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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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Today I spent some severely side-eyeing a truck mounted vsat rig trying to get it to find the bird

(Instead the system just kinda kept flipping me the bird, going through a coarse search over and over and giving up without seeing a signal at all, I think the ODU went kaputski)

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@MLE_online I used two different pallettes. One is from Glamlite and it's Scooby Doo villain themed! The other one is the neon bright palette from Five Below.

MLE_online, to random
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I got my ham radio working and now I'm listening to the hams fighting with each other

video/mp4

vxo,
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@MLE_online HAM!

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Panaplex II display in a Burroughs C5258 calculator, and the ICs.

Circuit board and lit display
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Back side of the Panaplex display with label and exhaust tube

foone, to random
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So has anyone suggested the monumental bad idea of running an AI on the ethereum smart blockchain?

Like, chatgpt but every response costs you 230$

vxo,
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@foone imagine the sound of about a hundred 1 megawatt generators mounted in shipping containers chugging hard on the edge of some old oil field in South America when you say that because that's what's going to happen

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bnuny

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Everyone complained about the non-reversable cords, but the best thing about USB C-by-default is no more "haha oops you used the wrong power cord and your device is now melted :)))))))"

Why was there not at LEAST some kind of "different amps, different sizes" standard. PC power connector should be the only one left

vxo,
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@SirTapTap I'm pretty sure a lot of manufacturers just rolled their own weirdness to help sell more hardware

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The Dystopian Future of TV Is AI-Generated 'FAST' Garbage

TCL's new AI-generated movie "Next Stop Paris" is the next evolution in the algorithmification of TV.

https://www.404media.co/the-dystopian-future-of-tv-is-ai-generated-fast-garbage/

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@ppatel I just watched that trailer and I want that minute of my life back. A computer just simply took a giant steamy poo in my face.

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Hmm, even 5 feet of sea rise only takes out one naval base and a few farm fields in Ventura County. I would have thought more of the Oxnard plain was at risk. https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/#/layer/slr/5/-13260729.027868235/4045008.5481997402/14/satellite/none/0.8/2050/interHigh/midAccretion

vxo,
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@ai6yr There's a pumping station out next to Everglades Holiday Park west of Pembroke Pines, FL, which draws down water from a couple of canals and flings it out into a wetland area to the west. I was once told by someone who I'd like to hope knew what they were talking about that if all the pumps there went down for about a week during summer, Weston would basically revert to being a swamp

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for complicated tumblr reasons involving dreaming of classified CIA visual novels, I mocked up a Powerpoint 4.0 slide for government agents trying to seduce transfems.

I thought I'd share it here for retro nostalgia and trans shitposting reasons

vxo,
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@foone inkjet transparency sheet on an old overhead!

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@foone I always wanted to see what'd happen if you put one of those weird portable ones in direct sunlight and see if it becomes a death laser.

There were some oddball portable units where instead of it having the lamp in the bottom below the Fresnel lens, they had it up top shining down, with a Fresnel lens on top of a mirror in the bottom.

Potential for shenanigans has always crossed my mind with those

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I think someone is trying to give me a virus with a tif file. I'm curious as to how that's even possible but I swore an oath about not doing security research so I'm gonna have to avoid looking into it

vxo,
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@foone that is interesting. I remember OptiPNG having an overflow, but it was fixed years ago and hopefully doesn't still exist in the wild. CVE-2017-1000229

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I got recognized at the electronics fair, but the funniest part is that they didn't fully recognize me at first.

Then I mentioned I was planning to do Terrible Things to a keyboard I bought, and THAT'S WHEN they recognized me.

Apparently my reputation precedes me.

vxo,
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@foone hahaha yep! I knew it was you because who else recreationally commits Keyboard Crimes

vxo,
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@foone and now I'm laughing because this came to mind:

MLE_online, to random
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At the ham radio store getting an antenna today

vxo,
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@MLE_online ahhh HRO! Neat.

I actually worked at the one here for a couple of days. It was pretty neat.

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We had a potluck for Critique in ceramics class today. Last class, our instructor passed around a sign-up sheet for foods to bring.

Five people signed up to bring chips. So, naturally, I thought to myself it would be good to bring some dip or salsa to accompany the overabundance of chips.

I brought salsa. Another classmate made five-layer bean dip.

No one actually brought chips.

vxo,
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@MLE_online Oh noooooooooo lol

astrid, to random
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remembering that time i made a villager spawner and some conveyors that led the villagers into a tinkers construct smeltery to melt the emeralds out of them

actually i forget if that was a spawner or just a group of villagers in the "hot tub" getting healed with something

vxo,
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@astrid oh that just reminds me of this
https://youtu.be/RWdUysYs96U

vxo, to animals
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Cassie says it's cuddles time

astrid, to random
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you ever network too close to the sun

vxo,
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@spinach Ethernest
@astrid

kaia, to random
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TIL there are industrial grade micro SD cards with higher reliability

vxo,
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@kaia I haven't looked into it in a while but I used to see these very highly recommended for use in dashcams where they'll get subjected to offensive heat

foone, to random
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my downloads folder contains a bunch of PDFs:

  1. my resume
  2. datasheets for old chips
  3. service manuals for random tech

it's only a matter of time before I apply to a job as a PCA-6144S half-size 486 CPU card

vxo,
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@foone wait, you aren't one?

vxo, to random
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this is an unusually great sounding shortwave mystery signal
http://www.numbersoddities.nl/5649khz-2024-03-11-0629utc-unid-marker.mp3

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I'm being told that at least 2,000 people have showed up to the eclipse event at work.

We also have six media outlets on-site, which is pretty darn good. I'm glad I pitched the event to press last week

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@MLE_online oh definitely! That's the kind of thing my station would absolutely be all over.

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Two culinary developments are in the LA news this morning.

One is about where you can find the best "flat croissants," which just seem to be croissants that have been ironed completely flat.

The other is about the rise of "fluffy bagels" — orb-shaped bagels with no hole in the middle.

vxo,
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@MLE_online bagel orbs... B'Orbs... but fluffy.... Fl'Orbs... Fblorbs...

I'm making myself crave one now

vxo,
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@MLE_online that sounds excellent. Yeah, the shape doesn't matter to me as much as it just being a good bagel.

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