Posts by peregrine@merveilles.town
(DIR) Post #AAS6ltZF4vNctpFo5g by peregrine@merveilles.town
2021-08-18T14:31:14Z
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Stayed up too late watching old soviet cosmonaut interviews and videos of alternative styles of motherboards and chips from IBM.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRy8k-M7si8
(DIR) Post #AAS6rhAu4BoiCadS8O by peregrine@merveilles.town
2021-08-18T14:32:20Z
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It is wild how much of the original chips, mainframes and circuit boards were done by hand.
(DIR) Post #AAWMfDP3fCnT678Uca by peregrine@merveilles.town
2021-08-20T15:21:34Z
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Public Reminder: BitTorrent is great for more than just piracy. If your connection is unreliable and you need anything largish downloaded look for a magnet link, the protocol is built for this.
(DIR) Post #AAWMfF2RaFtcAYZSeO by peregrine@merveilles.town
2021-08-20T15:22:19Z
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Also bonus once initiated it will be more network efficient than a straight HTTP download.
(DIR) Post #AAWQm2rhdqCQG52xDk by peregrine@merveilles.town
2021-08-20T16:33:13Z
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Remove one huge task you've been procrastinating on and the next day you finish up the 30 other tasks you were avoiding because you needed to finish the big one first.
(DIR) Post #AAh3CGvpU5lrBQFD5E by peregrine@merveilles.town
2021-08-25T17:16:08Z
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Be careful you don't find yourself becoming the "too smart" engineer who ends up only ever being able able to work alone because you alienate and belittle everyone around you over nothing.
(DIR) Post #AC1fDb32fkZEERUHeC by peregrine@merveilles.town
2021-10-04T14:53:25Z
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If you have something that is about to fail or is in need of repair, don't sleep on it. Going to be a cold hard winter of supply shortages, get your house in order now while you can.
(DIR) Post #AC6GPDSefRYzUQi9bc by peregrine@merveilles.town
2021-10-06T20:42:08Z
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Reading how people connect their older solar panels direct to their heating element of their water heaters. Skipping ac/dc conversion and going nearly to boiling, with a temperature mix on the outflow to cool the water to a real set point. PRETTY neat.
(DIR) Post #ACOTGy6afRLa578Nlo by peregrine@merveilles.town
2021-10-15T16:08:51Z
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@martijnbraam I can't unsee those jumper wires in the bottom left of the photo.
(DIR) Post #AFeOKghHFIJqduGbS4 by peregrine@merveilles.town
2022-01-21T00:57:15Z
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Back on my origami game.
(DIR) Post #AIRj0fbiMhF1UyiEE4 by peregrine@merveilles.town
2022-04-14T16:45:01Z
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lots of refugees from the bird site, remember to be patient with earnest people. its not quite the same vibe in the fediverse people going to be a little annoying for a bit.
(DIR) Post #AIwn6RyIZhsOd2KHPE by peregrine@merveilles.town
2022-04-29T16:26:54Z
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everyone has the same problems, just that some people choose to engage with the problems and others are forced to engage with the problems.
(DIR) Post #AIwn6SmdYY8t99sTrs by peregrine@merveilles.town
2022-04-29T16:29:21Z
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example: everyone in northern latitudes needs to heat their home:- some choose to spend money and be incredibly wasteful.- others are forced to wear warm clothes and burn wood. We all live on a spectrum between extremes. BUT many don't realize they are living on an extreme at all.
(DIR) Post #AIwn6Tjq0RUu6lZl8y by peregrine@merveilles.town
2022-04-29T16:32:05Z
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"this is normal, everyone burns natural gas shipped via (leaky) pipes all over the world into a home with bad insulation and drafts, its fine" this is the norm for many people but it's actually an extreme. The only way you get more extreme is like sleeping next to plutonium.
(DIR) Post #AIwn6Ub0ok22lgSE1g by peregrine@merveilles.town
2022-04-29T16:33:11Z
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if you want to be efficient, you make the choice. I think we should make the defaults better but until then we need to realize the choices we make, even if we didn't make them in the first place.
(DIR) Post #AIwn6VV1SUppZOexKS by peregrine@merveilles.town
2022-04-29T16:38:38Z
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buying a boat and burning wood is actually not that extreme when you think about it in this context. The boat can move to warmer places, it has lots of thermal mass, likely you already dress warmly.
(DIR) Post #APlvWIwhTqK1laCMtM by peregrine@merveilles.town
2022-11-18T19:44:22Z
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FYI @textfiles is the dude who runs Archive.org
(DIR) Post #AUYELqBHSNP6ktF6mG by peregrine@merveilles.town
2023-04-11T18:44:54Z
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@simon freelancing is always a race to the bottom. I suspect some people might say "yo just take on 10x as many contracts and let gpt write and you edit" and they just miss the point, nobody will come to you if they can skip right to gpt.
(DIR) Post #B25EVXUD9Z9Qas3JGC by peregrine@merveilles.town
2026-01-08T18:32:30Z
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@neauoire @rek neat!
(DIR) Post #B2EBEbFlLMX5ujAGtk by peregrine@merveilles.town
2026-01-13T02:08:52Z
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@neauoire I think you must have shared this once but kinda reminds me of this https://www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about-technologyWorld and the things we have created are so incredible, nothing gives me “the ick” faster than a lack of curiosity in them.