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robc, 1 day ago to random

Well, now it’s my ACTUAL birthday, and yes, more C64 randomiser chaos again! <3
https://mastodon.social/@robc/112432977055588088

fletchy, 1 day ago to random

I love the new office. Tasty breakfast served this morning. Then a mini hotdog cart showed up late in the afternoon. And a day full of productivity. Great day.

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Richard_Littler, 1 day ago to history

Shakespeare, you coward; Hollywood, you timorous poltroon. Keep your Julius Caesar, your Coriolanus, your Titus Andronicus, your Spartacus and Gladiators. I want to hear stories about TARQUIN SUPERBUS. What a name!

#History #rome

foo, 3 days ago to random

Nobody makes butter dishes which are specific to west coast sticks. They're all either designed without even realizing west coast sticks exists, or they're slightly larger than east coast sticks and you can kind of cram west coast sticks into it with a lot of wasted space on the ends.

linux_mclinuxface, 3 days ago to random

If I ran a 2nd hand marketplace (Facebook Marketplace, Kijiji, eBay, Craigslist, etc) I would ban the word "rare" from all listings.

Also, all caps (except proper nouns) would automatically push your listing to the bottom of all results.

What would your rules be?

aeberbach, 3 days ago to random

Don’t ever believe an Ilve oven is anything special because it come from Europe. They’re shit, just fancy, expensive, European shit that fools people the first time they buy an oven. Never again.

parsley, 4 days ago to random

Aurora Australis? Once again aussies laying claim to something that’s obviously Kiwi.

Tahu-nui-ā-Rangi.

timixretroplays, 6 days ago to random

Building computers continues to be harder than it should be. Gigabyte didn't label the front panel connector pins on my motherboard, likely because they ran out of space in which to do so, but it seems like their support website has also run out of something today.

PadraigOCinneide, 7 days ago to random

There's an apple ad for the ipad where a concrete ceiling crushes a whole bunch of musical instruments, paint, and other art-related things, then reveals a thin ipad at the end.

It made me physically ill to watch. Destroying musical instruments is disgusting, like burning books.

stroughtonsmith, 7 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to random

When I finally pull the trigger, a new 13" iPad Pro w/ 16GB RAM, keyboard & stylus is gonna cost me €3,107. It would be by far the most powerful computer I own.

That's more than twice as much as what I paid for the Mac mini I do all my development on. It even beats out my high-end gaming PC whose GPU alone was €1800.

All of that goes to waste because it’s paired with a simplified, stripped-down OS using the same technology stack and limitations as a $300 Netflix device for your grandparents

aeberbach, 7 days ago to random

And it looks like your $2k iPad is still locked to one user. Well, just pick up a few then!

aeberbach, 7 days ago to random

More thin, expensive, and fast, is not enough to make me excited about iPad again. My 2018 iPad is enough of all those things already.

aeberbach, 8 days ago to random

If you are in AU, Element14 are having some kind of bizarre sale; $25 gift cards half price, Weller solder fume extractor 1/3 price, a few bargains for people that like that kind of stuff

ben, 8 days ago to random

Stack Overflow announced that they are partnering with OpenAI, so I tried to delete my highest-rated answers.

Stack Overflow does not let you delete questions that have accepted answers and many upvotes because it would remove knowledge from the community.

So instead I changed my highest-rated answers to a protest message.

Within an hour mods had changed the questions back and suspended my account for 7 days.

Diff view of a stack overflow question showing it being changed from the original text to a protest message, then being changed back again by a mod. Protest text reads: Why does OpenAI get to profit from our work? I have removed this question in protest of Stack Overflow's decision to partner with OpenAI. This move steals the labour of everyone who contributed to Stack Overflow with no way to opt-out. OpenAI has a history of flooding the web with inaccurate information and have explicitly stated that they will never pay creators for their work.

pvm, 9 days ago to VHDL

https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/05/the-cost-of-owning-a-mister-fpga-is-about-to-come-down-dramatically #fpga #mister #retrocomputing #misterFPGA

fletchy, 10 days ago to random

Having a quality tool is like having a magic wand. Accuracy is so much easier.

Japanese chisels are my new favorite thing.

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EricAlper, 10 days ago to random

What song is he singing?

fozztexx, 11 days ago to random

Hate those fake updates from USPS where their computer sees that nothing has happened for a couple of days and inserts some generic "oh, we've totally put it on a truck and it's heading to you!” It has been sitting there for 3 days! Definitely not arriving today. 😔

jbqueru, 11 days ago to random

Well well well, it very much seems like I have landed myself a new job. I wasn't looking for one yet, but that one was looking for me and it seems to be a great match. I expect the formal paperwork on Monday.

Drwave, 11 days ago to random

So 15 years ago, I got invited to give a talk at the BBC in London.
I asked my dad (80 at the time) if he would like to come along - he said yes.

Yay! Dad & son trip!

Entirely orthogonally, I heard about a home in Kent that sounded cool, and (being me) reached out to the homeowner/architect to see if they'd be okay if we came by and gawked at it.
The homeowner graciously invited us to stop by if we were in the neighborhood.
My dad and I tried to figure out if that would be possible...

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aeberbach, 11 days ago to random

Is there an audio device that is a USB output for Mac or PC, has at least one mic input with 48v phantom power, has a mute button on that input, outputs that mic signal as line mono, has at least one other stereo input, can mix it all together and output through through a master level control to powered monitors? Bonus points for being able to subtract mic input from monitor output mix to avoid feedback.
(Trying to integrate a Mac and PC to both use same speakers and to share one mic input.)

marcedwards, 12 days ago to random

Is this fishy?

tonyarnold, 13 days ago to random

I feel like my career has absolutely stalled.

Having all of this time to reflect and introspect during my illness and recovery over the past few months has left me wondering what impact I believed I was having on my peers and the people around me over the last decade.

jimp, 14 days ago to fountainpens

It's no secret the Pilot CON-40 is not a great converter for fountain pen ink, but once you learn the trick to filling them almost full it's not quite so bad. I still don't like them, but this makes them a little more tolerable.

This video is one of a few I watched when trying to figure it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjrROos9g_o

#FountainPen #FountainPens #FountainPenInk