Notices by r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖 (cypnk@mastodon.social)

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Have you tried, you know, magic?

This is an animated archive of gears, cams, pneumatics, power systems and other mechanisms

https://www.mekanizmalar.com

There are also sections on electronics

With the exception of 2-3 critical sites, I’ve closed every single tab when presented with a subscribe, sign in, register, or “download our app” message. I’ve discovered that, without exception, all of these places are aggregators/processors of actual useful information freely available elsewhere

Information silos are essential to the consumerist, attention parasitism fueling the modern web economy and there’s no reason to enable it

Inventor of "useless machines", Marina Fujiwara:
クリスマス、ほんとうに嫌ですね
(I really hate Christmas)

So she invented a device that whenever someone Tweets 別れました ("parting" or "breakup") it lights up a lamp

She literally invented a breakup notification machine😅

The article is Japanese
https://ch.togetter.com/2019/12/16/76796

#HardwareHacking

There has been a lot written about it over the years, but the one thing I keep wondering about the Kowloon Walled City is what happened to all the kids

http://www.mascontext.com/issues/19-trace-fall-13/kowloon-walled-city-heterotopia-in-a-space-of-disappearance/

Probably because a lot of them were about my age or only slightly older in all these photos

When I finished college, it was nearly impossible to get papers in the fields that interest me without spending a small fortune in fees

Sci-hub is probably saving independent research around the world

There’s a durability to older technology, aside from that capacitor debacle from the 90s. I wonder if older tech in some form will be one of few functioning remnants decades or a century from now

There’s a project called Collapse OS to “Bootstrap post-collapse technology” https://collapseos.org

Basically tools and programs for the Z80, a proven workhorse for decades available as scavenged parts by the millions

Very #Cyberpunk

BTW this is a paraphrase of a quote by Shodan from System Shock 2

I made the first test page of the editor UI for my blog. It has the absolute bare minimum I would consider for my purposes

For now, it has just 3 files, uses no images, and came in just over 12K in size. It also works as-is without JavaScript and is usable with CSS removed so I think it would be fine in a text-based browser

https://github.com/cypnk/Bare-Plugins/tree/master/editor

I should probably start writing anime reviews

@Shufei @cypnk I do listen to a couple of international broadcasts, Radio Sonder Grense on 3320 kHz from South Africa, Radio Santa Cruz on 6135 kHz from Bolivia, Radio Exterior de España on 17715 kHz, and others. Since the PL880 covers the full shortwave spectrum 1711 to 29999 kHz i can pretty much tune to anything, including hams on 80m, 40m, 20m, and 10m. I also enjoy listening and dxing to far MW stations including several from Argentina.