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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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foone , an Random Englisch
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I saw this voltmeter at the electronics flea market. Look at that massive probe! It looks like you need to check your back blast before using it.
Apparently it's for REALLY high voltages? Like, 3kV?

abrasive ,
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@foone I love that it has a pressure gauge! I wonder if it also came with a can of Freon to top it up like the old Tektronix HV probes?

vxo ,
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@foone I'd go up an order of magnitude at least, you wouldn't need it that big for 3k. The little TV repair sized hv probes you probably saw around in various places are made for like 30

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

balglaas ,
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@foone De goddeloze ontleent en geeft niet weder; maar de rechtvaardige ontfermt zich en geeft.

alcea ,
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@foone
Leviticus19:18 "Love thy neigbor as thy love thyself"

"Excuse me, but whaaat ? 🤨 "

foone , an Random Englisch
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People who bought these m4 threaded rods also frequently bought these m3 lock nuts

these people were very disappointed

charles ,
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@foone I've been increasingly disappointed with Amazon's search, selection, shipping, and prices. If anyone has recommendations for other ways to get basic things delivered I'd love to know about it. I live a ways from town and prefer not to drive.

callionica ,
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@foone This is one of those “supply chain attacks” I’ve been hearing about?

foone , an Random Englisch
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Here's something cool I never realized existed:

PCBs distributed through magazines!

From Radio Electronics (June 1987):

https://archive.org/details/radio_electronics_1987-06/page/n68/

timixretroplays ,
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@foone @vxo best easter egg hunt

jabawack81 ,
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@foone I'm old enough to remember doing a couple of projects like this in school, and IMHO, it's a more civilised way to build PCBs for small projects;)

foone , an Random Englisch
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Getting movies in Pan & Scan is annoyingly hard. I'm just gonna have to buy a bunch of VHS tapes and digitize them, I guess.

Maybe some occasional early "full-screen" DVDs on ebay. Those'd be easier to rip.

ryanfb ,
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@grumpy @foone VHS-Decode (forked from Laserdisc Domesday) looks pretty interesting from an archival perspective, not least being you can store the raw drum head signal and reprocess it https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode

foone OP ,
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@ryanfb @grumpy I've been intimidated out of using this project given how many RF capture points you need to have to do it comprehensibly. VHS is annoyingly complex compared to laserdiscs

foone , an Random Englisch
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thanks to the lack of specificity on this form, I am now free from ALL EMAILS!

cloudthethings ,
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@foone link pls, I too wish to unsubscribe from all future emails

baralheia ,
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@foone Is this how you reach inbox zero? :dragneyes:

foone , an Random Englisch
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I've got a special level of hate for sites which make you select which location you mean before you can enter your username & password.

screw that! FIX YOUR ACCOUNT SYSTEM SO IT KNOWS WHERE I AM

foone OP ,
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to make it clear how close together these locations are, I live in San Leandro and the Hayward location is closer to me.

4censord ,
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@foone but this is my emotional support legacy jank

foone , an Random Englisch
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Properly photographing a 3.5" floppy disk for archival is annoyingly complicated. The label has THREE sides!

I've already built an automated system to take a picture of the front of a disk, but really I need to take THREE photos if I want to get the whole thing.

That means either three cameras or I need to rotate the disk 90° and then 180°, which is going to really stress the limits of my mechanical engineering skills.

altareos ,
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@foone is it the 1.1 missing millimetre from the imperial/metric conversion?

foone OP ,
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@altareos yeah. 3.5" floppy disks were designed by sony, who actually designed them as 90mm disks

foone , an Random Englisch
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Select every square that contains a basilisk:

swope ,
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60sRefugee ,
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@foone Courtesy of "MAD Magazine":

foone , an Random Englisch
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cat Makefile

girl:
xdg-open https://hrtcafe.net/

make girl

foone OP ,
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@anyia good point

michaln ,
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@foone I know exactly who to send this to

foone , an Random Englisch
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It's a pity that the technology never aligned such that we could get an e-ink pda

MishaVanMollusq ,
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@foone I have a tech fantasy about you building a computer with vacuum tubes and and using Pfleumer tape memory with a punch card interface and metal punched tape output .

Chez Diesel Punk!

gnomon ,
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@foone goodness, yes please.

foone , an Random Englisch
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I wonder if you can make jewelry-safe PCBs.

I was thinking you could make a flexible-pcb choker. My neck can run Doom!

fallcounty ,
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@foone You can, actually! Conformal coatings are fine to wear. The liquid form has skin irritation warnings, but after it's dried it's fine

omnieboer ,
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@foone https://mitxela.com/projects/hardware

Probably not exactly what you mean, but seems related :)

foone , an Random Englisch
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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

nitrobear ,
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@foone John CRT is an outlier, purchasing over 200 CRTs per week

nexvie ,

@foone Assuming I understood the context correctly and you are referring specifically to display devices only, rather than the sum total of all CRT components: Your intake is comfortably, but not excessively, above the minimum recommended amount, so there shouldn't be anything to worry about.

However, in case you experience any discomfort, do not hesitate to contact your local emergency department of toxic substances control. (Sounds weird, but they'll get you primo glass stat.)

foone , an Random Englisch
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HIMEM is testing your extended warranty... done.

Quinn9282 ,
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@foone HIMEM is testing to see if you're still awake.......... Done!

You are not awake currently. Go back to sleep and try again later.

mabs ,
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@foone

Extended warranty not found, executing HCF... 💥

foone , an Random Englisch
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Can't believe they spent a gigawatt training GPT3 and the fucker isn't even trying to overthrow humanity.

Look, where I come from, if you burn a gigawatt of energy to make an AI, it had better damn well go skynet on you.

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@foone
A gigawatt FOR HOW LONG?

bastian ,
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@foone

just a pet peeve of mine: pointing out falsly used units

gigawatt is power. How much gigajoules can be used in one second. Just like miles per hour.

the total amount can be measured in gigawatthours. That is equivalent to drawing one gigawatt for one hour.

so they used the crazy amount of one gigawatthour. 😲

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