phooky @phooky@octodon.social
Hardware, hackerspaces, retrocomputing, sketching and occasional weird tasks. Personal toots @phooky
So, why do I try to use old computers?
Because they are still out there! There are hundreds of models of various computers and computer adjacent devices out there, and many of them will continue to be functional, for some value of functional, for years to come.
But we stick them in drawers or donate them or put them in landfills and replace them with new shiny devices that do the same tasks, or maybe a little more, at the same speed, or maybe a little faster.
I think I'm going to add an autoplaying audio clip to every web page I make of a laptop fan spinning up
just because it's behind a CW doesn't mean it's not oversharing
GIMP 2.10!
Officially put out today, and it's the largest ever release.
GIMP 2.10 is the result of six years of work that originally focused on porting the program to a new image processing engine, GEGL.
The new version ships with far more new features, including new and improved tools, better file formats support, usability improvements, revamped color management support, a plethora of improvements for digital painters.
--> https://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.10.html
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#GIMP #Linux #GNU #GEGL #ImageEditor
if you're in NYC, please consider attending the final performance event for my NYU class on making computer-generated poetry. friday may 4th, 7:30pm-9pm at 721 Broadway in Manhattan https://gist.github.com/aparrish/292279e3d2d141b141fd3e9e9bd1b20f (also here's a fb event link if that's easier for you https://www.facebook.com/events/324251648103831/)
I'm really overwhelmed with the quality of the student work this year—if you're into poetry and/or computation you should definitely be there.
telnet pdp11.trmm.net
If you're using a Pocketbeagle and are having trouble getting the PRUs working with remoteproc, I've built a device tree file that should fix your problem.
https://github.com/phooky/PRU_template/tree/master/errata
the new cursed image
The VT-180 has a z80 running C/PM onboard
Couldn't log in on a site I'd recently created an account on. It turns out although they has accepted my long password, they had truncated it at twelve characters.
I was able to figure this out because their "forgotten password" link sent me an email with the password in plaintext.
Do you like retro future space race aesthetics?
Do you like puzzles?
Do you do art on commission?
Contact me!
I trained a recurrent neural network on all of the titles of papers in my Zotero and my research and practice got completely roasted https://gist.github.com/aparrish/3d95be5f2505c9743c5c254706e16509
Current status: reading a course catalog for a Florida-based astrology school with a better code of conduct than most tech conferences
How deep am I down the woo hole?
AT THE BOTTOM.
somebody made a conscious decision to put ™ symbols here
what do we want? serial consoles!
when do we want it? after going through an m.2 to mini pcie to db9 to a null modern and a rs232 USB adapter
This. If you're going to make a Bootstrap site, use this theme. Do it.
https://kristopolous.github.io/BOOTSTRA.386/
(via B. Combee)
ERROR TOO MUCH COFFEE
Playing with remoteproc and PRUs and it's... good? it might be good?
Fixed our crappy broken baby monitor. Now it's just crappy, instead of crappy and broken.
(Motorola MBP867, btw; awful design, avoid.)
