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doogiebooon A Vacuum Tube Single Board 1-Bit Computer [video]

Vacuum tubes are his specialty area. He's building a much larger vacuum tube computer and this is supposed to be a more mobile display version he can demo at events.

He's also done quite a few videos restoring old vacuum tube based test equipment from like HP. He does some really cool work.

doogiebooon Vitalik Buterin reveals X account hack was caused by SIM-swap attack

bitwarden has TOTP built in as well. Apple has it built into their platform, but its tougher to use and only works with Chrome if you use windows too.....

doogiebooon Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users

I replaced msedge.exe with a blank, read only file. I was very surprised nothing ever fixed it. I've removed the exe before and it always magically re-appears.

doogiebooon Frozen heads and bodies await revival at this Arizona cryonics facility

I see they left this part of the Ted Williams story out..

"PHOENIX -- A new book by a former employee of Alcor, the company that froze Ted Williams' remains, alleges the Baseball Hall of Famer's body was mistreated by the company.

Larry Johnson says in the book "Frozen: My Journey Into the World of Cryonics, Deception and Death" that he watched an Alcor official swing a monkey wrench at Williams' frozen severed head to try to remove a tuna can stuck to it. The first swing accidentally struck the head, Johnson contends, and the second knocked the tuna can loose."

https://www.espn.com/boston/mlb/news/story?id=4524957

doogiebooon Starlink internet is going from rural savior to unreliable luxury

The new satellites are bigger and weigh more so they are launching fewer on each rocket now. They need starship for better launch capacity for the new satellites.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2023/02/26/spacex-unveils-first-b...