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i love intrusive thoughts when soldering why reach all the way over for the wet sponge? Just lick the tip

the most anxiety-ridden thing you can do is try to design an API

Behold, my glorious light pen collection at #vcfmw #retrocomputing

is the iron hot yet? you should definitely touch it

I am also somewhat concerned that the TSA has never seen someone with 20 light pens in a suitcase before.

I have to admit this does look a little less like he's about to go sumo wrestling in the snow

@itgrrl@infosec.exchange you haven't truly lived until you've smelled yourself cooking

if we have learned anything today, we have determined where the fediverse thinks a Macintosh's crotch is

also this is the patent for the famous CRT floozle gun everyone remembers the good old days drawing on their monitor with their floozle gun

What if they think I'm some kind of weird person

xtask is not a library or utility or anything, it's a just a convention. you add a binary crate to your workspace named xtask and you set up this alias in your .cargo/config.toml: [alias] xtask = "run --package xtask --"

@jernej__s@infosec.exchange @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io i just wish I had kept the last PC i owned that had an ISA slot on the motherboard not sure what that would have been but I remember seeing them when I was building them and being like "ISA! that shit's so lame!" I WAS A FOOL

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io win 3.1 runs pretty well on an AT. especially if you have a decent VGA card

I was planning to sell them for a dollar to recoup my costs, but then I realized I'd have to register as a vendor and fill out tax forms, and screw all that hassle. So they'll be free. I ordered 100 of them. I hope to see them stuck absolutely everywhere.

anyway here's Hello World in hieroglyphics 𓐁𓀸𓐁𓈁𓐕𓐁𓀿𓐐𓍽𓐘𓍽𓐙𓍽𓐞𓍽𓐟𓁃𓀀𓁃𓈀𓁃𓐀𓁃𓐑𓁃𓐮𓁃𓐮𓁃𓐮𓁃𓐮𓁃𓐮𓐧𓁃𓀿𓐧𓁃𓅀𓁃𓐀𓁃𓐀𓁃𓐜𓁃𓐮𓁃𓐮𓁃𓐮𓁃𓐮𓐧𓁃𓌀𓁃𓐀𓁃𓐀𓁃𓐀𓁃𓐏𓁃𓐮𓁃𓐮𓐧𓁃𓀷𓁃𓐮𓁃𓐮𓁃𓐮𓐧𓁃𓏀𓁃𓐀𓁃𓐀𓁃𓐀𓁃𓐒𓁃𓐮𓁃𓐮𓐧𓁃𓌀𓁃𓐀𓁃𓐀𓁃𓐔𓁃𓐮𓁃𓐮𓁃𓐮𓁃𓐮𓐧𓁃𓁀𓁃𓐀𓁃𓐋𓐧𓁃𓀀𓁃𓀐𓁃𓋿𓁃𓏿𓐧𓁃𓐀𓁃𓐧𓁃𓐮𓁃𓐮𓁃𓐮𓐧𓁃𓉊𓁃𓐮𓐧𓁃𓃿𓁃𓏿𓁃𓏿𓐧𓁃𓀀𓁃𓐎𓁃𓐮𓁃𓐮𓐐𓐑𓐒𓐕𓐖𓐗𓀈𓀀𓀀𓀀𓊀𓀎𓀀

Please don't be one of the several people I watched at VCF East hoover up every single sticker I had laid out on a table.

Isn't it wonderful that people can just have complete lies as the first Google search result now

Your light pen plugs into the front RJ-14 jack and your sync cable - not included, sadly - plugs into the back to tell the unit when HSYNC and VSYNC occur, which gives it the pen position. I assume it was not originally nicotine brown. This might be the first thing I ever retrobrite.

Drawing something that looks knit in pixel art is a real bitch

@itgrrl@infosec.exchange I do have one! but what if it just... stopped working someday what if the numbers are fake and not actually driven by a thermocouple. the only way to know for sure is the flesh sensor

I like how it agrees it shouldnt be a feature

This thing supported up to 4 pens simultaneously via some crazy USB hub contraption that i'm sure will never see the light of day but you bet your sweet bupkis if it ever does i'll buy it

@foone@digipres.club better behave or you get the wand

I think the fundamental problem besides LLMs in general is that the sheer volume of Google search queries means whatever model Google has hooked up to do AI summaries must be extremely limited in both parameters and context so it just amplifies the worst aspects of the technology. ...which is then placed front and center, like your waiter revealing dog shit under a shiny silver platter

one thing I do need is some sort notification when you try to shove a 720k floppy image in a 360k drive, because that currently just quietly works but only allows you access to half the tracks I could be a normal person and just show a dialog box, but for some godforsaken reason i'm imagining an entire little isometric diorama showing someone trying to inert a 3.5" floppy disk into a 5.25" drive with the caption "This is what you are trying to do, are you sure"

there's an intriguing possibility here , considering it is USB, of adding light pen support to a modern computer. "But flat panels don't support light pens," you might say. And I would say, yes, but, there's a way around that. If you have a high refresh display, like my 165Hz OLED, what you could do is when the tip-button is pressed against the screen you could very quickly show checkerboards of increasing resolution to determine the pen position. You can't track a cursor live, but you can tell where the pen gets touched.

@foone@digipres.club Alice we must join the hive mind

Joking aside, this is an interesting example of how posts you boost can become attributed to you because AI is dumb.

Who the hell is James Chambers?

@RueNahcMohr@infosec.exchange what

@foone@digipres.club you're suggesting that I trans the drive to whatever gets inserted

also the lesson here is when i say i'm done with something and moving on i am probably a big fat dairy-themed liar

prepending a UTF-8 BOM would actually be mostly harmless though, it's invisible and not likely to be copyable. but maybe we can make it so the executable still works with the missing BOM. it will just change languages. like magic.

@foone@digipres.club you wouldn't flooze a car

@foone@digipres.club look at this thing. LOOK AT IT

anyway if you want to put your filthy mittens on this thing come check it out at VCFMW! Maybe I can find some sucker volunteeer with an XP machine we can try hooking it up to

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io The slowest thing about using Windows on a slow CPU is dragging stuff around, but you throw an Diamond Stealth in there and you're flying because it all gets hardware accelerated

@kajer@infosec.exchange is it an identifier or a secret?

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io Maybe I can pick up a beige-box 486 between now and then

@foone@digipres.club this will only work between drives with the same data rate, but ... the worst that will happen is DOS would format the disk the wrong size. Considering that you rarely if ever need to format something in MartyPC that's a small price to pay

It's also a sneaky way to advertise