iefbr14 · HackerTrans

14 days agodiscuss

It is still on air, playing a message that they stopped broadcasting on that freq. (at least 30 minutes ago)

24 days agodiscuss

Looks very much like the Samsung I still have. The best mobile phone I ever had.

There is probably still a lot out there but with the current state of the ('free') search engines you won't find much. I am painfully reminded of that every time I have to look for a datasheet that is not in my own archive yet.

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last monthdiscuss

Stopped watching within 10 seconds thanks to the flickering screen border.

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2 months agodiscuss

Same way I got here

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2 months agodiscuss

They use it in the drones they build for Ukrain. Typical european..

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2 months agodiscuss

Wouldn't it be easier to use Starlink or am I missing something?

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3 months agodiscuss

BR 14 (IBM assembler)

Because it has a utility named after it. Hence my name.

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4 months agodiscuss

The title immediately made me think of the September Song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWc8g6-N7cE

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5 months agodiscuss

FWIW, when I used windows (up to 7), I always used Notetab.

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5 months agodiscuss

I wish it was only cars, but unfortunately this decay in-the-name-of-progress is in everything nowadays.

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6 months agodiscuss

Very good documentary about Donald Bickler made by his son.

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6 months agodiscuss

Also about olivetti: Olivetti & the Italian Computer: What Could Have Been. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfMxcrN90PE

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6 months agodiscuss

In the demo there is a cut in the video where the needle abrubtly stops. The cut is visible because the lighting is slightly different.

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7 months agodiscuss

The damage from a frozen water line in your house can be a lot more than $4000.

We had them when I was still a kid in the sixties and I did not like it at all. Jumping in a warm bed is nice but leaving it on during the night makes you wake up all sweaty in the middle of the night. Even on the lowest setting.

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7 months agodiscuss

Nice, however the mentioned github link ( https://github.com/loganwilliams/passive-acoustic-listening ) does not exist (anymore?).

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7 months agodiscuss

Nice, but the left-right movement goes opposite to my intuition.

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8 months agodiscuss

For nostalgia sake. It's from the computing period when there was a great influx of good idea's but still a huge shortage in memory and storage.

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9 months agodiscuss

It is probably just a rise in the number of automated scrapers/bots that use a windows 7-like user agent.