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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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Good news everyone! It is NOT radioactive!

cadey , an Random Englisch
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mkdir -p kube/alrest<br></br>cd kube/alrest<br></br>ls<br></br>

Why am I like this

foone ,
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@cadey it's like text adventures. You show up somewhere, you type "look", because you want to know what's going on in here

Hundstrasse , an Random Englisch
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What about, handheld console that uses floppy discs?

foone ,
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@Hundstrasse I want it. I'm gonna build it.

The closest I've seen is that Data Discman which is an ebook reader that uses mini-CD in floppy-like cases

foone ,
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@Hundstrasse yeah something like pico-8 would be perfect. Nice tiny games.

whitequark , an Random Englisch
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one of my least favorite things in computing are progress bars that straight up lie to you until getting to the very end

just make it a puck that goes back and forth and grows bigger as you actually receive data or something

stop fucking lying to me you piece of shit

foone ,
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@whitequark I made one of these when I worked for the US government. The progress bar was just faked, the api we had only had a "is it done?" call.
So I programmed it to consistently go up and stall at 95% until it finished.

I'm sorry

dosnostalgic , an Random Englisch
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Play Hewlett-Packard's 200LX palmtop built-in game "Lair of Squid" right in your browser! #DOSGaming
https://archive.org/details/LairOfSquidHP200lx

foone ,
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@dosnostalgic the weird hardware of the hplx series isn't really emulated yet. I need to scan my technical manual so maybe it can make its way into dosbox

ClarusPlusPlus , an Random Englisch

I think I'm gonna remove support for slopes in Enigma Heart. They're not necessary for a Zelda II-style game, and they only serve to complicate the collision detection for Zalia doing certain maneuvers, like downstab

I'll leave the code in there, just comment out any calls to it

foone ,
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@ClarusPlusPlus you gotta leave the code and resources in for a future TCRF page!

cyborgurl , an Random Englisch
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students are livestreaming here:

https://www.instagram.com/sjpdepaul/live/?broadcast_id=18057814999569956

foone ,
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@cyborgurl that's some good numbers. I love protests where it's like a dozen people being protected by police from the thousands of counter-protestors.

foone , an Random Englisch
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So I got this thing at ewaste.

It's a Richtech Automated "AI" Temperature Screening System.

Time to open it up.

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foone OP ,
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I'M IN

foone OP ,
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This thing has a lot of small PCBs. I think they prototyped this thing FAST rather than trying to cut down on the cost.

So this is probably from early in the pandemic.

foone OP ,
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One module is just a camera.
It's built around a Sony STARVIS IMX327. Full HD (2 Megapixel) fixed-focus, MIPI output.

This is basically just your standard raspi camera

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foone OP ,
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This SR602 module is an infrared motion detector

foone OP ,
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Mounted next to the camera is this module, labeled IRT_621_V1.1

I believe this is an i2c thermal camera. It looks very similar to this one, which has a resolution of 16x16:
https://www.midastouchinc.com/product/thermopile_array_module/

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foone OP ,
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Here's the weird part that made me think "oh this definitely needs to be a thread": I pulled the heatsink off and cleaned up the CPU module, and it's an HI3516.

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I thought that this would mean it's just a standard CPU module, but nope! it's specialized.

This is an IP Camera!
https://www.burglaryalarmsystem.com/pdf/Hi3516%20DataBrief.pdf

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It's an Arm Cortex A9, up to 800mhz. It can encode H.264 or MJPEG.
It can do face detection.
Apparently it is based on Linux 2.6.35?
It just needs some magnetics to talk ethernet and it can do wifi over USB or SDIO

foone OP ,
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Two half-gigabyte K4B4G1646E DDR3 chips from Samsung

foone OP ,
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And another Samsung chip: A 4 gigabyte KLM4G1FETE eMMC chip

foone OP ,
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MXC MX35LF1GE4AB: 128 megabytes of serial flash.

foone OP ,
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TMSEMI TMS1102NL:
This is the ethernet magnetics, so this thing is ready to go for wired networking

foone OP ,
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And the only major chip on the big PCB is a Unisonic Technology MC34118, which is a voice switched speaker-phone circuit. So it's got some audio amps and automatic gain control.

foone OP ,
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This thing has a speaker but no mic that I see.
And I guess that IP camera module has video output?

foone OP ,
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Forgot to mention this chip:
Realtek RTL8201F. That's a 10/100 ethernet chip.

foone , an Random Englisch
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The real reason HD-DVD failed is because it used Javascript for interactivity

foone , an Random Englisch
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Idea: the Doom Army Knife.
It's an arm SBC with multiple types of lvds output and parallel RGB, plus a bunch of GPIO for inputs.

The idea is that it's designed for splicing into a devices existing screen and buttons, and producing a Doom-playing device

foone OP ,
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it might end up just being a raspi + a daughterboard. some video adapters and power regulators and optocouplers.

whitequark , an Random Englisch
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OH: "usb cable shibari would be incredibly impressive" "[insert joke about how interaction with usb is already a form of shibari here]"

foone ,
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@whitequark I've said for years, it'd be hilarious to tie someone up with computer cables of some kind (usb, ethernet, serial) and then use those cables to transmit bdsm porn.

It'd be like being tied up by the internet itself

txgx42 , an Random Englisch
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The original 1987 ShareData release of Jeopardy for the Apple II had this clue, in the category Fictional Captains: "He sat at the helm of the Starship Enterprise", with the correct answer being "Captain Kirk"

When the game was re-released under the GameTek brand in 1990, it had been been updated to accept either Kirk or Picard.

foone ,
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@txgx42 if it's the guy at the helm, shouldn't that be Sulu?

kiwa , an Random Englisch
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dir

foone ,
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@kiwa I used to have an irc bot that listened for anyone saying this (and ls) in the channel by accident, and would reply with a fake list of files

foone , an Random Englisch
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I just saw a job listing for a company doing "home defense using AI and non-lethal deterrence"

The company's name? Sauron.

foone OP ,
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come on, think about your name just a little, people.

also, even if you don't, think about IF YOU CAN GOOGLE IT

foone OP , (Bearbeitet )
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another listing is from a company that says they provide "ambient medical documentation" and I'm really tempted to apply just to find out what the fuck they mean by that

cyborgurl , an Random Englisch
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all the straight dudes in all the online spaces I inhabit are aggressively horny yet I'm the one who's always worried I'm going to be judged for being a woman in the kink community

foone ,
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@cyborgurl they've got implicit permission to be horny. Trans femmes need explicit permission or they might get arrested by the Sex Police

foone ,
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@cyborgurl yeah! the sex police have the fuzzy handcuffs and "you've been a bad girl" but the discord judging just has that meme of all the girls at a party staring at you

cyborgurl , an Random Englisch
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my school keeps sending out emails like "we're being incredibly gracious and tolerant of the encampment because we respect students' voices even though the tents are illegal and in violation of policy and they're upsetting everyone on campus because the concept of a tent is psychically damaging"

like, i do appreciate you haven't called in cpd to smash my students' heads but you do seem rather focused on the illegality of the tents and not your own collusion with an apartheid state

foone ,
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@joshg @cyborgurl I always suspected my dad was a violent terrorist. All those camping trips... I'm surprised child protective services never got called.

foone , an Random Englisch
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I want a macropad keyboard that's also kind-of a watch. Like, it's a macropad, but you wear it on your wrist/arm.

foone OP ,
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@scrottie basically, but no glove part. Just the wrist part

foone OP ,
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@serapath nah. Those came up a lot when I looked for wearable keyboards. I want a keyboard that doesn't get in the way of my fingers

foone OP ,
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@trevorflowers yeah. Or RF to a receiver

foone OP ,
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@PhotoSniperFox something like that, but I need physical buttons so it'll work without looking at it

artandtechnic , an Random Englisch
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I’m going to make some coffee, and crack open the 1541 that I’d rediscovered at the beginning of the year, so I can make another set of measurements of the head resistance.

Words alone cannot express how exciting the prospect of getting the otherwise blown-out read heads to work again is. 🔥🧨🎆🎇

foone ,
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@artandtechnic I can loan you a working 5.25“ drive or a 1541 (I have several, I think at least one works) if that would help

vxo , an Random Englisch
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nqa6e6WV2o

I love that some time ago I basically infected my coworkers' minds with this and the message worked: when they're about to do something dangerous they step back and think of "shake hands with danger" and that guitar riff. then they burst out laughing.

foone ,
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@vxo that short changes your mind forever

cstross , an Random Englisch
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North Carolina child’s ‘monster in the closet’ was in fact 50,000 bees in the wall

Family discovers ‘terrifying’ gigantic bee colony in wall of home with blood-like honey oozing down wall and $20,000 in damage

(Beekeepers ultimately removed tens of thousands of bees over several extractions, and a honeycomb weighing more than 100lb.)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/30/north-carolina-bees-house-wall

foone ,
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@rogerriddle @cstross wasn't he... checks wikipedia Yeah he was raised Christian and stayed one. You were trying to convert someone to the religion he already was!

philpem , an Random Englisch
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Does anyone know if there were alternative character generator ROMs available for the IBM MDA/Hercules adapter?
I have a Paradise Color/Mono Card [1] with a socketed 27C64, it'd be fun to have some switch-selectable alternative fonts.

1: https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/Manufacturers/paradise/color_mono_card.php

#retrocomputing #RetroPC

foone ,
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@philpem I wrote some software to generate new ROMs for it, so you can put new fonts in it if you burn your own eeprom.

https://github.com/foone/mdafont

foone ,
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@philpem it's the kind of thing where I'm sure SOMEONE had to have done it, especially given how easy it would be to just swap in a different mask rom, but I'm not aware of anyone who did it back in the day

foone , an Random Englisch
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Has anyone tried making a Larabee style tiled rendering video card but with arm?

Like, just stuff 100 arm cortexes on one board. Give each one a tiny slice of the screen to render

foone OP ,
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@cinebox or hired

foone , an Random Englisch
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The four most used operating systems:

  • windows
  • apple macos/ios
  • linux (legacy, deprecated, not for new projects)
  • systemd
foone OP ,
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I've seen people making the joke that it should be "systemd/Linux" or "systemd/GNU/Linux"

We have a saying over on Tumblr about this sort of joke: if you knock on enough doors, eventually the devil will answer

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