iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Isn't it weird that I can post a photo of my words, but not the plaintext?

Civilization is a paper thin veneer over society that allows 8 Billion people to survive. If it tears sufficiently, the supply chain for agriculture breaks for good and half of us die in the resulting famine.
That in turn creates the escalation pressure on the nuclear powers that could easily wipe us all out. Given the vast corruption and incompetence of the current duopoly, it wouldn't take much.

Even AI curing cancer with a public domain one shot cure could be the destabilizing force that causes the first tear, then it's game over. 8(

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's also possible they still believe in Democracy, even through both major parties don't.

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It was solved in back in 1999, and it was called Napster. It caused CD sales to skyrocket, so naturally, the music industry killed it. I've never purchased a new CD since, I was buying a few a month until they started suing customers.

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Maybe they can use AI to deep fake your cats into ads? ;-)

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The effects were definitely unintended. Where they unforeseeable, though?

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I live in the Calumet Region, and I'm a proud Region Rat. Sometimes I say Northwest Indiana, just across the border from Chicago.

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Carney is the leader of the Free World now, in my opinion.

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'll remember the rigging of the 2016 DNC primary that lead to Hillary getting the nod, who subsequently lost what should have been a cake walk.

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Damanique 💜 ⊙㋥㋓ 💜 아리랑 @damanique.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

TW: POLICE VIOLENCE, RACIAL PROFILING, DEATH . . . . . So yesterday in my city, Dutch police mistakenly arrest a black man for riding a stolen fatbike; it was his & he was trying to pick up his diabetes medicine. He tries to warn them but they choke him out. "I can't anymore" were his last words.

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You had a good crowd earlier today

Jeff Geerling discusses NTP with the crowd at the Vintage Computer Festival MidWest

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Went to #VCFMW today, and saw this nifty new way to display time on a Tektronix 2235 scope

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It wasn't that long after the bombing that *almost* took the towers down in 1993. The truck was parked in the wrong place, or it would have collapsed things. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Wo...

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1993 World Trade Center bombing - Wikipedia

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If my friend who's been repairing stuff since the 50s is to be believed, as thermal cycles happen, the gas-tight nature of the connections undoes itself, it might take a decade, but eventually you end up soldering all the connections.

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

When we were kids, there were about 4 movies we watched over and over, The Blues Brothers, Amadeus, Footloose, and Stripes and of course "It's a wonderful life" was almost always on PBS

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Blues Brothers? Shit.... They still owe you money, fool!

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Ah, reminds me of the old adage: The hardest two problems in computer programming are: naming things cache coherency and off by 1 errors

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

No, those terms imply data leaves one place and ends up elsewhere, which is NOT what happens. The data in both uploads and downloads is a remote duplication process.

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

When someone does that to me, I pay cash at that location exclusively from then on.

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I tried them once, and they weren't made correctly, nothing on either side was in focus, no matter how I tilted my head, so I just had a tiny spot that I could see properly. The response "oh, you'll get used to it" I went back to normal glasses.

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I'm not shirking off journalism at all, it was the failure to actually do journalism on my local NPR station that had me stop supporting that station, and it soured me on NPR/PBS in total. They broke neutrality, and I simply don't trust them any more. There are other reliable news sources left

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

You're suggesting I reward biased reporting? I might as well get news from Fox or CNN then.

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

NPR and PBS lost my good-will when they tried to play favorites in the 2016 election. 8(

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It's important to know that the trees in the entire county were decimated, at a minimum. It's more likely a quarter of them were downed, almost all falling due east, due to the derecho. Most of Lake and Porter counties will have people without power for a long time, including myself.

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

@miasato.bsky.social doesn't seem to realize that many data centers are using their own turbine based generation, adding huge noise, and air pollution, to the sizable heat island they create from using all that power.

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

So, you'd be fine with gas turbines running 24/7 down the block? We're still running a generator after a Derecho/Tornado swept through town... it's not an acceptable long term way of life. Trying to slap the NIMBY label on reasonable concerns isn't helpful.

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A documentary of how the Indiana BMV was transformed would be an amazing lesson in good governance.

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The transformation of the Indiana BMV is amazing! I went with my Mom and sisters in the 1970s... we stood in a long line, Mom and us kids... and waited... only to learn we were in the wrong line Then again in the new line, except Mom was missing a document! Now it's 10 minutes with nice chairs!

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Holy shit, they're going to pop this bubble themselves

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The premise sounded good, basically the plot of 1632 with dinosaurs instead of Medieval Europe. I'm glad I saw the review though... 100 minutes of misandry isn't my cup of tea. x.com/TheCriticalD...

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The Critical Drinker (@TheCriticalDri2) on X

The End of Oak Street... sigh. https://t.co/dsprYwjxsS

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I don't know what passes for normal elsewhere in the world. Is the Chicken Dance a thing outside the US? The Hokey Pokey? Clinking of glasses to get the couple to Snog?

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Only $2500 if you're got Prime ;)

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

You've got kids, who aren't anywhere near driving age, moving FASTER than traffic down sidewalks here Truly, ignorance is bliss, until they get splatted like a bug because nobody expects 30+ MPH stealth kids to appear from the sidewalk, you know, where people are usually at 3-5 mph

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

you can throw -ai onto the end of a google search It'll never be as good as it was in the past, but at least you can squelch the AI, for now.

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Word meanings drift with usage, lockdown means not being allowed to go about our previous default lives, by fiat. Of course it's not literally about being locked down, with the exception of some places in China, that had people welded into confinement.

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

No, and I'll pay with cash to actively preclude the question, and keep my options open.

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I'm the kind of guy who watches a 3 year old video on YouTube, and notices a 5 dB difference in signal levels during tests. The first test was -115 dBm, the second was -110 dBm, of course the SINAD got better. Still, great video, and I'm going to be doing the thing www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyfM...

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SI5351 Clock Gen as Radio Local Oscillator in Old Radios

YouTube video by John Hawkes

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

There's a new type of DRAM using a single transistor, but without the capacitor... it would be interesting to see if it can be made to work in the TinyTapeout process

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

HA 8) Some people say that unironically

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

So, you've never watched Amélie? You've really missed a good one.

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The great oxygenation event. It was a breath of fresh air!

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The only reason Gas isn't already $10 is that China somehow managed to cut their oil imports by an insane amount, and saved the world. They could change their mind, and snap, things would crash completely, everywhere, all at once.

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I was fascinated with It's a wonderful life when I was 18. It came out when my Mom was 2.

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This is *freaking magic*, thanks for all the hard work!

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Well, if having no blood pressure is bad.... the higher it is, the more alive you are, right??? It's the same argument

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

My thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of Senator Graham. He seemed so happy doing his job in Ukraine earlier this week.

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Isn't it odd that the FCC is in charge of this, instead of NASA, or the FAA, or even the "Space Force"

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Mike Warot @mikewarot.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I hear we've won this war a few dozen times already. ;-)

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