Cool. I have a modern (not smart) body weight scale and it regularly ruins this way at least one of the 3 GP NiMh rechargable AAA batteries I put in it, so I wanted to hear some ideas what could be done with them given they have been through only bunch of charge cycles.

If it runs on 3 AAAs you could also hotwire it to use 1 lithium ion (choosing a model with builtin protection).

see e.g. Who cares about the Baltic jammer ? https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-who-cares-about-the-baltic-jamme...

One of my colleagues (who has no beard) called this sort of job half jokingly retrocomputing. It has definitely its pros and cons.

Naive question maybe: do these AI companies crawl/ingest video/audio yet ? if yes, is that included in the stats ?

I know this is not a very helpful w.r.t. protection, however there is https://bikeindex.org/ - recently I was listening to a Darknet diaries podcast https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/153/ which has a nice story about stolen bikes and what to do about it.

This feels familiar. I lug my Lenovo laptop, the Logitech ergonomic mouse, aluminium laptop stand and external Keychron keyboard (thinking about buying the Q10 with Alice layout), mostly to have convenient setup on the go, not primarily for ergonomics. Carrying all this stuff plus the extra other things in the daily backpack is certainly not ergonomic, however I think about it as training for some long hikes.

I also use the LG DualUp display at home, like it very much. Similarly, my home setup has the rain design mStand next to it.

Now, if the espresso machine could be also carried with the computer setup..

The LG DualUp is such a gem!

You may be interested in one of my current projects, I’ll post details when it’s done, but I stripped down a Crossland CC1 and am rebuilding it in an enclosure I can travel with.

I think we’d get along.

This method is called "packing party" (without the moving) by the [Mm]inimalists.

In work environments it often takes the form of red tagging (https://www.learnleansigma.com/guides/5s-red-tagging/)

> In work environments it often takes the form of red tagging (https://www.learnleansigma.com/guides/5s-red-tagging/)

That sounds like a terrible idea... but now I understand where the insanity of our last wiki migration came from. The rule was to not automatically migrate anything that wasn't modified in the last year. Everything else needed to be migrated manually, by hand. It was sold as a great opportunity to "clean up."

We lost a lot of important design and reference documentation. My systems were fine, but if the last lead had been in charge during the transition, we'd have been fucked.

yep, the link in the "some calls to ConcurrentHashMap.get() seemed to be running infinitely." sentence points to HashMap.html#get(java.lang.Object)

I have seen that part myself (infinite loops), also I have quite extensive experience with CHM (and HashMap).

Overall such a mistake alone undermines the effort/article.

I have been working for a corporation for number of years however discovered the quotas thing only recently. Even though my motivation comes from elsewhere, this made a dent in it.

There is also https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo (Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today)