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  From a systems perspective the (Airbus A320) Lufthansa 1829 flight situation asks the question what happens when the majority of the sensors are wrong. Well worth the ~47 minutes to watch if you have any interest in systems thinking. (Mentour Pilot video released today. As a minor spoiler, the plane landed safely. The how and why is the interesting part.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpJM0_4PQaM

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  @stephen@ephemera.vital.org.nz for temperature monitoring many of them are Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). Either as generic beacons or with some query protocol. Home Assistant will in theory support a bunch of variants, although in some cases it needs a special association process. For Smart Plugs I think people who want locally only end up having to reflash them. But that’s fairly well supported for some models (eg up thread).

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  I knew that banks had been closing branches (especially accelerating in 2020 with the Covid-19 lockdowns), but it’s only now, looking at all the major banks for branch locations, that it’s obvious how much that’s happened. Even in major cities each major bank has one (or sometimes two) branches, total, in the whole city 😮 (There used to be a branch every second suburb, and half a dozen branches in each CBD. Now it’s at most ATMs every second suburb.)

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  FabFilter Pro Q3 as an instrument — as all the instruments really (the only other thing is pink noise, and inverted pink noise). Turns out being able to have 24 EQ points comes in handy! (5 minute video, released last week) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rk-hmIMv6I

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  @wdormann@infosec.exchange @Lioh@social.anoxinon.de I think that refers to the copy fail 2 release, which (from link in top post in this thread, repeated below) seems to be someone who reverse engineered one of the (dirty pipe) bugs from the upstream kernel fix and wrote it up (presumably originally assuming it was already fixed / shipped). An “embargo” with patches in public is… always going to be fragile. (Looks like “accidental duplicate find” here, because of first copy fail.) https://www...

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  An insightful breakdown of Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen song), from the 24 multitrack which has a combination of individual voices, bounces of multiple voices, and instrument tracks. It’s interesting just how multitracked it is for the time (lots of voices bounced down at least once, to regain more tracks). And how it used the “not to a click track” floating timing as an asset (TIL: tempo rubato) (20 minute David Hartley video released a few days ago.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLqhOEzpWyo

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  @aurynn@cloudisland.nz Xero claim an “auto pay invoices with Stripe” which looks like a one time setup for repeating invoices (of the same amount I suspect). Since that seems to be driven from the Xero side, maybe that’d be a work around? (Looks like Stripe is available to merchants in Aotearoa, just the “managed payments” thing is not. Which I’m guessing is more to do with the tax / compliance aspects, that maybe Xero can manage? 🤔) https://central.xero.com/s/article/Auto-pay-invoices-with...