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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Bluesky thinks I'm in Texas and now is forcing me to verify my age??? Welp, it's been fun while it lasted. No way I'm sharing my info with some third party just so they can get hacked, my information stolen, and only get a slap on the wrist. Adios.

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TracketPacer @tracketpacer.com · 20/06/2026

if working in aerospace has taught me anything it’s that any engineer who speaks in absolutes about hardware is full of it

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Brian Honan @brianhonan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

After playing PowerWash Simulator for 624 hours, I finally hit $100,000 in the bank and everything in the shop purchased. Thanks for all the cleaning entertainment @powerwashsimulator.co.uk

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

@tracketpacer.com I snuck a HQ pic of Awa (she's an ambassador at @alveussanctuary.org ) if you're still accepting animal pictures :)

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Welp, there goes the neighborhood. New VC CEO, prepare for enshitification.

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I really need to start taking multi-day breaks from news and social media. My brain is not built for this constant barrage of doom and gloom.

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

The final conclusion: turns out newer samsung tvs don't play by the HDMI CEC rules. Randomly came across someone's post on a forum that shared the secret: you have to set the active source with the command EF:82:10:F0 before you can tell the TV to go into standby.

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Less hangry now, tested the HDMI CEC commands on my TV at home and they work perfectly. Now I know I'm not a dummy and was doing everything correctly, it was the new Samsung TVs that apparently require some special sacrifice in order to honor a standby command which I've yet to figure out.

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I never want to see another HDMI CEC traffic log again in my life after the 8 hours of hell I just went through with a stupid piece of shit Samsung TV choosing to just ignore the commands with no apparent reason other than to drive me further insane.

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

You ever just minding your own business, maybe listening to some music, or watching a video, and suddenly your brain asks, "Where did I go wrong in life?" Seems to be happening more often these days.

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Woke up to a very chilly house... Of course this happens when the overnight low was 17F, and I can confirm my attic where the furnace is felt like that lol Got to learn how my furnace works while freezing my fingers off and put all that youtube HVAC troubleshooting knowledge to work!

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Is it just me, or does it seem like all streaming services up their prices by $1 every few months? Do they think we don't notice this?

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Upgraded my network rack UPS to a rackmount CyberPower, and it looks awesome!

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Turn off fast boot. Rest the BIOS. Re-flash the BIOS. Try a different power cable. Reseat the card. Try to update the card firmware. Boot without card then with card. Enable ReBAR. GPU upgrade just turned into a whole computer upgrade.

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Bought a new graphics card, installed it, PC wouldn't boot. Plug into the integrated graphics, boots up, thinking just a driver / BIOS config issue no biggie. Nope. PC won't boot without a monitor connected to integrated graphics. Once booted it flips over to new GPU and runs normally. :(

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Getting a little chilly outside, so I turned on my space heaters.

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Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · 14/11/2025

For the Aussies, the zoologists and the architects out there. 💩🧊🧪 By @chazhutton.com

Wombat architecture critics.
Two wombats see a cube-shaped house and one comments: Well that looks like shit.

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

New sleep hack: put on some bossa nova music softly in the room.

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Proton @proton.me · 31/10/2025

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

First EagleCAD, now Arduino.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 07/10/2025

Ping xkcd.com/3150/

4-panel comic. (1) [person finds bottle on shore] (2) [person reads message from inside bottle: ICMP ECHO REQUEST...] (3) [person writes on message ICMP ECHO REPLY...] (4) [person puts bottle back in water and leaves]

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Playing around with NMAP on my home network as I learn more about it from TryHackMe, find an IP that I can't identify, have a brief panic, realize I setup a honeypot a long time ago and forgot about it.

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spongebob squarepants is standing next to patrick star on a wooden floor and saying phew .

ALT: spongebob squarepants is standing next to patrick star on a wooden floor and saying phew .

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I love when I have a dream at night that turns into a musical on the fly with people I know singing with me.

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TracketPacer @tracketpacer.com · 01/10/2025

shooting my shot 🏀 we’re hiring & here’s the lowdown. this would be a great role for someone beginning or mid career. pls apply or pass on to anyone u know who might fit! (it is my current position, i am moving to other projects within the same team & would be training this person)

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I'm so fucked. lol. Anybody have ideas how to make money while also having to work your normal 9 to 5 job but not getting paid and not knowing when you will get paid?

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Took today off work and slept for 12 hours. I need to do this more often.

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

AT&T's "5G+" with full bars (USB Tethered) They won't come upgrade the DAS micro cell radio at the office from 4G LTE to 5G so my phone is constantly struggling, bouncing between the weak local tower 5G and the 4G LTE micro cell signal that apparently uses a dialup connection to the backhaul lol

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Why does my Spotify DJ keep trying to play sad songs? And when I hit the button to change the vibe it goes to angry heavy metal. Is it trying to tell me something?

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Just pulled into the driveway, shut off my vehicle, opened the door, but can't find the motivation to get out and go in the house. Same shit every day.

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Also, learning Dragos giving a nod to Hackers the movie by naming malware Crash Override made me lol

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Today I learned how to use ARP poisoning to intercept traffic using tools in Kali and then modify the packets to mask taking control of a PLC without reflecting the true state on the HMI. Yeah, I'm a hacker now. #Cybersecurity #ICS

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a man in a sleeveless t-shirt looks at the camera

ALT: a man in a sleeveless t-shirt looks at the camera

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Bought a light level meter, my desk at home is a cozy 1.5 foot candle lmao

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Went down the rabbit hole of Home Assistant and the Discord notification integration, and now I have ESPHome monitoring a CO2 sensor that posts in my discord when the reading is above 1000 ppm to let me know to open a window haha

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Couldn't get comfortable to sleep so I just got out of bed and now I'm wide awake at 4am. I forgot how nice it is to be up at this time, when everyone around me is asleep and things are so quiet. I miss it.

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Homelab update: I need more power.

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I'd like to thank the University of California for the most recent ebay purchase and new addition to the home lab!

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Why is it so hard to make a title block in visio where I can enter the project name in a single location and it fills in on all pages with that title block?

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Further down the rabbit hole we go!

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Say hello to the newest member of the homelab family, the Arista 7050QX-32S. That's 32 ports of 40 Gbps QSFP+ networking power.

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I'm on the hunt for some new homelab gear. I found some Arista 32 port QSFP+ switches on ebay so I can start down the 40 gig rabbit hole (and all the different optic flavors), but I'm not sure if Arista is homelab friendly (in terms of licensing / resources).

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Bought $600 worth of MTP cables and fiber cassettes just to shine a laser through it 🙂 home labs are expensive but worth the experience

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Echoskope @echoskope.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Couldn't resist adding another channel to the CWDM link between my core switches, now up to 30 GbE! I can add 1 more 10 GbE channel to it but at $99 per transceiver might have to wait another month to max it out.

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