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.
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| Blog (Neglected) | https://www.mrpotter.us |
| Web (Soon?) | https://www.hoolis.net |
| Web (Old) | https://akgames.com |
@brambo Thanks! Yes sir, I can always be counted on to find the broken things. ...Already broken things. Broken when I got here. I swear.
It's still complaining I need to verify my email, with no access - but reports "fully operational". Mastodon seems to be confused. Definitely nothing urgent (I hope), let me know if I can help try anything. I hope you liked my silly "about" blurb.
@vga256 There, I went and tried the door, but I think the cafe might be closed for the night. Now I'm intrigued...
That or email verification is buggered. Did they patch it for y2k?
@vga256 Curse my memory! Indeed, 50 is absurd, why would I need as much as 1/5th of my Aptiva's hard drive? 😆
If this is a real thing, and I hope it is, it's what this disenfranchised web developer needs.
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.
rawe
Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]