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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

"Shaun don't you mean no BRAKES?" No. The stream doesn't end until KDE finishes 9 hours and counting

Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

So, I've got this Tyan S2466 board I found eons ago at Re-PC It has DUAL AMD Athlon MP 2400+ CPU's 2 gigs of DDR266 ECC And a 16 meg AGP Matrox Millennium GPU Would anyone be interested if I were to Livestream installing Gentoo from 2003 on it? […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Every time I remind folks "hey I'm unemployed (and borderline homeless) you should support me on Patreon" I should just include this picture

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

"Shaun why did you post that as a screenshot and not a video clip?" Because they're on Linux. There's no sound anyway

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I don't have any interest in "the discourse" because deifying a single fucking guy as this infallible god programmer is really, really parasocial and bad But The amount of Windows people who went "I'm going to Linux because Windows 11 is SLOP" that are currently like this is *a little funny*

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 16/10/2026

Ok, looks like this is the week of funny experiences. Customer: "I had an AI check our server and it says the SSH port is open and that's not very secure." Me: "Yes, you asked us to open it so you could access the server via SFTP (actually, you wanted FTP, but we discussed it a bit and found […]

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I realize the solution is "just use real hardware" but uughhh being able to (properly!) emulate *old machines* is so fucking nice for testing things

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I wish that "x86 PC emulation" had more options than "VMware/Proxmox" and "86Box" My (admittedly aging) Ryzen 5800X3D PC can *barely* keep a 200Mhz Pentium emulated at 100% speed. Causing the machine to stutter slightly playing back video

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

LMAO SOMEONE DUBBED IT ON YOUTUBE AND THEY'RE ACTUALLY A DECENT CAVE JOHNSON www.youtube.com/shorts/tCD1u9m0lAI

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@shyra You were in Seattle and didn't drop in on me? >:

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

@flexion HEY Not a like. Immediate thing But could I rope you in to help me do some IRIX crimes? (I don't own any MIPS SGI machines >: )

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

[Ranting, homeless] Been applying to move into a "low income housing" place since AUGUST. Put my Mom down as a co-applicant to meet the income requirements Oops, she gets social security from Australia! And the Australian welfare system is […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Netscape 4.7 fuuuuckin sucks at everything (and who the fuck ships it in the year 2000???) So I'm compiling Links

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

[heavy breathing] The talk I gave at #VCFMW is going up in a couple weeks

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Mac G5 that doesn't work. Send it to the moon~

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Looking at the Cartoon Network leak and just thinking "damn I wanna get drawn like Rigby"

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Me: Hey can we get like. A few extra days to move out? The new place is dragging their feet processing our paperwork Current landlord: Lol, lmao. No. But also if you could drop the keys off that'd make OUR job easier actually...!

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Rem continues to be the greatest character in any FPS ever made

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

"Hey Shaun did you install ClassZilla?" "I unno check the start menu" "wat"

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"Hey Shaun did you install ClassZilla?" "I unno check the start menu" "wat"

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Putting this on my OS 9 Mac for VCF next year (and then getting dragged out into the street and beaten)

OS 9 Mac with the user shell replaced by a Windows 98-esque interface

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Putting this on my OS 9 Mac for VCF next year (and then getting dragged out into the street and beaten)

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

It's a "well worn" joke that Microsoft in the 1990's was in the business of "nice software you got there. We're gonna do a worse version of it and crush you" (see: Netscape, Active Directory, Exchange, SourceSafe etc) RealNetworks of course was no […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

RealServer? (yes that's actually what the server is called, that's why it's RealPlayer) Yeah that fucker shipped for Windows NT (not just on x86, but DEC Alpha too!) *and* UNIX systems And my god when you pull it up on a Windows box it just smells of UNIX. Fucker opens a command prompt and […]

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Also as an addition to this. Getting a "NetShow Services" stack up and running is *fucking miserable* The only version archived is 3.0 which is NT 4 only. Because of course it is Getting an NT 4.0 server up and running is an exercise in *tedium* because it's such a half-baked fucking system […]

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Dumping the test file into ffmpeg and being like "oh I can duplicate this. This is easy!" Mother*FUCK*

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Why, yes. Windows Media Player *did* (almost) get a release on Windows 3.11 And yes it *can* stream video content from a Windows NT 4 server

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

[Sickness] I finally cracked and bought an "Eustachi" to try and do something about my blocked up ear To be clear, it's been blocked since like. Monday the 28th. It's been MISERABLE Followed the directions and guzzled some gatorade Oh my *god* my fucking ear cracked and popped like a bathtub […]

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Cave Johnson here! The lab boys tell me that raccoons, structurally, have the same kind of fingers as you and me, Which got me thinking, why hire a bunch of pencil-pusher punch-card associates when I could hire raccoons! Those tiny fingers are perfect for all the wires inside computers nowadays […]

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