J. Stro Makes Things

Webspace of J.S.Strosnider. I make neato electronic things, write sci-fi, share political views and whatever.

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Am I crazy. Yes. But also yes.

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BlueSCSI is such an awesome project, and many great innovations have happened along the way. We have a new milestone timeline spelling out all of the cool things we've done over the years. Check it out!

BlueSCSI Milestones

A timeline of six years building an open, friendly community around an open, easy to use, and inexpensive SCSI emulator.

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New fiber internet. WOO HOO!

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Too bad for them it's probably going to be the last one. Fiber makes everything go.

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Just as I started spinning up an Entra session with PowerShell... it gets afraid and decides to work. That's what I thought.

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"Something went wrong." It sure did. Your tool just doesn't work.

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Me: Checks sign-in logs for MS365. MS: shows 24 hrs. Me: switch filter to 7 days. MS: -no data- Me: switch back to 24 hrs. MS: shows data. Me: filters by someone who is /visible/ on the 24 hr list. MS: -no data- Like... what? Hard to do a routine security check when the tool doesn't FSCKING work.

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I got hung up in the Claude interface trying to find the connector menu because I don't use it. He asked, "Oh, do you use GPT then"? No sir. I don't use AI unless it's a deeply integrated thing I cannot avoid. I'm not anti-AI. I'm anti "abrogating my thinking to a machine that can't think".

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And before y'all say "oh, he's just having it summarize or whatever..." No. Not this guy. I know this guy. He's intentionally choosing that route because "AI is the way". He's choosing a slower, more expensive, less accurate way because "its how it's done now".

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Young user wanted Claude connected to his MS 365 account. I got management approval, did the admin thing and got the connector done. The very first prompt he used: "check my email". Not "find blah" or "analyze blah" or whatever. Just checking his email. He knows that Outlook exists, right?

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Your Friendly Reminder: Sean Lee Robinson, AKA "Geek With Social Skills" is a known scammer. He has run cons on video game, arcade game, and vintage computer communities for decades - and is still doing it-. Just look up his name.

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OMG, is that.... Retro Repair Roundup? Catch up with the gang about all the happenings this summer, and what's on the horizon. August 2, 8:00pm Eastern (8e/7c/6m/5p)

The 2026 Summer Update - Episode 98

Hang out and chat with the team about all the cool goings on this summer, and what's yet to come!

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PicoGUS is the preeminent audio solution for vintage IBM Compatibles. Gravis UltraSound, Sound Blaster, AdLib (OPL2), CMS/Game Blaster and Tandy 3-Voice, and MPU-401, along with CD-Audio, USB joystick and USB Mouse support. Grab one today!

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One of these things is not like the other... It's never been a problem before getting UK stocked items here within the stated delivery window, so I guess I live and learn. And contact Newark to cancel this order.

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Dear Newark: The product you show as back ordered in my order from a week ago does not show as back ordered on your website. So: anyone waiting on certain products in my store to be back in stock, now you know why they are a bit behind.

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"freecad has been crashing a lot because it's a piece of shit that sucks" - a friend on Discord

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Tell everyone you know: Another LisaFPGA production run is happening! It's all thanks to AlexTheCat's awesome work and the demand from cool cats like all of you! If you want one, sign up in the next week so we have a good idea of how big of a run we should do!