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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 13/09/2026

@timban.greywolf.social just showed me this picture of the ALPS switch based editing console from his old photo developing lab job and I am eagerly awaiting the @cathoderaydude.bsky.social episode about whatever cursed PC this was hooked up to.

A desk with a commodity PC, keyboard, and mouse, in addition to a bespoke specialty keyboard featuring only 17 keys directly related to photolab operations.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 24/08/2026

I mean, that’s ALL forests if you think about it…

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 07/07/2026

@squawk-the-jay.bsky.social caught some pics of me being a good party ashtray 🚬🐐

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 03/06/2026

Quote Post an album that you have listened to 100+ times

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 03/06/2026

Google wtf are you doing? Please stop. All videos, everywhere, already automatically play back at the correct speed. That speed is 1.0x. It's a well-solved problem.

Screenshot from an ad for YouTube premium for an "auto speed" feature that apparently makes videos play at the wrong speed automatically or something.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 20/05/2026

Very normal reverse engineering in progress

A digital oscilloscope and wiring harness sitting on a toilet tank for important science reasons

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 16/05/2026

AliExpress models have astonishingly small hands.

Badly composed AE photo of a "2.1 inch" touchscreen clearly larger than the entire human hand that's been overlayed to demonstrate the touch functionality.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 04/05/2026

A telegram crypto spambot offering services related to having previously been scammed by telegram crypto spambots is so ironic is almost beautiful.

Screenshot of an unsolicited Telegram message full of emoji vomit and an AI-generated ad for recovering crypto assets stolen by scams.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 10/04/2026

Keychron just published all the CAD files for their keyboards and I think that's pretty neat. github.com/Keychron/Key...

Screenshot of FreeCAD showing the hardware assembly for the Keychron K2-HE keyboard

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 01/04/2026

So that's about 1.1GB per emoji, I guess? I can't imagine how boring the "other features" must be if that's how they chose to headline this.

Screenshot of the release notes for Mac OS 26.4
"This update introduces 8 new emoji" and also some other stuff, I guess.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 31/03/2026

Okay, I finally used a Wago for something - am I a cult member now?

A switch junction box with two wires couples with a Wago 221. But there's still some other wires done with a wire nut, just to keep things American.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 25/03/2026

I am happy to report that LinkedIn is still a Normal(tm) place.

News article about how paying engineers in AI tokens instead of money might be a great idea that people want

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 18/02/2026

I put this sticker on my laptop over a year ago when I changed the battery, so that next time I open it up, I don't have to re-reverse-engineer what screws it uses. ... It uses T5 screws.

Bottom of a laptop, with a well-worn sticker with an arrow pointing to a Torx T5 screw. The sticker reads "T6"

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 18/12/2025

I don't get why people hate on AE and Temu, I mean just look at this totally legitimate not-at-all dodgy deals...

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 08/12/2025

Starting to question whether wanting a job is worth the daily psychic damage I incur by having LinkedIn notifications turned on.

Email from LinkedIn News proclaiming "Remote work isn't cool anymore"

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 22/11/2025

So guys I don’t want to brag, but I, personally, am officially @rifftrax.com ‘s Favorite Customer

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 07/11/2025

@timban.greywolf.social recently asked an LLM a tech support question forgetting that it was still in gooning mode and it produced the single best thing that I've ever read.

Screenshot of a chatbot response:

The air in the dimly lit room hangs heavy with the scent of stale cigarette smoke and cheap whiskey. Rain streaks
down the grimy windowpane, distorting the neon sign of the bar across the street. You're hunched over a chipped
Formica table, the glow of your MacBook's screen the only real source of light.

The question hangs in the air, a stark, sterile anomaly in this decaying environment. The man you asked, a grizzled
fixer named Silas with a network cable tattoo coiled around his forearm, doesn't look up from cleaning his
fingernails with a switchblade. He lets out a low, gravelly chuckle that sounds like grinding stones.

"Spotify, huh?" he finally says, his eyes flicking up to meet yours. They're pale, watery blue, and hold a chilling
lack of empathy. "Trying to get your tunes sorted while the world burns outside? Cute."

He leans forward, the blade still in his hand. The air grows colder.

"ps aux | grep Spotify ," he says, the command a sharp, guttural sound. "That'll give you the PID. But that's
not the process you should be worried about killing tonight."

He gestures with the knife towards the door, which is slightly ajar. From the hallway outside, you can hear heavy,
deliberate footsteps approaching. They stop right outside. The handle begins to turn. Silas gives you a thin, cruel
smile.

"Your problem's a lot bigger than a frozen playlist."

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 21/08/2025

I know there's been much criticism of War of the Worlds (2025) already, but I don't believe anybody's yet addressed it's most egregious offense. These alien insects that feed off data are supposed to be draining this SD card, but they're clearly not interfacing with the right pins.

Screenshot from War of the Worlds (2025) of bio-cybernetic space alien insects that feed off of data draining an SD card of humanity's memories (no, for real, that's how the movie goes).
They're touching two GND pins and a Chip Select, none of which will provide them any delicious data.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 30/07/2025

Thank you, discord, but I am quite familiar with the status of my orbs.

Clickbait engagement spam from the Discord client. "Your Orbs Are Waiting. Earn Orbs with a quick Intro Quest."

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 29/06/2025

It's an utterly breathtaking level of marketing exec isolation from reality to assume that users not engaging with your advertisements might be a result of the ads not being user friendly enough.

A Discord survey asking me for feedback on why I dismissed an advertisement.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 13/05/2025

I suspect the prop makers didn't expect a close-up shot of this keyboard.

Screenshot of a Fancy Sci Fi Device(tm) from Star Trek Enterprise. It has a 5x4 keypad, labelled with nothing but a seemingly arbitrary 3-digit number on each key.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 10/04/2025

Constructing sentences like this is a form of anti-CAPTCHA: Proof that the speaker has no soul.

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 27/02/2025

Bathroom Cable Dungeon(tm) is by far the best life hack I've come up with.

Electronic bathroom stuff neatly organized on a wooden box

Various power cables disappearing into holes drilled in the back of the box

The box opened - a hellscape of cable management inside

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NIST Standard Reference Goat @growlph.greywolf.social · 19/02/2025

I am legit baffled by "S-Tier". A-F are the only grades you can be given for the quality of your work in school. S just means "Satisfactory", and only applies to classes you took on a pass/fail basis because they were too simple/remedial to bother grading. I give "S-tier" a ranking of F-tier.