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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 · 06/10/2026

I’ve been listening to Altered Carbon. I love the noir detective genera as much as the next guy, more even. but I’ve had to keep my 10 minute sleep timer on so I don’t fall down the rabbit hole. Listen to too much of this stuff and it changes you. I’ve seen too many kids hooked on m4bs to fall […]

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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I'll go into specifics. The server and shared laptop get tagged identities that don't expire, people's personal devices keep user identities. It's just an open network no acls because this is a low risk simple environment and more importantly I do not know what ports their apps use.

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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

While construction is going on their server is at home on a desk, but it would sure be nice to connect to it from a laptop. The Unifi hardware does vpns very well, however #tailscale is perfect for this. Wherever the computers are during this build out, they'll have access from phones and laptops.

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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I need the #it equivalent of a thimble. I crimped and punched down about 30 drops and my fingertips are so raw it’s unbelievable.

A painted piece of plywood ready for a rack to be installed. There is an umbilical of about 40 CAT6 cables and an open circuit breaker.

A rack and security system with lots of wires in it.

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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

This weekend I wired the network for my wife’s soon to open book store / pottery studio. It was so much work. My god. But I learned a ton. And I’m quite proud of my work. I also learned how to drive a scissor lift!

Me near the ceiling of an under construction bookstore. I’m on a lift! There’s a light fixture next to me!

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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:

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

We’d have more local networks, factories were plenty restrictive when their clocks weren’t synced, anyway, it’s interesting.

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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Would we still show up to work on time? Would capitalism look different? Would personal technology, networks and communication look different? Or just “older”?

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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"

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

@lowqualityfacts worth it, time and Marlboro comes for us all

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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-…

Everything I own, owned

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

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 · 22/08/2026

I'll be dammed this is pretty much the exact pattern I came upon with different (and better) names ryhl.io/blog/actors-with-tokio

Actors with Tokio – Alice Ryhl

This article is about building actors with Tokio directly, without using any actor libraries such as Actix. This turns out to be rather easy to do, however there are some details you should be aware of:

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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

I think I can do something with flat map and other convenience functions to make these doubly boxed values easy to use

Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

`Result<Option<T>>` rules everything around me.

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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

The actor pattern I landed on (I know about actix, I’m doing it myself right now) has a struct that we’re free to pass around that holds the channels ands methods for two way async communication. So you call new() and it kicks off the actor and gives you a remote control. I love it, I’ve never […]

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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

I explored ways I can share state and data across threads. From an external rwlock to atomic swapping of references, to internal locking, to message passing. I landed on message passing to a “db” I made around a BTreeMap. It is hardly the most straightforward (or performant) but it’s fun! I’m […]

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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

The poly isn’t smooth and it’s probably because the wood isn’t *that* smooth even after all the sanding I did. I’ll probably hand sand it again and then again after the first coat and second if I do a second. I should probably research how to apply poly good. These may be ugly stairs but I […]

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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 on

The same but from the other side

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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

@bagder there is so much Windows computing out there it’s unbelievable if you’re not in it.

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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

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

RADIOS WANT TO BE FREE!

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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

Also If my phone could send your phone a message or a call when we were in range of eachother from day one, we’d either be incredibly more interested (with a more mature ecosystem) or incredibly less interested in all this because “how could we compete? It’s good enough”

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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

I need to wrap this up while I’m at work; - Location (usual, planned, commuting, etc) would make a store and forward network really work. A “device ID” + “location” scheme would be really interesting to explore - Interstellar messaging with “com relays” from the exforce book series is probably […]

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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

I understand meshcore handles route changes by retrying a few times and broadcasting for updates. Since there’s no logical topology, route discovery is a network wide broadcast to X hops. It uses delivery responses to build a static route to the destination. This is honestly pretty great for […]

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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

Also this isn’t exactly how Kademlia works, the address book idea it proposed is paramount and super cool. Instead of keeping everyone’s address you keep info on 10 people in your country, 10 people in your state, 10 people in your city, 10 in your county, 10 in your neighborhood, and 10 people […]

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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

*Without considering distance or movement* You could use closeness of a nearby devices ID to a target ID to decide who to give priory to. If you see an ID close to the target give them the message. Give it out X times but only to IDs closer to the receiver’s ID than the previous person […]

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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

So in a Kademlia(ish) dht data is hashed to a 160bit int and device ids are also a 160bit int. You publish the data to a number of “closest” nodes you can find (discovery is a very cool out of scope thing) and it will hold onto it as long as it wants. Usually republishing every 24 hours to […]

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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

The problem would become storage and bandwidth maybe? You can store a lot on an sd card but you probably don’t want to talk to everyone. A DHT style address book would probably help decide who you talk to and transfer messages to as you walk around. The problem isn’t just address closeness it’s […]

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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

I’m super curious about meshcore in an urban environment. The high noise, high traffic, high movement environment is not what #meshcore seems to be designed for. Device announcements are hourly for goodness sake! Store and forward seems like it ought to be the default in that environment. My […]

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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

The meshtastic map says people are all over the city but nobody near me (until now) Routers can be hooked up to mqtt on the internet? And then they show up on the map? Idfk stuff to research and learn. Maybe you can use the net as a back haul. I’m on the train to ny now, so hopefully I can […]

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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

The firmware on both is Ripple which seems to be the meshcore devs meal ticket. (Said with love he seems to be carrying this.) It’s free with $10 to unlock a bunch of features like store and forward (mailbox) and … probably other things i forgot. Making and esp32 powered human interface is a […]

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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

Both are super light and probably have a ton of room for bigger batteries and expansions. I haven’t tried the sd card for maps yet. But I bet the T-Deck is meant for that. Both have headphone ports!? No obvious media player capability but I could see that one day.

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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta @reconbot.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

The T-Lora Pager lilygo.cc/products/t-lora-pager It’s probably going to prove to be the better device. It’s smaller, battery is bound to last longer, and the “encoder” wheel is fast and fantastic. T-Deck Plus lilygo.cc/products/t-deck-plus-1 Cool as hell, never seems to get […]

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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