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steely_glint

@steely_glint@chaos.social

I write secure opensource niche realtime social apps
and provide End-to-End IoT security for +2bn endpoints using #webRTC.
I read sci-fi, watch films and try to learn new things.
I Co-host of the “Distributed Future” podcast where we try and figure out what the future at the intersection of tech and society looks like by asking people who might know and listening to what they say.
I play the flute badly.
Find me in Berlin, Manchester, Nowhere
He/Him

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steely_glint, to random
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Thanks to @saghul for the perfect illustration of the problems with chatGPT:

cato, to random
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I got two new displays today!

steely_glint,
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@cato This has triggered major nostalgia over here.
One of my earliest projects was an info screen in a Jeweller's window. (1984 at a guess).

I'm tempted to go and try and find the source code on 40 year old 3.5 inch floppies.

UCSD system pascal on an 8086 + z80 assembler on a custom display driver + 3 displays. The rest is a bit misty - although I think we snatched the fonts from the computer's VGA display and sent the bitmaps over serial to the z80 at boot time.

steely_glint,
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@cato I'm struggling to remember - 3x Amber phosphor CRT's I think - I remember them being insistent on the amber colour.

The hardware was a set of memory mapped video cards with a controlling z80 and 3 external keypads.

It was fun and ran for several years.

steely_glint,
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@cato Each item of jewellery in the window was tagged with a 4 digit code.

Users outside the shop could key a code in on a keypad to get a short description and price in one of 3 languages.

I should have a photo somewhere....

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