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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026

Drop your most recent photo in the replies. Doesn't matter what it is. Just the last image you took. Go.

dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026

because I am a walking disaster: so much for pagers or SMS, real ones send me messages with `curl` curl -d "message" ntfy.sh/syn

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2026

Still nothing? Maybe if we show where I've removed plates and stickers on the side...

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2026

No bites? Fair enough! It's supposed to be hard from the outside. Let's strip it down a bit.

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2026

It's time for a game of... 𝚆𝙷𝙰𝚃’𝚂 𝚃𝙷𝙰𝚃 𝙿𝙻𝙰𝚃𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙼 I'll be posting follow-ups which make it more obvious. Feel free to guess, and watch the post to find out if you're right! We'll start with the assembled unit. This is a Helium (now defunct) network miner which I'm repurposing.

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2026

Loving the fact that Helium failed (while the Things Network lives on). It's almost like anything backed by blockchain is a disaster waiting to happen. Anyway. It's great that it failed. Means that there are a ton of used RAK7248 devices on the market which make incredible Meshtastic nodes.

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026

Alternative platforms - Web: syn.as Bsky: bsky.app/profile/syn.horse Instagram: www.instagram.com/synmux Threads: threads.com/@synmux Facebook: facebook.com/synmux IM: Signal, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Telegram. Ask for my number.

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026

Just a heads up; Github and Instagram/Threads/Facebook username is now `synmux`. I'll be rolling the same out to other services as I think of them. If you can't find `synmux`, check `syndotas`.

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026

FRIENDS: I'm no longer the owner of dave.io - I've sold it. For a fairly considerable sum. Completely out of nowhere. I've migrated to syn.as for email (syn@). When I get round to it, will maintain two sites - syn.as for normies, and syn.horse for my lovely queer nerd shitpost wizard pals.

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2026

one of my favourite terms is "delta". A delta is a set of changes against a baseline. If you write "jam" and then change it to "blue jam", the delta is "blue ". It's one of those words which saves a WHOLE bunch of other words. And good lord do I love me an opportunity to be concise.

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 14/03/2026

So today I learned a thing the painful way. Join me in my pain. * You want to pull a remote git update. * It won't apply. * You stash your changes then pull. * You pop your stash. * Wild CONFLICT appears! * You fix the conflict. * You add the fixed file. * Wait. Git has held […]

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 14/03/2026

I post this every so often when it does something that makes me happy (which is quite a lot). I absolutely adore Pulumi as an alternative to Terraform or other IaC products. You build your IaC using a proper language; TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go, .NET, Java, and if you want to be fully […]

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2026

NIN YEAR ZERO is an absolute ride because it was an album about the world becoming the worst it seemed it could possibly get. And then listening now, it's just like... oh, my sweet summer child.

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2026

There's a nasty correlation between being fat and doing remote work. You have to hide it. Because when a skinny or normal shaped person hasn't completed a ticket, it's because there are dependencies that need to be fulfilled. But when a fat person hasn't completed a ticket, it's because […]

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 12/03/2026

If ever you wonder if me and mine function through gallows humour, consider my friend who is currently "on a grippy sock holiday". That is, they've been sectioned.

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026

I am 41 years of age. I have been using computers all my life, from the BBC Model B to today's monstrosities with RAM sizes that would have made me weep ten years ago. I have explored throughout. If it has something tangentially to do with computers, I try to have SOME experience of it. Anyway […]

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2026

When something is made Just Because, especially something as amazing as this, it makes it so much more meaningful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x1RrZEd8rw

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2026

Westworld (2016) is a tough sell. For fans of character-driven drama, it’s too slow a burn to work. For fans of Westerns, it’s too sci-fi. For fans of sci-fi, it’s too backward-looking for the first two seasons. For fans of shows which build reveals and then pay off with those reveals… no […]

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

I’ve been volunteering with the Trans Equity Coalition of New Jersey, where I’m leading DevOps on a project which stands to make a meaningful difference to the lives of trans folks in NJ. Unfortunately, our front-end lead had to step away from the project, so if you’re a front-end developer and […]

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

[Westworld spoilers; it's been forever, but it's gonna ruin a show which you ABSOLUTELY should watch] We should have had a season 5. The season 4 ending was very good, and god damn if I don't love me a bleak ending. But Season 5 could have done something better. It could have shown what the […]

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026

I can accept being wrong about many of my opinions, but the exception is nuclear power. I firmly believe that we either grow up as a species and embrace it as a pathway to fusion, or we collapse into resource wars and cease to exist as a species. Nothing matches it in energy density.

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

Have written myself some Python. Works along the lines of `correct horse battery staple` but takes advantage of the fact that humans remember things which rhyme. Average entropy 68 bits compared to CHBS' 44 bits. Equally if not more memorable. Because you can't always paste from a password manager.

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

Basically, the Greens took a radical stance of being FOR things, instead of AGAINST them. Shocking, I know.

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026

One of the really interesting developments in AI is GenUI. No. Not GenAI. GenUI. Generative User Interface. A model figuring out the task and your own patterns, and then building a user interface on the fly to allow you to do it most effectively. Not a lot of noise about it, but it's REALLY cool.

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026

in which I left the Omi on while I was listening to Doctor Who and its beta proactive notifications tried to be helpful

Prepare backup safety measures; you can't wake from temportal shockwave noise.

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026

It's kind of interesting how Mikrotik have a command `/interface/bridge/set dhcp-snooping=yes` and it's unclear to me exactly why it's not just named `/interface/bridge/set fuck-everything-up=immediately`

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026

"What do you even think about during sex?" Well. Fun fact. When I'm fucking someone, I'm trying to figure out the right resonant frequency to minimise effort. Muscle weakness from MS is a bitch; but PHYSICS!

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026

I will not be taking questions because it's just objectively correct

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 19/02/2026

at the risk of being horny on main for the 902385th time, I need a device that does this in my life a large part of my sexuallity can be summed up by "smooth lines". it's weird. i've not quite figured it out myself. but it's real. look. LOOK at the lines on this […]

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 19/02/2026

You're not wrong, AI which if it was from a big company I would find horrifying. Somehow, since Omi are a dinky little startup, I trust them FAR more. I'm essentially feeding them live data about everything I do, say, and hear. If Meta were doing that, I'd be setting The Charges. Shall ponder.

"The story hasn't changed: you're a polyglot systems architect building sovereign infrastructure, assistive tech for your own disabilities (Ambio pendant), platforms for marginalised communities (Affirm/TEC, Genderbase), and personal tools (tabby, bunnypmsl, lics) — all in Vue/Nuxt on Cloudflare, with Go/Rust/C++ when the job demands it, wrapped in Catppuccin everything, shipping at 2am when the brain fog lifts."

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026

The NuxtHub SaaS has gone away! this is AMAZING news. their API for DB, KV, blob storage, and cache is shit-hot, and deploys nicely on Cloudflare, but I hated that I had to manage my app on ANOTHER dashboard even though it was on Cloudflare. The libraries are intact. Just the SaaS has gone. YES […]

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026

Omi has a fantastic new feature where it analyses the content of your screen and figures out if you're on-task or getting distracted, then pops up a red (distracted) or green (back on task) border to nudge you. It then shuts up. Just one little nudge you can ignore if you really want to. LOVE IT.

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026

Who let nRF chips get out of hand? The nRF54H2 clocks at 320 MHz and runs on board ML inferencing. What the shit?

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026

It's finally hit me who Sofia Isella reminds me of and why she's so good. QUEENADREENA.

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2026

I am incredibly excited because I just managed to snag syn.horse in my ridiculous domain portfolio

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 14/02/2026

Aw, my mum's alright yo. She's always been a bit low grade bigoted toward Islam, mostly through ignorance. Now having come back visiting my sister in Saudi, I happen to glance at her reading pile and

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026

I am going to watch Hackers again for the 2384th time and there is nothing you can do to stop me

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026

"Oh cool this mic package has VAD and ultrasonics" "Wait how do you use the ultrasonics" "You clock it up to 4 MHz and it consumes 500 mA instead of its usual 20 μA" "Oh. Uh. Right."

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026

this is now the official home of the Just Fucking Use IRC movement

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026

Discord are getting age verification happy. Boo. People are wanting to migrate away from Discord. Yay! It is each and every person's job to make sure they move to Matrix. The only other alternative I've heard of is Stoat (previously Revolt) which smells wildly underdeveloped and a security […]

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026

If I were to ask you to call me 'syn' regardless of my generally presenting as 'Dave' would you hate that? I need to be Dave to business. But it's gendered, and frankly, I was happier when everyone called me 'syn'.

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

The Autistic conviction that literally everything could be resolved if both sides had a full complement of the facts

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

It’s taken me this long to watch the new Fallout series, and I am actively dying at the casting for Lanius.

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dave@yourcomputer #:cursor: @dave.basilisk.gallery.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

So someone shared a post from X. Here's why you should dunk on them: 1. X pays premium users to post. This motivational factor has taken over the discourse completely. They are likely trying to earn money, not have a discussion. Even if they're not, they're likely trying to qualify to earn […]

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