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philpem

@philpem@digipres.club

Software preservation, electronics, software and ham radio - a maker of things!

Pronouns: https://pronoun.is/he/him

Website: https://www.philpem.me.uk

Current projects:
LF radio navigation - #Datatrak
DIY cable TV headend - #AnalogCable
#HackTV (TV signal generator for SDRs) - video scrambling modes
Acorn/ software preservation (#DigiPres)

Tags: #electronics #HamRadio #Machining #Metalworking #RetroComputing #HardwareHacking #ReverseEngineering #ICRE #Maker #DigiPres

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philpem, to random
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I've been playing Tempest and Asteroids and my wrists hurt. I probably deserve this.

philpem,
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@sellorm oh jammy! I've never seen a Deluxe

foone, to random
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this electrical device is a special sort of terrible: They labeled the polarity of the DC power jack, but not the voltage (or current, for that matter)

philpem,
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@foone 9 to 12 depending on heatsinking, aye. Works down to seven and a half.

philpem, to random
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This is garlic bread, I'm told

philpem,
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@Foxhack Garlic bread pizza... they're meatballs. There's ham and mushroom on there too.

philpem, to random
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Can't believe I got to see an aurora. Never thought I would. And I was blessed to see it with friends. Damn. It's experiences like this you remember for a lifetime.

philpem, to random
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Odd to think the aurora has been so bright, Skinner might actually have got away with "no mother [the house isn't on fire] it's just the Northern Lights" if he'd said it this evening...

azonenberg, to random
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Grr i wasn't planning on renovating the kitchen yet.

But this receptacle is turning into a fire hazard. Contact resistance from loose terminals is literally melting the plug to the toaster oven.

philpem,
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@azonenberg This is why you shouldn't put a line plug in the toaster.

philpem, to random
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OH: nanotechnology was hard, who knew?
Me: We taught sand how to think...
BF: This made a lot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad idea

philpem,
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@darkrat I know, it's awful. It's so anxious it can't even spell "anxiety" right.

renbymon, to random
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ahhhhh!!!!!!!

A photo of the aurora over Bradford.
A photo of the aurora over Bradford.

philpem,
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@renbymon was it on your bucketlist too? :D
I'm wired!

philpem, (edited ) to random
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A coronal mass ejection, at this time of year, in this part of the country...

edit: no post processing. will feed the better ones to Lightroom tomorrow for some Dehaze. I have one that looks like it belongs on a Solaris boot screen.

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Nobody knows what happens when a 17 year cicada sees the aurora borealis but scientists agree it probably won't make them become ten feet long and immortal

philpem,
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@hannah I for one welcome our new insect overlords.

philpem, to random
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Github: "It looks like you're adding a new SSH key. Please log in with your second factor."
Also Github: "Would you like to use your password instead?"

Me: well what was the point of the 2FA then?

philpem, to random
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Sometimes it's fun to unlock all the soft options, even if you have no use for them.

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philpem,
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@DeltaWye It is pretty good. It's the Pi 7-inch MIPI touchscreen.

philpem,
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@gorplop Yep. Big long thread on eevblog about how to unlock everything (they include most of the keys on the flash drive). I'd like to get the 89000 software working with it.

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Not having a good time at work right now.

Big boss visit next week..... Which I only got told about /second hand/ yesterday.

So of course my boss is freaking out. And is shoving all his anxiety and stress onto his subordinates.

Was very close to just walking out yesterday. As I do /not/ need the stress

philpem,
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@Jencen Sending hugs mate. Hope things go well.

philpem, to random
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Globaltalk (the internet-based Appletalk router) is making me want the same thing for Econet... hmm...

philpem,
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thing is having done admin before I know how shitty some people are, and I'd want to have admin tools in place "just in case" before going live. And Econet doesn't really have that.
(but then neither does Appletalk, or does it?)

nepi, to random

Mmmm smell that kerosene

philpem,
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@nepi soft squishable packing for the less compressible cases

philpem, to random
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My KVM has WiFi control now :D
The Belkin SoHo switch is really well-suited to this. LED status is two-bit binary coded. That and four GPIOs for the switch. All works with Companion too!

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philpem,
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Can't remember if I showed off the controller for the matrix and KVM, so here it is. It's a Pi 3B running Bitfocus Companion.
Top row is presets, next is KVM console select, then matrix outputs for the left and right monitor.
Spotify is on the bottom row.
HDMI capture is on the to-do list.

philpem,
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I'm going to have to move Companion onto a VM... It's eating all the RAM on the Pi (1GB). So that's why the website says to use a Pi 4...

philpem,
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@gorplop I wanted a StreamDeck but this was sat on a shelf gathering dust!

philpem, to retrocomputing
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Does anyone have a raw image (DD, sector image) of an "Iomega Tools" Zip disk? I'm curious how they implemented the dual Mac/PC format.

Beware: don't put it in a PC or Mac with the Iomega Tools software installed. If it sees a Tools disk, it'll delete the other partition and 'reclaim' it as free space. Guess how I ruined mine!
Imaging on Linux with "dd" should be safe.
An unmodified disk will report as being read-only.

#retrocomputing #iomega #ZipDrive

philpem,
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@rlonstein fingers crossed! and thanks in advance!

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