DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab @djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology

Long ago, I thought I was special, different than everyone else, and I was surrounded by adults who reinforced that thought daily.

Eventually, I realized that I was special, different than everyone else, and so was every other person in the world.

They left out the important bit. We're each special and different and that's what makes us awesome.

I celebrate your special difference, friends, each of you. May it bring you the joy in the coming years that it has brought me getting to know each of you during the last few.

I remember showing up over here by following the jetsam [1] of the first infosec migration across the tumultuous seas of microblogging, slightly disoriented but little worse for wear.

There was a lot of space back then. You could swing a raccoon in a circle around your head [2] without having to worry about giving someone a faceful of frenetic fur. [3] Fewer than twenty-five thousand souls inhabited this archipelago [4] at that point, gathering on a handful of islands.

I was pretty sure I was destined to be consumed [5] by those who had arrived before my cohort.

In a way, I was. I am no longer the person I was when I arrived here. I have been changed by this place. I have been changed by this ever-changing group of groups of people. I have been changed by you. [6]

Fierce storms will batter these little islands. Battles will arise. Pain and grief are by-products of interaction.

But so are laughter and cheer and warmth and contentedness.

And love.

My neighbors, the very least that I wish for each and every one of you is to find days so filled with love that there's no time for hate and nights so restful that you rise burning with the force of the sun within you.

Mend what is broken. Build shelters you need. Make mistakes and make them count. This is your world and mine and it will be exactly what we make it, but the sky is the limit if we keep looking up instead of bringing ourselves down.

Thanks for being here, thanks for being you, and thanks for listening to the rambling of a silly old dog.

[1] unbeknownst to many, stale infosec memes are extremely buoyant
[2] assuming the raccoon consented to be swung such
[3] assuming someone wasn't throwing their face at the nearest bit of fur
[4] h/t to @priryo for https://linernotes.club/@priryo/100565446740959131 and @sydneyfalk for https://mst3k.interlinked.me/users/sydneyfalk/updates/85279
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[6] assuming I consented to be changed such [7]
[7] I did

achievement heckin GET

mastodon streaming on a #Kaypro 2-83 #retrocomputing

this is my semi-regular yet aperiodic reminder that this place here is a distributed federated version of Callahan's as far as I can tell and that is one of the most bestest things that can be.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callahan%27s_Crosstime_Saloon

Every one of you is precious and wonderful and unique and necessary and deserving of life and love and peace.

Anything your brain does to try to convince you otherwise is a mean trick.

Please try to remember this. Remember it unceasingly.

Good morning.

First pass at a working camera app and driver landed in mobian for the #pinephone in the latest nightly build.

I'm a big fan of repairable devices, but only when a supply of replacement parts is maintained for a reasonable length of time and at a reasonable level of availability.

pine64 is on track to provide the full deal, it seems, and it makes me happy.

so lukasz from pine64 disassembled and reassembled his pinephone in seventeen minutes with a philips head screwdriver, a debit card, and a piece of masking tape. (he did not remove the display panel from the frame, which would require both additional time and a hot air gun along with a heat resistant tool with which to gently separate the display and frame once the hot air has done its job)

he was also not particularly good at it, tbh - this was obviously not something he's done hundreds of times before this.

I bet someone gets it under ten minutes round trip before the year is out. possibly under eight minutes round trip.

someone make some "user serviceable parts inside" stickers pls

if this 10000 mAh battery was any bigger I'd say it was too big to use for this project - as it is it's pushing my buttons

this coming weekend is gonna feature plenty of soldering and desoldering

extremely Iron Chef America competitor voice: for this next course, I decided to really embrace the theme of "state of the art" by preparing this deconstructed #soundslab for you. I think you'll find that tonight's secret ingredient, the raspberry pi zero, really shines through. Enjoy.

sundogistan is tempted to announce a new, business friendly tax credit to lure seattle based businesses scared of the head tax to move to sundogistan instead, after which sundogistan will simply nationalize all of them. don't tell anyone.

only monday? you have got to be shitting me.

note to self: cannot close enlarged image view in mastodon by clicking on the "close window" button in the image itself. it's just an image.

Good morning.

I am working on $daygiggery, but I'd rather be working on this:

Might have changed my mind - the UPS might get the place of honor, because if I remove this header I can wire it back by hand and get some extra thinness, maybe. I'll play with it.

it also comes with an optional stereo RCA out jack that only needs to be soldered in place if I want it, but I haven't decided if I want the extra ports on a portable yet. like, I've got lots of TRS<->RCA cables anyway. on the other hand, RCA jacks on my walkman, yo.

the DAC board conveniently comes with a nice row of unused gpio breakouts for connecting further hardware, so I think I'll let it have the place of honor atop the pi zero itself, and I'll wire the relevant pins of the other two to the breakouts on the DAC.

New arrivals for #soundslab

love software distributed via 7z files on mediawiki installs