Kasami
@kasami.bsky.social
Programmer, tinkerer, sometimes demoscene things, always technical rambling. Currently working mostly on Casio Loopy and Casio's uPD937-based keyboards.
Website (with not very much on it yet): kasami.net
Website (with not very much on it yet): kasami.net
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Kasami
@kasami.bsky.social
· Feb 9
I've basically not posted anything online for a little while now and don't really want to actively use twitter anymore so I guess my random technical rambling will continue here.
Steam review moderation sucks apparently, and god damn they should be doing better, but it's turning into a "let's all shit on the Valve monopoly" thing again and I can only conclude there's hate on both sides and I want fuck all to do with it
December 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Steam review moderation sucks apparently, and god damn they should be doing better, but it's turning into a "let's all shit on the Valve monopoly" thing again and I can only conclude there's hate on both sides and I want fuck all to do with it
So the latter has arrived and it's about as garbage as I expected. CH340 directly connected to a DB9, so it's TTL not real RS232. Seems it's pot luck whether a given device / transceiver will be okay with that but first device I tried said no and I'm not comfortable plugging it into anything else.
USB to serial adapters, 2007 vs 2025. The hardware gets worse but the transparent-blue aesthetic never dies.
December 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
So the latter has arrived and it's about as garbage as I expected. CH340 directly connected to a DB9, so it's TTL not real RS232. Seems it's pot luck whether a given device / transceiver will be okay with that but first device I tried said no and I'm not comfortable plugging it into anything else.
The pain of acquiring a device that takes rare memory cards nobody has because they were only used in weird industrial control systems from 20+ years ago... Seriously if someone can help me get a ML-64PC card (or -32) then I'll make cheap clones for the very few people in the world who may need them
December 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The pain of acquiring a device that takes rare memory cards nobody has because they were only used in weird industrial control systems from 20+ years ago... Seriously if someone can help me get a ML-64PC card (or -32) then I'll make cheap clones for the very few people in the world who may need them
USB to serial adapters, 2007 vs 2025. The hardware gets worse but the transparent-blue aesthetic never dies.
December 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
USB to serial adapters, 2007 vs 2025. The hardware gets worse but the transparent-blue aesthetic never dies.
Woo, weird old card reader for a weird old niche SRAM card... maybe. I think this goes with their ML-64PC and similar cards used in industrial control equipment, but at least one seller in the past has called it a PCMCIA reader so I'm not sure...
December 6, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Woo, weird old card reader for a weird old niche SRAM card... maybe. I think this goes with their ML-64PC and similar cards used in industrial control equipment, but at least one seller in the past has called it a PCMCIA reader so I'm not sure...
There are multiple cursed things going on here. Two XA sockets, three XH plugs with the locking tab things shaved off. Power going in where power is supposed to come out. I don't even know if this is enough to access the debug console but it should be if they designed it sensibly.
December 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
There are multiple cursed things going on here. Two XA sockets, three XH plugs with the locking tab things shaved off. Power going in where power is supposed to come out. I don't even know if this is enough to access the debug console but it should be if they designed it sensibly.
Anyone used something like an osmo-fl2k to output something like software-defined CVBS? That would be neat for things like test pattern generators on the cheap I think.
December 2, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Anyone used something like an osmo-fl2k to output something like software-defined CVBS? That would be neat for things like test pattern generators on the cheap I think.
Turns out my new CPU is quite happy at full load with the biggest undervolt I can get on this board. Can't say for certain that it'll be stable long term but it's wild to see temps hanging around 68°C during benchmarks when at stock voltage it was touching the 95 limit.
December 2, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Turns out my new CPU is quite happy at full load with the biggest undervolt I can get on this board. Can't say for certain that it'll be stable long term but it's wild to see temps hanging around 68°C during benchmarks when at stock voltage it was touching the 95 limit.
Unusual colored translucent TO-92 packages!
These are current-regulating diodes of various types, made by LED manufacturer OptoSupply. They don't emit light on their own but are used in LED driver circuits.
They likely repurposed a diffused LED production line to make color-coded packages.
These are current-regulating diodes of various types, made by LED manufacturer OptoSupply. They don't emit light on their own but are used in LED driver circuits.
They likely repurposed a diffused LED production line to make color-coded packages.
December 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Unusual colored translucent TO-92 packages!
These are current-regulating diodes of various types, made by LED manufacturer OptoSupply. They don't emit light on their own but are used in LED driver circuits.
They likely repurposed a diffused LED production line to make color-coded packages.
These are current-regulating diodes of various types, made by LED manufacturer OptoSupply. They don't emit light on their own but are used in LED driver circuits.
They likely repurposed a diffused LED production line to make color-coded packages.
Ebay seems convinced that polyvinyl alcohol is the same thing as isopropyl alcohol
November 28, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Ebay seems convinced that polyvinyl alcohol is the same thing as isopropyl alcohol
Less than 36 hours left on this, message me if you want to help, even if just grabbing one item you like. Most items on the store are ¥220 each, delivered by email as a secure download link, and need a credit card (use Wise or something if you're worried about conversion fees).
If anyone has a lot of money to spend on archival, there's like ¥190,000 (by my estimate) worth of purchasable downloads on the Kyoani download store that disappears on November 28, seemingly not offered anywhere else. Idk if anyone else has archived it yet. www.kyotoanimation.co.jp/information/...
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京都アニメーションホームページへようこそ。アニメ作品情報、オリジナルグッズなどの情報満載です。スタッフコンテンツもお楽しみに！
www.kyotoanimation.co.jp
November 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Less than 36 hours left on this, message me if you want to help, even if just grabbing one item you like. Most items on the store are ¥220 each, delivered by email as a secure download link, and need a credit card (use Wise or something if you're worried about conversion fees).
archive machine broke again
November 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
archive machine broke again
Heard the term "knock-on effect" again and now I'm trying to work out why I interpreted it so weirdly as a kid. I didn't see it written so missed the hyphen and heard "knock(verb) on effect(noun)" meaning something like "impact on the situation"??? Maybe that's just how my parents (mis)used it idk.
November 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Heard the term "knock-on effect" again and now I'm trying to work out why I interpreted it so weirdly as a kid. I didn't see it written so missed the hyphen and heard "knock(verb) on effect(noun)" meaning something like "impact on the situation"??? Maybe that's just how my parents (mis)used it idk.
"I wanted to let you know that the domain name kasami.com is coming up for sale soon. I thought you might be interested in it since it could be a great addition to your current domains."
kinda wish this wasn't a scam but idk I'm happy with a 6 letter .net I think
kinda wish this wasn't a scam but idk I'm happy with a 6 letter .net I think
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 AM
"I wanted to let you know that the domain name kasami.com is coming up for sale soon. I thought you might be interested in it since it could be a great addition to your current domains."
kinda wish this wasn't a scam but idk I'm happy with a 6 letter .net I think
kinda wish this wasn't a scam but idk I'm happy with a 6 letter .net I think
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having a normal one right now
November 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
having a normal one right now
I should definitely be doing this with baked samples at this point but... SID filters in XM sounding better than expected.
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 AM
I should definitely be doing this with baked samples at this point but... SID filters in XM sounding better than expected.
Trying to reverse engineer [thing that won't be around much longer] and [important step] requires an AWS signature that the backend only gives you if you already successfully authenticated, otherwise it just redirects you to the auth screen.... pain
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Trying to reverse engineer [thing that won't be around much longer] and [important step] requires an AWS signature that the backend only gives you if you already successfully authenticated, otherwise it just redirects you to the auth screen.... pain
Welp time to get used to Gmail without categories
November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Welp time to get used to Gmail without categories
For a moment I thought youtube decided to go with the "correct" lowercase-k suffix for kilo on like/sub/view counts. Turns out they just made them ALL lowercase. God dammit.
November 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
For a moment I thought youtube decided to go with the "correct" lowercase-k suffix for kilo on like/sub/view counts. Turns out they just made them ALL lowercase. God dammit.
Man I love this environment I've created for myself where random "electrical smells" just happen on a regular basis and nothing ever actually breaks or catches fire so I never find the source :)
November 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Man I love this environment I've created for myself where random "electrical smells" just happen on a regular basis and nothing ever actually breaks or catches fire so I never find the source :)
A page I archived a while ago on wayback machine has hundreds of photos linking to larger versions. For some reason it consistently fails to grab most of them even with "save outlinks" checked. Anything I can do about it besides extracting URLs myself and feeding them to the archive tool one by one?
November 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
A page I archived a while ago on wayback machine has hundreds of photos linking to larger versions. For some reason it consistently fails to grab most of them even with "save outlinks" checked. Anything I can do about it besides extracting URLs myself and feeding them to the archive tool one by one?
Oh cool, new black rectangle from the company that likes shitting on software emulation. All your favorite influencers are here to read out the AI marketing and tell you how FPGA is a gift from God. You don't have to hope it's right. It is. It's just built right. It just works. FPGA has it for you.
November 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Oh cool, new black rectangle from the company that likes shitting on software emulation. All your favorite influencers are here to read out the AI marketing and tell you how FPGA is a gift from God. You don't have to hope it's right. It is. It's just built right. It just works. FPGA has it for you.
Love how tenor's duration limit is 14 seconds and I rendered something at exactly 14 seconds long and then reencoded and uploaded it and it was rejected because somehow it ended up with a duration of 14.01 seconds
November 17, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Love how tenor's duration limit is 14 seconds and I rendered something at exactly 14 seconds long and then reencoded and uploaded it and it was rejected because somehow it ended up with a duration of 14.01 seconds