Thomas Karpiniec
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Thomas Karpiniec
@octet-stream.net
Tasmanian programmer often writing networking-related Rust. Likes music but mostly posts opinions about computers. Also known as thombles and VK7XT.
Of course, that’s the joy of having two choices of network transport - if one of them works better in a given situation (either range or throughput), well, prefer that one.
December 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Speaking (unofficially) as a Ditto person, this is a surprising result! One possible explanation for differences: BLE uses 2.4 GHz while Wifi Aware could be using 5 GHz so interference profiles could be different. I’ve personally tested solid BLE sync over 100m so it’s possible!
December 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
There was definitely a period in my life when I was ripping CDs to vorbis because something-something patents and people were making fun of me and I was like "haha whatever, how neat is Linux"
December 22, 2025 at 8:37 AM
What are the most important things you look for when checking if a random crate will be usable/suitable in an embedded project?
December 20, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I'm all out of verification cans :(
December 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
They tried this with Ingress but all I ever found was other nerds with phones
December 18, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Do you have a link for CI=build? I've tried three search engines and danged if any of them are going to give me sensible results
December 17, 2025 at 10:33 AM
December 17, 2025 at 8:10 AM
True but it would be sad to go without streaming logs
December 17, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I could imagine this is meant to be an “easier to understand” version of exactly that, but even so it’s a bit steep
December 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
GitHub: check it out we have codespaces
Me: what would I want that for? I have a perfectly good compu-
Crazy LLMs: hello
Me: okay GitHub you may have a point
December 15, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Well dang
December 15, 2025 at 5:54 AM