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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 28/08/2026

For a moment I thought it's a sort of sadistic ad joke similar to this one. It would have been better,

Ad across the tracks from the platform, reading "Come a little closer".
The ad is for a funeral services company.

Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 06/08/2026

You remind me of a weird rack monorail contraption I saw a while ago in Cinque Terre. It wasn't just one, these rails would criss-cross the hills all over the place. At first I only saw the tracks and I wasn't certain what they were for, then I also saw the vehicles. Didn't get to see them running.

A terassed hill. In foreground there is a motorized monorail contraption with a sort of monorail trailer

A terassed hill with a monorail track on its slope. In the foreground is a monorail vehicle.

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 10/02/2026

Tamriel, pardon, Florence hills. View from the bus this morning.

View of a valley, with the golden light of the low sun casting a pattern of shade and light through the trees.

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 27/12/2025

Yesterday we encountered a wild (or at least outdoorsy) and beautiful void. Some kilometers from the nearest village, s/he(too beautiful for "it") was seemingly trying to get a mouse out of its hole, but stopped and stared when she heard us approaching.

A very black cat loafing on the side of the street and looking at the photographef

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 20/12/2025

...and it is (mostly) done (only PPC 32 BE, only dword and pointer to string, but working) So now back to trying to understand what happens there

$Screen shot of a terminal window showing: hawk@tnova:~/work/diverse/data_experiment$ ./struct_read -f vout-gennum -a 0x10012d64 -c 0x19 -s pc:dw:dw:dw {"help",0,0,104} {"version",0,0,118} {"verbose",0,0,86} {"type",1,0,120} {"method",1,0,107}$ $Screenshot of a terminal window showing: hawk@tnova:~/work/diverse/data_experiment$ ./struct_read -f vout-gennum -a 0x1002988C -c 0xd1 -s dw:pc:dw:dw {1,"ntsc",1,0} {3,"ntsc_NTSC",1,0} {1,"pal",2,0} {3,"pal_PAL",2,0} {1,"half-sd-60",65,0} {1,"half-sd-30",63,0} {1,"half-sd-50",66,0} {1,"half-sd-25",64,0} {1,"480p",59,0} {1,"480p60",59,0}$

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 09/11/2025

A while ago I started doing a thing. It's actually mostly done (fully operational, so to speak) except that I didn't get around to adding a printer for the full effect. What is it? Well, a while ago everyone was writing sudoku solvers in a variety of languages. This is a bit more of a challenge 1/

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 31/08/2025

Today: Evening light, powerline, hills, woods.

A view of a powerline pole surrounded by woods. Some hazy hills are visible in the yellowish late afternoon light. The picture is taken along the powerline path (and right-of-way).

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 10/06/2025

And here I was using it as a side-kick when playing Kerbal Space Program some years ago (when KSP didn't have automatic delta-v calculation; used it mainly for the fun factor, of course) :)

Image of a Sharp pocket computer with small thermal paper printer.

Image of part of a Sharp pocket computer and a thermal paper printout of a BASIC program

Image of text printed on thermal paper, stating:
M=22.9T
FUEL MASS=12.335T
ISP=800.S

DV=4855.527468M/S

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 25/05/2025

Hmmm. The whole book is about passageways. Expanding and shriking and changing shape and disappearing and reopening unexpectedly and trapping people and sometimes, but not always, spitting them out.

Image of an almost blank page, apart from three lines of text and a footnote. The page number is 242.

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 31/03/2025

A caffe with a telling name (Pizzino) in Florence, Italy, has taken a different approach. You want to sin? Pay for the indulgence!

Extract from a menu showing different varieties of pizza. All are priced 9 euro, and have a list of ingredients, except the last one, named Pineapple pizza, priced at 14 euro and with no ingredients listed.

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 30/03/2025

Taking my chances. Look, I even printed a flower.

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 21/03/2025

Iron ore (hematite?) from Elba island. If you go, don't miss the visit to Rio Marina mines! ❤️

A small rock with lots of shiny faces, assumed to be hematite.

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 04/03/2025

I see your electrician genius and I raise you another genius that wired a Schuko extension cord in such a way that the earth was live. Which I found out the hard way 😡 (cable w/ 2 wires only bc who needs protection/s; the wires got pinched so that the ground tab connector touched the live wire)

An extension cord and a voltage tester showing live on the protective earth tab.

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 03/03/2025

Serves me right for fooling around.

An low apartment building and some trees. Poorly colored image (because of it being an extremely low contrast image from expired film(

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 03/03/2025

I can resist anything but temptation (to uncover hard-to-see detail / show off) Crop, then auto input levels in GIMP. For those who don't know, auto-input levels linearly adjusts the color curve so that darkest part (of each channel) becomes 0 and lightest part becomes 0xff (255, maximum)

Very badly colored image of some cranes and their reflection in water. A dark band is visible on the right side of the image, as well as various other film/scanning artifacts.

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 17/02/2025

Much UX, very help support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/...

Screenshot of a browser session with the URL "https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/january-14-2025-kb5050009-os-build-26100-2894-bdbfb097-ea20-487d-9171-718d15e26f1b"
The page is mostly white, with a gray column occupying around a third of the width. In the gray column there is a very narrow column of text, one to two words wide, the rest of the space is empty. At the bottom of the page there is a feedback request asking "Was this information helpful?" with blue background Yes and No buttons.
The scroll bar indicates that the view is located at around 75% of the page.
The page is viewed in MS Edge browser, there are two red-bordered rectangles masking the Favorites bar and the other tabs

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 13/02/2025

A bit further "down" (in latitude): Thurso, Scotland

A sandy beach at dusk. There are som big rocks in the foreground, and water has pooled around them. A low coastline is visible in the backround, the sky is very light and the soil appears quite dark.

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 31/01/2025

It still lives! 😍

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 28/12/2024

I have a "screenphoto" of playing (I think) the first NFS under DOS, but it's on film (and not at hand) So, one of the "earliest" software I can show is WordStar under CP/M, editing a FORTRAN program. This photo was shot in 2020, though :)

A picture of an old HC-91 computer with a green-phosphor CRT monitor. The monitor background is green, text is black. Text appears to be a FORTRAN program. On the left there is a robotron printer and a bit of fan-fold paper.
The image has a watermark with the name Mihai Gaitos and mihai at hawk.ro email address.

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 11/12/2024

Look what you did! (lovingly) Not I have to figure out how to open it and figure out where should I insert some composite signal. (suggestions welcome) The only other trouble is that where I am now, I don't have many tools, so this might prove to be a challenge.

A Sony Watchman pocket TV held in hand. The screen is lit but no discernible image can be seen (it's "snow" only)

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 03/12/2024

A few days ago, when eating at Pizzino (Florence, Italy) with a few non-Italian speaking friends, one of them noticed an interesting item on the (English language) menu. My take: as long as one is willing to pay for their silence, they will deliver.

A pizzeria menu in English (from Pizzino, in Florence). Multiple typical varieties of pizza are listed with various names and ingredients, as well as cost. All of them cost 9 euros. The last one is "Pineapple pizza" costin 14 euros, no ingredients listed.

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 24/11/2024

What can I say.. I saw this at just the right (wrong?) time, just as I was about to finally boot my Olivetti Prodest PC1, so.. I couldn't not do this...

An B&W CRT monitor showing the end-game image from "Leisure Suite Larry" - the image shows a woman in a hot tub (not much visible above the "water" line) but it's implied that she's naked. There is a bottle of wine and a glass next to it just behind her. The image is on screen is monochrome (grayscale). Top of screen reads:
Score: 165 of 222 - Sound: on

An old Olivetti PRODEST PC1 computer with a single floppy drive.
The ON led is lit and there is a diskette in the drive.
The computer is of the type where the CPU, keyboard and FDD form a single unit.

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 07/11/2024

Nothing motivates me more than a grudge! A story of PowerShell, MS Documentation and MgGraph file services. hawk.ro/stories/mgdr... GitHub and MS's own learn site are unable to display their own documentation. Thus was the ranty story born.

Photo of a HP 200LX Palmtop PC with 2MB of RAM. The screen shows WordPerfect view of MGDRVI.MD, 2,199,941 bytes, at 7%. The screen is full of text, first two lines containing - `[WebHtml <String>]`: For embed links, this property contains the HTML code for an <iframe> element that will embed the item in a webpage. [...]

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 27/10/2024

Congratulations Microsoft, you are the f (from learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powers...) FYI, only about 3-4 % of the actual document is visible. That also can't be seen on GH (github.com/MicrosoftDoc...) because in the year 2024, 2MB ought to be enough for everybody. But at least can be downloaded.

Screenshot of a webpage, only the bottom part visible. The text end suddenly with "contains the HTML code for an "

Screenshot from GitHub, showing a file of 2.1MB, but where the file should be shown, there is a link titled "View raw", and a notice:
"(Sorry about that, but we can’t show files that are this big right now.)"

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 21/10/2024

Not to mention that my weekend is gone because I started another playthrough, and now, on the third day...

YOU - "What about the kebab?"
KIM KITSURAGI - "What about it? The deceased ate some kabab." He shrugs. "It's probably from a nearby place, maybe in the Pox..."
LOGIC [Medium: Success] - Sometimes a kebab is just a kebab.

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 14/10/2024

Come one, this needs precisely 10 more likes!

Screenshot of a bsky post, reposted by HallowBEAVE^2
harpy halloween @harpy.party 1 month ago
"the road to hell is paved with cool skulls and shit"
the post has 656 likes

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 06/10/2024

Public transport vending machine in Valencia (I know, it doesn't mean they didn't pay for their Windows license, maybe it was installed and not connected to the net or any other explanation. Still funny!)

A public transport card charging terminal in Valencia. There is a big screen in the middle of the image with the usage instructions. A tram is partly visible behind the terminal.

Close-up on a display screen from the card charging terminal. The image shows part of the instructions for use and in the lower-right corner "Activar Windows" in grey letters and smaller text beneath.

Image of a screen with the text:
Activar Windows
Va a Configuracion para activar Windows

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #765,857! And I'm not even that social!

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 13/08/2024

Forgot to add: this is how we learned of it www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj3g... and this (karaka.info) is where we then learned that is is possible to sail into the sunset on board 🥰 Cue 1st of May vacation in Dubrovnik.

Sunset seen from onboard a ship. Some hills visible on near the horizon.

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 13/07/2024

Copying a diskette from 1993 in 2015. (more detail on tumblr www.tumblr.com/hawkuletz/75...)

Image with the top of a 5.25" diskette in it's paper sleeve.
The label is handwritten and reads
"5 TP0
Turbo Pascal 6.0
zip, arj, a01"
The zip and arj words are underlined. The paper sleeve reads ""NO BAD MEMORIES""

$Image of a monitor showing the Norton Commander screen. On the left panel it shows the file tp.arj in drive B:. File date is shown as 10-16-93, size 729512. On the right panel there is H:\HOME\HAWK\DSK\TP_HWK showing the same file.$

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 11/07/2024

There *are* exceptions, you know..

A dot matrix printer printing a happy Snoopy made out of characters, on fan-fold tractor papet.

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 29/06/2024

Is Saturday ok? Mine!

3 Floppy disks:
an 8" one with a Bulgarian label at the bottom, and a 5.25" )Xidex, in sleeve) and 3.5" (3M, no sleeve) over it

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 21/06/2024

#duneposting found on #tumblr tagging #DUNESKEETS to draw a particular someone's attention :)

Screenshot of a tumblr post reading:
thefiresontheheight
Apr 6

“As the inheritor of both female and male genetic memories, what slurs can Paul Atreides reclaim?” greatest comment thread in Arakeen history. Locked after 12,901 pages, billions of comments and two planets purged.
chaumas-deactivated20240115
2d ago
#duneposting #as the inheritor of baron harkonnen's genetic memories can alia reclaim the fa-(gunshot)

empress regent Alia just white-knuckled vibrating with frustration because her court is discoursing on whether or not she can reclaim the f word and she can’t comment without revealing herself as abomination

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 13/06/2024

Yeah, thanks for that. Also, is this one 7? Also... (picture from www.tumblr.com/azzandra/752...)

There once was a singer of Old
Who then broke away from the fold,
He won't give you up,
He won't let you down,
In a word you have been
Limerick-rolled

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 09/06/2024

If you see this, post a picture from your phone, but don't explain It.

An old stone wall with various metalic conduits affixed to it. There is some vegetation growing on the wall and next to the viewer there is a small grated window. Some conduits enter this window.

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 25/05/2024

Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? In the Circolo Aurora bar in Florence! This was just a nice bar with a pleasant atmosphere (and various toy animals), until I noticed something on their cocktail menu... Carmen Sandiego? *Day of the tentacle?!* 💯

a menu page with the title THAKE THIS! (back to the 90s) and the following cocktails:
TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART
CARMEN SANDIEGO
WIDE SARGASSI SEA
EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY
RUM BOOMER
DAY OF THE TENTACLE

An image of a building facade, partly decorated in stone. There are a few rustic tables outside, an iron gate is visible in the backround. Some people are drinking at one of the tables, someone is walking out of the entrance.

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 23/05/2024

Is this similar to regular ^R (Ctrl-R) or is it something else? (^r example in image)

Screenshot of a terminal with the following text and a cursor under the p in provence:
Linux 3.10.17-smp.

Justice always prevails ... three times out of seven!
-- Michael J. Wagner

(reverse-i-search)`prov': locate -i provence

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Hawkuletz @hawk.ro · 29/03/2024

There is also a bar :) (pictures from 2017; first one was in the street, in front of the museum)

Image of a sculpture by H.R. Giger, outside of the Museum in Gruyeres. The statue represents the upper torso of a woman without arms, as part skeleton, part robot, part naked body.

View from inside the HR Giger bar in Gruyeres. The furniture is sculpted of semi-organic shapes.

Looking out the window from HR Giger bar in Gruyeres. A small table with a few cups and other bits&pieces is visible in front, the window is framed with an oval sculpture in the characteristic Giger style. A medieval-type street is visible outside.

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