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Charlie StrossNow that's a toy you don't stumble across very often! Not sure what I'd do with it, but others may have a use: https://www.radiacode.com/
Dr David Mills@cstross I've nearly bought one a few times - but I have en excuse for it, given I work in a radiation lab.
~n@dtl @cstross I have one. It is surprisingly good value. However there is a reason why it is marketed to Europe via Cyprus with the real country of origin being conspicuously obscured. Make of that what you will. If you order one. Do get the silicone case, not the fake leather one, and if they still offer… their rubber sealed metal enclosure for protected storage speaks for itself:
Stewart Russell
Ellie
Ben Hardill
Alien software, human hardware
Feòrag
Sinnamon (despicable arc 😈)
Eleanor Saitta@cstross
At, yeah, I have a lot of friends with these, they're great — gold standard for a consumer gamma ray spectrometer
At, yeah, I have a lot of friends with these, they're great — gold standard for a consumer gamma ray spectrometer
Chip Butty@cstross Tuesday isn't over yet! Soon we may all have a use 
ahistorical immaterialist@cstross I have no possible use for this and yet I need it
BillSaysThis@BillSaysThis @cstross woke up, read the morning news, and suddenly have a potential use for this 🙃
Mark Dennehy@cstross *looks at clock* in around twelve hours, if that racist oompa loompa doesn't TACO...
JdeBPWe've really got to think of a better name for it than that.
Otherwise it's risking #NuclearWar as the result of a person who writes in all-caps on social media from the toilet having the same problem with being called 'chicken' as Marty McFly.
@JdeBP @cstross I would suggest that the acronym TACO is _not_ the problem to be solving if you have a system which will allow a single racist oompa-loompa to trigger a nuclear holocaust because of a mix of ego and insufficient dietary fibre.
Tone policing when the head of the largest military in the world is screaming from the rooftops that he's about to violate the geneva convention, again, on an industrial scale, without any justification, is ... a remarkable waste of neurons.
Cadbury Moose@cstross The tab looks like getting no smaller fast: I fired up the old iPad (having charged it up for a couple of hours), managed to get onto the Apple Store, and the dratted application requires iOS 17 or later. Poor old iPad is stuck at 12.5.8. (Mini-2), but at least I've now got the endoscope software to install and run (so I can explore the wiring under the floorboards without major upheavals). I'll charge the bigger iPad later and see what level that can take, but it may mean new hardware.
@cstross As I suspected: Big iPad won't even _connect_ to the Apple store to check for upgrades. Oh well. 3:O(>
<Gets wallet out again>
The flamethrower is off the shopping list _again_. 3:O((>
@Cadbury_Moose You're going to need an iOS device with a 64 bit CPU, so less than a decade old! (If you'd let me know last week i could have sorted you out …)
@cstross I suspected as much - but I _Like_ the old iPhone 7, and don't need the bells, whistles, gongs and built-in custard pie thrower of the newer models.
I'll probably just get another used iPad - 2022 should be recent enough to run it, and the better camera may be worth it.
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(Last week I didn't know I needed a gamma ray spectrometer; then I met Dermot.)
GinevraCat@cstross Who cares what you can do with it NOW? That clearly has a place in an apocalypse go-bag!
Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫I'd stand over the bananas in Lidl frowning and taking notes on a clipboard with a big radiation sign on it.
Domo 🦇 
@cstross I think aranet makes one too
https://aranet.com/en/home/products/aranet4_aranet_radiation
It connects to home assistant which is great.
Bai Shen
Aethon
Robin
Andy 'Bob' Brockhurst 
@cstross damn you! 💸
I had seen them before and lost the link.
But I have an idea to create maps based on my (low) flying escapades.
Now I need to see if it's a in cockpit with me device or I design a mount for the wing struts (again)
I had seen them before and lost the link.
But I have an idea to create maps based on my (low) flying escapades.
Now I need to see if it's a in cockpit with me device or I design a mount for the wing struts (again)
Jonty Wareing
Andrew Zonenberg
ShaneOh no. This is going to be a “Shut up and take my money” link, I can just feel it.
Check that whatever you're going to link it with is running up to date software if it's Apple. My two ancient iPads (iOS 10.3.3 and 12.5.8) won't run the display app, so it's more expense for a more recent iPad.
I bought it because I have a lot of WW2 radio kit with luminous paint on the dials (etc.) and camera lenses with thorium in the glass. (Kodak "Ektar" lenses being one to watch out for.)
Some valves have radioactive sources inside to ensure striking (e.g. 85A2).
Steve Bellovin@cstross NYC considered (but didn't enact) a ban on private radiation detectors: https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2008-01/2008-01-09.html. Turns out that I borrowed and used one for a while, after a radioisotope treatment, to track my body level of radiation.
Nazani@SteveBellovin
Being a distrustful person, I suspect some corporation proposed this legislation so workers wouldn't become aware of any radiation they were exposed to on the job.
Being a distrustful person, I suspect some corporation proposed this legislation so workers wouldn't become aware of any radiation they were exposed to on the job.
Aussiemandias@cstross I like these for reasons I don't fully understand. https://support.acurite.com/hc/en-us/articles/1260802414529-Lightning-Detection-Sensor
Paul Knightly@cstross I do radiological surveys for work and we've started using RadiaCodes for some of our projects. There are a lot of digital dosimeters and detectors on the market that seem sketchy at best, but this is the first one I've considered getting for myself.
me_valentijn@cstross
We've got one of those. Got it during the Indonesia caesium-137 incident.
Our cloves are safe. But the local birds may be slowly acquiring their super powers in our granite bird fountain 🤗
Susanne
fdr
The Penguin of Evil@cstross Might prove quite handy if Trump doesn't fall out of a window fairly soon.
Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)@cstross I think I might know... https://neuromatch.social/@iris/116342234429092285
Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD) (@[email protected])
@[email protected] may I recommend painting your glasses with radium and carrying a Geiger counter?
@cstross now debating whether I can make a case for needing one (not just *needing* it) for work. I have radiation source training but so far no cause to use the source...
Morten@cstross @gigabecquerel has Opinions on it. Apparently there's other low-cost scintillation detectors that have significantly better performance for comparable price, these guys just have better marketing. I can't remember the model they like but it has like 5x the scintillator crystal size I think?
GLC
MidgePhoto@cstross interesting. Still above gadget price so I'd need a reason. Israel and Russia bombing fission boilers and containments might be one.
This is Russian, presumably?
This is Russian, presumably?
Sebastian