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Ety, Ringer of Bells ^G @ety.hive.institute.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

(and, has been mentioned elsewhere, there's something about projects specific to [retro] life-safety equipment enthusiasts and tandem communities that seems to come with a litany of drama... Going with a community that already has a more broad interest in retro/infrastructure has its own appeal […]

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Ety, Ringer of Bells ^G @ety.hive.institute.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Are any of the retro projects similar to #CGHMN or #FujiNet running any telephony projects with broad membership appeal? I've got so much gear that I want to play and do silly things with, but in retrospect, really don't have any interest in running a tandem, myself. Just want to run a local […]

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Ety, Ringer of Bells ^G @ety.hive.institute.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@jimmyb Hmm, that's unfortunate :-/ Is it throwing that error on login or on playback? If on playback, and you feel comfortable sharing, I don't mind giving it a try here, if you want to drop a video link :-)

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Ety, Ringer of Bells ^G @ety.hive.institute.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Holy followup, Batman, but: Most of my consumption of video content (video essays, gaming VODs, etc) happens on the couch, while having a meal, or catching up on work, or dozing. One gets the idea. Anyways: the #PeerTV app for AppleTV? Pretty dang good. Federated/self-hosted video platforms […]

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Ety, Ringer of Bells ^G @ety.hive.institute.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Spent quite a bit of the evening cleaning up our PeerTube instance, authorizing some federations, and redesigning the homepage. Just in time for 'streaming season' to come back into full swing :becca_laugh: Come check it out, maybe? If any mutuals publish to PT (or know of a good channel to […]

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Ety, Ringer of Bells ^G @ety.hive.institute.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Have you or a loved one been diagnosed with special interests? You may be entitled to chaotic shitposting.

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Ety, Ringer of Bells ^G @ety.hive.institute.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

The yearning is real. ... though in today's case, the yearning is focused getting back to tinkering with 90s-00s phone company hardware.

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Ety, Ringer of Bells ^G @ety.hive.institute.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Better ventilation means more materials! About to label the heck out of some equipment :becca_love:

My open hand holding two different laser-etched pieces, white-on-black:

On the left, a narrow strip in the style of old-school breaker panel "phenolic" info placards. It reads:
SUBPANEL 1
120/240V 1ø 3W

On the right, a square piece of plastic with some line art of Miku Hatsune waving at the viewer.

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Ety, Ringer of Bells ^G @ety.hive.institute.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Relatedly: wow, not having used Node-Red in a while, quite surprised at how out of date some of the biggest libraries are for it? Twitch's newest NR library was updated almost 3 years ago?

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Ety, Ringer of Bells ^G @ety.hive.institute.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Implementing a queue and dispatcher with flow control in node-red ranks up there as one of the More Cursed things I've done in recent history.

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Ety, Ringer of Bells ^G @ety.hive.institute.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Does anybody have any familiarity with Ubiquiti's SuperLink multisensors in a residential or light-commerical context? Bonus points if used with HomeAssistant? #HomeAssistant #HomeAutomation #Automation #Ubiquiti

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Ety, Ringer of Bells ^G @ety.hive.institute.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Quote from D&D today, after finding some members in a large dark room filled with 'barrels covered in sticky-sweet mixture, with the scent of sulfur in the air' My character is panicking a little bit, which the DM characterizes as "Eslanna seems concerned with the transition from biology to […]

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Ety, Ringer of Bells ^G @ety.hive.institute.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

A checkin from Hudson, NY to Central Texas? 23 hops? Fantastic. Really need to get some height on my local repeater here, but an exciting morning nonetheless 😁

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Ety, Ringer of Bells ^G @ety.hive.institute.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

#meshcore conditions are so good this morning, getting pings from halfway across the US.

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Ety, Ringer of Bells ^G @ety.hive.institute.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

My timeline is tragically devoid of #retro tech, both incoming and outgoing. Mayhaps we spend some quality time surfing the fediverse for new accounts to follow today.

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Ety, Ringer of Bells ^G @ety.hive.institute.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

Wew, last service migrated off of S3 storage. Back to nice speedy local SSDs, as blorb intended. :dragon_sip:

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Ety, Ringer of Bells ^G @ety.hive.institute.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

Anyone on Fedi still playing #FinalFantasyXI ? A friend mentioned it the other day and the call has been real since then :crow_hmm: #FFXI #PlayOnline

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

Sometimes people ask me how I do so much The honest answer is that between doing things, I lie down a lot Sometimes I do lots of things while lying down In either case, the trick is to lie down more

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Ety, Ringer of Bells ^G @ety.hive.institute.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

Lots of fun instance update work last week. Added fresh emotes, too. :dragon_hype: Giving my personal account some love this evening, setting lists back up, searching for new accounts in areas of interest. A most fruitful endeavour. Maybe even bringing on some friends in the next few days 👉️👈️

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Ety, Ringer of Bells ^G @ety.hive.institute.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

Wew, even more emotes. I'm probably done posting about them... for now :crow_wink: :retro_cd: :retro_doc: :retro_floppy: :retro_folder: :retro_modem: :retro_system: :retro_websearch: :retro_zip:

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