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Looking for things to do, I decided to install a Tailscale VPN between one of my Debian servers and my Android phone. It took about 3 mins to get it working. Boring. /In a good way.

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 11/10/2026

So how long before "Late Stage Capitalism" is replaced by the "Star Trek Economy Early bird special"?

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 11/10/2026

Can't login.. incorrect password. Can't login.. incorrect password. Gets password reset email. Uses saved password from Bitwarden. Told to choose another password - must not reuse previous ones. Quits. Logs in OK with existing saved password. Is this the new multi factor authentication?

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 08/10/2026

For a dev team I manage, each sprint was given a nickname that's a famous person from computing history. I just noticed the name I gave to the current sprint is 'Hamilton'. Bless.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 07/10/2026

According to MIT News, Margaret Hamilton died at the age of 90. "A profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program". This famous photo 🔽 inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison.

Margaret Hamilton, but the famous 1969 photo that inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison is in the quoted post.

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 04/10/2026

Bacteria (noun): The area of land behind a cafeteria.

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 26/09/2026

Dear AliExpress, please make it stop.

A run of 5 status report emails about the same delivery.

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 18/09/2026

Right, that's all the components gathered to make some DRAM testers...ready...steady...oh, wait... PCBs aren't here yet 🫤

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 14/09/2026

Happy CCTV camera is happy.

Circular CCTV camera with two lenses and a curved gap between the body and mounting plate that looks like a smule

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 11/09/2026

This is awesome: A searchable archive of Byte magazine: byte.tsundoku.io

byte.tsundoku.io

Byte - a visual archive

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 09/09/2026

That time your big bag of 100nF disc decoupling caps goes walkies. 😣 I'll have to split them into lots and store in multiple places. I've some bead types but they are wider and will look fugly if bent to fit. I have standards y'know. Couldn't even find one on the floor behind the bench. 😄

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 08/09/2026

This Commodore 64 board boots into DesTest with RAM bit errors but they clear after a warm up and all tests will run. Without the cart, I get a display with no text. The PLA was dead and the two already-replaced mux chips were iffy. Seems thermal-ish at this point, and maybe ROM/s later. Any tips?

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 06/09/2026

It's said that dogs "fill up your life". Didn't they mean to say their hairs "fill up your vacuum cleaner"?

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 23/08/2026

Procrastination? Don't get me started.

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 22/08/2026

One Calendar's Android widget didn't show all events from my work Outlook calendar, so I couldn't trust it for reminders / planning. Outlook's widget just gave a sync error for my personal calendar. Then I found KashCal on F-Droid, and it 'just works' - both sets of appointments in one view. Yay!

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Gavin @rollvt.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

94 years ago today, John Logie-Baird & the Baird Television company televised the Epsom Derby live to cinemas..

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 13/07/2026

Behold, Walkers have produced a crisp flavour "Inspired by Spanish Queso"...using Cheddar and Mozzarella* 🙃 Ciao, duck. *And all the other...stuff listed.

Front of crisp packet with wording "Inspired by Spanish Queso"

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 05/07/2026

Tesco has the match night covered: * Get pissed on wine and lager * Hydration breaks! * Over indulge and puke everywhere. * Spend the next day clamped to the toilet, and washing your clothes. Enjoy!

A line up of products on display by the entrance at Tesco: Toilet rolls, washing machine liquid, cans of lager, wine and bottled water

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 28/06/2026

I have acquired an AVO 8 Mk.4 meter - very generously gifted via Freecycle. Apparently it's not working. I'll check it over shortly and see what's what. The +ve probe tip is missing, as is one clip. The right case strap is inside so I'll have to brush up on my leather sewing. Lovely bit of kit.

Avo 8 meter, carry case, leads, manual and paperwork.

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 27/06/2026

The screws may be good too. Trouble is it's all do it yourself 🤔

A Google Maps summary of B&Q, Bognor Regis, with the review tag "You'll be lucky to find tighter nuts or better wood"

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 27/06/2026

I learned from the best. I'm self-taught 😆

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 21/06/2026

Smart people, have you used successfully any of the e-ink shelf label displays from AliExpress with www.openepaperlink.de I'm designing a system to display occupancy info outside meeting rooms, with no wiring, and central control from a room booking system. Ideas appreciated.

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 19/06/2026

I love seeing and reading here about the stuff people get up to with vintage computing, electronics and STEM-related things. Other matters I'll keep in my news RSS feeds. To that effect, this filter list is very helpful.

A filter list of politicians and regexes for trump and musk.

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 18/06/2026

Edible crystal balls? (Actually lentils)

Cooking instructions from a pack of lentils. The instructions are in multiple languages. The English states "Cook before consumption" and nothing else.

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Cyber City Circuits @handle.invalid · 18/06/2026

I have been writing long-form history articles for Digikey's industry magazine. They have just published my 27th article. My website has a complete catalog of the stories. Each and every article will have a story that you have never heard before, I promise. cybercitycircuits.com/2025/12/31/r...

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 16/06/2026

Just heard from someone that they didn't get a job they interviewed for. Apparently one negative the company noted was that when they offered a drink of tea, coffee or water, he asked for water...and "people should always carry their own water". /smh

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Tynemouth Software @tynemouthsoftware.co.uk · 14/06/2026

I am intrigued by the computer at the start of this clip. It looks like an AI has had a go at making a picture of a Commodore PET and got it wrong. The keyboard is missing a few keys and the disk drives would be an aftermarket add on, and then a separate monitor? Anyone recognise it?

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 06/06/2026

Sycophancy (Noun): When you just want the plain version of something.

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 17/05/2026

I seem to have bought a boxed 'For parts or not working' Commodore 64. How did that happen!? Looking forward to seeing what state it's in. #Commodore

Commodore 64 with top removed showing PCB

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 12/05/2026

Mrs Linker asked whether I ordered a pizza recently because there's a charge for Domino's on our credit card. Nope. Uh, oh...maybe a fraudulent charge...? Oh, wait, it says 'Domains' 😆

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The National Museum of Computing @tnmoc.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

On this Day! In 1941 The Zuse Z3 was completed by Konrad Zuse in Berlin. I's the world’s first working, program-controlled, and fully automatic digital computer. It was a Turing-complete machine and implemented essential components of modern computing . #ZuseZ3 #TuringComplete

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 08/05/2026

bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi...

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 08/05/2026

That time I got a PocketBeagle to run an RC2014 compatible CP/M OS and fired up WordStar

Photo of a PocketBeagle hanging over a monitor showing CP/M running

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 06/05/2026

Did you know that scientists once conducted trials to see whether massive groups of small jumping insects could be synchronised to produce usable amounts of electricity? It was a fleas-ability study.

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 03/05/2026

Woken up at 3am by a poorly Mrs L3K. Couldn't get back to sleep later so I tried the usual - logged on to do some server maintenance, installed patches and fixed a jail issue with fali2ban. I also downloaded and compiled the latest source for Remmina that supports interactive ssh logins with TOTP.

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 25/04/2026

How odd. I've called HMRC a few times from my mobile phone and have posted here about it and nowhere else, and now the Reddit phone app's list of other subreddits in which I might be interested includes posts from r/HMRC. I checked and the app didn't have permission to read my contacts. Uncanny?!

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 21/04/2026

Where did William Shakespeare keep the rope he used for tying up his trousers? In a bard cord box.

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 17/04/2026

Is a person who buys all their shoes online 'Web footed'?

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 06/04/2026

BBC reporter interviewing a space scientist about the Artemis mission: "...then the crew will be at the Lunar observation window - what's that for?"

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 01/04/2026

Why did the manager often have trouble locating the office printer? He had poor peripheral vision.

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 29/03/2026

The person who was arrested after throwing powdered Jell-O and a jug of water over Donald Trump has subsequently been charged with trying to set a president.

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 23/03/2026

My Sunday pm was interrupted by Node-RED deciding I had no dashboard pages - no controls or indicators, but the back-end was still working. After trying a few fixes, including restoring 2 backups, I decided this was my cue to migrate everything to Dashboard 2. And here we are..half past midnight! 😣

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Linker3000 @linker3000.com · 13/03/2026

I spent part of yesterday writing a MS Power App to check a list & send an email when a year has passed since a thing in the list was last done. I got it working, but the syntax, IDE & debug methods made me really appreciate how easy to use and well thought out Node-RED's interface and tooling are.

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