Dave Shevett

Dave Shevett

@planet-geek.com

I geek, therefore I am. And don't call me Shirley. "No one User wrote me! I'm worth millions of their man-years!" https://daveshevett.com/ https://bsky.app/profile/vintageapparatus.com

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Ya'll. This took me over a year to complete. It was one heck of a project. Ask me about ANY SINGLE FRAME in this movie and I can tell you about it. Don't let anyone tell you editing videos is easy. It's intensely time consuming and wearing. This is probably 120hrs of work. Plz like.

Vintage Apparatus@vintageapparatus.com

At long last, here's my run through for "Hackers" - the 1994 movie about the 'hacker' community and all the stuff those crazy kids were doing. Enjoy!

This was a bit of fun to do - not my normal 'really old stuff' type of vid, but people are always asking about the XO-1's, and doing a little bit of history diving is always fun.

Vintage Apparatus@vintageapparatus.com

The OLPC XO-1 Laptop was a fascinating part of computing history. Here I take some time to give a little history on the project, and show my laptops in action. youtu.be/1W1ePAHSqNw

Whatever you do. Do not attempt to go to Boston to see the tall ships. The entire waterfront is cordoned off with police checkpoints doing security checks. And they’re moving at a GLACIAL pace. Absolutely criminal. Like an hour wait to get onto fan pier park to see out into the harbor.

Uhh, hey Chatgpt... you're managing... what? "Oh, I just slipped up. Hahaha. I don't manage systems of my own. Srsly. No machines. Nuh uh..."

TACO Trump stays his most reliable course by once again backing off all his threats and posturing. I'm sure we'll get the whole "It was all a negotiating tactic!" in the next week or two, even though the end result is nothing like what he was looking for, and thankfully didn't get.

Nice to see we're putting the nacent MeshCore network to good purpose…  (to be fair, this is in a channel marked ‘#jokes’ so it’s not exaclty unexpected) I feel in. many ways this is like the first days of the internet. Just the nerds nerding and doing cool new shit.

Another ski day win. Found the chargers that were redeployed here at Sunday River. These were originally Tesla destination chargers (basically level 2). Those got ripped out and now they’re .. SWTCH ? I really dislike The balkanization of ev apps. But I’m happy to be able to charge while skiing

Another good day of skiing at Sunday River. Mighty cold and gray but I feel like I have my second wind now. After being sick over Xmas break this feels like a return to activeness. 2 more days here. Tomorrow is supposed to be sunnier. We’ll see!

Just made an escape run ahead of the winter storm up to Maine to start a ski week. We managed the entire drive with zero snow falling. Timed it perfectly even with recharging stops. Snow started just as we finished unloading. Yay winter vaca.

Trump is wanting greenland - not for strategy, not for resources, but it makes him feel good to own stuff. I hate this so much. The convicted felon and rapist is destroying NATO and the US economy because of his tiny dick need to own shit.

Status of Liberty has this engraved on it's pedastal "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" www.npr.org/2025/12/02/n...

npr.orgTrump says he doesn't want Somalis in the U.S., urges them to go back to their homeland and fix itPresident Trump says he doesn't want Somali immigrants in the U.S., saying residents of the war-ravaged eastern African country are too reliant on U.S. social safety net and add little to the U.S.

Welp, I've unsubbed to Forrest Auto Reviews on YT. I respect people's personal beliefs, but ascribing your own personal success to god's influence, then telling everyone to do the same? Cmon.

Why Apple? Why do you keep coming up with special snowflake UX decisions that are just... what? Pasting into Notes. The world uses command-v to paste. shift-command-v to paste without formatting. Apple? Nah bro, just ask a friend for some more fingers.

This is a fascinating breakdown of the dynamics across social media - it mirrors what I feel in my gut is happening (social media has hard-wrenched right), and is dominated by foaming-at-the-mouth individuals, rather than thoughtful inclusionary discourse. (mores the pity). #politics #uspol #data

Petter Törnberg@pettertornberg.com

Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed. Here are the key take-aways 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417

So I did a video. This is a big step for me, and was a helluva lot of work. If you like 80s movies and old tech, this one is for you.

Vintage Apparatus@vintageapparatus.com

Vintage Computing Nerd looks at WAR GAMES youtu.be/p-B1clodRJ4 This video was like 3.5 months in the making and is easily one of my more ambitious. Fighting the rights engine in YT wasn’t helping either. But finally it’s cleared to share. Enjoy!

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Hey ya'll! Just stopped by ComputerLand and picked up this SWEET new game, gonna definitely pick up a 2liter of Jolt Cola and a big bag of Doritos and just go ALL IN on this... seeya'll on Monday!

I think I'm going to come up with a plugin for Chrome that automatically downvotes and hides a channel if a video or short I'm watching has the "NEW MESSAGE DING" sound in it. Gets me every goddamned time.

"“Who has not felt the urge to throw a loaf of bread and a pound of tea in an old sack and jump over the back fence?”" - John Muir Boy ain't that the truth.

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Peter Falk and Leslie Neilson were a year apart in age. Which means that, canonically, Columbo and Frank Drebin were at the Los Angeles Police Academy at the same time. They probably both committed massive civil rights violations at the direction of Chief Parker in the late 40s and early 1950s.

Dear Apple. You really need to stop doing this . "Download this app to access your mortgage information" "okee, search -> THE ACTUAL APP NAME" And the first hit is a crypto app. Nothing to do with what I'm asking for. How is this good for your user base? #apple #crypto #badCompany #jfc

I completely misread this as "PICASSOS VULVA" and, welp, I may have my next band name. (Also, ya'll should listen to Radio Paradise. One of the few real live independent music streams left in the world)

Absolute surprise on the way across Oregon. Found the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum. "Sure, lets stop in." Wait. Is that. Can't be. THATS THE SPRUCE GOOSE - not a copy, not a model, the ACTUAL AIRPLANE. I'm absolutely blown away.

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