legendary violence against medieval mystics
just learned that John the Scot Eriugena's works were burned on the pope's order for "swarming with the worms of heretical perversity" and that, according to legend, he was later stabbed to death by his students' sharpened styluses #goals
ranting about American car-centric culture
@soypunk I live in nyc, I walk or bike basically everywhere. whenever I go to basically anywhere else in the USA where there's a five-lane stroad and an acre of parking lot between the starbucks and the office park I'm like... you don't have to live like this. there is a better way
ranting about American car-centric culture
@soypunk 😬
How will you know if you're on a flight full of people going to an NFT/web3 conference
@muffinista this looks like actual Hell
@Moss i will tell you no such thing
game boy color repair
@Ludonaut yep that's what i'm doing with the headphone jack! unfortunately the dc barrel jack was beyond repair
game boy color repair
of course the A/B/select/start button contacts are not going to work (the corrosion wore away most of the copper), but I can get replacement contacts (https://www.etsy.com/listing/1214538508/game-boy-color-full-button-board-kit-for)... though I still need to remove a bunch of corrosion so I can actually solder those replacements in place
game boy color repair
so I thiiiink the problem with ground connectivity was simply that the DC barrel jack had completely corroded. I desoldered the jack and then jumped the contacts that would have been bridged if the jack was unplugged and suddenly I get ground connectivity to all the right places. this is encouraging, and the best case scenario is that there isn't actually any damage to the traces or vias and I can just turn this thing on (when I get replacement battery contacts)
@lordampersand this is incredible, i loved seeing all of your sketches and research!
@ranjit alternate reply: you know, plato's cave gets a bad rap
@ranjit you can't touch this (because it is intangible)
STOP MAKING DISCORD's
years of community building yet no real world use found for a memes channel
wanted to create a collaborative knowledge database anyway, for a laugh? we had something for that it was called a WIKI
these are REAL discords created by REAL developers
they have played us for absolute fools
@RobF it really does hold up. it'll never happen but i would love another trek movie with this level of directness and grandeur
small electronics repair
surprisingly, the screen of the corroded unit works perfectly fine. I think the board itself can be saved if I track down and patch all of the corroded traces... right now I don't even get continuity from ground to the power switch 😬 definitely a challenging fix (wayyy more complicated than anything I've tried before) but could be fun to try! at worst I have a broken unit that I can scavenge parts from later
small electronics repair
I bought two gameboy colors (gameboys color?) from j4u to fix up and mod. the one on the left was sold as "needs repair" but worked fine, especially after I cleaned the button contacts. the one on the right was sold as "doesn't work" and has... let's say *extensive* corrosion damage. the pics show what it looked like after my attempt to deal with the corrosion and removing the negative battery terminal (which didn't even have continuity from front to back)
Another photoshoot with Balu, the cutest cat imaginable. This time in several shades of #infrared.
#caturday #CatsOfMastodon
Really excited to announce the speakers of the first series of free online talks on "algorithmic patterns" in arts and culture.
Featuring weaving, wire bending, heritage algorithms, konnakol, live coding and juggling patterns
Emerging info and signups here:
https://algorithmicpattern.org/events/
Poet, programmer, game designer. Assistant Arts Professor at NYU ITP. she/her