That was a good stream! Went for 3 hours, built the #rc2014 Pi Pico VGA Terminal module and then just kept going to assemble the DS1302 Real Time Clock Module. Had intended to do that clock module in a subsequent stream, but the hyperfocus was strong.
VOD is up on Twitch now, going to export to YouTube next. At some point in the future, I might simulcast to Twitch and YouTube
Oh heck yeah, now my #rc2014 knows the date & time!
Also, a successful boot with the #rc2014 Pi Pico VGA Terminal module!
Albeit with the tiniest wireless USB keyboard and most terrible VGA monitor that I own - but point is that it works! (And I didn’t let the magic smoke out, this time!)
Oh hey, a bunch of hours later and YouTube finished processing my #rc2014 module assembly stream from earlier today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQATBdTSjrA
@Wintermute_BBS Oh, really? I figured it was just my monitor! Or possibly my soldering or parts selection
@anniethebruce Very similar experiences here :) I've assembled a PC from cards & such. And, I've done a bit of soldering on kits here and there. Did some repairs to a few 80s arcade machine PCBs. But, I've never assembled a full kit computer. Those were kind of out of style by the time I got my first C64 in the 80s!
@socketwench FWIW, not sure about your setup, but I think my CF card was formatted for a different ROM than I ended up booting into - so I ended up having to come up with a new RomWBW-based disk image to dump onto it via a CF card reader (good news being it was software, not the hardware!)
@erosdiscordia As a boy who's painted his nails, I can second this!
@maddiefuzz @socketwench I feel like my sudden ADHD-interest-latch onto RC2014 stuff has coincided luckily :blob_grinning_sweat:
@boris What if a cross-platform RAD platform that satisfies most of the requirements just actually ends up looking like web development all over again except weirder?
@boris Yeah, I think web dev is probably the closest you'd get for that, especially if you want to include an iPhone in that loop
@socketwench @maddiefuzz Needs to be heavy duty if you're putting a CRT on top :thinkhappy:
Big oof... this new pkgx package manager condenses out of the ether into being. They use AI to generate package descriptions and images for other folks' open source projects.
They did this to give them "more time to work on the tool because that's what we care about". They seem confused that users & developers have been confused & irritated by cruddy and inaccurate content?
Feels the next decade will be increasingly filled with cargo-cultists foisting schemes onto the world to offer the semblance of a good thing without any of the effort or understanding to actually produce the reality behind the semblance.
This has been going on for decades already, but the tools to perform the rituals are getting more accessible to individual schemers who don't have a private equity firm behind them.
I'm sure the term "cargo cult" is problematic. But, I have a hard time coming up with a better description of the mindset where one seems convinced that ritualistically producing a convincing outward facade is sufficient to attract fortune and positive outcomes.
Like, why use AI to generate piles of bullshit content? Because you somehow think having caused the existence of the piles is the success condition and not the content itself? Somehow you think the wake is more important than the ship?
I guess a problem is that, yeah, to a certain degree this sort of thing does attract fortune and positive outcomes - because people with money want to be in on the grift? And they all think someone else is dumb enough to fall for it?
Seems like so many folks who get access to LLMs think they've become the main character in the universe, having been granted a secret cheat code to godmode against a world full of NPC rubes.
How much cheap cynical crap do we have to put up with? It's exhausting. I'm so bone tired of living and working in a system that seems top loaded with schemes to see what can be gotten away with.
Sigh, this was a rant I usually keep confined to my journal, but man I'm tired
Sometimes, I do wish the world was full of NPCs - because then I wouldn't have nearly as much social anxiety.
But, I'm pretty well convinced all those people I see are possessed of thoughts just like me. And the chunks of my brainmeats responsible for theory-of-mind just go into overload trying to host simulations of them all. (Pretty sure that's where the anxiety comes from)
@skippy Well, I've already kind of got that going on as I try to host a simulation of the cosmic-horror slow-AI of corporations I deal with on a daily basis
Three mentions of Information Society in different contexts today, and now I'm watching the CD+G playback of their first album
Suddenly have an urge to ditch the workday and rewrite my blog engine again :blobtired:
Sometimes I see a spider up high on a wall in the house, and I'm like "hey bud, are you lost? is there food up there? whatcha up to?"
@rgegriff :ohno:
@csaetre Usually no, though one turned around and disappeared into a floor vent :flan_shrug:
@benbrown @mjgardner @textfiles FWIW, that's what you get when you point a 300bps modem at track 12 of their album Peace & Love, Inc (which I did with a C64, back in the day)
@briankrebs Well, as someone who fought for about 18 months to rid himself of the consequences of someone who used ID theft to put me on the hook for unemployment benefits I never claimed and a hefty student loan bill I never signed up for - I'd do what I could to pursue charges at any opportunity.
Really, I'd like to press charges on the banks, collectors, credit agencies, and their ilk. But, it seems we're cool with sticking individual folks with "identity theft" as a calamity rather than "authentication malpractice" as a charge against corporations
Alright, it's 3pm. Done with meetings. Finally, time to maybe get some work done
Huh, interesting that the copyright claim dispute process on YouTube doesn't appear to offer options like "the claim was inaccurate or a mistake" or "the claimed copyrighted material itself also appears to sample the material which was in the video and is not the original source"
Probably will have to ditch my playing of demoscene videos if/when I want to monetize any videos, lots of folks seem to be ripping off those songs and calling them their own
Like, it's fascinating that this 2013 video of a Fairlight demo from 1993 appears to have a copyright claim from an artist in 2020 - who, as far as I can tell, wasn't in Fairlight and their song is a remix of the original
Of course, I don't have much leg to stand on, since I just flat-out played the video of the demo in my own live stream - so it's copyright chicanery all the way down. But I'm perturbed that a third party might butt in
Oh, and there's a fuckin crypto scam associated with this package manager too? Because of course there is
https://connortumbleson.com/2024/02/26/the-disappointing-tea-xyz/
