iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h

Any sensor recalcitrant enough to make me choose violence, that is, hook up the logic analyzer, goes on the shitlist. Looking at you TLV493D-A1B6

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I keep looking at this souvenir from my trip to LA and I still have a hard time understanding it’s real and not a sci-fi prop

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

"...caffeine largely restores alertness and cognitive performance degraded by overnight withdrawal rather than conferring net gains beyond a non-dependent baseline." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine#Effe…

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

If you are weary of horrid people getting all the headlines, read about this year’s MacArthur fellows www.npr.org/2026/09/29/nx-s1-598044…

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

John Coltrane centennial birthday Wednesday. Until then, a continued all-Coltrane playlist on www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr

John Coltrane B&W photograph from Wikipedia

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Yes, yet another AI take, but this one cites Brautigan, Adam Curtis, and Community Memory as context, so I thought it was worth the read. www.burningshore.com/p/machines-of-…

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Machines of Loving Grace

Plus News and Notes

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Fancy furniture store selling Eames recliners for more than I paid for my first car :/

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Flying while tall. Signore in front graciously agreed to not recline

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@fbz/1171809919711… My favorite scarf is a Rule 73 cellular automaton knit from KintYak. It came with extra yarn, and SOURCE CODE.

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midendian @midendian.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

another fun day in the high country even though the monsoon storm rolled in and chased me back down before I made it to the pass. good motivation to run more.

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

Cheerful morning reading about Freeman Spogli, the private equity ghouls that totally fucked Philz Coffee workers (and countless others). Last year they endowed a policy research institute at Stanford…

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Anthony Horton @spacelizard.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

It looks better from this angle. Less cable gore visible.

Photo of the front end of the Huntsman Telescope, an array of ten camera lenses on a single mount.

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I keep spotting this Lightfoot e-scooter zipping through our neighborhood. Yes, those are solar panels along the side to extend its range. Bonus points if you can recognize the rider.

A man riding an e scooter on 17th street. The scooter has large solar panels built onto the sides, giving it a very boxy and unusual look. It seems sort of retro futuristic in style too.

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Hmm, #KiCad Altium import still not quite ready for prime time. Is this bug really 6 years old now? gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/work_…

Kicad schematic showing what should be four capacitors in parallel, but the capacitors are rotated incorrectly and don't connect to the wires

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@tomshardware/tom-s-h… "some core Windows services will break because they'll fail to authenticate your Microsoft account" --- oh dear such a shame

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MPS Göttingen @mpsgoettingen.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Using the #InouyeSolarTelescope and computer simulations, researchers from #NationalSolarObservatory, #mpsgoettingen and #HighAltitudeObservatory reveal tiny vortices on the Sun’s surface that have never been seen before. They are interpreted as signs of […] [Original post on academiccloud.social]

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

"Today is August 4, 2026," said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, "in the city of Allendale, California." gosafir.com/mag/wp-content/uploads/…

Illustration for the Ray Bradbury short story "There Will Come Soft Rains". A house stands untouched in the midst of blackened trees. One side of the house has silhouettes of a family playing, light colored on a dark background. The lawn sprinklers are on.

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

Weird flex, #Microchip, not sure I'm OK with this >:(

Documentation illustration suggesting you plug a 6-pin RJ11 plug into an 8-pin RJ45 receptacle

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Glyph @glyph.im · 01/08/2026

Everybody wants a rock star, but do you know what makes a rock star a rock star? THE ROCK BAND THEY ARE IN.

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

Found picture of my cat, sadly gone, at magic hour for #Caturday

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

Staying at a mid-end hotel and the headboard has a cassette theme? The future is weird, man.

Beige headboard against a wall with a repeated cassette tape motif cut into it

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

Found fossil (ammonite?) in a NJ mall

Close-up of a textured surface featuring a cracked circular design, resembling the outline of an ammonite fossil, on a light-colored stone tile

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

RE: mas.to/@alternativeto/1169373110164… “He gives the kids free samples Because he knows full well That today’s young innocent faces Will become tomorrow’s Clientele” — Tom Lehrer, “The Old Dope Peddler”

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Dark pattern while traveling: airlines, hotels and car rentals now text you the day before your reservation, insisting you “check in.” Naturally this is only possible after installing their 💩 app and giving up your PII to create an account. Fuck that in general, but for Frontier Airlines it’s […]

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

It was rage-inducing that my latest Window$ laptop would not Go To Fucking Sleep and would burn CPU and run the fan when closed. This article explains why and how to fix: windowsforum.com/threads/how-to-dis… (Indirect HT […]

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

My friend Mathew Kneebone is displaying California electrical utility outages on this giant display in Ghent, Belgium. (I helped him wrangle the data: he originally wanted to display European outages but there basically aren’t enough to be interesting :) Credit 019-ghent.org/neighbor

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I'm helping a friend with some digital forensics and trying to learn how video metadata can reveal signs that a file has been edited. I'm much more familiar with image metadata, so this is new territory for me. Search hasn't been very helpful, so I thought the fediverse: Does anyone have good […]

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@gnomon/11684167711… Sigh. If you haven’t downloaded your Bandcamp purchases, you might think about doing that…

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

Come to San Francisco we have the gay lasers. And fog.

A nighttime cityscape featuring various skyscrapers, with a prominent blue light beam shooting straight upwards into the fog.

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

Kiwi fans singing “Aotearoa” to the Seven Nation Army riff. Works well.

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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 09/06/2026

the cyberpunk present is weird as fuck: the latest Shai Hulud malware wave contains an LLM prompt to create biological weapons and nuclear weapons, with the purpose to trip LLM safety refusals so that LLM-based code scanning wont see the malware […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

llm prompt for creating bioweapons and nuclear weapons

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Happy #NationalYoYoDay y'all! If you have an old yo-yo lying around, give it some love! And if you need a new one, I’m currently offering a starter kit that includes my tutorial comic book and a ball-bearing Bolt #yoyo at a great price […]

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

[San Francisco elections] If you voted early (or not!) you can check if your ballot was received/counted here sfelections.org/tools/portal

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Voter Portal

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

A glimpse of our raccoon future when the only affordable compute are scraps from obsoleted data centers blog.tymscar.com/posts/v100localllm

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I Put a Datacenter GPU in My Gaming PC for £200

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

Thank you Mastodon for today I have learned the terms “dickover” and “mechanical jerk,” plus the news about Vanilla Ice and Milli Vanilli was not the joke it so richly smelled like

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rrmutt @rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

That thing where hoarding seamlessly transmogrifies into retrocomputing with the simple passage of time

The back panel of a computer with multiple ports, including a VGA port, next to a blue VGA cable and a black and white HDMI to VGA adapter cable.

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026

The sheer Volume of wire in this thing Fun fact: if you took all the wire out of an 80's-era pinball machine and laid each piece end to end in one straight line, I'd be really mad at you

More pinball mechanisms, but some parts have been unscrewed from the wood and wrapped up in tape

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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.heads.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

safe travels to sonny rollins from the williamsburg bridge (which really should be renamed after him). #nyc #jazz

view down the walkway where Sonny Rollins used to practice

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