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22 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
one of my favorite things about being someone who whines a lot on twitter about their computer problems and has a bad memory is that often when I hit a problem I vaguely remember hitting before, I just need to search my own tweets to figure out the solution
for example, today I was annoyed this linux machine was using a graphical console instead of raw VGA text mode.
turns out I have complained about that before and figured out a solution:
it's not fully working because grub is trying too hard to put itself into a graphical mode BUT I WILL STOP IT
just needed to set GRUB_TERMINAL=console in /etc/default/grub

and now I have lovely text modes again

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23 Feb
Anyone ever notice that one of the eight people injured in the second Demon Core criticality incident is listed only as having "probably died"? Image
It's equally possibly there's a slightly radioactive 98-year old prowling the wastelands of New Mexico...
Unable to die...
Still mad at Louis Slotin
Here's a picture of the missing nonagenarian from the Manhattan project records.

Flag on the moon... How'd it get there? Image
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23 Feb
Speaking of endoscopy... Here's a fun story from a friend who misused an endoscopy. Soo, he played a collectable board game called Monsterpocylpse.
It's a game where you have monster figurines fighting each other. Looks fun, I never got into it, because I burnt myself on Pokémon trading cards back in the day so I don't touch collecting games. Image
But it's a collectable game, that's the key thing: you buy blind boxes, and get random monsters.
It's similar to how Magic The Gather works with the booster packs, right?
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23 Feb
stupid idea: A small 16bit DOS program that reads every sector of the hard drive in increasing order, and displays it on screen, in MDA or CGA 80x25 mode.
a sector is 512 bytes, so a 32x16 (plus another line for metadata) display can show the whole thing, and fits in any mode
and the purpose is: it's a stupid way to get data out of a PC.
Doesn't have serial? floppy? parallel? network? SCSI? modem? WHO CARES
if it has a display that do either of the basic IBM PC text formats, you can exfiltrate data by recording the screen with a camera
the main problem is that some of these characters look like each other which is going to make OCRing them off the screen not fun Image
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22 Feb
So the latest LGR Blerbs episode is on the Keypatch AT, an interesting mid-80s device to add functionality to early PC keyboards. I was thinking I had another model of Keypatch and I thought I should go pull it out of storage...

It turns out, NOPE! What I have is a CXI Keyboard MATE, which is clearly a similar device, but not a Keypatch. Image
Keyboard MATE. I don't know why all of "MATE" is in uppercase. It's got the same set of scroll lock/num lock/caps lock indicators like the keypatch Image
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22 Feb
Shout out to Google, one of the biggest software companies in the world, who can't properly size their buttons, so the "Download" button turns into "Down...ding" when you click it. Image
There are only three real problems in computer science:
1. Naming things
2. Cache invalidation
3. UI layout
(And of course, 4: off by one errors)
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22 Feb
really?
after not having seen my doctor all of 2020 and so far in 2021, you're gonna open up with THIS QUESTION? Image
I understand why they ask these questions but, like, I've got insomnia and ADHD and I'm on a bunch of stimulants and I've got digestive issues. they're basically asking "are you still foone?" [yes] [no] Image
the last one is especially annoying because I have poor apatite every day. but I'm pretty sure my psychiatrist isn't really worried about that, because I'm not forgetting to eat because I'm depressed, it's because PART OF MY DIGESTIVE SYSTEM IS MISSING
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