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The boombox in question is a Panasonic RX-5010ls (the one pictured is not mine), but it's pretty worse for wear and the radio was the only thing that worked (for about six months, lol) and parts of it are falling apart.

Plan is to take it apart, give it a good clean, and then work out how to wire the raspberry pi into the speakers. I'd like to keep the actual audio parts (as it does have volume, balance, and tone) but time and ability are factors. x3

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This past week brain has sometimes been back in 1996, German classes, thinking about "Hallo aus Berlin" made by BBC Schools and the Goethe-Institut

Actual ear-worm theme tune

youtube.com/watch?v=GN85U6thjM

To avoid BlueSky Age verification super easily, do the following:

On Web, access via deer.social

On smartphone, get the OpenVibe app ( openvibe.social )

No messing around required. No tricks. Just login with your Bluesky account, and all your content will be there :)

yay did a thing and put up a wardrobe!! finally somewhere to hang my clothes ^^

Here we go, a two-fer for #WerewolfWednesday - 1994, Haunted Verdun Manor, Forney, TX. That's me in the then newly-finished Silvermane and Bart B_ in Lugaru, my previous suit. (Waves at Bart, wherever he is now; I've lost track over the years).

Imagine bumping into the two of us while going through a haunted house!

This was the only night Lugaru was "loaned out," and the only photo of both of us.

#Werewolf #Fursuit #HauntedHouse

#RIP "Heavy metal star Ozzy Osbourne has died, just weeks after reuniting with his Black Sabbath bandmates and performing a huge farewell concert for fans."

news.sky.com/story/ozzy-osbour

In a moment of frenzied excitement I decided to add some wolfsbane but I've never painted flowers before so now I'll have to learn how to paint flowers

k-ID (the age verification provider Discord use) store way more information about the AV process than they let on. Sure, as far as I can tell, actual images of your face are not uploaded but these absolutely are and are stored by k-ID (and are accessible) afterwards:

  • Device & Browser, including version info, OS, connection speed, page load times, etc.
  • The name and details of the webcam you use.
  • Precisely what happened during the AV process (which stages you completed)
  • Timelines of various facial movements you made (the position of 16+ tracking points on your face over time)

believe it or not transmasculinity and cismasculinity have different dynamics in society and equating the two as equally oppressive is appaling shit

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When an LLM outputs, “I panicked”, it does not mean it panicked. It means that based on the preceding sentences, “I panicked” was a likely thing to come next.

It means it’s read a lot of fiction, in which drama is necessary.

It didn’t “panic”. It didn’t *anything*. It wrote a likely sequence of words based on a human request, which it then converted into code that matched those words somewhat. And a human, for some reason, allowed that code to be evaluated without oversight.

almost midnight rivaclaw thinkings: What if I turned the grotty old boombox that I own into a portable raspberry pi based audio player? 🤔​

So preparations for #emfcamp

My fursuit has a rotary telephone inside, and I'd be stupid if I didn't get it working on DECT, I already have a Pi Zero in there with a GSM module, but finding something similar for DECT is proving a little more allusive

The best I could find is this module codico.com/en/homea-dhx913-ext

Which actually has a RPi GPIO header, the issues are 1. expensive and 2. is DECT ULE even gonna be compatible?

If anyone can weigh in who knows the setup at EMF or perhaps knows of another approach that can be used I'd be very grateful

#emf #emf2026 #dect #telephone

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