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JulianCalaby

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Grumpy clown microdosing chaos. Petter of dogs. Hardware and software sadist. Applied specific curses to their own homelab for fun. Smashes code […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ social.treehouse.systems/@juliancal…, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 16/10/2026

Nothing new, but I'm disappointed. Many years ago, Linux represented the alternative. The question was: "Why don't you just use Windows? It's easier." And the answer was, almost always: "To be free." The "bazaar" spirit of Linux and its distributions made us feel free. Personally, I've always […]

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JulianCalaby @juliancalaby.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

So story time if people are interested in why I have all of this hardware. TL;DR: it's very easy to be interested in retrocomputing when you're a student, and 32 bit Sparc systems were being trashed when I was studying. I came across one of the SS10s in a dumpster at uni, dragged it home and […]

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JulianCalaby @juliancalaby.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

I'm giving away all my Sparc hardware: 2x SparcStation 10s 1x Lunchbox form-factor 32-bit SparcStation, maybe an LX? Basically a single processor SS10 in a lunchbox form factor with a microSparc CPU 1x Ultra 1e that doesn't boot with a graphics card 1x Ultra 5 with no cards or any other […]

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JulianCalaby @juliancalaby.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

I started on the video4linux mailing list because I had a video capture card that I wanted to use and it needed some specific configuration. This was my first real contribution to Linux. I found that the Lego NXT showed some random error when connected, so I changed the warning so it was less […]

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Linux kernel goes full AI slop code, hides chatbot commits ‘The kernel project only wants serious developers. That includes having access to enough resources to function in this world’ […] [Original post on circumstances.run]

Linus Torvalds greets his friends at Nvidia, 2012

JulianCalaby @juliancalaby.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

LLMs and generative AI in general are a DDOS attack on human empathy. (I''m sure someone else has said this before, but I don't want to try to find this so I can boost it.) #tech #ai #hottake

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Glyph @glyph.im · 10/10/2026

this is the perfect metaphor to understand the distinction between AI doomer concerns versus AI skeptic concerns

JulianCalaby @juliancalaby.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Back on my bullshit. This is a test print of the thumb cluster for a Dactyl Manuform style keyboard. Ignore the massive print failure, it detached itself from the bed for some reason, all I wanted to know was whether the keyswitches I bought would […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

A failed 3D print of part of a Dactyl Manuform style split ergonomic keyboard with three key switches fitted. They have the cutest little dog keycaps on them.

The print failed by detaching from the build plate, you can see a snake of the bottom edge of the print sticking out to the left, but enough worked that I could fit three of the 6 thumb keyswiches in.

Next to it there's one of the keyswitches, the box containing the fourth dog keycap, and behind all of this the tube containing a lot more of these keyswitches.

JulianCalaby @juliancalaby.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

More HSBC griping: due to me being on the ball and reporting fraudulent transactions on my card before they went through, then following up once they had been processed and could therefore be disputed, HSBC blocked my replacement card before I received it and suspended my account. Brilliant. #hsbc

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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inpc @inpc.go.mxtthxw.art.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

An internet router with antennae that makes it look like a spider, its hung up in the top corner of a room to look more spidery

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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) @atax1a.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

really and truly tired of seeing people go "the fascist text machine from the megacorps is bad, but i can see a future where a local version of the fascist text machine can be useful" because IT'S STILL THE FASCIST TEXT MACHINE WHEN YOU RUN IT LOCALLY

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Glyph @glyph.im · 27/09/2026

It's not even "I wrote some software and put it in a product and the product did a harm and I'm maybe fractionally culpable in a way that's really hard to apportion" any more. It's just "I set up a computer to do crimes and I spent ten million dollars on electricity to prove it could do crimes […]

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Hacker Memes @i0null.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Custom captions:
Hackers’s in the 1980s:
- full humanmade color games for atari 2600 with only 128 bytes of RAM
- knows every x86 instruction by hand
- c so high level it is basically considered english

Verses, techbros today:
- my electron app uses 3gb of vram
- the datacenter i help build depleted an entire lake
- i cant afford the tokens to patch my vibecoding project

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/

Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses.

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.

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Deb Ong (she/her)翁诗美 @nihilistnomya.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Just paid Aus immigration 1.5k for my Resident Return visa 😭 Why does this country hate immigrants so much? *sigh*

JulianCalaby @juliancalaby.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

MeshCore day 2: ✅️ am on the MeshCore Australia Discord ✅️ have received messages I didn't send ✅️ have about 30 different repeaters on a map covering pretty much all of central Victoria ❎️ I can only confirm that ~1 message out of about 30 has actually be received by a node I don't own So […]

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JulianCalaby @juliancalaby.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Card gets skimmed and some asshole makes a donation to Wikimedia, then 14 other random transactions, ~2USD each, mostly to Facebook. Normally this'd be a pretty minor issue and would get resolved easily, but my card is with HSBC, so... 1. Switch keyboard to GBoard in another app so HSBC's app […]

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JulianCalaby @juliancalaby.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

So I guess it's finally time to actually write this down. I've spent nearly a week with Meshtastic and I Have Thoughts. I'm going to split this up into three big components with a bunch of smaller replies to cover more points as this is a big complicated topic. Anything that's starred is […]

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

live your life so you're not on this list 'weird little guys of FOSS' drewdevault.com/weird-guys

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Xamanismo Coletivo @eliasulrich.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

#Harvard published a paper with a devastating title: “Large-Language Models as a #CognitiveVirus” "Think about how a #virus operates: It cannot replicate on its own. It requires a host cellular machinery to copy itself. An #LLM cannot execute, compute, or […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Abstract Large-language models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming part of human culture, reshaping how information is produced, transmitted, and used. Here we propose that their diffusion can be understood through a viral analogy, with LLM use spreading through populations, becoming embedded in cognitive and cultural practices. We model transitions among uncoupled, coupled, and persistently dependent users, and show that the interplay between social transmission, recovery, and collective reinforcement can generate tipping points and technological lock-in. A central consequence is the possibility of runaway dynamics: once a critical threshold is crossed, small increases in adoption can trigger rapid population-level shifts toward persistent dependence, with abrupt losses in cognitive competence. The same framework, however, identifies conditions for cognitive immunization, based on reducing transmission and facilitating reversibility. Our results highlight how LLM adoption may involve nonlinear collective transitions with important consequences for cognitive autonomy.

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bfaliszek @bfaliszek.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026

WinRAR is more profitable than OpenAl

JulianCalaby @juliancalaby.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Cursed homelab nanoupdate: Upgrading from Ceph 16 to 17 using Cephadm 18 is a bad idea. Don't ask. #CursedHomelab #ceph #homelab

JulianCalaby @juliancalaby.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Seeing people interact with Sashiko, Linux's (somewhat useless) AI code review bot like it's an actual human reviewer hurts my soul in a way I can't really put into words. Like, peeps, it isn't reading your email, it isn't going to adjust it's review because you (correctly) told it that it's […]

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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Man I'm so sick of AI benchmarks lol. You're telling me GPT-6 got 98% on the PissX Ultramark? Well that plus the freaking 812 they pulled on the FPR EufRA EEE 4.2.3 means this thing is really gonna rip. I gotta say though I really was expecting a bigger improvement on the BSMT:3 (Big Scawy Math […]

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JulianCalaby @juliancalaby.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

So let's continue poking at LoRa mesh things. The big goal is tracking: I have a battery powered node and I want to know where it is in near-realtime. Meshtastic: this appears to do everything I could want here, will meet my needs, and the hardware that's being shipped to me is supported […]

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Who says AI doesn't create new kinds of businesses: I would hire someone to re-transcribe all the LLM output I have to trudge through back into human language. I don't have trouble with the volume, I can just feel my brain trying to eject my temporal lobes out my ears as each passing word makes […]

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JulianCalaby @juliancalaby.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Following on from my previous post, I bought an original LilyGo T-Keyboard a while ago and haven't really done anything with it. This is an ESP32-C3, the standard Blackberry 10 keyboard everyone uses and a small colour LCD display in a handy 3D printed case. The demo code is an extremely basic […]

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JulianCalaby @juliancalaby.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

So I may have made a mistake: I saw an excellent video from Saveitforparts on Youtube about using Meshtastic to track luggage on a train and was all 🤔: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6v8bVjrMAQ We're travelling later this year and will be doing some travelling away from our luggage and I am […]

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JulianCalaby @juliancalaby.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Cursed homelab update: Things an upgrade breaks can be fixed by upgrading. I must stress that: 1. I am 500% joking by saying that upgrades breaking things can be fixed by doing more upgrades. 2. Partial upgrades to Debian-based distros are always a bad idea - "apt dist-upgrade" is the only way […]

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JulianCalaby @juliancalaby.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Cursed homelab nanoupdate: [screams in nVidia] #CursedHomelab #homelab #nvidia

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Glyph @glyph.im · 07/08/2026

at this point I'm afraid to physically touch grass because I am pretty sure the grass is going to try to sell me a Copilot subscription

JulianCalaby @juliancalaby.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

Dear random people who are currently struggling with money enough that they're asking for it on Fedi. Don't hide that request behind a content warning. We're all hurting, and I'd much rather be strongly encouraged to read your sob story than see you try to minimise your problems and not get […]

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JulianCalaby @juliancalaby.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

OK, so more FreeCAD griping. This isn't that the app has done something that annoys me or anything like that. For my purposes and my tasks and the things I want to do, FreeCAD is a near-perfect tool. But I'm turning one-off ideas for 3D parts into 3MF files which I'm then 3D printing, so the […]

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

So, Codeberg (which is a FOSS/freedom-focused code hosting site) is run as a cooperative, with members able to nominate measures/policies and vote on them etc. They just had a vote and approved policies making "AI" / LLM-based projects basically unwelcome there. The vote wasn't close; 70% voted […]

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

I keep seeing the "cars replaced horses" thing related to "AI." People keep comparing "AI" to cars (positively) without thinking about the fact that cars were forced on people (AAA bought up and destroyed tram lines, there were massive protests, etc), and are the primary driver of climate […]

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JulianCalaby @juliancalaby.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

Sat at a bench in Emporium Melbourne's food court and it's very clearly been designed to prevent people from laptopping on it. The horizontal part is just too short to comfortably fit a laptop that's open and the back is angled towards you in a way that means you can either open your laptop or […]

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LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

100% true.

screenshot:
sidereal @sidereal@kolektiva.social

I just realised that I've been using adblock
so consistently, for so long, that | have basically no idea what the average person's experience of the internet is like.

Every now and then | use someone else's device that isn't so locked down. And I'm floored by how useless and annoying the internet is. IDK how people do this.

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Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

@tante That's why nearly all my criticism of genAI for quite some time now has not been about the usefulness or superficial appearance of quality. Because to me, usefulness/quality is somewhat irrelevant in this debate. Asbestos is also extremely useful. That's why it got used! Harmful products […]

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JulianCalaby @juliancalaby.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

I just watched Matthias Wandel (woodgears.ca) struggle to get stuff done with FreeCAD and it reminded me of Naomi Wu making an offer to do a usability consultation with them to improve their UI. And as a FreeCAD user, the UI is pretty horrible. It's the usual "Open Source" assumption that we're […]

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JulianCalaby @juliancalaby.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

I was using an online tool called MoodScope to track my mood for a little while back in 2011. I recently felt like doing it again, so I dug up my account. Of course since then, they've gone fully paid and USD$5.99/month is just far too much for what I'm going to get out of this. MoodScope uses […]

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Fucking "app culture" drives me crazy. I got asked to install a mobile app just to look at the itinerary and accommodation information for a trip I'm going on. Why isn't it just a web page? So obviously I said "fuck that noise, hold my beer", reverse-engineered the app, and re-implemented it […]

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Joseph Lim :mastodon: @joseph11lim.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

#TruthTuesday 👇 This bears repeating till governments do the work to corral unbridled #AI development: 👇

Screencap of a toot dated June 28 2026 by Ian Bremmer, which reads as follows: ""you ingested the entire written output of
human civilization without consent,
without compensation and without credit
to build a system whose primary
commercial application is eliminating the
jobs of the people whose work you
consumed.
you are not 'liberating human creativity' -
you are strip-mining it and selling it back
at a markup while calling the theft
'training data'."
naomi klein, to sam altman"

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

If you are a member of Codeberg e.V. please take the time to participate in the poll that was just sent out about banning vibe-coded projects on Codeberg. Please agree to the proposal. Slop can live on GitHub.

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

Q. But how can anyone detect slop code pull requests? A. They will never, ever shut the fuck up about it.

JulianCalaby @juliancalaby.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

Cursed Homelab Update: The case of the overly complicated shelf. So instead of dealing with any of the homelab issues, I dealt with the homelab perception issues by upgrading our WiFi to an Asus ZenWifi BD4 mesh system with two nodes (for the record […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

A 3D printed shelf thing for a lozenge shaped WiFi router.

It has a recess in the base for the router to sit in with large air holes, a large flat plate at the rear to mount it to the wall, and gridded sides coming down at 45 degrees for strength and stability and all that.

I've carved out two tall slots in the back with slots to mount this on two nails or screws, however they're not keyhole shaped like most similar things, but stretch down to the bottom of the shelf.

There are two filleted slots at the bottom of the mounting slots for cables to be routed out the bottom and a small cutout at the front for the router's LED.

A side view showing off the gridded lattice sides.

Also of note is that one of the grid holes has been partially elongated to allow more airflow to the side of the router.

The shelf mounted to a wall using two differently sized 3M Command picture hanger plates which are probably not doing anything useful for the WiFi signal.

The router is perched in it's shelf overlooking my server closet / walk in robe like a cat poised to hand out WiFi fist bumps to those walking by below.

It's LED glows happily, but the person who placed it there didn't bother to route the cables through the slots they spent so long modelling, so they're just pushed out over the side of the shelf, making it look weirdly lopsided.

You almost can't see the 3M mounting plate things which really makes one question if they're interfering with the signal or something.

A sticker nobody bothered to remove denotes this as the "main" unit and helpfully informs you to plug it in first. The shelf indicates that we're well past that stage in setting this up.

JulianCalaby @juliancalaby.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

I do not understand modern consumer WiFi Access Points. So just bought a WiFi 7 AP which is capable of up to 3600 Mbps (2882 on 5GHz, 688 on 2.4GHz) And the upstream connectivity is 2x 2.5Gbps ports with no sign of bonding or anything else like that, which means that if we're connecting […]

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JulianCalaby @juliancalaby.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

RE: social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/1… But ... surely ... surely some decent static analysis could find the same issues, on someone's normal, everyday computer, without burning 5000 tonnes of energy to do so. Right? RIGHT??? The thing I don't understand about "AI […]

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