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Archive for January, 2025

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keirf/greaseweazle: Tools for accessing a floppy drive at the raw flux level

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/31

[Wayback/Archive] keirf/greaseweazle: Tools for accessing a floppy drive at the raw flux level

Interesting drive: [Wayback/Archive] BTC BCO 4816IA 48x 7-in-1 Card Reader CDRW/DVD Combo Drive ODD Computer Laufwerk

More on Greaseweazle:

Via this project allowing many kinds of media to be grabbed:

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Insightful video on arm movements via Chris Kavanagh on X: “Found this in Reddit seems like it might be useful for some people.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/31

Cleaning up my open tabs, I found the below insightful video on arm movements via [WaybackSave/Archive] Chris Kavanagh on X: “Found this in Reddit seems like it might be useful for some people.”

Poster on the right, video below the signature, if WordPress now finally decides to embed them properly, from:

[Wayback/Archive] B_Q5gPTwsZVw7nS5.jpg (720×788)

[Wayback/Archive] Tweet JSON

--jeroen

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Chrome on Windows: Keyboard – Move focus to the shortcuts bar – Google Chrome Community

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/31

[Wayback/Archive] Keyboard – Move focus to the shortcuts bar – Google Chrome Community was a great question that I had myself for a long time.

TL;DR: On Windows, you can either cycle focus using F6, Alt + Shift + b to use the keyboard for getting focus to the bookmarks bar.

This is not officially documented for Windows/Linux at [Wayback/Archive] Chrome keyboard shortcuts – Computer – Google Chrome Help:

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Some notes on mini/micro Apple //e emulators

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/30

Retro computing is wildly popular, and with the rise of low cost single-board computers (SBCs for short), both Apple //e and ][+ emulators plus extension cards have proliferated,  based on Raspberry Pi (or even their RP2040 microcontroller based Pico), ESP32 or predecessor ESP8266 microcontrollers and others.

Some links for my archive:

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ELIZAGEN – ELIZA Reanimated: The Original 1965 Chatbot Restored On An Emulated IBM 7094 Running MIT’s CTSS

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/30

Wow, 60 years after her birth, the original ELIZA Chatbot got resurrected after a re-discovered paper version ¹ of the SLIP and MAD based source code was found in the Joseph Weizenbaum archives: [Wayback/Archive] ELIZAGEN – ELIZA Reanimated

Back in 1965, ELIZA ran on top of CTSS on an IBM 7094. Nowadays, few of that hardware is still running, but luckily there are emulators.

Back in the days, a large percentage people chatting with ELIZA thought she was a real person. With the dwindling language proficiency, the rise in believe in alternative facts, and THE RISE OF USE IN ALL CAPS, likely that percentage has increased.

Steps to get started with ELIZA are at [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – rupertl/eliza-ctss: The original ELIZA on an emulated CTSS environment, which carefully got assembled over the course of the last 2 months.

If you want to know about the process, be sure to read the

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Bridgy Fed – bridges to/from BlueSky, Fediverse (including Mastodon) and many web-sites

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/29

I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] Bridgy Fed a while ago. The highlights:

Source is written in Python and HTML. It is available from [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – snarfed/bridgy-fed: 🌉 A bridge between decentralized social network protocols.

The blog post re-introducing it: [Wayback/Archive] Re-introducing Bridgy Fed | snarfed.org.

There is docs too: [Wayback/Archive] Bridgy Fed: docs

Bridgy Fed is a kind of a spin-off from the longer existing [Wayback/Archive] Bridgy which has documentation at [Wayback/Archive] About – Bridgy and source code at [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – snarfed/bridgy: 📣 Connects your web site to social media. Likes, retweets, mentions, cross-posting, and more….

Via [Wayback/Archive] Ionica Smeets (@ionica.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy) — Bluesky who’s primary social media presence is at [Wayback/Archive] Ionica Smeets (@ionica@mathstodon.xyz) – Mathstodon.

I created my [Wayback/Archive] wiert.me profile – Bridgy Fed which resulted in these two entities (that by the time you read this should have some updates):

--jeroen

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python – What is a virtualenv, and why should I use one? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/29

I knew that venv is always needed inside your project directory when using Python, and roughly why, but not exactly why, so the points in the below StackOverflow Q/A sequence and underlying article are important to save in my link archive.

[Wayback/Archive] python – What is a virtualenv, and why should I use one? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Kevin and [Wayback/Archive] Thanh Nguyen).

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Please vote for the LEGO Turing Machine at LEGO ideas

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/28

Last year, a third LEGO Turing Machine that I know of was developed, 12 years after the second one (details below) developed during the 2012 Alan Turing Year and a first one in 2009 (see also below), and this time submitted at LEGO ideas.

[Wayback/Archive] LEGO IDEAS – Turing Machine – Working Lego Computer

Please vote for it, as it will be a great gift not just for computing lovers but also as a learning opportunities.

Links:

Via

All three machines are cool devices, so lets continue with…

Second LEGO Turing Machine

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javascript – Open a URL in a new tab (and not a new window) – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/28

TL;DR: you can force opening a new Window over a new Tab, but not the other way around.

Background information: [Wayback/Archive] javascript – Open a URL in a new tab (and not a new window) – Stack Overflow.

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Design kledingrek SOOPL FASHION TROLLEY

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/27

[Wayback/Archive] Design kledingrek SOOPL FASHION TROLLEY

Design kledingrekgrek van het merk SOOPL rijdt vanwege de grote wielen stabiel op ieder wegdek en over iedere drempel. De SOOPL FASHION TROLLEY is stabiel en kan eenvoudig (volledig) worden in- en uitgeklapt en heeft daarnaast een bijzonder fraai uiterlijk. De stevige kunststof verbindingen en aluminium buizen zorgen voor een relatief laag gewicht. De grote massieve wielen zijn voorzien van wielkasten en spatborden zodat de kleding niet vies wordt wanneer u in de regen rijdt. Daarnaast is het rek voorzien van uitschijfbare stangen aan de bovenzijde zodat de hangcapaciteit kan worden vergroot. De bodem is voorzien van een stoffen mat ter bescherming van kleding. De afmetingen van het SOOPL kledingrek zijn 90cm lang, 60cm diep en 160cm hoog. Het totale gewicht bedraagd 11,5 kg.
Levertijd: 1-2 werkdagen

Artikelnummer:

ZB1234
Speciale prijs € 411,28 € 339,90 € 422,23

Fabrikant:

Tweedehands: [Wayback/Archive] ≥ Soopl reis trolley kledingrek fashion — Kledingrekken — Marktplaats

Query: [Wayback/Archive] Soopl kledingrek – Sök på Google

--jeroen

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