Bodger @bodger@computerfairi.es

Just in case you ever need this in the future..

Actual wide-scale resistance groups operating under a repressive regime rarely look like what many movies have led you to believe.

What they look like are a lot of normal people who maybe lose a document, maybe forget to latch a gate, maybe take a little longer to do a task than they would otherwise.

It requires no command and control, no leaders, no connections to be compromised. For most, it is not the work of great measures, it is the thousand.. million.. cuts that grind the oppressor to a halt while never being something they can prove.

Think less about secret handshakes, and more about an unfortunately bad case of ADHD at an inopportune time.

Okay so I use cyan, pink, and white LEDs driven with a WS2811 (the chip in an addressable RGB but in its own package) to run the 3 LEDs on the probe through a single wire. But like, the software still assumes it's red, green, blue.

So here's the Trans Flag Color Gamut™

Since I was wandering around Huaqiangbei with only a burner phone in my pocket, I couldn't do the graphic design for these on-the-spot. So extra-special thanks go to @ArchiteuthisFlux who responded to my DMs past midnight in his timezone, immediately threw together some PNGs, and sent them back to me so I could send them over WeChat to the sticker printer operator. The whole process was about 35 minutes.

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Dear journalists, if you're writing/publishing/broadcasting about the Los Angeles wildfires and you don't mention the role of #climate change, you're not doing your full job.

Ok LCSC. Now you are just straight up fucking with me. 😂

My entry into the "most subtle/cryptic ACAB reference contest" I just made up.

Hello fellow hackers, i more or less inherated the stock of a electronic company. It's more or less stuff from the 90s and 00s. If you need ICs like, eproms (thousands! 27c series), a bunchload of flash, optocoppler, 74er and 40er logic, all sort of drivers, mcu (h8, zilog, pic), cplds... Feel free to ask, it's for free (for shipping) and the more the better :-) i will make a post on my page for more details - this will took some time, i'm ill right now. On the Picture you see around 20% #38c3

So neat!
https://mastodon.social/@gvy_dvpont/113747495699818607

ok, pretty happy with this now. Added a lot more filtering caps to try to reduce the noise and flicker, improved grounding (at least as best as you can on a breadboard) and tweaked the magnetic and electric focus a bunch more. I'm very happy with the result now!

For those wondering about the setup:
DIY HV is supply supplying 700V which is divided down for all the different electrodes in the vidicon tube, 600V on G5, 300V on G4 and G2, 65V on G3 for focus, -35V on G1 for beam current. 15V on the target. Raster is generated by 2 555 timers set up as ramp generators and amplified/centered by two opamps. Output from the tube is amplified by a transimpedance amplifier, amplified again and then output straight to the Z input of the oscilloscope. There is no blanking during either vertical or horizontal retrace, neither on the vidicon nor output, which is less than ideal but works. Vertical frequency is around 40hz, horizontal around 10khz.

#electronics #vidicon #diy

The bitter irony in the current GOP infighting over whether Americans are competent enough to become tech workers is that numerous LGBT tech people who are frantically emigrating over hate were committing time to train people to get those jobs, often for free. My best friend wrote a whole book.

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I've started feeling kinda bad for all my knobless old boat anchor equipment being reduced to a place to harvest cool metal knobs for projects. So I've taken matters into my own fingers.