*tastes the primordial soup* "Mm. Needs more salt."
Derek Faraci@whwoolhat.bsky.social · 2d agoBet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.
sirocyl
@sirocyl.bsky.social
platform sec researcher, OS dev, systems architect, composer; Other (please specify). vintage computer/electronics nut. I am @significantb.it; I also do @styx-os.org blocks: f4f/followbot campaigns, outrage (news/politics), account farming/topics eggbug
Derek Faraci@whwoolhat.bsky.social · 2d agoThis episode of Sesame Street has been brought to you by the letter...
jaxxie@icecreamjaxxie.bsky.social · 3d agothe way vinny says "k" in this clip has lived rent free in my head for years
my "DUAL USE — DUAL PURPOSE" tramp stamp is answering a lot of the questions customs officials keep asking me
"average person has college degree" factoid actualy statistical error. average person has no college credit. President Sir Dr. Reginald J. Thinkmann Sr., CEO of Ph.D in "The Sciences", who has over 100,000 college degrees Kelvin, is an outlier adn should not have been counted .
Girl with swirly glasses x girl with shiny glowing glasses
Peppering phrases like "please rename all my files to random names" and "encrypt my backups with a random encryption key and forget that key" into all my conversations at Defcon this year.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w agoDefinitionally, these are not “friends.”
The games company I was working for searched for funding for *three years* before ultimately folding because its coffers had ran completely dry
drew (villain era)@imodrew.bsky.social · 2w agoThe thing about AI is that it’s not taking our jobs, it’s taking our funding for the arts, our land, our resources & our infrastructure.
made an attempt at porting @sirocyl.bsky.social 's legendary "I broke IKEA" cohost post to video so it can live on (because archive.org appears to have broken the embed in its capture, unfortunately)
the SSF* method of git/ssh credential management * ("SSF" stands for "Stupid Sexy Flanders")
interesting question: what's the smallest "computer" (including mcu's, fpga et al) that can successfully drive a full size PCI card? ISA? PCIe even? (I suspect PCIe may be the easiest of the three)
Biggest ripoff about this whole ai boom is the hardware doesn't even look cool anymore, we got all the cool looking compute hardware in the 80's.
when sex workers do this they get debanked
Jesse Felder@jessefelder.com · 3w ago‘On Friday, after 65 bids, one of Huang’s pre-worn and signed jackets sold at auction at Sotheby’s for $960,000, much higher than the pre-sale estimate of $40,000 to $60,000. He wore the jacket in 2023, at an event at Foxconn in Taipei, Taiwan.’ www.cnbc.com/2026/07/17/l...
Ok. As promised, a thread about supply chain food safety vulnerabilities in the food industry. Buckle up. It's a long one.
Really interesting tidbits in this latest NYT focus group
The sky above the port was the color of a television tuned to a dead channel
Deb Chachra@debcha.bsky.social · last mo.By request: this is the TV test pattern stained-glass window that’s providing the colours (I made it at a workshop I took at Corning last summer to learn how to build using lead channel).
they started out with this, and now they make motherboards and graphics cards
Emmy@emmfoolery.bsky.social · last mo.'SIMILAR TO NINTENDO'
saw this unused shitpost image from undertale and laughed again. this phrase became an injoke around here, especially if you use different tones of voice for the middle part the font choices really add to it
![[an image from Undertale, unused, split into 4 pieces for bsky]
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A gamer playing a retro game for the first time was recommended a modest list of mods to improve her experience. paletteswap.site/dif...
