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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 10/01/2026

Partner: You might log into BlueSky and post pictures of your rack.

A high-angle shot captures a black 15U open-frame server rack with casters standing on a wooden floor. Behind the rack, framed perfectly by its rear face, is a cardboard box with a 4U server chassis (cover open) resting on it. The open chassis reveals internal components, including a Mini-ITX motherboard, several beige and brown Noctua cooling fans, and, notably, an empty PCIe slot. The front of the chassis has a dense array of hot-swap bays, including thirteen 3.5-inch bays, two 2.5-inch bays, and a single optical drive bay. To the left of the rack sits a speckled stool, and the background includes exercise equipment, a VR headset, scattered tools, and a bunch of hard drives.

Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 23/07/2025

No, absolutely not. I confirmed my settings before posting. My phone rebooted overnight to install an update. And even if I had mistakenly approved an update (I didn't), my point would still stand because these systems are designed to wear users down to manufacture "consent".

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 12/07/2025

My ONT got replaced yesterday, and now my fibre connection is behaving itself again.

A Smokeping chart visualizing network latency and packet loss to a gateway over three hours. The primary data is presented as a series of green horizontal lines, indicating the median Round Trip Time (RTT), which consistently hovers around 3.2 to 3.3 milliseconds.

Surrounding the median RTT line are translucent gray bands of varying shades, representing the distribution of RTT samples. These bands are relatively narrow and consistent, indicating a stable connection with minimal jitter or outliers in latency.

Below the main graph, a legend provides more specific metrics. "median rtt" shows the median RTT at different timestamps. "packet loss" is stated as 0.00% average, minimum, and maximum. This is further illustrated by "loss color" showing a solid green square, corresponding to 0 packet loss. Other colors for packet loss (blue, purple, pink, red) are also listed but are not present in the graph.

The "probe" information indicates that 20 ICMP Echo Pings (56 Bytes) were sent every 300 seconds (5 minutes). The chart's horizontal axis displays timestamps, starting from approximately 10:40 and ending at 13:34:58 on Saturday, July 12, 2025. The vertical axis is labeled "Seconds" and ranges from 0.0 to 4.0 milliseconds, providing a clear scale for the latency measurements.

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 07/07/2025

I cut over to a marginal LTE connection as primary this morning, can you tell when?

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 07/07/2025

I am being punished by the gods.

This image contains three graphs from the network monitoring tool Smokeping, showing severe performance issues with my home internet connection to its gateway IP.

The graphs display latency and packet loss over three different time periods: the last 3 hours, 30 hours, and 10 days.

All three graphs show a highly unstable connection. The primary indicators of problems are the tall, dark vertical bars and spikes, which represent moments of extremely high latency, sometimes exceeding 1.4 seconds. The grey "smoke" around the median line is very thick, showing huge variations in response times.

The colored lines each graph indicate significant packet loss. The text summary for the 30-hour graph shows an average packet loss of 32%, and the 10-day graph shows an average of 13%.

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 05/07/2025

My home internet connection is currently making in-flight wifi look good.

A Smokeping chart showing two days of internet connection performance from Thursday morning to Saturday morning. The y-axis is latency in milliseconds (0-600+ ms), the x-axis is time.

The connection suffers from extremely high and erratic latency, with many spikes reaching or exceeding 600 ms, especially from Thursday afternoon through Friday and into Saturday. Black vertical lines show wide latency variability.

Packet loss is also severe. The "loss color" key shows transitions from green (0% loss) to light blue (1/20), various blues (2/20 to 4/20), and critically, purple (10/20) and red (19/20) segments, indicating very high loss. Summary statistics show an average loss of 28.51% and 60.75% "now."

In summary, the chart depicts a highly unstable internet connection with frequent, severe latency spikes over 500 ms and substantial packet loss, often reaching near or total failure.

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 25/06/2025

This is a horny check. Quote tweet with your last saved image. (this is on brand for me to an embarrassing degree)

A tree diagram of OpenSSL forks including amissl, libressl, boringssl, quictls, and aws-lc

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 11/06/2025

Apparently I _actually_ broke GitHub. They've slanderously blamed my "malformed commits". I've asked if my support ticket is eligible for a bug bounty.

A screenshot of a 500 error on GitHub.com/ryancdotorg/llhash - octocat is looking unhappy with a wooden sign that says 500, there is text saying "ooops!!!" and "Looks like something went wrong!"

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 07/05/2025

I have the ssh movie player back online! This is running on a custom ssh server built using `russh` as the backend. To convert frames, I used the python `tv` package, subtitling and playback is all custom. You'll need a terminal that supports 24 bit color. Try it! `ssh ansi.rya.nc`

A screenshot from the movie "Sneakers" rendered in surprisingly high quality on a terminal emulator.

A computer screen can be seen with a map of the New England states, with some illegible labels and menu items.

Subtitles in italic light yellow on black read

[Whistler]
Anybody want to black out
New England? Carl, what else?

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 03/05/2025

*sigh* Maybe I'll do a stream assembling this. I have a webcam mounted on an articulating arm on my workbench...

Screenshot: you paid 101.01 GBP to RFC2795 LTD

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 30/04/2025

I called to close my account and told them why.

A Barclaycard Platinum Visa, cut in half.

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 27/04/2025

*looks up Julia Hartley-Brewer* "real woman, pronouns me/me/me" lolno

Screenshot of email.

Subject: Talk interview request
From: Jeffery, Edward

Hi Ryan,

I hope you are well. I was wondering if you would be up for coming on Julia
Hartley-Brewer's mid-morning show tomorrow at 12:30pm via zoom for 10mins
to discuss your email to Parliamentarians over your concerns about Trans
rights being eroded in the UK since the Supreme Court ruling.

It would be great to get you on tomorrow to discuss if you are free?

Let me know your thoughts.

Kind regards,
Ted

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 24/04/2025

How do I get Google to change this awful pre-transition photo of me?

Screenshot from Google, a photo of a man in a baseball cap, next to the text "Ryan Castellucci Public figure"

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 24/04/2025

Oh, wow, I have hate mail! Imagine lying in bed with your phone at half past midnight trawling reddit for people to harass, clicking through to my website, seeing my website, and thinking that mocking me via email was a good idea.

screenshot of email

subject: You're an absolute gift to terfs
from: anbeanmer blunt handed bess at gmail dot com
date: today 00:33

thank you for your service preying hands emoji this will do nicely, you can put your crayons away now laughing face emoji

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 20/04/2025

Admin interface for the £35 switch.

Screenshot of Chrome displaying the admin interface of a SODOLA Web Managed 2.5G Ethernet Switch with 2 10G SFP+ ports.

Model SL-SWTG124AS
Mac Address 1C:2A:A3:C0:FF:EE
IP Address 192.0.2.7
Firmware Version v1.9
Firmware Date Jan 03 2024
Hardware Version v1.0

Left sidebar shows system, configuration, vlan, qos, loop, igmp snooping, trunk group setting, port based mirroring

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 20/04/2025

Retired: DSL Tired: Cable Wired: Fiber to the home Inspired: Fiber to the television

A photo of the inside of a TV stand, showing a Netgear Ethernet switch with a single strand of yellow fiber optic cable connected to it, along with an ethernet cable.

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 20/04/2025

Excellent, it continues to not overheat.

Screenshot of admin interface for a Netgear MS510TXPP 8-Port Multi-Gigabit Smart Managed Pro Switch with PoE+ and two 10G Ports.

Uptime is 6 hours 13 minutes 9 seconds

IC Temp is 56 C

Fan Status is Normal

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 20/04/2025

This enby will use female spaces.

A selfie of a pale, smiling androgynous person with long reddish brown hair. They're wearing a cosy cerulean jumper. There is a noticeable bulge on their chest from their breasts.

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 19/04/2025

I took a photo of some fans, then noticed my testosterone and estrogen gel in the background, lol.

A photo of a pile of assorted 40mm DC fans with PWM control cables. The "evercool" branding can be seen on the one in the foreground. Next to them is a screwdriver and a micro SD USB adapter.

In the background is a bottle of estrogen gel, a bottle of testosterone gel, an external hard drive, a DC power supply for LED strips, and an empty red bull can.

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 17/04/2025

A wild Ryan, in their natural habitat.

A photo of a pale androgynous person with long brown hair smiling.

The shot is from behind a rack of network equipment, with numerous cables in black, purple, white, and yellow.

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 12/04/2025

My hardware hacking workstation, based on a £60 desk. Any tips on how to secure the silicone mat in place?

A light colored wood veneer desk. It has two white recessed UK power strips with USB ports installed along the top edge.

At the top center of the desk is a black solder fume extractor.

There is a white magnifying lamp attached to the goht side positioned over the middle of the desk.

Most of the surface is covered by a grey silicone sheet.

Assorted tools including a multimeter, heat gun, soldering iron, flush cutters, wire strippers, tweezers, flux, desoldering ribbon, and a heat sink clamp are organized on the sheet.

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 08/04/2025

Got a desk to use as a hardware hacking workstation. I was able to use an oscillating multi-tool to mount the recessed power strips, though a jigsaw would have been faster.

A light colored wood grain veneer particleboard desk, with two white recessed UK power strips mounted in it along the far edge. A magnifying lamp is also attached.

On the desk is a Pinecil soldering iron, a solder fume extractor, a "helping hands" vice, a tip cleaner, and an ESP8266 dev board connected to half a dozen temperature probes.

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 25/02/2025

Remember, kids, don't roll your own cryptography or datetime code.

Screenshot: hi r castellucci your shipment from redacted out for delivery today scheduled delivery date wednesday 26/02/2025 estimated between 08:40 and 12:40

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 23/02/2025

The devices connected through this switch, which includes my NTP server, do *NOT* do this.

a chart showing round trip time and packet loss, with huge spikes in a very regular pattern

median rtt 3.1 ms avg, 41.0 ms max, 744.6 us min, 22.6 ms now, 7.1 ms sd 432 m am/s

no packet loss

probe 20 icmp echo pings (56 bytes) every 300 s

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 21/02/2025

Keep the patch panel or just connect the cables to the switch directly?

A white wall mounted 3U rack with a fiber optic patch panel, an Ethernet switch, and a cat 6 patch panel. Four cables are connected between the patch panel and the switch. The switch has an optical module installed, and is connected to the fiber patch. A green post it note covers the serial number for the switch.

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 16/02/2025

Before and after. "ZIF" means "Zero Insertion Force". I place the chip with tweezers, then swing the clamp over to hold it in place. The advantage of this over just replacing the chip is that I can modify the firmware in ways that would otherwise risk "bricking" the device.

A blue PCB with a SOIC-16 flash chip in the center, and a 4 pin right angle header to the left.

A blue PCB with socket for SOIC-16 flash chip in the center, and a 4 pin right angle header to the left.

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 14/02/2025

Feeling cute, might rent 100,000 cores for five minutes later. (yes, this is my personal account)

Screenshot of the AWS quotas for my account, showing a limit of 14,400 on-demand standard instances, increased from the default of 5.

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 06/02/2025

Plenty of space, it's the flash chip in the lower right quadrant.

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 28/01/2025

My heart rate from the day of my appeal hearing. Arrived at the court about 10:15, changed in the lavatory, sat down in court at 10:30, lunch break was about 13:00 to 14:00, done at 16:00, then got pints with my lawyers at a pub called "The Last Judgment".

Screenshot of a heart rate chart from the Fitbit app. Hits 150 around 10:15, dropping to about 120 by 10:35, and staying elevated with occasional spikes until 16:00.

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 19/01/2025

Chrome effect colors are cool, actually.

A pale colored hand, with shiny metallic green fingernails.

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 08/01/2025

I only travel with USB-C chargers (a 120W quad and a 65W single), and don't want adapters, so converting things. I replaced the 0402 SMD 56kΩ pull up on this USB-C connector with a 1/4W 4.7kΩ pull down to elicit 5V - it's concealed inside the connector housing.

a fitbit charger with a coiled cable ending in a USB-C connector with a heat shrink strain relief. The cable is being held in place by a hand with nails painted sparkly alternating red and green.

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 04/01/2025

It would be really funny if this was used to generate cryptocurrency keys. FWIW, you can do a serviceable "software only" TRNG based on comparing the jitter of two clock sources. This is some "Poe's law" stuff, could be satire, could be deranged tech bro. Via Sophie Schmieg

Screenshot from Twitter, where Bas advertised my blog posts, with a reply of someone who founded a company using GenAI trained on random inputs to create the "world's first software only true random number generator"

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 03/01/2025

This is the correct way to sit in an airplane seat, right?

A photo of someone's legs, in light blue jeans and brown hiking boots, sitting in an airplane seat with one leg draped over the armrest and the other tucked under it.

In the background a bag can be seen, as well as another person's shoes implying the passengers expect to deplane soon.

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 29/12/2024

This one has a barcode on it, but no nutritional facts or ingredients, which presumably means it was made before 1990.

Photo of can of "Reese Smoked Octopus in cottonseed oil salt added". The paper wrapper is yellowed.

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 28/12/2024

Caching is hard. No, I cannot access anything interesting.

A screenshot of BritishAirways.com with a header indicating the site is being accessed by a logged in employee.

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 27/12/2024

I found this posted in a private channel of Ryans who work in cybersecurity.

Screenshot of comment "I'm starting to realize there's a list of Ryans who work in cybersecurity who you don't wanna mess with. A step above Ryan Kelly would be Ryan McBeth, who literally uncovers the locations of terrorists to be hit by airstrikes.

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 25/12/2024

This setting has a small chance of being spontaneously enabling itself every hour the device is online.

Screenshot of a SNMP MIB file, for a fastHandOverEnable setting.

The description has a typo - "hangover" instead of "handover".

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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 19/12/2024

I did not expect that my letter to the California tax board explaining that my "California address" is a UPS store would actually work. Can these folks please provide training to the British tax people on how to be reasonable?

Letter from California Tax Board Filing Enforcement:

"Thank you for contacting us. Based on the information you provided; we were able to correct our records for the 2021 tax year. You should receive a confirmation letter in the next 7-10 business days. No further action is required on your part."

Quoted original message: "
I have been sent a request to file a California tax return. I have not been a California resident since 2015. I have lived in England since 2019. I maintain a virtual mailbox in California at 3141 Stevens Creek Blvd in San Jose, which is a UPS store that forwards mail to a company called Traveling Mailbox to be scanned. My accountant has already explained this to you, please stop harassing me."

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