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@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
2026-11-02 17:57:05

Woohoo! Life out of one of my Sun3/60's!
You could say my transistor tester fixed it - I took the 3 through-hole transistors off the small daughter card, tested them, and soldered them back - and it's alive!
And it's repeatedly arrive, even the next day.
My reading of the service manual is that flashing LED means it's trying to boot; so time for a serial lead!
#retrocomputing

The diag LEDs on the back of a Sun3 workstation; they start running through a pattern and then sit there blinking one. They're a row of 8 small red LEDs.
@padraig@mastodon.ie
2026-11-02 20:11:10

You can't have my RAM Sam, I need it.
And also, it's soldered... so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-10-31 16:36:04

Amy Chozick, who wrote a profile of Elizabeth Holmes, talks about ghosting Nathan Fielder after tentatively agreeing to be filmed for You Can See Everything (Amy Chozick/New York Times)

Opinion | I’m in ‘You Can See Everything.’ Here’s My Side of the Story.
I’m in ‘You Can See Everything.’ Here’s my side of the story.

@georgiamuseum@glammr.us
2026-10-30 13:25:16

Still need a #HalloweenCostume? We pulled four ideas from our collection, including one for people who’d rather spend the night on the couch.

The text: Philip Evergood, “My Forebears Were Pioneers” You will need: Long black dress Red book Rocking chair Optional: dog Plus images of all those things, including the painting, which shows an old woman in a long black dress, sitting in a rocking chair and holding a red book. To her right is a skinny yellow dog with floppy ears, holding one paw over its muzzle. Behind are large toppled trees, including one that rests atop a brownish yellow Victorian-style house.
The text: Lamar Dodd, “Self Portrait” You will need: Collared white shirt and dark slacks Pipe Palette Pitcher full of paintbrushes Plus images of all those things, including the painting, which shows the painter in action, at work on this portrait. He wears a white dress shirt rolled up above the elbow and uses his left hand to hold a paintbrush against the canvas. We can't see what's on it, only him. He holds a pipe in his mouth. A palette lies on the table in front of him, and there is a pit…
The text: Elihu Vedder, “The Poet Bears the Sorrows of the World” You will need: Cane or big stick Round tree ornament Crown of vines Dark bedsheet Plus images of all those things, including the painting, which shows a mournful figure in long brown robes. He wears a laurel wreath on his head and holds a reflective globe in his right hand, which he partially gazes at. His left hand holds a tall rustic staff. His feet are bare and he wanders in a desolate landscape.
The text: Frederick Carl Frieseke, “Girl Sewing” (“The Chinese Robe”) You will need: Comfortable robe Craft project Couch with throw pillows House plants Plus images of all those those things, including the painting, which shows a young woman reclining propped up on a flowered sofa. She wears a pale green robe covered with a floral pattern and holds a piece of embroidery, which she works on. Her hair is dark and pulled back. Behind the sofa, potted plants sit in a row on a windowsill.
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2026-11-01 04:25:05

It's been a while since I've posted a #osint #geolocation challenge.
This one is a bit different, it's not my photo and I do not have the correct answer off the top of my head.
This is one of the home page "hey we're a cool bank let us help you travel places" clipar…

@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
2026-11-01 09:40:25

What you're paying for when you buy a Tesla.
theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int

The staggering $446m Elon Musk has spent on the US midterms – visualized
The tech mogul’s midterm donations backing Republicans have made him the largest single-cycle political donor in modern US history

@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de
2026-10-30 22:33:24

the time says it all, lower caps on top: it's application time. i'm tired. why do new application portals have to be so fiddly and ask (again) for every kind of detail via scroll-down menu? and then, sure, random failures, because impossible-to-have metadata is missing. that's digital waste. dear d. graeber, you are missed.
#academicchatter

@anildash@me.dm
2026-09-30 04:13:42

For future reference: a simple documentation of the pattern that Meta follows wherein the company breaks the law it violates people’s privacy, gets caught, waits a while until the storm blows over or people get distracted, and then does it again until people stop fighting. I write it down so you can share it with media or policy makers when they get fooled by this stupid truck over and over.

The Facebook Fake-out
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
2026-11-01 13:30:10

OK, so you all recommended expensive Peak testers and I cheaped out and bought a FNIRSI T4 for under £10. Seems to work, it came with precisely no instructions, and it took me a little of searching to find some to explain the top button really is 'Off' not on/off; so you just press 'test' to get going.
(Oddly I ordered this via B&Q's website where there marketplace has Ampanova stuff - albeit with the odd predicted postal dates)

A transistor tester with a small victim in it's ZIF socket and a small colour display showing the pinout of the transistor, and type (PNP) and various parameters.
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2026-11-01 04:48:55

TIL you can get oscilloscope probes for multimeters fluke.com/en-us/product/access

Fluke 85RF High Frequency Probe
The 85RF High Frequency Probe is designed to convert a DC voltmeter with a input impedance of 10M ohms into a high frequency (100 kHz to 500 Mhz) RF voltmeter.