@jgeorge

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Things I nerd out about, in no particular order:
- Pinball Machines / Arcade cabinets
- Vintage Computers (mostly lBM)
- Electronics, MCUs, Small Blinky Things
- Laser Cutting, 3D Printing, Dye Sublimation, and general DIY/“Maker” stuff
- Letterpress (I own an antique letterpress that I restored)
- Spacey and Sciency stuff
- Internet of Things things
- Occasional low-grade weebness (sorry in advance)
Favorite Arcade Games to work onAny vector CRT game
Favorite Crusty ComputersIBM Midrange (34,36,38,400) and older IBM Mainframes
Favorite Pinball Machines90s era Bally/Williams
Favorite letterpress fontSerif: Albertus Extra Bold, Sans Serif: Gill Sans
jgeorgeDec 9, 2022

Not sure how this is gonna work, but trying to migrate to a smaller instance with more specialized focus.

Wired: @jgeorge
Tired: @jgeorge

jgeorgeDec 8, 2022
@alanswx oh man this thing is a stinker inside, I absolutely love it. :)
jgeorgeDec 8, 2022

Late update, I’ve been sick. Gertie the Dinosaur, the System/34 we rescued from Nebraska, is HERE! System and printer arrived 12/5. Both definitely rustbuckets from being stored, BUT all the actual electronics look better than I had hoped! Working on the system first, stripping it down to the frame. Gonna get the frame sanded and repainted, and then clean/restore each component as it goes back in. Fun times! #retrocomputing #ibmi #system34

Follow along the journey: https://gofund.me/1ed80625

jgeorgeDec 7, 2022
Show threadAndrew FeeneyDec 6, 2022

@kevlin

Christine Lemmer-Webber (@cwebber) described ChatGPT as Mansplaining As A Service, and honestly I can’t think of a better description. A service that instantly generates vaguely plausible sounding yet totally fabricated and baseless lectures in an instant with unflagging confidence in its own correctness on any topic, without concern, regard or even awareness of the level of expertise of its audience.

jgeorgeDec 2, 2022
Show threadlaura lemayDec 1, 2022
I get that you mastodon old-timers feel like you’re being invaded, that there are *so many* new people and that we all just bitch and moan and we don’t get the culture and everything is changing and it’s not the place it was a month ago. I get that. But I’d gently suggest that when you got here it was probably not under duress, and you’ve had time to learn how things work and to evolve with it over the last few years (and to also get used to the things that it perhaps does not do that well,😄)
jgeorgeDec 2, 2022
Bruno PhilipeDec 1, 2022
If you're not aware, NASA is posting all the interesting JWST images to Flickr, in glorious full resolution. I just downloaded a 150MB image of the Tarantula Nebula. Find that and more here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/albums
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope’s albums | Flickr

Flickr
jgeorgeDec 1, 2022
testing please ignore
jgeorgeNov 29, 2022
Pavel A. SamsonovNov 28, 2022

Spoke with an engineer over the holidays who maintained that Meta is blameless for abuses on their platform. He asked me, mockingly, "should they stop scaling just because they can't moderate everything?"

The answer is YES. Scale is not just a technical issue. If you cannot control your system, stop growing it.

(btw this is also a good example of how #UX comes from more than just the buttons on the screen)

#ProductManagement

jgeorgeNov 28, 2022
The Duality of XanNov 27, 2022

I do not like that site of birds
I do not like its awful words

I do not like what it became
I do not like its cult of shame

I do not like intrusive ads
I do not like the vapid fads

I do not like the clout it’s given
I do not like its algorithm

But I shall miss that weird bird town
I do not like it burning down

jgeorgeNov 27, 2022
jwzNov 27, 2022
PSA: Do Not Use Services That Hate The Internet. As you look around for a new social media platform, I implore you, only use one that is a part of the World Wide Web. tl;dr avoid Hive and Post. If posts in a social media app do not have URLs that can...
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