My favorite 555 use was as a one-shot to power off a NIC after using its wake-on-LAN signal to reset a hung motherboard:

https://www.i3detroit.org/reset-on-lan-an-ethernet-aware-rem...

This is surreal. I've never pre-purchased a movie ticket in my life. I show up, buy a ticket and a box of Milk Duds, wander down the dark hall, find a seat, turn off my phone, and the lights go dark.

Exactly the same as it's always been, and it works beautifully. I can't imagine a reason to mess with it.

I wonder if they track how many people are sickened by the difficult-to-clean valve, because I bet it's a lot more than 3.

Luckily I got one of the valveless models, and you bet your ass I'm keeping it. Maybe I'll stick an "open away from face" label on top or something, but I'm not about to go increasing my risk of food contamination.

There's not really any way to make anything containing hot pressurized foods safe from people pointing it at their face. Either you get the lid in your face or you get steam in your face. The poor hygiene the vent creates is just an added bonus.

I'd rather they slap a warning on it, like everything else that you can't safely point at your face.

Every day, we get closer to reinventing Ricochet, 27 years later...

What does an Internet communication app that have to do with a mesh radio protocol?

Metricom Ricochet used dual-band radios, operating in 900MHz and 2.4GHz, to form a routable mesh that delivered internet access and other services, in 1999.

Ah, thanks, I didn't find any reference to that from a search (found a messaging app).

They used repeaters on street lights as part of the infrastructure, and even after the company went belly up people were able to use the repeaters for private networks. Pretty slick for the mid 90s.

Ricochet was a mesh internet provider.

I modded a laptop to charge over PoE in 2007. Before realizing that the places that had PoE, and the places I wanted to charge my laptop, had nearly zero overlap. It was virtually useless in practice, but I still love the idea.

I have not yet made a laptop to output PoE. Though it would be tremendously useful for provisioning IP cameras, there are dedicated thick-tablet-shaped devices for that, which do source PoE from their batteries.

The ix.industrial ethernet connector is a thing. I hate it, but it's a thing.

Exactly. Any software toggle can un-toggle itself.

They used to be part of your ISP. You got a usenet server, and a mail server and a web server with a certain amount of space, just as part of signing up.

This meant that everyone had one, you didn't have to go sign up somewhere else. You still could if you wanted to have a URL that didn't have your ISP's name in it.

Did they? I've been around for ages (I know the dial up tone by heart). My early ISPs at best offered a mailbox (not a mail server), no web server, Usenet was extra.

And few people used the ISP mailbox because you couldn't take it with you when you left. Hell, I got my gmail during the invite only era

I also got a gmail during the invite only. I was so stoked, I drew a picture of Link (from Wind Waker) holding a Gmail icon over his head in his triumphant "got a new item!" pose.

Some ISPs from back in the day did offer a few megs of space for a web site with a ~username url that you could use to build a personal site. But by the late 90s this practice began to wane as services like GeoShitties became the norm.

Ooo hey, I recognize some of my favorite Tindie sellers right on the Lectronz front page too.

Excellent, thank you.

I swear there's a new one of these every year. Not a single one sticks around.

I've been using LocalSend for quite some time now, after hearing about it for years. It's not a new one.