Notices by tom jennings (tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org), page 5

@polpo

Autodial! Fancy!

So you think you're better than the rest of us? Harrumph!

Anyone have the resources to read this half inch 1600 bpi tape from 1987?

It's a backup tape of J. M. Hill's (Univ of AZ, Astronomy) FORTH drive, dated 20 sep 1987.

Probably nothing earth shattering on the tape. Seven inch reel with 2 cm (thickness) on it, probably one megabyte.

Even raw block dumps would would be ok.

No idea what hardware it might be from. Probably not hard to figure out.

I don't need the artifact back.

Disco remains fully convinced of causality between the kitchen stove timer and small animals out in the yard.

I'm appalled by the proportion of people walking down the street looking at their phones. It's NUTS.

Besides the obvious, not living in the moment in the world, the lack of situational awareness is terrifying. (Same thing, I guess.)

It's the equivalent of texting while driving.

@toastie @Wileymiller @GottaLaff

Well their troll quality needs improvement.

@simon @jwildeboer

Other than the Briar Project, I know of nothing that addresses handset to handset direct comms. And no one I know is even vaguely interested in it and few, other than activisty tech types, even think the idea has value.

It's maddening. castoff phones on thrift stores, wifi only even, no sim, have more computing power than most people had in 1990. And no interest in them except as commodity platforms for whatever it is we do.

https://briarproject.org/

Most of us own and use far, far more computing power than necessary, simply for web browsers.

There's few things on a page that needs much attention all; video mainly.

The rest is bloat malware and advertising and defense against those.

Seriously wtf.

Imagine social media software without likes and follows.

@thomasfuchs @galaxis

Oh yeah! I got a death threat from a knucklehead on the vcf mailing list, that was kinda the topper of a year of fending off truly damaged people, nearly all of them (surprise!) angry white men, trapped in nostalgia loops of a presumably better time in their lives.

A nerd version of incel. It's endemic to the scene. Purged me of all interest.

Now here is an egregious design fail. Someone should be fired.

The union news you will not ever see on corporate news.

General strike plan for 1 May 2028.

https://www.google.com/search?q=major+unions+align+xonrract+termination+for+may+2028

Anyone have an idea wtf this is? No post history no bio etc.

I'm in Santa Fe NM doing a bit of work for a friend, borrowed her antique ebike to go eat breakfast...

Eflow E3 Nitro. Original battery still good! She bought it used, at least 5 years ago.

It's like driving a 1930s car. Familiar but alien, nicely simple. No pedal assist! Throttle only, plus pedalling. Reasonably light. Quick enough. Disc brakes.

LCD system a bit wonky from age. Solid machine.

@StompyRobot @foone

It will work if you use glorbs 6.5.4rc23. "worked on my machine"

@mrcool @vga256

In 1994 I put up a fake toilet camera in our house. TIME magazine referenced it as one of the signs of the collapse of culture or something.

Was on WPS.COM (down name sold in 2014).

https://www.sensitiveresearch.com/Archive/ToiletScam/index.html

The live camera was really 3 or 4 stills, dark to light, taken with the Connectix and changed via crontab.

@ottaross @verbeeld

Well now they can have that opportunity

@leaverou

I lurved TeX.

I wrote a punk zine, HOMOCORE, in plain TeX. On an OS/2 machine running desqview and some nifty extended memory manager, I forget. Priter connected via ARCnet! lol. Hanging punctuation in places! Dictionary density...

printed on a 24-wire NEC printer, strips cut and glue-sticked onto the pasteup sheet for newsprint production.

One other zine used TeX, THE PENUMBRA, out of NYC. It was a hilarious sendup of the self-serious THE SHADOW zine.

https://www.sensitiveresearch.com/Archive/HOMOCORE/index.html

@lanodan @vga256

Yeah gonna try that next week.

@vga256

Looks good, but windows only. I've got an arm64 linux box...

Anyone know of an ASCII drawing program, that works in, or at least easily exports, plain text/ASCII/unicode? for linux?

Monodraw for MacOS is GREAT. Gladly gave them money.

https://monodraw.helftone.com/

There's some web apps that do it, which suffice in a pinch.

https://asciicanvas.app/

https://asciiflow.com/

I swear I had one for *nix years ago but no record of it.