to write commit object
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A basic NodeJS Alexa fact skill based on the fact template
builds to a 4.5 MB deployment package (and that is with best zip compression).
This is way too much for code which does just spit out a random string.
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Since I run a gitolite server for my private projects, I needed a way to
regularly backup these repositories. The following script is run via crontab
as the gitolite user, and creates bundled versions of all hosted
repositories. Those are then pushed via SMB to a network attached storage.
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So I got one of those T-Shirts Amazon offered for Alexa Skill developers in
Germany. Quite cool design, and those binary numbers on the front apparently
were supposed to mean something. Actually supposed is the key word here,
as it seems someone over at Amazon did produce a typo ;-)
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Got myself a shiny new hipster domain. Took the chance to move hosting to AWS, and ditch wordpress in favor of a static generated site by Hugo.
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So I coded a tiny little 512-byte program fitting into a bootsector, which displays a big clock.
I even managed to squeeze switchable fore- and background colors and a key to toggle 12 vs 24 hour display in there. Now the sector is filled up to the limits, only 1 byte left. That’s 509 Bytes of Code & Data for a functioning clock program + 2 Bytes for the bootsector marker.
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