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Here's a question for the #RepairCafe-type folks here; I took apart a clock/radio with a dead battery in it, with the intention of picking up a replacement.

The battery has absolutely no markings on it at all. The manual says it's a 800 mAh LI rechargeable, but no mention of voltage (I suspect ~3.7V), and no hints on the circuitboard.

Battery is completely dead; doesn't move the voltmetre at all. Completely dead.

How could I confirm it's 3.7V? (or something else?)

Yael Grauer‪ · 4w

this, tbh. https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/02/nonconsensual-slopping/#robowanking

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@nprofile1q... ”Emailing a stranger a blob of unverified AI output is not a form of dialogue – it's an attempt to coerce a stranger into unpaid labor on your behalf. Strangers are not your "human in the loop" whose expensive time is on offer to painstakingly work through the plausible sentences a chatbot made for you for free.” @nprofile1q... 💯 This.

Riku Mattila :verified: · 5w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqf8mhv3enmgrdvcs0up32cagcp0putyhjsw23rhvcpju0xvzxv00qncjgw2 50+-yo know-it-all staff. And a clueless team supervisor. The situation will change ...

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@nprofile1q... Are they expecting you magically to be cured in 2027?

Rolle Laukkarinen · 5w

Besides the flood of new habit trackers, the strangest thing is seeing vibe coders writing thousands of lines for basic tools like lsof or ls. We're doomed.

WTL @WTL 1775215891

@nprofile1q... Rather then spend time looking for a tool that probably already exists, they vibecode up some garbage that won’t be remotely as optimized as what’s been built for decades.

An indictment as to how terrible search engines have become.

Kate Kirby · 5w

One of the reasons ThinkGeek's April Fools products worked so well is that we spent the entire month of March doing little else other than preparing for April 1. The majority of the joke products had...

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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... They were so great.

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Okay folks of #Books

Going to get serious about organizing my ebooks and audiobooks. Which filename convention do you think is best (for file-based management)? (suggestions?)

Author Last Name, First name, series name, book number, title
eg: Sawyer, Robert J, The Quintaglio Ascension, Book 1, Far-Seer

Series name, book number, title, author name
eg: The Quintaglio Ascension, Book 1, Far-Seer, by Robert J Sawyer

(boosts for reach appreciated)

Rolle Laukkarinen · 6w

It's funny how some people say they joined because our instance is Finnish. It's true that I'm Finnish and our servers are located in Finland, but we don't promote ourselves as a Finnish instance, nor...

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@nprofile1q... One of my favourite things since I joined Mastodon is regularly seeing posts and languages other than English or French. Reading the posts is now relatively easy thanks to machine translation (not perfect, but usually gets the point across). It makes me feel more connected to the whole world.

Riku Mattila :verified: · 7w

Having spent all my adult life thinking about all the things that can go wrong in a nuclear reactor, I find it a bit amusing when someone says, "Sure, nuclear is fine as long as everything goes as pla...

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@nprofile1q... This post comes time mind …

https://federate.social/@mattblaze/116258601532281660

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When I sign up for being on a TestFlight for an app, I understand that the deal is I have to expect bugs, strange behaviour, and mess with the interface to help the developer make the best app.

I really quite enjoy doing it.

Today's the first day I've come to regret it. 100% data loss within an app.

I've *never* seen that happen before.

Fortunately, I have most of the data backed up elsewhere. Nothing *important* has been lost, just … inconvenient.

<long digital sigh>

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