Fraser MacIntosh
@sdschap.bsky.social
Standard Nerd, collector of hobbies, ADD (go figure) + various other neuro-wossnames, Bi, Poly, NB… I’m sure you get the picture…
Came here to say the same thing…
November 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Came here to say the same thing…
Do you charge an EV with a 13A socket?
Did you know it needs a specially EV rated socket?
Suitable sockets are marked BS1363-2/EV on the backplate and labelled as suitable for EV charging. It should also be on an RCD protected circuit with a suitable type of RCD.
Did you know it needs a specially EV rated socket?
Suitable sockets are marked BS1363-2/EV on the backplate and labelled as suitable for EV charging. It should also be on an RCD protected circuit with a suitable type of RCD.
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Do you charge an EV with a 13A socket?
Did you know it needs a specially EV rated socket?
Suitable sockets are marked BS1363-2/EV on the backplate and labelled as suitable for EV charging. It should also be on an RCD protected circuit with a suitable type of RCD.
Did you know it needs a specially EV rated socket?
Suitable sockets are marked BS1363-2/EV on the backplate and labelled as suitable for EV charging. It should also be on an RCD protected circuit with a suitable type of RCD.
Does this mean I need to post this meme at myself? (I’ve been having sense of humour fails at so many otherwise smart people who’ll believe and repeat anything about AI - both positive and negative)
October 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Does this mean I need to post this meme at myself? (I’ve been having sense of humour fails at so many otherwise smart people who’ll believe and repeat anything about AI - both positive and negative)
Here is an IBM Z17 mainframe trinket box. Again, default settings.
October 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Here is an IBM Z17 mainframe trinket box. Again, default settings.
New Bambu lab 3d printer, first print with generic PLA. I did nothing other than the minimum setup, it even worked out what settings for the PLA itself. This is the pre-sliced benchy supplied by BambuLab. It took 20mins.
I am, needless to say, impressed.
I am, needless to say, impressed.
October 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
New Bambu lab 3d printer, first print with generic PLA. I did nothing other than the minimum setup, it even worked out what settings for the PLA itself. This is the pre-sliced benchy supplied by BambuLab. It took 20mins.
I am, needless to say, impressed.
I am, needless to say, impressed.
There’s a chicken sat on some robot trousers walking down the wall at the Media Museum…
October 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
There’s a chicken sat on some robot trousers walking down the wall at the Media Museum…
This is one of the few photographs of me VJing. Some time in the late 90s. That’s a blue cropped club Alien T, black PVC trousers, many CRTs, a VineGen pro and dense lustrous head of hair.
September 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This is one of the few photographs of me VJing. Some time in the late 90s. That’s a blue cropped club Alien T, black PVC trousers, many CRTs, a VineGen pro and dense lustrous head of hair.
I’m sad to hear of the passing of Tsutomu ‘Tom’ Matano, the designer of the Mazda MX-5.
I shall drive my Eunos Roadster sideways around the local ring road tonight in his memory.
I shall drive my Eunos Roadster sideways around the local ring road tonight in his memory.
September 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I’m sad to hear of the passing of Tsutomu ‘Tom’ Matano, the designer of the Mazda MX-5.
I shall drive my Eunos Roadster sideways around the local ring road tonight in his memory.
I shall drive my Eunos Roadster sideways around the local ring road tonight in his memory.
The Register just wrote an article about AI+ML at Lloyds Banking Group. In which they mistook Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) for Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS/NatWest Banking Group) and illustrated the article with the Lloyd's of London HQ.
Maybe some AI fact checking wouldn't go amiss?
Maybe some AI fact checking wouldn't go amiss?
September 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The Register just wrote an article about AI+ML at Lloyds Banking Group. In which they mistook Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) for Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS/NatWest Banking Group) and illustrated the article with the Lloyd's of London HQ.
Maybe some AI fact checking wouldn't go amiss?
Maybe some AI fact checking wouldn't go amiss?
Inspired by @glitchwolfe.studio I've dug out a few of my old video show animations from the "Virtual Visuals" days in the late 90s/early2000s.
Here's the first. It's an SGS Thompson #Transputer wafer reflecting bubbles from the surface of my aquarium, with the moonlight on.
Here's the first. It's an SGS Thompson #Transputer wafer reflecting bubbles from the surface of my aquarium, with the moonlight on.
September 14, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Inspired by @glitchwolfe.studio I've dug out a few of my old video show animations from the "Virtual Visuals" days in the late 90s/early2000s.
Here's the first. It's an SGS Thompson #Transputer wafer reflecting bubbles from the surface of my aquarium, with the moonlight on.
Here's the first. It's an SGS Thompson #Transputer wafer reflecting bubbles from the surface of my aquarium, with the moonlight on.
The best CRT monitor ever is still the Microvitec CUB.
This thing survived roadies touring with some surprisingly big bands (The BBC Micro had a midi sequencer) But much more impressively survived classrooms in schools across the UK in the 1980s and early 90s.
www.beebwiki.mdfs.net/Microvitec_Cub
This thing survived roadies touring with some surprisingly big bands (The BBC Micro had a midi sequencer) But much more impressively survived classrooms in schools across the UK in the 1980s and early 90s.
www.beebwiki.mdfs.net/Microvitec_Cub
September 12, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The best CRT monitor ever is still the Microvitec CUB.
This thing survived roadies touring with some surprisingly big bands (The BBC Micro had a midi sequencer) But much more impressively survived classrooms in schools across the UK in the 1980s and early 90s.
www.beebwiki.mdfs.net/Microvitec_Cub
This thing survived roadies touring with some surprisingly big bands (The BBC Micro had a midi sequencer) But much more impressively survived classrooms in schools across the UK in the 1980s and early 90s.
www.beebwiki.mdfs.net/Microvitec_Cub
I’m m pretty sure the guitarist in this picture is David St Hubbins who - to my best knowledge - hasn’t been associated thus far with Jane’s Addiction.
I would totally go to a gig where he replaced any member of Jane’s Adiction.
I would totally go to a gig where he replaced any member of Jane’s Adiction.
August 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I’m m pretty sure the guitarist in this picture is David St Hubbins who - to my best knowledge - hasn’t been associated thus far with Jane’s Addiction.
I would totally go to a gig where he replaced any member of Jane’s Adiction.
I would totally go to a gig where he replaced any member of Jane’s Adiction.
Other things from the year development started on this format:
1: The Shinkansen
2. IBM System 360
1: The Shinkansen
2. IBM System 360
August 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Other things from the year development started on this format:
1: The Shinkansen
2. IBM System 360
1: The Shinkansen
2. IBM System 360
So who remembers when RCA had a vinyl video disk? No? This would be the correct answer, unless you’re @techconnectify.bsky.social
My job for 25years has been data storage based and I am super into obsolete formats. Until today I had never seen one, so behold Barbarella! In glorious mono NTSC.
My job for 25years has been data storage based and I am super into obsolete formats. Until today I had never seen one, so behold Barbarella! In glorious mono NTSC.
August 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
So who remembers when RCA had a vinyl video disk? No? This would be the correct answer, unless you’re @techconnectify.bsky.social
My job for 25years has been data storage based and I am super into obsolete formats. Until today I had never seen one, so behold Barbarella! In glorious mono NTSC.
My job for 25years has been data storage based and I am super into obsolete formats. Until today I had never seen one, so behold Barbarella! In glorious mono NTSC.
SATA? This is FICON! FIIIIICON!!!!
July 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
SATA? This is FICON! FIIIIICON!!!!
The Microvitec cub is the best monitor ever made…
June 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The Microvitec cub is the best monitor ever made…
BBC Master 128, with internal 186 second processor, music 500 synthesiser. 3.5” & 5.25” FDD and Microvitec CUB not shown.
June 7, 2025 at 9:55 AM
BBC Master 128, with internal 186 second processor, music 500 synthesiser. 3.5” & 5.25” FDD and Microvitec CUB not shown.
Not a computer per-se, but this is the oldest thing made by an IT company that I own.
It’s an electrically wound central time source.
It’s an electrically wound central time source.
June 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Not a computer per-se, but this is the oldest thing made by an IT company that I own.
It’s an electrically wound central time source.
It’s an electrically wound central time source.
Thankyou for reminding me about this speech recognition fail from 2014…
June 6, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Thankyou for reminding me about this speech recognition fail from 2014…
It lives! After only like three years of trying to get round to fixing it…
May 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
It lives! After only like three years of trying to get round to fixing it…
I’m working on resurrecting my delta printer with new motherboard and TMC2208 stepper drivers and sadly as of this morning, no I don’t know…
May 20, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I’m working on resurrecting my delta printer with new motherboard and TMC2208 stepper drivers and sadly as of this morning, no I don’t know…