Findecanor

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by Findecanor 3d ago
I'm designing a retro-style gaming mouse for retro-computing: Amiga, Atari, C64, and several protocol variants. It also has USB. It has a scroll wheel and extended protocols like recent adaptors from USB, and also a configuration inter
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by Findecanor 3d ago
Reverse Tab ⇤ is still with us, above the Tab ⇥ symbol. It is at the top to indicate that it is generated while holding Shift. Many people have got the misconception that both symbols together is the Tab symbol, though. There is even a sy
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by Findecanor 6d ago
I've been posting a similar idea for years. Require that for each piece of commercial software there is a "method" to open it up and use without requiring on-line servers. The method is be registered with a special government
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by Findecanor 7d ago
The iPad Mini starts at $599, with a more comparable screen size. And there isn't really any competitive tablet with Android in that size. I've only seen cheaper tablets with lower specs.
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by Findecanor 7d ago
People already entrenched near the poles will fight to keep others out. Right-wing anti-immigrant parties are on the rise right now already. They also tend to not want to recognise climate change -- because that would imply that people coul
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by Findecanor 14d ago
I have seen the date "September 1" be disputed on forums. Is there a credible source other than the book that the article refers to?
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by Findecanor 15d ago
Location: Stockholm, Sweden Remote: Up to 50% Willing to relocate: Only within the county. Technologies: Programming video (everything: codecs to A/V), input devices (embedded), compilers (back-end), UI. Résumé/C
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by Findecanor 20d ago
You seem to need caffeine, considering that it is on your mind... :)
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by Findecanor 28d ago
Firefox now supports WebSerial though. An alternative to Via/Vial could perhaps use that, with the USB device exposing a virtual serial port. Kinesis' keyboards with their "Clique" keyboard has a web-based configuration
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by Findecanor 1mo ago
Long list here: https://meettheuk.substack.com/p/a-complete-list-of-count-bi... I could get behind most of them, actually ... were I to live in the UK.
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by Findecanor 1mo ago
One of my pet peeves are pages that detect that I am from another region and then redirect: not to the corresponding page in my language: but to the site's front page with a different region/language setting. Sometimes it is a
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by Findecanor 2mo ago
Growth is unrealistic. During the industrial revolution, people were still exploring the world and expanding their reach, establishing new colonies for raw materials. We are living in a global economy now. There is no growth into unexplored
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by Findecanor 2mo ago
One GIF is a clip from the Hollywood movie WarGames (1983). Not that there isn't animation in it , but... the animation was projected onto a large screen and then that screen with other things around it was filmed.
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by Findecanor 2mo ago
I'd say that 4-6 hours is often the cut-off point for total travel time city-to-city -- provided that the train is fast. I and a friend once started at Stockholm Central station to Malmö Central Station at the same time. I boarded a bu
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by Findecanor 2mo ago
I think the way airline tickets are priced is a big factor, and needs to change. It is often cheaper to take a connecting flight to an airport and flying from there than to start from that airport. That disincentivises taking a low-carbon-e
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by Findecanor 2mo ago
You could use any programmable microcontroller with a USB interface. Consumer products tend to have fuses set to they can't be programmed again. The latest driver registered with Microsoft for the product you're going to spoof wou
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by Findecanor 2mo ago
A few years ago, plugging in a Razer USB mouse made Windows download and run a installer from which the current user could start PowerShell with administrator privileges. Razer first tried to downplay the issue, but fixed it later. [1] The
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by Findecanor 2mo ago
The other day, I tried the latest Kubuntu on a Samsung netbook from 2011. It was impossibly slow, and Wayland did not even render colours correctly on the screen.
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by Findecanor 2mo ago
The 3D file browser was one of the demo programs that came pre-installed on SGI machines, at least in the late '90s.
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by Findecanor 2mo ago
It is a touchy subject. When you have it, you don't want to think about it all the time.
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by Findecanor 2mo ago
It has bugs with long words: I typed "MARRY AND REPRODUCE". That was the only try that got the last word on a single line, but with too much space between U and C. If the string is empty, I can read "WRITTEN IN GHOST FONT&quo
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by Findecanor 2mo ago
Install/Enable support for the Compose key. Map it to Menu or some other unused key. Then press Compose and three hyphens in sequence. I have used emdash, typed this way for many years before LLMs. I had got the habit from mimicking my
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by Findecanor 2mo ago
One of my hobbies is making replicas of movie props, and my own creations that seem to be from fictional universes. I would love to see the tablet and "quill" embellished a bit. Would it be possible to run a custom LLM that acts a
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by Findecanor 2mo ago
I think that if you'd need to debounce requests, it would be better to put it in a pressed and/or highlighted state until the button is ready again. Then you'd indicate to the user that the press was successfully received an
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by Findecanor 3mo ago
I'm on a few classic forums with threads that are over 20 years old, with a wealth of information about a topic. It is easier to revisit a thread and find new posts when posts are in chronological order. Most such forums remember the
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by Findecanor 3mo ago
Some enthusiasts have made custom PCBs for Topre and Niz switches, even columnar ergo. I've not seen the ErgoDox layout specifically, and I dunno how to source individual switches though. There is also the XVX Whisper switch, with has
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by Findecanor 3mo ago
But isn't there be a legal difference between a "conspiracy" that led to a bad situation and a "conspiracy to commit murder"?
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by Findecanor 3mo ago
Isn't the purpose of zines to publish them? Then how could that even be considered concealment?
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by Findecanor 3mo ago
The world is not black and white and simple. Things could be taken out of context, and people tend to project. People have got into trouble for having retold a controversial joke that they had heard, when the reason they retold had been bec
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by Findecanor 3mo ago
I've woken up from surgery with an epidural that had a leak. That wasn't fun. It made it emotionally difficult to get surgery again.

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