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Daniel J
@danielj.uk
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Grant Wrangler, erstwhile evolutionary biologist and bioinformatician. Tinkerer. Knows some stuff about old computers. Quite likes to take a photo from time to time. Dislikes cryptobores.
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I'm not sure whether this is therapeutic or mind numbing. Finally getting around to attempting to reverse engineer the Victor 9000 DMA card... #retrocomputing
A scan of a circuit board in a circuit board editor with IC footprints laid on top of the scan.
February 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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I see the Tory idiocracy is still in full swing. www.gov.uk/government/n...
List of Tory House of Lords nominations with Toby Young outlined in red.
December 20, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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Just finalised an application to do some exciting work with colleagues in Nairobi, so seems a fitting time to post a picture of a Masai #giraffe who lives in Nairobi National Park.
A Masai giraffe on savannah.
December 10, 2024 at 1:30 PM
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Turn your back on the tree for one minute and it gets invaded by sushi....
December 8, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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Just asked copilot to illustrate its core values for me.
"6 core values" at the top followed cartoon pictures of pilots with the words "dompoite, despore, domcraty, demporte and hoove"
December 5, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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Just 😅
November 26, 2024 at 10:34 PM
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If you have a rummage in your settings you can mute words/tags and generally tailor things to your liking!
picture of the "add muted words and tags" dialogue box.
November 26, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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Back to my favourite ladybird book...
A mocked up cover of a ladybird book from the 1950's with a boy pointing at the engine in a car. The book title is "Everything I don't like is WOKE - A BOOK FOR THOSE WHO HATE "Them". Across the boy is a quote saying "This engine is woke."
November 24, 2024 at 9:48 PM
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I'm not entirely sure what just inspired me just now to try the colour driver for GEM on my BBC Master. Suffice to say I shan't be trying it again. #retrocomputing
GEM Desktop running on an Acorn BBC Master 512 in B&W mode GEM Desktop running on an Acorn BBC Master 512 in Colour mode - it's half the horizontal resolution and utterly awful.
November 20, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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#deactivated
November 18, 2024 at 11:14 PM
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An Acorn Electron
November 17, 2024 at 9:34 PM
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Literally nothing but angry blue ticks...
Post on X by Keir Starmer with all the replies being aggressive and negative comments from blue tick accounts.
November 15, 2024 at 11:17 AM