iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ann Annas @ananas.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026

"Does Meowth pass the Harkness test" - the greatest thread in the history of Pokemon, locked by a moderator after 42069 pages of heated debate

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 23/10/2026

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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The Man Who Saved the Internet Yesterday

Ondřej Surý was a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security. Then the internet exploded.

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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

Reject Modernity My first ever O’Reilly book

Book cover:

Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL

Photo of the inside of the book, including:

Introducing PHP
PHP is a recursive acronym that stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor; this is in the
current release at the time of writing is 4.0.6.
The current version of PHP is PHP4, which we call PHP throughout this book.

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Emma (IPG) @invoxiplaygames.uk · 13/10/2026

finally as prophecised in Weird Al's "All About The Pentiums", i now have a 40 inch widescreen monitor and a hundred gigabytes of ram

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sam henri gold @samhenrigold.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

tokens so expensive i gotta rentacenter a div!! (to my european followers: Rent-A-Center is a rent-to-own furniture chain where Americans pay $19/week for their couch) this joke is a trainwreck i’m sorry guys ill keep workshopping this

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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

It would have complicated things and still required plugging in to charge fairly frequently, so I didn’t feel it was worth it

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

RE: tacobelllabs.net/@astraluma/1173636… Digital Ocean killed its "we give Open Source projects a bit of free hosting" policy basically at the same time they droppen 3 millions USD on Omarchy, DHH's (who is a fascist and racist) set of config files he calls a distribution […]

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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified: @adamshostack.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@kralcttam/11733670… We've replaced the bureaucratic impediment to rapid action, Stanislav Petrov, with an LLM as part of our strategy of "aggressively identifying and eliminating bureaucratic barriers to deeper integration."

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atapi ('s boobs hurt) ♥️🌸 @sterophonick.wetdry.world.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

theory: pixar only makes more toy story films to ensure that debian linux continues having release names

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

I can’t really account for why this is but it’s become clear that trans people lost the culture war but furries won

An ad for a dreamworks movie featuring a straight up fursona

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𝙳𝚢𝚕𝚊𝚗 @closingtags.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

I'm looking for Digital Ocean alternatives. Would love to find some FOSS options or even co-op hosted solutions!

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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

New post where I switch the blog to @davatron5000’s MicroLighter for syntax highlighting, with a custom @11ty plugin. Might this be the last syntax highlighter I use?? www.steele.blue/microlighter

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MicroLighter is Living Span-Free In My <head>

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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Forgot about the moon berry, add another 500 deaths

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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Celeste playthrough #2 complete. Eight years since my first 100% playthrough; had to re-learn most rooms/berry locations, but happy I finished in half the time/deaths. If I keep at a geometric pace I'll be at WR pace on playthrough 8. Quite possibly my favorite all-time game

Screenshot of Celeste journal of playthrough #1. Total deaths, 17.7k, total time 59 hours

Screenshot of Celeste journal of playthrough #2. Total deaths 8.9k, total time 32 hours

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sam henri gold @samhenrigold.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

ever think about how a fruit cup would send someone from the 18th century into a nervous breakdown “You mean to tell me that for your breakfast, you have assembled the harvest of SEVEN KINGDOMS currently experiencing DIFFERENT SEASONS, placed them in a […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

TROPICAL FRUIT CUP
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:
USA - MEXICO - COSTA RICA - GUATAMALA - HONDURAS - ITALY - NEW ZEALAND

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Sophia :AAAAAA: @via.myf.one.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

For the past almost a year, I’ve been building a fully working, 1:1 scale Tune Thumper Bike from Mario Kart World! :sadok: video: youtu.be/vbM31wagyRg The bike is fully functional. The cassette tape door is also a Nintendo switch 2 dock, so when you put the […] [Original post on myf.one]

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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

I asked Michael Jackson what algorithm Git uses to calculate hashes

Photo of Michael Jackson wearing a red leather jacket, mid-dance. Meme text at the bottom, originally saying "SHAMONE", has been hastily edited to "SHA-1"

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mcc @dryad.technology · 02/08/2026

Hey question, does Office 365 work on Leap Day

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Ann Annas @ananas.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Woke 1.0 The Woke and the Furious Woke 2.0 2 Woke 2 Furious Woke 3.0 Wokyo Drift

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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

OH: “This CORS policy is going to make us institute a Coors policy”

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sam henri gold @samhenrigold.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

auto body tire rotations have to be the biggest scam. tires rotate themselves, sweetie

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

House of Leaves is just the adult version of there’s a monster at the end of this book

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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

Nightmare-Eclipse? Buddy, I switched to IntelliJ years ago

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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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isopodgirl gaming :v_mtf: @isopod.zone · 04/07/2026

Exactly 3 billion devices run Java. Every time you install Java on your computer some old DVR or something explodes to maintain the malance

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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

SVGs of pelicans are old hat, real ones know you benchmark with Saddle Creek Records fic @ernie tedium.co/2026/06/10/gigabyte-aorus…

Local LLMs do have limits, however, and they’re easy to hit. I proved this with a very Tedium-coded challenge involving one of my favorite indie-rock dynasties: “Share with me a story about how Conor Oberst beat Tim Kasher in a trivia game about the history of Omaha.”

All the tests shared a story, but the details were where everything fell flat. Most, not all, of the LLMs were aware that Oberst was the singer of Bright Eyes, but none got close to figuring out which band Kasher led—one said The Decemberists, another said The National. (The answer, of course, is Cursive, or if you’re a real fan, The Good Life.) You don’t trust models with anything factual, of course, but local LLMs are likely more fact-deprived than their server-rack cousins.

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

Each broom agent can spawn additional, autonomous broom agents, each with their own pails. This allows apprentices to accelerate monotonous water-fetching tasks and save their time and energy for more interesting and useful work

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

[gen alpha john wilkes booth voice] Six seven tyrannus

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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

@closingtags seems like it! I checked on the provider’s website and it doesn’t seem to be a “standard” “game”, so who knows what it actually does when connected If you’re ever in Pender, NE be sure to check in on it

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 09/06/2026

the cyberpunk present is weird as fuck: the latest Shai Hulud malware wave contains an LLM prompt to create biological weapons and nuclear weapons, with the purpose to trip LLM safety refusals so that LLM-based code scanning wont see the malware […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

llm prompt for creating bioweapons and nuclear weapons

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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

@closingtags didn’t know you were on the mesh! I’ve been considering getting into it but didn’t know where to start

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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

Looks like with machine pin sockets I can make it work with a ~9mm header for the OLED and keep everything socketed. Items ordered. Was hoping to get it all done today since I’m homebound but electronics assembly is not immune from Hofstadter’s Law

Digital calipers measuring the insulation height of a male jumper. 2.45mm

Digital calipers measuring the width of a PCB. 3.21mm

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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

Everything else is through-hole so the scary stuff should be done. but! The socket for the microcontroller is approx one million miles tall. And I forgot to get a socket for the OLED which is supposed to sit over it. Don’t think I’m going to be able to fix this today

A set of components meant to be installed on the keyboard PCB. Elite-Pi microcontroller, OLED display, and a set of male and female headers. Notably missing is a 4-pin female socket for the OLED

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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

Hotswap sockets installed so I can replace my clicky switches after sufficient threats from coworkers

Back side of PCB. 30 hot swap switch sockets installed

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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

Diodes installed. I think I see why everyone goes buck wild for compact keyboards, soldering 104 of these would have broken me Lifted the pad on one diode, so I installed it on the other side (the board is supposed to be symmetrical, we’ll see how true that is)

Overhead photo of a PCB with 30 diodes installed. Looks good if I don’t say so myself

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Matt Steele @mattdsteele.carhenge.club.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

First diodes in. Never surface mount soldered before, so I’m learning to tin pads along the way. Only 59 more to go Keyboard is a Sofle Choc v2 josefadamcik.github.io/SofleKeyboar…

Close up of a printed circuit board with a single diode soldered. Hope I did it right

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Puzzmo @puzzmo.com · 22/05/2026

Ribbit, an anagram game by @stfj.net, just became a repertory player on Puzzmo.com 's cast of games. If you haven't tried it yet, today's a great day to check it out 🐸🎵 www.puzzmo.com/play/ribbit/

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Puzzmo — The (new) place for thoughtful puzzles.

Play the best daily puzzles on Puzzmo

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Mira Missingtexture @fedi.argentumcation.zip · 06/05/2026

You're not supposed to use the 2-in-1 shampoo because it violates the Unix philosophy

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