Had the opportunity to buy this watch dirt cheap. Unfortunately it has issues 😭 you wouldn’t believe how much a working version costs. You win some, you lose some.

Been working on this project off and on for the last month, for a rust hackathon.

[Ersha OS]

I’ve read this article twice but I can’t understand who’s at fault. https://birrmetrics.com/ethio-telecom-flags-risk-of-reverting-to-monopoly-over-safaricom-dispute/

Pretty accurate

This is tomorrow, planning on checking it out

Awesome episode! Crazy to think AWS hosts 500 trillion objects, and 99.99999999999 (11 9s) of durability means they still lose an acceptable amount of data

https://youtu.be/5vL6aCvgQXU?si=22ci-G94brL5TBbo

Yeah, the article sounded really odd tbh.

Last minute cancellation of the event, sadly, but just met the association’s president. Great guy tbh. Next week will be the actual event.

all is not lost, watching a polo game instead.

almost done with the serial simulator, it uses posix PTYs to simulate our sensors. It handles commands and broadcasts telemetry continuously (all configurable). The behavior is defined in a TOML file. Added it to a test pipeline for one of the services I maintain and it works pretty well.

Used nix (not that nix) it's a crate of rust bindings for the posix api. This sim doesn't handle binary streams, but other than that it should be able to handle most scenarios. If anyone is building something that uses sensors then they're probably using some type of serial connection (RS-232 etc) and if they don't have the sensor (or it's expensive to keep it in the lab) they can just model the protocol in the toml and use this instead. I will share a sample toml but, any sensor in the world that uses serial and has a public spec can be easily modeled (i hope) you don't even need to buy it.

I'll strip out the device-specific/company-specific stuff and make it generic, then share the repo on GitHub.

Oh, and added "replaying". You can basically take sensor output from a device that's in prod and replay it in your dev environment to reproduce certain issues and handle edge cases.

This is pretty cool

https://x.com/maestro__dev/status/2017975473641308352?s=46

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https://rep.et

Like I always say, check y.

One of the very few remaining frontiers

Am I early or am I late?