The closest thing IRL to Sensible_chuckle.jpg

Reticulating splines...

Anyone have any recommendations for a relatively decent but cheap Pentium or MMX era laptop which doesn't suffer from crumbly plastics, good build quality, physical serial port and good MSDOS compatibility? I need one for radio programming and my Libretto has Crumbly ABS Disease. #retrocomputing […]

I'm going to have dinner then I'm going to dig the 486 out and play with Transputers

"My CPU is a T800 Transputer, a parallel processing computer." #retrocomputing #transputer

I hope one day someone 3D models a recreation of the #toshiba #libretto 110CT case plastics that I can get 3D printed. They just...crumble. :( #retrocomputing

The sheer scale of it shows that these people know they can get away with anything. The Environment Agency has been reduced to a chihuahua, sent out to do battle with rottweilers. It can yap, but can't land a bite. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The catastrophic illegal waste dumping in Oxfordshire (see next post) is a direct result of the deregulation-by-stealth I wrote about in 2021, when my dead goldfish became a registered waste disposer. I warned it would let the mafia in. And here we are.🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bought a power supply in ebay. It blew up on first use, tripped the electric and blew the plug fuse. So that'll be a dead short to earth or neutral. Seller offered a replacement - "Oh no stock. How about an 80% refund" me: No, it's dead. Full refund. seller: "80% is best I do or boss beat me" […]

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Hobby drama is at its best when you aren't involved, can avoid being dragged in, and can limit your involvement to mopping the floor once everyone's finished killing each other.

If coyotes are ANSI Trashdogs, then foxes must be British Standard Trashdogs.

"Enshittification" is going to be the word of the year, isn't it?

I can see why Tormek include a pack of sticking plasters with their machines.

Imagine naming your cats after ARPANET nodes.

You know it's a good talk when you get to bust out Steamed Hams

me: "I can't believe people are still learning about the Streisand Effect in this day and age." bf: "I'll be having that" me: "What, the Streisand effect?"

"You aren't going to hurt me are you?" "Only slightly"

Here's a comparison photo for scale with a Microcassette, Pocket Rocker cartridge, and Bandai micro cartridge.

Following on from @avavsystems post about Pocket Rockers, here's some more about them. They were advertised with the tagline ‘Tiny Tapes, Tiny Players’ and came in a range of colourful designs. They were a fashion item as much as a music system (the tapes […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

Found myself reading an article on how to read CMOS silicon logic. "Who wrote this?" I asked. Ah, it's by @azonenberg . Small world this is.

Some people just want to see the world burn 🔥 #rust #golang #eMacs #vim #python

Boeing is paying Charm Industrial to remove 100000 tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere, which is a time machine that takes us back by 1 minute and 15 seconds. 🥲 https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/14/boeing-has-a-carbon-emissions-problem-startup-charm-industrial-is-cleaning-up/

No reply from station 254. #ifyouknowyouknow

*Televisions and phones are for poor people.

Well, I just spunked £300 on a T800 Transputer TRAM board and a pair of T425 chips so I guess that's something. Still less than the £500 the CSA kit went for. All this to get the SJ Research Nexus firmware building? What am I doing with my life.

number of IPv6 bugs found: +1 its fucking 2025 https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/157881

The scary pat of #icre is when photos like this start to make sense.

stolen from the Deutsche Bahn

Who'd have thought firing 40 people for trying to form a union might impact delivery deadlines. I feel bad for the dev staff having to deal with what's allegedly happening, but hope the management get the book thrown at 'em. https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/nov/06/gta-6-release-delayed

Which pad is which? #BSBACM edition. First we trace out the power pads... There are 52 bond pads and 48 pins, so 4 of those pads need to double up...

I really need to get around to porting my Pi Camera driver to the latest version of pyuscope - and reducing the image size by about half in X and Y. Frankly there's no way a microscope can produce enough optical resolution to satisfy a 12-megapixel sensor.

Points available for anyone who can tell me what this chip is. #icre #nakeddiefriday

Been staring at #transputer datasheets some more. Seems like the Scott connectors Inmos specified for the Transputer TRAM boards are very much no longer available -- but Harwin do the H3192-05 which looks like a very close match. Except it'll need a plastic shroud to set the correct height. Hmm […]

The last thing I expected when looking up a piece of chip art[1] at lunchtime was to find that it's Fat Freddy's Cat, from the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. I guess the Inmos engineers needed a break after finishing the chip layout. 1 […] [Original post on digipres.club]

If you're the person who spunked £500 down and properly outbid me on the CSI / CSA Transputer Education Kit on Ebay UK a few weeks ago, I have just one question... ... can I please have a copy of the software disks, and some photos of the ISA card? If you can't do mastodon, my email address is […]

Many, many years ago I had a Trust "Video Movie Editor" ISA card. It promised video editing with a 486 and I had a Pentium-100... I remember it being a dog to configure, only worked on Win3.1, and could do full-res 25fps 576p PAL with MJPEG compression. A little part of me wanted to pick one up […]

How I spent my lunch break: no electroboom, only Chef Excellence. And a lot of blunt knives suddenly becoming "great, now I need another knife block" sharp.

reminder that if you want an alternative to GitHub Pages, https://grebedoc.dev might be it

OH: "Sorry we broke the Internet, it will happen again" #denog17

Repeat after me, fediverse is not a marketing venue for "influencers".

Not my fault Firefox can't handle 35 open windows and 2033 tabs.

Here's what Tiggi.es Web UI looks like after a bunch of CSS work! Waiting on another commission to replace my profile pic with some woofs, tigs, yerfs, etc. with an orange highlight.

git pride flag, oder so

out of context group chat

Foxes can scream because they paid extra for the built-in fox-modem option. Wolves don't appreciate it because they can't decode it.

current status: fixing bad logrotate decisions by moving to systemd-journald

they let it drive a tram!

OH: "It's not rocket surgery"