Notices by tom jennings (tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org), page 6

@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.

@Susan_calvin

Oh my. Will have to research. I haven't used emacs in decades!

Mostly I want to draw boxes and lines, illustration of code flow, packets, that sorta stuff.

@Susan_calvin

I'm looking for a program to do the drawing itself, with ascii as final output. Monodraw is cursor driven with commandy tweaks.

Ascii drawings fit in source files and web pages. I haven't need for conversion to image formats, I like the compactness of text. For fairly simple metaphors of connections and data.

@vix

Hmm one doesn't come to mind. My knowledge is ancient. Do you know about how internet services come from "ports"?

Most providers will give you a set of requirements to meet, in two parts:

the public stuff, meaning DNS records for MX (mail exchanger), and security and authentication records. That tells the world how to get to the mail host for say user@example.com. These DNS records will refer to your provider (mine's migadu.com). So people send mail to user@example.com and (internet magic) their server will send your mail to your mail host.

Then you have a mail client (eg thunderbird). It talks to the provider (migadu.com). Login, password etc, plus the IMAP service port and some other gunk.

That's how email was done up through... early 2000s?

Gmail still afaik allows you to fetch your email from them via IMAP. IMAP is in no way obsolete.

The complexity is what web based mail is so popular! Back in 2000 the DNS record side was a lot less complicated; but spammers and scammers were different too.

Good morning and --

OK WHAT NOW.

@mattl

I used proton for about 5 years. I got that survey, it asked "where" not "if". I had already been reassessing email and other net services in light of Current Political Conditions and getting services out of the browser.

The AI thing was the final straw. I've moved my email to a traditional port based service, via thunderbird. A bit of a step backwards in spam filtering but I don't think I spend even 5 clock minutes a day on that.

Glad I stepped off that sinking ship.

Android phone to Linux box file/whatever transfer: what a PITA it's been -- but KDE Connect is just great! Wow!

Not even running KDE, I'm running Sway. I've barely set it up and it does useful things.

From phone, "send file" dumps it in Linux ~/Downloads by default. GOOD ENOUGH to solve 90%.

And surprise to me, transfer clipboard is incredibly useful! Someone texts me a url... Select/copy, click 'send clipboard ', paste right into browser!

Syncthing... Far too complicated. Mercer got it to stay working. All this full over automaticity, too smart for its own good. And unreliable. Phone side config baffling.

KDE Connect ftw!

Wow. Just stumbled on this grapheneOS feature.

The page itself can't be screenshotted. But a duress password, when entered to unlock the phone, erases the phone and esim.

It's been some time since I bought a precision tool. I'm lucky enough to have a decent set of Starrett and Mitutoyo stuff, bought back when I made decent money.

Just added this lovely "six inch" rule. Dull chromed steel, excessive precision for most things.

This one's got that newfangled "metric" system on it. I guess it's here to stay.

(That's what I say to piss off my (very few remaining) reactionary car friends who kinda think like that.)

Most used tool in the shop, by far.

Dogs love the smelloscope.

Cars are so big today it's hard to remember what a small car is.

I often can't find my car (1960 Rambler) amongst the SUVs.

@ernie @jonny

I honestly think that if IA's intent were profit they'd have an easier time arguing.

But we'll see what the judges do this fall...

Apparently I'm fun and safe for the whole family. Four children plus mama. Walnuts are the key to success. They lurv walnuts more than anything. $1.99/lb for broken pieces at Super King.

A few months ago I posted about my difficulty finding USB A to USB B cables, at all, and ones of decent quality. I still have gear that uses them and intermittent cables are huge PITA when debugging.

I bought some from Digikey. They're GREAT and look like they're from the 1990s -- heavy thick ugly beige jackets.

The parametric search includes WIRE GAUGE! I don't know what gauge they ought to be or how much it matters, but the fact it was spec'd at all is encouraging.

Time will tell but sure look good so far.

And reasonably cheap too.

They may have other configurations.