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foone

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Hardware / software necromancer, collector of Weird Stuff, maker of Death Generators. (she/they🏳️‍⚧️)

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Hah. Today I got two emails, in this sequence:

  1. Roku saying they looked at my resume for a test automation engineer and turned me down
  2. LinkedIn telling me that Roku is recruiting for test automation engineers in my area!
foone OP ,
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@kate god yeah I've had that so many times. Like I saw a job listing once that was literally just someone writing down everything I did at that job before I left

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@yomimono you'd think but it happens exceptionally often.

foone OP ,
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@labria Yup! I've had a patreon for a while:
https://www.patreon.com/foone

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I forgot to post this glorious package that I spotted in @emf logistics, so here it is. It made me laugh from a distance and it only got better when I took a closer look.

foone ,
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@samw @emf that's awesome!
Do you mind if I share it (with link back for credit) on Tumblr? I think they'd like it too

foone , an Random Englisch
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Fun fact: it turns out it doesn't matter if you have a 2.4 gigapixel camera if you LEAVE THE LENSCAP ON

foone OP ,
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@alj it's actually a 151 megapixel camera that takes and merges together 16 separate images

DotMaetrix , an Random Englisch
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Good morning gays heck sgjsjghsjs girls :blobfoxpleading:

foone ,
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@DotMaetrix hi

foone ,
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@DotMaetrix how is today doing? are you excited for the endless fun of VOTING?

foone ,
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@DotMaetrix oh I bet they're fun.

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Anyone have any experience disk imaging 'Lanier' 5.25 floppy disks? Our Mitsumi D509V5 floppy drive attached to a Kryoflux does not recognise the disks. They have multiple index holes, which indicate where the 'hard' sectors start according to this web page: https://cowlark.com/fluxengine/doc/disk-aeslanier.html

foone ,
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@matthewpburgess That page says fluxengine can process them. Could you save them to raw flux transitions with kryoflux, then use fluximage to convert those images to something readable?

foone ,
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@matthewpburgess ahh, I bet that's an issue with the index holes.
It looks like the greaseweazle has an option to "fake" those, so you could still capture:

https://github.com/keirf/greaseweazle/wiki/Flippy-Disks

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@foone y'know, I am curious, is the giant stone tablet from I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream just a static image of text, or could it be made into a Death Generator?

Cause if the latter, the potential for comedy is huge

foone ,
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@GeorgeWL good question! I'll have to look into that

foone ,
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@GeorgeWL looks like it's an image, not text.

foone ,
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@GeorgeWL but given how the game fades between different images on the rock, I might be able to pull it out? I don't have any tools for extracting images from this engine, but maybe I can find or make some

foone , an Random Englisch
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GAH. working with the raspi pico just makes me angry because of how confusing and unhelpful it can be. like I wrote some code, which I know works (because I've used it before!) and I copy it onto the device. I reconnect the device and... it doesn't enumerate. it doesn't even error. it just acts like there's no USB there

foone OP ,
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which would normally suggest that there's some issue with the hardware but I can push the BOOTSEL and and reconnect and get it back into programming mode just fine!

and I can flash circuitpython onto it and have that work just fine too

foone OP ,
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so there's something wrong with my code, I guess. what is it? I have no way to know, because I have no errors and no debugging feedback

foone OP ,
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ARGH my codebase has two copies of the known-working code and the code is identical but the CMakeFiles are different and one works and the other doesn't

foone OP ,
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both compile just fine without errors, but one of them apparently results in a dead pico that can't enumerate

foone OP ,
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I fixed it (god only knows how) but now the printer won't print.

Ronflaix , an Random Englisch
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Hey @foone! It's not the GPL, but does this still count?

foone ,
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@mcc @Ronflaix pretty offensive to masochists

foone , an Random Englisch
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I don't wonder when some fool will integrate an AI assistant into a car, on the outside, so people can talk to your car and ask it when you'll be back or whatever.

But I wonder how quickly there'd be an exploit where someone could talk your car into unlocking itself

foone , an Random Englisch
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if redbox is going bankrupt, hopefully I can finally get my hands on one of their kiosks.

I want to repurpose it to dispense floppy disks

foone OP ,
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@cabbey god I want one of those machines

foone , an Random Englisch
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You know how some dating sites have a "I don't want to see or be seen by straight people" button?

job sites need that but for AI

foone OP ,
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@plaetzchen exactly!

foone , (Bearbeitet ) an Random Englisch
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designing my next keyboard PCB is going well

EDIT: There's a typo in the alt text. It's supposed to read "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll design a keyboard.' Now they have two problems"

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Now it's a real PCB, not just a drawing on a computer!

foone OP ,
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@attoparsec @zzt ooh that'd be fun. I did something like that with the poetry keyboard:
https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1585780252998975488

foone OP ,
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@darkrat awesome. send pics when you can, if you can

foone OP ,
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fun thing about this keyboard: I designed it on my laptop, which is currently stuck at work unpowered. I never shared the files anywhere, so I'm currently at home and can't program the keyboard because I have no idea which pins are which... unless I REVERSE ENGINEER MY OWN KEYBOARD!

foone OP ,
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I haven't printed labels yet so the keys are not properly labeled but it's mostly together now

foone OP ,
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@nexvie nah, it's a control board for my microfiche-scanning job at the internet archive

foone OP ,
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OKAY the text on these buttons is horrible but they're labeled for now. I can always re-label them later, but for now they're just ugly

foone OP ,
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@acb I pulled them off an old POS keyboard. Something similar to this:
https://www.amazon.com/Cherry-G86-6340-POS-Keyboard-G86-63400EUADAA/dp/B0012FGA9W

foone OP ,
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@crenfrow vice versa I think you mean?

foone OP ,
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@golai my dating profile says something similar

foone OP ,
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Improved the labels.

foone OP ,
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@ruby control board for a microfiche scanning setup

foone OP ,
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@listrophy good idea, I'll have to do that for the next version

foone OP ,
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This is for my scanning job at the internet archive. I'm scanning microfiche.
The left buttons are for the different number of images to take of a single sheet. I gotta adjust that so that we don't take a bunch of pictures of nothing.

foone OP ,
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Login, well, logs me into the program. Fill imputs the itemid (which is needed occasionally for boring technical reasons), Print reprints the last label, Delete deletes the last scan (like if I hit 8 and it turns out it's a 12), Auto is for an experimental feature where it assumes I'm as fast at handling fiche as the scanner is at scanning it, Enhance is for lightening up dark slides so I can be sure they're all scanned properly, and done finishes the batch and prints a label

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basically the idea is that I don't have to deal with a regular keyboard or mouse to do the scanning. This is faster and gives me more desk space to devote to handling the actual fiche, since they gotta be unsleeved and resleeved and labeled and put away

foone OP ,
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so I can better turn my scanning into an assembly line, where I primarily focus on moving around the fiche, labels, and envelopes, and never have to deal with keyboard/mouse

foone OP ,
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@jaykass I know, right? I don't know what the fuck the original user was doing with those labels, but they're absolutely monopoly properties colored

foone OP ,
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@jsprbkkr good idea. scroll down another post

foone OP ,
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@otte_homan This is a replacement for a footpedal! The footpedal didn't have enough keys to be usable for what I need.

foone OP ,
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@otte_homan well this is used in a church, so we probably have a pipe organ somewhere

foone OP ,
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@iacore that's my name!

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@davidrperry trust me if I could solder together improvements to my brain, I would have started doing that long ago

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