penguin42 @penguin42@mastodon.org.uk

I'd noticed in a couple of foods lately 'citrus fibre' listed in the ingredients; I'd never seen it before - I think it's: http://www.citrusfibre.co.uk/ aka http://www.fiberstar.net/products/ - processed orange peel/pulp. They seem to be listing it as a replacement for loads of things

first task of xmas hols done; firewall upgraded to 18.04; small 'discussion' with shorewall that wanted me to explicitly list a helper to load otherwise it wouldn't reload the old rules.

There's lots in the news about how doomed our high street is this year; it's difficult to tell; last Saturday Manchester city centre was really busy, so it's a good sign; this week it's pretty quiet but there again it's damn cold. Who knows?

Now I've got the basic z-wave stuff going, I think I'm going to go with https://www.home-assistant.io/ to do stuff properly. It's open, not Java, and looks pretty neat. That's going to be a little bit more of a setup though, since I first have to upgrade the host which it is going to get added to.
With just one TRV (in my bedroom) I've got some ideas; like turning it down/off once I'm up, and perhaps turning it right up last thing at night on a cold day to get the latent heat over night.

OK, so I've got this z-wave thing on the radiator in my bedroom, and open-zwave control panel I can use to pair it and monitor it; I *think* it's still on temperature sensing and won't freeze me to death in the morning. I *think*. The radiator in my office has a different thread on it's mount, and none of the adapters would fit. Hmm. Also, all our radiators have vertical valves, so the temp sensor is a bit too close to the radiator.

I seem to have bought a #z-wave thermostatic radiator valve and controller. It's the Eurotronics 'spirit' valve; I guess that gives me fun later trying to figure out how to fit it.

Finally made some useful progress in my #vulkan mandelbulb; for those who remember I had it working as all compute shaders; but that was rather silly - so now the ray tracer is in a fragment shader, the bulb calc is in a compute shader and there's a trivial vertex shader. Lots of rough edges but at least the damn thing works! Been a bit of a fight.

I hate how build tools are so random these days; on one project I type make, another I take cargo build, another I type ninja, another has it's own build tool.

I watched the film 'paycheck' last night; quite a nice different almost sci-fi film. When flicking through the TV listing I almost confused it with 'payback' (which I also like) which is an entirely different type of film.

Eww google has started round cornering everything.

On my way to a #Manchester #openstack meetuo

Time for a lego head to passthrough the body; scientifically tested:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jpc.14309

(with SHAT and FART scores!)

#Science
via arstechnica

Manchester Arndale's HMV has 3 high res spinning full colour displays - they're gorgeous - they're built into domes in the front window - you can only just see they're rotary from concentric circles, and taking a fast shutter to them you can see the rotation - lovely.

I worry that z-wave seems to be implemented by only one company in silicon. Not sure there are better alternatives.