George Budd @Gbudd@qoto.org

@thomasfuchs have you heard of the Cromenco Cyclops? It uses a decapsulated 1 kilobit DRAM chip as the image sensor and can be built from plans in Popular Electronics (Feb 1975). Here's a selfie at an astounding 32x32 pixels:

Happy first birthday to my baby Gemma

My "we have heard the baseless cries of ‘you are going to kill someone’ way too often" T shirt has a lot of people asking questions answered by my shirt.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/inside-the-titan-submersible-disaster/

I haven't gotten any #YouTube content created by myself out in a while, but I am still working on this video about Webmaster (aka Skyggen), a Danish #cyberpunk movie about a #hacker on the run.
#hackers #hacking #history

While goofing around with a retired coil-on-plug pack, @MLE_online and I tried driving it far faster than spec. Fast enough to generate musical tones.

Please enjoy this rendition of "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Symphony #9 performed by sparky danger organ.

This hideous hack proved the concept is possible. But making it play WELL (bring it in tune, for starters) will take a lot more work.

It’s okay♥️

More on the NY Times 'lab leak' fiasco from This Week in Virology. Again, Kathleen Kingsburg, Patrick Healy and the opinion editors made a choice to give a platform to this nonsense from Alina Chan. It was a mistake. Here's a discussion among experts. https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/

One more cool generator video - threading the rotor (the rotating bit) out of the stator (the stationary bit) on a 32MW synchronous generator.

You see the four poles with the magnetic windings sticking out around the rotor shaft - they call these “salient poles”. There’s also slip-rings on the rotor so it can get DC power (ballpark a hundred volts,
couple hundred amps) from the motor/generator exciter to energize the electromagnets (poles) on the rotor.

https://youtu.be/d4GwikOQh8s

WE’RE GETTING A NEW CAT!

Internet, please bid a warm welcome to Miss Saison du Pris, late of Boone County Animal Care and Control and arriving at Beercats Manor likely tomorrow after some last-minute routine tests.

The last picture on the right may well be the moment I became smitten.

#CatsOfMastodon

"While spacewalking I realized something, I used to think I was scared of heights but now I know I was just scared of gravity"

― NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman

The son gets it.

#JohnRose #JamieRaskin #DonaldTrump #GOP

A pair of Texas professors figured out that their female students have sex and, boy, they do not like it.
So now the philosophy professor and finance professor are suing for the right to punish their students who, outside of class, have abortions.
"Pregnancy is not a disease, and elective abortions are not 'health care,'" University of Texas at Austin professor Daniel Bonevac sneers in a federal court filing with professor John Hatfield.
Instead, Bonevac writes, because pregnancy is the result of "voluntary and consensual sexual intercourse," students should not be allowed time off to get abortions.
If the students disobey and miss class for abortion care, the filing continues, the professors should be allowed to flunk students.
Additionally, Bonevac asserts that he has a right to refuse to employ a teaching assistant who has had an abortion, calling such women "criminals."
https://www.salon.com/2024/06/03/texas-professors-to-fail-students-seek-abortions/

When the Fiancé headed off for Europe, I asked him to get me, if they still existed, print subway maps. They’re just fabulous design and I’ve always had a thing for them.

Yesterday the mailman was super late, but he brought me an envelope with a chinless King Charles stamp on the outside and a note with this on the inside.

Remember our siblings who, for whatever reason, are not able to be their true selves this Pride Month.

#PrideMonth #Pride

Outstanding move!

Hello out there!

More than 46 years after launch, more than 15 billion miles from home, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is restored, rebooted, and once again sending data back to Earth.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/05/22/voyager-1-resumes-sending-science-data-from-two-instruments/ #science #space #tech #nasa

You might think this meme from the cat internet is about shaming the second cat for being lazy... but if you do? You don't really understand cats.

This is a celebration of cat progress. Posted as a brag mostly.

Look, all I’m saying is really angry mediocre white guys strapped with AR-15s and enough magazines to survive an Uvalde classroom stormed statehouses all over the US in 2020 to protest masks, vaccines, and whatever other insult to their freedom they could find, and nobody opened fire, so I don’t really think the riot cops need to be guns out on college campuses.

• An Oxford comma walks into a bar where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.

• A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.

• A bar was walked into by the passive voice.

• An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.

• Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”

• A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.

• Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.

• A question mark walks into a bar?

• A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.

• Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type."

• A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.

• A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.

• Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.

• A synonym strolls into a tavern.

• At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.

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• An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.

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• A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony.