Geert Uytterhoeven @geert@society.oftrolls.com
Technologist with a Passion for Linux
Joined Mar 2019
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Optimist: The glass is ½ full.
Pessimist: The glass is ½ empty.
Excel: The glass is January 2nd.
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Autofocus glasses!
What with the inexorable march of time etc, I find it harder to change focus from near to far.
These glasses have refocusable lenses (from some horrible cheap dial-eye specs), a couple of little linear servos to drive them, and a couple of endoscope camera modules to track my eyes.
The focus is adjusted based on where my eyes are converging.
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@ejk I already heard the first one twice
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RT @VirtualColossus@twitter.com
Want to program & run a 1960s 2nd generation computer, but don't have room at home? Now you can, with Virtual Flossie! A fully working simulation of the ICT 1301. Use the console dials & switches just like the real thing! https://www.tnmoc.org/virtual-flossie @tnmoc@twitter.com @kenshirriff@twitter.com @Grady_Booch@twitter.com
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/VirtualColossus/status/1519785177655951362
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Remember that it's forbidden to use imperial units on the fediverse
#feditips
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Words cannot describe this.
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RT @attn@twitter.com
.@Schwarzenegger@twitter.com has a message for the Russian people. https://twitter.com/attn/status/1504423551717163008/video/1
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RT @Manawyrm@twitter.com
Playing/streaming DOOM over an ISDN video telephone (128kbit/s, H.320 protocol)
More info on the telephone:
https://osmocom.org/projects/retronetworking/wiki/T-View_100
We're currently resurrecting ISDN (and restoring a lot of nice old devices): https://osmocom.org/projects/octoi/wiki/Community_TDMSS7_Network
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Note how they foresaw cloud computing by putting their diagrams in the cloud!
The picture has been replaced by a picture of a shelf in a store, showing lots of bottles (mostly non-wodka) of various brands. If you look very hard, you can find at least some Russian bottles...
Title: "Boycot Russian wodka".
Picture: Swedish wodka.
Economic collateral damage?
https://www.hln.be/buitenland/wodka-wordt-almaar-meer-geboycot~a04d975c/
Sigh, 572997 s = 159 hours.
I'm afraid the predictions by @monsieuricon about the death of email are becoming real rather sooner than later.
Records are meant to be improved: "Delivered after 465865 seconds", i.e. 129 hours
The new record is "Delivered after 227211 seconds". Yep, 63 hours.
The vger->gmail delays are becoming unbearable: 45 hours to receive Linus' v5.17-rc2 announce email.
Why do UPS delivery persons only accept cash payments?!?
It's been two years ago I withdrew cash from an ATM. A single coin of 0.10€ is all that's left.
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@trini Yes, that would help. Please also provide a recent code sample, so I can verify it against stored code.
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If you grind a Santa into a fine powder, pack it into a mould, and heat it, you get a Sinterklaas.
Recently I've been doing thought experiments with my daughter, to put the terms from her chemistry class into perspective. Can you eat one mole of M&Ms?
Just got my covid booster. Let's see how the new Spikevax and the old Janssen fight over the right to safeguard my body.
Technologist with a Passion for Linux
Joined Mar 2019
