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Cake day: August 11th, 2023

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  • They take a bit. One trick too is that you actually want to prune some of the fruit before they really grow otherwise they will put all.of there stored energy and make some wasted fruit (too small, fall off too early, etc) and wont have as much the next year.

    Not exactly an expert but i try to pick up advice when i can. Straight line winds actually blew mine to about 30° angle a few years back but they are still hanging on after years of pruneing.


  • I made apple pie from “scratch” (never sure how far i need to go for it to “from scratch” for me) for the first time. Bobs Red Mill pie gluten free pie crust. Granny smiths from my tree, with brown sugar, a little corn starch, and some mulled elderberry wine. Simmered the all of the not curst in a pan, then stored in a fridge for a week, and did it again just baking it (even after cooling it the first time it wasn’t thick enough too me).

    Ive been so happy on how its turned out, but the whole time i really felt like i was just pretending to cook (becaue i had never done it before). The motivation of (all of these apples are going to rot unless i hurry up and do something with them) really motivated me lol




  • First design things to work fully offline. Full airgap between the system and the rest of the world. Then introduce features to update that airgapped system from one way data transfers (like sneakernetting a hard drive/USB/disk/tape). Then introduce additional features to get that data from a network but cached local. Then introduce networked features, and only if connecting to another independent system is absolutely needed.

    Basically stick what has worked in tech and avoid developing SaaS. At least if you are making something for users and not shareholders.





  • Unfortunately modems have the issue that they are made to be provisioned, configured, and owned by the ISP. At least that’s how most DOCSIS setups I’ve seen work.

    The only hope I’m seeing (I’m also wanting to do this) is running my own CMTS. I found a service (https://github.com/cablelabs/os-provisioning is the only opensource tool I’ve seen before) but I am still trying to figure out a reasonable cost way to connect that server to the actual network (so far bladerf sdr is ny best hair brained idea, which is really only cost effective because I want to play with 5g too). The last bit of luck I have is that my ISP isn’t actually doing firmware updates on my modems, so if I connected them to my Internet lab network, provisioned my custom OS and firmware, and then connected it back to the ISP I can get their DOCSIS config. In theory at least 😅

    Netgear has modems that have their OS and firmware in nice packages with build instructions at least. ARIS’s older modem code is out there too but a pain compared to get.

    You technically could use that same sdr as the modem on your ISPs network BUT because it’s actually RF the FCC regulates it (for good reason I guess lol).