How appropriate that today I got to add another org to the #gitAnnex thanks page! https://git-annex.branchable.com/thanks/

Headed south on solar power as far as it could take me. Wishing charging were a bit slower.

baking a cranberry pie by solar power on a day where "solar" is rather notional

Finally found spare time and energy to fix the bookshelf that broke and partly fell over about 6 months ago.

The vestigial lead acid battery in EVs is kinda weird, and annoying when it starts to do lead acid failure things. There are engineering reasons for that cruft to still exist, but this does make me wonder when that 12v battery will finally get eliminated from cars.

I wonder if the traction battery's balancing leads could be designed to also power the crucial low voltage systems like the contactor? Battery, enable thyself..

Not gonna pursue this idea personally, cars are still boring to me even w/o the 16th century parts.

I have a repository where I've collected many conference recordings, which I archive offline. Usually that is an exercise in web scraping. In this case, I was able to clone the git merge this into my repo, and `git-annex get` the videos.

Just wanted to point out how well done this conference video publishing is. version controlled files all the way down, and can be streamed right from the git repo.

https://hub.datalad.org/distribits/recordings/

The Distribits2025 talks have been published. Many of them concerned #gitAnnex, and I've put together a list of those here.

https://git-annex.branchable.com/videos/distribits2025/

finished up my winter prep checklist yesterday by insulating the fig tree and re-burying parts of the water line

I did not expect accumulating snow today!

plenty of solar power to charge my EV

shoutout to the "security researcher" who spammed me with a report that git.kitenet.net exposes a git repository, and followed up to request payment for their "responsible disclosure"

I needed a lol

Automatic curtailing of 3 charge controllers to avoid overcharging the battery, which I implemented on friday, seems to be working well.

The ideal conditions rarely happen, because the battery usually gets filled from low to 100% even on cloudy days before all the solar panels have a good angle on the sun, typically before noon. And after that point power is going to fill a larger battery (EV).

The main situation where it can happen is when it's been raining all day until the sun breaks through around 2 or 3 pm.

I have 6 solar charge controllers, which if all running flat out in ideal conditions can charge the battery at 2.2c. Which would not be great for battery longevity, it should be limited to 1c ideally.

The particular charge controllers I chose don't support charge rate limiting. At all. But I have just now found a way..

(Good thing too; my backup plan involved a rather huge industrial contactor capable of breaking quite a lot of amps.)

@liw well I hacked on some rust today...

presenting the britishairways.com flight checkin page

it appears like this in all 3 browsers I have tested, and there is no indication what these checkboxes and buttons do

#gitAnnex can now use Iroh to connect two repositories located anywhere, including behind firewalls needing hole punching.

As well as sending data with git-annex, git pull and push works too

https://git-annex.branchable.com/special_remotes/p2p/git-annex-p2p-iroh

Developed at the #distribits hackathon in collab with matrss