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jetton, 22 hours ago to random

Why was this never mentioned in school?

quinn, 1 day ago to random

Young people are waking up every day to media about war, genocides, dead children. They are unsure of being able to make a living, scared by debt, violence, addiction, homelessness. They are unsure if the burning planet will even support their lives. They are struggling for secure basic housing after having their lives upended by a pandemic...

meanwhile the NYT:

retrohistories, 4 hours ago to random

vga256, 23 hours ago to apple

gasp

when @radiofreelunch extremely generously offered to send me a "couple" old Newtons, i balked. i had an old MP2100 years ago, and it was tough to get software loaded on them, even with all the correct hardware

driving home an hour later, i thought: what the hell is wrong with me, i'm turning down a free newton?! 😅

a week later, this amazingly heavy bundle of Newtons and Newton peripherals arrived. thank you good sir :D

Pictured:
Newton MessagePad (+box/software)
Newton MessagePad
Newton Message Pad 110
Newton MessagePad 120

Newton Fax Modem (battery-powered!)

there is extensive battery leak/corrosion from the AA batteries on each of them, so they'll spend the next few months getting some TLC. hopefully most survive!

#apple #vintageApple #newton #retroComputing

mjg59, 21 hours ago to random

Hello! Due to last minute circumstances I have a spare ticket to @emf including train tickets from/to Paddington (leaving Thursday morning, returning Monday afternoon). Hit me up on Signal if you're interested, no charge but if you insist then I'll take a donation to a worthy cause

transdiffusion, 13 hours ago to random

SPOTLIGHT 1971: CHANNEL

About Channel Television and the Channel Islands’ transmitter :ctv:

Fremont Point information
Channel TV information

JxckS, 19 hours ago to random

My thoughts on new measures for aircraft owners to hide aircraft ownership recently enacted by the FAA Reauthorization Bill.

Put simply, it will not stop the tracking.

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ncommander, 22 hours ago to random

You don't appreciate Linux's excellent kernel level backwards compatibility until you use OpenBSD.

32bitkid, 23 hours ago to retrogaming

Construction of Jackson Square: Colonel's Bequest Demo (1989). :ms_floppy_disk:

PIC.078
Engine: SCI0
Resolution: 320x190 / 16 color
Commands: 1,609
Size: 10,520 bytes

🗜 Compression:
Type: Huffman (2)
Size: 8,971 bytes
Ratio: 3.4∶1 | 📉 −70.5%

#SierraOnLine #ColonelsBequest #AdventureGame #SCI0 #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #DOSGaming

video/mp4

onilink, 1 day ago to random

"3d" panorama at max optical magnification of the Atmel ATMEGA8:
https://ic.onidev.fr/map/atmel/ATMEGA8/100S/full.html

Use the arrows on the top left corner to switch between each layer. The first one is focus stacked.

polpo, 2 days ago to random

So this is what happens when you use compressed air to clean toner out of a laser printer drum unit

projectgus, 1 day ago to repair

Good combo of repair items at Repair Cafe yesterday: I had a shiny recent model Samsung microwave (transformer cactus, owner is going to order the replacement and bring it back).

Across from me, a hand cranked Singer sewing machine bought in Sri Lanka in 1953. It was brought to the cafe by the first owner's son, she'd left meticulous documentation with it including the original warranty and a local repair docket from 1988!

(The sewing machine left in good working order!)

#repair

stublad, 1 day ago to c64

The Lucasfilm's Habitat beta footage has been released finally. Check out the post on my site for links to YouTube, as well as the raw transfers over at the Internet Archive.

https://renoproject.org/lucasfilms-habitat-beta-blast-footage-release/

#LucasfilmGames #LucasfilmsHabitat #LucasfilmHabitat #Habitat #C64 #Retro #retrogaming #retrocomputing #VirtualWorlds #VideoGamePreservation

Avatars standing outside the Spider's Web area during the end of the Habitat beta test.
The index page of an edition of the in-game Habitat newspaper called The Rant.

thatkatharine, 3 days ago to random

So, you heard the good word that masks work? Are you looking to use that report to get back into masking regularly—because getting sick all the time is the pits—but there’s way more variety than way back in 2020 and you’re overwhelmed for choice? Have I got a shopping guide for you! With bonus infographics!

Here’s my little crash course in what to look for and how to determine the best fit for your face. It’s as easy as shopping for a new pair of jeans!

https://essays.sparklingobservationalist.com/2024/02/how-to-find-the-best-n95-for-your-face-shape

Newmy, 3 days ago to random

My father-in-law had a never-opened, 48-year-old GE radio in his garage. No pairing, no logins, no setup. It just works.

azonenberg, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to random

You write safe Rust.

I disabled SIGSEGV in my C++.

We are not the same.

In all seriousness, I'd love if anyone had a better solution to this problem. But there doesn't seem to be any SFR bit I can set to make the STM32H7 flash IP not throw a bus fault on an ECC failure.

So if you ever have a bug in your firmware that writes to the same flash ECC block twice without erasing it, that flash block will become toxic and any future attempt to deref any address within it will segfault. Not good if you're trying to make a robust, log-structured data store (in which any bug or unexpected power cycle poisons the entire key-value store, segfaulting future reads).

Turning off faults when writing, or when doing CRC checks on read data, allows graceful degradation when things go wrong.

Still trying to figure out why the bootloader seems to be stepping on non-blank flash cells (it should be appending at the end), but at least it's not soft-bricking the board by throwing the bootloader into a fault handler before it reaches the DFU flow.

mw1cgg, 3 days ago to random

Let's talk about smoking.

It's one of the worst things I ever did when I was a teenager. I'm addicted to nicotine now. I smell like a binfire and I will find every excuse I can to fuck off for a fag.

I'm now 44. If I don't stop smoking it will probably kill me.

It's fucking disgusting but I'm addicted.

I have lately found ways of cutting down, mainly those nice pouches you stick in your lip. Vapes, patches or anything else have never worked for me at all

Don't be me. Don't smoke.

Jyoti, 3 days ago to random

Here's my music:

https://songwhip.com/white-town

I love that I can bung you one link which then has every service my music is on, plus other stuff.

Well, sadly, #Songwhip is shutting down.

So, lil tooters, what is the best alternative to Songwhip? I've just gone through a couple of 'BEST ALTERNATIVE' lists and they were obviously generated by drunk AIs. In a coal scuttle. With low batteries. Just awful.

I'm hoping you ugly bags of mostly water can do better?

#MusicLinks #Links #Umm...

woodpunk, 3 days ago to retrocomputing

Check out this #retrocomputing behemoth!

I ate the banana to give me enough energy to lift this #vintage #PC down from the workbench, so CD case for scale.

gekkio, 3 days ago to random

The Game Boy Hardware Database now contains a GBA cartridge section 🎉

https://gbhwdb.gekkio.fi/cartridges/gba.html

Only a few entries right now but more are coming! Submissions are still officially closed but I accept them from some known good contributors whose submissions require minimal work

lpbkdotnet, 3 days ago to random

I'm still frantically pulling stuff together for taking the #strowger #TelephoneExchange to #emfcamp but rather than actually fix/pack/prepare anything - I've spent the last 3 hours slapping together a video updating the website:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOqGNUfohBc

Blog about the Cisco stuff I'm using:
https://emf.lpbk.net/blog/posts/2024-05-12/

Blog about the astersisk stuff I'm doing:
https://emf.lpbk.net/blog/posts/2024-05-20/

And of course a post about the video:https://emf.lpbk.net/blog/posts/2024-05-25/

RSS Feed: https://emf.lpbk.net/feed_rss_created.xml

#phone

OrionKidder, 3 days ago to linux

I keep seeing ads for suped-up laptops for #Linux, and that's great and all--I know a lot of people are really into just how damn fast they can download an update--but I'm way more interested in, "I got my MacBook 2007 to be perfectly serviceable with #DebianLight or whatever." I want to breathe life into an old piece of shit, not acquire yet another piece of tech I'll have to recycle someday.

AmazingMeagen, 3 days ago to random

Help please.
Looking at #emf2024 camping locations. Which camping area(s) is/are considered quiet?

@info

th, 3 days ago to random

Take the DMI Pool Data bus to Read Error

recantha, 3 days ago to random

Overwhelmed by the schedule at #emfcamp ? See it in a slightly more digestible format using my scheduler/timetable functionality. Just message me or email me - mike@recantha.co.uk - to register and I'll set your account up 🙂 Might as well join in the fun seeing as I'm not going!