@thegibson ohai orion!

@socketwench unsolder it all and then re-solder it

Hmm, so the sample BASIC program makes the Why Em-Ulator module make noise in my #rc2014.

But, tune.com - Tune Player for RomWBW - says "hardware error, sound chip not detected"

And, vgmplay.com seems to be doing something, but not making noise.

I see a mention of PLAYER.COM on the project page, but whatever disk image I assembled doesn't have it 🤔

@socketwench FWIW, I did this SMT practice kit last summer and it was pretty fun. Even managed to do a cruddy live stream building it.

Pretty satisfying using a hot-air station with solder paste and watching the schmoo kind of ball up into the right spot

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B077QCJ2Z8/

Ah yes, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 1, Episode 24, "Conspiracy" wherein Goa'uld symbiotes are carted around in Class Act Stuff-It [tm] binders.

Class Act Stuff-It Binders, that is, from Worlds of Wonder, the makers of Lazer Tag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wLVTWVbNbA

@jesse mom said we had goa'uld at home

This RC2014-YM2149 github repo looks promising? I see a PLAYER.COM lurking...

Edit: Oh heck yeah, that did the trick. Grabbed that repo, dumped it onto my CF card, and player 15yeov.pt3 plays a nice jaunty tune!

https://github.com/MMaciocia/RC2014-YM2149

This capture setup is pretty garbage, using an ancient USB sound device I happened to have in a drawer.

But, about 20 seconds in, it's my #rc2014 playing music with the Why Em-Ulator Module that I built on stream last night! Pretty rad

Now I'm going to have to a) play around with a tracker to compose some .pt3 files myself and b) scheme around how to rig up a playlist of tunes to play from the RC2014 on some future live stream

Dang, this thing has some mean bass. Though I'm very sure it's just blowing out my lil USB sound card.

Doesn't sound at all like this, directly connected to my headphones. Much less crunchy and more crisp. Will have to dink around with my capture hardware

@requiem yeah, there’s a slew of formats out there. I’m most familiar with .mod and .sid, but those are kind of specific to hardware or implementation (eg. SID chip, sample playback)

@evan @evanoutloud i listened 👍 (dang you’re busy!)

For some reason, I woke this morning from a dream where someone was very seriously saying "Many Bothans died to bring us these bubble teas..."

I'm seeing folks build a bunch of tiny, tiny USB-C based power supplies for 80s retro computers and it's hurting my brain because:

a) of course modern electronics can supply the needful voltages reliably and in tiny packages but also

b) there's no way that tiny thing can replace the enormous resinous brick on which I used to warm my child-feet

@gregtatum @nervous_jessica FWIW, I have an outbuilding shed that houses my workshop. I use a pair of these Ubiquity point-to-point dishes to get internet out to there.

Seems to work well enough for me to host Twitch live streams from my workbench, and way cheaper than digging a proper trench for wires.

Main trick is ensuring they are as precisely aligned as possible and have no vegetation in between

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1348249-REG/ubiquiti_networks_lbe_5ac_gen2_us_litebeam_ac_gen2_airmax.html

@nervous_jessica You probably want a matched pair of widgets like that? But yeah, guessing you're not planning to host a data center in the studio (bandwidth) or play e-sports (latency), so something like that would probably work fine for general web and even video chat IMO

@anildash @glitchdotcom @jenn Glitch is one of my very favorite things on the internet! Happy Birthday, Glitch! 👏👏👏

"We're going to do something a little different in this meeting today and all play a game together..."

"How about we all split up into breakout rooms and have some smaller huddles about this proposal..."

In the brief time my blog post about "inclusive automations" showed up on the orange site, it invited a few ranting comments about "non-devs" who are "supporting staff" - "They're not essential and you're better off without them and their incompetence"

Whew lad. Somebody needs a vacation. But, all in all, one of the better interactions I've had on news dot ycombinator dot com

Like, I dunno, maybe I've been peculiarly blessed to have not often had an adversarial team environment at many jobs. Usually I've found it really rewarding to try to work cross-discipline and empower other folks on the team to pitch in with what they're good at

Which I guess means accepting the notion that product managers, designers, writers, researchers, etc are not bullshit jobs and not optional to feature development?

As a software developer who knows many things, I guess I know enough to admit there's a lot I'm not good at?

But, like, the few times I've been in an environment where "we're" working to keep "them" out of our shit because they're going to fuck it up with their grubby fingers even though we're all notionally on the same team... yeah that was the Bad Place.

@crowgirl It's been a long while since I last thought a crowd looked like it could be cozy, dang

@cederbs Oof, yeah, some of my happiest workplaces even as a grumpy hermit nerd was being in a high-trust team bouncing ideas between me & designers & product folks.

Lots of "can we do this" and "not exactly, but I see where you're going, how about..." - not a lot of tossing things over a wall, more respecting each others' areas of expertise yeah

I've been a TikTok user for about 5 years. I've seen things change a lot on there. But, also, I know what I've seen is related to how their algorithm's model of my interests has changed. Their algorithm isn't a magic oracle, but I do think they've managed to implement something interesting.

Your mileage will vary. But, when I see folks dismiss the service as "that place where the kids do their little dances", those folks are telling me they have no idea what's going on with TikTok. (That, or maybe they're just faving every dancing kid they see?)

I haven't seen a teen dance on there in probably 3-4 years. I see cats & crows & critters, queer jokes, drag acts, nerd fandom stuff, political commentary, general life-in-america commentary, current news, ADHD & autism content - all stuff I'm interested in care about and it's all served up more reliably than on any other communications channel.

The main thing TikTok themselves seem to inject are incessant attempts to make me directly buy something - which, I mean, seems more honest than weird advertising.

I do have to work hard to keep the tinfoil hat from settling on my head, though. Maybe I'm soaking in "Chinese propaganda" so thick I don't perceive it? But it seems really suspect that my government's been able to turn on a dime so fast with this thing of all things.

My real tinfoil-hat notion brewing is that all "China" (or insert random adversary here) has to do to destabilize America is just let us talk about how fucked up shit is - they don't really have to nudge us at all.

Like, I know it's a compromised communications platform - but pretty much all of our current popular channels are garbage in one way or another. We're all rats living in the walls of one corp or another, these days.

But, on TikTok, they've got some interesting stuff going with their recommender algorithm, with the easy collaboration features in duets & stitches. (I mean, dang, the spontaneous musical team-ups I've seen on there have been delightful)

Why has that product taken off like it has where other products haven't? Can we build something like it in a more federated universe?

@mos_8502 I mostly see a constant stream of left-wing stuff on there, myself. I don't think it's particularly slanted either way

@tithonium Heh, previous owners of our house had solar added to a roof that really needed to have been redone. So, we had to have the solar and the roof redone when we moved in :blobsadleft:​

@mos_8502 Well, yeah, that's a position... I can't totally agree? But also there are days that I feel squicky about working on open web stuff that even Nazis can use :blobsadleft:​

@mos_8502 (I'm definitely not a "...But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It" sort of person)

@corbden well, it should be now!

@james I think I've managed to cordon off TikTok with whatever flavor of ADHD that I have - mainly limited to when I'm exercising or doing something else time-bounded.

But, also yeah, I have disappeared down an hours-long hole with it before, so that's a real hazard for sure.

@mDuo13 It also seems to be doing something interesting with those signals to triangulate on topics & interests, like they might have some neat semantic vector clustering going on. But my machine learning chops are shallower than I'd like to be able to explain it

@futurebird One of our cats is most definitely 3, but the vet just informed us he's 7, so I don't know what's real

@prime screw you guys, i'm gonna go watch Star Trek reruns /s

@ubernostrum

where they want some level of local control/leverage over them.

Yeah, that's the bit I'm really trying not to be all tinfoil-hat about but seem very plausible. It's not the data, it's the deficiency in jurisdiction

But also yeah, I definitely wouldn't say TikTok should be above criticism for what it's actually doing in terms of serving up content

Deerbot has had it with today and I don’t blame it

🎵 she's got PANTS 🎵 and she knows how to use 'em! 🎵

(why did my brain hoark this up?)