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foone

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

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kiwa, to random
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Also got this cute floppy keychain

foone,
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@kiwa nice!

foone, to random
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I saw this voltmeter at the electronics flea market. Look at that massive probe! It looks like you need to check your back blast before using it.
Apparently it's for REALLY high voltages? Like, 3kV?

artandtechnic, to random
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One of the VHS tapes that I purchased yesterday was selected entirely on the basis of its label, which claimed that it contained (bootlegged) recordings from 1977.

Since I’m perpetually on the look-out for recordings from that year, so that I can acquire samples of the Line 20 Nielsen SID signal, you could say it grabbed my attention. 😂

foone,
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@artandtechnic the system is hardcoded to the east coast?!

vxo, to random
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What happens if a Pokemon kicks back the ball at a trainer? Can they wind up stuck in one of their own pokeballs?

foone,
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@vxo I think they turn into a Pokémon.

artandtechnic, to random
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Ahhh… when the future was just “1990 - 2010.”

foone,
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@artandtechnic sometimes it does feel like the future is over, and we've moved past it

a2_4am, to retrocomputing
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Echelon.woz

https://archive.org/details/wozaday_Echelon

Thanks to @txgx42 for the disk!

gameplay screenshot from "Echelon" showing a cockpit
gameplay screenshot from "Echelon" showing a map
flux visualization of "Echelon" disk side A

foone,
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@a2_4am @txgx42 whoa. I had this for my Packard Bell 486, it was literally the first video game I ever owned. I didn't know they did an Apple 2 port!

foone, to random
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Terrible idea: Christian programmer who comments their code with references to Bible verses which are applicable to the code's situation

foone,
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If not BorrowCheck(p):
ReleaseToFreeList(p); // Psalms 37:21

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func SetupOSEnvironment() {
/* Mark 8:36 */
RegSet(AI_COPILOT, DISABLE);
RegSet(AI_CORTANA, DISABLE);
RegSet(CRYPTOCURRENCY_SUPPORT, DISABLE);
}

foone,
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if bFirstRun: showTutorial(); // Psalm 32:8

foone,
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Actually I should have put Proverbs 16:8 on that cryptocurrency one.

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func OnShutdownRequest():
// Matthew 4:17
for file in gOpenFiles:
close(file);

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/*
this injects the decompression code into our own dll.
Originally this was just a fread() and call,
but with Windows XP SP3 turning on W^X (Data Execution Protection) we have a lot more work to do to avoid causing a security exception.

  • Ecclesiastes 7:10
    */
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@HighlandLawyer nice one.

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func OnCommand(msg) :
SendAck(msg); // Proverbs 15:23
switch(msg.type):
...

foone,
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My phone keyboard needs an "I am typing code" mode where it stops trying to autocorrect my spelling and punctuation

foone,
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@1000millimeter nope. But I can roleplay as them for comedic effect

twylo, to random
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Keyboard collectors pretty much ruined vintage computing.

foone,
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@twylo surely nothing can go wrong if we have a whole subculture of people buying old keyboards and destroying them so they can be made into a Bluetooth keyboard for their MacBook?

foone,
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@astrid @twylo AHHHHH

foone,
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@vxo @twylo exactly. They should make their own keyboards

mwichary, to random
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Love that you can quietly harbour a little side “career” that LinkedIn will never know about.

foone,
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@mwichary this is why I change my name every decade or so. No one can track what I did in the 2000s to me

foone, to random
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People who bought these m4 threaded rods also frequently bought these m3 lock nuts

these people were very disappointed

foone, to random
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Here's something cool I never realized existed:

PCBs distributed through magazines!

From Radio Electronics (June 1987):

https://archive.org/details/radio_electronics_1987-06/page/n68/

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@kurth @f4grx @gsuberland these look tasty. some kind of fried chicken!

foone, to random
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Properly photographing a 3.5" floppy disk for archival is annoyingly complicated. The label has THREE sides!

I've already built an automated system to take a picture of the front of a disk, but really I need to take THREE photos if I want to get the whole thing.

That means either three cameras or I need to rotate the disk 90° and then 180°, which is going to really stress the limits of my mechanical engineering skills.

foone,
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@f4grx I think that's mostly what I'm doing, I think? I just designed it as circles to make it easier to support and test.

Aside from the moving the camera to avoid focus. I might end up doing that if it's simpler than adjusting focus.

foone,
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@marcel I've thought about that! The issue is illumination + moving it steadily.
But it's definitely something to look at

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