Tootfinder

If it’s not already clear, I’m #ActuallyAutistic and proudly trans, who uses they/them pronouns and identifies as Non-Binary/Gender-Fluid, and bisexual.
I get really scared around other trans people because I worry I might accidentally say something transphobic or homophobic, and I deeply believe, with all my heart, that trans people deserve to live.
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Hrmm, I'm having an urge to rewrite the Extron VTG-200 software and make it a bit more recent. The RS232 controls seem to be well documented...
#extron #electronics #programming

View from the top of the hill at the Summerland Farm Preserve in Caroline near peak of fall color
#photo #photography #caroline

Smart fridge, smart stove, smart dishwasher, smart washer/dryer or other household appliances... HELL NO! I don't want or need internet connected appliances. If those servers goes offline, if an 'upgrade' glitches or I say no to an update what happens to the basic functionality? What data are they capturing and selling?
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Added a zoom level to the Category page on the Exocortex-Log app. Can make the graphs look a lot cleaner now.
Looking back over the last 100 months here, we can see in general my social life is quite seasonal -- Festivals are a lot of social all weekend long and a couple of them in a month really bumps up the hours from my usual habit of sitting alone in a dark room pressing buttons.
The peak in 2019 is a summer filled with Glasto and Noisily and another festival or camping trip I don’t seem to have recorded the name of.
Then clearly visible is the drop-off in social activity as the COVID pandemic hit. Virtual-Social (IE zoom meetings and the like) picked up quite a bit around there but had died back to almost nothing way before the hours spent with actual people started to tick up.
Annoyingly, I have my biggest gap in data right on top of the pandemic there, where I failed to back up for months and then data became corrupted.
When the data-hole is over we see social life still not really returning until the middle of 2021 and not really getting back into stride until summer 2022.
It remains much lower now on average with lower peaks than before the pandemic too. Multiple reasons.
Work is pretty constant all the way though other than the data-hole. Dipping when I take time off for social mostly.
That data-hole is annoying. Back up your data kids.
#lifeLog #app #exocortexLog

Voy a adoptar yo también esto. Se acabó hablar de "la nube" en abstracto. "Los servicios bancarios estšn alojados en un cobertizo en Virginia" es mucho mšs realista y le priva del aura mšgica que tiene "la nube" https://mastodon.social/@kjhealy/115407725852594322

hello friend would you care for my crystal

Evidence for a brief appearance of gamma-ray periodicity after a compact star merger
Run-Chao Chen, Bin-Bin Zhang, Chen-Wei Wang, Wen-Jun Tan, Shao-Lin Xiong, Jun Yang, Yi-Han Iris Yin, Shuang-Nan Zhang, Bing Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15824

Evidence for a brief appearance of gamma-ray periodicity after a compact star merger
The product of a compact star merger is usually hypothesized to be a hyperaccreting black hole, typically resulting in a gamma-ray burst (GRB) with a duration shorter than 2~s. However, recent observations of GRB~211211A and GRB~230307A, both arising from compact star mergers, challenge this model due to their minute-long durations. The data from both events are consistent with having a nascent, rapidly spinning highly magnetized neutron star (a millisecond magnetar) as the merger product and G…

Sometimes hacking a computer means a whole different thing...
In this use, I'm actually hacking (with a hacksaw) the case apart to add an I/O shield (custom made) so I can fit an older motherboard that was not designed for this case.
And thank you to Gateway for making me do this by not using a removable shield and instead stamping every hole they needed and covering them with a sticker if they weren't on this model. 🤦‍♂️

Today I learned about the true power of macros...and holy crap, they are awesome. Started back on the Z80 emulator and wondered if there was a way to reference procs in Nim using strings. Did some searching and came across someone who did something very similar and it never crossed my mind to even try this.
#nim