It is awful here...

kanamaluka (aka River Tamar) in kinimathatakinta/George Town, lutruwita/Tasmania

Samphire succulent plants

Black bicycle in the wind shelter thing

Regent Square: the "ufo" has landed

Embedding, it works :-)

It works...

Also What Do Words Mean ?

Embedding Mastodon posts

 

Minds Do Matter 2022

Earlier this year... 

Minds Do Matter 2022 at the QVMAG community gallery. The Rant Arts (Tasmania) Minds Do Matter exhibition "explores the relationship between art and mental health, celebrating the power of art to be life enhancing and life affirming." 

    

 

  

Ross Tin Can Show 2022

Earlier this year...  

Sculpture Tasmania's Tin Can Sculpture exhibition in Ross 2022

The Thistle Inn Stable Gallery

Canned Humanity, Just Add Water - Anita Denholm

The Catalogue

We choose to go to the moon, for tea - mousehammer

The Red Herrings of Ross - Mhairi Revie

Cat Clock - Grieta Bosveld

Spike 19 - Mikayla Beaty

The exhibition is documented in a catalogue. 

There was also a "sculpture trail" around town, in shops and such, featuring items from previous exhibitions.

Unititled - Simone Mansfield

Walking Man - Robert Boldkald

Updating Mastodon status using cURL

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bashword : A Wordle-like game in BASH

bashword

 

#!/bin/bash
clear
shopt -s lastpipe
RED="\e[1;31m"
GREEN="\e[1;37;42m"
BROWN="\e[33m"
CYAN="\e[36m"
GRAY="\e[37m"
YELLOW="\e[1;43;30m"
COLOUR=( $GRAY $GREEN $YELLOW )
EOC="\e[0m"
z=$RANDOM
COUNT=0
guessNum=1
CONGRATS=("Extraordinary !" "Superb !" "Well Done" "Not bad" "Just OK... " "Just in time !")
 
# build a WORD array
grep "^.....$"  /usr/share/dict/words|grep -v "[é'[:upper:]]"|
while read word ;do
   WORDS[$COUNT]+=$word
   ((COUNT++))
done  

# select a random 5 letter word
word=${WORDS[$(($RANDOM % ${#WORDS[@]}))]}
echo -e $CYAN"Guess the 5 letter word"
echo -e "The letter clues are colour coded :"$EOC
echo -e "           "$GREEN     "  Correct position   "$EOC
echo -e "           "$YELLOW   "  Incorrect position "$EOC
if [ "$1" == "DEBUG" ] ; then echo "The word is:" $word ;fi

while [ $guessNum -lt  7 ]   
do
  found=0
 while [ $found -eq 0 ] ; do
  echo -e $CYAN"Enter guess no." $guessNum $EOC
  read guess
  while [ ${#guess} -lt 5 ] ;do
    echo "Enter a 5 letter word"
    read guess
  done  
  #check guess is real word
  n=${#WORDS[@]}
  ((n--))
  while [ $n -ge 0 ] ;do
    if [ ${WORDS[$n]} == $guess ] ; then
     found=1
     break
    fi
    ((n--))
  done
  if [ $found -eq 0 ];then
    echo -e $RED"Word not found in list, Try again"$EOC
  fi
 done
 
 # check for correct letter in correct space
 unset testWord
 match=(0 0 0 0 0 )
 for letter in {0..4} ;do
     testWord[$letter]+=${word:$letter:1}  
     if [ ${guess:$letter:1} == ${testWord[$letter]} ]; then
      set $((match[$letter] = 1))
      testWord[$letter]="_"
     fi
 done

# check for correct letters anywhere...  
 for gw in {0..4} ;do
    for tw in {0..4} ;do
     if [ ${testWord[$tw]} == ${guess:$gw:1} ]; then
      if [ ${match[$gw]} -eq 0 ] ;then
         set $((match[$gw] = 2))
         testWord[$tw]="_"
      fi
     fi
  done
 done  

# display matches
 echo " "
 for letter in {0..4} ;do
     echo -en ${COLOUR[${match[$letter]}]}" "${guess:$letter:1} $EOC
 done  
 echo
 echo

 if [ "$guess" ==  "$word" ] ; then
   echo ${CONGRATS[$guessNum-1]}
   echo
   break
 fi
  ((guessNum++))
done

if [ $guessNum -eq 7 ]; then
 echo -e "You ran out of guesses\nThe word was "$word
fi

M5StickC (RF) Remote Control decoder

When tinkering with 433 Mhz RF appliance switches it's handy to easily check what codes they respond to. This is a simple decoder using the RCswitch library

 
#include <M5StickC.h>
#include <RCSwitch.h>

RCSwitch mySwitch = RCSwitch();

int x=0;
int y=4; 
void setup() {
   M5.begin();
   M5.Lcd.setRotation(3);
   Serial.begin(115200); 
   mySwitch.enableReceive(0); 

    //labelled G0 on the "HAT" end of the M5StickC 
}

void loop() {
  if (mySwitch.available()) {
   
    Serial.print("Code ");
    Serial.print( mySwitch.getReceivedValue() );
    Serial.print(" / ");
    Serial.print( mySwitch.getReceivedBitlength() );
    Serial.print("bit ");
    Serial.print("Protocol: ");
    Serial.println(mySwitch.getReceivedProtocol() );
    Serial.print( mySwitch.getReceivedValue() );
    Serial.print(",");
    Serial.print( mySwitch.getReceivedBitlength() );
    Serial.print(",");
    Serial.println( mySwitch.getReceivedProtocol() );
 
    M5.Lcd.fillScreen(TFT_BLACK);
    M5.Lcd.setTextColor(TFT_GREEN, TFT_BLACK);   
    M5.Lcd.setCursor(x, y, 2);
    M5.Lcd.setTextSize(1);
    M5.Lcd.print("Code ");
    M5.Lcd.print( String(mySwitch.getReceivedValue()) );
    M5.Lcd.print(" / ");
    M5.Lcd.print( String(mySwitch.getReceivedBitlength()) );
    M5.Lcd.println("bit ");
    M5.Lcd.print("Protocol: ");
    M5.Lcd.println( String(mySwitch.getReceivedProtocol()) );
    mySwitch.resetAvailable();
     
   } //if mySwitch
}//loop 

What Do Words Mean ?

 What Do Words Mean ?

Internet Time (in C this time)

The plain C version: 

 
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <math.h>

Internet Time (Processing)

In the glorious utopian (comparatively) early internet Swatch thought a universal time system would be a good idea. Wikipedia has an article on it : Swatch Internet Time .

Here is a "@beats" clock in Processing :

import java.util.*;  
int oldbeats=0;   	
Date trialTime;
TimeZone cet;
Calendar calendar ;

void setup() {
  size(120, 120);  
  cet=TimeZone.getTimeZone("Europe/Stockholm");
  calendar = new GregorianCalendar(cet);
}

void draw(){
 
  trialTime = new Date();
  calendar.setTime(trialTime);
  
  int beats =  floor( (calendar.get(Calendar.SECOND) + 
                      (calendar.get(Calendar.MINUTE) * 60) + 
                      (calendar.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY)  * 3600))
                      / 86.4005529635 );

  if (beats > oldbeats) { 
    oldbeats = beats;
    background(255);
    textSize(40);
    fill(0, 102, 153, 204);
    text("@"+beats, 3, 60); 
  }
  delay(1000); 
}

void mousePressed (){
  exit();
}

nginx http - https proxy

nginx configuration file in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/


server {
  listen 81;

  location / {
    resolver 8.8.8.8;
    proxy_http_version 1.1;
    proxy_pass https://$host$request_uri;
  }
}

 

from here : https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/17680/how-can-i-visit-https-websites-in-old-web-browsers