Great podcast https://linuxlads.com/episodes/137/

https://wevoteforpalestine.net

Free Palestine!

From The River To The Sea, Palestine Will Be Free

Stop the genocide.

you can convert it to html by piping through aha too:

lolcat -f system-info.txt | aha > tmp.html

HTML output here.

And sometimes it would take 2-3 power cycles before it would come back up.

Also no decent firmware updates either to fix it. It’s not like it was a cheap bit of hardware. I expect more for my money D-Link!

So – that’s it for me. No more D-Link devices.

My networking guy put me onto the Nokia 5g FastMile devices. I got a 5G-24W-A from Ebay for $165 delivered. I had a few issues getting it going due to the APN not being detected. Once I put the correct APN in, all was good.

It turned out to be trickier than expected as MicroSIP uses the old INI file format for passing in the command.

Upon reading the source, I saw that MicroSIP uses the function GetPrivateProfileString to read the ini file and this was never designed to cope with long strings with spaces in them.

I came up with a solution to use the good old 8.3 filename format in windows for the path names.

To discover the file names you can use dir /X. Edit the cmdCallAnswer line of the micrisip.ini file.

cmdCallAnswer=C:\Users\foo bar\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\python.exe c:\Users\foo bar\launch_browser.py https://example.com/path

becomes something like:

cmdCallAnswer=C:\Users\FOOBAR~1\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\python.exe c:\Users\FOOBAR~1\LAUNCH~1.PY https://example.com/path

Also, MicroSIP works perfectly well under wine too!

This is the script I wrote for launching the browser:

import sys
import webbrowser

def main():
    if len(sys.argv) < 2:
        print("Usage: launch_browser.py <URL> [param1=value1] [param2=value2] ...")
        sys.exit(1)

    base_url = sys.argv[1]
    query_params = sys.argv[2:]

    # Construct the query string
    query_string = "".join(query_params)

    # Combine the base URL and query string
    full_url = f"{base_url}{query_string}"

    # Open the default web browser with the constructed URL
    webbrowser.open(full_url)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

I hope this helps someone and Free Palestine! Stop the genocide!

I had a USB Battery pack who’s case got smashed. so I designed and 3d printed a new case, and while I was at it, added a newer circuit board to it that has USB-C charging capability.

PCB: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001965710528.html

Onshape 3D design

The lid of the case is super-glued down. I was going to make it a screw closed lid but the design effort and sourcing of suitable screws was just too hard. If I ever need to open the case I’ll just 3D print a new case (probably with some enhancements).

Drop by and say hello:

https://web.libera.chat/?channel=##palestine

or

ircs://libera.chat:6697/%23%23palestine

I came up with this approach to apt install the most recent one:

sudo apt install \
   $(find /home/jason/Downloads/ \
       -name 'discord*.deb' -type f -printf '%T+ %p\n' | \
      sort -r | head -1 | cut -d' ' -f2)

or you can build it into a bash function:

update-discord()
{
sudo apt install \
  $(find /home/jason/Downloads/ -name 'discord*.deb' -type f -printf '%T+ %p\n' | \
  sort -r | head -1 | cut -d' ' -f2)
}

One could also consider deleting the .deb after successful install. That is an excercise left for the reader

Free Palestine!