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@dalias @q66 @ariadne @chimera

Katja ｢Amethyst｣5h ago

I mean, I have already put my foot down re such projects at Adélie, and have had to explain why it's a problem. (non-contributors have asked for technical reasons, but tbh "these people want me dead in a ditch" is plenty technical: I can't make this distro for you if I'm, you know, dead in a ditch.)

I'd like to live in a world where I didn't have to worry about the politics of the projects we package, but that world does not and will never exist.

Jernej Simončič �5h ago

Neville Park 1d ago

@cypnk i see your "doom/linux running in PDF" and raise you "Pokémon running in a font" https://www.coderelay.io/fontemon.html

code relay - Fontemon

Quinn Blueheart 🔞✍️🔥4d ago

In case you missed it, the ACLU has a petition for payment processors like Mastercard and Visa to stop discriminating against sex workers and content producers. Read it, sign it, please!
https://action.aclu.org/petition/mastercard-sex-work-work-end-your-unjust-policy

Mastercard: Sex Work is Work. End Your Unjust Policy.

Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It must be stopped.

@danielcasanueva @neil I've had the same IP since 2007, when I last changed my ISP (and they even let me set a custom PTR).

Neil Brown 8h ago

Sometimes, I receive questions which leave both me, and the person asking, bamboozled.

> Your website loads so quickly! What CDN do you use?

There is no CDN. It is just really small and simple, mostly text.

> Sure, but is that Cloudflare, or...?

None. It is a tiny website, just a few kilobytes per page, on a tiny server, at my home, connected to the Internet via my ISP, Andrews & Arnold.

> But are you / they in the cloud?

No. The webserver is in Newbury, in my garage.

> Neil, please can you pass my questions to your technical person? I don't think you understand, your website cannot be in your home. It must be in the cloud or have a CDN.

*Neil puts on glasses and false nose and moustache*

@eniko Open the tank and check for calcination around the floater; shaking it up and down might dislodge it, or you can try pouring toilet cleaner over the plastic parts (close the valve and empty the tank first, then let it work for about half hour).

8051 enthusiast 7h ago

@whitequark the libtools logo really makes you think

@gsuberland I've got a server that hosts my local storage and a bunch of services, and I need to replace the motherboard (currently it's running my previous previous workstation, Xeon E5-1620, the replacement is my previous workstation, Ryzen 5900X), and I've been putting off the board swap for the last 3 months…

@emaytch @mcc There's something even worse: websites that tell me that I'm offline immediately because something failed on their end.

@pl0myk Is it related to

Thomas Fuchs 1d ago

Anyone know what this model of monitor is? Amazing industrial design that goes way harder than it has to.

Technology Connections 1d ago

Philco Predicta meets Mr. Fusion

Craig Morgan 1d ago

@thomasfuchs.at if in doubt, attribute to Xerox ;) Seriously, the portrait monitor and its bezels particularly are extremely reminiscient of the Xerox Alto desktop terminal, but I don't recall ever seeing the turbine design (is that a rotation system for the tube?)

Noah 1d ago

@thomasfuchs.at Looks like a Lexar AXXA System90.

poswald 1d ago

@monkeyninja @thomasfuchs.at definitely looks like an AXXA. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BwLE62tDPVU

Victor Zambrano 1d ago

@monkeyninja @thomasfuchs.at spot on:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BwLE62tDPVU

Jon Gilbert 1d ago

@thomasfuchs.at ...I kinda want to reproduce that monitory with a 3D printer and an smallish LCD monitor

Nick Gully 1d ago

@jgilbert @thomasfuchs.at
You could fit a mini-itx case in there with the exhaust fan out the back

John Gouk 17h ago

@jgilbert @thomasfuchs.at Do it!! You know you want to!

Null.Nix (ZeroDot0)1d ago

@thomasfuchs.at Because it is in portrait mode, it should be some Xerox (model Alto) machine. But that big cooling 'star' is very unusual, even for some weird vintage machines.

Laberpferd 15h ago

@NullPunktNix
not sure if this is actually a cooling device, or just an artistic part made to look like cooling fins
@thomasfuchs.at

Western Infidels 1d ago

@thomasfuchs.at It looks like some Buck Rogers space gun that's about to fire some information right into your face

gunstick 20h ago

@thomasfuchs.at it has some Braun design vibes.

Dana 16h ago

@thomasfuchs.at wondering what it would take to safely convert a compact crt into a form factor like that, with all the components tucked around the central tube.

Would love a small screen that looked like that. Maybe on a little adjustable arm.

Laberpferd 15h ago

@danana_dread
Not so much of a problem from the technical and safety part

Major issue would be to make a completely new circuit board or better collection of smaller boards, some sub-circuits must be build as compact blocks that can not seriously converted into stretches or circle parts

I know CRT tech very well

I grew up hearing all the horror stories about leaded glass and toxic phosphors, and it scared me away from looking into hacking an old tube display.

But lately, I've been doing a fair bit of low-spec art, and keep thinking it could be nice to have a small or thin CRT preview monitor. Seem like they're hard to find though, and the very thin ones from the early 00s don't seem like they hit production.

Figure I could maybe repurpose the tube from one of those old handheld Sony Watchmans into a small auxilliary display. Or even a portable low power computer with an SBC or something.

Still does seem a little daunting though! Never messed with it. If you have any pointers for where to start with this sort of thing it'd be welcome!

@danana_dread im perfectly happy to guide you and go into details in about one to two weeks (will leave for a camp soon)

@danana_dread

> I grew up hearing all the horror stories about leaded glass and toxic phosphors, and it scared me away from looking into hacking an old tube display.

In very past decades, when beautiful wooden furniture TV sets were still around, many people had ideas like cutting open the tube and make the TV set into an aquarium. THAT did not end well for the fishes, if the makers lived long enough to actually put water and fishes into that tank

@danana_dread
> But lately, I've been doing a fair bit of low-spec art, and keep thinking it could be nice to have a small or thin CRT preview monitor. Seem like they're hard to find though, and the very thin ones from the early 00s don't seem like they hit production.

I know these "superflat" TV tubes from the early 2000s in person and i very not recommand them. Very poor picture and shit amounts of complicated geometry compensation circuits involved

@danana_dread the peak of CRT picture quality was around the early to middle 90s

All what came later was either cheapened out for feeding tube nostalgics, or competing with plasma displays and trying to be more flat beyond sane limits

@danana_dread
Your best thing to tinker about are the 10 to 25cm TV and video moitors, they use pretty low danger voltages

Some of the black/white ones could even be rebuilt into VGA frequency range (but thats expert level, rewinding coils and such, i might find back my old notes)

I have not yet had an AtariSM124 BW VGA monitor physically in my hands, but from photos and circuits this looks to be the best and most serious monitor to rebuild into custom cases

Dana 14h ago

@Laberpferd
> the peak of CRT picture quality was around the early to middle 90s. All what came later was either cheapened out for feeding tube nostalgics, or competing with plasma displays and trying to be more flat beyond sane limits

Haha, yes. I was getting that sense from looking around.

If you don't mind my asking:

If I were to simply buy an old CRT display, without trying to tinker with anything, are there any manufacturers or particular models you'd suggest over others?

My main use for it would be as a CRT-based color display for a computer. Anything that has a smaller screen and lighter housing, is reliably built or repairable, and has a decent clarity, would be my ideal.

@danana_dread
If its for Color:

Personally i know 80s and 90s Grundig best for good construction and repairability, some good words also for Philips

But portables below 30cm are generally easy to care, above 30cm they tend to more dangerous voltages

They almost universally run only on TV frequencies and FBAS inputs which are nowhere near VGA quality, better ones had SCART input with RGB lines that are compatible with VGA cards (if you are not afraid of modifying modlines)