24h awake. This has not been a good day.

It turns out that not using a crap Ethernet cable for the last 2 meters is the difference between ~80 Mbps at the desktop and 1 Gbps at the desktop.

Restoring from backups really reminds you how slow spinning rust really is. Ok, it's vastly faster than any storage I grew up with, but as soon as you compare to solid-state drives on anything USB3 and above, it's just blown away.

I seem to have converted @AmazingMeagen to the Mint side. #linux

thing I wish existed for board reverse engineering: taking a video of a densely populated through hole board and having a software automatically align all the frames and do some kind of focus stacking to basically average out all the components and leave you with just a very shallow depth of […]

Loctite 999 is an advanced multi part adhesive suitable for bicycle headset alignment, hyperdrive injector port retention, and workplace pranks. Part A consists of 92% degenerate strange quark matter in a preservative of antigluon superfluid. Part B (activator) is a proprietary blend of tau […]

Fucking printers. I sent an exam job to our printer. PDF. Two sided. Three pages total. Thirty copies. What I expected (1+2) 3, (1+2) 3, ... Thirty times. What the printer produced. (1+2) Thirty times 3 Thirty times. In what world is that a useful thing to do automatically and with no […]

FFS! https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/115498375829419093

Hmm, I can't change playback speed on y'tube videos now. Anyone else aggressively blocking ads seeing this? I can't watch video at 1x, 1.75x is where it's at.

Enthusiasts have successfully recreated the MingKwai Chinese typewriter, a 1940s design which uses a keyboard to navigate a selection of characters from a large drum, from patent drawings. As a bonus, someone found a prototype of a real MingKwai, hitherto feared lost, before they finished […]

Hello! Do you have access to an x-ray system, CT, Radiography, or a few seconds on the LHC main beam with a homebrew pixel detector? Do you want to take part in #xraymyadvent this year? You know you do.

Today I have what could be a difficult meeting, immediately followed by examing a PhD student with the person I have the possibly difficulty meeting with. I'm not looking forward to today. Or the rest of the week really.

I can't start this repair for a few days, but this will be the next radio on the bench. It was made in the USSR and I know very little else about it. It rattles. #radiorepair

Resurrected. https://8bitorbust.info/@dtl/115440947110052821 https://8bitorbust.info/@dtl/115481699589591298

Resurrected. https://8bitorbust.info/@dtl/115440947110052821 https://8bitorbust.info/@dtl/115481699589591298

I’ve said it before, this Dutch woman is amazing. She has ridden all over the world (over 200,000 Km), documenting her travels to some of the most remote places in over 700 YouTube episodes. Along the way she has amassed three million followers and she popped back to the Netherlands this week to […]

If you’re a user of Libby (the library app), consider before following their suggestion to type #inspireme into the search bar. It seems harmless, but it turns on an unrequested AI feature, & there is no way to reverse that. This comes courtesy of ProfHeyRochelle, who is now reasonably pissed […]

@dtl could turn it into something like this! https://www.matteason.co.uk/scotbeats/?yturl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D2UIMhb8aYIw&vol=1.21&frequency=16500&delay=0.579 @MattEason

I've been recording Radio 4 on longwave for a while now, just a small bandwidth around the carrier to catch the switch off of the radio teleswitch signal. I plugged a 1Tb drive into the recorder and set it going. I must have messed up the bandwidth calculation, as each hour is 165 MB, and I've […]

Söndag!

Toes should be user-replaceable items. Bayonet fitting or something. They get too messed up; you twist it off and fit a new one.

Boop the snoot? #dailyteddy

"Here's an answer to that question you've had your entire life:" *YouTube video link* Well then. I guess we'll never know!

Listening to some classic 90s music and reminded of the only #gentoo linux package I created. emerge YourSoulInLove Would print out the lyrics to Radiohead's Street Spirit.

Just bodged together a chimney brush from a toilet brush, a weight and some rope. Lots of spiders were evicted from my shed chimney, but not too much soot to deal with, luckily.

Irrational numbers are such a delight when you stumble across one by accident…

I propose a new type of spacecraft drive. It's powered by tiny screws and their ability to ping off into hyperspace. Unfortunately, you won't know where you're going until you get there, but you'll get there very quickly indeed.

I propose a new type of spacecraft drive. It's powered by tiny screws and their ability to ping off into hyperspace. Unfortunately, you won't know where you're going until you get there, but you'll get there very quickly indeed.

Three @theguardian.com books cartoons from previous halloweens: 1. Haunted Bookshop

Why the heck is there a call to bash and install dependencies / npm install embedded in the FAA's TFR pages? view-source:https://tfr.faa.gov/tfr3/?page=detail_5_9106 #cybersecurity

Hahaha which one of you submitted this one Like it made me laugh with its wide-eyed eager absurdity but also this is genuinely a textbook example of a Great Ad If you click on this ad then it goes to a small Neocities webpage at […] [Original post on retro.social]

Omg procrastination has paid off *again*: A presentation I haven't prepared for a workshop today was first significantly shortened (notification: yesterday), and this morning, the whole event has been canceled. I'll never change with this kind of positive reinforcement 😅 #academicchatter

It's dark and damp and horrible outside and I'm stuck inside writing exam questions. This call for #cake !

Today is 2069th of March 2020.

My book 'How To Say No Emphatically In German' now available - only £9.99!

Back in my favourite chemistry lab, doing some basic experiments (acid based titration, and Hess's Law). Why is it my favourite? It has this bad joke on the door.

This morning I listened to the The #LouisTheroux Podcast: S6 EP3: #BobVylan on his "controversial" #Glastonbury performance. totally recommend all of you to do the same. Media file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/GLT9724339614.mp3?updated=1761440576 Just now […] [Original post on social.edu.nl]

Not what I should be doing right now, but about all I have the 'go' for. Let's fix a #radio. Capri 7 transistor AM pocket radio, made in Hong Kong. It doesn't power on, and taking the back off it is missing the screws holding down the PCB.

I've just installed Mint (Linux) on an underpowered laptop - celeron with 4gig ram. I'm impressed. It works. It's definitely usable. This machine came with windows 11 and took ages to boot. It has been a while since I last played with Linux on the desktop. Aside from the odd Pi accessed over VNC.

I hadn't been to feed the local #crows for a couple of weeks. I wondered if they would remember me. I barely got to the park before I was swarmed. They remember and they ate nuts and worms like they hadn't eaten since I was last there.

An hour or so on the region around the star Sadr (Gamma Cygni). #astrophotography It just looked like it might be interesting when I browsed around in Stelarium

The movement of the #comet across the sky is visible in this image. The stars are fixed, and the comet is becoming a line, as it drifts through the stacked images. I'll do a re-stack centred on the comet, that will show more detail in the tail, but make the stars trail instead. #astrophotography

Do Italians replace the thermal pasta in their computers?

I can see the #comet

Well, this has turned out to be a much later night than I planned.

Perfectly cromulent. Opening a wine bottle with a coach bolt held in an engineering vice.

This job advert is absolutely mindbogglingly batshit crazy from the first line all the way down to the salary. https://jobs.tutors.international/advert/612