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Kwyndig posted:Because IoT is a horrible beast is why. Expect your washer to be on a Russian botnet by the end of the month. Troy Hunt's washing machine probably won't be part of the botnet. It's the other billion people with "smart" appliances we need to worry about.
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Pham Nuwen posted:I just built a dim-bulb tester to help with the 6 free tube radios I picked up yesterday. If you're the type of person who takes in old tube radios, you'd probably like this Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=channel?UCy0tKL1T7wFoYcxCe0xjN6Q. He loves radios and sound production. He's done a few videos on radios and radio tuning, and one cool video taking apart and explaining a Superheterodyne receiver. I'm currently watching "What is High Fidelity? How does Stereo work?" I just finished his video on Dolby noise reduction.
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Mr.Radar posted:And if you're into restoring old radios, definitely give Mr. Carlson's Lab a look. He's a genuine electronics wizard who makes incredibly in-depth videos showing how he fixes and restores electronics of all vintages (from the early tube days up through pretty modern stuff). Mr. Carlson is great, but you pretty much need to be an electrical engineer to understand him. He’s sort of what EEVBlog would be if Dave didn’t care if you could follow what was going on. Fender Anarchist posted:Technology Connections is the fixed link, and yeah he has a great style. Huh. I clicked the link in the preview before I submitted, and it was fine. Thanks for fixing it. Zopotantor posted:I've been binge watching these guys' YouTube channel. They're restoring & rebuilding old horse-drawn vehicles. I’ve watched a few of their videos. I like the one where they are putting metal bands around enormous wagon wheels. Really dry narration, though. They are obviously builders and not presenters.
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Mr.Radar posted:While you do need a certain baseline of electronics knowledge to follow him, I actually find that he does a very good job of explaining exactly what's going on when it's not obvious from that baseline level of knowledge. I'm not an electrical engineer (though I do follow a lot of general electronics channels on Youtube and I did study the basic theories of electronics in a physics class in college years ago) and I have no trouble following him, for the most part. I figure that if you're at the point where you are building a dim-bulb tester for old radios, you're probably at that level of knowledge. And a lot of his content is about the practical knowledge you get from spending a lot of time working with vintage electronics that you won't get from studying theory. Gromit posted:I stumbled across glasslinger on Youtube and they repair old tube radios, TVs, and the like, with the added gimmick of their cat getting in the shot every now and again, and sometimes sporting the most amazing frocks. It's not technical, but just pleasing to watch and they really know their tubes. I am not sure if I’ve seen that channel. Your description. sounds familiar. I’ll have to have a look.
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EEVBlog is very good. His lectures on theory are good. I bought one of his branded multimeters. It is also good.
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LaserDisc chat: Technology Connections is the best home technology history and exploration channel on Youtube. The host is a delightful little chub who obviously puts a shitload of work into his videos. He has an entire series of videos on home recording technologies, including Laser[everything], DVD, Video CD, VHS vs Betamax, Dolby noise cancellation, etc. He recently blew my mind with an episode about automatic toasters that Sunbeam made from the '40s through the '90s, and which I had never seen. Their design is brilliant, and it was a great video. He may have inhaled some asbestos during that episode, but it's not certain. I'm sure he's come up in this thread, before, but I like his channel, and thought I'd drop a plug.
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Apr 21, 2019 03:55
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Dick Trauma posted:That Sunbeam toaster... Right? It’s genius.
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Wasabi the J posted:I felt like the benefits of the automation are a little over stated while understating some of the drawbacks and dangers of the old model. It’s not the automation. I think most of us have the energy to push down the toast lever. It’s the cleverness in how that automation was achieved. Most of the flaws seem trivial to fix.
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Apr 22, 2019 23:49
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GreenNight posted:Any of you guys been to the Cray museum in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin? If you're in the area, I highly recommend it. I didn't take nearly enough pictures but here are a few. This is 404 for me, but other people seem to be seeing it. My question is: why?
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May 16, 2019 03:09
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Computer viking posted:NPM seems to be what happens when a language that lacks a good standard library feels a need for one but don't quite know what they are missing - so they solve it by having thousands of uncoordinated users contribute whatever parts they needed that afternoon as independent packages. NPM bloat is nuts. I installed a package at work last week, one which should have been maybe 2,000 lines of code, and it installed > 180 additional packages.
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Jun 3, 2019 10:10
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T-man posted:why is it rendering a condom? New Stab-hard condoms, with elongated conical tip: a guaranteed cervix poke with every stroke! Edti: Just the way she likes it.
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Jun 23, 2019 22:39
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Vanagoon posted:Anyone remember the smell of the Ditto ("Mimeograph") Machines? Spirit duplicators are awesome. The way they work is fascinating.
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The best things on Newgrounds, roughly in order, are: 1) The two guys who live in the Pong paddles getting into a fight and discovering the extents of their universe 2) Xiao Xiao 3 3) Learn to Fly 4) The animation about being drunk set to The Girl from Ipanema Since we’re on the subject, does anyone remember a Flash video about a kid who goes walking into the woods and all the forest creatures come out and it turns into a skateboarding / music jam? There’s a turtle, if that helps, and the soundtrack is by someone or something called “Slang.” Searching for “turtle skateboard slang woods” doesn’t work very well.
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Kamrat posted:Won't flash still exist, it just wont be updated right? Chrome is literally removing it from the browser. They say that at the end of 2020, flash will be gone from Chrome. As for the technology itself, I haven’t heard anything about what is going to happen. I wouldn’t expect them to release it to the public, but it would be cool if they did.
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