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foone, 4 months ago to random

I'm always kinda surprised that Factorio is so popular with developers, given that it's basically "technical debt, the game!"

foone, 1 month ago to random

Microsoft should make a cintiq-style drawing tablet that just boots into MS Paintbrush

foone, 3 months ago to random

I wonder: if you showed IBM executives what happens with the PC, would they still greenlight it?

Because they lost control of it pretty quick (the IBM PS/2 was a failed attempt to get control back, and that was only 6 years on) and then from then on they were only one fish in an increasingly bigger pond. And then PC-likes took over the workstation/server markets too, so their minicomputers and mainframes lost a lot too

foone, 1 month ago to random

I guess it's a good thing the entire CI/packaging infrastructure got compromised... A good thing for my job hunt at least!
CI is my bread and butter. Y'all are gonna need to hire a bunch of people to better maintain your whole software delivery system... People like me!

foone, 2 months ago to random

on a scale of 1 to WE COPYRIGHTED THE FUCKING PLASTIC CASE OF OUR DUMB TERMINAL, how many layers of IP law are you on?

foone, 2 months ago to random

Is there an existing project to convert a USB keyboard/mouse to PS/2?

Like, I've got a USB KVM, and I'd love to plug an old computer into it, one that's pre-USB.

(this is a thing that's annoying to google)

foone, 3 months ago to random

I am personally offended that you can't make programs in Visual Basic 6 anymore without them getting flagged as viruses.
That's like being scared of Legos

foone, 4 months ago to random

I was looking on thingiverse to see if anyone had designed a cassette tape rewinder model that I could abuse to let me rewind my endless-loop cassette, and I didn't find it, but I DID find an adapter someone made to let you rewind your CDs/DVDs with a pen. Very handy!

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5336158

foone, 5 months ago to random

friendly reminder to WIPE YOUR MEDIA.
I just got handed a floppy disk my roommate pulled out some weird device at e-waste, and I imaged it.

it's got medical data on it! patient data, the EEGs of a child from 1999

foone, 1 month ago to random

My Pocket 386 arrived! It seems to have basically the same specs as the Hand386, but in a laptop form factor. There's a few new options for managing the video, and the built-in screen isn't as horribly shit this time.

foone, 4 months ago to random

It seems weird to describe myself as having ADHD, because that implies a much greater storage capacity than my brain really has. In no way am I "high density".

I'm ADDD (double density) at best, and I fear I may really be ADSD (single density).

foone, 4 months ago to random

introducing the first smartphone with RF modulator.

why share your screen over finnicky wifi video streaming protocols, when you can just broadcast NTSC TV signals for any local CRT TV to pick up?

foone, 1 month ago to random

Diffie-Hellman's Mayonnaise

foone, 5 months ago to random

For a meeting I asked the "getting to know you" question of "what fictional world would you like to visit?"
My wife overheard my answer of "Star Trek: the sickbay. Ever since I was a kid I wanted someone to wave a beepy thing over me and figure out exactly what was wrong and know how to fix it" and she suggested I could have instead answered one of the worlds of my favorite author, what's his name? Charles Stross?

No. No, he's not that kind of author. I don't want to visit any of those.

foone, 3 months ago to random

Happy Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week! Here's the Aromantic flag displayed through VGAPride on my Pentium running MSDOS. #aromantic #aromanticspectrumawarenessweek

foone, 5 months ago to random

It has been ZERO DAYS since I have been asked to "accept" the GPL

foone, 3 months ago to random

So Tumblr has been doing a thing where they have a Scarlett Letter to mark trans women. Well, any blogs containing "too much" mature content, but that seems to mainly mean trans women. So I looked into it, and it turns out it's weird and broken.

foone, 5 months ago to random

So I saw some people saying that supposedly GTA 6 might cost 150$, and how this is ridiculous.

So I opened up my Byte to 1982.
Hey look: Odesta Chess for the Apple II and Atari 8-bits:70$.

With inflation, that's 220$

foone, 6 months ago to random

ahh, I love this maker of microcontrollers. I find their chips in half the PCBs I teardown!

foone, 4 months ago to random

Working in tech while trans is often a very weird experience because the associations you have with various organizations are constantly proven to be not be universal.

Like you'll be talking to someone who is implementing a auth system with the company that protected a site with a known death toll, and when you had gently suggested on your Twitter that they stop protecting that site, you got doxxed and death threats.

Or your boss suggests we buy a tool from a site that doxxed a friend.

foone, 2 months ago to random

more sci-fi should deal with the fact that your average Enterprise starship has a fuel tank measured in Chicxulubs of antimatter

foone, 2 months ago to random

I finally lugged my Highscreen SkyTower AT tower up to my office. This machine is beautiful, even when it's yellowed and dusty and grimy and rusty.

foone, 4 months ago to random

installing arch is fun. and I mean specifically the kind of fun I had back in 2002 when I had a slackware ISO and nothing better to do with my time

foone, 3 months ago to random

I'm not saying there's something wrong with my brain, but I just needed to mock up a UI for a demonstration, and my first thought was "boot my winXP vm and use visual basic 6"