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jpm, 5 days ago to random

Get you a gravy volcano

jpm, 5 days ago to random

Pi tends to do that to people
https://eigenmagic.net/@whatifbot/112412244194601312

PCOWandre, 6 days ago to random

You'd think with all the AI hype there'd be some comment from the FTC about nvidia holding a monopoly position. Guess they're a bit too busy with the 'affordable luxury' handbag problem.

jpm, 16 days ago to random

WHERE THE FUCK DID THIS YAK COME FROM?!

jpm, 23 days ago to random

So, I finally finished the basic bring-up of the board I’ve been assembling the last couple of days. I found the dead short from 3V3 to GND under the ADC, but needed to do a lot of digging to find it.

Right now, the MCU seems to work using its internal oscillators, and a quick poke shows that the 12MHz crystal is working too. The I2C ADC and GPIO expander appear to be responding, but the RTC isn’t (yet?)

I also think I melted the push-buttons because they don’t push now, and there’s one LED I forgot to hook up to anything in the schematic…

anathema_device, 1 month ago to random

Shutdown of 3G networks a ‘health and safety issue’ for some regional Australians

Telcos have promised no loss of coverage when the 3G network shuts down, but farmers outside of official coverage areas are worried their lifeline will turn off

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/24/shutdown-of-3g-networks-a-health-and-safety-issue-for-some-regional-australians

ajsadauskas, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to tech

What should I add to my '90s website?

So I'm currently toying around with NeoCities, and decided to trial it by building your classic mid '90s Geocities/Tripod/Angelfire pastiche website.

Some of the most important elements are already in place.

Tile background? Large font? Heading in bright pink with a shadow? Unusual colour choices? Random cat gifs? Under construction gif? Check! Check! Check!

In the true spirit of the '90s DIY web, some more pages (including the links page) are coming soon.

(I'm thinking of adding a page dedicated to either Britney or a nu-metal band.)

You can see the page so far here: https://that90ssite.neocities.org/

There are a few things that I want to add to make it complete, and I'm looking for suggestions.

The first, is to embed a midi file that plays automatically. Any suggestions on the best way of doing this?

Second, it's just not going to be complete without a guestbook.

Third, any webring suggestions?

Fourth, what's the best way of adding a java chat room in 2024?

Finally, anything else that really needs to be a part of a great '90s website?

UPDATE: Thanks for all the feedback! I've added more annoying GIFs, a guestbook, a links page, and a cyber cat hangout.

UPDATE 2: And added even more gifs, an amazing Amiga demo, and a ton of links.

@asklemmy #tech #webdev #neocities #technology

jpm, 3 months ago to random

Thoughts and prayers for anyone flying into MEL or AAV this afternoon:

122 km/h wind gust recorded at Avalon airport at 2:19 pm.

98 km/h wind gust recorded at Melbourne Airport at 3:17 pm.

Ref: http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDV21033.shtml

alanc, 3 months ago to random

A Sun old-timer posted this ancient relic for sale on Facebook - tempting to get a reprint done for the current Solaris desktop team:

KathyReid, 4 months ago to Futurology

#LazyWeb: I'm trying to find a white paper? from 1-2 years ago that was arguing for a third classification in Australian universities - to add a specific research software engineering category, because professional/general and academic pathways don't account for specialist software engineering skills.

It's not the #ARDC survey report, but is possibly in a similar space?

#RSE #SoftwareEngineering #research

dgar, 4 months ago to random

BOM is looking for people to spend a year in Antarctica.

https://subscribe.bom.gov.au/Antarctic_Recruitment/

unixben, 4 months ago to random

What are we using in 2024 for DNS-based ad-blocking? I've tried self-hosted AdGuard Home, Pi-hole, and hosted AdGuard, NextDNS etc...

What other approaches am I missing?

georgetakei, 4 months ago to random

Women should vote however they damn well please to.

bagder, 5 months ago to random

So far this year, 117 persons authored their first commit that was merged into #curl.

georgetakei, 6 months ago to random

The adult children of Donald Trump begin to appear on the stand this week in the New York civil fraud trial. Eric will once more prove how absolutely brilliant he is, and Don Jr. will show the world that he is just a chill, cool guy. Ivanka is set for next week, but she keeps hoping an asteroid hits first.

georgetakei, 6 months ago to random

Now it looks like the No. 3 Republican in the House, Tom Emmer, is the new nominee for Speaker. This comes after McCarthy was deposed, and Scalise and Jordan both failed to get to 217 votes. Emmer asked for a roll call vote among his conference, and he looks like he is still more than 20 votes short. And look, Democrats would work with Emmer if he would agree to bring the budget and Ukrainian funding to the floor for a vote. But so far, he doesn’t want to dance with any Democrats. A bipartisan solution remains elusive, so the Speaker’s chair remains empty.

jpm, 6 months ago to random

git commit -m “fucking mongodb”

KathyReid, 7 months ago to TwitterMigration

Good morning everyone! Here's my latest #Connections #Introduction #Introductions #TwitterMigration post, where I curate interesting accounts for you to follow from across the #Fediverse :fediverse:

@maryrobinette is a #writer #author, and I am listening to her incredible #LadyAstronaut series at the moment. If you love #SciFi (esp hard scifi) you should read it, too! 🇺🇸

@sayashk is a #ComputerScience #PhD candidate at #Princeton, who is researching failures in #ML (he's also co-running a workshop on open #FoundationModels in about 15 hours, see my previous posts for more info) 🇺🇸

@michcampbell is Dr Micha Campbell and she is a #PalaeoClimate #PostDoc living on #Dharawal country 🇦🇺

@mthv is a #Research #Engineer who works in #GIS at #CNRS 🇫🇷

@astrolori is Lori and she is into #OpenSource, #fashion, #space and #tech #WomenInSTEM 🇨🇦

@pandas_dev is the official account for #pandas, the #Python #DataAnalysis tool 🐍 📊

@jessie is a lover of #languages and helps run #CommonVoice, @mozilla 's open #voice #data set, which now supports over 100 languages. She also teaches #WebDev and loves #hiking. She's awesome you should follow her 🇬🇧

That's all for now, please do share your own lists so we can create deeper connections, and a tightly-connected community here

I'm reminded here of @maryrobinette's short story - "Red Rockets" - "She built something better than fireworks. She built community."

unixben, 7 months ago to random

#suntember My final post for Suntember, though strictly these are Oracle-era. These are silicon wafers of SPARC M7 if I recall correctly. Sunglasses for size comparison.

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jpm, 8 months ago to random

Once again I’m on a search for LED downlights that don’t shit themselves after 3 months due to the horrendous power line conditions around here. At this rate it will be cheaper to go back to halogen globes…