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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta

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- Open source 🐛🧲 - Maintains SerialPort.io & helped found Nodebots - Never graduating from @recursecenter - I write about the internet I wish we had and other […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ toot.cafe/@reconbot, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
You have to bring your whole mind to bear on painting; to carry on, to go forward. Painting is not making paintings; it is a development of awareness. And with this awareness, your work changes, but very slowly. —Agnes Martin
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
“Sir, I’m afraid we have to ask that you stop playing Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls”
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bontchev.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy @bontchev.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
How to outperform inflation:
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
Cybersecurity has ruined banking for the elderly in every possible way you can take this statement.
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
The log of every one-off alarm I’ve ever set in the iPhone clock app is an interesting insight to how I’ve clamped my life to the nearest 5 minute intervals. Not a useful insight but interesting nonetheless the less. What if we never had trains? And therefore never had clocks that really […]
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
I should have been a forensic accountant
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Gauss :wlf: @fedi.gauss.gay · 13/09/2026
This is one of the funniest Pebble watch faces I've seen :wlfWoozy:
The "what a week huh, Captain it's Wednesday" meme adapted as a Pebble watch face, so that it says the current day, and also shows the time, temperature, and steps
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Artemis @artemis201.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
🤣🤣🤣 IM DYING #funny #meme #memes #startrek #space #aerospace #nasa #joke #TNG #Darmok #darmokandjiladattenagra
A post by @thebiggestyee saying "hosting one of my guy friends this weekend too. I have no idea how many beers to provide a 27 year old man. 20? 100? I feel like NASA with the tampons"
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
Whatever the fuck Apple did it took away my clang and won’t reinstall it. Wtf I just want to cargo run my stupid project.
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
I don’t want to hear your gas powered engine revving on the street. Fuck off with that, go volunteer if you want to make an impact. But to the dude and his girlfriend who spent a few minutes warming up your engine, letting it get louder and louder, who then put on White Rabbit by Jefferson […]
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
Tweaking spf records on a Saturday morning on the porch, like one does
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bontchev.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy @bontchev.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
"Everything I own, owned": schlarp.com/posts/everything-i-own-…
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Everything I own, owned
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
I signed up for a service I’m actually happy about (files superbills with your health insurance automatically - if you’re not in the US you can proceed to be baffled) and their trip marketing campaign on sign-up emailed me 4 times over the course of two hours with different phrasings of the same […]
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
til: `git filter-repo` it's fantastic it does so much more than `git filter-branch` #git github.com/newren/git-filter-repo
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GitHub - newren/git-filter-repo: Quickly rewrite git repository history (filter-branch replacement)
Quickly rewrite git repository history (filter-branch replacement) - newren/git-filter-repo
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026
Oh no, I stayed up all night writing asynchronous rust code! I don’t know rust very well and every year or so I get back to it I enjoy it that much more. Uhhh I got to be a parent tomorrow. I technically have one more day of vacation but it’s at home.
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
@Stargatezing i fell behind and just got your parting farewell email! You two are fantastic! Thank you for all the episodes!
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026
If you remember my stairs I added an extra 2x4 half lap to the bottom posts and started to poly them. I need to remove and glue up one of the banister’s though as it started to split at the top where the (countersunk!) screws went in. It’s ugly but it’s finally feeling sturdy.
Ugly wooden basement stairs that I’ve spent way too much time onThe same but from the other side
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026
Well the new The Ghost in the Shell is awesome. It's... I guess it's closer manga in style? It's also not nearly as gratuitous and it's a little silly. I wouldn't feel uncomfortable watching it on the train.
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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026
Thinking about the sci-fi novella "Profession" by Isaac Asimov, published in 1957. In the future, people's brains are tested for professional aptitudes, and then "Educated" by machine which trains their mind to do a job. One man is told his brain cannot be […] [Original post on xoxo.zone]
An excerpt from Profession (1957), novella by Isaac Asimov. While technically not out of copyright, many copies are available on the web
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026
Of course AI writes verbose code, it's paid by the line!
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026
I’m starting to think all those “my father taught me how to fix things” stories were mostly reflective of whether or not the family had childcare
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026
I finally got two #meshcore devices! I’m going to need one for each of us eventually I’m sure 😅
A lillygo t-deck pro and a t-lorapager
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026
I don’t know when the #mta #metronorth switched mascots from robocop to a dog but I’m for it.
A faded poster about the Tracks community outreach program featuring a shock trooper robocop looking mascot with a metronorth railroad sticker on its chestA screenshot of the website with a friendly dog mascot waving with “Tracks” written across their chest
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Christian Tietze @ctietze.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpDjzw4NFtc This bench is cool. I am cutting with hand-held circular saws for the first time in my life and I'm super careful and don't trust the murder blades. Workholding and having clearance for the blade at once isn't […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026
Besides the fediverse are there any good websites that you like? I guess I want to find people doing cool things and having discussions... I guess thats the fediverse.. I dunno, share cool links!
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026
@signalapp how can I turn on threads in a group chat?
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026
RE: mastodon.online/@mwichary/116777844… This is goddamed fantastic. It's a delightful exploration of typing and user interface design
mastodon.online
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026
Happy Father’s Day Dads! Happy whoever filled that role in your life if anyone, day too!
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026
@nolan might be me but I’ve been getting some extreme lag on replies and stuff
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026
I need to what now? When did “record my face geometry” become a requirement for renting a car?!
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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026
RE: det.social/@jlink/116722225601188311 > If such a completely unsophisticated “attack” can break the supply chain of software development, what can intentional attackers with malicious or financial interests achieve?
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026
What are you suppose these are? I found them at an old factory building.
Some sort of red pumps with electrical boxes in the ground?An old converted factory complex
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026
Thanks for a good chuckle “victor”.
An email saying. Hi serialport-release-bot,  I saw your profile on npm and liked your background in IT. I’m reaching out because I’m working with a flexible remote opportunity that may align with your technical experience.  Would you be open to a quick overview? If not, no worries at all.  Best, Victor
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026
I’m sitting outside with the windchimes instead of going to bed. I don’t mind.
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026
It's 1998, you make a website in the copy of frontpage express that came with your computer, it's just like Word and it's very easy, you figure out how to upload it to the couple megs of web space that your ISP gives you (the instructions are on their website), you visit your site in your […]
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026
AI coming for your jobs www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f2wg1pqQDs (Believe by Chemical Brothers)
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026
The Cowboy Bebop episode "Wild Horses" features a retrofitted Space Shuttle Columbia that saves the day. It crash lands afterwards but I'd bet it gets fixed up again. It's wild and I wish that was it's fate.
A profile of the retofit with 4 thrusters along the nose and the name "Columbia" on the side.A headon view of the modified shuttle.A photo of 3 people and a crashed Columbia behind them in a desert.
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026
I decided to build my own NAS #homelab
A 3dprinted Lenovo think center based NAS with two drive bays
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026
#GitHub SSH is uhh.. "rough" to use these days. Switch to HTTPS for a simpler more responsive code path. The details are that the SSH codepath is very hard to scale (citation needed) got hacked recently (in band control signals overwritten) so I'm guessing isn't well understood by remaining […]
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Andrew Nesbitt @andrewnez.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026
If all you have is npm, everything looks like a supply chain attack.
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Scary "Grampus" Jerry 👻 @jerry.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026
If you run a peertube instance and have not patched in the past 4 hours, you are way behind and likely have been compromised. The latest patch will help clean up the mess.
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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2025
TIL, the SD card specification allows cards to report they support a maximum current consumption of… 65 amps
Screenshot from a specification PDF, watermarked SD ASSOCIATION. A header says bits: 511:496, Description, width 16
The body of the description is "Maximum Current/Power Consumption
This field indicates total current/power consumption of the card including
enabled functions selected by the Function Selection ([399:376] bits) dependent on selected Bus Speed Mode.
The host should check the maximum current consumption by mode 0 operation and verify that it can supply the necessary current/power before executing mode 1 operation.
Especially in UHS-I or UHS-II mode, this field is related to Current Limit / Power
Limit setting. CMD6 mode 0 indicates the maximum current/power of a selected bus speed mode regardless of the setting of Current Limit / Power Limit. CMD6 mode 1 indicates the maximum current/power of a selected bus speed mode depending on the setting of Current Limit.
Definition for SD I/F Mode"
Followed by table of Value, Maximum Current (Power) Consumption at 3.6V
0: ERROR
1: 1ma (3.6mW)
2: 2mA (7.2mW)
3: 3mA (10.8mW)
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65,535: 65,353mA (235926mW)
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2026
I’m finally running out of my wago press fit terminals so I’m upgrading to the lever ones. Ok maybe I’m not completely out but I really want to use the lever ones. Anyway the 10 conductor lever terminal just seems like a bad idea.
A 10 conductor double level wago lever terminal.
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026
I’ve been quiet a lot lately because work has ramped up and so I’ve been spending my free time touching grass and going on walks with my kids… and sleeping tbh. I keep getting reminded sleep isn’t optional. 😅
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Michael K Johnson @mcdanlj.social.makerforums.info.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026
Friends don't let friends recommend Bambu www.xda-developers.com/developer-re… #3DPrinting
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A developer restored OrcaSlicer's features that Bambu Lab killed — then the legal threats arrived
People aren't happy.
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026
[LLM/AI] I’ve been supporting a growing team over the past year, they’ve grown from 30-70 and most people tell me on their first day “I’m not very technical”. I tell them it’s like cooking, everyone needs to cook not everyone needs to be a chef I resisted bringing AI into the company but the […]
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026
You can’t protect anything you don’t understand, legacy code, ai code, junior developers trying to hold a job by making it work. Your legacy code is an unstable amount of explosives that you need to keep tabs on! The junior’s code needs review and they need feedback or it needs to be replaced […]
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026
iPhone text messages filtering and signal have returned my phone to a device I use to communicate with people I want to talk to and not a political fundraising machine.
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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026
Just make your fairy garden already 🧚
A small gargoyle sitting under a tiny lamp post next to my mailbox on a moss covered garden
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