Notices by Ding Dang Trevor Flowers (trevorflowers@machines.social), page 3

TIL about Virginia Norwood, by all accounts a badass engineer, mathematician, and physicist who made, among other scientific contributions, significant progress in the Landsat program.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Norwood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsat_program

@FreeCAD I attempted to email blog@freecad.org (the address listed on the "about" page) but it was bounced as an unknown recipient. Is that the correct address?

In the spirit of Winter being too dang dark, from now until the solstice (Dec 21st) every order from my store will receive a bonus smol floppy disk organizer sized for micro SD cards. In addition, orders of more than $50 will also enjoy free shipping. Stay light, friends.
#miniatures #retrocomputing
https://store.transmutable.com/

I want a dead fricking simple GUI app for Fedora/sway/Wayland that opens a video, lets me drag handles for the beginning and ending of a clip, and then export that clip to a file. I realize that Kdenlive and other full fledged editors exist but I would like the app to be super lightweight with resonable defaults.
Does this exist? If you know of such a thing, please let me know.

Just found LosslessCut which, at least with one video, worked pretty well.
https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/

At long last, the 1:10 scale Connection Machine miniature is complete and listed on my store! It takes quite a bit of time to build so currently there's only one listed. As someone who never knows what will sell, perhaps it will be the last one. 🤷 😺
This was a fun one!
https://store.transmutable.com/l/ecm2
#retrocomputing #miniatures #cm #restock

Hey, if you're looking for a #PeerTube instance to publish video on the fediverse instead of the YouTubiverse then it might be worth your time to check out Community Media. For $15/year you can publish 10GB of videos. I suspect that my current instance is running out of steam so I plan to switch to CM when I have a mo.
https://communitymedia.video/

If you haven't messed with PeerTube, it's sort of like Mastodon but for videos. The nice folks at @feditips have put together a "What is PeerTube" intro with a bunch of fun video playlists over on their PeerTube instance: https://fedi.video/

Ok, I just put more smol floppy disk organizers for micro SD cards in the store.
I'm also working on variants for full size and mini SD cards as well as for Switch cartridges. I'll post on this account every time I restock the store, tagged with #restock so that you can filter out those toots if you're mostly here for my ramblings about machining and other shop work.
https://store.transmutable.com/l/msdfo

As a professional coder who also trained as a machinist I think it's worth explaining what CEOs mean when they say that they can't make goods in the US because there aren't enough machinists, engineers, suppliers, etc.
In Seattle, a coder with a few years of experience and a few management skills can easily earn $200k/y. A good machinist with the same years of experience and solid management skills earns maybe $75k/y. Of course there are exceptions on both sides, but this is the trend. /thread

So what CEOs mean when they say that the US doesn't have enough machinists, engineers, automation experts, etc for manufacturing is that for decades they've avoided paying taxes for schools that teach the trades and they've avoided paying salaries competitive with expert knowledge work and they also don't like the direct consequences of their actions.

Since the 70s the US has transitioned from treating the trades as a valid career path comparable with knowledge work to treating the trades as the also-ran category for people who couldn't get into or afford college. We defunded many shop classes in high schools and we amplified the message that after high school *all* of the smart kids go to a university to study some sort of knowledge work.

Oh, hai tiny floppy disk organizer but for micro SD cards.

@feld Sadly, the higher end panels with the new new tend to come with software for coordinating advertising.

@feld Samsung seems to have a variety of commercial panels like this one. Maybe there's an OLED option but I haven't found it.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08DQBJ912/

TIL that BestBuy's category for TVs without privacy-invading "smarts" is named "Commercial TVs". These look like reasonably good TV panels without the crapware they're pushing on all consumer models.
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/tvs/commercial-tvs/pcmcat1601999032843.c

Ok, friends. Five tiny TRS-80 Model III models are in the shop!
🎉
This is a bit of a trial to see if anyone digs this sort of work. If not, it's entirely possible that these will be the only five I make so... perhaps a limited series?
😸
If you have questions then feel free to ask them in the thread or via DM. If you have retro PC nerd friends then feel free to send them my way.

#retrocomputing #trs80 #models #miniatures #salesDontYaKnow
https://transmutable.gumroad.com/l/tiny-model-3

I don't know who needs to hear this but if you're bummed by the crap search results that Google offers then https://kagi.com might be worth a try. It's a paid service which means that they don't rely on ad revenue or feeding AI so they can do things like downrank sites with many ads and tracking scripts. In other words, they detect and rarely return the junky SEO sites in search results.
(I'm not sponsored. I just want people to have good search.)

This Saturday and Sunday afternoon at the Computer History Museum we will have Xerox Alto lookalikes available for hands-on use! They run original Alto software recovered from diskpacks barely saved from the landfill. This includes Mazewar, the Bravo text editor, and Smalltalk 78.
🎉
The museum also has an original Alto on display but we're not allowed to touch that one. 😸