@foone@digipres.club avatar

foone

@foone@digipres.club

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

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

foone, to random
@foone@digipres.club avatar

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, to random
@foone@digipres.club avatar

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
@luckytran@med-mastodon.com avatar

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,
@foone@digipres.club avatar

@luckytran finally some good news from my home state!

brooke, to random
@brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net avatar

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

foone,
@foone@digipres.club avatar

@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,
@foone@digipres.club avatar

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

foone,
@foone@digipres.club avatar

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

foone, to random
@foone@digipres.club avatar

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.

foone, to random
@foone@digipres.club avatar

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,
@foone@digipres.club avatar

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

foone,
@foone@digipres.club avatar

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,
@foone@digipres.club avatar

@SnepperStepper sure!

foone,
@foone@digipres.club avatar

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

foone,
@foone@digipres.club avatar

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

foone,
@foone@digipres.club avatar

@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,
@foone@digipres.club avatar

@seyye that's very good! thanks!

mcc, to random
@mcc@mastodon.social avatar

In the future, the only way to escape execution by the Microsoft killbots will be to legally change your name to be longer than 256 characters, thus rendering you invisible to their AI https://helvede.net/@jwcph/112485841825022134

foone,
@foone@digipres.club avatar

@mcc jokes on them, my name is fractal and of infinite length.
Foone B. Turing
The B stands for "Benoit B. Mandelbrot" and so on.

DotMaetrix, to random
@DotMaetrix@chitter.xyz avatar

My uncle who works at Nintendo is now my aunt who works at Nintendo and she wrote paper mario and that's why it's good now

foone,
@foone@digipres.club avatar

@DotMaetrix thank her for her service

h3, to random
@h3@social.tchncs.de avatar

@foone what do you think of this: https://youtu.be/pJ-25-pRhpY

foone,
@foone@digipres.club avatar

@h3 I can't watch the video yet but the thumbnail is very promising!

foone,
@foone@digipres.club avatar

@h3 I've seen it now. It's pretty great!

foone, to random
@foone@digipres.club avatar

Someone needs to make a version of doom that works like those 1960s flight simulators that NASA used, where it's a physical model and the controls are just driving a video camera around it

foone,
@foone@digipres.club avatar

Someone needs to 3D print a copy of E1M1

foone,
@foone@digipres.club avatar

@rasteri nice idea

foone, to random
@foone@digipres.club avatar

So when I see a floppy disk anywhere my natural instinct is "ooh, I should image that and upload it to the internet archive!"
Which is a drive (no pun intended) that has served me well: I've imaged a lot of floppy disks.

Recently it has started betraying me, however. See, I've been doing a temp job where I digitize microfiche for the internet archive.

So now most of the time when I go "hey I should image that disk and put it on the archive", it's already IN the internet archive. Physically!

foone,
@foone@digipres.club avatar

@puck working on it

nanochess, to retrogaming
@nanochess@mastodon.social avatar

I don't want to disappoint the 3 Body Problem series fans, but in episode 4 where an old IBM PC shows alien messages, the screen resolution is wrong and outside of the capabilities of the CGA and Hercules video cards available in 1984.

foone,
@foone@digipres.club avatar

@3rz @nanochess honestly if I could get all my scifi on 4:3 sources, I would. VHS, Laserdisc, and over the air NTSC, please!

tef, to random
@tef@mastodon.social avatar

i know i'm showing my age but every time i see "AI features added!" i mentally interpret it as "Bonzi Buddy 2.0™"

foone,
@foone@digipres.club avatar

@tef yep.
I've got bonzi buddy installed on one of my VMs, I keep meaning to plug it into chatgpt to make some kind of point.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • JUstTest
  • tacticalgear
  • DreamBathrooms
  • ngwrru68w68
  • magazineikmin
  • thenastyranch
  • osvaldo12
  • Youngstown
  • Durango
  • slotface
  • rosin
  • kavyap
  • khanakhh
  • everett
  • normalnudes
  • ethstaker
  • InstantRegret
  • mdbf
  • cubers
  • Leos
  • modclub
  • tester
  • anitta
  • GTA5RPClips
  • cisconetworking
  • megavids
  • provamag3
  • lostlight
  • All magazines
    •