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iliazeus @gts.iliazeus.lol · 18/10/2026
#inktober #inktober2026 (bittober? pixeltober?) flightless K=2,M=(...xs)=>-K*Math.log(xs.reduce((a,x)=>a+Math.exp(-x/K),0)), C=(x,y)=>Math.hypot(x,y)-1, B=(x,y)=>Math.min(M(C(x/16,(y+30)/16),C(x/4,(y+60)/4)),C((Math.abs(x)-y-58)/5,(y+40)/7))<0, P=(c,x […] [Original post on gts.iliazeus.lol]
a picture of a bunch of penguins walking in a line into the distance, made with a function from this post
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
@nytpu Also, hah, as simple as iOS/macOS/etc 27
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
@nytpu Meanwhile AutoCAD: March 25th www.autodesk.com/blogs/autocad/auto…
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
Seeing some #passkeys discussions popping up lately. I personally don’t have a "vendor lock" issue with them per se, though I understand where that’s coming from, especially for your typical normal user. What I do have an issue with are crippled or outright broken implementations on various […]
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
@ret System D when? :>
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Obsidian Urbex Photography @obsidianurbex.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
🦭🔒 Uh-oh! Tulip is behind bars today. What are his crimes? Let me know in the comments what you think this guilty little guy has been locked-up for. (Tulip is one of the patients at the seal rehab centre I am currently working at. Just feeling silly and wanted […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
seal behind bars!
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
One lesson I keep forgetting in the #Ubuntu (and maybe #Debian) world: do not, under any circumstance, resize the terminal while you’re doing a "do-release-upgrade". It has a very high chance of messing it up, especially if you then need to interactively resolve a config file change.
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eepy august [0x08] 🏳️‍⚧️🇲🇰 @august.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
a sentence will always look like poetry if you hit enter a lot
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
@nytpu The fact that I understand why this happens makes it all the more funny ahah
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Also, in the grand scheme of things, consumers don't bring a lot of money compared to businesses, so all these companies don't really bother providing custom service. You only get the cookie-cutter basics, and if you don't fit – well bad luck. And you can't go anywhere else, because it's the […]
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Mobile carrier: *has a contact form for generic question* Me: *sends a generic question/feedback* Mobile carrier: We can't identify who you are, use the chat. What's the point of the contact form then? Especially when I expect no useful reply through the chat, they'll barely have any time to […]
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
@ret UART, but 230V AC
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
@CursedSilicon I’m stealing "Hello Bone Colleagues", too good
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
It is only when you enable hot corners in your desktop environment you realise just how often you move the cursor out of the way into one of the corners.
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Maartje @maartje.dev · 04/10/2026
It was 5 years ago that i was invited to the Blåhaj Enterprises board meeting
Bunch of blahajar sitting in a board room table
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:privTri: Volpeon :areonNSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 04/10/2026
​:brdCrow:​ + ❄️ =
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
[small rant on media playback on macOS] Something that grinds my gears is how much CPU time it takes to (essentially) play a video stream and show a chat, be it on e.g. Twitch or YouTube. Even with all the hardware acceleration in place, all of this takes over one core worth of load […]
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
@Gauss What's next, Hurricane Electric and Cogent?
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
@nytpu I've encountered "likely"/"unlikely" macros in the Linux kernel's source, and searching from that eventually took me here: stackoverflow.com/a/1851445 If that's insufficient, maybe worth trying to compile a program using that and then disassembling it?
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
@ret Correction, a nerdy computery company (in a good way)
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
@ret There’s gotta be furries at Mikrotik, right? :D Even in general, computery company, not the smallest one. Chances are non-zero
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
@nytpu You post this as I rewatch Techmoan’s unboxings of old Minidisc players :D
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
@Gauss Acoustic-coupled modem :D
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
@Gauss I would like proper debug logs with timestamps
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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Is there a Mastodon bot that just makes GIF's out of relatable Technology Connections jokes?
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Heathrow airport has special corridors reserved for passengers with antlers, which seems very thoughtful of them but also oddly specific.
Sign reading: “→
Flight Connections
All terminals”

with a pictograph of a person walking and two pictographs of airplanes that appear to be radiating out of their head, resembling antlers.
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
@ret You'll never unsee it
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🦜 Decoy @decoy.fluffy.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
i've made either the best or worst resonite camera gimmick, depending on how you feel about it
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
@volpeon I have the opposite problem! Why, when I call print("awoo") in my code, it doesn’t print it on paper, but instead shows it on the screen? Programming is such a lie. /j
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:privTri: Volpeon :areonNSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 17/09/2026
Tippy tappy
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
Scrolling on #macOS 27 feels like nothing nothing nothing PHFWEEEEW 🚀
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
@volpeon I bet someone already encapsulated Javascript into a MPEG transport stream
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:privTri: Volpeon :areonNSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 16/09/2026
I see we're reaching the final stage of ads in paid streaming subscriptions where they don't even give you the option to not have ads (Disney+)
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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 · 14/09/2026
@ret - What a week! - Captain, it's ᛞ8D
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Another observation, after the upgrade to #iOS 27 release (from release candidate), iMessage/FaceTime seem to have re-registered themselves. This caused a popup on my Mac. Also one of family members said they got a contact key verification alert in a chat with me. Their phone was on iOS 26.6.2 […]
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
@ret Sorry, I was downloading 4 IPSWs in parallel 😬
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
From a quick peek at #iOS 27 firmware for #iPhone 18 Pro Max, there are two versions: * iPhone19,3 with a Qualcomm modem * iPhone19,7 with an Apple modem #Apple
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
#macOS 27 release is the same build number as release candidate (26A428) #iOS 27 release is a newer build (24A435 -> 24A437) #Apple
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`Da Elf @elfin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
Timeline cleanser of a parrot that found a traffic cam to ham it up for.
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
@ret So that's why I couldn't find them >:(
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Ret @ret.furry.engineer.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
Somewhat overlooked but I think the most egregious fuckery pulled by Apple this year... Pro camera controls (I.e. the ability to directly set stuff like effective shutter speed, ISO etc) are not just a new thing in iOS 27, they're feature-flagged to only work on the new iPhone 18 lmao. Fuck youuuu.
Pro Controls only appears in the feature list for the iPhone 18 Pro Max, not the iPhone 17 Pro Max.
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
"rvictl" still doesn't work. Fails with "bootstrap_look_up(): 1102". Documented here [1], but the "com.apple.rpmuxd" daemon doesn't seem to exist on Golden Gate. Guess no traffic capture for me then. [1]: developer.apple.com/documentation/n… #Apple #macOS
developer.apple.com
Troubleshooting Packet Traces | Apple Developer Documentation
Take action to address packet tracing problems.
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@forst/117248795318… Never mind, "rvictl" is part of Xcode tooling. After the upgrade, the Xcode version I had predictably wouldn't run. Had to install Xcode 27 RC, and then "rvictl" reappeared.
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
@volpeon Somebody decided to update on a Friday maybe heheh
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
Just me, or the "rvictl" utility (for remote packet capture from attached iOS devices) is simply not there in the #macOS Golden Gate release candidate? #Apple
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
@xoagray It's a bummer indeed. There's a new macOS-native client called "birc" now. It was a big buggy in places last time I checked, but not a bad start imo.
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Forst @forst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
@xoagray Textual?
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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 · 09/09/2026
[apple event] New OS releases September 14th. RCs today?
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