Bizarre grammar there: “Our firewall detects abnormal activity from your IP”. It does? When?

The rat alarm clock is pretty clever though. Once the roaches finish eating it, it’s a snooze button!

I like that but you have to replace your phone every year anyway so…

Just picture a rectangular plunger plate with a hole in it that sits over the wafer inside the receptacle. Then when you plug in, the plunger is pushed back. Tiny springs push it back out.

I know just enough to know that something like this is more complex to engineer than you want… It’s awfully small, it needs to move freely even when crudded up, it needs to not impede plugging in, etc

Of course this won’t protect 100% from ingress, just reduce it.

When you look at the amount of people and corporations behind a spec like USB… and no one thought of this? I wonder if there are IP67 USB-C connectors?

does have a tendency to get a little dirty though

Dollar store keyboard cleaner air cans are good for this. There really should have been a little spring-loaded flap on the connector, like later SPDIF has.

Oh yes, that’s how Aamon makes his works, that’s what makes them even more hilarious. Try the Kanye one next… Like, obviously, not at work.

Have you seen the aamon animation version of him?

https://youtu.be/MH2UkCLvXAk

Fuck. Monday is tomorrow. I go back to this shit, and pretending to care about my job…

10 PRINT CHR$ (205.5 + RND (1));
20 GOTO 10

Shat about after it releases?

Sure, but maybe not in public?

and has it’s purposes

Unlike that apostrophe.

Furniture? Integrated circuit packaging?

How would I know? Are they trying to quit smoking?

Prayer doesn’t work. At best it’s stress relief: beats smoking. At worst it fosters a mindless life outlook.

Our present civilizational arrangement that depends on cheap energy and a world-wide endless supply chain is on its last legs. Hospitals depend on both reliable energy and supplies.

If civilization collapses, we can hope the basic knowledge we’ve accumulated over the last 150-200 years or so will endure. Things like blood circulation, blood pressure, germ theory, blood types, basic first aid, etc. But I doubt it. Most of us are functional morons. We use things that we don’t have a clue how any of it got here or how it works.

And if we think about them at all, we assume humans have always had them. See the 1970s series Connections, just episode 1 for what I mean.

If we simply degrade and lose the entitlements we gained during the cheap energy fossil fuel orgy, we’ll revert to historical patterns of top 1% getting all the best services and care, such as human doctors and organ transplants, and the rest of us will get AI “doctors” that prescribe symptomatic relief from the company that owns them. See the novel Bladerunner by Nourse for a general sketch. Also from the '70s, another period of political turmoil and a manufactured energy crisis. The difference is that now, the energy crisis isn’t manufactured. It’s foundational.

I could also be wrong, the LSD is hitting pretty hard this morning.

Well that’s just a screen shot of the directory listing of the GEOS disk from the 64’s default “OS”, the BASIC interpreter. That 3 block file also contains information that only GEOS sees, the actual executable 6502 code is likely in the 500 bytes, if that. The user manual for the mouse actually contains an assembler listing of the driver. It ain’t big.

The 64, of course, was never designed with a mouse in mind, so Commodore engineers used the analog paddle inputs to encode the mouse XY motion. So the “driver” really just reads the A/D converters for the paddles and fudges some kind of motion information out of it.

It works quite well. The 64 only has a 320x200 display, so it’s not like you need a gaming 1000DPI 1ms mouse.

If prayer worked, there would be no hospitals.

um wut

500KB used to be the entire OS, application, drivers, and user data. Oh well.

The mouse driver used with the Commodore 64’s GEOS operating system uses 3 blocks on disk, less than a kilobyte.