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kalleboo, to random
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It must be a tiny minority of iPhone users who have any idea what this “Q” logo is that shows up when they open an audio file on the web or in full screen

RobW,
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@kalleboo QAnon.

kalleboo, to random
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Time to study some of this new-fangled AI stuff so I don’t fall behind https://youtu.be/7Uz3HYfCIGc

kalleboo, to random
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It’s not something I’m buying but the design is damn cute

kalleboo,
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It looks so dumpy I love it

kalleboo, to retrocomputing Japanese
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So this #Newton MessagePad 130 showed up on PayPay Fleamarket for $45. Never seen a Newton go for this cheap in Japan (even with massive a black screen burn spot), and they're rare to show up to begin with.

The photos didn't show the screen, but revealed some bad battery leakage (which was also disclosed in the description), but I figured at least it could be used for parts (my pen on my 120 has lost it's end cap!)

It arrived today so let's see what we got!

#VintageApple #RetroComputing #mb

Yahoo Fleamarket ad showing a newton messagepad 130 rear with battery leakage
A newton messagepad and keyboard wrapped in bubble wrap on a tatami floor

kalleboo,
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The screen is good!!! What a relief!

We also got a 10 MB Flash card in here apparently (it was not mentioned in the listing)

And that battery leakage looks gnarly! Time to open it up to see the damage…

A KINGMAX 10 MB PCMCIA Flash card
The battery compartment of a Newton MessagePad 130, revealing a big battery leak

kalleboo,
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I gave the battery contacts a quick wipe down with vinegar, and..

It runs!!! Success!! My first Newton OS 2.0 device.

There’s still a bunch of corrosion in the battery contacts though since I can’t get in behind them, I’m going to want to remove it and leave it in a vinegar bath overnight or something.

Does anyone have any hints on removing the battery contacts to clean them? Are they soldered to the logic board or something?

kalleboo, to random
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Facebook not removing a literal, zero ambiguity “hook-nosed Jew” racist caricature meme?!? Who could have thought

alda,
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@kalleboo they even removed the mechanism for reporting ban evasions, so there's that.

kalleboo, to random Japanese
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I was messing around with my network today and spotted something funny - the Ubiquiti UniFi dashboard will actually by default classify Apple Internet Router/AURP in it’s traffic logs and even has a little custom icon for it!

So here’s the chart of the #GlobalTalk traffic my router saw over #MARCHintosh

pixel,
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@kalleboo Cool🤩

kalleboo, to random
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I took some photos of the fireworks tonight and they kinda look like sky fire daemons with eyes

A large golden firework with two small purple fireworks inside it with what almost looks like shocks coming out of them

kalleboo, to random
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Muting the word "eclipse" now since according to a calculator I checked I'll never see one in my life so it is irrelevant to me.

But not before leaving my favorite bash.org joke (paraphrased):

A> When does the eclipse start?
B> Three minutes after your launch it, fucking Java

kalleboo, to random
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They never got VOCALOID to do English well but whatever TTS Neuro-sama is using has cracked it.

The job of a singer is over.

kalleboo,
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@SuperDicq Haha that’s great

SuperDicq,

@kalleboo So yeah you can see all the progress that they made getting Neuro to sound natural.

kalleboo, to random
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Jon Stewart: “[Apple] wouldn't let us do even that dumb thing we just did in the first act on AI. Like, what is that sensitivity? Why are they so afraid to even have these conversations out in the public sphere?"

Tech giants should not be producing content. We need the 1948 breakup of the Studio System again. https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/112200019732650765

kalleboo, to retrocomputing
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vga256,
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@kalleboo 🤣 these are the kinds of terrible jokes that my Wintel friends used to rage out over in the 2000s

kalleboo, to random
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👀 ciscoRouter??! @foo8ar

#GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh

kalleboo, to random
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AIRConfig for #GlobalTalk version 0.4 is now released! #MARCHintosh

Version 0.4 adds:

  • A redesigned GUI that resembles the familiar Font/DA Mover
  • It remembers your last used files so you don't have to re-select them each time. (via aliases so AppleTalk shares will be auto-mounted)
  • A “Headless Mode” that will do the conversion on launch and then instantly quit

So point it at the auto-updated Host ID list on PurrTopia, set it to Headless mode, and use QuicKeys or something to automate it!

AIRConfig 0.4 demo

kalleboo, to random
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TIL that the “Y” in the linux package manager “yum” comes from Yellow Dog Linux, the distribution of Linux created for PowerPC Macs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yum_(software) #MARCHintosh

cassidy,
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@kalleboo PowerPC Macs and later: my PS3! 😁

kalleboo, to random
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Me and @scj have been debugging an issue with AIRConfig for , and at the current stage it looks like the actual problem is not AIRConfig, but MacTCP/System 7.1

The problem manifests itself with a long run of “The host name [] is unknown” errors in the Router Log window when starting up the router

It appears this happens when trying to resolve too many domains with CNAMEs in a row. (1/3)

MrKsoft,

@kalleboo
@scj

I haven't seen this error despite using DNS names wherever possible. (My personal one is an A record)
One thing I do get though is a lot of this line spammed in my log. It's always the same. No clue what it means but it seems to be cosmetic cause everything works. I didn't start getting it till a few days ago I think.

vga256,
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@MrKsoft ha yeah, i get that junk in my log too.

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