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I’ve been doing a lot of learning lately.
I think it started in earnest with Red Man Laughing. Which is rather sad really, since I’ve been surrounded by non-white voices since university. But Ryan’s show is the first one I can remember sitting with me, the stories. And how much similarity there was in some of the shittier aspects. How much colonization had just completely fucked everything up for, well, everyone.
Continue reading “Thinking about land”<Scriven> The first one I noticed was beautiful and competent.
<Scriven> of course we didn’t know it was an android, not at first.
<Scriven> when they passed the testing phase, the DMV phased out all the humans, so the androids just dealt with everyone, one per location.
<Scriven> lines stayed the same length, it was just more efficient for each of the thousands of daily transactions.
<Scriven> Soon businesses cropped up serving the people who are standing in line. over-head drone delivery of smart-phone ordered food from vendors that hover around the perimeter.
<Scriven> then came the ‘holding the place in line while you use the bathroom’ people… and the adult incontinence device sellers.
<Scriven> garbage collection.
<Scriven> A collection was taken up one day, and one section got a tarp installed.
<Scriven> They were angry when the other people didn’t let them take it with them when the line moved slightly, but the security guards pulled out the rowdy ones and put them at the back of the line… that shut up the rest… no one wanted to be reset.
<Scriven> That set up the precedent that installations stayed where installed… umbrella sales skyrocketed.
<Scriven> Eventually people started to wonder why, if the dmv was so efficient, did the line not move faster…
<Scriven> shouldn’t they be shuffling along at a slow but regular pace? Not camping out?
<Scriven> That was when the rumour started… the dmv had started a pay-to-the-front line…
<Scriven> “Before The Riots”.
My kids asked me, yet again, to fix busted Nerf darts. There’s a few sitting here beside me waiting for cyanoacrylate as I type this in fact. One or two have a plastic tip that is starting to separate, another has double splits down it’s shaft. This would be less of a big deal if we had more, but looking at the stores just walking around and Nerf replacements aren’t cheap!
This led me online and down the rabbit hole of DIY foam ammo, gun mods (dart post / air restrictor removals) and inevitably looking at DIY guns (which are very similar to the water guns). I collected the kid’s 3 Nerf guns, and started researching their hackability, to see if I could get the owner’s permission to upgrade their gun.
[Pictures coming soon, will edit the post and add them when I post them]
Continue reading “Nerf Hacking Notes”
This is a follow up on my previous RePhone Keyboard post.
My sim-card cutter arrived, so I chopped my pay-as-you-go sim card and got the phone activated. That process went remarkably smoothly, simply following the instructions provided with the card. I’m using a 711 Speakout card currently, but bought it before their new nano cards were released.
The phone itself as it is is very basic, but does that job just fine. The microphone seems to pick up sound ok, but the audio out seems very quiet by default even at full volume. After confirming the initial phone setup worked, I loaded my first version of the keyboard hack code onto the phone and sadly confirmed that my code didn’t work. 
Continue reading “RePhone, SIM testing and more keyboard hacking”
So, I posted before about the RePhone stuff I’ve been playing with but here I’ll talk about one specific deficiency and the fix I’ve programmed and released to the wild.
The RePhone Kit Create software (source code on github) provides a very basic cellphone and Xadow module interface. By default, it provides the following interfaces: