UmbralRaptor changed the topic of #kspacademia to: https://gist.github.com/pdn4kd/164b9b85435d87afbec0c3a7e69d3e6d | Dogs are cats. Spiders are cat interferometers. | Космизм сегодня! | Document well, for tomorrow you may get mauled by a ネコバス. | <UmbralRaptor> egg|nomz|egg: generally if your eyes are dewing over, that's not the weather. | <ferram4> I shall beat my problems to death with an engineer. | We can haz pdf
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<raptop>
!how much snow?
<galois>
raptop: 526 snows
<raptop>
!how many moose?
<galois>
raptop: 91 mooses
<raptop>
Oh, hey, a bug
<raptop>
!how many carp
<galois>
raptop: 205 carps
<raptop>
!u ꧁༺༻꧂
<galois>
꧁: U+a9c1 JAVANESE LEFT RERENGGAN
<galois>
༺: U+0f3a TIBETAN MARK GUG RTAGS GYON
<galois>
༻: U+0f3b TIBETAN MARK GUG RTAGS GYAS
<galois>
꧂: U+a9c2 JAVANESE RIGHT RERENGGAN
<raptop>
!8 Does duolingo.com also count as a bird website?
<galois>
raptop: yes
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<egg|laptop|egg>
raptop: does the chrome offline dinosaur count
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<raptop>
egg: presumably to an extent comparable to any website with the mozilla logo
<raptop>
I wonder if it's possible to put together a bird website alignment chart
<galois>
title: Extend USB 2.0 over Cat5e up to 100m with the RG2304
<iximeow>
i was trying to track down a usb cable on this telescope and it went into a box that had an ethernet cable plugged in and i made a series of surprised faces
<whitequark>
iximeow: what's inside
<whitequark>
wtf is "Mass Storage Acceleration"
<whitequark>
wtf is "SwitchableUSB"
<whitequark>
iximeow: that device seems extremely alarming on multiple levels
<whitequark>
it seems to use an ASIC that terminates USB at either end and then transports something like URBs over UDP
<whitequark>
i'm not saying "avoid it" but who knows which weird failure modes it has & what recourse you have (probably none)
<iximeow>
that's about what i was suspecting
<iximeow>
unfortunately i have few alternatives for the time being
<iximeow>
it served the prior owner decently well for the last three or four years and i can figure out... alternate options.. on my own time
<iximeow>
as long as it doesn't somehow fry something on either end i can tolerate whatever it has to offer but i don't totally trust that it won't fry something
<iximeow>
closer-to-camera level is another usb hub to which two serial adapters are connected, because different parts of the telescope are different serial devices that do not even possibly operate together, despite being from the same vendor
<iximeow>
and in fact sold together
* raptop
swears that I've seen similiar stuff on professional instruments
<raptop>
...though often they can get a shop person to weld together boxes to hold instruments, add foam padding in places, etc
<iximeow>
"if it works it works" but i feel no more comfortable :P
<raptop>
The funniest part was disassembling a ~20 year old instrument and finding a ~20 year old laptop attached to it
<iximeow>
lmao
<iximeow>
one of my ideas here is to ziptie a sbc to the telescope and hook ethernet up to it instead
<iximeow>
but then that introduces some software complexity i'm going to ignore until i come down again to like. clean it or something
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