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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

uploaded a few pictures taken with my Horizon 202 panoramic camera on Portra 400 www.flickr.com/photos/cy384...

panoramic photo of a sunbleached seaside cliff, windswept shrubs and scruffy trees between sandy craggy surface and pale blue sky

cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

pretty unhappy to see the software sponsorship digital ocean recently decided to do, guess that's another service I need to switch away from

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

im addition to being a fun game, the original source is on github, it has a whole fixed point vector math implementation with some nice optimized 68020 assembly

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Scarlet Swordfish @scarletswordfish.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We're celebrating the 30th anniversary of AVARA! Saturday, Sept 19, 6-8 PM EDT twitch.tv/scarletswordfish A unique multiplayer FPS originally released as shareware for Macintosh, Avara is now open-source and available for modern macOS, Windows and Linux! discord.avara.gg

A flyer for the Avara 30th Anniversary Stream featuring two reverse-jointed robots facing off over three different levels.
Avara 30th Anniversary Stream
Featuring gameplay of the open source port of the classic MacOS 3D shooter form 1996
Sept 19, 2026 6pm EDT
discord.avara.gg
twitch.tv/scarletswordfish

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

felt bad about letting some film expire because I haven't shot much the past few years, but it's selling on ebay for more than I originally paid

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

once companies like anbernic run out of handheld consoles to clone, we need to convince them there's a market for a reproduction sony peg-ux50

photo of the sony clie peg-ux50, a stylish silver turn of the century palm os folding handheld

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

looking up bad DNS record types to add to my domains for no reason, there's LOC for physical location, which includes signed altitude in case your server is underground or in geosynchronous orbit

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

on windows, just right clicked on the desktop and watched individual rows of the context menu pop in over a second with "Loading..." placeholder text

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

after years of compromising over the 2 PCIe slots on a my Raptor Blackbird, settled on a combo of a 100Gb ConnectX-4 and this AMD southbridge on a card (4x m.2 and 4x SATA) www.aliexpress.us/item/3256812...

aliexpress.us

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

put this in a script today and feeling good

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

said in a dusty, corpselike wheeze while holding up an ubuntu 5.10 CD in a mummified claw: 2006 will be the year of linux on the desktop

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

every time I update ubuntu it sucks (mostly my fault); fix the incorrect keybinding that does rfkill when I rotate my laptop, patch eog to change file sorting, build the gnome extension I need which got adopted/messed up by an ai user, install gnu coreutils which conflicts with build-essential(!)

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

someone is dumping 1.6TB p5800x optane drives on ebay (still ~$900), high end flash drives have more or less caught up, but still somewhat tempting

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

this particular device has a web interface, if you plug it into a search engine you'll see some online unfirewalled, yikes

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

poking at a device, can alt-f4 the ui and right click to get a terminal, there's a shell script it lets you run via passwordless sudo that literally does "chmod $1 $2"

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

really wish there was some libgen style site for datasheets, manufacturers are so weirdly grudging about them (this is a realtek callout)

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

probably migrating to dynadot, porkbun seems a little too cozy with cloudflare for my tastes

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

buying an obscure mcu dev board from china with free shipping gives you lots of time to pre-regret the windows IDE with hackjob gcc/openocd

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

entirely missed namecheap getting sold to private equity last year, yikes, who's left? porkbun? what a wretched industry

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

fixing bugs in ssheven (who wrote this shit, and why did they do fun new features instead of fixing bugs?) and the only thing worse than strings in c is a mixture of pascal and c strings

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

a bit tempted to do vcfmw, but it seems like you need to table yourself if you want to sell anything? kinda want to move my vax and paper teletype

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

every time I complain about this it's because I'm cooking up my own terrible networking hardware, each idea more expensive and less marketable than the last

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

open source/hardware networking is always a bit sad to me, choices are: * home wifi routers * limited supply of hackable EOL enterprise gear * expensive (4x competition) low/mid spec stuff made by true believers

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

oh hey, look, a switch using one of the Microchip devices with upstream switchdev support (meaning the switch chip is a PCIe device you configure like a normal NIC)

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

ignominious but unsurprising end to appletalk in the linux kernel (due to a pile of AI generated patches nobody wants to review) www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-D...

phoronix.com

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

casually looking at web frameworks for a little project, and I know this is very grandpa of me, but seeing something have 200+ direct dependencies makes me concerned

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

you can do asynchronous zero-copy network receives with open transport on mac os 7, but I kinda doubt you get much performance benefit

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

if you're interviewing for an embedded job, ask them how many different types of serial jacks/pinouts they have on their products

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Wenting @wenting.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Sorry for not posting for so long... I have been extremely busy working on my new project: The Enchanter (also called Modos Flow): a 300-ppi Eink portable monitor with 60Hz refresh rate and touch screen. It's fully open-source: gitlab.com/zephray/ench....

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

ever see the plastic wrap left on something and want to just... 🤏?

rear quarter view of an indy car, the interior wheel well has plastic wrap left on the carbon fiber

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

with the rust pushes from debian and the kernel, the niche architectures are in trouble, but it looks like m68k is getting close: lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2...

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

saying "no copyright infringement intended" in a readme on github is really really not making you look competent or doing you any favors legally

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

data general tshirt seen on ebay

photo of a T shirt: "THIS SPUDS / IS FOR YOU", arrow pointing down to "MV/9500", a cool dog with sunglasses and a shirt with stars, a (presumably) potato with human eyes

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

the exceptional bbraun has just released a new fix for large memory crashes on macs with djmemc memory controllers (like my centris 650) www.synack.net/~bbraun/djme...

synack.net

djMEMC Support For Large SIMMs

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

just noticed the french guy on an adjacent team at work (retired now) added a uboot command to play claire de lune

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

saw something and did an idle github search: "rm -rf" 10.6M results "rm -fr" 0.4M results

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

very amusing that ubuntu's connectivity check web server is down

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

weird computer on ebay: www.ebay.com/itm/12743737...

ebay.com

Pardon Our Interruption...

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

haven't bought a weird computer in 8 months and I'm jonesing real bad over some sun netras

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

spotted a cute trick to wedge a weight in place with a little cushioning

a zip tie wrapped around a corner such that the triangle shape is squished a bit to hold a steel weight wedged in place

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

a quick post about my feelings (on AI and my personal projects) www.cy384.com/blog/an-ai-u...

cy384.com

cy384 | an ai user forked my pet project

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

updated some stuff on my site, including the limoncello speedrun and a quick post about my Power9 server www.cy384.com/blog/power9....

cy384.com

cy384 | a few years of power9

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

"the incredible journey of how I crowdfunded and manufactured my first HW product!" oh neat, how did you handle FCC/CE/UL testing? "*conspicuous silence*" many such cases

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

saw a bad edit of the xkcd comic about cloudflare and got mad about it, made my own you invited the mitm octopus into your house!

an edit of the XKCD comic "Dependency", originally about how open source is critical but undersupported, now edited to show cloudflare as an octopus reaching into every layer

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cy384 @cy384.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

extremely (extremely!) tempted to buy one of the IBM CHRP machines just to try running these CDs

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