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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 2h

I just watched the first episode of Colombo with my husband and one of Colombo's gotchas, one of his "no sane innocent man would ever do this"s, is "Why, when you were at your vacation home four hours out of the city and got a call that there was an emergency at home, why did you drive back and […]

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 2h

Just..re.. member that you're standing on a planet that's revolving....

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 7h

I'm going to be talking about softmodems on the Jawncon livestream in a few minutes - www.youtube.com/@JawnCon/streams Recording available with catch-up!

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 10h

Spent the morning washing and sealing the driveway... up to the pile of bricks and rubble at least (note to self, order a skip). It'll be interesting to see what it looks like in a couple of hours.

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 18h

I love foreshadowing as a literary device, but there are some questions you just don't ask.

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Drive washed (yes it was filthy), tried to unblock the kitchen drain - the power washer didn't do it, I reckon there's a fatberg half way down the pipe. Threw some drain cleaner down it but there's probably between Buckley's and no chance that'll do anything...

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Tired of listening to modems (hardware and software) screaming at each other like a bunch of possessed fennecs, I escape to wash the drive and patio...

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

People aren't paying for the BBC because (checks notes) its output is low-quality both-sides-ism. Apparently the govt's answer is to make a BBC licence required for Youtube and Netflix too... I hope this proposal doesn't fly […]

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

An entire slide on "this is why trying to use Claude to reverse-engineer a softmodem blob and reconstruct the source was a bad idea". And that's down from three. And that's cut down because I'm supposed to be talking about softmodems instead of ranting.

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Help, I've discovered how easy it is to recreate the Lambie-Nairn BBC idents and I think there's a nonzero chance I'll be buying a high-speed camera, some powder-paint and a plasma-cut steel fox silhouette. This is DANGEROUS TERRITORY.

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Bugger. Farnell have sat on my order for an entire week. Seems like it'll be at least Monday night before I can try to do a firmware dump on that Maxtor LXT drive. No matter. I'll get the slop kernel patch out, then I have a pile of Rodime drives to cast spells on... and I should probably write […]

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I'd love to find a copy of one of the Ferranti ULA Design Manuals. They were such fascinating devices (and eminently suitable to having a design/netlist re-entered into CAD and reverse-engineered - ho ho ho)

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I'd better find the errata for this. (ARM Architectural Reference Manual by Jaggar, edition B)

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Woohoo, working RF modulator. Shame the only TV I have with an RF-in and PAL decoder lives upstairs.

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Kay Ohtie @kayohtie.blimps.xyz · 13/10/2026

Has anyone seen this funky power cable Belkin uses? I can only find ones like the first picture, but the 2nd picture is what I'm trying to find. No filled space in between the 2 prongs, and (optionally) keyed. I can trim the left to the right but, ick. #AskFedi

Standard US AC 2-prong rounded-barrel cable, with the somewhat "figure 8" shape.

A similar looking 2-prong connector on a locking-in power connector, but it's 2 completely separated power connector barrels rather than the figure 8, and there's tabs that stick straight out from them towards the device when inserted.

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Ret @ret.furry.engineer.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

_"Why do you have so many walkie talkies behind you?"_ - person on a work call today. I uh, it's complicated.

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

#Transputer on an Acorn A5000? ISpy 3 with a GUI? What is this dark magick?

Inmos ISpy with a WIMP front-end, running on RISC OS 3.1

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

"There are still no regression test failures." Foreshadowing?

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Another day, another ebay seller using ChatGPT to respond to well-deserved negative feedback... (if you don't at least put a bit of newspaper round something you're packing in a box, and it gets wrecked in transit, frankly a neg is the least you deserve)

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

"FOSS Event takes place alongside Bitcoinfest" bleh

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

order an ESP32, get your Global Entry revoked. incredible stuff happening www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1x3…

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xssfox (crossy) @xssfox.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Unless you configure and instruct things very specifically, Claude will often be sending the API keys/token/.env for the apps or services you are using to Anthropics servers as part of context.

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Obsidian Urbex Photography @obsidianurbex.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

📷 To all those who wonder if my photos are AI, here is a photo of me with a Catbus in Japan (2019). The world is filled with unusual treasure and beautiful abandoned places, I am too busy exploring and adventuring to bother with AI fakes 😇 #NoAI #Adventure […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

An orange bus with a car design, including a large face at the front. A girl with blue and green hair stands beside it

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

The danger of having self-hosting infra is you see someone's cool app and think "ooh it's just a docker container, I'll install that" and before long you have a mountain of containers.

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:privTri: Volpeon :areonNSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 14/10/2026

Someone made a self-hostable RSS reader named WyrmRSS and I'm tempted to install it because - Clean UI - Wyrm :drgn_mlem:

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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/ch… rip to the company whose chatbot was implicated in the first american suicide listed on the wikipedia article “deaths linked to chatbots,” which is a wikipedia article […]

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

I should start a hashtag for my hard drive repair project... or a blog. Anyway, all but 0.6% of the Rodime 652 was recovered - and most of that looks like filler sectors. Next on the block is a Maxtor LXT which forgot its firmware - luckily I have a spare, and I just found the firmware upgrade […]

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

The more I play with this idea of a Verilog reimplementation of an Inmos T425 #transputer, the more I realise I'm just restating the microcode in different syntax. With that said, it's made it easier to change the microsequencer and play with FPGA DSP blocks and barrel shifters. If you're […]

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Online arguments suck, but it's nice that the great John Robertson gave us the perfect video to end them with, video link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=npPHHeANN4w

Firefox screenshot showing a link to John Robertson singing "Shut Up You Tiny Fool" at PAX Australia in 2024, along with that very same video bookmarked, alongside some less spicy icons like Grocy, Jellyfin and a folder called "Local" which I'm not going to get into!

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

I spent some time between breakfast and work updating my ipset blockscript (ASNs and IP ranges). It took a few minutes to realise why my test results were weird... Of course there's not much Russian bot activity at the moment. Thanks to Ukraine kinetically redecorating Yandex. Слава Україні!

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 12/10/2026

I got a call from someone I don't know. "Hi. We have a FreeBSD server. It's been working perfectly for years, but it hasn't been updated since then. We asked AI to update it, but now it won't boot anymore. It didn't even make a backup before starting. The AI keeps trying things, everything is […]

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

To get a patch into the kernel, I've had to install a local copy of their Sashiko "agentic review" tool, burn tokens on an AI provider, and cross fingers that the provider they're using makes the same choices. I can imagine a lot of people would have given up at "patch v9" or earlier.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

So, this silly recall is real, and it’s because the sand filling is contaminated with asbestos. How did I verify that? well, not simply by going to gov.uk like the announcement says! The front page of gov.uk does not have a header for “recalls”, “product […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

A British product recall notice featuring plush toy gnomes that are apparently marketed as “Halloween Gonks.” It says to check gov.uk for details

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Well now... seems like the reason my X220's been crashing is some kind of bug in the Ubuntu/Mint 7.0 HWE Kernel... I switched it back to 6.8-default and it's been as good as gold.

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

"Hey Shaun did you install ClassZilla?" "I unno check the start menu" "wat"

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Today's rabbit hole, "the history of the pork taboo in Abrahamic religions" - and it's absolutely fascinating. Kinda makes me wonder why we eat pork today. (I won't spoil it for you)

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

I really need to catch up on Jetlag

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

The Penistone-Scunthorpe Problem, Supermarket Edition... Half the good quality meat is discontinued but we've got pop-rocks ice cream and faggots!

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Someone just sent me an MP3 that sounded like commercial pop music, then confessed it was "AI" slop. I can't decide if that means "AI" is good enough to make commercial pop music, or commercial pop music is so bad these days that it can be easily confused for "AI". Whichever it is, it's soulless.

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I should clear up my Discord server list sometime and leave some of them... it seems Patreon has added me to a bunch, ick.

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

There are few things more boring than a Discord full of people building a Transputer board just to have it and never use it... "it's gold it'll be worth something" "the inmos chips were not open source so nothing I make is or will be." "if you want my tools on your computer you buy me one and […]

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

"I have ported RISC OS to javascript with Claude" "I too have ported it the same way" stop, stop, it's already dead

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Wonder if I can get away without implementing the test instructions on the verilog transputer core yolo

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

This had better be worth the mortgage.

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Related to my last toot, if anyone's familiar with Openreach GPON: Customer report "line drops roughly hourly initially, now random". Router swap changed it to "no line drops, but now webpages sometimes fail to load at random for about the same time as the line used to drop". ICMP on both ends […]

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

The one question that's on my mind with this (still ongoing) internet issue is "are there any other A&A customers on the same exchange or length of GPON fibre". It'd certainly give more perspective on why I'm apparently the only one seeing crazy latency spikes to the first-hop. Sadly I suspect […]

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