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Mel :blobcatgiggle:

@mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy

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PhD researcher in mixed-signal integrated circuit design and data compression. FOSS and retro computing enthusiast :blobcat: Contributor to the open-source EDA ecosystem […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ tech.lgbt/@mlyoung, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

moved from 1Password to Bitwarden 🙂‍↕️ Very happy for myself!! Next to go is Dropbox. And also Spotify but thats just because they're my opps not because they are related to DHH lol

Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

new tattoo omgeeeeee :blobcatsurprised:

A green vine tattoo on a forearm

Green vine tattoo on a forearm with a watch and grey jumper sleeve

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Myk @notsle.kzoo.to.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

oh this is fun. Who wants to go first? #ssh #itmeme #humor

Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

update to the whole mosquito tone sonic weapon in Sydney situation: I wrote an email to the government 🙀🙀 with the location I observed it and the spectral analysis. Hopefully they will reply and I'll publish their response to my questions, if not, I guess I'll file an FOIA request or something […]

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Olympic grade sleeping here #caturday

cat napping with head tucked under paw

cat, napping different position with head tucked under paw

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Amber :neodog_box: @puppygirlhornypost2.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

real.

anime girl captioned `please use "okay :3" instead of "ok" bc okay is happy and ok is scary mean and evil,,,`

Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Very disappointing to see an anti-loitering tone/"Mosquito" tone in use in the wild; at the Cutaway in Barangaroo, Sydney. This kind of indiscriminate acoustic weapon should have no place in an entertainment district like Barangaroo, no matter what time of day it […] [Original post on tech.lgbt]

A sine wave signal on a spectral analyser at a frequency of 18-20 KHz.

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Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

IN TODAY's episode of slop; a dear friend sent me this website: www.cognichip.ai now, you may notice they have this cool looking 3D fractal blob thing (pictured below). that's a video right?? wait... why is there aliasing around the edge??? did they.... they wouldn't.... (cont)

$Screenshot of a website with a fractal blub. It has pixelised aliasing around the edge.$

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dvdrom :thermos: :ndgt: @thermia.sk.girlthi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

born to "awawa, awa, beep, awawa" forced to "as per my last email"

Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

[thinking and philosophising] I was inspired by a comment I saw and I think there are actually a few _good_ things that have come out of this AI apocalypse for my mindset, or things that I'm trying to focus on: 1. Takings things slow. Not everything needs to be done _right fucking now._ Not […]

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Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

New blog post! mlyoung.cool/blog/macquarie_asrs In this article, I have a look at (read: gush over) Macquarie University's Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS) based on a tour I did last month. I try to analyse the system as deeply as I can. There is then also a small […]

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Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

flashback to when the Starbucks lady thought my name was "lel" 😭

Starbucks Iced Latte with the name "Mel"

Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

[the Millennium Prize stuff] As depressing as the discovery was today, I did think this in the shower: I wonder if you get a similar result if you lock 10,000 maths PhD students in a room, and they all speak the same language, can communicate more or less instantly, and tell them they are only […]

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Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

new blog post is ALMOST done!!! it's about 3.3k words so far, been writing since August :) the topic is my uni library's automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS) robot, with a brief aside on physical media and how companies are destroying it 🙀 (mostly I'm putting this post up to actually […]

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Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

[complaint] I forget how fucking conservative and insufferable Hacker News is sometimes, I got sent into the negative votes for correcting someone being quite intentionally misgendered ^ yipeee

Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

"Don't be a Galah!" back to taking some photos :3 location: Macquarie University, Sydney shot on: Canon EOS 80D, Canon EF 100mm macro lens

Image of a Galah, Australian bird, standing in a grassy field

Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

[academiaaaaa] four pages of telling me how great your compression algorithm is, only to reveal in the last figure on the last page that this algorithm draws almost TWO WATTS of power!!! :neocat_floof_explode: the next closest algorithm they cite draws **8x** less power!! :neocat_floof_explode […]

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Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

[what] nursery rhyme but techbro podcast: (nasal male socal voice) guest: So you know, as it turns out, all the kings horses, and- uh, all the king's men, you know, uh- they couldn't put Humpty together... really, again. interviewer: Not at all? Not, like, just a little bit? guest: Uh, no […]

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Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

extremely interesting scraper bot story: This botnet has been scraping my Forgejo for a couple days now, all the traffic comes from residential IPs in countries like Brazil and Tunisia. I think it must be some compromised Chinese app given that all the Accept-Language headers were zh-CN. Also […]

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Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

i'm sad to report that after feeding the Meta AI scraper SIX GIGABYTES of Markov chain rubbish, it seems to have given up scraping my domain :pensive_bread: (thank you to the author of Nepenthes for the wonderful tool though!)

IPv6 traffic graph on Linode showing a falling off in traffic

Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

lmfaoooo github is down big time again www.githubstatus.com it remains an excellent idea for me to host my own git forge :D

githubstatus.com

Welcome to GitHub's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.

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Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

After 2.5 weeks, ~15,000 words, 3 separate forms and who knows how many hours, I'm VERY pleased to announce to everyone that I have finally finished my HREC approval submission for my qualitative research experiment :3

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Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

today begins my quest to learn toki pona :D

Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

[drugs, surprisingly] incredible things happening on the FOSSi Matrix I definitely love Matrix's total seeming inability to monitor spam even by keywords 😭

A spam post from a Matrix user claiming to sell various narcotics and weaponry.

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Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

teenager who tries to be a bully, but they were raised by their grandma so they end up getting bullied themselves for using really old timey insults

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Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

RE: social.lansky.name/@hn50/1170363584… NHS having a normal one

social.lansky.name

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Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

groundbreaking figure 😭

Do you agree to participate in this survey voluntarily?

Yes: 100%

(DOI: 10.1109/ACDSA67686.2026.11468138)

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Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

Sooo, I've been developing a dataset and training a naive Bayes classifier for the purposes of distinguishing between AI slop on GitHub and human authored content (the classic "spam" vs "ham" task), for fun and interest. The classifier is 92% accurate which is REALLY impressive and super cool […]

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Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

we just got the BIGGEST upgrade at my lab, I managed to convince them to buy an AmScope ME580 metalurgical microscope with up to 500x magnification 🤯 this thing is soooo cool, I'm literally overjoyed 🥹

A type of inductor on an RFIC

Some sort of spiral inductor

An (I believe) single NPN transistor c. 1970

Wiring on the metal layers of an RFIC with several inductors

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Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

[Codeberg terms change, mild vent post] As much as I agree with Codeberg's policy of banning LLMs, their blog post (blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-fl…) is really problematic (for me), imo, because: > while the following use cases are discouraged (similar to […]

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Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

when your supervisor drops out midway through:

A snippet from an article in PLOS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266102

Author Contributions
Conceptualization: Robert Rosenbaum.
Formal analysis: Robert Rosenbaum.
Funding acquisition: Robert Rosenbaum.
Investigation: Robert Rosenbaum.
Methodology: Robert Rosenbaum.
Software: Robert Rosenbaum.
Visualization: Robert Rosenbaum.
Writing - original draft: Robert Rosenbaum.
Writing - review & editing: Robert Rosenbaum.

Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

[Microsoft ventpost lmao] I hate Microsoft with every fibre of my being. (this is about Outlook, Exchange and the Outlook Web App in case it was unclear which despicable Microsoft service I was criticising) I swear on my nan if I ever have a company I will never ever ever use Microsoft. I […]

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Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

I love HR :)))

Gender Identity (Mandatory field)

Yes

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Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

I have such little tolerance for spam emails lmao; it's like not only am I going to blacklist your _entire_ domain, but I'm going to find out which bulk email provider you are using and report you to them for unsolicited email. I'm toxic 💅

Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

I keep Freudian slipping "Transport for NSW" (Transport for New South Wales) as "Transport for NSFW" 😭

Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

Finally, I got around to watching the famous Event Horizon! It was a lot of fun and I think it was well done but I was also like... _this_ is the movie that people say it's the scariest sci-fi movie of all time?? It has massive B-movie vibes imho like I was cracking up at some parts because of […]

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Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Bisexual Junction Transistor (BJT)

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Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

this is _extremely_ funny github.com/erincatto/box3d/blob/d42… (in case it doesn't load): `// Jacobian derived by Erin Catto, Ph.D. Do not attempt to do this without a Ph.D.`

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Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

pains me greatly that Julia has AI commits in its core, a language that has already known to struggle with correctness :/ but so does Python now so I think there's no escaping it lol I feel so boomer but I think I'm right to not keep using this stuff

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Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

i fucking love trans people we are so funny gitlab.com/distant-horizons-team/di…

Trans :3 lations (b9245769) · Commits · Distant-Horizons-Team / Distant Horizons · GitLab

This is a mod that adds a Level Of Detail (LOD) system to Minecraft. This implementation renders simplified chunks outside of the normal render distance allowing for an...

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Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

it was today years until i discovered numbat: github.com/sharkdp/numbat this shit is so cool!! it can do currency conversions, electronics, everything

GitHub - sharkdp/numbat: A statically typed programming language for scientific computations with first class support for physical dimensions and units

A statically typed programming language for scientific computations with first class support for physical dimensions and units - sharkdp/numbat

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link altink :spinny_cat_pan: :spinny_cat_nb: @link.js.meowingwo.men.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

"Robot girlfriend asks if she can "vent at you a little bit" then blasts you with a fuckton of heat from her heatsinks."

Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

[transphobia but unintentional] it's been a rough day today at the Winterfest (it's like a ren faire). the usual he/him'ing from strangers but I've gotten used to that now sadly. what really caught me off guard was the doorman at the bar looked at my drivers licence and goes: "Ah welcome ! […]

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Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

maybe a silly question, but to all the furries out there: can I go to an anthro/furry con if I: a) have no gear :blobcatcry: b) am also going by myself :blobcatpensive: most furries I've met at other cons have been really nice to me and cute :3 but I kind of worry about going all by myself […]

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Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

> ABN 63 130 418 558 > BALLS DEEP INVESTMENTS PTY LTD someone had fun with this lol abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?abn=63…

abr.business.gov.au

Current details for ABN 63 130 418 558 | ABN Lookup

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OBI-Markt Kenobi :netbsd: @tux0r.layer8.space.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

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Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

The RP2040 datasheet is truly a masterclass in datasheet authoring. I feel like you can really tell it's written by passionate and knowledgable people :3 I think every time I have a question about how to design my own SoC I should consult this datasheet lol. From reading just now I learned […]

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Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

Incredible imagery in the IEEE today

A completely indecipherable black and white image from IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 1994

Mel :blobcatgiggle: @mlyoung.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

very excited to reveal!! Mel's first tattoo :blobcat: done by the lovely Abbie France of Spider and Fly in Sydney. ahhhh it's so exciting! I've wanted to get a tattoo for _years_ but I never knew what to get. then I saw a similar idea to this on Pinterest and I […] [Original post on tech.lgbt]

A colourful tattoo. It's a broken lightbulb with an Edison screw. Inside the lightbulb are purple flowers with yellow interiors.

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Amber :neodog_box: @puppygirlhornypost2.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

nobody tells you this but you can just pet the fedi creatures :neocat_pat::neofox_pat::neodog_pat::neomouse_pat::neopossum_pat::neobread_pat::neobot_pat::blobbee_pat: