JennyList

JennyList, 5 days ago to random

I gave my Super 8 digital talk at #emf2024 and encountered quite a group of like minded old camera enthusiasts.

The idea formed in the Q&A after the talk that a camera hacking village would be a cool idea at a future EMF. I'm unable to organise it because other commitments, but I am putting it out here.

At a guess, a workshop area and a darkroom (subject to water supply). Make it sew.

JennyList, 12 days ago to random

Can I make a suggestion? How about if people going to #EMFcamp have a non-volatile #EMFnamebadge?

The event badge is a thing of beauty, but its display is small and it needs to be powered on to see the name.

Can I suggest people have something that's large enough to read, and which doesn't need batteries? One of the e-ink badges for example, or just a big bit of card with your name written in marker pen.

I know I'm not alone in having a poor memory for names and faces.

JennyList, 12 days ago to random

It occurs to me that a bunch of people I know online will be at EMF and it would be nice to have a pint with them.

Can this be arranged?

Now. I am a 6'7" trans woman and thus lots of people recognise me, but I have a shit memory for names and faces. I think I am not alone in that.

The sight of a bunch of geeks all with large name badges will be funny.

JennyList, 16 days ago to random

The sad thing about this election is that Labour have moved so close to the Conservative Party that I honestly see very little difference.

As a trans person I see a Labour front and back bench stuffed with terfs, and see business as usual.

JennyList, 27 days ago to random

Everybody talks about all conceivable environmental impacts of new motor vehicles, except their longevity.

JennyList, 1 month ago to random

All this AI stuff is confusing if you grew up on a farm.

Only farm kids, looking at a field of cows sired by a prize bull, will get this.

JennyList, 1 month ago to random

My parents, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.

My parents, Margaret Thatcher, and Ronald Reagan.

I had to explain the Oxford Comma to someone recently.

JennyList, 1 month ago to random

Great, now the terfs are coming for self-medding.

I know pretty much all trans people already know this, but perhaps it needs saying.

NEVER TALK TO JOURNALISTS ABOUT ANYTHING TO DO WITH BEING TRANS. ESPECIALLY NOT IF THEY ARE FROM THE GUARDIAN AND WANT TO TALK ABOUT SELF-MEDICATION.

JennyList, 1 month ago to random

It's approaching the deadline for registration to be in time for UK election season. Certainly local, possibly general election too.

For the first time in my life, I won't bother.

Partly to stay off the radar of shitty family, but mostly because this time I see no point in voting. Both main parties are institutionally transphobic, one is now far right and the other seems desperate to follow them. My constituency is a safe seat anyway so a Lib Dem vote means nothing.

It's all rather sad.

JennyList, 1 month ago to random

(1) Create worthless cryptocurrency with aim of providing blockchain in which to encode any software <litigious console company> tries to sue out of existence.

(2) <LCC> can chuck around sueballs, but they can't kill a distributed blockchain.

(3) They eventually realise they have to buy every single one of your altcoin, thus it becomes anything but worthless.

(4) PROFIT!!!

Finally, a use for a crappy cryptocurrency.

JennyList, 2 months ago to SweatyPalms

I'm in an odd position, I'm at the grand old age of 53, and after over 20 years of wishing I could, I've finally realised I am not too old to do #parkour training.

So I've spent several months bringing my fitness and strength up. I'm a bit overweight, but otherwise in good nick.

But being an older person taking up what is generally a younger person's sport, I'm overcome with shyness at the prospect of encountering other people doing parkour training. I need to overcome this.

JennyList, 2 months ago to random

The 1980s hacker teen experience wasn't very exciting either. You stayed up at night learning 8 bit machine code which you swapped with your friends on cassette tapes.

And if you were into hardware you dismantled every bit of broken 1970s consumer electronics you could for parts, and you had a TV in your room - a circa 1973 family colour set from a dumpster that you fixed.

Happy days.

https://gamemaking.social/@SpindleyQ/112199649334439075

JennyList, 2 months ago to random

I read a guide written by a left-wing Israeli on not being antisemitic in talking about the actions of the far right Israeli government in Gaza. It struck a chord for me as a Brit.

First of all, it was spot on in identifying the antisemitic tropes and rabbit holes in talking about Israel. But beyond that, there was a strong sense of someone very uncomfortably failing to come to terms with the shitty things their government has done in the past. That's the bit that struck a chord as a Brit.

JennyList, 3 months ago to random

It's very sad that as our economy seems to be sliding into a pit and our public services have been slashed to the point of collapse, that the party which forms our government thinks it's a good idea to cut taxes as an election bribe.

Sadder still that for some voters it will work.

Of course, it could be said that it's a move to force an incoming labour government to raise taxes.

JennyList, 3 months ago to random

It's the one day you can legitimately say that Pi is 3.

JennyList, 3 months ago to random

Something happened on Friday that has affected me badly, left me completely demotivated, and wondering why the hell I bother.

Can't really talk about it. And it's nothing to do with Hackaday. But it's very annoying.

JennyList, 3 months ago to random

Did the world become a more scary place this evening?

JennyList, 3 months ago to random

I presented my #Single8 cartridge at #HackerHotel on Sunday.

https://media.ccc.de/v/hackerhotel-2024-85-reinventing-the-single-8-home-movie-format

JennyList, 3 months ago to Canada

Back in the 1980s it was comically easy to steal some performance cars. We had an epidemic of car theft.

They didn't criminalise screwdriver ownership, they mandated engine immobilisers on new cars. The epidemic slowed to a trickle.

The solution to built-in security vulnerabilities is to mandate products without them.

Not to ban tools which might exploit them, leaving the vulnerabilities in place and leaving the crooks able to keep stealing.

#Canada #FlipperZero

JennyList, 3 months ago to random

I wish I'd known the word "Enshittification" when I wrote this for @hackaday back in 2020.

https://hackaday.com/2020/05/15/electric-vehicles-continue-the-same-wasteful-mistakes-that-limit-longevity/

JennyList, 4 months ago to random

It seems to be a popular view around here that copyright is bad, and should be abolished. Mainly because large corporations own copyrighted works, and sometimes abuse copyright law.

People who hold that view are IMHO idiots, with no understanding what copyright is, or how it works.

All I can say to them is this: be careful what you wish for.

JennyList, 4 months ago to random

I notice (finally) a bit of coverage for the outrageous prices younger people have to pay for car insurance.

I've written a lot about the over use of complex technology in cars making them shorter lived and less repairable.

I wonder whether commercial pressures from the insurance industry might be what reduces that.

JennyList, 4 months ago to random

I made PetaPixel :)

It's weird to be on the Other Side for once.

https://petapixel.com/2024/01/08/3d-printed-film-cartridge-revives-fujifilm-single-8-cameras/

JennyList, 5 months ago to random

This is where open source software comes unstuck, the lack of accountability and fix-it-yourself mentality.

Today, OpenShot will only export audio, not video. Best guess, some random setting in a Manjaro update had broken video export.

I have no clue what to do, a www search is little help. A future update will probably silently fix it, but meanwhile no video.

There will be neckbeards who will say "Huh, just learn how to fix it yourself!".

I bet OpenShot video export works under Windows.

JennyList, 5 months ago to random

Ooh, I can make the Molotov cocktails I use to forment revolution, in pint wine bottles!