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davefischer

@davefischer@hachyderm.io

C programmer / artist from Providence.

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davefischer, to photography
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Photographing some old printing tech. A typeball from an IBM Selectric typewriter/printer/terminal. Xerox font for a daisy wheel printer. Drum from a drum printer.

davefischer, to retrocomputing
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MIPS R12000, late 90s.

davefischer, to random
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I found a Thai 5 baht coin in my change from the convenience store today. Odd.

davefischer, to Cats
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These two prints by Da Wei Kwo were in my house when I was growing up. Apparently my grandmother bought them for my mother in 1957 when she went away to college in NY and got a place of her own.

davefischer, to retrocomputing
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Salome, helping me photograph some workstations last night.

davefischer, to books
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Le Guin is a constant inspiration. (Scored this for a buck today!)

davefischer,
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@vga256 I guess it's a collection of her favorite stories? All previously published.

davefischer,
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@vga256 Keep an eye out for The Compass Rose. That's the collection that got me REALLY into her work.

davefischer, to random
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Salome, looking like a late 19th century telephone system.

The Old Stockholm telephone tower, built in 1887.

davefischer, to photography
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It feels very weird to handle one of these notorious devices. So dumb.

davefischer, to retrocomputing
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That seems like the proper number of Octanes.

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davefischer,
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@ComicContext Hunh. Didn't know there was a comic adaption. The original TV show started each episode with a monologue in front of The Thinker.

davefischer, to random
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1961-04-12

StillIRise1963, to random
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I want to see a movie where we band together across the globe to defeat fascism, the evils of capitalism and combat climate change with cool, new innovations.

davefischer,
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@StillIRise1963 Check out the last two paragraphs of the plot synopsis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Aspera_Ad_Astra_(film)

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What is a little white lie you were told as a child, that you believed for too long?

I was way too old when I figured out a human couldn't actually get sucked down a drain or flushed down a toliet. I used to cling to my little brothers, and pull them out of the bath any time my Mum would pull to plug.

davefischer,
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@RickiTarr My grandma on my reptilian side used to claim that some humans could see our true forms. It wasn't until centuries later that I realized how clueless conspiracy freaks are. They never know when they accidentally come close to the truth.

davefischer, to random
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This is the eclipsiest it got here in #Providence. #Eclipse

davefischer, to retrocomputing
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Ok, I took a photo of the Eclipse. And? I don't get it.

NickEast, to books
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I think I might prefer some of these nonspecific editions, I like my fiction a bit unspecified 😂

@fantasybookstodon
@reading @bookstodon @litstudies @books



davefischer,
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@NickEast @fantasybookstodon @reading @bookstodon @litstudies @books "Another One of The Henrys", "Last Henry, I Promise".

Adrenochrome, to classicrock German
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March 28, 1978... 🎶😈🔥
appears on The , where he performs "Welcome to My Nightmare" and "School's Out." He also offers to give the Muppets fame and riches if they'll sign their souls over to him.

davefischer,
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@Adrenochrome Followup: (Coolest thing about muppets is that they stay in character behind the scenes.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utGJi5Fxg2M

davefischer, to Cats
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Whisker brothers.

davefischer, to photography
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Halva

davefischer, to photography
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Shovel.

davefischer,
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@vga256 Mid 19th-century mill building. There was weaving equipment on this floor, so there's a lot of mounting points sticking through the wood from below here and there. Some of the patches cover up stuff like that, most probably replaced damage from equipment not sitting on special points?

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imagine a bumper sticker with an owl & and the text “hoot if you’re too pooped to hoop”

davefischer,
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@iraantlers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zWlnzFXcKY

mcdanlj, (edited ) to linux
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About a third of a century ago, I read the original source code to the Linux ps program that worked by reading kernel memory from a setuid root program, used that to enhance the brand-new /proc filesystem to support all the features I now knew ps might need, and wrote a brand-new version of ps. I added features I'd wanted forever on the VAX 11/780 I was using at the time, like built-in sorting instead of piping through sort or awk, and at least trying to fully honor both BSD and System V command-line arguments. I called it "procps" to distinguish it from the original "kmem" ps.

As far as I know, none of my original code survives. I think it's been re-written at least once, maybe twice by now. This is clearly the procps of Theseus.

But it's still called "procps" in Linux distributions, which I have to imagine confuses newcomers. "Why do I have to install procps to get the ps command?"

davefischer,
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@mcdanlj I vaguely remember writing a ps alternative for personal use in the late 80s that walked the data structs in /dev/kmem. It was kinda bizarre.

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