@brambo Awesome, indeed a bunch arrived on all attempted addresses. That's great, looks like everything stuck was released. I'm in! Thanks!

@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 🤘🔥🤘

@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)

@vga256 As a once returning student now successfully far, far from a forgotten past in facilities management, thank you for doing that.

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.

#repaircafe #electronic #lab #ElectronicsRepair #diy

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.

https://telehack.com

Check it out.

@fschaap Oooh, shiny

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

@ramon_wilhelm @EigenLenk This was tremendous fun, and very good use of EGA!

@flying_saucers That might explain all the tooting.. Lot of fiber.

@mike_k @collin Mastodon was created by a millennial :-)

Today I had someone make a counterargument with me using a copied result from ChatGPT.

Surely this is a new logical fallacy.

@BraveryTEWalker Oh, heck, sounds like the thermostat is going? I had the same thing happen. Depending on the oven that can be a cheap and easy repair.. Be safe!

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/

@hollerpots of course :) Fully open source now! Axway bought it and stopped developing it last year. But they were so kind to hand over all repos: https://github.com/tidev
And after that we already have two major releases and a lot of bugfixes.

@miga Heck yes it is. I may actually start making mobile apps again... 👍