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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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The whole point of the "paperless office" wasn't to cut down on paper, exactly. It was misnamed.

It's actually a printerless office. If we can be paperless, we can finally be printerless.

foone, to random
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Gonna hook up a bot to my mastodon account that just periodically searches for people referring to me in the past tense or passing around obituaries.
It'll just reply "I'm not dead!" to those posts.

It won't get a lot of use now, but I predict it'll be pretty funny someday, in the (hopefully far) future

philpem, to random
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In case you missed it, I've got a spiffy new logo for my slides and PCBs. This is Chaos the dragon!
https://meemu.org/@quesadillawizard/112493013282894564

foone,
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@philpem I need this as a safety warning sign so I can put it up by my TV broadcast rack

foone,
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@philpem well I do have that windows ce printer specifically designed for safety labels, maybe I can make it work long enough to make us some good stickers

foone, to random
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Bad idea that could still make a lot of money:
A small desk-size washing machine, with proprietary soap packets, designed to clean keyboard keycaps.

foone,
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You might say "who would waste money on a dedicated appliance that only does that one thing?"

But I must remind you that mechanical keyboardists are the audiophiles of typing.

foone,
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They have a bunch of money and not a lot of rationality.

More cents than sense, as my grandpappy used to say.

dosnostalgic, to random
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The remake of Wizardry 1 is out of early access today.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/VyM9tmAqV3M
Site: https://www.digitaleclipse.com/games/wizardry

foone,
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@dosnostalgic nice! I love that hybrid model for game remastering

foone, to random
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Why doesn't microsoft make Recall take pictures with your computer's webcam too?

foone,
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@sky implying legal cleared Recall in the first place?

artandtechnic, to random
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Got on one of the toll highways this afternoon to make my way back to the thrift store I’d discovered last weekend… and found myself immediately stuck in traffic. After noticing that there only seemed to be traffic in a single direction - southbound - it hit me: this is Urban Weekend (a.k.a. Urban Beach Week).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_Beach_Week

The wikipedia seemingly hasn’t been updated since 2013, so it omits that weekend’s overwhelmingly violent, criminal history.

Thankfully, I wasn’t going that far.

foone,
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@artandtechnic have you ever made it to Urban Ore in Berkeley , CA? They've got an amazing VHS section, it's something like 5 full height shelving units packed 2 deep with VHS tapes.

foone,
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@artandtechnic If you're in the area, you might also want to check Captain Video in San Mateo. Lots of VHS there, including some beta.

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

foone, to random
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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,
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I did a little more searching. This raspi was running balenaOS which is a docker-containers-on-raspi thing.

Fun fact: If you pass environment options to a docker image you're building, they get stored in the config.v2.json file for that container!

So there's ANOTHER COPY OF THE AWS KEYS HERE!

foone,
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anyway this is what I have:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ari-introduces-wellness-detector-jonathan-burke/

Good news: That company/product doesn't seem to be active anymore. So these keys have almost certainly expired and been invalidated. I'm just gonna assume that and not check because I don't want to get in trouble for "hacking"

foone,
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@griibor A local e-waste place that my roommate has access to

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.

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 It takes ASCII, yeah. it has to translate it into letter+shift because of how PC keyboards work

foone, to random
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when is GCC gonna have support for shock collars?
it might help to shock the programmer whenever the compile fails

foone,
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@griibor lewd! I'll sexualize a lot, but I try to keep it away from my CI job

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