This is for connecting a Dreame vacuum robot to a PC for purposes of flashing Valetudo firmware over their stock firmware. The breakout board is needed because the connector on the robot is not USB, but a 2x8 PIN connector. When connected to the vacuum, it looks like this.

Oh cool, I was not aware. It’s always nice to have options.

To add to this: unless I’ve missed some, Mullvad seems to be the only VPN provider that doesn’t take your data at account creation. You are assigned a random account number. That’s it. No username, email, birthdate, etc.

You’re right, but let’s be honest: it may as well be.

And we should listen to this snake oil salesman why?

Actually, there’s still stuff like localmonero and bisq which were non-KYC when I last checked, but your point still stands.

What this basically is is signees asking Google to fix the problem that Google itself caused. I hope for other people’s sake that this goes through, but since we’re talking about Google, I am all but convinced that Google will pull something like this again in the future.

I can’t get over just how wonderful it is to have AI in our lives.

Bad news, I’m afraid. Tried opening a few restricted videos with PipePipe, FreeTube, tried downloading with yt-dlp, nothing works. YouTube is being locked down.

Man, just good decisions all around on Discord’s part.

Clickable link for anyone curious:

stoat.chat

I mean, you’re not wrong, but have you seen what those alternatives were?

Thanks for explaining. But unless I’m missing something, Conduit doesn’t seem to be quite dead just yet. I got upgrade notifications throughout 2025, the latest two being in December; one for v0.10.10 and the other for v0.10.11.

Wait a sec, I run Conduit on my test machine and seems fine so far. What drama did I miss?

Why not Synapse?

These fines are so toothless, it’s pathetic.

I see. Thanks for elaborating.

That’s not ideal. I hope they implemented images in the protocol itself, because having just text is kinda bland.

I can’t believe it’s not sarcasm

Clients display text, like an eBook, or images / media.

Is this new? Last I checked on Gemini, it could only to text, unless you count ASCII art as images.