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foone, 18 days ago to random

We need a different word for "old computer parts" and "parts for old computers". People use "retro" for both.

Like a Packard Bell 486 is the former: it was made in the 90s.

And a PicoGUS is the later: it's an ISA card that can be used in computers from the 90s, but it was made recently.

foone, 18 days ago to random

I wonder how hard it would be to introduce intentionally faulty memory to QEMU, to emulate what happens when bits flip

foone, 19 days ago to random

When are they gonna make a smartphone with a built in RFID cloner? It'd make managing all those fobs easier

foone, 19 days ago to random

you know what'd be a cool feature for an image editor?
"export last action as code"

where it looks at the last thing in the undo/redo buffer, and saves it out as a program (in C/C++/whateverscripting) that uses an ImageEditorLibrary to do the same thing

foone, 19 days ago to random

You know the whole "defund the National Labor Relations Board" thing that musk & bezos are pushing?

I'm currently working on a project where I'm digitizing old supreme court records, and it makes me think we definitely need the NLRB, if only for how often they were having to sue companies for flagrant violations of labor law.
Seriously it seems sometimes every 3rd case is "Some Horrible Employer vs NLRB"

foone, 20 days ago to random

every time a job asks for BDD experience I'm like "why do they need people with Body dysmorphic disorder?"

foone, 21 days ago to random

The way sentences containing the German character ß get longer when uppercased was specially designed to create memory problems in C programs doing string handling

foone, 21 days ago to random

it doesn't exactly fill me with confidence that the fools who were supposed to be paying my HMO have apparently lost their DNS server

foone, 21 days ago to random

The worst part of digitization work is having to practice reloading the label printer blindfolded

foone, 21 days ago to random

Good news everyone! It is NOT radioactive!

foone, 23 days ago to random

So I got this thing at ewaste.

It's a Richtech Automated "AI" Temperature Screening System.

Time to open it up.

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foone, 24 days ago to random

The real reason HD-DVD failed is because it used Javascript for interactivity

foone, 24 days ago to random

Idea: the Doom Army Knife.
It's an arm SBC with multiple types of lvds output and parallel RGB, plus a bunch of GPIO for inputs.

The idea is that it's designed for splicing into a devices existing screen and buttons, and producing a Doom-playing device

foone, 25 days ago to random

I just saw a job listing for a company doing "home defense using AI and non-lethal deterrence"

The company's name? Sauron.

foone, 26 days ago to random

I want a macropad keyboard that's also kind-of a watch. Like, it's a macropad, but you wear it on your wrist/arm.

foone, 27 days ago to random

The four most used operating systems:

• windows
• apple macos/ios
• linux (legacy, deprecated, not for new projects)
• systemd

foone, 27 days ago to random

Has anyone tried making a Larabee style tiled rendering video card but with arm?

Like, just stuff 100 arm cortexes on one board. Give each one a tiny slice of the screen to render

foone, 28 days ago to random

Why is the Bart diesel? Do they not have electricity in the bay area?

foone, 28 days ago to random

Who is letting @NanoRaptor design ram sticks?

foone, 28 days ago to random

Worst idea: a smart TV with all the annoying online features and built-in unblockable advertising, but it's a CRT

foone, 29 days ago to random

Another week, another chance to forget to bring the Geiger counter to ewaste

foone, 1 month ago to random

So I've got a VCR that I can control over serial. If I got a second one, I could stick tapes into them and cross-wire them so that each plays into the other.
I could then set up a program to record from tape 1 onto tape 2, then back from tape 2 to tape 1.
Attach a capture device and I can get video files of each generation.

Then we just watch the generational loss compound.

foone, 1 month ago to random

the world needs more recreational programming.
like, was this the most optimal or elegant way to code this?

no, but it was the most fun to write.

foone, 1 month ago to random

You know, in the 80s people often said things like "in 40 years, everything will have computers in them", and while they weren't wrong, they severely underestimated the situation.
Our computers have computers in them. Those smaller computers often have even smaller computers inside them.

We didn't get a "everything is a computer" future, we got a future with fractal computers. The fuckers have metastasized

foone, 1 month ago to random

I just tried to order a pizza and it wanted my credit card expiration date, so I entered "05/28" (example date only)

it then came back with a "your card is expired" error. Uh, no it isn't? that date is still several years in the future.

did... did this site just take my date and assume I mean May of the year AD 28? That is indeed very expired! that's what I get for trying to use Jesus's card.