Notices by Tech Tangents (techtangents@dialup.space)

@thomasfuchs
Ooh, that is a nice one!

Those keycaps are a really good match too.

@thomasfuchs Definitely an XT style keyboard with the F# keys on the left. But I don't think it's a Model F because they would have a huge hole for on the side for the leg knobs. Also the "pencil shelf" seems to raise up towards the keys and would be flat with a lip on a Model F.

My guess is a Cherry or cherry-clone because they have a similar side profile without the hole and the raised pencil shelf: https://vintagecomputer.ca/vintage-cherry-solid-state-capacitive-keyboard-xt-clone/

@thomasfuchs
I started self learning HTML/CSS around 2011 and I remember ensuring accessibility by meeting a minimum contrast requirement between foreground and background colors with tools to help you check it. Maybe that was just a recommendation or something, but I thought it was some kind of W3C standard. That is what I was initially thinking. But I was never a professional web dev or certified in anything though so I might be wrong.

@thomasfuchs
I was going to sarcastically reply that it's a shame we don't have standards for this sort of thing and link to the ANSI resource for it: https://www.xybix.com/hubfs/ANSI_HFES_100-200727E2.pdf?t=1508538849931

But it has some *weird* stipulations, like UIs shouldn't use more than 11 colors.

And it hasn't been updated since 2007 and spends a chunk of time talking about the viewing angles of CRTs vs. LCDs.

So I think we're screwed.

Found some brand new unused evil today.

Sometimes properly organizing isn't always the best option.

2024 me knew that 2025 me wouldn't remember that this is the "right" XP ISO.

Local news this morning was talking about a settlement with 3M about PFAS.

Their B-Roll?

3M brand double density floppy disks.

For no particular reason, enjoy this image of a SmartMedia card sitting on top of some core memory.

This will eventually make sense in the context of a video, I swear.

This is a huge video for me: https://youtu.be/AR5i9BnJqlA

This is the Computer Devices Dot. An IBM PC compatible(-ish) that used 3.5in Floppy Drives *in 1983*!

It's woefully unknown and unpreserved, today that changes.

I'm too excited not to share this before next week's video because I still doesn't feel real.

That is my Data General microNOVA fully put back together and running flawlessly!

Seeing this working after just having it "around" for so long is wild. A lot of help and luck made this happen. I'm so happy and appreciative that this has been able to come together to this point.

I realized the other day that normal people probably don't have giant bins full of SCSI cables in 2025.

Data General, SERIOUSLY?

This header cable isn't 0.100in spacing, it is 1ft/100 spacing.

Does anyone know anything about this possible Apple II plus desk? I couldn't find any info but bought it anyway because I love period stuff like this.

*sigh*

Nothing like waking up to hearing your UPS causing your servers to constantly reboot because their batteries went bad. Time for some surgery.

Gmail's automatic spam filter knocked this one out of the park.

I am so tired of AI LLM garbage being FORCED into every aspect of life now. Youtube is now providing context aware automatic reply options for creators on the backend.

The erosion of human communication like this is going to have disastrous consequences in the long term.

I keep hearing watch time is the most important thing for for Youtubers, not views. I was checking some of my stats (for the first time ever, lol), it seems I need to be optimizing my channel for the highly lucrative viewer market of those watching on Wii.

They have the highest per view watchtime out of any other operating system, clearly based on the evidence I should be putting all my effort going forward into Wii focused content.

@thomasfuchs I did not last long in that position lol. Thankfully I was able to switch to embedded dev in the same company. But man was that not what I was expecting.

@thomasfuchs
When I started seriously learning software dev independently, I couldn't understand why people used libraries so invasive they may as well have been their own languages. I refused to learn things like JQuery and C++ Boost because I just wanted to know the underlying syntax.

I feel I became a more rounded developer going that route, but it made it much harder to get a job. I eventually landed a job by showing pure LAMP knowledge, only to be bait n' switched to using Sharepoint

@thomasfuchs
I had to look up the camera after seeing it be so low res because I wasn't aware of a 90s 3D camera. I was pretty surprised to see it was so new lol!