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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist.
I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it).
(He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.)
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lmao a friends printer seems to have weaseled its way to the internet (probably using UPnP) and is old and doesn't know what to do with the data it's being sent so it just prints the data to pages ...
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Mar 05, 2026
@thermia
I write active network scanning software for a living. The amount of work we do to make sure this doesn’t happen when we scan a network is immense.
And yes UPnP devices will often just…punch a hole in a firewall for lulz.
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Mar 03, 2026
Me after driving home at sunset from the car shop that is due east of my house.
#simpsons #shitpost
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Feb 28, 2026
“Thank goodness Congress isn’t alive to see this.”
(Quote from covie_93)
#uspol
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Feb 20, 2026
OT protocols may be complex but at least they’re under-specified.
#ot #infosec
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Feb 14, 2026
14yo was talking about how his friend has a girlfriend.
11yo: How do you get a girlfriend?
14yo: Be good at sports or be funny or be good at conversation. Basically just don’t be like dad.
11yo: But then why did mom marry dad?
Me: Fuck if I know, dude.
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Feb 08, 2026
We’re watching curling at the Olympics and it’s fine but I’m wondering when we’ll see the wgetting
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Feb 02, 2026
In 1987, COMPUTE! had an article called "Fractal Mountains for Amiga" that had a program in Amiga Basic for, well, generating fractal mountains.
Over the winter break I kinda fiddled with it a bit and started rewriting it in Go. Anyway, I couldn't sleep tonight and so I actually got it working.
So, I give you: Fractal Mountains for Amiga...in Go! The algorithm isn't 1:1, but it's pretty close.
BEHOLD
#graphics #amiga #proceduralGeneration
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Jan 28, 2026
What all these Superman reboots don’t get is that you’re not looking for an actor who can be Superman, you’re looking for an actor who can be Clark Kent, and that is why no one has been as good as Reeve.
(There is a long conversation in one of my friend text chats about film if you can’t tell.)
#film
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Jan 26, 2026
Today is the only day it will be 26/26/26 for another thousand years.
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Jan 15, 2026
“If you enable the ability for users to define functions, which the documentation explicitly warns you against doing, and the user has permission to execute functions, users can execute code on the vulnerable system.”
CVSS 9.1 CRITICAL
If users can execute code remotely they can achieve remote code execution. *sigh*
#infosec
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pet peeve that bothers me wildly asymmetrically to how much of a pain it really is: when you get a check in the mail and the perforation doesn't line up with where the paper is folded, and you try to
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Jan 09, 2026
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“Line printer paper is strongest at the perforations.”
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Jan 04, 2026
Our back yard backs up to a nature preserve.
Often, Benjamin Franklin Cat III’s dearest wish is to get out of our house and into the nature preserve so that he may be eaten.
He will often run outside when we open the door. On the few occasions where we don’t notice we will find him screaming loudly to be let back in, because he realizes he done fucked up.
This doesn’t stop him from sitting at the back door and yelling at us to let him out because *this* time it will be different.
#cat
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I donnow, I expected more. https://mastodon.social/@verge/115826019609105596
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Jan 02, 2026
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I wish I could be really bad at my job and make a trillion dollars.
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Why isn’t the bestest fastest way to handle editable long form styled text a foundational framework of the OS? Why is apple’s latest implementation not great, and most others so, SO much worse?!
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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The best implementation I’ve ever used is GTK+, though Tk’s model is also decent…but again only by comparison.
I can only conclude that computers were not meant to handle long-form styled text.
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@mahryekuh@hachyderm.io @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt @rk@mastodon.well.com feels like there's about to be a jump scare
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Jump scare? You mean branch prediction failure?
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@rk@mastodon.well.com @alper@sfba.social @futurebird@sauropods.win Pardon the French of my neighboring country salesman! ("culona" in Spanish, and depending of the country, could be interpreted as qui
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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A friend of mine grew up in far south Texas and speaks Spanish as a first language.
When she became a home health aide in central Texas she told a story about how the word she had used her whole life for “rear end” and thought was just the normal euphemistic term for it was in fact considered a bit rude in other dialects. She discovered this when she asked a patient to “show your ass for this shot” instead of “bottom” or whatever.
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@rk@mastodon.well.com ooh are those incandescent bulbs?
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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No, just a good photo.
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Spanish Steps, Kalorama, Washington, DC, 2023. All the pixels, none of which are wheelchair accessible, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53335651417 #photography
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Captured with the Rodenstock 23mm/5.6 HR-Digaron-S lens and Phase One IQ4-150 Achromatic Back, polarizer+590nm (red) filter. Washington DC is not a city of many notable inclines, and so lacks the prol
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DC's Spanish steps, shown here, aren't actually in Spain or in any way Spanish. They're named for the more famous, larger Spanish steps in Rome, which is also not in Spain. Once again, our nation's ca
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Maybe the steps are bilingual.
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Betteridge's Law clearly applies: if this growth rate were to keep up for two decades the entire planet would be covered by a shell of red-hot glowing servers expanding at close to escape velocity. ht
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Dec 16, 2025
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“If present-day trends continue for centuries, the earth will turn into a massive ball of human flesh. A few millennia more, Ansley Coale, of Princeton, calculates, and that ball of flesh will be expanding outward at the speed of light.”
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Dec 13, 2025
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You say it as “nee”
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Dec 12, 2025
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Subaru backwards is ur a bus
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@rk@mastodon.well.com Imagine having to fix broken weird systems without rebooting them: the life of a healthcare worker
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Dec 07, 2025
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Yesterday she said something along the lines of “I’m late because we had to save a guy’s life” and I was “that’s a good reason to be late.”
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Dec 06, 2025
humans unix
🤝
using ps to find cat
#unix #caturday
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I think the thing I hate the most is we’ve normalised adults in positions of power in the government using memes on social media in some sort of meme war. These are unserious people, and yet, they wer
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Dec 06, 2025
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We are not a serious country and, as such, we elect unserious people.
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@rk@mastodon.well.com it's hard to even satirize because it's just directly that stupid and shameless
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Dec 05, 2025
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It is literally going to the trophy store and buying a trophy for a crying toddler and telling them it’s a real prize.
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Hello Brussels, I am in you!
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Dec 03, 2025
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Beer and moules frites, name a better way to spend some time. You can’t.
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It’s come to my attention that some of you don’t wash your rice before cooking it. There seems to be a correlation between those that wash coming from a ‘rice’ culture (ex: east Asia) vs those that do
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Dec 02, 2025
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We buy fortified rice, washing it would remove much of the added nutrition, or so I’ve been led to believe.
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Nov 29, 2025
I’m curious to know what changed in Airbus’s software that allowed increased susceptibility to cosmic ray/environmental data corruption that would allow a software update to fix it.
I’m assuming the broken version wasn’t doing consensus/voting for some piece of data or missed checking some ECC on some sensor data or something.
The upper atmosphere is an unfriendly place for electronics. Really it’s incredible that we have had as much success as we have.
#avionics
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Could be worse: he could have implanted the chip in his dick! https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/115628349141387312
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Nov 28, 2025
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I didn’t know it was gonna be that kinda party
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@tankgrrl@hachyderm.io in the last 9 months, we’ve basically handed the future over to china.
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Nov 23, 2025
@octothorpe@mastodon.online @tankgrrl@hachyderm.io
The transition from a unipolar to multipolar world was inevitable, but my god we didn’t have to just commit national suicide over it.
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Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it). (He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.) (Was also @ lorddimwit )
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Nov 15, 2025
Listening to audiobooks in the car on the way to Houston like
“One of the most interesting finds at Nag Hammadi was the Apocryphon of John. In it, John, son of Zebedee, was taking to a Pharisee when the heavens opened and God says to him ‘IN ONE MILE TURN RIGHT ON DOGWOOD DRIVE’”
#apocrypha #books #shitpost
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