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Trying this BlueSky thing. Made an account during beta, wasn't for me... trying it again now :) Computing student in Edinburgh, Scotland (immigrant) There's always time for boba. Lactose intolerant

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Oh yeah, there's a new Filipino shop in Haymarket. To my knowledge it's the first and only one. Before you had to go all the way to Glasgow.

#Edinburgh

17.08.2025 10:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Katie Mack: honestly climate change scares the hack out of me and it makes me so sad to see what we’re losing because of it

Gary P Jackson: maybe you should learn some actual SCIENCE the , and stop listening to the global warming SCAM

Katie Mack: I dunno man, I already went and got a PhD in astrophysics. Seems like more than that would be overkill at this point.

Katie Mack: honestly climate change scares the hack out of me and it makes me so sad to see what we’re losing because of it Gary P Jackson: maybe you should learn some actual SCIENCE the , and stop listening to the global warming SCAM Katie Mack: I dunno man, I already went and got a PhD in astrophysics. Seems like more than that would be overkill at this point.

Happy Anniversary to my favourite Twitter interaction

16.08.2025 07:46 πŸ‘ 3144 πŸ” 519 πŸ’¬ 56 πŸ“Œ 14

After a SNES Mouse the next logic step would be... a USB Mouse on #GameBoy.

Modified the Inside Gadgets USB keyboard adapter firmware to work with a mouse.
shop.insidegadgets.com/product/game...

Open source #GBDK example:
github.com/bbbbbr/gameb...

15.08.2025 05:02 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

*reads about what's going on bluesky*

Well, this was a great time to come back....

16.08.2025 17:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What clients for #Bluesky do people use on #Android?

16.08.2025 17:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Well, guess who is back after taking some time off

16.08.2025 17:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
photo of the Rockwell AIM-65 with the case removed, showing the keyboard, 20 column 16 segmented LED display, thermal printer, and the logic board underneath.

photo of the Rockwell AIM-65 with the case removed, showing the keyboard, 20 column 16 segmented LED display, thermal printer, and the logic board underneath.

screw terminal block on the left side of the KIM-1, to the left of the thermal printer

screw terminal block on the left side of the KIM-1, to the left of the thermal printer

photo of the AIM-65 without the plastic case: uses these screw terminal block power

22.02.2025 23:29 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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my favorite computer i got at VCF SoCal: Rockwell AIM-65 from 1978, from original owner! it cost $200 total and she gave me 6502 programming books, cassette tape, the original documentation, and cassette drives.

only thing i need to fix are the keyboard switches, a middle column isn’t working.

22.02.2025 23:23 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Fun fact! Motorola is called that because they made car radios.

The Victor company produced the wildly popular Victrola line of phonographs, which later began to incorporate radio receivers as well. The "-ola" suffix was so synonymous with audio that radios for cars became "motorolas"

22.02.2025 18:17 πŸ‘ 110 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 1
Tennis was originally played underwater.

Tennis was originally played underwater.

Sounds hard.

22.02.2025 21:59 πŸ‘ 133 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 4
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119-year-old bottle found behind crown above theatre stage A theatre-lover was

Incredible discovery at Edinburgh’s King’s Theatre!

A 119-year-old message in a bottle was found behind an ornate crown decoration, listing the builders from 1906.

Check out the full article for more details! #Edinburgh

tinyurl.com/3vp3a52a

22.02.2025 11:08 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - buckket/twtxt: Decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers. Decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers. - buckket/twtxt

I was browsing some #IndieWeb sites the other day and found this little thing:

"Decentralised, minimalist microblogging"

Haven't tried it yet (I'm not sure if people even still use it), but it looks interesting. It's using plaintext files, which it scrapes for new posts.

github.com/buckket/twtxt

22.02.2025 22:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

When you start feeling comfortable, DNS issues happen.

22.02.2025 22:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A tiny handwritten sign at the Tesla dealership as a big crowd protests Musk reads β€œWe hate him too” yup πŸ‘

A tiny handwritten sign at the Tesla dealership as a big crowd protests Musk reads β€œWe hate him too” yup πŸ‘

Big crowd at the SF Tesla dealership protesting our unelected overlord. A tiny sign hangs from an upstairs window

17.02.2025 20:31 πŸ‘ 17998 πŸ” 3967 πŸ’¬ 205 πŸ“Œ 308

It was so nice to see snow in #Edinburgh today. Shame it melted the moment it hit the ground, though.

17.02.2025 20:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I haven't played baduk in a while. I think I'm ready to play again after taking some break.

17.02.2025 20:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have to download my e-books from #Amazon soon to back them up. Fortunately I haven't connected my ancient #Kindle to the Internet in ages, so I shouldn't have to worry about any "lock-outs", but I still need to download the books from the website before this option disappears.

17.02.2025 20:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So I gave up on my Tor relay. He had trouble working, even though the ports were opened. Last time it stopped working for no reason I said I would stop hosting it if there was some random issue again. This is it.

31.01.2025 21:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We can trade in Pokemon TCG Pocket now! The token thing is annoying, but expected. Don't forget to update your app.

#PokemonTCGPocket

29.01.2025 16:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I really like my current laptop battery. It's amazing how long it lasts while my laptop is asleep. (Context: my old battery lasted about 30 minutes.)

29.01.2025 16:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Star Trek The Original Series scene. We're in an earth looking 1950s office setting and see Kirk looking totally unbothered, sitting in his captains uniform. Standing over him are two police types with guns on their hips and official jackets and fancy police hats standing around him as if he's being detained and interrogated.
Picture 1: "Is that a uniform of some kind?"
Picture 2: Kirk holds hands up, looks down at himself,  caption reads, "This little thing?"
Picture 3: Kirk looks up at officer fella with a cheeky smile, caption reads, "Just something I slipped on."

Star Trek The Original Series scene. We're in an earth looking 1950s office setting and see Kirk looking totally unbothered, sitting in his captains uniform. Standing over him are two police types with guns on their hips and official jackets and fancy police hats standing around him as if he's being detained and interrogated. Picture 1: "Is that a uniform of some kind?" Picture 2: Kirk holds hands up, looks down at himself, caption reads, "This little thing?" Picture 3: Kirk looks up at officer fella with a cheeky smile, caption reads, "Just something I slipped on."

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29.01.2025 16:09 πŸ‘ 642 πŸ” 113 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 13

It's just strange he couldn't register on DGS. The server still functions, I am in middle of 3 games there myself.

28.01.2025 14:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It seems like DGS doesn't let people register anymore? My brother was trying to make an account there so we could play correspondence games and it would not let him register for whatever reason.

He made an account on OGS in the end, so that's sorted.

#baduk

28.01.2025 14:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Why did my computer just shut off????

I look down

My cat looks up at me

With his paw firmly on the power button

"You're done"

28.01.2025 13:11 πŸ‘ 159 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 2
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Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' β€” posts and users being blocked DistroWatch is one of the largest affected organizations.

This is obviously not the worst thing happening (by far) on Facebook, but it's strange.
www.tomshardware.com/software/lin...

28.01.2025 13:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Newspaper headline reads β€œChina may be using sea to hide its submarines.”

Newspaper headline reads β€œChina may be using sea to hide its submarines.”

i smell a pulitzer

27.01.2025 17:04 πŸ‘ 23188 πŸ” 2424 πŸ’¬ 1058 πŸ“Œ 357

I've created a calculator that gives you the right answer 80% of the time and I believe it will change the world

27.01.2025 03:40 πŸ‘ 14266 πŸ” 1488 πŸ’¬ 280 πŸ“Œ 79
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Block AI scrapers with Anubis I got tired with all the AI scrapers that were bullying my git server, so I made a tool to stop them for good.

It's ridiculous people have to do things like this to protect themselves from AI scrapers. It's also unfortunate (as mentioned in the article) that this cuts off some legitimate users.

xeiaso.net/blog/2025/an...

27.01.2025 22:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0