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foone

@foone@digipres.club

Hardware / software necromancer, collector of Weird Stuff, maker of Death Generators. (she/they🏳️‍⚧️)

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kiwa, to random
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question for the people that hoards computer cpus, how do you store them? i use plastic boxes but the legs still bend sometimes when I'm looking around and i fell like there must be a better way

foone,
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@kiwa I use the acid-free IC foam. Then they're in a thin drawer

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FUN FACT:
if you build electronic devices which contain a raspberry pi in them, consider what will happen if one of them gets thrown out.
someone might open them up, stick the microSD card in them into a reader, and open up that tantalizing "apps.json" file which has YOUR GOD DAMN AWS KEYS? IN UNENCRYPTED PLAIN TEXT?

foone,
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it has been zero days since foone has opened up some old tech and accidentally gotten information she was not supposed to have.

foone,
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It was literally the first file I opened

foone, to random
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I keep forgetting that I hate keyboards

this makes it a bit of a problem given that's like 1/3rd of everything I do

foone,
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@joshourisman oh I've got one of those somewhere.

it's... weird. I'm not a huge fan

foone,
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okay I finally found some keycaps (and then borrowed some more from another set) so I can use my main keyboard.

I don't really like these keycaps (for their feel, mainly) but at least they're labeled, mostly.

foone,
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@mmu_man it launches Fallout: New Vegas

foone,
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It's supposed to look more like this.

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My hobby? Disassembling and reassembling 3d printers.

Most people just call that "3D printing" but I want to be truthful to which part of the hobby I spend most of my time doing

luckytran, to random
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North Carolina's House has rejected the anti-mask bill! The bill will now go through a compromise process, which could include re-adding a health exemption.

More work needs to be done, but this shows that advocacy is making a difference. Keep going!

https://www.cbs17.com/news/north-carolina-news/nc-house-votes-not-to-concur-with-bill-reinstating-mask-restrictions/

foone,
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@luckytran finally some good news from my home state!

brooke, to random
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binary keyboard that supports full unicode but it's just 21 flip switches and an 'enter' key

foone,
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@1000millimeter @Jmj @brooke @NanoRaptor people suggested that when I made my ascii binary keyboard, but it's sadly not possible with how the USB HID protocol works. You can't send arbitrary unicode, only a small group of scan codes that the PC converts into unicode later.

foone,
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@1000millimeter @Jmj @brooke @NanoRaptor over on Twitter [sic] https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1257164625184841729?s=19

foone,
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@1000millimeter @Jmj @brooke @NanoRaptor seven bit is more than enough: keyboards rarely have more than 128 keys.

foone,
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@1000millimeter @Jmj @brooke @NanoRaptor It takes ASCII, yeah. it has to translate it into letter+shift because of how PC keyboards work

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The fact that Sholes teamed up with Remington to sell his keyboards makes total sense.
Not only because duh, Remington was exactly the kind of company that knew how to make reliable machinery with small accurately milled parts, but because the keyboard is a weapon.

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So there's always the debate between QWERTY and alphabetical keyboards, but everyone is missing the obvious way to solve this disagreement.

There's no reason the alphabet HAS to be in that order. It's arbitrary, and English would work almost completely the same if the alphabet was in a different order, you know?

So, let's just put the alphabet in QWERTY order!
It'd solve all our problems from Q to M.

foone,
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Note to self: record someone singing the QWERTYbet to the tune of twinkle twinkle little star

foone,
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Although really the name should be something like "the cuedoubleyou", since the word "alphabet" comes from alpha + beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.

foone,
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@SnepperStepper sure!

foone,
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@bialpio like, one song. And some early schooling. You'd need to sort stuff differently

foone,
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@donkey @bigzaphod good point, hex would change too!

foone,
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@jamie fun fact: I work in a library! and I do library stuff for a hobby!

so I know exactly how much chaos this would cause, and that's part of why I suggested it :)

foone,
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@seyye that's very good! thanks!

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Here's a sung version of the new alphabet (cuedoubleyou) song:

https://meemu.org/@seyye/112486813090146412

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