mos_8502

@mos_8502@soc.studio8502.ca

Retrocomputing Maker and Designer in Ontario, Canada. I make stuff without promising a delivery date. I don't do crowdfunding, but I do gratefully accept Patreon and Ko-Fi support for what I do.

I am also a GNUstep contributor.

Language: English (I do speak others, but not well enough to claim fluency of any real kind)

Pronouns: He/Him

Nationality: Canadian

Politics: Hard Left, New Democratic Party, but pragmatic about it

Technology: Retro

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mos_8502, to random

Motherfucker… are you on crack with that price? Even in Australian dollars that's fucked.

mos_8502, to random
mos_8502, to random

If, as admin or mod of a mastodon instance, you allow your users to harass and abuse others, you are a failure, and deserve to be cut off from the company of civilized Mastodon instances.

mos_8502, to random

When people show any affection at all:

thomasfuchs, to random
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io avatar

Ah, ZX Spectrum Next shipping is delayed again 😑

mos_8502,

@thomasfuchs Well poop.

GrantMeStrength, to random
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Fun using Sinclair BASIC. Who needs ELSE? Or Data? No-one, that’s who. We had RND and INKEY$ so what else did we need?

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mos_8502,

@GrantMeStrength Even back then you could use a numeric variable with GO SUB.

mos_8502,

@GrantMeStrength Lack of computed goto/gosub is my single biggest bone to pick with MS BASIC derivatives. Sinclair got that bit right.

garbados, to random
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i write for fun because getting paid to write is a can of worms and part of that can of worms is that fuckos would rather ask a guessing machine for legible nonsense than pay creatives anything at all

mos_8502,

@garbados Which only proves that the people who pay creatives don’t understand creativity at all. A machine can randomly generate all the remixes you want, but without the judgment of a sapient mind to relate it to human reality, it’s not art, it’s just filler text.

mos_8502,

@garbados What I meant was along the lines of “the people you would traditionally expect to pay creatives”

stefan, to Marvel
@stefan@gardenstate.social avatar

Kang hasn't had thaaaat many minutes on screen. They should just go back and update every movie with a new actor.

mos_8502,

@stefan digitally replace him with Tig Notaro.

mos_8502, to random

Is there a survey yet of mastodon instances which are and are not blocking Threads?

mos_8502, to random

It is perfectly safe to install Windows 2000 in 2023.

It's just not safe to connect it to the Internet. There's a difference.

What is called for is either sneaker net (put it on a removable disk and move it over manually) or an Internet-isolated network drive with extreme malware scanning and removal.

mos_8502, to random
jacqueline, to random
@jacqueline@chaos.social avatar

i would easily resist the bene gesserit Voice. like i would just not do what they say. it would be pretty easy for me i think

mos_8502,

@jacqueline Oh?

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mos_8502, to random

I keep trying to get into these book series everyone seems to like, and they're all the literary equivalent of the machine in a Japanese toilet that makes the sound of water flowing over rocks so nobody hears you violently shitting yourself.

mos_8502, to random

Get in loser, we’re reticulating splines.

mos_8502, to random

Hey, corpo fuckwits: I can’t physically stop you replacing your human staff with language models, but don’t be surprised when your attempts to market shit to me get diverted to my own life model decoy, who has all my preferences but no money or authority to purchase anything.

mos_8502, to random

My gods, a far-too-high percentage of Star Trek fans are pathetic.

"The original Enterprise didn't have a kitchen!"

"But how will they explain the visual downgrade!"

"CANON VIOLATION!"

"TREK IS RUINED"

Fuck you, and fuck your mother for failing to swallow, fanboy. It's a drama, not a documentary. Shit changes. Stories change in the telling. Learn to fucking cope, or go rewatch your old VHS tapes of TOS.

mos_8502, to random

The GitHub repo for Sentinel 65X is now public, for your viewing pleasure.

The design would not be in anywhere near the shape it's in were it not for the assistance of @swetland and @RenewedRebecca. It is my sincere hope that this leads to an actual product release, and from there to an actual user community.

PDF of the current schematic: https://github.com/studio8502/Sentinel-65X/blob/main/kicad/Sentinel%2065%20V2/Sentinel%2065%20V2.pdf

Repo:
https://github.com/studio8502/Sentinel-65X

mos_8502,

@hankg @RenewedRebecca @swetland Technically the W65C265S, to considerable savings in glue logic and stress. 65816 compatible though.

ve7fim, to random
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Yay! I just got a really great deal on a bunch of these, for around $0.15 each. This will be very useful for mounting LED bargraphs.

mos_8502,

@ve7fim I love weird little doodads like this.

mos_8502, to random

“Ho ho fucking ho
What a crock of shit
We all work for Santa Claus
We’ve had enough, we quit!
‘Cause we do all the fucking work
While he stars in the show.
Stick your Christmas up your arse
Ho ho fucking ho!”

— Kevin Bloody Wilson

mos_8502, to random

So, I would say that we now have a credible, manufacturable design for the Sentinel 65X. Doubtless there will be many little refinements as it grows into a real product, but the core design seems to have settled into a form that is practical to build.

So the next steps are to design the developer harness for the clock port which @swetland proposes to make, and to design the Rev0 PCB, and to have a small test batch made.

This is where I begin to get neurotic about the whole thing.

thomholwerda, to random
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Every day that passes me by, the odds of getting my hands on my dream UNIX workstations get smaller and smaller.

Sadness.

mos_8502,

@thomholwerda This, but for the ultra-rare Unisys ICON. Only made for and sold to Ontario schools, and almost all units were destroyed. They are beyond rarity now.

mos_8502, to random

Disposable products have their appropriate place in the economy. Disabled people often need plastic straws, and shouldn’t feel bad for it. But in most circumstances, outside of medical or accommodative items, there are better choices. Steel or glass straws, industry standard safety razors rather than proprietary disposable cartridge systems, quality used real wood furniture instead of semi disposable MDF crap. Metal over plastic. Long term sustainability over short term savings.

mos_8502,

Life is expensive. It is made no less so by ten thousand things you have to keep replacing every so often. I would rather spend $35 on a steel safety razor once and then $6 every 3 months on blades than the $45 my roommate was spending a month on plastic Gillette cartridges. I spend $2 on a CD or record at Value Village, and I don’t ever have to pay for it again.

The finality of real ownership of durable goods adds up quick.

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