Toots for scruss@xoxo.zone account

Written by Stewart Russell on 2025-02-01 at 16:44

TIL that a trivial Python3 OpenCV program (open an image, attempt to display it in a window) on a Raspberry Pi tries to open over 2800 shared libraries

(EDIT: more like nearly 1400, 'cos strace opens the symbolic link and the library ... but still)

[#]python #OpenCV #strace #RaspberryPi #NotLookingForAdvice

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Written by Stewart Russell on 2025-01-31 at 23:00

mmm soggy chicken from Morosewasp

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Written by Stewart Russell on 2025-01-31 at 17:17

wtaf Carney for proposing dumping the carbon tax

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Written by Stewart Russell on 2025-01-30 at 04:37

Cycle Toronto are on the case: Shame on you, Stantec — https://www.cycleto.ca/shame_on_you_stantec

[#]bike #toronto #stantec

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Written by Stewart Russell on 2025-01-30 at 04:18

Welp, the OSM edit history over the last week for Denali has been hilarious — https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2748929230/history

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Written by Stewart Russell on 2025-01-30 at 03:35

Stantec Consulting Ltd have been given the contract to take out the Toronto bike lanes — https://www.cp24.com/news/2025/01/28/doug-ford-government-gears-up-to-remove-toronto-bike-lanes-in-one-of-its-final-pre-election-actions/

Stantec have a very nice office at 401 Wellington St W. Would be a shame if anyone protested there

[#]bike #toronto

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Written by Stewart Russell on 2025-01-29 at 14:17

linkedinburgh

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Written by Stewart Russell on 2025-01-29 at 00:47

Filled with Square Boy souvlaki goodness on this snowy Toronto evening

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Written by Stewart Russell on 2025-01-28 at 17:37

Very impressed with Meatloaf — https://github.com/idolpx/meatloaf-specialty — a C64 network disk drive thingy that uses an ESP32. Setup was a bit fiddly, but I got the C64 online quickly after I got the hang of it.

And yes, there are Michael Lee Aday related puns in the docs

[#]C64 #RetroComputing #ESP32

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Written by Stewart Russell on 2025-01-28 at 17:20

TIL there are desktop wind tunnels

https://old.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1iazymp/aero_testing_the_benchy/

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Written by Stewart Russell on 2025-01-28 at 00:25

Edwyn Collins - Knowledge — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS6P7B0t9G4

[#]music #scotland

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Written by Stewart Russell on 2025-01-26 at 15:55

TIL about https://www.batteryholders.org/ — "the comprehensive battery holder and battery contact information center" — and it really does seem to be exactly that. Need dimensions for a weird battery, or details of how to mount it in your project. It's likely in there

[#]electronics #resource #battery #cell #reference

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Written by Stewart Russell on 2025-01-26 at 15:23

Happy Hungover Haggis 'n' Neeps Farts Day for all who celebrated Burns Night yesterday!

[#]Scotland

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Written by Stewart Russell on 2025-01-25 at 23:17

No, I didn't need to score that perfect TI SR-40 scientific calculator from 1977 from the thrift store, but ...

(The SR-40 was the very slightly fancier version of the ubiquitous TI-30. It comes with a charger and battery pack)

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Written by Stewart Russell on 2025-01-25 at 01:21

I suspect this may have zero accessibility, but the software is emulated in-browser at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/Speech_v1.1_1986_Superior_Software

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Written by Stewart Russell on 2025-01-25 at 01:20

For all you retro text to speech nerds out there, here's a recording of Superior Software's "Speech" for the Amstrad CPC computer (1986). This was a small piece of Z80 machine code that played phonemes through the computer's AY-3-8912 sound chip

It sounds pretty harsh, and there are a number of hard clicks in the output I couldn't easily fix.

I've included what I think is the spoken script as alt text

[#]RetroComputing #TTS #Spech #SuperiorSoftware #AmstradCPC

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Written by Stewart Russell on 2025-01-24 at 19:55

where are the new houses, Doug? where are the repaired schools, Doug? where is the working transit, Doug? where are the nurses, Doug? where is the buck-a-beer, Doug? where's my bribe cheque, Doug?

Ford says he'll trigger an election and wants 'largest mandate in Ontario's history' | CBC — https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/livestory/ford-to-speak-with-reporters-as-source-says-official-ontario-election-call-imminent-9.6622301

[#]ONPoli

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