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:getin: or :frogout:
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:boom: 38 17.35%
yes 34 15.53%
no 18 8.22%
maybe 22 10.05%
paging pagancow 40 18.26%
all of the above 24 10.96%
:same: 43 19.63%
Total: 77 votes
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Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender
Here's my Santee getting his stuff last year:
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3749820&userid=34052&perpage=40&pagenumber=2

Please do not send me any used (old) things as Mrs. bean dip would prefer this--we're trying to make some changes to our home. I like to hack on physical things these days and enjoy puzzles--if you're familiar with my crypto threads or the security fuckup thread, you get what I mean. Nothing alive or anything like that as dealing with customs is always a blast. :)

This is what I posted last year:

quote:

LIKES

- infosec, cybersecurity, cryptography, programming, etc stuff (it's my job and i post a lot about it i guess)
- stuff on older operating systems (i am writing something for mac system 7 atm using c++)
- i also code a lot in python
- classic video game consoles. i really like super nintendo-related stuff
- i also own a wii u
- i brew my own beer

DISLIKES (as in "do not send")

- anything that was once (or still is) living
- alcohol (i have a lot at home already)
- drugs
- pornography
- no. i do not like mlp
- anything large (my partner and i live in a small space and she'd probably not like large things sent to us)

I'm in British Columbia. Last year, my Santa was eschaton and he sent me some real cool poo poo. The Motorola 68k book as well as the C++ for System 7 is being used for a CTF I am working on with a few people as we speak and the Intel Compute Stick is being used to play some emulated games. :)

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Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender

eschaton posted:

awesome, I'm glad you're making good use of it!

is any of your System 7 hacking happening in the open? :)

are you running Basilisk II or MAME for Mac emulation on the Compute Stick too? a USB-ADB adapter and a mouse and you could have a super fast super small 68K Mac…

nothing for the system 7 stuff is published atm but i'll probably will post it up on github at some point. i have a quadra 800 (with 128 mb of ram which is insane for this type of system) to test stuff out on :)

the compute stick is being used to play snes games :)

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender

anthonypants posted:

hey silver alicorn, get a new av in a month

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender
i am excited

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender
where is my e-mail :ohdear:

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender
it has been 24 hours since crazylittle last posted

this is concerning

can someone call his mom to see if he is okay?

Lain Iwakura fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Nov 17, 2016

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender
*taps his foot*

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender
perfect

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender
my santee is going to like my gift

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender
My Santee's crypto challenge has been completed. It is going to be fun

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender
bustin' this out for rufo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCSEWYkfsg

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender

Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:

teh perfect yospos gift,,



I don't think that the sounding kid ever posted in YOSPOS

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender
just about done putting my santee's gift together. got some awesome stuff coming their way

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender
Hoping to finish this week. Have a trip to deal with this week and a laundry list of things to do but my Santee's got their gifts bought now

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender
I like Tootsie Rolls. :colbert:

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender

ahmeni posted:

for those interested, the digits are:
pre:
02412163070960115129
25611089222260122203
08920135041350603004
29216236040710816206
07104061100181006304
15220089262240411925
11715089332193005007
22605163180841506902
i tried treating them as integers and while it might fit a substitution cipher it falls apart when i look at pairs.
i also thought it might have been a nihilist cipher but there's no two digits that stand out

that about sums up the full spectrum of my decipher ability

there are 8 rows of 20 there for 160 digits total. 160/5 is 32

these are the occurrences of each number

code:
0 - 38
1 - 28
2 - 26
3 - 11
4 - 9
5 - 10
6 - 15
7 - 5
8 - 8
9 - 10
i'll add some more when i have time later

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender
that owns

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender

anthonypants posted:

i did not give my santee a yostop and i hope they like their gift anyway :ohdear:

same :(

i believe that mine got theirs so i hope they post photos soon

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender


for whatever reason the image is blurry but we have a hot chocolate version too

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender

OSI bean dip posted:

there are 8 rows of 20 there for 160 digits total. 160/5 is 32

these are the occurrences of each number

code:
0 - 38
1 - 28
2 - 26
3 - 11
4 - 9
5 - 10
6 - 15
7 - 5
8 - 8
9 - 10
i'll add some more when i have time later

still sort of busy, but there are 96 even numbers (assuming we'll include 0 as an even) and 64 odd numbers

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender
that is very nice

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender
Old Macs own

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender
Holy poo poo that book rocks

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender

CrazyLittle posted:

Santees remaining to post their gifts:

  • BiohazrD
  • eschaton
  • Jimmy Carter
  • King Diamond
  • Optimus_rhyme
  • OSI bean dip
  • PokeJoe
  • Symbolic Butt
  • Valeyard

No gifts for me yet. Also :getout: Tori.

Mine apparently has received their gifts but has never posted anything about it?

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

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Taco Defender

CrazyLittle posted:

also yours should arrive today?

Just awaiting Canada Post to e-mail me about a package being delivered.

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

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Taco Defender
canada post hasn't delivered to my mailbox yet :(

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

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Taco Defender
got an e-mail from canada post to pick up my gift from santa :toot:

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

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Taco Defender
got my package. will make a post likely either tomorrow or sunday :)

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

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Taco Defender
happy new year :toot:



ooh. a box from pittsburgh, pa



oh. what is this? did my santa send me something resembling weed and the cbsa didn't seize it? :420:



hello funy person from pittsburgh



holy poo poo. 2 lbs in simcoe hops. this is like good for at least 4 batches assuming i'm doing them at around 20 litres each. i'm probably going to partition them up



time for me to get brushed up on my studies here



score. this fits my flask perfectly

thank you, santa!

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender

King Diamond posted:

Jumping in last minute.

First year participating, I've been on here over 10 years but have just started oozing out of my lurker den.

I'm into old school computers and old school PC Gaming, I'm a DJ (neurofunk drum & bass), beer, cyberpunk poo poo, retro star wars poo poo, and other general YOSPOS stuff.

T-Shirt is a medium.

Here's my little babe, which I got for my dad on Father's Day. Father included.


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let this be a lesson to all lurkers

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender
Those Intel compute sticks own as I got one last year. Right now it is dormant because I got a new TV (60" 4K :toot:) and I need to redo things.

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender
goddamn that mac

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender

r u ready to WALK posted:

please make it your life mission to rescue the contents of that hard drive and make it a vMac image so we can all admire the monochrome mammaries

it's possible that they're colour already

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender
install system 7.5.5, hook up a scsi to ethernet adapter, and a vnc server so we can have a shared yosmac

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender
i miss my old alphastation

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

The body exists only to verify one's own existence.

Taco Defender

atomicthumbs posted:

If someone better at such things than me knows whether an UltraSCSI (PCIe) host adapter can interface with a SCSI-1 device through an adapter, that would simplify things in terms of being able to image the drive.

it should

Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

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Taco Defender
basilisk ii is a bit nicer towards disk images

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Lain Iwakura
Aug 5, 2004

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Surebet needs to share his puzzle.

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