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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Gotta love when YouTube randomly starts playing a video on my phone. Weirdly it happens only on some VPN locations. And I have a friend who experienced the same issue. So fucking weird, like how would you even create the code so sloppy that it behaves like this?

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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySyC4zSeNDA - This doesn't look scary, what could they even leak with that? - ... - Oh... - Ohh no...

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

"Guys we're still fun please stop saying we're destroying the planet" [clicks the logo] [slop machine churning up, then vomiting something vaguely resembling nostalgia]

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

I bought the raccoon so I'm not sure why it's showing the red panda (though I want him too ngl) First time I've reviewed something at Costco Worth every penny. I love this boi

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taco, cultist bird/cat :verified420: :neocat_floof_devil: @fedi.birdcat.online · 04/09/2026

me trying to advertise the fediverse to fellow furries like #meme #rejected

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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

On gentoo wiki: wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/QEMU/Networking There is this little snippet -nic tap,model=virtio-net-pci,mac=$(cat /sys/class/net/macvtap1/address),fd=3 3<>/dev/tap$(cat /sys/class/net/macvtap1/ifindex) And it is awesome! It lets you connect a VM to your local network with the […]

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Funky Captain 𓆏 @itsfunkycaptain.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Me and my friend @sevepanda Big Walked and it's been such a lovely experience I couldn't help but make something to commemorate it! The game left a very profound impression on me, most likely my GOTY. #art #gaming #bigwalk

A digital drawing of two characters from the game Big Walk, holding their hands upwards, reaching towards a pear thing. The character on the left is blue and white and has a kettle on his back. The character on the right is different shades of green and has a flare gun on his hip and two more pears in a pear holder on his back.
The background is a screenshot from the game, featuring a lot of greenery and a bright yellow crane holding the pear.

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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

RE: social.mango.vg/@ilya_mzp/117134853… I think it is ready for everyone to use: github.com/IlyaMZP/vhs_data_store It is basically a PCM processor is software at this point. I don't really care about the data storage use-case myself.

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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

It's kinda funny how I went from the hardest way of dumping one game's assets, to then finding an easier option, and now it's a super simple script... Basically, I started by dumping textures from intercepting OpenGL calls and dumping meshes from Mesh instances, then I wrote a whole ass […]

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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

I found the CRT TV my parents used to have when I was a little kid. And I could even buy it right now for 25$ I think it looks cool and kinda want to But I'm not into CRTs, and I really don't have space for it. Also it weighs just as much as I do XD

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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Oh yes, I will have a whole separate computer there just to play music from VHS!

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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

PC: dare to shut me off during POST?! Now get punished with a 5 minute wait while I retrain my DDR5 Gosh, I hate DDR5...

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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

With some adjustments I managed to get raw PCM audio working. Now I basically have a VHS PCM decoder! And I can play music from tapes XD What's left to do is put it in a small box and place it next to the sound system with a VCR. Then I'll be able to play music from CDs and VHS tapes, cause […]

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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

CW: Some loud noises Fun little project I've been working on - storing digital data on VHS. It now actually works, I'm able to encode, write, read back and decode the data without errors at ~110kB/s. But in this video I decided to play a FLAC file while it […] [Original post on social.mango.vg]

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Joshua Barretto @jsbarretto.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

I want to remind you: these bastards have spent $1.5 trillion of society's money on this technology. That it's produced *something* should not be surprising. That's 'solve aging', 'cure cancer', 'eliminate all poverty', 'shift climate change into reverse', or 'send a probe to another solar […]

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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

RE: social.mango.vg/@ilya_mzp/117039897… After 48 hours without crashes, which was enough for me to consider the problem solved, it finally crashed again! This time no adb and no additional devices at all. I swear, this computer is haunted and it's trolling me.

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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

I wasted around 2 days trying to find the reason why my PC just freezes randomly. Nothing in dmesg, nothing in systemd journal. Just dies. And I've tried everything, really. Updated the bios, removed all pci-e and sata devices, switched kernels, ran memtest, limited cpu frequencies, changed ram […]

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Rairii :win3_progman: :win3: @rairii.labyrinth.zone.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

i didn’t think it was physically possible, but there’s finally something worse than `curl | sh`

Install with an AI agent (recommended)

The fastest way to get ghidrasql running end-to-end is to point an AI coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Aider, etc.) at the bundled installer prompt:

(link to install-prompt.md)

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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Frida is an awesome project. With how locked down android and its apps are, this is a cool way to take the authority back into your hands. It's like a debugger for Android apps, but better, as it lets you inject your own code and inspect everything about the app. I used it to save some […]

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taco, cultist bird/cat :verified420: :neocat_floof_devil: @fedi.birdcat.online · 01/08/2026

hey, folks, i've been facing an issue with #FursonaDirectory that i'm not able to remedy with my current knowledge. i'm getting spammed every day with signups to the site and it's getting ridiculous. i'm going to have to manually clean up the database with some […] [Original post on meow.social]

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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

I have no idea why, but sometimes (not always) I prefer the sound of a decey set of speakers to a good set of headphones. Sure, my Sennheiser headphones sound great and almost perfectly reproduce the original sound But somehow my xiaomi-pipa sounds better (after some tuning, at a certain volume […]

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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

I really hate the destruction of knowledge AI companies already caused and continue to cause: futurism.com/artificial-intelligenc… And it isn't even consolidation of knowledge with gatekeeping, it really is a destructive process. You're never getting […]

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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

I guess CD lasers just love to "die" for no reason XD Even my Pioneer BDR-209DBK (2015 is recent, right?? RIGHT?!), which has no issues reading/writing Blu-Rays and DVDs, struggles with audio CDs (stamped, not even CD-R). I used the CD part of it less than 10 times throughout its life. It is […]

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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

Now that I can both encode and decode B/W PAL signal in software, here is some "A kockásfülű nyúl" that was encoded, played back by a DAC (osmo-fl2k), recorded on VHS, played back from VHS, recorded with an ADC (cxadc) and decoded. Not perfect, but […] [Original post on social.mango.vg]

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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

No luck with the replacement laser pickups so far. 2 out of 3 modules I ordered were used and pretty much dead. Thinking about it, how hard would it be to make my own CD reader replacement? Like the whole disk reading part. The only signals I'd have to worry […] [Original post on social.mango.vg]

Part of the SL-HD310 schematics showing the connector going to the CD servo board. L/R channel audio, BLKCK, SQCK, SUBQ, STAT pins are highlighted.

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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

It's quite annoying when you read the spec, implement it, and then the real devices don't follow it. From what I've read martin.hinner.info/vga/pal.html Odd field is prepended by 6 Short, then 5 Long, then 5 Short Even field is prepended by 5 Short, then 5 Long, then 4 Short In reality […]

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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

By the way, here is a couple of die shots. I'm not sure where each of the photodiodes is.

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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

It's both a nightmare and a blessing to work on old electronics. It's a nightmare because of insane complexity in both the mechanical and electrical design. Not much consideration went into how easy it is to take everything apart. But it's a blessing because of insanely detailed service manuals […]

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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

Using Conexant CX2388x as ADC with github.com/happycube/cxadc-linux3 It works quite ok as an oscilloscope, though it's obviously not good for measurements, just for looking at the signal. And it has no bandwidth limiter, so aliasing is possible.

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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA7GjnPr75k Never heard of Sandra before, but I really enjoyed this song!

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maia ✨ @maiathoustra.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Atlas ❤ Absolute cutie.

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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

youtu.be/0Y-9GbsS9Fg This makes me want to buy some glassware, neon gas and a vacuum meter XD

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Krutonium:// @krutonium.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended. www.whois.com/whois/t.me Hashtag Telegram (my three has quit until I reboot)

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Whois t.me

Whois Lookup for t.me

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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

And just a few days later a video from Posy about a slightly different Technics system: youtu.be/9Fps8eS-S9Y What a coincidence :)

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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

Turns out my CD player uses a highly integrated solution. This little thing has both the laser diode and the photodetectors, and it is covered by the diffraction grating. A single chip that both emits and detects the IR light. The rest of the optical pickup […] [Original post on social.mango.vg]

Single chip that holds both the laser diode and the photodetectors

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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

So, about that music system I got I've successfully replaced all the buttons, and it works, for the most part. The only part that gives me trouble is the CD player (SL-HD301). It plays the disks, at least the ones that are in immaculate condition. But it […] [Original post on social.mango.vg]

Diagram of the laser path in an optical pickup head of a CD drive.

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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

Got this beauty from my parents today. Gonna be restoring it to a fully working condition in the next couple of weeks! Picture for reference, cause I didn't take one before disassembly XD All the buttons got oxidized. Since the manufacturer used resistors […] [Original post on social.mango.vg]

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Ret @ret.furry.engineer.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

I would make the "corporations removing their pride logos" joke for the start of July but the corporations aren't doing pride logos anymore. the mask is off.

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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

Today I managed to generate a PAL signal and play it back with fl2k_file My initial attempt worked with the capture card, but a VHS VCR struggled to stay in sync with it. I had to actually follow the standard fully for it to work well. It was kinda painful at […] [Original post on social.mango.vg]

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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

This is quite cool: osmocom.org/projects/osmo-fl2k/wiki For just 20-30$ you get a ~160MHz DAC connected via USB. And I managed to buy a USB to VGA adapter with that IC on a second try XD It was in UGREEN USB to VGA and HDMI adapter. The HDMI is done via a separate chip that is connected […]

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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

I got a VHS player to digitize an old family video tape And then I went down a rabbit hole of how VHS VCRs work, and what is actually stored on the magnetic tape. Turns out people used to utilize VHS VCRs as HiFi audio recorders/players […] [Original post on social.mango.vg]

A diagram of a signal stored on the VHS tape by the rotating drum heads. There is also a separate linear audio head (mono) and a control track head.

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Sebastian Krzyszkowiak @dosowisko.net · 20/06/2026

Both Librem 5 and Steam Deck aren't the cheapest pieces of hardware around, for some good reasons. However, did you know that you can easily get your return on investment by harvesting free power? It's easy, just connect them to each other and both devices […] [Original post on social.librem.one]

Steam Deck and Librem 5, laying on a table, connected to each other with a USB-C cable. They're both telling that they're being charged (only one of them is correct though). The Deck believes that it's at 79% charge and it will take 0h 38m to get it to 100% (well, good luck with that!), while the Librem 5 is at 64% and thinks it will take 2 hours 15 minutes until fully charged (which is much closer to truth, but still a rather pessimistic take).

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Mastodon @mastodon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

#Mastodon 4.6 is here! It's been a long time in the works, but it's finally ready. In this release, we're introducing Collections—a way to share curated collections of profiles to help old and new users discover more of the #Fediverse. We're also updating the look of profiles, alongside many […]

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Jon Henshaw @henshaw.social · 14/06/2026

You are no match for the Catinator3000! #Caturday

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Mango @ilya-mzp.social.mango.vg.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026

RE: social.mango.vg/@ItsFunkyCaptain/11… And I'm gonna make this piece of crap work again (hopefully)

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