Notices by Phil M0OFX (philpem@digipres.club)

@thomasfuchs And if the gun nuttery isn't a good enough reason, taking a Dremel to a rare prototype instead of ordering the proper screwdriver damn well should be...

@malwaretech I used to fly in those circles and the judgment... well, I'll be a left-wing voter to the day I die, and a supporter of progressive policies for the same... but I don't hang with judgmental pricks any more.
Making enemies from your friends is the dumbest thing I've seen left-wing supporters do, and it drives me mad.

If he gets copyright protections then everyone Midjourney ripped off should too. It's only fair.

Famous AI Artist Says He’s Losing Millions of Dollars From People Stealing His Work
The guy who used Midjourney to create an award-winning piece of AI art demands copyright protections.

https://gizmodo.com/famous-ai-artist-says-hes-losing-millions-of-dollars-from-people-stealing-his-work-2000505822

@jonathan @drewdevault I'm not even sure the "intolerance paradox" is a good description. At the end of the day any group of people needs to agree on a set of ground rules to exist - "keep a minimum standard of hygeine", "don't chew with your mouth open", "don't talk while you're eating", etc. Point being, everyone has to compromise to get along. And some things can't be compromised on.

@drewdevault @leon_p_smith @jonathan Coming back to an earlier point, I do think sometimes, some people jump to the conclusion of "X is offending me = X must be bad" (black-and-white thinking), when in 99% of cases X doesn't realise what they're doing. This is especially the case with neurodivergents.

I've yet to have a private exchange with another ND about a minor behavioural issue which didn't end with "I'm sorry, I didn't realise" and the group being Generally OK(tm) after that.

@m @futurebird Sounds like the OSS solution - if the maintainer's an ass, fork the project and take the main contributors with you 😆

Serious note though, I'm staggered in this day and age that we still have the gender separation in sports and intellectual pursuits. Why not just have an "open" category for anyone. And if advantage becomes a problem, subdivide it into weight, strength, skill level, etc. categories. I guess the reason is "politics" and "we always dun it this way dagnabbit"

@itsOasus It's kinda wild how quickly he's gone from "based" (suing Gawker) to "bust". And other than that.. not surprised, only disappointed.

@eaton ..you mean X still has one?

Sometimes you just don't have the right connector, none of the alternatives you have will fit, and even your smallest crimp terminal is too big.
So you shove a piece of wire over the pin.
And that, friends, is how I got access to U-Boot on an Extron IN1608 HDBT, dumped the NAND flash, and fixed the corruption which was stopping it from booting 🥳 🎉 #ElectronicsRepair

Would you have guessed there was not just a UART, but also an MMC/SD interface on the diagnostic connector? I didn't.

@puniko @volpeon "and that's how puniko lost their tongue to a kestrel"

Browsing ebay for text terminals (I'm looking for something recent and ideally built into an LCD) and I read: "Keyboard sold separately for keyboard enthusiasts"

Please excuse me, I just need to go sharpen my kitchen knives...no reason...

Someone brought what looks like a complete 4-axis CNC controller to the #emfcamp swapshop...!

It's amazing to me how much human behaviour relies on trust, which is rooted in "nobody would be enough of a dick to break the rules". And then when someone does, it's "huh. Now what do we do?"

Presenting the Fully Loaded 486.
- 486DX2/66, Pine Technology motherboard
- 16MB RAM
- S3 805 VLB graphics
- ISA 2xCOM+parallel+IDE+floppy I/Oaaa
- Tekram 880 VLB Cached SCSI, 10K SCSI hard drive, PiSCSI
- 8x IDE CDROM
- Monochrome video card (CGA/MDA) for second monitor
- Realtek 8019 NE2000 NIC

Of course you can watch ASCII Star Wars!
#RetroComputing #RetroPC

Time to fix this unholy dog's dinner

Legacy IP stickers? Yessir!

Didn't have a 6504 in stock, so I made an adapter to plug a 6502 into the socket on the #Tandata #Viewdata terminal. Sadly it still doesn't work :(

Success! Replaced the LUCY chip (SAA5070) and now it works a treat! Now to put it back together again.

"Whoever wrote this code clearly has no understanding of elementary mathematics or the most basic rules of programming."

Savage, but justified.

Page 17-18,
https://www.postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk/file/872/download?token=_FC526YV

#PostOfficeScandal #HorizonScandal

And that's another generation of students who just learned about SciHub and Libgen!

Steals your personal information? Do they know how stupid they sound? What information could it gather other than your IP address and the paper you were looking for?

BBC: Police warn students to avoid science website.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-56462390

Anyway, this old meme seems perfect as a response.