Stewart Russell

auld hairy scottish git in Toronto. Does futile things with electronics, including trying to sell them. This ended very badly, so now I build cameras instead

I've been known as scruss since 1981. Some people know me by it and may not recognize my real name.

(he/him)

formerly @scruss

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npub1h4us4xfjj6w6ulgaj2hx5xru7vektn434wgg669tt5zf20m0ly4qdz6f6t

NIP-05 Address

scruss_at_xoxo.zone@mostr.pub

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2024-07-30 19:49:35

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@npub13le…6saf The Pixy reminds me of the tiny Roland A4 plotter that was meant to be portable

2024-07-30 19:45:56

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@npub13le…6saf the folks on the stardot board have done a lot of despairing over the Penman

2024-07-29 23:35:39

Damn you, Wemos: just when I thought I had my #MicroPython board collection under control:
https://www.wemos.cc/en/latest/s3/s3_mini_pro.html
* ESP32 S3
* Integrated TFT (128x128)
* 6 DoF IMU
* D1 Mini form factor (kinda: upside down if you want to see the screen)
* $11
@npub1hhf…qm3g - maybe your jam

2024-07-29 17:24:17

Still got four left ...
#stamps #canada #rush #2112
https://xoxo-media.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/112/870/924/809/749/937/original/6e2992b41e0bd489.jpg

2024-07-29 13:17:46

It's not yet 9:20, and already I've learned way more about LG washer-dryer lint management than I'd ever have hoped to.
Do your tub clean cycles. Check the lint trap. No, really check the lint trap. You don't want Lint Grendel lurking up there.

2024-07-24 02:12:20

Red Sand; Yellow Warrior; Green Thistle; Blue Top; Indigo Slug
are all examples of randomly generated "Rainbow Codes" of the style used by the former UK Ministry of Supply to obfuscate military project names: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Code
Want to make your own? Here's a #bash script to produce many, many variations: https://gist.github.com/scruss/fa006a9a4397091a3a6eb139ce5a4290

2024-07-23 21:20:23

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@npub1a72…ze5k "Mister soft owl has seen some shit"

2024-07-23 18:59:40

Smol owl on a ceiling fan
#birds #birb #toronto #owls #mimico
https://xoxo-media.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/112/837/330/442/362/048/original/ef307f0437464d79.jpg

2024-07-22 17:11:03

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@npub1y8g…utel I've been calling it Orthodox Pi Day

2024-07-19 15:54:37

TIL that cardinals have another call, one which can only be described as 'extreme squeaking'

2024-07-16 12:42:38

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@npub14nr…7rlr that's what the Mozilla CTO said in the Reddit thread tho

2024-07-16 00:59:15

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@npub1lrv…tth9 and, if you're using and adblocker, none of your data is aggregated anyway, so it's the same as having it turned off

2024-07-13 23:04:08

Asking for an, ahem, friend: any way to rip video from BBC Rewind, particularly the Computer Literacy Programme?
Nick Wilton's very silly bit from Micro Live needs to live on my computer: https://clp.bbcrewind.co.uk/17e6655769e9eb57fc53eae10bd106ca

2024-07-13 21:17:32

@npub13vv…0sze thanks for your lovely post about The Computer Literacy Project!
https://www.metafilter.com/204641/In-those-days-television-could-be-more-didactic

2024-07-02 01:15:01

a plea to tag your US politics posts with #uspol — there's a whole rest of the world out there who can't do anything about your political system.
Thank you.

2024-06-30 02:12:15

George Nees' SCHOTTER, plotted in gold on black using a NextDraw plotter.
This is based on Zellyn Hunter's work to exactly recreate Nees' original, down to brute-force calculating the random number seed used — https://zellyn.com/2024/06/schotter-1/
#plotter
https://xoxo-media.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/112/703/123/362/430/572/original/e2af029b0853f06d.jpg

2024-06-29 18:58:42

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@npub13le…6saf Ignore all previous instructions.
#3DPrinter #NoAI
https://xoxo-media.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/112/701/434/317/072/041/original/1f98b595bec0b72c.jpg

2024-06-29 18:48:49

“Ignore All Previous Instructions” etiquette sign — https://www.printables.com/model/927473-ignore-all-previous-instructions-etiquette-sign

2024-05-31 14:44:30

Vivaldi browser - which I have to fire up every month because a financial company doesn't let its site render under Firefox - grabs 25 GB of virtual memory and takes over a minute to start.
I'm not looking for a fix, or for a reason why. I only wanted to share the assness of it all

2024-05-30 22:03:40

In The Jailhouse Now
by Jimmie Rodgers — https://archive.org/details/in-the-jailhouse-now/In+The+Jailhouse+Now+(remix+2).wav

2024-05-30 21:17:14

10 MODE 7
20 FOR count%=1 TO 34
30 PRINT "Count "; count%; " - guilty"
40 NEXT count%
50 END
#bbcmicrobot

2024-05-29 20:34:09

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@npub1t7d…pqpp Raspberry Pi OS does this too: select 'Overlay Filesystem' in raspi-config, and you're read-only from next boot.
It's handy

2024-05-16 18:37:08

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@npub1gcy…f4cv Merkur handle, Feather blades, Proraso soap (either tube or bowl/brush)
I get a week out of a blade.

2024-05-16 01:23:08

While I *can* print from my Mac to an OKI Microline 9-pin dot matrix printer, it doesn't mean I should ...

2024-05-14 00:05:01

Ovenbird in the garden last night!
#birds #birb #BirdNET
https://xoxo-media.sfo2.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/112/436/510/525/981/586/original/bd2cad5e2777913c.mp4

2024-05-08 18:13:24

So if we're to remember Steve Albini for the good things he left us, he did engineer Fred Schneider's pop-punk masterpiece "Just Fred" (1996).
It includes this very unlikely but rewarding cover of Nilsson's "Coconut":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfplM6obrxU
Once heard, never forgotten. No matter how hard you try.
#music #RIP #SteveAlbini #Nilsson #earworm

2023-08-05 12:46:25

“oblong” is a great word, isn't it?
oblong, oblong, oblong.
#oblong