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philpem OP , vor 2 Tagen

@darkrat That idea is cursed, evil, and I'd love to see what happens when someone tries to use it. I guess it could work okay if there was some kind of order to the randomness.
meanwhile I'll just sit here tapping away on my MX Blues and annoy you with the clicking!

philpem OP , vor 14 Tagen

Jones's eye twitched. It always did that when he was surprised.

"Sir, I appreciate your input, you have been with the company for 30 years, but I don't see why it's necessary."

"Jones, I know you mean well, but each one of these custom bolts is something Field Service and Production will have to stock. We'll have to train everyone to watch out for subtly different lengths of bolt. Mistakes will be made - there's only 40 thou between some of them! Nobody can tell them apart by eye!"

philpem OP , vor einem Monat

@sam @scarlet I would be very interested in old cable TV equipment!
I'm doing a talk about building a cable headend on Stage C in about an hour:
https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/203-being-elliot-carver

philpem OP , vor einem Monat

@zxguesser @robert If there's nothing left, I have been modifying Broadcast Projects Teletext receivers to give them more capabilities. I'm pretty sure the EURO-CCT chips can do datacast.

philpem OP , vor einem Monat

@foone oh heck yeah. I had a brief look at videocipher and figured there wasn't enough info out there to make a scrambler. I guess you found more than I did!

philpem OP , vor einem Monat

And here's what he looks like on my #EMFcamp talk slides :)

philpem OP , vor einem Monat

@foone If you do, I need one too! :D

philpem , vor einem Monat

@foone 9 to 12 depending on heatsinking, aye. Works down to seven and a half.

philpem OP , vor 2 Monaten

@foone aha! I knew someone had done this. I was more curious if it was a thing people did back in the day - like swapping the alphanumerics for OCR A/B.