Posts by Macross@hackers.town
(DIR) Post #ASK1vMtSjFBJDo2mVE by Macross@hackers.town
2023-02-04T02:34:02Z
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@thegibson @hackdefendr
(DIR) Post #ASM7AOpEiUQ9dyyR9c by Macross@hackers.town
2023-02-05T02:29:29Z
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After seeing the Bob Dobbs mug on my desk in that photo from my first IT jorb, I had to order myself a new Bob Dobbs mug. Astoundingly, the #subgenius cafe press store is still a thing. 🤣🤣
(DIR) Post #ASM7IV9p3fARbCSxw8 by Macross@hackers.town
2023-02-05T00:14:53Z
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A post by @murph got me inspired to dig up the battlestations of my youth. It's been amusing to see so many persistent design expressions over the decades (particularly the green Macross poster and the 5' SDF model.) The very earliest bedroom computer photo I have is my Timex Sinclaire 1000 hooked up to a Kmart 9" TV. I presume the gerbil wheel made it compute faster. 🧵
(DIR) Post #ASM7IVf1Bg7Z9x3sYq by Macross@hackers.town
2023-02-05T00:29:38Z
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Getting into the real meat of it though, my late high school / early college years. Still living at the ancestral stomping grounds. First photo shows the dual amiga 2000 set up, a PXL2000 TV I wish I'd held on to, the classic HP deskjet 500, Looks like an Amiga 500 being used for video editing, too.. amongst dozens of other delightful mid 1990s artifacts. And then, when the borrowed A500 returned to it's home, my first winders PC went in it's place - a blazing fast Pentium 166MMX with sharpie-blacked CD rom and of course a connectix quickcam. 🧵
(DIR) Post #ASM7IW7jSv5cb0UoJk by Macross@hackers.town
2023-02-05T01:16:08Z
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Later in the 1990s, my first apartment. Pretty much the same gear, just different arrangements. Initially set up in the bedroom, looks like the Amigas are just out of frame to the left, myself and roommates @lmorchard and others eventually moved all our stuff into the living room in a big communal work space to pursue our dot com dreams with our little lan using a freesco router I built from a scrap P90 and some NE5000s I stole from work to get us ALL on the new fangled "cablem modem" simultaneously. The local cable operators were completely baffled. 🧵
(DIR) Post #ASM7IWddYIbuBxQI2y by Macross@hackers.town
2023-02-05T01:33:48Z
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Speaking of work - I had gotten my first big kid IT job prior to dropping out of college to do the "build the internet" thing and moving to my own place - and I found some pics of my first office battlestation.... and the big iron I was entrusted to maintain. I think the beast in the back was an IBM r90 or something like that. A unix system that hosted an electronic card catalog system called Dynix for the county wide Library system who paid me, even though I was an obnoxious punk ass 1990s computer nerd. 🧵
(DIR) Post #ASM7IXlpLKkvheGLS4 by Macross@hackers.town
2023-02-05T01:48:30Z
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I had kind of a sloppy nothing special workstation at the next apartment, but by then my PC setups were becoming pretty utilitarian as I'd started my first foray into the laptop lifestyle followed shortly thereafter by building radio studios where the focus was the audio gear and the computers were "off to the side" in the arrangement. Rack mounted Amigas, anyone? Anyway, here are a couple bonus photos: HEY, guess what was hanging from the ceiling above my battlestation in my teenage bedroom at home? You guessed it, a 5 foot tall cardboard SDF-1. 😁And there were those times in the 1990s when you just needed to war dial from the road.... My amiga 2000 set up in the back of my suburban with a couple buddies calling BBSes using power and a telco line we pilfered from a dark retail store front in the middle of the night because we could.
(DIR) Post #ASURGb6lVzyXp75LAO by Macross@hackers.town
2023-02-09T01:20:04Z
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Peeping out @antijingoist 's IOS client HAI! in test flight. Mastodonian eye-candy! Smooooooove like buttuh!
(DIR) Post #ASWRVnqeon3hzpilv6 by Macross@hackers.town
2023-02-10T01:57:52Z
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I have always loved The Sisters of Mercy and I probably always will. Link to a really fun and interesting recent interview with Unka Andy.https://www.brooklynvegan.com/bv-interview-the-sisters-of-mercys-andrew-eldritch-talks-us-tour-system-of-a-down-new-music-more/
(DIR) Post #ASWRVoqh68gN6EkJcG by Macross@hackers.town
2023-02-10T02:12:59Z
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@thegibson yeah they'll be in Detroit, a buddy of mine bought a ticket and forwarded the above link when he did. I'm kind of over standing around any of the handful of concert joints in this area. OLD MAN STORY TIME:I got to see SOM in Philly back in 1997 when my friend's band Heavy Water Factory opened for SOM at the Electric Factory. The reason they got that gig was I had built them a website and included this new fangled technology called RealAudio on the site, so when Unka Andy was looking for an opener, here out of hundreds of bands who put their names in the hat was this industrial trio out of Detroit with their actual music playing from their webpage. A definite feather in my cap. 😁I'll have to dig up those photos, @lmorchard was in on that road trip, too. JFC we're old.
(DIR) Post #ASg2ykZldnSJ6G1A3c by Macross@hackers.town
2023-02-14T17:32:49Z
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@icecubesapp By app. One group instead of clogging up my entire homescreen.
(DIR) Post #ASg3oM71qBqqHnBOXA by Macross@hackers.town
2023-02-14T17:42:08Z
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@icecubesapp @thull Heard. Much appreciated. I am curious why the first iteration wouldn't be monolithic grouping instead of granular - without knowing whats under the hood, granular seems like it would be a more complex implementation.
(DIR) Post #ASrHMkKPkVRPNYjRfE by Macross@hackers.town
2023-02-20T03:10:33Z
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Here are a couple more of Underfoot wearing her new Fez while sitting at the bar with us. 🤣
(DIR) Post #AUMZzUjkzgydSdZrdY by Macross@hackers.town
2023-04-06T03:52:29Z
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@alrs I totally spotted the hamtenna on the bike on the dinner pic, too. 😁
(DIR) Post #AUWIIM8ihiVaDQie5A by Macross@hackers.town
2023-04-10T20:11:18Z
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@maddiefuzz @calculsoberic https://giphy.com/embed/3oEjI2uMfmIAJ6V8kg
(DIR) Post #AUaUspmhwEhSfIQIro by Macross@hackers.town
2023-04-06T17:18:27Z
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Cleaned up my desk and dragged in another lappy and keeb just to make it REALLY obnoxious. Gonna head out for Mt Dew and Fritos in a bit. 😁I do believe this battlestation is now fully prepared for this weekend's #revision 2023 #demoparty . AAAMMMIIIIGGGGGAAAAA!!
(DIR) Post #AVeWetSg6uTjs9fN9k by Macross@hackers.town
2023-05-14T17:29:06Z
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Friends don't let friends stay on mastodon dot social.
(DIR) Post #AVqKnLGrbqHb8KMlvc by Macross@hackers.town
2023-05-20T02:56:44Z
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@GeoffWozniak
(DIR) Post #AWG71ANm4Lgx3XAMEa by Macross@hackers.town
2023-06-01T18:56:31Z
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Excellent reminder: https://catvalente.substack.com/p/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-smart-fascist
(DIR) Post #AWqsfmZcLmAbUP8LK4 by Macross@hackers.town
2023-06-19T14:27:17Z
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Same guy?