Software developer with too many hobbies and weird interests. Like everyone else, evidently. In an ideal world I'd make a living writing pulp fiction and making obscure games for obsolete hardware with no audience.
#horror #msdos #adlib #linux #pinephone #retrotech #devsec #gamedev #motorbikes #motorcycles #writing #alphasmart #POTS
| Blog (Neglected) | https://www.mrpotter.us |
| Web (Soon?) | https://www.hoolis.net |
| Web (Old) | https://akgames.com |
Ok, goals for this year. Be less of a lurker. Part of that will be trying out some new instances, and de-identifying my username a hair from other caustic platforms that may some day federate.
This comes in the process of working my way out of an unwell place. That I'm typing this is rather a good sign! So... dialup.cafe or eldritch.social? The former comes with a cool crisp 50mb of web space, I've seen advertised...
(Techhub is fine and good, no complaints)
The suitcase is usable now.
It contains:
- switched AC outlet with fuse and power meter
- DC output 50V 5A and various test leads and adapters
- Electronic load 30V 3A
- USB (A & C) outlet with power meter
- multimeter (true rms + capacitor tester)
- soldering iron, solder, flux, solder wick, solder sucker, tweezers, scalpel, fiberglass erazor, heatshrink tubing, lighter, flush-cutter
- oscilloscope with probes
- light
- various screwdrivers, opening tools, ...
- mini laptop (x86/Linux)
- magnetic surface to hold magnetic stuff in place
- ifixit magnetic mat / screw organizer
- pen, paper
I'll add:
- IR camera + old smartphone
- component tester
- logic analyzer (Saleae clone)
- bluetooth audio receiver with isolated output (to be used with smartphone/signal generator app)
- shoulder strap
Maybe I'll add an OpenWRT router with exposed eth and USB to be used as wireless USB port or to provide an ethernet/wifi bridge.
There's a "game" called Telehack.
If you're unfamiliar with it, it's a simulation, or possibly a experiment, or a giant fucking rabbit hole, or just a singularity where time works funny.
Anyway, it's "set" in the Old Internet, it's text-based, and you explore remote systems and collect information, and discover hidden things and it's fun.
What's more fun though, is aside from the game-related clues and information is that the whole thing is seeded with real documents and posts from the era.
So, I just "broke into" a BBS in Texas and found a text file a friend of mine wrote in 1992.
Check it out.
Telehack is a simulation of a stylized arpanet/usenet, circa 1985-1990. It is a full multi-user simulation, including over 26,600 simulated hosts from the early net, thousands of files from the era, a collection of adventure and IF games, a working BASIC interpreter with a library of programs to run, simulated historical users, and more.
It's 2024 💫🎇
What is your #newyearsresolution?
If you haven't made up your mind, start going #private in 2024! 💪
Here's a nice list of Big Tech alternatives recommended by our friends at @aboutprivacyNL to help you #DeGoogle!
And find out what makes Tuta Mail a great #Gmail alternative: https://tuta.com/gmail-alternative
Today I had someone make a counterargument with me using a copied result from ChatGPT.
Surely this is a new logical fallacy.
This is incredibly silly, but I have been looking for this #XMMS skin for years after losing both it and the associated bookmark to time.
It was themed on the now defunct Spacefem.com site, a personal site for an engineer (you know, like we used to do 20 years ago.) I always loved that purple Saturn, and it's so nice to fill that memory gap. It was also a really neat site, and I'm enjoying browsing it again via the Wayback machine.
Skin works great in Audacious, too! 🙂
https://skins.webamp.org/skin/33a21279acf83ceb1c6098c5f7b75478/Spacefem_2.wsz/
=============================================== Industrial-AMP2 � Skin. A different color but very much similar to the Industrial-AMP both in layout and style. Industrial-AMP2 is inspired by the current layout of my website Version - ET with a little touch of rust, anthracite, and raw metal look for the "industrial" part... more like steel works really. I added 1 extra VISCOLOR.txt file (VISCOLOR1) for the "Spectrum Analyzer" visualization for those who want it. Just rename the file from VISCOLOR1.txt --> VISCOLOR.txt. You can modify the visualization if you want and if you know how to do it but please leave all the graphics (images) as is. =============================================== Industrial-AMP skin. Made with PaintShop Pro 7.4 Copyright2002 by Mhel� Visit me and my work at: CUBOIDArts.com Kryptor.deviantart.com email: [email protected]
Good on him.
"The VP of audio at Stability AI has decided his position at the content-generating startup is untenable, given his belief in protecting artists' copyrights and his now-former employer's stance that training machine-learning models on copyrighted material is legally OK."
https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/16/stability_ai_vp_quits/
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