Nostr notes by Stewart Russell

I may never get over that you can copy bootable disk images to a ...

2026-06-03T20:35:07Z

I may never get over that you can copy bootable disk images to a USB stick using "cp" and they work ...

I am sorry for inviting so many people into your trillium picture ...

2026-05-07T02:49:47Z

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I am sorry for inviting so many people into your trillium picture thread

(🠇 I am delighted to know so many weirdos 🠇)

a great excuse to use the word "myrmecochorous" (having ...

2026-05-06T17:53:04Z

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a great excuse to use the word "myrmecochorous" (having seeds that are dispersed by ants), because that's what Trilliums are.

ohh, I see now: "Popcorn Computer is a derivative of C.H.I.P. ...

2026-04-28T23:33:38Z

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ohh, I see now:

"Popcorn Computer is a derivative of C.H.I.P. by Next Thing Co. released under CC BY-SA 3.0. Popcorn Computer is not affiliated with Next Thing Co."

Considering that C.H.I.P. was a cursed design*, this was gonna go nowhere.

*: if you still have one, the chances of it still working are almost nil.

Nobody has ever played autoharp quite like Kilby Snow. ...

2026-04-05T22:12:30Z

Nobody has ever played autoharp quite like Kilby Snow. Technically, he's doing it wrong by strumming with his left hand below the chord bars, and playing chords with his right, but if you can make it sound this good ...

Kilby Snow - Shady Grove — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzgarZiweMM

I love musicians who "do it wrong", yet sound amazing. Sonny Terry, for example: played the harmonica *upside down*

#autoharp

nicer than either of mine. I'd make it when I lose the one I ...

2026-03-29T17:49:32Z

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nicer than either of mine. I'd make it when I lose the one I have (inevitable)

here they are, anyway: ...

2026-03-29T00:41:50Z

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here they are, anyway:
https://gist.github.com/scruss/f6e6276d3842071f45dfb641af55680d

I use the 2021 version. Dunno what happened to the 2018 version

not exactly the same. Mine is a Peugeot in acrylic with a ~23 mm ...

2026-03-29T00:27:22Z

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not exactly the same. Mine is a Peugeot in acrylic with a ~23 mm ID bore.

I just checked: I have designed this *twice*. As a messy person with poor short term memory, I do this a lot.

been there, designed that

2026-03-28T21:34:05Z

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been there, designed that

Just a reminder ('cos I sure needed it) that "ries" ...

2026-03-27T22:28:06Z

Just a reminder ('cos I sure needed it) that "ries" is a basically magical command line tool that can convert numerical approximations back to their symbolic form.

F'rinstance: I was working on a geometrical construction that was throwing out ratios of 0.57735 frequently. I knew this was properly ("rule and compass") constructible, so I pop it into ries:

ries -c 0.57735 -s

which tells me it's most likely √⅓ (= 0.57735026918962576450 …)

Nostr event nevent1qqsd6uc3yaqj5jg2dfgrt7wxq9s3frzjdg3qr4r9dyg5j2tsrm2dqxczyqt7yr0y6d2smzqevad5wggv44aaakllqqcmuwhjz2r9zne3kk9u72sc646

2026-03-25T16:59:54Z

"venous valvular incompetence" sounds so judgy

You may already be working with him, but Robert Schneider at ...

2026-03-22T22:21:52Z

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You may already be working with him, but Robert Schneider at Michigan Tech U could be all about this research too.

https://mtulode.com/10169/news/michigan-tech-faculty-profile-dr-robert-schneider/

"Thank you very much for your continued attention and support ...

2026-03-19T15:16:27Z

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"Thank you very much for your continued attention and support for Anycubic and its products. It is with great regret that we are reaching out to you. Due to a system error, the Kobra 3 Max was listed at an incorrect price on our website.

This price is far below our cost, and we are unfortunately unable to fulfill orders at this incorrect price. ..."

I have my doubts that it will, but yes. I hate to think what the ...

2026-03-19T12:39:27Z

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I have my doubts that it will, but yes.

I hate to think what the courier fees will be. I'm sure it has been declared at full $700 value

yes, I think so. Got the paypal receipt for $25 and all

2026-03-19T02:44:12Z

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yes, I think so. Got the paypal receipt for $25 and all

they've sold out of the basic one at $25. There may be ...

2026-03-19T02:36:11Z

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they've sold out of the basic one at $25. There may be others:
https://ca.anycubic.com/products/anycubic-kobra-3-max

Welp, I'm pretty sure Anycubic didn't mean to price those ...

2026-03-19T01:06:11Z

Welp, I'm pretty sure Anycubic didn't mean to price those printers at $25 tonight ...

#3DPrinting

Wanna read some "Sacred Geometry" woo? Here: make sense ...

2026-03-06T01:46:22Z

Wanna read some "Sacred Geometry" woo? Here: make sense of *this*:

https://www.reddit.com/r/holofractal/comments/6lbnqz/the_new_sacred_geometry_of_frank_chester/djt744i/

I still don't see how the Chestahedron can possibly have all of its faces the same area. Using the same construction, I can get *close* but not exact.

#geometry #woo

it's not just for coding or choosing where to drop bombs!

2026-03-05T14:44:28Z

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it's not just for coding or choosing where to drop bombs!

yeah absolutely no consequences at all from an AI company saying, ...

2026-03-05T14:41:29Z

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yeah absolutely no consequences at all from an AI company saying, "Hey, you can spin up fedi instances for your projects!"

#Fediblock *.hf.space So many "Urgent: family in danger" ...

2026-03-05T01:57:55Z

#Fediblock *.hf.space

So many "Urgent: family in danger" mutual aid scams coming from this instance

it would be okay if he said "I can't make enough money to ...

2026-02-23T15:35:53Z

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it would be okay if he said "I can't make enough money to support the overheads my company has with open source hardware", but he doesn't

Sure! Thanks for the offer, and I will next time (alas, we've ...

2026-02-22T17:10:15Z

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Sure! Thanks for the offer, and I will next time

(alas, we've got to do Toronto - Detroit in a couple of weeks for the same reason)

I was in your manor today. Seems that there are no useful flights ...

2026-02-21T20:34:21Z

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I was in your manor today. Seems that there are no useful flights to the Midwest from Toronto now, so I was at Buffalo Niagara airport before 8 am

Offering a samosa to the tractor at Regional Variety & Gas ...

2026-02-21T18:25:48Z

Offering a samosa to the tractor at Regional Variety & Gas Bar out of kindness. Quite how a little gas station in the middle of rural wine country has the best samosas anywhere, I'll never know.
#samosa #ontario #StCatharines

Dammit, we were slowly working our way through The Marvellous ...

2026-02-17T03:01:48Z

Dammit, we were slowly working our way through The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel, and CBC Gem just pulled it with no warning

ooh, no-one will ever crack that code!

2026-02-12T16:16:04Z

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ooh, no-one will ever crack that code!

no, they weren't the right kind of terminals for ferrules

2026-02-01T23:57:48Z

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no, they weren't the right kind of terminals for ferrules

but more capable than a RAMPS board? ...

2026-02-01T18:22:07Z

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but more capable than a RAMPS board?
https://reprap.org/wiki/RAMPS_1.4

Not wild about screw terminals as I had the power terminal loosen on my first printer and it started to smoke. Yes, I should have been more careful about routine maintenance

how simple? 8 bit? Wifi? SD card? USB stick? Display? Talks to ...

2026-02-01T15:28:54Z

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how simple? 8 bit? Wifi? SD card? USB stick? Display? Talks to ____ slicer?

yr welcome. We had a module in mechanical engineering class in ...

2026-01-10T15:31:46Z

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yr welcome.

We had a module in mechanical engineering class in the early 90s that was basically "Stuff that Dyson Has Knocked Off". It was a *lot*, and the real meat was where he'd found patentable aspects of old designs. Clever, but sneaky.

vacuum trucks (aka daylighters) work exactly the way you think ...

2026-01-10T14:48:41Z

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vacuum trucks (aka daylighters) work exactly the way you think they might: huge blower, cyclonic separator (like Dyson knocked off), big tank to hold the dug up stuff. Noisy, but so much safer than excavators. They're surprisingly gentle: I've hired one to unearth fibre-optics that were laid across a field with no protection (ಠ_ಠ). The daylighter unearthed them without even scratching the casing.

not when you have muscle memory going back to the 1980s with ...

2026-01-09T23:37:53Z

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not when you have muscle memory going back to the 1980s with middle click

not when the distro(s) you like have it as the default desktop

not when the other desktops are just a heap of no

Gnome tried to get rid of icons on the desktop a few years ago. User pressure brought them back (admittedly through some pretty foul shell hacks)

Drew's in your town now? I know he'd left Ohio

2025-12-22T21:46:45Z

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Drew's in your town now? I know he'd left Ohio

a Vickers hardness tester is a standard piece of ...

2025-11-29T15:02:13Z

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a Vickers hardness tester is a standard piece of metallurgy/metrology lab kit. It has a pointy diamond that gets pressed into metal. The bigger the indent, the softer the metal

So they did this with mechanical engineering.

I know people with all the zip drives, and we can likely get ...

2025-11-15T22:40:45Z

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I know people with all the zip drives, and we can likely get something off that PowerPC or use the drive somehow.

This is something I can help with. It may take a little bit of ...

2025-11-15T20:55:53Z

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This is something I can help with. It may take a little bit of work to get data off some Zip 100s.

Have car, will travel.

switched battery disconnects are a whole thing for ...

2025-10-23T00:57:28Z

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switched battery disconnects are a whole thing for assistive/adapted toys for kids with disabilities

one battery with a wifi disconnect ... where's Halfbakery ...

2025-10-23T00:51:48Z

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one battery with a wifi disconnect

... where's Halfbakery when you need it?

Nooo ... too early: there are juncos in the garden. (NB: the ...

2025-10-14T20:16:39Z

Nooo ... too early: there are juncos in the garden.

(NB: the two-tone birbs, not the excessively wide jeans)

And on the same day that I heard redwings not too far away

asafoetida / hing is amazing: leaves the most delicate flavour of ...

2025-10-11T21:00:59Z

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asafoetida / hing is amazing: leaves the most delicate flavour of fresh fried onions

nice looking hardware, though. Did it have any CPU, or was it an ...

2025-10-05T17:42:13Z

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nice looking hardware, though. Did it have any CPU, or was it an interface for processing on the PC?

This is a McCorrisken from memory, as I don't have his first ...

2025-10-01T12:19:32Z

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This is a McCorrisken from memory, as I don't have his first book ("Cream of the Dross") here:

THE MAGGOT

The maggot wends its loathsome way
Across some putrid meat.
It has to wend its way because
The maggot has no feet.

#poetry #scots #WalterMcCorrisken

A limerick, from self-styled 'world's worst poet" ...

2025-10-01T02:14:29Z

A limerick, from self-styled 'world's worst poet" Walter McCorrisken:

A gardener who lived near Milngavie,
Grew onions at least four foot havie,
And for miles around,
Came a low, sobbing sound,
From passers-bavie wiping their avie.

If this works at all, it's only if you know how Milngavie is pronounced.

there was some actual Strength of Materials work done on 3d ...

2025-09-22T12:58:31Z

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there was some actual Strength of Materials work done on 3d prints at Michigan Tech U a few years back.

The main finding was that most printers (then) were under-extruding, so the material you thought you had wasn't there.

there's a lot of brightener in that plastic. The bottle ...

2025-09-19T17:53:09Z

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there's a lot of brightener in that plastic. The bottle practically glow

are there any masto android mobile apps that respect my ...

2025-09-16T00:28:57Z

are there any masto android mobile apps that respect my account-wide "hide boosts" settings?

official app and Subway Tooter don't

One of Carney's "fast track" infrastructure project ...

2025-09-11T23:58:36Z

One of Carney's "fast track" infrastructure project announcements is a small modular reactor at Ontario’s Darlington nuclear facility.

There are some problems with this:

* This is not a new project. Permitting was started more that five years ago.

* The BWRX-300 reactor doesn't exist yet. This would likely be its first installation. We used to have strict "no prototype" rules with power plants, for good reason.

* It's made by a subsidiary of GE, an American company.

von Neumann's Elephant, as plotted on a tiny OLED screen. von ...

2025-09-10T16:02:13Z

von Neumann's Elephant, as plotted on a tiny OLED screen.

von Neumann's Elephant is a mathematical curve that approximates the shape of an elephant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%27s_elephant

these are the delightful people who bought Meetup, right?

2025-09-10T15:49:01Z

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these are the delightful people who bought Meetup, right?

I get 'em too. I did respond to a Seeed Studio one, once, and ...

2025-09-09T13:39:09Z

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I get 'em too. I did respond to a Seeed Studio one, once, and they sent me free kit to review

My heart sinks when a video hits the "making this part would be very expensive... (dramatic pause) ... except PCBWay were here to help out!" bit. My dude, your video was only possible because of the PCBWay subsidy

I've had a broken one sitting in a cupboard for about five ...

2025-09-03T19:21:25Z

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I've had a broken one sitting in a cupboard for about five years. They used to be astronomically expensive to ship to Canada. I guess since they're making no US sales, I should ask about a deal. Maybe even throw in a "How's that Brexit working out for you, then?" too.

Brooks rails are famous for that. They're one of the few ...

2025-09-03T19:08:02Z

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Brooks rails are famous for that. They're one of the few manufacturers that sell replacement rail sets.

It's not you, it's them.

isn't it? you know you've found your people when ...

2025-08-31T02:57:46Z

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isn't it?

you know you've found your people when ...

Catherine told me than when she was little, her grandmother gave ...

2025-08-31T02:56:43Z

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Catherine told me than when she was little, her grandmother gave her a pink jewellery box. Instead of trinkets, Catherine filled it with locust shells, as they were precious to her.

TPL has an opt-in borrowing history, which I truly hope is ...

2025-08-29T23:00:47Z

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TPL has an opt-in borrowing history, which I truly hope is properly opt-in.

you know a thing or two about being that trooper...

2025-08-29T19:50:18Z

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you know a thing or two about being that trooper...

TIL that one person has been maintaining drivers for Google's ...

2025-08-29T16:04:20Z

TIL that one person has been maintaining drivers for Google's AIY hardware for Raspberry Pi ever since the tech giant dumped the project in 2021.

I kind of wish I'd known about this a couple of years ago when I finally threw out a bunch of AIY Voice Kit and AIY Vision Kit hardware, thinking it was boat-anchor material.

https://github.com/viraniac/aiyprojects-raspbian

#RaspberryPi #Google #AIYVision #AIYVoice

it was swipe up, now it's sideways?

2025-08-25T22:21:23Z

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it was swipe up, now it's sideways?

plenty of crazy stuff after magnetic core: how about sequential ...

2025-08-24T16:52:08Z

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plenty of crazy stuff after magnetic core: how about sequential serial memory using shift registers, as in the Datapoint 2200?

This is the first writeup I've ever seen that acknowledges ...

2025-08-24T15:17:14Z

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This is the first writeup I've ever seen that acknowledges how close to DEC's command line the CP/M system really was.

"somewhat the flavor of TECO" ... ooh, that's not a great sell these days. CP/M's editor is likely its weakest part for the modern user. It's clever, small, but difficult to use

I hear that - big surprise - 'new Commodore' is leaning ...

2025-08-15T19:08:05Z

I hear that - big surprise - 'new Commodore' is leaning on retrocomputing suppliers about their use of the name/logo

ISTR it's a very crude shutter indeed

2025-08-07T23:17:51Z

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ISTR it's a very crude shutter indeed

The shutter probably isn't. Also, if it's like mine, ...

2025-08-07T19:33:02Z

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The shutter probably isn't.

Also, if it's like mine, check the red window at the back. It might be a light leak now

Met a friend down by the lake this morning ... #toronto #wildlife ...

2025-08-07T14:58:45Z

Met a friend down by the lake this morning ...

#toronto #wildlife #beaver #canada

oh fuck: Canada's caught the stupid, too: SENATE OF CANADA ...

2025-08-04T14:01:16Z

oh fuck: Canada's caught the stupid, too:
SENATE OF CANADA
BILL S-209
An Act to restrict young persons’ online access to pornographic material — https://www.parl.ca/documentviewer/en/45-1/bill/S-209/first-reading

Yup. Age verification. That thing that's very difficult to do right.

There's a very hastily-written petition here, but I'm not sure how much good a Change.org petition would do:
https://www.change.org/p/stop-bill-s-209-s-de-anonymization-of-every-canadian-adult

#canada #AgeVerification

hey, can someone in the USA check if a DOI resolves, please? ...

2025-08-01T21:20:24Z

hey, can someone in the USA check if a DOI resolves, please?

10.6084/m9.figshare.29650070

It should resolve to a preprint on Figshare with the title "Quantum Gravity"

→ IMPORTANT: Please do not comment on the quality of the end result, thank you. ←

I have a correspondent who uses public library access in the US midwest who is telling me that this DOI is "blocked" in the USA.

If it doesn't work for you please let me know any error messages. Thanks!

#doi #usa #internet #research

I was a little disappointed that BTW said that the Black ...

2025-07-28T18:01:41Z

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I was a little disappointed that BTW said that the Black residents of Meridian didn't need a library, though.

There was also surprise at seeing mail occasionally going via Carnegie's castle/retreat in Scotland rather than New York.

(Meanwhile in Liberty, MO, Carnegie's secretary has some extremely spicy words for the library trustees. The trustees assumed that the Carnegie grant of $30k really meant they were getting $50k, and they were spending as if they had.)

Unexpected Booker T. Washington cameo! I'm part-way through ...

2025-07-28T17:07:44Z

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Unexpected Booker T. Washington cameo!

I'm part-way through reading the documents for Catherine's hometown (Liberty, MO) and it's filled with oof.

Oh dear. Of course there's more drama about Commodore ... ...

2025-07-26T22:10:38Z

Oh dear. Of course there's more drama about Commodore ...
https://commodore.inc/press-release-of-23-july-2025/

#Commodore #RetroComputing

How worried should I be that there's a 5¼" disk poking ...

2025-07-17T20:34:15Z

How worried should I be that there's a 5¼" disk poking up through the ground at the local cemetery?

#RetroComputing #DeadMedia

didn't ask. Also, that post ignores what the C64 chipset does ...

2025-07-10T02:25:18Z

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didn't ask.

Also, that post ignores what the C64 chipset does to the CPU timing. Yes, a 2 MHz 6502 is roughly the same processing power as a 4 MHz Z80: but the 6502 needed much faster RAM to keep up.

I've just benchmarked a 5150 against a C64. The PC came out 40% faster. So I'm going to have to award that article a "NO". Possibly a "not even wrong"

Extremely decent ASCIIART benchmark result on @npub1h7a…m2up ...

2025-07-09T19:31:43Z

Extremely decent ASCIIART benchmark result on tom jennings (npub1h7a…m2up) 's Friendly eZ80 CP/M computer running BASIC-80 5.21 : 11.3 seconds

Another benchmark suggests that it's running BASIC 47× faster than a C64

#RetroComputing #BASIC #cpm

@npub1h7a…m2up @npub12r0…qh4d first light on the Friendly ...

2025-07-08T03:12:49Z

tom jennings (npub1h7a…m2up) Ben Zanin (npub12r0…qh4d) first light on the Friendly eZ80 in the east end!

I'm going to have fun with this. Thank you so much!

Under Bill C-2, there are provisions to have: * warrantless ...

2025-07-05T14:46:27Z

Under Bill C-2, there are provisions to have:
* warrantless access to electronic data;
* Canada Post open and read mail;
* protection stripped from people seeking asylum;
* Canada-hosted data being shared with US authorities.

This bill is shit. It's un-Canadian. It's capitulation.

#Canada #BillC2

no, it's immensely helpful, thanks. He has indeed a ...

2025-06-30T02:12:49Z

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no, it's immensely helpful, thanks. He has indeed a whelk's chance in a supernova* of coming up with a novel theory of Dark Matter.

Trouble is, he's been militantly anti-technology for the 30+ years I've known him. He doesn't e-mail and has never used the web. He buys a new computer and FORTRAN compiler every decade. Chances of him being able to prepare and submit for publication? There goes that whelk again ...

Thanks for even thinking of this!

--
*: thanks, Douglas Adams.

@npub1dgc…cla4 Hey, I have an elderly relative (Caltech physics ...

2025-06-30T00:53:31Z

Prof. Sam Lawler (npub1dgc…cla4) Hey, I have an elderly relative (Caltech physics PhD 1965, tho) who has been in independent research since he retired. He's in great mental health, but physically very frail.

He's got a theory that explains one of the Huge Unanswered Questions of Cosmology. How might I get it in front of someone who can review it and get the theory out there, please?

Complications: he has no email, he's scared of losing priority, and he's basically some random old guy to academia

I just installed rust on two systems and I'm looking for ...

2025-06-29T16:13:13Z

I just installed rust on two systems and I'm looking for something fragile to smash into tiny bits ...

Please don't post links from Threads. Unless you have a ...

2025-06-23T21:44:53Z

Please don't post links from Threads. Unless you have a Meta/Facebook account, this is how they turn out

It's a shame the MIT article used the term "mineral ...

2025-06-23T13:46:01Z

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It's a shame the MIT article used the term "mineral oil" bath. For 250 °C, you'll need high temperature silicone oil. A bottle of that costs more than a 3d printer.

I have a feeling that this is MIT rediscovering waterglass tricks. I had a "hobbies for boys" book from the 1930s that had a whole section on making things from waterglass; "Make father a pipe ashtray" kind of deal.

carbon frames are giant sounding boards. But it's also a ...

2025-06-23T03:02:27Z

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carbon frames are giant sounding boards. But it's also a fashion thing. Shimano used to have silent freewheel options, but not any more

I hear you. The SX is no fun to work on: structural edge ...

2025-06-22T17:35:39Z

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I hear you. The SX is no fun to work on: structural edge connectors, what a great idea!

RAM?

2025-06-22T17:31:22Z

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RAM?

the one really handy thing I added to my SX-64 was something that ...

2025-06-16T20:44:28Z

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the one really handy thing I added to my SX-64 was something that reset the internal drive if you reset the machine. Because the drive is internal, it's very difficult to reset if the C64 part crashes

is it 204800 bytes with an md5sum of ...

2025-06-11T17:52:51Z

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is it 204800 bytes with an md5sum of 3e727871b2daab4caba9e508505f2208 ? If so, there's a copy here:
https://cpm.retropc.se/cpm/randyfiles/DRI/index72c9.html?C=M;O=D

There's a rather extended writeup about trying to track this down on Herb J's site, but then most of his writeups are extended

you can set your watch by them. Two years ago tomorrow, this is ...

2025-06-09T21:38:50Z

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you can set your watch by them. Two years ago tomorrow, this is who I met by the lake in Toronto

you get interesting glitches if you don't pull it straight

2025-06-07T22:18:13Z

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you get interesting glitches if you don't pull it straight

@npub133p…k8an @npub1sws…2n3t Hey, I converted your BBC BASIC ...

2025-06-07T02:33:04Z

groff 🇺🇦 (npub133p…k8an) Josh "cortex" Millard (npub1sws…2n3t) Hey, I converted your BBC BASIC program to plotter commands. Then I plotted it with metallic inks. It looks pretty good

#PlotterArt #BBCBasic

These bloody cybertrucks get everywhere... ...

2025-06-03T18:58:19Z

These bloody cybertrucks get everywhere...

it has a screamingly fast CPU. There's almost nothing it ...

2025-06-02T21:38:58Z

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it has a screamingly fast CPU. There's almost nothing it can't emulate.

Even slower external PSRAM runs at a decent enough clip for most applications

would be glad to. I'm pretty well familiar with Arduino and ...

2025-06-02T00:00:28Z

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would be glad to. I'm pretty well familiar with Arduino and the Teensyduino system. I used to sell a whole lot of the things

I'd love to, but shipping to Canada (and me populating the ...

2025-05-31T04:46:28Z

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I'd love to, but shipping to Canada (and me populating the BOM) will be $$$.

the "after" picture has a real sad trombone quality: ...

2025-05-30T21:50:47Z

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the "after" picture has a real sad trombone quality:

that looks like the big box o' connectors you can get from ...

2025-05-24T16:41:34Z

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that looks like the big box o' connectors you can get from Amazon with the cheap pliers and lots o' Dupont thingies too.

I tend to use the terms muffin/pan (which I think is from Rose Eveleth), partly to annoy conservative old electronics types

what type/pitch JST? There are so many. They look like JST PH (2 ...

2025-05-24T15:45:45Z

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what type/pitch JST? There are so many. They look like JST PH (2 mm pitch). JST MQ has board-to-board options, is 2 mm pitch, but I don't think it's compatible with the ones you're holding

Also, the ones you're holding back-to-back on the left look like female connectors

OSM addresses depend on how many volunteers put in the work for ...

2025-05-24T14:14:59Z

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OSM addresses depend on how many volunteers put in the work for the area in question. For a few years, routing companies had an interest in making things better, but now they don't.

For the USA, if you're really unlucky, all that's there is 70s-era TIGER data

I met a skunk, twice ...

2025-05-23T22:36:09Z

I met a skunk, twice

filaments don't make anything any more? Dang. They had a neat ...

2025-05-16T20:42:05Z

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filaments don't make anything any more? Dang. They had a neat setup. I'm wondering if the Montreal-based filament factory has gone too?

I still wish I'd got more of filaments' low-sheen PLA. It looked amazing

Anyway, a Sovol hotend likely doesn't have the same problem that the Prusa does

Does your printer have a Prusa Mk3 type hotend? Because I found ...

2025-05-16T19:27:07Z

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Does your printer have a Prusa Mk3 type hotend? Because I found one brand of filament that under-extruded and jammed with it. It was some kind of self-annealing PLA (not cheap, formerly sold by filaments.ca) and they gave me a refund without question with a quiet "You've got a Prusa, haven't you?" comment

I think this is the most earnestly Canadian thing ever. asset: ...

2025-05-14T19:53:22Z

I think this is the most earnestly Canadian thing ever.

asset: https://canadabuys.canada.ca/sites/default/files/2021-06/beaver4_1.svg

found on: https://canadabuys.canada.ca/en/tender-opportunities/contract-history/w0113-11a018/001/bor-000