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Broadcast Encoding Engineer @ Apple / Network Guy / Photographer / Emulation Enthusiast / Collector of 80s Arcades / Former CTO / Arduino Hacker / EV Driver / All Around Geek

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siracusa, (edited ) to random
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First, it’s great that @MichaelWhelan is on Mastodon. What an amazing artist.

Second, his recent post featured a spherical alien that I instantly recognized from my childhood. https://mastodon.art/@MichaelWhelan/112428886103083708

It’s from this book, published in 1980, which had a cover image that is also burned into my brain.

halfpress,
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@siracusa @MichaelWhelan Wow! Scrolling through Mastodon and this stopped me in my tracks when I instantly recognized this influential book from my 80s childhood. I’m quite positive it’s still in the family if not my personal collection.

Edit: confirmed - it’s in my book database from our move a few years ago and safely stored away in the meantime. Might have to bust it out sooner.

flargh, to random
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Last night I saw a Punisher flag decal on the back of a Subaru wagon and boy is that a very confusing vibe or what

halfpress,
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@flargh @dmoren Live south of Charlottesville in Amherst, just north of Lynchburg (home of the infamous Liberty U). Don’t get me started on the idiotic performative nonsense around there. Ironically, I’m currently in Cupertino and having a mostly opposite experience of being spared the usual MAGA onslaught. @fahrni - we should connect sometime when I’m back home (over some Traeger Brothers coffee). :)

halfpress, to random
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@ivory Is there is a tap, gesture or other means to skip a timeline to the unread point? Sometimes one of my synced clients (Mac, iPad or iPhone) will be behind (maybe significantly) the known read point for various reasons and I've yet to find a way to get to (but not beyond) the unread point to synch up without tons of scrolling.

Basically, is there a way to snap an Ivory client to the purple unread badge point?

halfpress,
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@ivory Thanks! Yes, I realized a while back that waiting is the key and I've learned to be patient in extreme cases. Works fine in that regard but would love more overt visual feedback it's actively doing that.

I think I'm referring more to cases where a client isn't tremendously far off. Perhaps it had been left running (Mac) inside a thread, for instance... so upon backing out you're sort of fixed in that part of the timeline and a means of triggering a jump to unread edge would be great.

tubetime, to random
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bookmark this: https://connectorbook.com/

it is not just a book--there is an online utility that can help you identify mystery connectors!

halfpress,
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@tubetime Holy crap.

halfpress, to random
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Just realized how useful Black Friday is for mass unsubscribing from various marketing email sources I’ve otherwise been grudgingly tolerating at lower volume.

georgetakei, to random

A contender for your Friday WTF moment. Is this even a thing?

https://www.comicsands.com/florida-woman-mountain-dew-dna-2664010833.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

halfpress,
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@georgetakei Have to wonder how many routine spider feedings devolve into stabbings. Stuff just gets out of hand in those situations all too easily, I assume. :)

grumpygamer, to gamedev
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There comes a point where you just make the game you want to play and hope others want to play it too. If not, at least you had fun making a game.

halfpress,
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@grumpygamer Always been curious if you can call it done (or done enough) and invest extensive play time in one's own game. Are you able to disconnect from the development process and enjoy it at the level you would someone else's creation? Will you ultimately invest more play time than development time? Truly curious to know. I'm not a game dev, but I've often found I enjoy the making more than the results in my various projects.

craiggrannell, to InitialD
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164: Marble Madness (1984)

Driven by Atari demands for new control methods and concepts, and inspired by the contours of miniature golf courses, Mark Cerny’s trackball-based time-attack racer was a frenetic two-player blast. The levels looked gorgeous and were packed full of devious traps. It was a short game – which meant it didn’t stick around long and home ports were iffy – but brilliant while it lasted.

Play it on:

Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzlA1JTPMto

halfpress,
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@craiggrannell This is one of the three original machines I still own in my personal arcade collection (along with a Millipede and a Pac-Man). The cabinet is a beast, but the design was made for easy conversion (including Paper Boy, Peter Pack Rat and maybe Indiana Jones). The motherboard remains fixed, but the bottom half is the game-specific board... basically a two foot wide cartridge in principle. The control panel swapped out easily, too. I have Peter Pack Rat for it as well.

paul, to random
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$80 for a full speed bus powered Thunderbolt enclosure is the lowest price I've seen. No experience with this brand but they're probably all using the same design and for sure the same Intel chipset. Worth a shot I think.

https://www.amazon.com/ANYOYO-40Gbps-Enclosure-Aluminum-Compatible/dp/B0BP9B9T9K

halfpress,
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@paul Suspiciously good price... considering all the others cost more than I just paid for the NVMe drive I just ordered.

halfpress,
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@paul Volume aside - has the performance been comparable? Too early to speak to reliability, I suppose.

LibrarianRA, to food
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What's for dinner?
.
Reynolds Wrap Tuna Dreamboats ad
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halfpress,
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@LibrarianRA food photography has come a long way…

BasicAppleGuy, to random
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App Store turns 15 today, what were your first apps? Here’s mine:

halfpress,
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@gruber @BasicAppleGuy Oh, AIM… I can’t recall if there was a workable notification system for a third party IM client at that stage short of opening the app.

glassbottommeg, (edited ) to random
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Hold up, Ratchet and Clank: A Rift Apart is hitting Epic Store later this month? (EDIT: oh AND on Steam too! nice!)

But that was their system-defining exclusive! "you can't possibly do this on any other machine!" and such.

I mean it's nice to no longer need to buy a Playstation but, I did think they'd at least hold some of these back, heh.

halfpress,
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@glassbottommeg Big part of that game to me was the great use of the haptics. Does that carry over to PC in a decent manner? How about using a PS5 controller on a PC with it?

paul, to random
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Has the Unifi stuff gotten more expensive or have I gotten cheaper?

halfpress,
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@paul try getting a replacement G4 doorbell from them. My RMA is well over a month backordered now. Design flaw that they eat themselves on the power side not long after the warranty expires. Good times.

Our otherwise little quiet town had a shooting on Friday across the street from us (some sort of horrific teen altercation - utter anomaly here). Guess which camera would have caught much of the incident? The hole in our doorframe with a wire hanging out isn’t very effective currently.

BasicAppleGuy, to random
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I was today years old when I learned you can take iPad screenshots by dragging your finger from the bottom left bezel towards the middle of the screen. 📸

video/mp4

halfpress,
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@BasicAppleGuy I literally did this by accident a few days ago and made the startled realization. I was familiar with the similar pencil motion that has existed for a while, though.

halfpress, to gaming
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This is a phenomenal scholarly work on its topic. It is also just a fine piece of quality design all around, from layout to typography to the binding. Seriously hefty, too! :)

blakespot, to internet

Those out there who use a VPN as common practice, what service do you recommend? Is latency in any way an issue? What are you paying out for it?

Thanks.

halfpress,
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@blakespot Been a NordVPN user for years and have had no issues with it. I don't use it constantly, but it's a switch flip away on all of my devices when I feel the need for it. I often use it as much to get a global perspective on network configurations, impacts on content delivery availability and the like.

amoroso, to emacs
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Emacs for Android is an interesting exercise in software portability. And besides, given Doom can run on a fridge, why not Emacs on Android?

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/936576/3650cb78587b573c

halfpress,
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@amoroso @ukscone https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivim/id1266544660

halfpress, to random
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@ivory Anyone aware what might suddenly cause Ivory to ask for mic permission (which I denied) while I was scrolling through my timeline? Just popped up randomly for the first time since I started beta (and now release version).

halfpress, to random
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While successfully restoring my childhood C64, I’ve run into a few mysteries. One of them is the revision of the keyboard in this machine. Of the two I have, one of them is the seemingly very common KSR-A66YF that I see mentioned a lot. My original is a KBR-466S that I've yet to find mentioned. I've seen one other old unique one online that looks similar, but it has a long set of wires from the shift-lock where this one has the more normal short wires. Thoughts?

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stooovie, to random
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@atpfm Re: original MacOS being amazing on 128k RAM - I'm sure you know that GEOS did all of that with 64k and an 8-bit 6510 ;)

halfpress,
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@stooovie @atpfm wonder why it was never released in cartridge form. Would seem to have made it all the more efficient to be ROM from both a RAM and disk I/O perspective. It would use a RAM expansion module if present, apparently.

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