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rakslice

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quantization machine inputs artisan. he/him. being wrong on the internet practitioner. 50.3° N, 119.3° W (approx.) 68kΩ (Rɪᴅ_ʙ) pull-down. ε_𝑣 in Twitch chat. Boosts are sometimes followed by relevant snark

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rakslice, to random
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oop, there's the lede: "The DOJ hasn't further specified how the US military purchased counterfeit Cisco gear [...] Online marketplaces like Amazon and eBay are known to have suspicious tech listings, so it would be alarming if government entities, especially military ones, were acquiring gear purchased by these means." https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/counterfeit-cisco-gear-ended-up-in-us-military-bases-used-in-combat-operations/

rakslice, to random
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It's interesting to compare and contrast this with the soft, almost ceremonial, tit-for-tat retaliation Al Jazeera received in the US in 2003 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68961753

rakslice, to random
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It's like a corollary of "when you're an exec, reasons don't matter" -- like as the customer, legalese doesn't matter, I'm not awarding points for technical correctness -- when a company ditches the feature I'm using without warning, or the site just bans me for no reason, it puts the ball in my court to take the next step, and I have to make a decision about choosing a replacement and I'm gonna take the obvious factors into account,

kiwa, to random
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Keyboard, I think it's for some terminal but it's ps/2, kinda works with in my modern computer, but I want to use it with the alpha

rakslice,
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@kiwa the condensed font and specific indicator light labels give away that it's an NCD X-terminal keyboard

rakslice,
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@kiwa in fact it appears to be the one in this picture of a terminal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Network_Computing_Devices_NCD-88k_X_terminal.jpg

rakslice,
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@kiwa I think the PS/2 ones were basically mix & match no matter what terminal model you were using it with; people would order the one with the layout they wanted based on their preference

rakslice,
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@kiwa and then use the scancodes diagrams in the docs to configure their stuff to match http://bio.gsi.de/DOCS/NCDWARE/V5.0.000/HTML/keyboar4.htm#586256

rakslice,
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@kiwa Essentially they want to be used in PS/2 set 3 mode for all the keys to work; you can of course use them on a PC with
a real PS/2 keyboard port w/ legacy i8042 keyboard controller that you can use in linux with the classic kernel params and key mapping tools,

rakslice,
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@kiwa but for random use with USB things you can use them with a usb/ps-2 adapter firmware like soarer's converter that supports set 3 and arbitrary remapping

rakslice,
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@kiwa e.g. here's my config for an NCD N-107 keyboard, which has a Sun Type-4 layout https://gist.github.com/rakslice/293117de80bbe8057421088d59eab311

rakslice,
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@kiwa I have no clue what projects can do PS/2-PS/2 remapping with set 3 if that's what the Alpha needs

rakslice,
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@kiwa hm, i wonder if openvms/alpha itself lets you remap ps/2 scan codes

0xC01DC0FFEE, to random
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Today on cursed connectors :blobcatscared:

https://www.mouser.de/ProductDetail/Phoenix-Contact/1841909?qs=uD%2FdkN7XIa2IAt5y%252BkANcw%3D%3D

rakslice,
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@peturdainn @0xC01DC0FFEE @NanoRaptor Is there a @NanoRaptor to real connector designs pathway? 😛

mcc, to random
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I CANNOT EXPLAIN WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT BUT I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO DRAW THIS IMAGE ALL DAY

rakslice,
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@mcc big https://www.myinstants.com/media/sounds/playstation.mp3 energy

rakslice, to random
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LB: I mean, I think the complaints are about appropriation; if I had a distro I would give the releases names like "globby bottle of cheap stinking chip-oil" and the douglas adams appreciators could fairly get up in my grill about it (if they were the type of person into that sort of thing which odds are they probably aren't)

whitequark, to random
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Never touch the catgirl.
Please don't. Cause of failure
This may be the cause

rakslice,
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@whitequark "It is not possible to use multiple computers at the same time. It is not possible."

vga256, (edited ) to random
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those with extensive CRT repair experience (edit: please, for the love of sweet jebus, don't reply if you are just guessing and haven't worked on a tube)

i picked up this Sony KV-8AD11 a while ago and it has been sitting on the repair pile. while i've recapped and restored a couple of dozen arcade & tube tv's, diagnosis isn't my strong suit.

what's causing the green hue running along the left side? it remains there even after the chassis has warmed up, and switching between RF and composite input makes no difference.

interestingly, the green hue does not show up on snow/static screens. is this something adjustable via the internal potentiometers, or will it require some PCB work?

my thanks 🙏

rakslice,
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@vga256 can you show what the snow/static screens without the hue look like up close?

textfiles, to random
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The village is saved

rakslice,
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@textfiles is.... is it... at an actual Best Buy?

rakslice, to random
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LB: My last dealing with an American carmaker was a very strange runaround where their maintenance folks refused to do some work without an insurance evaluation, so I got one, then refused to do the work because they didn't like the insurance quote, then after I had had the work done elsewhere they immediately proposed redoing part of it, without any apparent awareness I had originally brought it to them to do in the first place, weeks before by that point.

mcc, to random
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Today is my birthday!

If you'd like to do something for me for my birthday, would you please reply to this with—or by other means send me— something with colors you liked? Like an image or a video or a link. Music would also be acceptable if it gives you a strong synesthesiac association with color.

If this request confuses you, here are some examples of images with colors I found striking [Artists: Laurie Barmore, Vian Borchert, Erica Aurahack]. But your reply can be whatever colors you like.

Abstract art by Vian Borchert
Abstract art by Vian Borchert

rakslice, (edited )
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@mcc I love the real vivid purples and yellow-greens you see in photos of uranium glass blacklight displays

rakslice, to random
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Re Parkland: I can never keep the Edmonton-area towns/cities starting with 'S' straight; Stony Plain is the one on the far left

rakslice, to random
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LB: ' As the WSJ Magazine reports: “Benioff and Weiss, who have been friends since grad school, weren’t crazy about HBO’s then-owners, AT&T, whose executives once asked whether ‘Game of Thrones’ could be shot vertically so it would fit on your phone. '

... I don't even know what to say, that is breathtakingly stupid.

rakslice, to random
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LB: the desire for genuine reviews is great; a lot of the details are silly or at least misguided, but there are a lot of conversation starters here

rakslice,
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"the Tesla of air purifiers" (derogatory)

rakslice,
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it's like calling your software product "Enterprise-grade", are you sure you know what overtones that has in the target market

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