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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Oh, you're into electronics? Calculate the resistance of this part, then.

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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

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Had a dream last night that I ported V7 Unix to 65816. No idea why.

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"Measuring purely by confirmed kills, the worst mass murderer ever executed by the United States was the white supremacist terrorist Timothy McVeigh. On April 19, 1995, McVeigh detonated a massive bomb […] killing 168 people, including 19 children. […] McVeigh, who in his own psychotic way thought he was saving America, never remotely killed on the scale of Kissinger, the most revered American grand strategist of the second half of the 20th century."

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/

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I am reminded of something my idol, Hunter S. Thompson, wrote on the news of Nixon's death:

"If the right people had been in charge of Nixon’s funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. […] His body should have been burned in a trash bin."

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No computer language will ever be able to be safer or more secure than the hardware on which it runs.

Looking at you, Rust.

https://www.vusec.net/projects/slam/

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Them: "Isn't using programmable logic in a retro design cheating?"

Me: "Go and ask the engineers of the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64, both of which used the 1980s equivalent of CPLDs to implement glue logic."

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“Hogfather” is and remains nearly a perfect thing.

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Colourizing schematic buses in a KiCAD hierarchical schematic: Readability win or waste of the minimal effort?

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“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

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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,

Which is not to say you should eschew all conveniences. Only that you should prioritize shaping your material world into one where you do not need to keep buying the same stuff, over and over again. Have you not things you would rather spend money on than another $40 pack of disposable razor cartridges?

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Ebooks are neat, but ultimately it’s a lump of plastic that will be outlived by a cheap paperback. Cast iron cookware can cost less than aluminum or carbon steel when bought used, and should outlive several generations of owners. CDs and LPs may take up more space, but they don’t need a monthly fee or an internet connection to play them.

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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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Get in loser, we’re reticulating splines.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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