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Archive for November 27th, 2025

The new MonsterAdapter LA-FZ1 lens adapter with AF support for old F-mount lenses is now available for sale – Nikon Rumors

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/27

Just in case I upgrade from F-mount to Z-mount and want to re-use my old 1980s/1990s era F-mount lenses:

[Wayback/Archive] The new MonsterAdapter LA-FZ1 lens adapter with AF support for old F-mount lenses is now available for sale – Nikon Rumors

Related: [Wayback/Archive] MonsterAdapter LA-FZ1 Archives – Nikon Rumors

--jeroen

Posted in About, LifeHacker, Nikon, Personal, Photography, Photography, Power User | Leave a Comment »

The Marvin the Paranoid Android 404-text

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/27

A while ago, I mentioned a 404-text simulating the Marvin the Paranoid Android as a side-line on a PlantUML post.

While categorising my ASCII art posts, I came across it, and it was published before I started archiving blog links in the Wayback Machine and Archive.is as much as possible.

Back during categorising, I added a few of those archived links, then made a note to research deeper.

So later, I got to that digging and did some digital spelunking, restored the text from an archived page and the underlying JavaScript code that simulated the text being typed on a “terminal”.

Then I did some more spelunking to the oldest usage I could find.

Here are the results:

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Posted in ASCII art / AsciiArt, Development, Fun, HTML, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Meme, Scripting, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Interesting; Meshtastic

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/27

ImageOn my list of hardware/software to experiment with is [Wayback/Archive] Meshtastic:

An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices

Via [Wayback/Archive] @jilles_com@infosec.exchange on Twitter: “Will be taking to meshtastic.org Lora 433MHz modules to @hotelhacker. Might be cool if more people could bring some to setup a larger mesh and play with them. amzn.eu/d/aCgULy4“

Products:

For both boards, this holds:

1. The Meshtastic program is not pre-installed on this product. If you need to install, please check the steps:

github.com/geeksville/Meshtastic-Android/blob/master/README.md

github.com/meshtastic/meshtastic-device/releases

2. If GPS does not work, the following situations may occur:

Install the Meshtastic firmware before and now reset the GPS when you switch to another firmware.

Reset steps: github.com/Xinyuan-LilyGO/LilyGo-LoRa-Series/tree/master/firmware/GPS_%20reset_test

3. If GPS is weak indoors, it can be used outdoors

4. The GPS antenna is not installed stably, you can check if the interface is attached to the GPS antenna

Related:

–jeroen

Posted in Development, Hardware, Hardware Development, Hardware Interfacing, IoT Internet of Things, LoRa - Long Range wireless communications network, Network-and-equipment, Power User | Leave a Comment »