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mattgrayyes

@mattgrayyes@chaos.social

YouTuber & Freelance Broadcast Engineer in London

I'm https://chaos.social/@mattgrayyes on everything.
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mattround, to random
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Apparently two people completed Janey Thomson's Marathon at , anyone spotted any pics/videos/info?

mattgrayyes,
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@mattround a third completed it last night I think. (Or they at least got 1000yd away from the end 2h16 into it)

mattgrayyes,
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@mattround I have heard they did complete and were presented with a medal.

Congratulations on your daft flash!

mattgrayyes, to random
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Hehehe @thisisjofrank got a photo of me wrestling the paper #emf2024 #mastodot

mattgrayyes, to random
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Wooo it lives!
I’ve just replaced the paper in Mastodot: the Mastodon Dot Matrix Printer

#emf2024

Laser etched sign for it Electromagnetic Field 2024 Mastodot Matrix Printer Matt Gray (he/him) Dot matrix printer hooked up to Mastodon. Prints anything with #emfcamp on it, or anything @mentioned to it. in theory. As i write this description, I haven't finished making it :D

erincandescent, to random
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@mattgrayyes out of curiosity, what instance is MastoDot pulling the #emf2024 feed from?

mattgrayyes,
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@erincandescent chaos.social as it has a massive intersection of hacker camp types, so its public feed is likely to contain most toots

seb_ly, to random
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Anyone at #emfcamp - is it muddy today? Considering my footwear choices 😅

mattgrayyes,
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@seb_ly I was last on site last night but it was beginning to dry up. I’d still recommend boots over trainers.

mattgrayyes, to random
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There is a deer park in Eastnor and it is very muddy.
Very muddy.

mattgrayyes,
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@pa3weg certainly more than one pair of trousers muddy.
It may be wellies muddy if there’s more rain.

mattgrayyes, to random
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I’m off to @emf tomorrow (early, to help with setup).
I’ve packed my dot matrix printer and continuous paper, ~10 game boys, and DECT handset.
I’m now sat with the sound of two 3D printers running and a floppy drive formatting one of many disks.

I should probably think about clothes and food.

mattgrayyes,
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Yes both Windows 11 and MacOS 14 can read floppy disks.

iOS can see the disk but not read it (I suspect it can’t do FAT16)
Android can see the disk, and read/format it but only when formatted for 360k (single sided single density iirc)

mattgrayyes,
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@InsertUser
Did that two years ago! :D

https://github.com/MattGrayYes/gbpxl

foone, to random
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I'm gonna see if I can get my raspi to boot from a spinning rust drive. Why not?

mattgrayyes,
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@foone those diddy iPod drives are a perfect size for them too!

bencc, to random
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Well I think the CatFactsCatFax is pretty much ready for #emfcamp #emf2024

mattgrayyes,
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@bencc thanks for the earworm :D

JennyList, to random
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It occurs to me that a bunch of people I know online will be at EMF and it would be nice to have a pint with them.

Can this be arranged?

Now. I am a 6'7" trans woman and thus lots of people recognise me, but I have a shit memory for names and faces. I think I am not alone in that.

The sight of a bunch of geeks all with large name badges will be funny.

mattgrayyes,
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@JennyList ok, I shall look out for one of the few people taller than me. Easy. :D

benjojo, (edited ) to random
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The #RIPE88 routing working group is about to begin! Join us live on https://ripe88.ripe.net/live/side/

(Edit: This session is now over, you can find the recordings here: https://ripe88.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/routing-wg/ )

mattgrayyes,
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@benjojo surely it requires more than just you for it to be a group?

mattgrayyes, to random
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For @emf, I’m making Mastodot, which in theory prints toots that are hashtagged for the event!

#emfcamp

mattgrayyes,
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You wouldn't believe how long I was sending escape commands at the printer before i thought to look for a library...

mattgrayyes,
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Great, Mastodot seems to be working all by itself now!
Let’s see if I get some time/energy over the next few days to get it to do some formatting and image printing!

(It’s turned off now, don’t spam the emf hashtags to make it print plz)

mattgrayyes,
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I did manage to successfully print images yesterday, I just need to write a more complicated print spooler to deal with it.

Yes. This is the second time I’ve written a print spooler in JavaScript.

Noisy dot matrix printer prints a small picture of Brian Blessed, a larger version of the same photo, then feeds through so you can see both of them and the text “

mattgrayyes,
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The hard bit here is that, like all ESC/POS libraries, they can’t speak in my LX-350’s reduced subset of ESC/P commands, it’s expecting to control a receipt printer.
It’s mostly fine. But with things like image printing, I’ve had to bodge the library to get some line spacing.
And I haven’t got the text size options working yet, but I think it’s sending slightly more advanced commands for it so I’ll bodge around it.

mattgrayyes,
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It’s formatting time!
Had to fiddle a bit to get the line breaking working between words rather than in the middle of them.

Wouldn’t have got this far without help from the amazing @thisisjofrank!

mattgrayyes,
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Found more things im having to do manually. Escape sequences for different text formatting

mattgrayyes,
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Spent the evening rewriting my bodgy test code into something more useable, and in such a way I can format the toots. Up until now it could only dump the whole toot as a plaintext string.
I’ve got it logging all the separate bits to the console, so tomorrow’s job is to send them to the printer with formatting.
Then see if the library can “just deal with” images from a URL or if I’m going to have to download and convert first.

mattgrayyes, (edited )
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Yeeeeesssss! It bloody works!
Just got to strip the html tags out of the toot content, so it’s just text, and it’s basically done! #mastodot

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See you at EMF, little printer!

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Yes it was working. No it’s not working now. That’s tomorrow’s problem.

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