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peter

@peter@area51.social

Geek, Developer (Java, Go, C, 6502, Z80, 68K & many others), Retro-Computing (Acorn BBC, Amiga, C64, Sinclair Spectrum), Open Source, 3D Printing, Electronics, Weather, Space.

Works in the online games industry during the day time...

I do need to restart my YouTube channel

@peter_mount on twitter

#coding #3dprinting #opensource #making #homelab #homeautomation #electronics #java #retrocomputing #weather #railways #opendata #java #c #assembly #fedi22

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revk, (edited ) to fediverse
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Just checking I am not being thick - trying to use API.

When I post/edit I send the text content "status".

But if I want to read/access a post it comes back as "content" and appears to be HTML formatted.

Is there no way to get the "status" that was posted without being formatted as HTML.

I wanted to make a tool allowing and "edit only if different" to update a post.

Or am I being thick?

Update: Looks like I am being thick and /source gets it - so time to play.

peter,
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@revk I've not tried reading back from Mastodon, only post so far.

ephemeromorph, to random
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Might be a long shot request, but if you have a Poundland or Wilko cafetiere, please can you show me a picture of the plunger? Mine came apart and I cannot work out how the mesh pieces are supposed to stay on the shaft (hurr). I think I'm missing a nut or something.

It was only £4 but I'd rather not throw away an item if I can fix it.

peter,
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@ephemeromorph not used a cafetiere in years but when I last used one it was just the base then mesh, then top which the shaft then screwed into & held it all together.

The screw as part of the base.

woodyluvscoffee, to random

I hesitated posting this photo of my flowering cactus because I’m not sure y’all are mature enough to handle it.

peter,
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@Walrus I use ffmpeg for merging multiple images into a timelapse.

My earlier notes: https://area51.dev/video/timelapse/encode/

peter, to random
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Watching the AmigaBill twich https://www.twitch.tv/amigabill

after being pullied into a raid from the RMC channel.

This is good as he's remembering his Dad who sadly passed the other day.

If you can join in....

Link to his dad's YouTube channel which was mentioned earlier https://www.youtube.com/@profwinters/videos

revk, to random
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Who remembers these?

peter,
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@revk I know of them, but don't think I ever saw one

peter, to random
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Yesterday Evri (formerly Hermes) delivered a parcel whilst I was out.

They just left it at the front door, where it remained for 3 hours before I got home.

Fortunately nobody tried to pinch it, and it didn't rain.

I'd have been pissed off if the Amiga A600 inside got damaged/lost

peter,
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@glc Not quite the recycling day but I have had one (when it was still Hermes) many years ago put a parcel in the "big container" outside the house - in that case the general waste bin.

fortunately not on a collection day

peter, to random
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Right that's the week done, time for a 🍺

lmorchard, to random

Another lazyweb toot: Any friendos out there have opinions on BOOX e-ink tablets? I'm eyeing up a Tab X because a) it's A4 paper sized and b) it's Android

https://shop.boox.com/products/tabx

peter,
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@lmorchard For e-ink I got a Kindle Scribe in March & for what I needed it for it's been working well.

A5 300dbi screen & handwriting with the pen is pretty good.

Downside it's Amazon & not Android, but then I've got plenty of normal tablets for that sort of thing.

Battery life is impressive. It's used several times a day to make notes & read PDF's every so often & after almost 3 months it's still on 50%

peter,
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@mos_8502 @lmorchard I have the model just before the Paper white came out somewhere - when I can find it.

Always wanted a large one though - after seeing one with a keyboard dating back to 10+ years ago, so when this one came out I thought why not & it's been good so far

48kRAM, to random

Today, the ZX Spectrum has been replaced by the eccentric but lovely TI 99/4a. Here it is, running "the demo" for the platform 🤣

peter,
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@jonnypencils @48kRAM Same here. Got two sitting in a corner waiting for me to get some time to see what they need to get working again

peter, to random
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Happy 5¼" floppy disk day!

A few disks in my collection.

On the left for a printer driver disk along with Home Office Workstation for IBM PC, Tandy & compatibles

Center is the demo disk for the 1541 drive and Novaterm 9.5 (it & modem arrived the other day).

On the right is Acornsoft's Elite for the and a DFS disk with a couple of programs on it.

peter, to random
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Towel Day is an annual celebration on the 25th of May, as a tribute to the late Douglass Adams, author of "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"

On that day, fans around the universe proudly carry a towel in his honor.

peter, to random
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Ah Star Trek Strange New Worlds series 2 trailer looks really good...

Especially the 2 clips with the "cross over"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJYPXuM-3JA

Merovius, to random
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PSA, if someone asks you for contact info (e.g. a phone number) of someone you know, the correct response is "I can't give that to you, but I can give them yours".

It's efficient and adds no round-trips, it's privacy friendly, it's non-awkward and it's social engineering resistant. It's a universally good rule.

And the corollary, of course: Don't ask someone for another person's contact info - ask them to pass on yours.

peter,
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@Merovius I've always done that & it's not just privacy but for some could even be a safety hazard if the person is in an at-risk group.

That said, I've had to change my mobile number in the past after someone at work gave a customer my number without my permission & I ended up having work calls at 2am

peter, to random
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Oh, Slack have removed Split view - that's a great decision... NOT!

I used split view a lot so I can be in a thread whilst checking another channel - being in DevOps I need that as a lot of things can be happening at the same time.

Now they have changed it so if you move out of a channel the thread is automatically closed.

You now have to open another window to keep it open...

https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/help/articles/15269358083603-New--Windows-in-Slack

peter, to random
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The Commodore 1670 modem for the with 3 5.25" floppies with Novaterm 9.5

peter,
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@cenbe I've got a pair of Linksys PAP2T's which allows me to connect modems up to VoIP.

You can't get high speeds over them but 4800 or lower works pretty well.

A couple of months ago I got a viewdata terminal working using that technique https://area51.media/w/nSaK733N5rEqAsd8XDtLMJ

heliomass, to random

Hello MSTDN.CA, it's good to be here! 🎉

peter,
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@heliomass it seems that I'm following you post transfer so that part worked

cliffwade, to fediverse
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    peter,
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    @cliffwade did some coding for the weather station earlier, now in the pub but probably more programming later

    CaptMikeYates, to random

    Fundraiser: Help The Vagina Museum Find Its New Home - https://www.gofundme.com/f/9um7y

    They've found a new premises and are less than £8000 away from reaching their target to make the move possible.

    The Museum and the people behind it rock. Please donate if you're able.

    peter,
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    @CaptMikeYates I did last week 😎

    rc2014, to random

    "I have a problem to solve. I know! I'll buy a printer!"

    Said nobody ever.

    peter,
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    @Wintermute_BBS @rc2014 a couple of years ago I got a dot matrix printer off eBay for £20.

    Linux just worked with it.

    It has a Centronics port but also a usb card so when I connected it to a Linux box it got recognised and works well.

    dgar, (edited ) to random
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    Oh, FFS.

    Photo credit: @tilton

    peter,
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    @Wintermute_BBS @dgar Someone has written a bitcoin miner for the C64

    https://github.com/ytmytm/c64-bitcoin-miner

    Video I saw this running on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGNaeLMS1ZI

    peter,
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    @Wintermute_BBS @dgar probably yes

    Walrus, to random
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    This is Marvin.

    Marvin has a Raspberry Pi 4 with 8 GBytes of RAM, a 256 Gbyte SSD, a 512 GByte HDD, fan card, camera, and Unicorn HAT HD. The time being displayed was sent by FTP from a different Pi. I've re-written the Unicorn software library, so that it can display things from more than one source...

    peter,
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    @jvh @Walrus Yes, Ram is 264K (4x64K & 2x4k banks) whilst Flash maxes at 16Mb.

    There is another 20K but that's usually hidden, 4K for USB and 16K as cache for the flash, but usable if you are careful.

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