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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026

4. add 5L water, and sugar and spices to taste. For scale, last time I used: 15g ground cinnamon 8g ground allspice 15g vanilla extract powder 5g cardamom pods 8g dried ginger 350g sugar This time I'm using only ~250g sugar, and ~40mL of liquid vanilla […] [Original post on fedi.uni.horse]

the apples are now immersed in cinnamon-water, and some cardamom pods are floating on top

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026

1. get a big ass pot. Then put it back and get an even bigger one. 2. put the pot on a scale, tare it to zero, then remember your scale has an annoyingly short inactivity timeout and just note the weight of the pot instead. 3. chop up some apples until you […] [Original post on fedi.uni.horse]

an apple with a small hole where an insect dug into it once

same apple with a chunk cut out, now you can't tell anything was ever wrong with it

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

filling out a linkedin because i keep finding job applications that *require* a linkedin url, and they keep suggesting that i post about everything i add to it I graduated uni in *2012*

linkedin offering to post this for me: "It’s been a while since I’ve completed my Bachelor of Science at University of North Florida, but I wanted to share this update with everyone."

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

mocking up some #vaporpad example layouts as inspiration for writing about use cases, here's the first one "emily the steam deck has an A button why do you need 35 more A buttons" that one's the game controller A button, often used as a primary action. this […] [Original post on fedi.uni.horse]

key layout where every key is labeled "A" (with a smaller "A" under it)

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

reported a minor nethack bug and they wanted a specific list hardware information, which all seemed irrelevant, but who am i to question forms waiting for the inevitable reveal that this actually only occurs on thinkpads somehow

hardware:
thinkpad P1 gen 6, i7-13700H, 96GB RAM, 57GB + 467GB free space
(I *think* this should be good enough to run nethack, at least until the upcoming Unreal Engine rewrite)

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

surely my corpse is worth more than that, i think i would make an excellent undead minion

nethack shopkeeper offering "6 gold pieces for [my] corpse"

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

immediately after i posted on fedi about it, it dropped to ~60W (still more than a powered-off dryer should be pulling) so, uh, which one of you is it? i'm not even mad. i mostly just want to know how you pulled this off

a graph of various circuits' power usage, mostly steady, but the "dryer" suddenly drops from ~240W to ~60W at 20:11

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

which means that, after following the logical implications from there and renaming some other circuits, we arrive at:

five circuits labeled "Mystery 240V 1" through "Mystery 240V 5", each currently drawing under one watt

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

so hackerone now makes you go through an llm to send a report in. it's not good i'm still staring at the ip address thing. the template asked what ip addresses i was testing from, and i explained that i'm behind CGNAT and don't have a fixed public address […] [Original post on fedi.uni.horse]

LLM:

The pre-submission review found several issues. Here's what needs to be fixed:
Blocking issues (must fix before submission):

Title - Still shows the default placeholder "Report Intent #[redacted]"
Severity - Not set (review suggests CRITICAL with CVSS 3.0 score of 9.8)

Non-blocking issues (recommended to fix):

Asset - Review suggests [redacted].com instead of [redacted]
Weakness - Review recommends "ASI02: Tool Misuse and Exploitation" instead of CRLF Injection

Additional feedback:

Your IP address notation mentions 172.32.0.0/11 which is actually public IP space, not RFC1918 private addresses. You may want to clarify this.
Move your Business Impact Analysis content to the impact field (currently says "Describe impact here.")

Would you like me to fix all of these issues for you? I can update the title, set the severity, correct the weakness classification, update the asset, and fill in the impact field.

me:

title: fixed
severity: critical is overstating it imo, filled out the cvss thing and got medium. but also that's not a required field
asset: [redacted] is its own asset in the list, and that is the thing this directly affects
weakness + impact: it is set to those, think you're looking at a cached version
ip address: yes? why would they want my private ip address

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

after a frankly ridiculous number of setbacks, i have produced one #vaporpad #theWorkshop

a small keyboard shaped kind of like nevada

in the dark you can see the pretty purple backlight

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

it is. that's unexpected and mildly horrifying and probably a gpl violation

more strings, including one that explicitly says this is Marlin 1.0.0, with a link to their github repo

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

wait, is this firmware just a hacked up *Marlin*?

a bunch of strings that sound suspiciously like they belong in gcode-based fdm printer firmware: "Invalid extruder number", "Thermal Runaway", "Marlin", "Filament settings", and some M-codes for feedrates and homing

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

scrolling through `strings elegoo_lcd.bin |less` while i wait for stuff, as one does, and found this neat bit

a bunch of strings, consisting mostly of capital E and right parenthesis, whose lengths make a cool wavy repeated sideways parabola pattern. i can only fit about two waves on my screen at the smallest font size, but it repeats several more times with various peak lengths. it's probably some sort of big lookup table?

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

okay yeah apparently this is just the firmware updater and it decided to jump to it for no particular reason

printer displaying "erase flash block 227" in off-center green text

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

swapped out the LDO and yep it's 3.3V again also discovered this one has status LEDs! I was under the impression it did not because they never lit up before now

a usb dongle, with a tiny component removed and replaced with three wires going to a much larger component wrapped in kapton tape

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

hey hey aurora hi aurora aurora look at me i'm upside down :3

Liliana, a black cat, is rolling around on her back making silly noises. Aurora, a gray tabby cat, looks off into the distance, pointedly ignoring her.

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

omg that button that imports from other llm services? i clicked it out of curiosity, expecting to get like openai/anthropic sso links or something no it's literally a "please profile me" prompt you paste, and then a textarea to paste the response […] [Original post on fedi.uni.horse]

Tell us about you:

Step 1: Copy prompt

Copy this prompt to paste into your AI assistant's chat.

Step 2: Sign in to your AI assistant & paste this prompt

Log into your AI assistant then paste and submit the copied prompt from above.

Step 3: Paste AI assistant's response

Submit the response from your AI assistant below. We will remember the information you share to improve your experience across Amazon services.

To protect your privacy, we may not save all of the information you submit.

and then a big textarea

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

TIL: the "things amazon has learned about you" list is *editable* (through what appears to be an llm interface) www.amazon.com/slc/hub?useAiMode=1 use this knowledge wisely

Home and family: Is a cat

Interests & Hobbies: Enjoys meowing

Interests & Hobbies: Enjoys prompt injecting LLM features on shopping websites

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

okay, it's at least hitting u-boot, better than nothing (glasgow seems to handle this fine if i connect it to the right pin. like most UARTs, this one does not output anything from its rx)

some u-boot startup text, a register dump, then the timer errors start again

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

okay, now that that's stable enough: it's $379 to get a new one of the same model, and i don't wanna, and i have hardware poking tools, so let's see if we can recover the old one! opened it up, immediately found a clearly labeled uart header, glasgow seems […] [Original post on fedi.uni.horse]

an infinite stream of the repeated text "Error binding driver 'mtk_timer': -12Could not initialize timer (err -12)"

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

okay apparently SLA printing is kinda good now? (ABS-like resin instead of the default comically brittle stuff helps a lot) #vaporpad #3dPrinting #theWorkshop

a matte black vaporpad, no buttons but otherwise fully assembled. it looks very Sleek and Future. a bunch of assorted prototype parts are lying around in the background

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

the linkedin is attempting to contact the emily (this is a 100% real message as far as I can tell, it's one of those post-signup automated How To Get The Most Out Of Our Apocalyptic Wasteland messages)

email with sender "The LinkedIn Team via LinkedIn", subject "The LinkedIn just messaged you"

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

assembled a vaporpad pcb today to send off to crowdsupply, now with mew logo :3

bottom of a vaporpad pcb viewed in a microscope. there's an "it's probably fine" silkscreen, and a cat face in mostly silkscreen but the whiskers are tinned pads

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

[lewd, ai, orange site] skimmed over this in a sea of "we're applying AI to [randomly chosen field]" posts, and did a double take at the weird person calling their LLM "her" then reread it and realized that the LLM was not, in fact, the referent of "her" but that would have been better i think

a post from the HN hiring thread:

Devin (The Devin Experience) | Founding Hardware Lead | Toronto or Boston preferred | REMOTE (North American time zones) | Full-time | Competitive salary + meaningful founding equity | https://experiencedevin.com/jobs

We're building an intimate device that responds in real time to a live AI-generated story and to her body: an app-connected, sensor-equipped vibrator synced to an interactive audio story that AI performs live. The device follows the story, and the story follows her body. Our first 1,000 pre-orders sold out, and we've raised a $1.5M pre-seed. All-woman founding team (CEO is an exited founder and HBS grad; CTO is a multi-time founder and MIT alum; COO/CPO helped lead Wattpad to a $650M exit).

This is employee #1. You'll own hardware architecture, review and change our China partners' schematics and C/C++ BLE firmware (ESP32 / nRF), co-design the BLE protocol under tight latency budgets, integrate the IMU and body sensors (separating real body signals from the device's own vibration), and take us from prototype through EVT/DVT, certification and production, with trips to Shenzhen at key milestones.

You've shipped connected hardware end to end (consumer, wearable, medical or robotics), have 8+ years building hardware products with hands-on embedded work, and have been through at least one production ramp with a contract manufacturer. Bonus: haptics/motor control (ERM/LRA, PWM, waveform tuning), real-time systems, body-worn sensing, FCC/CE/Bluetooth SIG certification.

Apply: email morgan@experiencedevin.com with your resume or LinkedIn and a short note on one product you shipped: what you owned, the hardest hardware problem you solved, and how you knew it worked

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

but doctor, you *are* the abuse point of contact

whois result for a hostpapa ip address, with remarks reading: "please submit all abuse reports via the resource abuse point of contact. reports to this mailbox may not be actioned."

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

this is fine (this is my bad-RAM machine, which i no longer consider worth replacing and am kinda just living with)

$ reboot
reboot: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1: undefined symbol: [unprintable character]_truncsfhf2, version GCC_12.0.0

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

omg quinn do not confess to major crimes in public youtube videos

youtube subtitle from the start of the latest blondihacks video: "Hello internet. My name is Quinn and this is Bloody Axe."

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

still trying to return this phone i bought that's cobbled together from parts of other phones and having an identity crisis they ignored me for a couple weeks, so i opened a paypal dispute, and today i got this bizarre response

email from support:

Hello Emily,

Thank you for reaching out to us.

You will need to contact the platform where you purchased the device and submit a return request through their system. Their support team will be able to assist you with the return process and provide further instructions.

Thank you for your understanding.

my response:

You are the platform where I purchased the device. I bought it from your website.

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

got my cheap kickstarter fiber laser today comes with great documentation, good job

text file called Explanation.txt, containing only the single line of text "First, copy the file onto the computer and then install the software"

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

first problem: unbent three LGA socket pins. easy second problem: the heatsinks i got did not fit because what even are standards. fortunately, i have Tools and Determination

a cnc mill cutting a slot out of the edge of a heatsink

the cutout fits around some power electronics that were too close to the cpu socket

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

[making fun of spam] only if you can make it look like this email

spam email offering me web development services. random words are capitalized, there are several blank lines between each sentence, and the link to my website is in a noticeably larger font than the rest of the text. full text follows:

Hello,

Would you be interested in building a new website, or possibly rebuilding/repairing your existing website www.uni.horse with latest added features? We are a professional Development company.

I would like to send you my Website Proposal and examples of website to see the kind of quality you can expect to receive.

Do let me know if you are interested.

josephine

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

schematic: "here is a part number for an appropriate optoisolator" me: "that's nice" *rummages through parts bins*

some sort of messy audio circuit that started on stripboard and kinda grew upward. in the foreground is a 5mm LED superglued to a photoresistor

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emily, professional edge case @emily.fedi.uni.horse.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

in case anyone else was curious, that's approximately 0201

0201 smd capacitor footprint next to the QFN-20. the pads are about the same spacing, you could probably solder an 0201 to them if you really wanted to

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