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Zander Horn

@enginerd.co.za
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Philosophers husband. ChemEnginerd, mathemagician, naturally good at what I'm not supposed to be doing (he/him)

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/05/2025
we have failed as a society to train people to communicate, the way we teach students to write (when we bother to) is the most bland, anodyne crap, all while making them go to college for reasons that even we can't explain beyond "you need it to get a job." Kids don't get why they're going.
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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 27/05/2025
vibecoding is when I write the README and then never get around to writing the rest of the project
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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
there's "terminally online" and then there's "terminally online (desktop)" and it is so much worse
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Zander Horn @enginerd.co.za · 14/02/2025
Has anyone ever called knock-offs Tupperware, Tupperwarez?
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 22/01/2025
Computers used to bang. Aston Shell, Yzdock, real millennialcore before UX design was just padding.
XP shell skins
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Zander Horn @enginerd.co.za · 18/01/2025
These profiles following 10k+ people, why? How do you meaningfully interact and digest what's being shouted into your void?
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Gale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
there are too many pokemon
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I wish we could cultivate a culture where people get excited about and share the new skills they've learned more than the new stuff they've bought.
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Charl P. Botha @charlbotha.com · 08/01/2025
#til if you want to share a song, use song.link to create a universal song link. The recipient will be able to listen to the song you shared via any streaming service of their choice. Here's an example: song.link/i/1559885421
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Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley
Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.
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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
A knife that's just been used to slice bread can go back in the drawer. Bread doesn't count.
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Zander Horn @enginerd.co.za · 01/01/2025
After spending most of this year sleeping I suppose it's time to get up and do something
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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 30/12/2024
in 2025 I will probably go on the computer
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Zander Horn @enginerd.co.za · 30/12/2024
Sometimes I need to admit to myself that I simply enjoy configuring things
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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Suddenly mad that we'll never get a Discworld book in which the wizards invent something like Large Language Monsters that eat everyone's stuff before regurgitating it, and Vimes arrests them all for being bloody stupid
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Zander Horn @enginerd.co.za · 11/12/2024
The biggest quality of life improvement in using the internet since uBlock Origin is Consent-O-Matic. Never again do I need to deal with some dark pattern data consent pop-up.
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Steinbeck: What did you think of my draft of 𝘖𝘧 𝘔𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘢𝘯? Publisher: It needs more characters. Steinbeck: I'll see what I can do.
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 10/12/2024
They haven't invented an AI that can do what we do as poorly as we do it.
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The Name Is Cupcake @rouxgarou.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I've closed at least 7 browser tabs in the last few days. This counts as personal growth.
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Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I remember when a new version of Windows meant there would be all sorts of new features and the trailers would have a big song announcing the update and everyone waited in line for the new hotness and now your computer randomly reboots at some point and the update is you can no longer save files.
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Birds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Dune has the same plot as the Westminster Dog Show: After generations of careful breeding, we have produced this perfect little freak of nature and now it has behavioral issues
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False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 02/11/2024
Kneesvember 2024 Day 1
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Zander Horn @enginerd.co.za · 28/11/2024
The statistician in me is loath to be anecdotal, but I've had improbably bad luck with Seagate drives ☹️
A happy pink blob is safely ensconced in an armoured block, he hasn't bought a Seagate drive in more than a decade. 

He thinks it's safe to come out, try some of these new Exos drives with good pricing and decent Backblaze stats.

All the drives he purchased are DOA or have various odd SMART issues, he's given a gut punch having scarcely left his safe box.

Never again, back in his safe armoured box, layers thicker than ever.
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Zander Horn @enginerd.co.za · 22/11/2024
I seem to have stained my fingers brown from working with some fancy wood today. I am not sufficiently mentally prepared for this burden.
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Elizabeth Hackett @lizhackett.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
The backstory to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein puts unrealistic expectations on how much work you can accomplish in a vacation house.
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Grace @gracekind.net · 13/11/2024
The future of work is spending 8 hours copying one-time passwords between various windows and devices
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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Priorities
4 panel comic. 
Panel 1: momo is behind his pc with the big mouse in his hand. Behind him is a window. A voice comes from outside the window. It says “hey”
Panel 2: we see now that the voice came from a little purple alien outside. It starts explaining “so, we just landed”
Panel 3: a shot from outside. There’s more little alien guys and a UFO in the background. One of the aliens say “might conquer your planet”
Panel 4: back inside, momo seems very undisturbed. He simply replies “not now mate. I am computering”
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 11/11/2024
There was a time you'd run EXE's for fun. There were malware before Bitcoin but they were often stupid shit like playing random porn noises. We have lost a part of ourselves and our children's.
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Brandon “Bouncing Beebles" Kirkman @kirkmanbrandon.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Doom Scrolling? Sounds impressive as hell, not even sure how you can emulate Doom on a scroll. That’s gotta be some real special papyrus
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
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Zander Horn @enginerd.co.za · 06/11/2024
I'm pretty sure people are medium entropy saladoids: saladtheory.github.io
saladtheory.github.io
Salad Theory
Salad Theory
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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 03/11/2024
kinda have to say the internet / literacy stuff scares me more re having a kid than climate change
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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 30/10/2024
100,000 workers estimated missing www.archpaper.com/2024/10/docu...
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New documentary reveals that 21,000 laborers have died working on Saudi Vision 2030, which includes NEOM, since construction began
According to the expose by ITV, more than 21,000 workers have died since 2017 while working on Saudi Vision 2030 and NEOM.
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 28/10/2024
A story I like telling is how I ran the AV at a place and when I deployed adblock the detections fell off a cliff. I wish more people had this visceral "holy shit" moment. "It was this easy the whole time?" ~2012. I recently deployed uBlock Origin to an F500, on my insistence.
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Zander Horn @enginerd.co.za · 27/10/2024
C'mon Cloudflare, I've been accessing you from the same IP for five years now, do I really have to do a CAPTCHA twice?
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
A couple is sitting down to watch a movie. One with popcorn says "so you're making me watch a boring historical movie?" The other one says "oh, honey, this is Master and Commander." 2.3 hours later... the man with the popcorn is flabbergasted by the quality of the picture. He says "I am so fucking turned on right now." He grabs the sides of his lovers' face and says "I have never been more in love with you than I am at this moment."
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 21/10/2024
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twist @twist.dog · 23/10/2024
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 11/09/2024
Remember what they took from us
Garth Franklin’s fake image of an MCU-style comic con announcement for 9 Master & Commander movies
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Lumin @screwy.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Even funnier is that right after he left, BSky's team immediately reprioritized into stuff like video support because he kept prioritizing Web3 bullshit over basic functionality during his tenure Also he's now glazing Elon's Twitter lmao
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 17/10/2024
There's got to be a new corollary to Poe's Law that says something like "You cannot write a science fiction premise so obviously nightmarish and terrible that some insanely wealthy tech dingbat won't think 'gee, what an awesome idea'"
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Big Dracula Energy @mayawest.online · 04/11/2023
becoming a RETVRN guy, but only for translucent tech.
a variety of brightly coloured 90s and 00s tech (computers, gaming systems, Walkmen), all have vibrant  translucent plastic casing.
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 05/11/2023
When you pirate MP3 you’re downloading communism
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