ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

Over the last few days, I experimented with moving my Twitter archive to my personal #Mastodon account @luca@social.luca.run and finally succeeded.

I had to modify the Mastodon source to allow backdated posts and prevent it from spamming other instances with old posts. Because image descriptions aren't included in the Twitter export, I had to request them from the API. There I got full text for truncated Retweets as well.

Incomplete notes:
https://github.com/lucahammer/fediporter

#TwitterMigration #MastoAdmin

When you’re three months into that side project you said would take a weekend.

Building a new Commodore C64 with all new components

https://hackaday.com/2022/12/28/building-a-new-commodore-64-in-2022-with-all-new-components/

Today's was ez ​:petergriffin:​

https://figure.game
Figure #185
🥇 1 try
😎 No hints
⏱ 0 min 22 sec

RE: https://mk.absturztau.be/notes/99cdmw1n1a

Why Attackers Target GitHub, and How You Can Secure It https://www.darkreading.com/edge-articles/why-attackers-target-github-and-how-you-can-secure-it

Oops, looks like #twitterdown
API returning 503

IN CASE OF FIRE:

1) If someone is on fire, punch them in the face.

2) Cop a feel off the person behind you, as these might be your last minutes on Earth.

3) Squeeze the junk of the person in front of you. It'll slow them down, allowing you to move ahead of them.

4) Exit.

BREAKING: Greta Thunberg response to Andrew Tate has been hung in the Louvre.

Sherlock Holmes will finally escape copyright this weekend

https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/28/23528003/sherlock-holmes-metropolis-to-the-lighthouse-public-domain-day-2023

Folks who think federation doesn't work tend to conveniently forget DNS and email are good examples of federated protocols with many runtime implementations.

Protocols work. Governance, and licensing less so.

#fediverse #opensource

FAKER

#Python tool for generating fake data in different languages.

Generate addresses, city names, postal codes (you can choose the country), names, meaningless texts, etc.

https://github.com/joke2k/faker

Creator twitter.com/joke2k

#sockpuppets

Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. However, eating too much pie is okay because the sin of pi is always zero.

'Bridge the gap' is an astro panorama shot at 14mm in one horizon to horizon spanning arc, I shot this in 2014 with a samyang 14mm and canon 6D

Was tricky to work out the mechanics of this back in the day with the gear I had available, and stitching was not easy, since worked out a lot better techniques for doing all that!

#photography #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #longexposure #NewZealand #astro #astrophotography

Greetings. Once upon a time long ago, I was sitting alone in the UCLA ARPANET site #1 computer room late one night when the high Santa Ana winds outside started disrupting power. Hit after hit, very dangerous for the minicomputers, disk drives, and other equipment in that room, since we didn't have uninterruptible power supplies back then.

I made some calls and it was decided I should shut everything in the room down. Everything. I phoned the ARPANET NOC (Network Operations Center) at BBN and explained the situation, since I was about to shut down IMP #1 (essentially, a refrigerator-sized router) on ARPANET which sat in a corner of the room, and doing this could cause disruptions if done in an unplanned manner. The IMP was *always* running -- I had never seen it powered down.

I worked my way around the room, powering down terminals and disks, and printers, and the power supplies on the 11/45 (ARPANET Host #1 - UCLA-ATS) and the 11/70 (Host #129 [1+128 on IMP #1] - UCLA-SECURITY. Back then my email addresses were LAUREN@UCLA-ATS and LAUREN@UCLA-SECURITY -- no domains yet.

The usual roar of the many machines' fans and motors gradually got quieter and quieter, until only the IMP was left. I pulled down the power switch. Now there was dead silence except the hum of the lights, a situation I'd never experienced in that room before. Very odd feeling.

Suddenly I heard a click -- the IMP was powering back up by itself. Damn. I pulled down the switch again. Quiet for a time, then click and it came back up yet again. Before I started thinking about screwing around with its power cables or turning off breakers that could have unexpected effects, I called the NOC again to ask them if they had any ideas.

"Oh yeah. We should have told you! There's a little switch that controls auto-restart. Surprise!"

So I found and flipped that little toggle switch, powered down the IMP again, and this time it stayed down. I had turned off the ARPANET -- at least at UCLA. -L