Good old electron microscope running Windows XP.
Windows 11: fucked
Windows XP: unfazed
Luke Weston
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Luke Weston
@lukeweston
Electronic engineering, physics, biomedical engineering, plasmonics, using nanotechnology to manipulate light. He/him. Favourite programming language is solder.
Melbourne, Australia
Joined April 2009
- Is there a non-vulgar, more professional word for enshittification? I want to explain what enshittification is to business people and why they need to select technology services and devices to avoid enshittification risk without saying enshittification.
- You could do that with a phone app. Or plasticine. Or pencil and paper. Or a photo. But no, we have to demonise Flipper like it’s some magical evil thing only Flipper can do?The Flipper Zero has an app called "Key Maker" that allows users to copy the cut pattern of some physical keys. Scary isn't it? x.com/froggyups/stat…
- There are two kinds of people at Microsoft. The guy who found that SSH was taking a few extra milliseconds to connect and was insistent on knowing why. And the person who has decided the Microsoft Mac RDP client will be rebranded to “Windows App”
- I remember when Raspberry Pi used to be heavily publicised as “the $25 computer”. And now I’m paying $100 for a Raspberry Pi.
- Replying to @ThemightyhutchThe bike rack is “closed” for royal mourning but the people who remove your bike are not?
- In the mid-1920s, Germany taxed radios based on the number of vacuum tubes in the receiver. In 1926 Loewe Radio decided they could make a much cheaper 3-tube radio but only tariffed as a one-tube radio. To do this they invented the 3NF tube, the first integrated circuit.
- Replying to @EERandomnessI’m thinking more of annoying corporate software tools like email swear policing.
- Rotman lenses are still the best unhinged electronic component ever invented.
00:10I've set up a simulation of a Rotman lens to drive a phased array in Elmer. The matching of the ports is poor, causing lots of internal reflections, resulting in unwanted side lobes and poor channel separation. Nonetheless I think it still demonstrates the principle nicely 😊 - A “real” crystal radio. With a rock. This is temperamental and insensitive - but it’s working. This is pyrite, galena also works. An active semiconducting device- and it’s a rock. Excuse the messy soldering to the brass, I don’t have the ideal iron and flux here at the moment.
