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Got a 16x16 Divoom Pixoo pixel art frame, a Bluetooth connected device with a small battery in a nice case. It can blink pixels. There's an app and Github repo with Python code.

Still, getting the think to run was a bit of a challenge on Ubuntu 22.04... First, it show up as a Bluetooth device:

$ hcitool scan
Scanning ...
	11:75:58:xx:xx:xx	Pixoo

Then, one can check if RFCOMM is available using sdptool:

$ sdptool browse 11:75:58:xx:xx:xx
Browsing 11:75:58:xx:xx:xx ...
Service Name: Serial Port 1
Service RecHandle: 0x10004
Service Class ID List:
  "Serial Port" (0x1101)
Protocol Descriptor List:
  "L2CAP" (0x0100)
  "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
    Channel: 1

Note the channel number (1), older Divoom devices use (4) here.

Next, there's an issue with Ubuntu's python3-pybluez package (0.23-4build1) in 22.04/jammy:

self.sock.send(bytes(package))
  File "", line 3, in send
SystemError: PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN macro must be defined for '#' formats

It's an issue with Python 3.10 and apparently a special flag macro must be #defined when compiling the library. Luckily, this can be easily fixed by installing the python3-pybluez 0.23-5 package from 22.10/kinetic.

posted at: 13:11 | path: /fun | permanent link

Tue, 26 May 2020

Finally: LaTeX.css

CSS library that turns your HTML document into a website that looks like a LaTeX document. Write semantic HTML, add <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://latex.now.sh/style.css"> to the <head> and...

posted at: 00:18 | path: /fun | permanent link

Thu, 30 Jan 2020

Emojis and Unicode codepoints

The "pinched fingers" emoji, the Italian hand gesture ma che vuoi, has been added to Unicode 13.0 (end of January 2020, new in Emoji 13.0), codepoint is U+1F90C.

Does your font already support it? 🤌
Pile of Poo (U+1F4A9, 💩) has been supported since Unicode 6.0 (2010) and was added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.

posted at: 16:49 | path: /fun | permanent link

Tue, 12 Jun 2018

Henry on stage (green screen)

Playing with a green screen (chroma keying) and recording with Open Broadcaster Software (OBS Studio).

Using two USB webcams and my Alpine email window as video sources.

There is a video recording as well.

posted at: 23:57 | path: /fun | permanent link

Tue, 13 Oct 2015

Highest SpamAssassin score ever :)

I recognize spam when I see it; this email succeeds in having all possible spam characteristics...

Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 16:19:07 +0200
From: Ayesha Gaddafi 
To: undisclosed-recipients:  ;
Subject: *SPAM* Score: 40.1/5.0 - Hallo
Content preview:  Hallo Ich habe ein Geheimnis Geschäft Vorschlag für Sie antworten
   Sie bitte mich für weitere Informationen über die per E-Mail: ayeshgadd@gmail.com
   [...] 

Content analysis details:   (40.1 points, 5.0 required)

 pts rule name              description
---- ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------
 3.5 FSL_CTYPE_WIN1251      Content-Type only seen in 419 spam
 2.6 NSL_RCVD_FROM_USER     Received from User
 4.4 FROM_MISSP_MSFT        From misspaced + supposed Microsoft tool
 1.5 FROM_MISSP_USER        From misspaced, from "User"
 3.4 AXB_XMAILER_MIMEOLE_OL_024C2 Yet another X header trait
 2.4 RDNS_NONE              Delivered to internal network by a host with no rDNS
 2.0 FSL_NEW_HELO_USER      Spam's using Helo and User
 2.3 FROM_MISSP_XPRIO       Misspaced FROM + X-Priority
 1.0 MSOE_MID_WRONG_CASE    No description available.
 3.9 FROM_MISSP_TO_UNDISC   From misspaced, To undisclosed
 1.2 FREEMAIL_FORGED_REPLYTO Freemail in Reply-To, but not From
 1.8 FROM_MISSPACED         From: missing whitespace
 4.0 FROM_MISSP_REPLYTO     From misspaced, has Reply-To
 1.0 BODY_URI_ONLY          Message body is only a URI in one line of text or for
                            an image
 4.0 FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK     Forged mail pretending to be from MS Outlook
 1.0 XPRIO                  Has X-Priority header

posted at: 22:40 | path: /fun | permanent link

Wed, 14 Dec 2022

Fun with a pixel art frame