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   blinry (blinry@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 20:00:05 JST blinry

   Booked an Interrail Pass to travel to #emfcamp, a hacker camp in the UK! #emf2024

   Getting excited! 😆 This will be the first time I use the Channel Tunnel!

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 19:59:47 JST Børge

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     @blinry Very cool!

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     blinry (blinry@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 19:59:49 JST blinry

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     I also visited University of Oxford's Museum of Science, which showcases a lot of scientific instruments, including some super pretty and old astrolabes!

     The museum didn't do a good of explaining how to use them, though. Need to look into that later tonight, maybe! :)

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     blinry (blinry@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 19:59:50 JST blinry

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     And look who I met! @katzazi and @leyrer! Everyone's gravitating towards #emf2024! :D

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     blinry (blinry@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 19:59:51 JST blinry

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     I'm in Oxford! Sandstone buildings, bars, and bookshops!

     I did this "self-guided tour for new and prospective students", and enjoyed it a lot! It's very well-produced, and playing audio based on my location worked quite well.
     https://www.ox.ac.uk/students/new/knowyouroxford

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     blinry (blinry@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 19:59:53 JST blinry

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     Didn't spot any fish, but some passengers sang about sharks! 🦈

     London *also* is full of loud, drunk men today... :( I'm assuming it's sports-related – does someone know what's going on?

     *quickly changes stations, gets on another train and flees*

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     blinry (blinry@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 19:59:55 JST blinry

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     Boarding the Eurostar to London! ✨ Looking forward to see all the fish!

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     blinry (blinry@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 19:59:56 JST blinry

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     Also, behind this unassuming façade hides a massive 10-storey book store, one of the largest in the country! If only my French was better... :/

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     blinry (blinry@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 19:59:57 JST blinry

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     Whoa, there are cafés and bakeries everywhere in Lille! Had luck with the weather today, and got to admire its cobblestone streets and brick buildings.

     Quite some action in the city today: I saw a wedding with a big traditional choir, and I think there was a football (?) match against Lyon.

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     blinry (blinry@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 19:59:59 JST blinry

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     Made it to Lille, my first stop on this trip. 🇫🇷

     Looking forward to exploring the city tomorrow!

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     blinry (blinry@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 20:00:00 JST blinry

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     :-)

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     blinry (blinry@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 20:00:01 JST blinry

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     Bonjour, Bruxelles! 👋

     Just passing through, still not my final stop for today!

     But having a very pleasant time so far!

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     blinry (blinry@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 20:00:02 JST blinry

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     Changing trains in Cologne.

     Hey, if you see this in your timeline, you're Dom-scrolling! :P

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     blinry (blinry@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 20:00:03 JST blinry

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     Here I go! \o/ Will make a couple of in-between stops on my way to #emf2024!

     camping_equipment.zip

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     blinry (blinry@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 07:17:01 JST blinry

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     I really enjoyed my stay in Oxford, glad I came here! Such a cool and interesting place!

     Tomorrow, I'll head to my final in-between stop before I go to #emf2024!

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     blinry (blinry@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 07:17:02 JST blinry

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     Found the Penrose Paving at the Mathematical Institute!

     Also learned that they published most of their undergraduate lectures on YouTube: https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/67930

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     blinry (blinry@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 07:17:03 JST blinry

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     Saw a dodo skeleton at the Natural History Museum!

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     blinry (blinry@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 07:17:04 JST blinry

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     Had a brilliant day in Oxford!

     Visited Blackwell's Bookshop! <3 They have a giant underground room with cozy lighting, and staff that radiates their love of books!

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     blinry (blinry@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 07:17:05 JST blinry

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     Isn't it weird that humans and bananas *ever* shared a common ancestor?!

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     Trammell Hudson (th@social.v.st)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2024 04:20:14 JST Trammell Hudson

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     @blinry if you want to compile Colossal Cave Adventure on your small PDP-11, I have some instructions on how to fit the FORTRAN source code in the limited memory: https://trmm.net/Advent/

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     blinry (blinry@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2024 04:20:15 JST blinry

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     You can play the "Colossal Cave Adventure" (the OG text adventure game), talk to ELIZA, and play tic-tac-toe using the number dial of an old phone!

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     blinry (blinry@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2024 04:20:17 JST blinry

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     Which disk drive should I get? Choices choices choices...

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     blinry (blinry@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2024 04:20:19 JST blinry

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     More curious discoveries:

     The largest "hard disk" I'd ever seen! (Capacity: 8 megabytes)

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     blinry (blinry@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2024 04:20:20 JST blinry

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     Visited the National Museum of Computing today. I've been to plenty of computer museums – but this one is special: Almost everything works!

     You can type on an Enigma, and then see how a bombe helped decipher it. It's *loud*!!

     They also have a computer from 1951, the "Witch", which still works! It had 340 bytes of RAM, could calculate five values per second, and punch them out on paper tape!

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     blinry (blinry@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2024 04:20:21 JST blinry

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     I'm in Bletchley! :) Was greeted by a cat committee.

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     blinry (blinry@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2024 04:20:23 JST blinry

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     Minding the step today.