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If you use #GrapheneOS, you'll want to install the update that released today, it fixes a horrendous, embarrassing performance regression Google shipped.

2026-09-23 21:28:32 UTC

RIP Debian.
https://inference.debian.net

2026-08-31 16:13:02 UTC

Ominous vibrations at the Costco yesterday, where the employee giving out samples of "protein coffee" was explaining to a customer that the sample did not contain "cat milk," further explaining, "you know, like milk from a cat."
I am not making this up.

2026-08-01 21:26:58 UTC

[walks into The Free and Open Source Bar to perform]
"We got both kind of software! Ablest slur and inscrutable acronym!"

2026-07-08 14:49:50 UTC

You're not a grandparent until you have 1000 kids

2026-06-30 04:00:12 UTC

I would genuinely pay $100 to watch a greybeard explain freshmeat.net to a GenZ teen.

2026-06-28 16:58:39 UTC

Made margherita pizza last night, first time I've made pizza at home. Dough from scratch, sauce was homemade in the way where you put stuff from cans into a blender. Turned out very tasty, though.
Dough needs some work, step one is adding more salt, and maybe folding it over to make more of a crust.
https://retro.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/828/705/102/866/640/original/68a837d58287b548.jpg

2026-06-23 01:39:50 UTC

I suppose I ought to have looked, but really didn't expect that a brand new $30 record purchased in the year 2026 wouldn't come with a free digital download.

2026-06-21 23:53:52 UTC

Please enjoy this diagram I found in the Canon Speedlite 550EX manual.
https://retro.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/790/772/077/810/506/original/8dff9610c0f7adb8.png

2026-06-02 16:24:00 UTC

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This discovery brought to you by a very confused me trying to figure out why I have even one copy of Opticks on my work computer, much less the *forty-three* I actually found.

2026-06-02 16:20:59 UTC

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Proof. These are permalinks, but this is the master branch.
Also, Go is still using "master?" Fucking figures.
https://github.com/golang/go/blob/a81b20a431ce41417f7758929a2962d95a6a9453/src/testdata/Isaac.Newton-Opticks.txt
https://github.com/golang/go/tree/a81b20a431ce41417f7758929a2962d95a6a9453/src/compress/bzip2/testdata

2026-06-02 16:19:27 UTC

TIL the Golang source code includes two complete copies of Isaac Newton's Opticks. One plaintext (554kb), then the same file bzip2'd (130kb).

2026-05-22 03:17:27 UTC

Many new Guix users struggle to get the system installed with working WiFi. There are a couple things I've read about doing this, but I wasn't satisfied with any of the approaches I knew about, so I wrote my own. Having tried several ways of doing this, I think this is the simplest; all you need is an Android phone.
https://atomized.org/blog/2026/04/18/bootstrapping-nonguix/
#Guix #NonGuix

2026-04-07 23:14:14 UTC

What a depressingly voluminous list.
https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware

2026-03-28 02:42:17 UTC

The Jellyfin desktop client got deprecated in favor of an "experimental rewrite" with one of its three goals to test "the effectiveness of Claude Code as a tool to aid application rewrites"
fuckin welp
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-desktop

2025-12-25 16:02:00 UTC

Completely wild to me that people allow their own computers to display advertisements.

2025-11-25 22:12:21 UTC

made a graph of how money flows in the tech industry
https://retro.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/612/618/905/363/205/original/ff09259c5e5569d1.png

2025-11-03 22:04:36 UTC

Oh, you think esolangs can't be widely successful? Explain regexps.

2025-10-29 01:14:11 UTC

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@nprofile…ne85 @nprofile…t3mj Oh man, I'd love to explore those ruins.

2025-10-27 18:24:33 UTC

It's Always Funny in Sillydelphia

2025-10-27 17:04:57 UTC

Today is my birthday. If you'd like to do something in recognition, please donate to your local food bank. November is going to be tough for a lot of people.
If you're not in a position to donate, reply with an image containing, strange, threatening, and/or surreal energy (example attached).
Boosts appreciated!
https://retro.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/447/204/153/627/793/original/39f1c275dc4919d8.jpg

2025-10-26 22:31:26 UTC

Wasted fuck knows how much time screwing around with the setup, but have finally programmed a set of EPROM devices all in one go.
https://retro.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/442/830/050/250/847/original/0ba8c62ab5740961.jpg

2025-10-15 20:28:53 UTC

Never call me. You know who calls people? Serial killers in movies. Are you a movie serial killer? No? Don't call me.

2025-10-14 03:56:39 UTC

lololol one of the people who worked on Clippy is going to be at Portland Retro Gaming Expo this weekend
tempted to go just so I can yell "It looks like you're giving a presentation"

2025-06-17 05:01:58 UTC

"Palette cleanser" is turpentine, or maybe acetone. Depends on the paint.
"Pallet cleanser" is nothing, nobody cares shipping material gets dirty.
"Palate cleanser" is probably what you meant to say.

2025-05-25 02:18:17 UTC

I want to play a game with my kid on my Switch.
I turn it on and launch the game.
It asks me to update my Switch. I say no.
The game tells me I have to agree to a new EULA, which requires re-logging into my Nintendo account. I can’t log into my Nintendo account unless I update my Switch.
I update my Switch and try to launch the game. It tells me I need to add "virtual cards" for the DLC for the game. This is new. I do not know or care what these are, I just want to play the game. The game refuses to launch until I do this.
I sign into the eShop. I click the button to add the "virtual cards."
The "virtual cards" cannot be added, because I have two Switches (this is the OLED, I also have the original), and the *other* Switch needs to be updated.
The other Switch has a dead battery, so I cannot update it. So I cannot add the "virtual cards." So I cannot play the game.
#buglog

2025-05-14 16:56:50 UTC

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@nprofile…kjdt Could it be 16525 instead of 16S25?
I think your best bet at this point is to locate some 1991-2 era STM parts catalogs and see if you can find the part there.

2025-05-14 16:37:18 UTC

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@nprofile…kjdt Ah, yeah, hmm. Do you have a photo of the part? 16S25 isn’t in the device list for any of my three programmers, including the UniSite, which definitely would have supported a ~1992 era GAL/PAL/PLD.
If you find a blank, do you have a dump to program it with?

2025-05-14 13:20:43 UTC

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@nprofile…kjdt Here's the datasheet. https://www.digikey.com/en/htmldatasheets/production/111895/0/0/1/stb16ns25
Looks like Digikey has substitutes, search STB16NS25.
9235 is the date code.

2025-05-05 01:17:07 UTC

Another victim of egregiously abusive so-called "AI" crawlers: You can no longer wget or curl a project's release tarball from GitHub.

2025-04-14 23:53:45 UTC

Was messing about in Debian land over the weekend, and it's made me really appreciate some #Guix stuff:
- Guix packages get rebuilt when their dependencies change. Was trying to use the arm64 Guix .deb, and it doesn't work, spewing errors about incompatible bytecode. That wouldn't happen on Guix, because it'd get rebuilt if Guile changed.
- Building any package in Guix is as simple as `guix build package`. Trying to rebuild the .deb to fix the first problem required a ton of screwing around and manually installing stuff on the system including installing devscripts to run a program to make a fake package with build-deps, which you then install (or in my case, install, find that didn't work, uninstall, then reinstall a different way) to get the environment to build the thing.
Guix ain't perfect, but these problems simply don't exist there.

2025-04-11 20:25:06 UTC

The whole internet loves Milkshake Duck, a lovely duck that drinks milkshakes! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the duck bundles AI

2025-04-11 00:07:07 UTC

Executive Order: Likes Are Now Florps

2025-03-28 22:27:00 UTC

Gender is a Spectrum, but sex is a Commodore 64

2025-03-26 15:43:18 UTC

I ran `brew upgrade some-package`. Homebrew upgraded that, and a ton of other packages I didn't ask it to[1]. This made some of my packages crash on launch with `dylib: Library not loaded` errors, which you have to resolve by reinstalling the affected package. #buglog
[1]: Yes, I know there's a preference for this, no, you should never have to set a preference to make software do only the thing you explicitly tell it to do instead of a bunch of shit you didn't tell it to do, ever, but /especially/ when the things you didn't tell it do to break things.

2025-03-25 04:53:05 UTC

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@nprofile…2xq3 It's a little scary in the beginning (there's a plane crash). Knowing this doesn't diminish the unique film viewing experience.

2025-03-25 04:42:42 UTC

If you'd like a unique film viewing experience, I strongly recommend you learn absolutely nothing about the film Millennium (1989), then watch the film Millennium (1989).

2025-03-25 04:20:21 UTC

I know I'm one of those weird computer touchers that runs weirdware in the weirdest way, but I honestly think shit like apps for fast food restaurants is 10x more perverse than anything I've ever done with a computer.

2025-03-20 19:01:45 UTC

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@nprofile…ekkm Always liked to imagine a video game programmer deep in some spreadsheet program with a boss key that'd launch a game.

2025-03-19 23:30:06 UTC

The company I'm at is hiring: https://customer.io/careers#job-openings
Fully remote, internationally-distributed team, good comp and the best benefits of anywhere I've ever worked. Go backend, TypeScript frontend.
Happy to put in a referral if I know you.
Boosts appreciated!
#GetFediHired

2025-02-07 21:37:20 UTC

Hey #Portland #RetroComputing folks: The place I store much of my stuff was burglarized, trashed, and many items were stolen. The most valuable was a NeXTstation Turbo Color.
If you see one floating around, please let me know.
I don't have the serial number or anything identifying, other than the HDD is failed :(

2025-01-19 15:56:01 UTC

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@nprofile…y4h5 In coinop land, I call this sort of stuff "rare because it sucks," and they're some of my favorite games to explore.

2025-01-16 02:12:33 UTC

Okay #HomeLab #SelfHosting crew, riddle me this.
I have a mid tower computer with two PCIe x16 slots and one x1 slot. I wish to connect between four and eight internal 3.5" SATA disks to said machine. What would you recommend?
Despite being large, said computer has only two internal 3.5" bays.
My current setup is an 8-bay USB 3 enclosure, with six disks inside. I want a non-USB solution.
I bought a 4-bay eSATA enclosure and eSATA PCIe x1 card which supports FIS, which is the thing you need to connect multiple devices over one eSATA cable. It doesn't work. Linux sees the PCIe card, the enclosure *seems* to connect to it, but no disks ever appear.
There's some stuff online about "oh just run some scsi_rescan.sh script to make it work," but I need something which works without dicking around with shell scripts.
Recommendations for $500 or less whole-ass computers with 6+ disk bays also accepted.
Boosts appreciated.

2025-01-15 20:41:57 UTC

mmmmm... Hard Disk Drives
https://retro.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/834/306/094/572/425/original/d455091c5de301b7.jpg

2025-01-10 16:51:08 UTC

It's fun to violate the D-M-C-A

2024-12-13 17:56:52 UTC

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@nprofile…y4h5 Love its Animorphs-ass lookin cover.

2024-12-10 20:56:52 UTC

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@nprofile…7nxw I've used this tool several times, never heard back from them and it didn't make the spam stop.
When I was a Comcast customer, they spammed me relentlessly and the unsub feature simply did not work at all. I called their phone support and they had no clue. One agent told me to fwd them to Comcast's own abuse@ email.

2024-12-10 20:42:06 UTC

Being unemployed has really shown me how much having a job has been holding me back from my true calling: posting

2024-12-10 16:46:20 UTC

What is with websites these days fading content in as you scroll down? It's like someone looked at an N64 game and was like, know what this ecommerce site needs, distance fog

2024-12-10 00:15:48 UTC

Free name for a band doing chiptune covers of The B-52's: The C-64's

2024-12-04 15:50:50 UTC

Somehow, I've never seen the original Walkman logo until today. Incredible.
https://retro.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/595/347/543/596/542/original/d19801bd8464fdcb.png
https://retro.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/595/347/663/599/310/original/9d3da477e972c430.png

2024-12-02 21:10:29 UTC

Arcade games: insert coin coin, push start, play.
1980s console games: Insert cart, turn on, push start, play.
1990s console games: Insert CD, turn on, wait for loading, push start, play.
2010s console games: Turn on, launch game, push start, mash button through eight minutes of unskippable dialog, play two minutes, mash button through two minutes of unskippable dialog, repeat.
2020s console games: Turn on, get prompted for system update. Ignore it and launch game. Have the game tell you it won't run without the system update. Update the system, which takes five minutes. Wait for console to reboot. Launch game. Have the game tell you it won't run without a game update. Install game update, which takes eight minutes and closes the game. Launch game for the third time, get inexplicable message about some other update, which vanishes before you can do anything. Push start. Get accosted with an overwhelming number of achievements, some which trigger unskippable cutscenes you don't care about. Notice a "+ to skip" button. Push plus, and note that it does not skip anything, merely fast forwards the unskippable cutscene. Repeat achievement/cutscene loop for several minutes. Finally get to the first in-game menu. Select the thing you want. Get a notice that it has to download "previews" for game content. Cancel the download. Select the thing, several levels deep in the menu. Attempt to play game, only to notice that you're out of time for it because it took 30 minutes to even get to this point.

2024-11-24 23:09:49 UTC

I still want to completely redo my blog to be less hideous and not run on abandonware, but in the mean time I have blogged a thing.
https://atomized.org/blog/2024/11/24/maybe-later/

2024-11-19 22:21:22 UTC

Normalize getting a DRM-free ePub download when you buy a physical copy of a book.

2024-11-15 22:13:21 UTC

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@nprofile…yrwl 1000% not surprised to find that "What is most important to you in AI" is the only multiple-choice question without an "Other" / freeform text entry, preventing anyone from saying that the most important thing is not existing.

2024-08-31 15:07:27 UTC

Quantum Fiber rescheduled my installation to 2025 for no reason. #buglog
https://retro.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/057/253/364/454/452/original/93967aa8ba117d9e.jpg

2024-08-29 23:23:31 UTC

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@npub1rv4…ft5j Often! I repair old arcade game PCBs and the 2114 RAMs are a common failure point. The hoard of new old stock ones I've got needs to have their leads formed to fit in the board.

2024-08-25 01:36:23 UTC

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@npub1kr5…nwzy You have an erotic roleplaying findom relationship with your dentist. Not judging, just observing.

2024-07-29 16:09:59 UTC

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@npub1kr5…nwzy Happy birthday! You should request that people send you drawings of blood cells.

2024-07-25 16:05:11 UTC

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@npub1kr5…nwzy In some of my less charitable moments, I have replied to recruiter cold-emailing with "I'd rather staple my dick to my leg."

2024-07-24 15:51:28 UTC

You can pants if you want to
You can see your friend's behind

2024-07-19 17:50:25 UTC

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@npub1kr5…nwzy Pouring a whole pitcher of smug over my LibreBooted Trisquel ath9k fully Free Software ThinkPad T440p's keyboard just so I can feel extra smug.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U5n2WaMMHo

2024-07-14 01:41:11 UTC

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@npub1rv4…ft5j I once had a job interview where the CTO & cofounder told me that toning down my Twitter posts was a requirement for the job.

2024-07-11 15:14:17 UTC

I upgraded my dryer, added 192gb more storage to it. By losing some SD cards down a crack in the lint filter.

2024-07-03 05:03:17 UTC

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@npub1kr5…nwzy Oh yeah, Nanao? Correctly pronounced "no-no."

2024-06-30 17:15:31 UTC

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@npub1kr5…nwzy Eleven exclamation marks! A sure sign of a disturbed mind.

2024-06-28 14:42:57 UTC

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@npub1kr5…nwzy awesome. terrific

2024-06-28 13:59:41 UTC

I had dinner with my wife and friends last night, but based on radio silence from the various lefty blogs I read, sounds like Biden fucking blew it big time.

2024-06-26 19:42:36 UTC

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@npub1kr5…nwzy You'd do a much better job.
The dolts who moderate these sorts of things are incapable of treating horrible candidates with the utter contempt they deserve.

2024-06-25 22:17:12 UTC

The vintage computers, many of which were donated to LCM, many of which were lovingly restored and maintained by volunteers, are being auctioned by Christie's and zero dollars of that money is going to anyone with an actual hand in creating the value being extracted.
#EatTheRich

2024-06-25 14:53:29 UTC

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@npub1kr5…nwzy Oh, there will be. Need to replace the pedals and do some basic maintenance stuff first.

2024-06-25 05:05:01 UTC

Fetched my nicest bike out of storage and am real excited to get back on it soon.
If you're wondering why I've been all about bikes lately:
- I've been riding off and on for decades, including multiple stints of all-weather bike or bike+bus commuting for years at a time.
- It's summer.
- A change in medication has me feeling more motivated and energetic than I have in ages.
- My dad's been a bike nut as long as I can remember and lives in my backyard now.

2024-06-01 02:35:33 UTC

I've seen *a lot* of C64 demos, and 13:37 by Fairlight knocked my socks off. I was consistently hollering "duuuude!" at the effects, but it's also got great humor, a terrific art style, inside jokes, and cinematic storytelling. One of the best I've ever seen.
The #C64 demoscene is so impressive to me. They just keep pushing this machine farther and farther. This demo would have been unfathomable even ten years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcUmVdd_t2s

2024-05-21 21:20:35 UTC

If Apple, Google, and Microsoft didn't have entrenched platform monopolies, garbage like the Microsoft "AI" spyware likely wouldn't even get built. The market doesn't want what they're selling, but users have no choice but to take whatever abuse the vendors heap upon them, because they can't easily switch to a better product.
And they have monopolies because the US government won't enforce antitrust laws. All technology is political.
(Don't "Linux" me, I've been running it longer than you've probably been alive, I know what it can and cannot do.)

2024-04-23 03:08:43 UTC

I have some FLAC files of The Hitchhiker's Guide radio series. These are ripped directly from my CDs, which have the episodes broken into multiple tracks.
I want one FLAC per episode, *but* I also want the track splits to be chapter stops within that.
Is there a tool out there that does this already, or do I get to write one?
Concatenating *without* adding chapter stops / metadata is trivial, and I know how to do that already.
(Answers/boosts appreciated)