Foone🏳️⚧️
the problem is that I keep hanging out on tumblr with a bunch of people into robotgirls (which is a gender neutral term, fyi). and now I can't stop anthropomorphizing most of the tech I'm tearing down.
this hasn't stopped me yet, but it has made it weirder.
Foone🏳️⚧️
babe, your face is stuck on really tight. you're bending my spudgers. I may need to get out the vice
Foone🏳️⚧️
@darkling fun fact: it's been less than 24 hours since I made a joke along exactly those lines on tumblr.
something about how I'm both asexual and a reverse engineer who does a lot of teardowns, my unscrewing-to-screwing ratio is way off compared to the average.
Hugo Mills
@foone Sounds like an opportunity to be the first person to write erotica about being gently unscrewed...
Foone🏳️⚧️
ahh, you're one of those exotic Torx girls, eh? no problem, I came prepared for this.
Cursed Silicon
@foone I often describe the computers I work on as like "those toys in Sid's house from Toy Story"
When the machines take over there will be no punishment too great for my crimes
Foone🏳️⚧️
@CursedSilicon yeah I get it! it makes total sense that I have lots of weird computer problems, given that I live in a place that's a combination of a torture dungeon and cursed burial ground for computers
Foone🏳️⚧️
a tack-welded-in battery?
honey, who did this to you?
Foone🏳️⚧️
What the heck is this? You didn't tell me you were into this kind of freaky shit!
Don't worry, I'm game, I'm just... surprised.
Foone🏳️⚧️
@lilianne It's like catgirls and ladybugs. The supposedly "gendered" part is just the species name.
SYS_UNKNWN: Unknown :neocat_evil: (Lili)
@foone@digipres.club i need to ask this, how exactly robot girl a gender neutral term? /gen
- posted by Lili (it/she)
Foone🏳️⚧️
It's something RF.
and look. I'm an atheist. I don't believe in gods or spirits or magic. There's only reality and science.
Except for RF. That shit is all black magic and sigils and goats' blood.
Foone🏳️⚧️
This is what I'm tearing down at the moment.
It's an RTMS Sx-300 HDCAM by ImageSensing systems.
Basically it seems to just be a camera, but designed for heavy duty outside use. and it has some weird RF thing going on
Foone🏳️⚧️
oh fuck me, it's a radar!
Foone🏳️⚧️
https://www.envitech-bohemia.cz/files/produkty/ostatni/rtms-sx-300-hdcam.pdf
it can detect cars within 76 meters (250 feet). 24 ghz radar
Foone🏳️⚧️
and it has bluetooth. you just configure the radar with bluetooth. sure why not
Foone🏳️⚧️
and I don't really know why. there is more than enough room in this enclosure for it to be stacked
Foone🏳️⚧️
They flattened the camera!
Foone🏳️⚧️
IS THAT A SECOND FUCKING TACKWELDED BATTERY?!
babe, no, you need to take better care of yourself.
Foone🏳️⚧️
That's not exactly how you're supposed to configure these pins
Foone🏳️⚧️
@TheCyberneticist it doesn't say, but the whole device (including computer and camera) runs at 3-12W
TheCyberneticist
@foone Careful with that if you power it. What's the output of that thing?
Foone🏳️⚧️
@ddlyh no I don't think it can measure speed. I think it's just for measuring traffic volume
DHeadshot's Alt
@foone
So it's a speed camera?
Foone🏳️⚧️
@KayOhtie oh hey new privacy issue discovered
Kay Ohtie, Bat-Yotie!
@foone oh gross it's for tracking car stereos and phones https://www.autoscope.com/news-and-events/160606.html
Joel May-Kill 🔪
@foone is… is that a STAPLE?
Foone🏳️⚧️
@jpm no, I think it's a piece of a terminal header
philpem
@foone They can call them "dielectric filters" all they like, they still look like sigils
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