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Trammell Hudson

Happy 37th anniversary of the Max Headroom Incident, to those who celebrate.

Low quality video screenshot of a person in a rubber mask and sunglasses in front of a diagonal pattern.
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Asbestos

@th
I had a Max Headroom watch I ordered off a thing of Coke or Pepsi

in ♥️ with PDA

@th Just a great series. As a kid I really believed that he was CGI

Trammell Hudson

Found a #cursed Lightning to "wired" headphone jack adapter that requires Bluetooth (to avoid paying Apple's MFI tax)

small Lightning to headphone adapter package with a sticker that says "Must connect with Bluetooth"
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Andrew

@th I’m surprised this is cheaper than cloning the actual data hookup. All the lightning MFi stuff got cracked ages ago

Andrew Snare

@th Do you happen to recall their price?

Trammell Hudson

We’ve put the Golden Gate Bridge behind our rudder and will be off line for the next month as we cross the Pacific.

Square rigged tall ship with the red bridge in the background
Trammell Hudson

Internet comes in via geosynchronous satellite that is directly ahead and can’t pass through the three masts, so we’ve altered course slightly to check email for the first time in a few days.

Mizzen mast with a satellite dome behind it.
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Taya Nielsen

@th 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Bram Diederik

@th i wonder how many just look at the post and subscribe with out any notice for more content?

Trammell Hudson

"Are you a friend of Glenda?" is the covert way to ask if someone is into alternative operating systems.

book copy of "#plan9: The Manuals (volume one)". The AT&T death star logo is on the spine.
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i'm a SELECT * (not a black star)
@th i am an enemy of glenda and a friend to object-capabilities (i don't like how plan 9 sucks the oxygen out of the air for alternative OSes)
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

@th well, I guess it *was* a covert way to ask if someone is into alternative operating systems, untill *someone* blabbed about it in public. 👀

:blobcatpeek:

Trammell Hudson

Those look more like straight lines

Map of Béziers but it is low res so all the streets are linear rather than curved
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nicolas ⁂

@th Hahaha! This is just next to my hometown and I have been a graphic designer for a while and somehow I had never made the connection!! Thanks!

Ölbaum

@th Hehe. I drove through it this fall and I got annoyed the GPS didn’t make me take the curve to go around it.

Trammell Hudson

I hope that young man found some good hardware programming reference books. shiftleft.com/mirrors/utzoo-us

screenshot of usenet post:

Well today I was browsing (sp?) through the books available at the local book-store (which has a relatively good selection on computer-related books), and noticed a definite lack in hardware-ralated PC-books. I'm new to the PC (having programmed 68k before), and have little or no idea how the actual hardware is programmed. I need help!!

(S)VGA cards and the processor are easy to find books for (Ferraro's: Programming EGA and VGA cards and various 386-books), but somehow it seems there is a vacuum concerning PC/AT-related hardware (ie 8529 (?) interrupt controller, clock chip programming, disk I/O etc). Can anybody fill me in on what books are needed/useful (I'm a hardware programmer - BIOS and DOS calls aren't interesting, I need real bit by bit information).

I found a couple of books that mentioned IO-ports and hardware interrupts, but none that really told you how to reprogram the 8529 (is it even possible?) or what the a20-confusion is all about. Is there some book out there that allows you to use all the features of an AT386 without using BIOS for ANYTHING? The bios is clearly braindamaged, and cannot be used outside dos (especially in protected mode) for any real work. Is there some way to move int8 etc to another interrupt by reprogramming the interrupt chips? etc. 

		Any help appreciated, Linus Torvalds
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RealGene ☣️

@th
I had Rector & Alexys' The 8086 Book (1980), Peter Norton's Inside the IBM PC (1986), and an Intel databook that was as thick as a phone book and printed on what appeared to be thin newsprint and had every 808x peripheral chip they made (8254 timer, 8259 PIC, etc.).

The manual that came with my dads' IBM-PC had the BIOS listing printed in the back.

Did this Linus character live in a cave?

Magnus Ahltorp

@th The way I solved it was by requesting the 8529 data sheet from my local electronics dealer. They sent it to me in the mail, free of charge.

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ɥʇ0ɹıı!q

@th give thanks that the allies had a different opinion when they fighting the germans, btw.

Frost「:therian:|霜の狼|人面獣心」

@th why diss on electric bikes though? they're more practical than regular ones for getting around!

(we only have a regular one but we're disabled and life would be SO MUCH EASIER if it were electric.)

Bl4ckst4r

@th just learned that on a bike one does only need a quarter of the energy and being at the same time 4 times as fast compared to walking, soo bike should be at the first place (:

Trammell Hudson

The reason for the NS train outage: /var ran out of disk space

Train display in Leiden central with a pop-up about low disk space.
elle mundy

@th somebody forgot to install logrotate 🤦🏻‍♀️

DELETED

@th Looks like there's as buffer overflow too, it's intruding into the screen memory!

Trammell Hudson

Checkout those realistic reflections and specular highlights!

White Utah teapot on a reflective surface
Trammell Hudson

while vacuuming the stairs I encountered a square dust mote.

small black square on a staircase
closeup revealing it to be a tiny MFN FPGA chip
Neil

@th Interesting, can't say I've had a loose FPGA show up out of nowhere before

Fritz Adalis

@th
Do you live on a boat? You don't see much residential welded steel in the US.

Andrew

@th that's a pretty expensive dust mote

urig✔️

@th Alternative caption: when you lose the instruction manual for the old Lego you've kept in Mom's attic all those years.

Trammell Hudson

Tufte would approve of these compact illustrations of Saturn's moons.

open book with small symbols for saturn and asterixes for the moons illustrating the orbits seen
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