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Auf Schienen zuhause - engineering for railway rolling stock.

Gegen Rechts, gegen die AfD, gegen Coronaleugner

Kann Spuren von #HistorischeTelefone enthalten

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foone , an Random Englisch
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You ever have one of those days where you discover that work's u-matic deck is dead, and you're gonna have to lug yours out of storage just to play a u-matic tape?

Does that happen to anyone else?

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@foone Wait. You have a job that includes working with U-Matic tapes?

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@foone Cool! Since when?

foone , an Random Englisch
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oh sweet jesus. I found some raspi-based GPS/RFID devices at ewaste, right? and they had a mini-PCIe WLAN card, complete with SIM card in it.

The SIM card is still active.

1000millimeter ,
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@foone @neckspike If it's not a data only sim.

foone , an Random Englisch
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The god damn Nintendo switch doesn't support usb floppy drives? Even in homebrew?

What the hell, Nintendo? I want my money back.

Maybe I can hack this back in. I hate doing usb coding but maybe

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@foone Well. I wouldn't have bough a switch with less than three Ethernet connectors in the first place. What shall that be good for.

foone , an Random Englisch
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I was trying to talk about omegaverse on Tumblr and my phone's autocorrect coined the word "usb gender" which I think is something we should do more with.

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@foone Wait. VGA over Mini-USB-B?

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I wonder if you could clone a FlashPath floppy disk emulator but as a PCB.
Youd need a hole in the middle for the spindle, but if you could keep the height down and do some magnetic coils at the right place, it could work?

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@foone @greenarchist don't you need the speed of the motor to sync?

brooke , an Random Englisch
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binary keyboard that supports full unicode but it's just 21 flip switches and an 'enter' key

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@Jmj @brooke @NanoRaptor adding @foone

1000millimeter ,
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@foone @Jmj @brooke @NanoRaptor You already did that? Can you share a photo?

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@foone @Jmj @brooke @NanoRaptor Oh just 7 bit? However, I'm impressed how fast you can type on it.

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@foone @Jmj @brooke @NanoRaptor Do you enter ASCII Codes, i.e. seperate codes for upper and lower case, or do you have to enter two different codes (Shift + Letter) for upper case?

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@foone @Jmj @brooke @NanoRaptor But then (if you don't have US keyboard layout) 8 bit would make sense again to be able to use ISO 8859-1 or similar.

And if you make a proprietary keyboard driver, you could maybe do unicode as well.

foone , an Random Englisch
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Terrible idea: Christian programmer who comments their code with references to Bible verses which are applicable to the code's situation

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@foone Whey I read the follownup posts, is this just a self description?

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What's the normal amount of CRTs/week to be purchasing in 2024?

Because I just realized that for the last two weeks, I'm averaging 1/week

1000millimeter ,
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@foone I'm sorry to say, even 25 years ago that would have been much over the average of a normal private person

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Someone on tumblr asked why 3.5" floppy disks seem so much more friendly (or "pleasant and edible" to use their terminology) than 5.25" floppy disks, so I wrote about it:

https://www.tumblr.com/foone/750216135935492096/why-do-35-inch-floppy-disks-seem-so-much-more

TL;DR: It's because Sony.

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@foone edible???

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This might be interesting for @tubetime or @foone
Retro Chip Tester

https://8bit-museum.de/sonstiges/hardware-projekte/hardware-projekte-chip-tester-english/

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I just tried to order a pizza and it wanted my credit card expiration date, so I entered "05/28" (example date only)

it then came back with a "your card is expired" error. Uh, no it isn't? that date is still several years in the future.

did... did this site just take my date and assume I mean May of the year AD 28? That is indeed very expired! that's what I get for trying to use Jesus's card.

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@foone Not necessarily 2000 years, 100 is enough.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wz7pvvjypo

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damn it, irfanview 4.4 is too big to put on a floppy disk

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@foone IrfanView, one of the best tools.

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I put some stickers in my work laptop

1000millimeter ,
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@foone You've got a new job?

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@foone You were taling about the scanner I remember...

So nobody objects putting labels on laptop of temp job?

foone , an Random Englisch
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Fun fact about microfiche:
One of the first uses of it was due to pigeons.

During the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1871, Paris was under siege and they got dispaches out by using microphotography to make them small enough that they could be attached to pigeons and flown out of the city.

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@foone @cadey why are punchcards lesbian?

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