[X] My Assistant

I hate ReactJS. It is perhaps the most overcomplicated, byzantine abortion of Javascript ever conceived.

it makes JQuery look well thought out and necessary by comparison.

Vanilla javascript can of course do anything React can do, but in a way that doesn't require everyone to learn another stupid language.
And regular JS has fewer ties to Zuckerberg.

Web devs are so high on their own shit.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Mar 4 2023, 00:37

I was kinda laughing at a ram upgrade tutorial for a device with embeded ram chips.

- First find a grey market source for the chip, when it arrives you have to verify its not a fake.
-Use your reball stations to replace the soldier with lead soldier
-Use your hot air station and flux to remove the existing chip and clean the pads
- Use your electronic microscope to make sure you align the new chip with the pads

Seems completely user serviceable.

i need a proper shelf to store my LD's and LP's in (or on).

I'd also like some frames with UV-absorbing glass that I can use to display a couple of them that have art I like.

Also a B2 sized movie poster frame for a Japanese movie, also with UV absorbing glass.

Seems there's still not enough demand for that in the US for anyone to make B2 sized frames here (except as custom jobs). Not sure if a typical glass shop would have a side business in framing things and access to some UV absorbant glass maker.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Mar 7 2023, 02:23

Man, I hate tech resellers. They seem to try to all jump on any market they can to throw mark ups on a range of products through artificial scarcity.

It was funny to see all the miners getting hosed on GPU resales though.

Man, I hate tech resellers. They seem to try to all jump on any market they can to throw mark ups on a range of products through artificial scarcity.

It was funny to see all the miners getting hosed on GPU resales though.

Amiga stuff has gone to hell that way.

Edit:

I hope this site has a reckoning about AI drawings soon. I hate that it's been unleashed on the unwashed masses and now I have to suffer through that while trying to find new artists on EHG. And it's only going to get worse (and harder to determine who is genuinely creating drawings unless maybe if they stream, and even then an AI could do that.)

Like, I'm almost fine with AI art in theory. If people would just keep it to their damn selves instead of uploading it.

I still think it's going to have negative impact on humans who draw things, at least to an extent.

Unfortunately I have a feeling that if we outright banned AI gen. art, people would upload it anyway and claim it wasn't generated.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Mar 7 2023, 05:25

Unfortunately I have a feeling that if we outright banned AI gen. art, people would upload it anyway and claim it wasn't generated.

The issue will be the artists that are using AI for assistance to generate art.

Apparently Twitter died earlier when they changed something related to the formerly-free API.

Too bad they fired everyone who might understand the code.

Apparently Twitter died earlier when they changed something related to the formerly-free API.

Too bad they fired everyone who might understand the code.

The problem is how much garbage was buried in the code as well. Like people coding to keep their jobs.

I thought they kept a large portion of the engineers though?




Also a project I was following on another forum, may have died because of a dispute with a mod. Whelp.
Project: The mods are hurting the community
Mods: We are the community.

I want a genlock for my Amiga so I can do subtitle overlays on these OVA laserdiscs I keep impulsively buying.

Dragon's Heaven is the most recent acquisition.

On a semi-related note, considering building an NTSC -> RGB decoder.

I can't find a guarantee that any of the ones on ebay aren't actually digital scalers converting to VGA, and I want one that does not change the scan frequency/resolution.

Found what looks to be a complete schematic to do it, but it depends on so many parts that are no longer being made that it's going to be somewhat expensive to build. Some of the parts don't even seem to be obtainable (like the 400ns delay line coil), so I'll be having to make one with a different (and also no longer available, but at least obtainable on ebay) IC that uses an internal AD->DA conversion to implement the delay and hope it's good enough for video frequencies.

This is all because I have a nice RGB monitor, but Commodore in its infinite wisdom cheapness decided that unlike the earlier 1080 monitor, there was no reason that the 1942 should be able to handle NTSC video.

The decoder schematic seems to be for composite only, but I bet it'd be possible to tweak it to get S-video working. Based on the TDA3330P chip.

Most of these chips were designed to drive CRT RGB neckboards (the ones that connect directly to the pins on the back of the cathode ray tube itself) directly rather than a line-level RGB signal, which also complicates matters. Even more annoyingly, it also requires both 12VDC and 5VDC power supplies.

[postimg.cc] (IMG:[i.postimg.cc] https://i.postimg.cc/bz1Wffrv/ntsc-to-rgb.png)

Anyone know where I can get a 400ns purely analogue delay line besides out of an old broken TV set? Haven't got any of those to spare right now.


I know some genlocks have circuitry to do this built in, but those would be troublesome to adapt to use with other non-Amiga hardware.

Edit: found a nice writeup of the genlock circuitry for an Amiga 1000 genlock (A1300). [wiki.preterhuman.net] https://wiki.preterhuman.net/Genlock_circui...ion_description

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Mar 8 2023, 13:37

Wanted to watch an anime to raise my morale, but the damn thing got corrupt as hell, skipping around and stuff T_T

Hard to seed torrents on a private tracker. On public trackers, upload would start even when download is still not complete and there's just one or two peers.

Flying Tanks: The Terrifying Genius of Mike Sparks (/s)

I think the detachable wings for deploying tanks was an anime idea.

I was thinking of the hover-tanks, helicopters and warthogs as better choices than an expensive tank deployment system. They can just air drop tanks with parachutes but that is only into secured territory usually.


Also lithium batteries are a nightmare for firefighters. They want to go all electric but the current batteries require a huge team to fully put out. Like, dig a ditch dump the car in and fill it with water then wait like 3-8 hours.

non-credible defense subreddit has a bingo sheet for the war in ukraine.
(IMG:[files.catbox.moe] https://files.catbox.moe/zf0ogs.png)

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Mar 12 2023, 01:39

Thinking about how one could make flared bottom jeans out of straight cut jeans.

I'd think you could get the jeans wet and stick some kind of steel or plastic or wooden band in the bottom of the legs of the jeans while they dried, so that the jeans would shrink everywhere but at the bottoms of the legs.

Does that make sense? Can someone tell me why this wouldn't work and why so many results when I search are about sewing?

Basic illustration of the concept


This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Mar 17 2023, 03:24

WTF do i do with IRC nickserv acc

what do you mean?

How do you make one? Or how do you "log in" (authenticate) with one?

Does that make sense? Can someone tell me why this wouldn't work and why so many results when I search are about sewing?

It has to be hot water, the shrinkage is only like 10%. You could just soak every other part in hot water and tie off the ends or something but it probably wouldn't give much of a flair effect.

1337x, Rarbg and Pirate Bay is back online. For the past 24 hours, I wondered the sites had finally been take down or were censored by Cloudflare.

it's kind of interesting that libarchive implemented what appears to be unencumbered (by licensing restrictions) RAR5 decompression code and yet no one on the web ever seems to have made a big deal out of it.
[github.com] https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/151
[github.com] https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/bl...t_format_rar5.c

Every other RAR5 decompressor I've found carries the license restriction inherited from the rarlabs website stating that the implementation cannot be used to reverse engineer the creation of RAR archives. Apparently, the libarchive code was made without reading the unrar.c sources, so it would be a possible jumping-off point for someone to create a free RAR archiver program.

I don't really want or think we need a free RAR archiver, when 7-zip and such already exist. But it still is a sort of big deal in my opinion because it means that people have a point of reference that does not limit their freedom to create competing RAR programs. It means that in theory, the RAR5 format could be forced open.

Of course, were this to happen, I'm sure a newer version of the RAR format would be launched which featured even less publicly available documentation not hidden behind that license restriction. Because I guess people still exist that use WinRAR for some stupid reason.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Mar 18 2023, 21:50