And it made me wonder about a what pathways are still available for a HeathKit-ish revival. Between ESP flashers, swapping from really busted up originals for parts, and hacking for a new use...seems like there is already a culture out there waiting for another "accident" like Heathkit to happen.
I'll be noodling on this in the notebook for sure. Listing resources, possible kits, allies, etc.
The signs sure seem to be indicating a Gen Z rollback to the analog and middle tech. Newspapers, books, cursive clubs, letter writing (pen pals), cassettes and albums, printed photographs, even carb/gas based auto hacking. These are just in my circle, but I have seen stories in the paper too. Anyone else seeing interesting trends from the youngers? I especially like to see the blending of new and old - like building a music server for VLPFM neighborhood station, hyper local phone co, text clubs on paper, etc.
As you mentioned, it’s trends. There’s nothing really sticky or mass-adoption like. This also isn’t necessarily new, as polaroids have been trending for over a decade now.
Most of the same kids still scroll instagram, listen on spotify and etc. At least that’s what I’m seeing around me.
Not sure why this comment is downvoted. As someone who regularly buys old stuff, the price goes up and down with trends that bare little resemblance to any “return to form”. It’s mostly people looking to turn a quick buck before they go onto some other trinket. We sit and wait it out, or wait for sellers who are not clued in on a given hype cycle.
The interesting thing to me is how media choices like these are becoming elements of identity, kind of like how if you were into 'zines there was a shared mindset and some assumptions about your beliefs and cultural approach baked into that. When everything becomes monoculture, the bar to stand apart can be almost any vector.
Anyone see a link to the audio / video, or better transcription? The text seems to have been transcribed and the typos / mistakes are splitting the intended meanings of things. Some of which seem to be causing misunderstandings in here. (Dialup for the day here, or I'd do it myself)
To some degree and depending on the brew style, mead is also a very very long ager. Plenty of stories of finding vessels in archaeological digs - still ready for a sip. I still have some bottles from my first batches of mead back in the 90s, and I have to say, they continue to evolve slightly - especially given how hot they were when I was a beginner.
I once saw a man with a notebook and pencil drawing these kinds of diagrams, at the time I saw them as graph theory. I wasn't in an extrovert moment and missed my chance to ask. He seemed to be working recreationally on them. I'm wondering about puzzles that could be easily created using these theories / maths. You, practitioners, any suggestions?
> I once saw a man with a notebook and pencil drawing these kinds of diagrams, at the time I saw them as graph theory.
I have been engaged in some work on s-arc transitive graphs in algebraic graph theory. You'd be surprised how rarely I have to draw an actual graph. Most of the time my work involves reasoning about group actions, automorphisms, arc-stabilisers, etc.
For anyone curious what this looks like in practice, I have some brief notes here: <https://susam.net/26c.html#algebraic-graph-theory>. They do not cover the specific results on s-arc-transitivity I have been working on but they give a flavour of the area. A large part of graph theory proceeds without ever needing to draw specific graphs.
Just added this to my Radar category. Along with ADSB, trains, boats, HeatMap, local weather stations, NOAA's solar weather, power outage trackers, quakes and fire. Anyone have any interesting things they track?
Big ups on that! Not to mention your local library's collection of DVDs. Or, their inter-library loan system for the ultra weird and rare.
One note on Kanopy - they use a ticket system (10-15 tickets per library customer). So if you have a couple people in your household, all of your library card numbers contribute tickets to the login. And, if you have two library systems like we do here (KCLS and SPL) you can double dip on all the cards again. No hack required - Kanopy actually has a very nice way of failing over to other cards as your quota is used up.
And if that's not enough, try Scarecrow Video out of Seattle. They are the masters of physical digital film media right now. It's fun to try to stump them. And they provide mailorder system similar to the old red envelopes of NetFlix.
eBay has DVD collections go up for sale all the time. Fun to buy the "box of movies" for $100 and see what you get.
Another big haul for me is from local thrift stores - usually 50 cents to 2 bucks a disc.
I've been working on mine on and off, tweaking and breaking it for years. I feed mine into a static HTML home page that's roughly based on the original index pages (e.g. Yahoo!)
My general categories are:
Libraries
Sounds
News
Health
Radar
Shopping
Movies
School
Tools
Money
Somehow, these seem to work for me. The automated side is fun to work on, but ultimately, I end up manually updating once in a while as changes are needed. I just added a page linked from the home page - Libraries - that leads to categorized "reading list" of articles, sites, things to follow / explore. That's where the real potential for automation is for me, and where I keep failing to deliver it just right.
I'm going to comb through Linkding for clews to my failure and my ultimate success.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48420148
And it made me wonder about a what pathways are still available for a HeathKit-ish revival. Between ESP flashers, swapping from really busted up originals for parts, and hacking for a new use...seems like there is already a culture out there waiting for another "accident" like Heathkit to happen.
I'll be noodling on this in the notebook for sure. Listing resources, possible kits, allies, etc.
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