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@vxo@digipres.club

Broadcast engineer, enjoyer of weird technology, cat staff.

probably posting in 256QAM

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vxo, to random
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Kinda having a bad time with anxiety today. May I please have some recommendations for fantastic Youtube Poop to help get the right brain chemicals on deck?

foone, to random
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Bad idea: you know how sometimes people have a "me but a bot" account? Where they've trained a gpt3 bot on their original posts, and have it regularly generate a fake post by them?

Why stop there? Train another bot on the first bot account's output. And another.

See how many bot accounts it takes until foonebot7 is just posting "floppy floppy floppy floppy floppy floppy" 24/7

vxo,
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@foone I used to make silly MegaHAL bots basically jump in a ring and battle each other, absolutely trashing their training as they go

vga256, to retrocomputing
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as promised, i'm archiving this 42 year old D&D campaign building software on cassette

warning: loud/annoying modulation sounds 😆

A cassette titled "Fantasy Gamer" by Prickly-Pear Software is inserted into a Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer Cassette Recorder. The owner hits play, and it begins playing back modulation sounds recorded on the tape.

vxo,
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@vga256 I remember my Tandy 102/TRS-80 Model 100 tapes being the same way - the computer would accept multiple copies of the program, and would basically stop overwriting it in RAM when it got a good clean copy that passed sanity checks :)

I think I had one tape where the instructions said it had three or five copies.

I remember seeing some audio equipment once where the firmware updates came on DAT tapes and it had the same thing the tape the vendor sent you had ten copies, since DAT burps

RickiTarr, to random
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Sometimes when you learn how something works, you think, Thanks knowledge, that really helped, everything makes more sense, and other times you look up how wrists turn, and it's like WTF?!

vxo,
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@RickiTarr what the heck kind of spare parts did we evolve out of?!

gsuberland, to random
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of course my car decides to start throwing Engine Malfunction messages and randomly going into limp mode on the Sunday immediately before the bank holiday Monday when I'm meant to be driving to EMF, meaning I can't get it to a mechanic for diagnostics let alone a repair in time.

OBD-II scanner shows nothing at all, inbuilt test mode shows two generic DTC codes that provide no useful information other than it's maybe a sensor doing something wrong.

ffs.

vxo,
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@gsuberland before you panic... look for broken/disconnected vacuum lines, and make sure the air intake isn't loose.

My Subaru likes to periodically try to give me a panic attack by simply shedding its air inlet tube between the MAF and throttle, causing the EFI sensor data to be extremely wrong and the engine to sound as if it's been blown the F up

vxo,
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@gsuberland Most of them are topside. Just look for anything that's visibly disconnected, cracked, or leaking. The largest one goes to the power brake booster (if applicable on your vehicle) - there will be a big round tubby thing on the firewall with one large hose out the bottom. if that disconnects, the car will act very bad, but at least the fix is really easy.

vxo,
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@gsuberland it's kinda a gotcha.... the self tests that lead to codes being set might not flag a fault until it's been driven some time, and the logic behind them is spotty.

GayOldTime, to Vintage
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This week's has the great taste of bananas and herring, together at last! Try it at home! (Or don’t.)

vxo,
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@GayOldTime all I can say is the drugs must have been really good back then.

vxo,
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@GayOldTime all i can say is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4iPl4KcebU

MLE_online, to random
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Cute Olivetti adding machine at the thrift store

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vxo,
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@MLE_online some of them near me are even worse: their shelves are constantly spammed with old LuLaRoe back stock from the pits of hell

vxo,
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@MLE_online @bytex64 @Sylvhem I'm with you on that, I do not usually pay more than that for any piece of old test equipment of unknown condition.

foone, to random
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Bad idea that could still make a lot of money:
A small desk-size washing machine, with proprietary soap packets, designed to clean keyboard keycaps.

vxo,
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@foone terrible. Ridiculous. When do we start working on the prototype?

ai6yr, to venturacounty

Shelter in Place for a bear lifted in Santa Paula.

vxo,
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@kfcrosby yeah every time I've seen a bear it either completely ignores me or just runs off.
@ai6yr

foone, to random
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My hobby? Disassembling and reassembling 3d printers.

Most people just call that "3D printing" but I want to be truthful to which part of the hobby I spend most of my time doing

vxo,
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@foone YES. that's what I keep getting stuck in

vxo,
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@foone I basically created a meme around my workplace since like four of us are doing 3d printing and we're always messing with.......

The Nozzle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8yQhXDquII

philpem, to retrocomputing
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Folks of a certain persuasion might enjoy this :) Play with sound.

Credits:
Fox video: @a1ba (https://elk.zone/suya.place/objects/84de9001-7eab-4bd7-91c4-0383d4dea126)
Beep sound: @Gammitin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hobeufw0bao)

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vxo,
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@philpem @a1ba @Gammitin 640 KB OK
Starting FoxxOS...

miah, to random
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Journalists posting uncritical articles about AI or simply re-posting press releases from AI companies will be the first to be replaced by it.

vxo,
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@miah @ai6yr I used to get ads for this absolutely fascinatingly dumb network of sites that just scraped Reddit and reformatted the attribution-free content into a long scrollable (until your browser explodes) page with an ad between each post. They usually had a URL that was like blend.example.com. Scrolling a few screens down on one of them if you didn't have an ad blocker would usually get you redirected to a tech support scam page and a fountain of desktop notification requests.

Jencen, to random
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This time of year always brings back bittersweet memories working for cons.

OneDrive and Google both like throwing the "on this day" thing at me.

And usually, at this time of the year, I'd be panicking and running round like an idiot trying to finish making or printing things.

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vxo,
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@DeltaWye @Jencen whatever that device is, it looks friendly and satisfying

foone, to random
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when is GCC gonna have support for shock collars?
it might help to shock the programmer whenever the compile fails

vxo,
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@gooba42 panic("Splunge!"); was more useful than some other error messages I've run into.

Earlier today I had something that kept spitting "Access violation" over and over like a fountain. No details, not even any description of what function was throwing it.

On an unrelated note I want a big heavy leather collar that actually does serve as a grounding strap as suggested in that old story
@foone

vxo,
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@gooba42 if you haven't seen said story, here it is, it's glorious.
https://milk.com/true-stories/grounding_story.html
@foone

vxo, to random
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Wow, modems got TURBO JANKY for a while, didn't they... Supposedly this is just a PCTel reference design, with pretty much everything not absolutely needed stripped off.

generic FCC disclaimer and HSP56 MicroModem label text

vxo,
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In case you're wondering how these worked without an isolation transformer, the secret is in the "Silicon DAA" design. Everything on the phone line side of the modem is powered only by the DC voltage on the line. Serial data communication back to the PCI interface chip is passed via the seemingly random value 2KV rated ceramic disc capacitors.

In case you are wondering if this worked at all: yes, in most cases.

In case you are wondering if this was any good: lol NO

ceramic disc capacitors for data transmission

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

vxo,
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@foone ugh I would love to invite people to instead become keyboard builders! Leave the vintage hardware alone and instead score a custom keyboard that is exactly what you want it to be.

I want to build a nice split mechanical that looks like the neon shimmering on a rainy night. :3
@twylo

SirTapTap, to random
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Me looking at tall girls:
Haha fuck yeah!!!
Yes!!

Me being a tall girl:
Well this fucking sucks.
What the fuck.

(I am shopping again)

vxo,
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@SirTapTap do you also get the thing where what should be a mid length dress winds up being mini length?

vxo,
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@SirTapTap and meanwhile I just tried to pull up my tights and they disintegrated on one side lol

I'm glad they chose a day I'm wearing a long dress to cease to be

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