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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

Yay, got a lovely card from @dotmeow With this we confirm that penguins can and do indeed meow! #dotmeow

Photo of a small white card lying on top of a brown paper envelope.

The card is handwritten. The card says: "Hey Foster, / Thank you so much for all of your support in making meow a reality – we all really appreciate it / – wordloc :3 / Confirmed: Tux says meow!"

In the bottom right corner of the card there is a doodle of Tux the penguin (mascot of Linux) with a speech bubble that says "meow".

In the top right corner of the envelope there is one postal stamp from Belgium. It is marked "1 - Europe / 2025", has a styled drawing by Geert Wille of a mail carrier in a red shirt and red baseball cap. The carrier is putting a letter in the mailbox. Over the picture, a heart outline is drawn, in which it says "Happy Postcrossing".

Under the postal stamp there is also a blue sticker with white "A - Prior" text and a symbol of a plane.

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

I have a feeling @bigzaphod and @cinebox may be the same person 🤔

Screenshot of two toots in a row, with about one minute’s difference. Both joking about 4 being the private key for their luggage.

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

Just me, or emSign’s certificate repository looks like slop? #eMudhra #emSign

Screenshot of repository.emsign.com, which has some signs of being generated by an LLM (button shapes, monospace fonts)

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Also got this pop-up today on #iOS 27 release. I would assume this might be related to iMessage/FaceTime, but I don't think it was ever called iCloud? Or some new feature? None of this showed up on the release candidate build. Maybe some server-side thing Apple enabled yesterday. #Apple

Screenshot of a pop-up dialogue box on iOS. Title: "Turn on iCloud?". Text: "Your network provider may charge for SMS messages used to activate iCloud". Two buttons: "Turn on iCloud" and "Don't use".

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

[apple event] C2 modem with mmWave support in Duo and 18 Pro, but not 18 Pro Max according to the website? #Apple #AppleEvent #iPhone

Screenshot of tech specs of iPhone 18 Pro (left) and 18 Pro Max (right). The difference between the two columns is 18 Pro has "Apple C2 cellular modem", while the 18 Pro Max doesn't.

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Hah, and a follow-up at 15:05. Funnily enough this arrived with a regular message signal, albeit at full volume. In my case it was the Jiggy Get sound from Banjo Kazooie :D #Sweden #Sverige #SEAlert #VMA #HesaFredrik

Screenshot of a cell broadcast message on iOS. It reads: "Test completed. The test of SE-Alert has been completed. In a real emergency you will receive a message like this when the emergency has ended. This is a test, you do not need to do anything. Swedish Civil Defence and Resilience Agency."

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

The country-wide NOOT day, for the first time with working cell broadcast :> #Sweden #Sverige #SEAlert

iOS screenshot of a cell broadcast message in Swedish and English. It reads: "TEST. This is a test of SE-Alert, a system used by Swedish authorities to alert the public in the event of a serious incident. In a real emergency, SE-Alert will provide you with information about what has happened and what to do. This is a test, you do not need to do anything. Swedish Civil Defence and Resilience Agency"

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

@nytpu Here is when I force `curl -6`, it tries it as-is, and then with a search domain (which in my case is se1.pen.gy and was fetched from DHCPv4).

Screenshot of two DNS request-response pairs. Both are for AAAA (IPv6). First for github.com. Second for github.com.se1.pen.gy.

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Ooh, looks like Tele2 (and their flanker brand Comviq) will be the first ones to enable #RCS messaging on #iOS in #Sweden. The latest iOS 27.0 beta 4 enables RCS in the carrier bundles (profiles). Uses Jibe. Haven't tested yet, don't have a spare device […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of a textual diff of the Tele2 (Sweden) carrier bundle between iOS 27.0 beta 3 and beta 4. The diff shows an added "RCS" key with multiple children elements, indicating that RCS is now available. It uses the jibecloud.net infrastructure.

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

It's fun listening to individual pairs of channels of surround or Atmos-mixed music. You pick out a lot of "ooh, that cool bit there is not that noticeable in the stereo mix"

Screenshot of a macOS app called "Loopback". Shows a virtual output device with 12 channels, where only two of those are linked to a headphone output.

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

RE: floofy.tech/@arch/116850718084807163 Well, the ACME support is quite basic at the moment. The set of supported providers is very limited. If yours is not in the list, enjoy manually updating the DNS record every few months. I guess I'll stick […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of the UniFi control panel showing the "Add new certificate" dialogue box. Most of the fields are empty. The focus is on the "DNS provider" dropdown. Available providers: Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, Dynu, GoDaddy, OVH, Porkbun and Route53.

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

[Apple, WWDC, AI image manipulation] In a surprise to absolutely nobody, looks like #Apple's #WWDC26 wallpaper is AI-manipulated, judging by the leftover metadata in the file. The layer names look a lot like AI prompts to me. developer.apple.com/wwdc26/wallpaper #WWDC2026

Screenshot of XML metadata from the WWDC wallpaper listing six text layers:

* Add a bit more shape into the inner glow in the leaf. We lost shape in the process of darkening the inner glow in the leaf. Created a rough hack below.
* Tone down edge highlight by 60%
* Let’s take out the edge abberations on the left side of the leaf. Reference the right side of the leaf for creative intent.
* Tone down outer glow on the leaf. Created a rough hack of the outer glow.
* The end of the abberation is looking a patchy. It also ends abruptly and creates an angular shape. Let’s extend the abberation a bit so that it tapers off smoothly. Also add a bit more of the edge highlight back. Use the hack as reference.
* Thank you for adjusting the outerglow of the leaf. I think the sweet spot for the glow is between the brigthness of R4 and R3. Created a hack below for the level of glow.

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

#Apple pushed out a country bundle update for #Sweden that enables cell broadcast for emergencies, called SE-Alert here. If you want to get it now, go to Settings - General - About, and you should get a popup to update. From what I read it will be first […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of an Apple country bundle diff, which shows the addition of data structures related to cell broadcast.

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

@ret How about just some pigeon love :> Captured a week or so ago. The magpie flew away shortly thereafter.

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

Uhoh, something went down at #Telenor, looks like. Wired internet is down, and their homepage doesn't load at all #Sweden #Sverige

Screenshot of DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com, showing that "telenor.se" is down

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

Ooh, looks like a rolling shutter desync in Czechia's performance? #Eurovision

Screenshot of Eurovision's TV broadcast. Czechia is performing. Performer's head is in frame. The image is striped with wrong colours/tint: part grey, part blue

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

Woo, managed to enable 5 GHz DFS channel support on #Kobo Clara BW! The kernel is indeed signed, but the Wi-Fi driver is an out-of-tree module and is not signed in any way. Sources are available, took me a bit to find what to change, but ultimately a success […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of output of the "iw" command-line utility. It list a set of frequencies in the 5 GHz range. Channels 36 through 64 and 100 through 140 are available, with channels above 52 indicating "radar detection".

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026

Looking through GitLab docs, when suddenly "oh hey, that's me!"

Screenshot of a REST API request/response example for user/group/project custom attributes. In the response data, there are two attributes: "location" is "Antarctica", "role" is "Developer".

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026

Got a little bit of a #DeepSpaceNetwork dashboard of my own :> Should hopefully see the #Orion telemetry signal pop back up soon. #Artemis #NASA #JPL

Screenshot of a text-based Deep Space Network dashboard showing three different sites (Madrid, Goldstone, Canberra) and multiple antenna dishes on each. Each dish lists spacecraft, distance, signal power and bitrate. At the bottom right is a picture-in-picture of the NASA live stream of the Artemis 2 mission.

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/04/2026

To those watching #Artemis live coverage on #iOS, if you open the stream from nasa.gov, you'll be able to play it in picture-in-picture mode without YouTube Premium, unlike Youtube's website or app.

Screenshot of a toot compose dialog in Ivory app on iOS, with a NASA live stream hovering on top in a picture-in-picture view.

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2026

It has been a pretty frustrating thing where random #macOS daemons would consume a bunch of CPU (especially on battery). The latest incarnation of it is "people-d" and "CallHistorySyncHelped": www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1ro… […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of Activity Monitor on macOS, sorted by CPU usage percentage. The top two entries are "people-d" and "CallHistorySyncHelper", using 56.8% and 42.1% of CPU respectively.

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026

@WiteWulf As an ESL person, these two were a bit tricky to me! The "self-deprecation" term specifically. My understanding of "deprecate" is to "disapprove/discourage further use" (inferred from use in software development), and "depreciate" is to "reduce in […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of a Wikipedia article summary for "self-deprecation".

Subtitle: Act of devaluating one's self-worth.

Summary follows:

Self-deprecation is the act of reprimanding oneself by belittling, undervaluing, disparaging oneself, or being excessively modest. It can be used as a way to make complaints, express modesty, invoke optimal reactions or add humour. It may also be used as a way for individuals to appear more likable and agreeable. Self-deprecation was recommended by philosophers of Stoicism as a response to insults. Instead of getting defensive, people should join in by insulting themselves even more. According to the Stoics, this will remove the sting from the insult. It will also disappoint the interlocutor because the person failed to show upset in response to words that were supposed to hurt them, thereby reducing the chance that they will try to upset the person like that again. People prefer self-criticism over being criticized by others…

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026

The size of these search bar buttons phahaha #iOS

Screenshot of an in-app web browser on iOS 26.4. The search bar is open and is right above the keyboard. The search field and the surrounding buttons are two times larger (by dimensions) than they're supposed to be.

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026

[genAI / LLM, open source] Welp, looks like #OpenWrt is now also using "AI". For now it's code reviews at least.

Screenshot of git commit history in the main OpenWrt repo. Three newest commits mention adding support for Claude code review on request.

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2026

Found out today that our national broadcaster (#SVT) is streaming their linear TV channels in 1080p50 (vs 720p50 on terrestrial and cable networks) and in AV1! #Sweden #Sverige #DigitalTV

Screenshot of HLS playlist for one of the SVT (Swedish national broadcaster) channels. It lists video resolutions from 252p50 (at 655 kilobits per second) up to 1080p50 (at 6137 kilobits per second) in H.264, HEVC and AV1.

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2026

For those interested in numbers: • 30 multiplexes of 8 MHz, 256-QAM, with bitrate of 50.69 Mbps each • 1 multiplex of 8 MHz, 64-QAM, with bitrate of 38.01 Mbps Across all of those, approx 574 Mbps is wasted. That means you can drop 11 out of 31 multiplexes […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Table of frequency (MHz) vs amount of stuffing (Mbps) on each frequency. Individual values not particularly interesting, but the worst offender is 36.2 Mbps stuffing (out of 50.69 Mbps total for that multiplex).

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2026

Out of curiosity captured transport streams of my cable TV provider (who also does internet over DOCSIS), and it's so sad. You can see the effect of TV channels going away, and the space they previously occupied remaining unused. So much stuffing that […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Stacked graph of bitrate (vertical axis) over time (horizontal axis). The total bitrate sums up to about 50 megabits per second. The vast majority of it (36 megabits per second) is taken by null packets/stuffing.

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/12/2025

@ret Got the full-res version from `product-backend.jar` for PyCharm, the lines at the top of the lighthouse do indeed look suspicious

PyCharm 2025.3 splash screen. The whole picture is green-tinted. In the foreground there's a forest with deciduous trees. On the right there's a lighthouse. In the background there are some rolling hills.

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025

What it feels like replacing a bunch of expiring tokens today :D

Meme picture with black borders and white serif text at the bottom. Text says "Get rotated" in all caps. The picture is taken underwater of a diver holding a shark vertically, one hand on the snoot, another on the belly. There is another diver and a shark tail in the background.

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/11/2025

#Kobo Clara BW doesn't support 5 GHz DFS channels despite the regulatory domain allowing for it. Wish me luck to reach anyone knowledgeable about the firmware internals. So far it's two human robots parroting things like "clear Wi-Fi settings", "rename your SSID" etc. #EReader

Trimmed output of "iw phy", which shows that only channels 36 to 48 are allowed, all other ones are marked "disabled".

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/11/2025

@arch Saw this on the Floofy.tech public Grafana, can't unsee it, so I have to let you know :> Smol typo, "databse"

Screenshot of a Grafana graph. The graph says "Databse Size" (sic!), the value is 27.3 gigabytes.

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/11/2025

#Telenor seems to be moving Swedish IP prefixes from AS2119 to AS8434, noticeable uptick today

Screenshot of six graphs of AS8434. Most notable are the two graphs labelled "IPv4 Prefixes Originated" and "IPv6 Prefixes Originated", with both having a sharp increase between November 9th and November 10th.

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/11/2025

Noticed today that #macOS has the "Vehicle Motion Cues" feature, where it displays moving dots to help reduce motion sickness. And it works! So my #MacBook has an accelerometer I didn't know about. Wonder if it's used for anything else 🤔

Screenshot of an active round button in the Control Centre. The icon depicts four columns of dots. The two outer columns have four thicker dots each, while the inner columns have three thinner ones.

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025

@xoagray I think I must've changed something for Option to work as Alt. Using iTerm2, here's what my settings look like

Screenshot of iTerm2 settings on macOS. The settings are open to Profiles – Keys – General. There are many settings here, but among the potentially interesting ones: "Apps can change how keys are reported" is enabled, "Treat Option as Alt for special keys like arrows" is enabled, "Left Option key" is "Escape plus", and "Apps can change this" is enabled.

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

This has gotta be one of the darker patterns, where you have to refuse subscribing to a newsletter for EVERY login. Swedish MyFujifilm page, for those curious. #DarkPatterns

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2025

Guess I'm still salty about #Serif #Affinity closing their community forums and moving to #Discord, but what are the odds whatever this is is subscription-only? :P #affinityphoto #affinitydesigner #affinitypublisher

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2025

Seeing all the #iOS 26 beta screenshots from people, and now having installed the release, I got this. Didn't even make it to the home screen yet. Don't think #Apple has ever been sloppier than they are now. Long gone is the attention to detail.

Photo of an iOS 26 SIM card PIN entry screen. Thr keyboard is at the bottom, and jt js shifted left (there is more space to the right than to the left).

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2025

Ooh, looks like we're now getting #5G NR in n28 band instead of #LTE. At least the spectrum looks very different compared to just a few weeks ago. #Sweden #4G

Screenshot of a radio spectrum analyser with the line plot in the top part of the screen and an FFT waterfall in the bottom. Frequency range is 768-778 MHz. Almost the entire bandwidth is taken by a bursty signal, with the middle 3.5 MHz being strongest. The frequency band is labelled "Telia Down".

Screenshot of a radio spectrum analyser with the line plot in the top part of the screen and an FFT waterfall in the bottom. Frequency range is 778-788 MHz. Almost the entire bandwidth is taken by a bursty signal, with the middle 3.5 MHz being strongest. The frequency band is labelled "N4M Down".

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2025

Got this random suggested video on Youtube, and they're doing the soldering iron thing too :D

Screenshot of a YouTube video thumbnail. The video is titled "Introduce networking devices". The thumbnail depicts three people, two of which are holding a soldering iron like a pen, one of them is touching a motherboard with it.

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2025

What's the toastiness of your #postgres cluster? Good timing on the toots x> @ret

$Screenshot of two toots, one right above the another, in reverse chronological order: 1. OH: “but are those numbers time or toastiness?” 2. SQL dumps created with current releases of "pg_dump" (namely 17.6, 16.10, 15.14, 14.19 or 13.22) can no longer be loaded with earlier versions of "psql" because they contain new "\restrict" commands that did not exist in earlier versions and will cause "invalid command" errors. The reason for this change is CVE-2025-8714. Strange to see breaking changes in a project like #postgres$

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2025

This is probably the first time I see a checkbox that says "Do show again", rather than "Don't…" #LibreOffice

Screenshot of "Welcome to LibreOffice" window on macOS. In the middle, there is a view with three tabs: "Welcome", "User Interface" and "Appearance". At the bottom left, there is a checkbox labelled "Do show again". At the bottom right, there are two buttons: "Release Notes" and "Next".

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2025

TIL there is a town in Tasmania called Penguin :D

Screenshot of a map with land at the bottom and ocean at the top. A red border is drawn around a town. The town is named Penguin.
North-weest of it is a place named Sulphur Creek, and to the west there is a place called West Pine.

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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2025

#IPv4 vs #IPv6, the latter being more than two times faster when downloading firmware images from Apple :D

Screenshot of two wget transfers of the same file. IPv4 averaged 19.5 megabytes per second, while IPv6 averaged 44.3 megabytes per second.

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