// #eevblog — 2026-08-10
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02:48:40 <Kuschelpony> friendlywhinny
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03:10:13 * steve30 meows
03:13:04 <EEVBot> [url] sueden.social | sueden.social
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04:08:07 <Nothing\> what the hell happened to the formatting of my qbasic program
04:08:09 <Nothing\> https://i.ibb.co/tPshRS9Z/qb64-broken.png
04:08:27 <Nothing\> i can't even make heads or tails of how this could have happened
04:08:51 <Nothing\> looks like when you write something in a rich text file and open it in notepad
04:09:06 <Nothing\> you get all the weird markup characters visible
04:09:19 <Nothing\> but since when does qb use markup characters?
04:09:51 <Nothing\> i could see an ide doing it maybe for syntax highlighting but it seems like terrible practice
05:07:41 <K> to my eyes looks like saved/loaded with wrong encoding
05:08:18 <K> or some UTF-8 back-and-forth shenanigans
05:10:43 <steve30> weird
05:15:44 <rust_collector> i think K is right
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05:31:55 <K> windows-1252 and some native one gives odd umlauts
05:32:04 <K> do not recall which way did what
06:43:47 <MrMobodies> Just found this:
06:43:51 <MrMobodies> oops scroll stuck
06:44:35 <MrMobodies> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66917614
06:44:36 <EEVBot> [url] Fifa to EA Sports FC: Name change is big gamble for UK's best-selling game - BBC News | www.bbc.co.uk
06:44:52 <MrMobodies> This bit: "The games maker is stepping out of the football governing body's shadow following a reported disagreement over the cost of the licence to use the Fifa name."
06:45:01 <MrMobodies> Yep Fifa becoming greedy at that point
06:45:15 <MrMobodies> wanting more to use their name
06:47:04 <MrMobodies> Looks like that Fifa president was also indirectly involved in another boycott in 2021
06:47:12 <MrMobodies> I didn't see his name there until now
06:47:13 <MrMobodies> https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/aug/05/fifa-super-league-gianni-infantino-wanted-governing-body-name-european-breakaway
06:47:13 <EEVBot> [url] ‘Fifa Super League’: Infantino discussed having governing body’s name on European breakaway | Gianni Infantino | The Guardian | www.theguardian.com
06:47:50 <MrMobodies> goes to how things were done in secrecy until the last minute
08:45:34 <K> ban kick honeykate pls
08:45:42 <honeykate> www.Chatbang.net - REAL girls/people, Free Signup - tip only if you want to, enjoy!
08:45:44 <honeykate> www.Chatbang.net - REAL girls/people, Free Signup - tip only if you want to, enjoy!
08:45:45 <honeykate> www.Chatbang.net - REAL girls/people, Free Signup - tip only if you want to, enjoy!
08:45:47 <arch> damn fucking ai spambots
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08:46:10 <arch> goddamn CLANKers
08:57:52 <Nothing\> wow been a while since i've seen a troll in here
08:58:47 <Nothing\> i remember it was someone at least pretending to be a woman, but everything they talked about was explicitly sexual. Like about how much she likes to masturbate or something like that. It was years ago.
08:59:14 <Nothing\> meanwhile we're all sitting here like, yeah sure someone like that's going to be interested in electrical engineering
08:59:40 <Nothing\> didn't you know? EE themed only fans pages are the new trend
09:01:18 <Nothing\> actually, I could see a lot of potential from a function generator attached to a vibrator come to think about it.
09:02:26 <Nothing\> not just have amplitude control, but frequency, modulation (type and frequency), PWM control, the whole deal
09:03:02 <Nothing\> slap some cheap silicone on it and call it space aged polymer and you can sell it for $250 a pop
09:06:01 <Nothing\> nice, i found a remastered version of turok on steam
09:06:17 <Nothing\> runs so smooth you'd think it was native to 64 bit
09:41:55 <Nothing\> i think i'm addicted to buying steam games
09:42:48 <Nothing\> I started keeping a written list of new games I buy, because I keep forgetting when I buy some games and end up finding them months later. Meanwhile I've bought 15 games in just the last week
09:43:02 <Nothing\> and yet, not a single AAA title
09:43:24 <Nothing\> i couldn't even say what new games are popular now or even last year
09:44:05 <Nothing\> The newest games I play are minecraft and No Man's Sky
09:52:20 <steve30> https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx1CaFwjJThm1DpZzafIrGscsgCbvCU8E5
09:52:21 <EEVBot> [url] Post from steve30 | www.youtube.com
09:52:41 <steve30> Youtube's AI thumbnail generator is actually quite cool, even if it does have to make stuff up :)
10:20:18 <MrMobodies> Reported to the domain registrar.
10:20:35 <MrMobodies> Ionos and Cloudfare proxy
10:20:46 <MrMobodies> I mean that spambot
10:21:45 <MrMobodies> looking at archive.org it's one of those obscene with people showing themselves naked on camera
10:23:09 <MrMobodies> the URL is direct, no wrapped in any other or no redirect and seems like the bot was designed by them to advertise their content directly.
10:23:50 <Nothing\> oh cool
10:23:54 <Nothing\> a skunk in my backyard
10:24:11 <MrMobodies> for it to be set to enter into and spam communities and it's members that may have youngsters on here and I don't find that acceptable.
10:24:19 <Nothing\> these guys are cool
10:24:32 <Nothing\> there's a family of em heer i think, but they fight a lot... and spray
10:25:14 <MrMobodies> If it don't stink when it's near you then it might like you
10:28:25 <MrMobodies> Naked people on camera "*tip in* if you want to" why would someone want to *pay* to see another person naked on camera.
10:29:05 <MrMobodies> but the spam element I found more offending.
10:29:28 <MrMobodies> in trying to sell rubbish
10:32:17 <MrMobodies> I never took that much in consideration years ago in terms of age but maybe I don't find that appropriate for any age group not even mine.
10:33:07 <MrMobodies> in public they'd be arrested for flashing and begging.
10:36:53 <steve30> yes, but you don't /have/ to click the link if you don't want to
11:58:59 <MrMobodies> No, but it's the begging element "tip in if you want to"
11:59:21 <MrMobodies> and the fact it sent me a message
11:59:30 <MrMobodies> and other members
11:59:34 <MrMobodies> mass spamming
11:59:49 <MrMobodies> just came across this
12:00:05 <MrMobodies> https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/09/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-westminster-ban-new-pubs-restaurants-soho-west-end
12:00:06 <EEVBot> [url] London mayor orders council to drop plan to ban new pubs and bars in Soho and West End | London | The Guardian | www.theguardian.com
12:00:28 <MrMobodies> Noise nuisance as to why these rules exist
12:00:32 <MrMobodies> "There are also plans to label Mayfair and the Victoria area as special zones where nightlife is restricted due to noise and other “nuisance behaviours”."
12:01:24 <MrMobodies> "Khan is asking the council to scrap all of these zones... He is also directing it to get rid of the “core hours” policy and allow venues to be open late into the night."
12:01:51 <MrMobodies> Absolute hypocrit. He speaks of POLLUTION from cars and his "RIGHT" to break fresh air without pollution.
12:02:05 <MrMobodies> Now what does he do with NOISE POLLUTION.
12:02:41 <MrMobodies> What about his "RIGHT" to sleep at night if he was living near a noisey venue going all night long.
12:03:02 <MrMobodies> Steve30, what do you think about that?
12:05:51 <MrMobodies> oops not break *breathe fresh air"
12:08:48 <MrMobodies> I think maybe should be subject to noise controls regardless of opening hours. If they can't control the noise late at night then crack down on their late hours.
12:10:39 <MrMobodies> I mean by the individual venues
12:12:18 <MrMobodies> I know a pub in Hornchurch where due to the direction of these flats facing the pub's garden they banned them from allowing guests to take glass cups outside due to noise complaints
12:12:28 <MrMobodies> so they issued plastic cups
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15:38:01 <MrMobodies> Utterly USELESS article MISSING things
15:38:10 <MrMobodies> Looking for \
15:38:35 <MrMobodies> Found it in here
15:38:37 <MrMobodies> https://cherrytree.at/misc/vk.htm
15:38:37 <EEVBot> [url] Virtual-Key Codes | cherrytree.at
15:38:44 <MrMobodies> VK_OEM_5 220 Windows 2000: For the US standard keyboard, the '\|' key
15:38:53 <MrMobodies> To work with NIRCMD
15:39:11 <MrMobodies> Sarcasm "The MASS MAJORITY don't USE \
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19:11:52 <MrMobodies> Saw this in the news. Absolutely disgusting
19:11:53 <MrMobodies> https://lanop.co.uk/news/veterans-pension-overpayment-errors/
19:11:55 <EEVBot> [url] Veterans Asked to Repay Pension Overpayments After Errors | lanop.co.uk
19:12:04 <MrMobodies> I take it that this government operate on "errors"
19:12:52 <MrMobodies> "We'll create this error, and move it onto our error and make it right"... so give us the money back.
19:13:22 <MrMobodies> their' mistake their fault.
19:14:18 <MrMobodies> if anything they should absorb it back from the staff that were on duty involved with the mistakes or the contractors operating this errenous system.
19:14:53 <MrMobodies> looks like they can't trust government pensions anymore
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22:24:35 <Nothing\> my duumb ass
22:24:49 <Nothing\> i broke 2 fingers last night
22:24:56 <Nothing\> different hands
22:25:14 <Nothing\> my pinky is sticking out to the side
22:26:16 <Nothing\> and my other one is jusn in unreasonable pain my collar bone hurt less when i beroke ti
22:26:41 <Nothing\> a knifu in my leg literolly hurt less
22:27:23 * steve30 is battling with dodgy chinese software
22:29:00 <K> Nothing\ what did you do?
22:29:20 <K> !cofee steve30
22:29:25 <K> dang
22:29:27 <K> !coffee steve30
22:29:27 * EEVBot drowns steve30 in coffee
22:29:36 <steve30> mmm
22:29:37 <Nothing\> fell from the 5th stair up right on my back
22:29:48 <K> there, better, no more chinese software issues.
22:29:53 <K> Nothing\, intoxicated?
22:30:15 <Nothing\> i just barely managed to snag the railing with my pinky and tried for my literal life to stop it, which is what must have broke it
22:30:23 <Nothing\> K, noh, just tired
22:30:25 <Nothing\> i think
22:30:43 <Nothing\> but it's the 3rd time i've broken something in a fall in as many years
22:31:08 <Nothing\> so i'm gonna have to ask a doctor about this cuz normal pople don't do that
22:31:36 <Nothing\> probaby my meds
22:32:18 <Nothing\> too many sedating drugs. when i get tired i become armont narcoleptic in how fast i fall asleep
22:32:32 <Nothing\> oh and her'n the nice thing
22:32:50 <Nothing\> hospital has 34 ppl waiting and one doctor on
22:34:05 <K> that is not nice.
22:34:10 <Nothing\> ironically i have an appointment at the fracture clinic for my broken collar bone which is at the hospital sno i figur i can register at a&e before and at leasn wait for that while i'm at the fracture clinic
22:34:24 <Nothing\> K, it could have been way worse
22:34:41 <K> well yeah, but still
22:35:01 <Nothing\> by some literal miracle i completely missed the stereo stand at the bottmo of the tsairs and juts landed flat on my back
22:35:22 <Nothing\> knocked the wind out of me so my mum just woke up to sounds like i was dying
22:36:03 <Nothing\> somehow the 150lb body falling from 5 feet didn't disturb her llo
22:36:11 <Nothing\> K, indeed it was bad
22:36:42 <Nothing\> been decades since i've had the wind knocked out of me though not since the playground
22:37:35 <Nothing\> running and jumping up to grab the monkey bars, missed the bar and landed on my back but that was way worse fro some reason. this time i could at eeast breath a little
22:38:08 <Nothing\> i get the sense this break on my finger is gonna need a plate
22:38:24 <Nothing\> which they do apparently make them for fingers
22:38:44 <Nothing\> that's all i need 3 surgeries in a year
22:39:22 <Nothing\> getting my clavicle plate out just in time to put a phalangial plate on
22:39:36 <Nothing\> at leasn those dont need removing
22:39:51 <Nothing\> okay i've gotta get ready for hospital
22:40:08 <Nothing\> thanks for the well wishes and all, K
22:40:15 <Nothing\> hope you have a good day
22:40:20 <Nothing\> and i mean it
22:40:50 <K> first day after vacation is, so far, meh.
22:40:56 <K> good luck w doctors
22:41:09 <K> may the nurses hands not be cold.
23:32:18 <steve30> I've left my old Core2Quad machine in the loft connected to my PV inverter to do some data logging
23:32:21 <steve30> hopefully it won't crash
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