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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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gsuberland, (edited ) to random
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normal EMF things

philpem,
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@gsuberland For when you need an extra spicy shower

philpem,
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@buherator @gsuberland Volta would be shocked, especially if he used that shower.

philpem, to random
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"What is the payload size of a fully laden UDP datagram?" is not a question I was expecting to answer this morning.

philpem,
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@Extelec @twll Neither - it's a fully-laden trans-Asia-pacific UDP datagram! Ha-ha!

manawyrm, to random
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Wrote a short blog post on how to redirect your custom domain name to your Fediverse account:

This can be used to make your account discoverable when searching for your regular e-mail-address (for example).

https://kittenlabs.de/blog/2024/05/28/using-custom-domains-as-a-fediverse-redirect/

philpem,
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@manawyrm That's a really neat trick - I've just set it up. Thanks for sharing!

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Me, still recovering from a 30 hour return flight from Spain:

"Now would be a perfect time to roll my own crypto!"

philpem,
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@soatok "And then I tied Soatok to the chair, Your Honour, to force them to take a break. It really was their own fault, they spent thirty hours travelling then tried to WORK!"

Courtroom gasps!

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This project needs a better name, but the dragon looks GOOD. I might see if I can tweak the eyes in png2svg, he shouldn't look that scary...

philpem,
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Seems like inverting the eyes was the trick! Never argue with the artist, they probably know better than you do! 😆

philpem,
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@cccpresser That seems to go between Kicad Gerber output and the Gerbers for the PCB fab ... I wanted a Kicad footprint.

pippin, to random

Last Spidey change of the con!

philpem,
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@pippin Now you just need two friends so you can dress up similarly, point to each other and go "...YOU?!"

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Had a massive scare yesterday. Gigi got into a fight with the neighbor's dog and got some nasty wounds. Was able to stop the bleeding and she's seemingly stable but lost most of her tail feathers. I feel so bad for not keeping a closer eye on her. She's in good spirits today so hopefully that means it wasn't too bad of an injury.

philpem,
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@Talcott Holy shit :( Hope she's okay and the feathers don't take long to grow back.

renbymon, to random
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Actually hand sewed enough of the dreads for my fursuit head!

philpem,
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@renbymon nice work!

philpem, to random
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Done the usual round of weeding on the patio, and as usual it's started to rain just as I put the Pathclear down. Hopefully it's just as effective if the plants pull it up from the ground.

philpem, to random
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My favourite RISC OS error message (though technically an Econet Fileserver one) is "Who are you?"
You get this when you're logged into a fileserver, but the FS is rebooted. The FS thinks you're logged out, but your local station claimed to be logged in.

philpem,
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@Johannes_Silverfox Oh, the unknown NMI error :D

cato, to random
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Guess who just realised he forgot to organise a cat sitter for :neofox_dizzy:

My usual people are on vacation, I need to call the other person I haven't had take care of my cat for a long time now :neofox_melt_3:

philpem,
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@karb @cato I feel like I need first-hand confirmation of this too... for science... yes, I'm writing a research paper on the existence of cuddling cats... >.>

pippin, to random

I'm reminded why I don't go to nightclubs and why I've pretty much stopped going to ConFuzzled's dances. (Just been to Animalz and it's incredibly loud, rammed full, a pain to get into, and doesn't really have any positives to counteract those points. 😕)

philpem, (edited )
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@pippin That's pretty much why I used to go to the dead dog and very little else. About half the con had already gone home and the music was pure school-disco cheese. Brought the nice memories of school back without the bad ones.

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Nom time

philpem,
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@LeoBurr Thaaaaanks. I just threw a "pulled meat style" veggie burger in the oven and now I have a craving for ramen XD it looks good!

philpem, to random
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Anyway, thanks to the invention of RCBOs, I'm not going to be a footnote in Tim Hunkin's EMF talk on the history of electrocution this weekend.
Is your hedge trimmer truly broken-in without at least one waterproof splice on the power cable?
(I have a rule, maximum one splice: if the cable gets cut again, it gets shortened or replaced)

philpem,
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Absolute candour time - if the Schuko socket hadn't been moulded on, I'd have just shortened the cable.

philpem,
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@Jencen you haven't seen the wiring inside...
... cut absolutely perfectly to size, with just the perfect length of copper bared and twisted to go in the screw terminal!

philpem,
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@Jencen ...and I just went through the cable again, so it's now 10cm shorter but just as perfectly terminated. I need to find a way to keep the cable away from the blade!

philpem,
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@DeltaWye He's doing a talk at EMF, so I'd assume so!

philpem,
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@Jencen I've been trying that but it keeps sliding off my shoulder!

philpem,
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Update: damn it. It's now slightly shorter thanks to the One Join Rule.

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