Notices by tom jennings (tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org)

@mhoye @jwz

For eg corp social media site avatar image upload, there's usually a maximum file size limit (in addition to pixel). For that case you'd want to bound file size, so the question would be, what's the largest image compressible into eg. 16KB?

@sigflup

It's a necessarily odd layout, this machine is SMOL! and required a bit of conscious adjustment. But the actual key mechanisms are so tactilely perfection, spacing good, layout as good as I could imagine, it's fine. And my fingers are very long so my 16" desktop is a chore.

(I could not find a keyboard cheatchart on the machine so I had to get wifi to find { and }, lol.)

So I'm in a hotel lobby with my Pocket Reform (lol, don't ask) and the WiFi problem was just signal strength, solved. Known problem. Tl;dr will upgrade to a311d when home.

Lol, had to apt get g++ and Arduino.

Compiled ntvcm, and am now able to run WordStar on Pocket Reform, which I assume is everyone's true goal.

Looking for a copy of Phoenix Software Associate's PASM and PLINK binaries, Z80 macro assembler and linker, I found this great link, but it turns out it was from me, in 2004. And I probably gave it away. D'oh.

http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/cctalk/2004-December/0491.html

Bluesky corporation benefits no one but bluesky corporation. There seems to be nothing in their structure to indicate they are anything else.

In 2025, who thinks words are sufficient? Seriously wtf. Only actions matter.

@jwildeboer

There's the model Cygnus Support used. They'd port a package to some platform, eg gcc or whatever, the client pays Cygnus to fix bugs that affect them, those bugs go into the source for everyone's benefit but the client gets to set priority and other bennies.

@lanodan

Cant you just wave a magnet over a pile and cull the iron ones?

@f4grx

Ok so different 10mhz sigs A and B, with LF comparator C, you mix AC and BC, lopass filter those each, compare that?

@f4grx

CLEVER BASTARDS!

You may know all this already, my apologies if so, but the techniques used to create radar energy, megawatt pulses, nanoseconds long, using vacuum tubes that couldn't do 1mhz are flatly amazing. And right into the front ends of receivers.

Here, it's that view of electronics as physics, lost to all but RF and chip folk today (and at ummm crazy quantum levels).

A real put up or shut up a t of responsibility would be for a corporation like org to create a union of users and give them operating power. Organized like a union, everyone would have a voice, but through one or few representatives. But but that rep would need real accountability to the members and real power in the xorp.

Between Android Linux and Thunderbird, there appear to be no tools detectable that can merge duplicate Contacts.

I fixed it (merged my split addresses and phones; a step in management that was a bad idea) with truly stupid techniques:

Drag and drop two contact lists together in Thunderbird. Which does the dumbest thing possible, creats duplicates.

Export that as CSV.

Load CSV in libre office and do some manual trickery (=concatenate(col1,.
colN), copy paste special, more manual trickery mashing empty dups, sort tricks, etc. Took about an hour.

I should have written a perl script.

We're having our first apocalypse of the year in our neighborhood. It's 9am and dark. The plumber scheduled for an hour from now called to ask if it's safe here (yes).

As I was typing photo description it occurred to me that the way the phone normalized the image -- I'm telling ya it's fkn dark as shit here, with occasional ash dropping -- the phone has made it look like a cloudy day. It's like corporate "two sides" politics. Camera: I know what sky looks like, I'll adjust photo for that.

@patamystic
It was AMAZING in it's first few years. It used to be, scroll vertical, see more or less the mix you're currently seeing. Swipe left, add random.

Before there were ads.

World wide weird.

Haven't looked at it in 3 or 4 years. Last time I looked there was tons of trivial partisan politics and mostly engineered content. Meh.

I haven't read ("doom scrolled") a corporate news site since the day before the last elections. My main source of news is the fediverse; the general casual conversational standard here is pretty goddamn high, on average, I suppose depending on how and who you follow/unfollow, but on current events, local and global, the majority of posts have source* for what they're talking about.

THIS IS REALLY GREAT I APPRECIATE IT SO MUCH THANK YOU ALL REALLY.

@tschak

OH RIGHT!! Now I remember it! It's weird how walled off and closed and self-contained departments can get. Sounds like Boeing got like that.

I'm not exaggerating at all the horrible meetings, refusal to provide basic technical information for a project they commissioned, the lawsuit involving Microsoft somehow....

I did MSDOS in the Displaywriter, for IBM. They were like that too, these ponderous closed fiefdoms ... And I was such a huge weirdo. Don't know how we got in the door. I don't or didn't pass for a normal nerd then.

Nicest keyboard I ever used though, hands down. I had to do a complex keyboard driver with lots of deadkeys and loadable code tables, big recursive tables. Kinda fun.

The 5218 printer, a horrid bureaucracy internally, everything was multi byte sequences, you could get it out of sync.... They were severely reluctant to document for me all the control codes (it had a fancy front panel) and I had to reverse engineer some of it.

Big slow 8 inch floppy drives looked just like toasters. Portrait mode screen, and a 66 line wordstar. Sloow...

Anyone have a cp/m-80 machine with a 8 inch single sided single density drive in working order, that could dump a dozen floppies through some sort of portable media?

They contain some of my work, 8080/z80 program and cp/m BIOS and install stuff (I used to OEM cp/m onto new hardware) and lots of stuff like Aztec C, CBBS 3.x source, stackworth FORTH, BDS C, normal and TRS-80 versions (the latter had unique tpa).

Lol probably 5 megabytes.

I've got a dozen or so brand new never used 8" flops you can have. And a bunch of foldout floppy boxes.

I'm in Los Angeles but of course eminently shippable. I'd only like a couple returned.

@tschak
I'm so sorry you had to write code for it.

It's funny also that shortly after the rainbow MSDOS for Phoenix, I did serial and whatever other drivers for Fido/FidoNet on the rainbow soon after.

IBM PC, rainbow, Victor 9000 were the first three. I put MSDOS on the latter two and then Fido.

(Then sanyo 555, which blocked all interrupts at every floppy access, but was by far the cheapest dos machine that could run FidoNet. Then some more foolish machines and then FOSSIL.)

I've been looking for a particular z80 code listing, looks like I don't have it. I don't have a lot of stuff from the 80s and 90s, and most of what is o have is 1981 through 1994.

I used to keep cheap spiral bound notebooks open next to my computer (I've switched to rules pads) to scribble instant notes ("Mary called phone 12345677") and rough out ideas. I had no idea they'd be so interesting later.

(The current method is 10x10 grid pads, shopping lists, ideas, code fragments, scribble drawings, .... Meaningful ones go in project binders but crossed off lists go on the trash.)

@mekkaokereke

There's a World Bollard Association?

Of course there is.

And probably competitors.