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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

I recommend returning your marked ballot in a local dropbox rather than via USPS if your jurisdiction has those option. (This requires that you be present in your home area; dropboxes from other counties won’t generally ensure you ballot will be received and counted).

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Scott Ellis @scotte.ai · 12/10/2026

Switched to #OpenLogi for my #logitech devices, and it's good. Annoying that it takes a few seconds/minutes when resuming from sleep to set the mouse DPI, but it's probably not a show stopper. Feels good supporting a #rust project and saving hundreds of MB of RSS space.

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Aure Free Press :verified: @free-press.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

PUTIN ORDERS TRUMP Trump's new marching orders; Putin has ordered Trump to help him escape Zelensky's very effective attacks on his oil refineries. If Trump stops Zelensky from attacking, Putin says he will provide Trump with diesel fuel, which is now […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

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Scott Ellis @scotte.ai · 11/10/2026

This is well done, and fascinating.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Donald has lifted sanctions on Russian diesel. We will use the money to help Iran. Who are fighting the USA. Donald is paying us to help kill American soldiers.

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

What a superb rebuke to Trump, who is determined to make the U.S. a wholly lawless state. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/…

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Theo Beastly @theopriestley.net · 06/10/2026

I think sci-fi was trying to tell us something… #babylon5

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Scott Ellis @scotte.ai · 06/10/2026

I have a rough floorplan with measurements on it. I cannot convince any #Codex or #Gemini to make a to-scale bitmap or structured (e.g. draw.io) file with it. Crazy output in my tests. Grr. Wish somebody would give me a good suggestion that works so I don't have to do this manually. 😀

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Scott Ellis @scotte.ai · 04/10/2026

Got a #ZBT2 to use with #homeassistant , and it's really... weird, at least when running in a container. HA detects the device, but seems hard coded to always update the firmware (even if that's a downgrade!), and also hard coded to use /dev/ttyACM1? This can't be real. After adjusting the […]

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Scott Ellis @scotte.ai · 02/10/2026

@ftranschel @bitprophet Agreed. The ability to exclude things in software that you don't need is the killer part of #gentoo #portage

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You really can’t make this shit up.

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Scott Ellis @scotte.ai · 02/10/2026

Whirlwind trip to #malta is almost over (only a long flight from #munich to finish!). Very productive, but way too much to do in 4 days. Looking forward to sleep! #sandiego

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Scott Ellis @scotte.ai · 26/09/2026

Went to the #miramarairshow today, and had a great time (as always). At dinner, @rxmel74 decided we should look up what airshow opportunities there are in #europe . I'm now looking forward to checking off bucket list items of #FarnboroughAirshow and #riat in the coming years. 😁

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Scott Ellis @scotte.ai · 25/09/2026

Switched my #homeassistant AI Task default for telling me what's on the security camera from #GoogleGemini to #nvidia #Nemotron3 since Google kept throwing 503 "model is overloaded" errors. No real change in behavior, and I'm far from the rate limits for the free account. Yay!

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There is only one slab of marble I want to see his name engraved on. And the sooner the better.

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Scott Ellis @scotte.ai · 24/09/2026

@darwinwoodka We've taken to asking the store to order and ship it to us when this happens. When I say "we" I mostly mean my wife,. since I just say "screw it" and order it on Amazon like you.

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

We’ve officially reached the point where hearing your spouse’s voice on the phone isn’t enough proof that it’s actually them. That sounds ridiculous until you realize voice-cloning scams are already here. Have a code word. Call the person back directly […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot from another platform:
Just had the creepiest scam ever happen
20 minutes ago.
| got a call from my wife telling me she forgot her
wallet and needed the credit card to pay for her gas.
Except my wife was at home with me, and drives a Tesla.
Same voice, bit... off, weird cadence but 100% sounded
just like her. If she wasn't there, and it wasn't about
gas | would have fallen for it.
| entertained it for awhile to get more out of it, | was so
confused. Must be some sort of voice deepfake.
The responses were too fast for ai, | think it was a voice
filter. | wish | had thought to record it.
The future is about to get fucked. Warn your loved ones,
do verbal passwords with your kids.
Bit taken aback.

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Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Same here vending machine. You got this. #monday #mondayvibe #humor #humour #darkhumor

food vending machine that has a sign on it that says: the light inside is broken but i still work

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Scott Ellis @scotte.ai · 22/09/2026

Found the #jellyfin ph15ch/Jellyfin-Transcode-Downloader share.google/f6PyxghwvBbb8MCRH which seems like it does just what I want... except it's not working properly on Jellyfin 12.1 (no options to select codecs). Do I choose some other path? Do I just let my clanker Codex go hack at […]

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Steve Bellovin @stevebellovin.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Trump wants to name things for himself because he knows damned well that no one else is going to name any monuments for him (except maybe a cell somewhere…)

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

It's nowhere near the worst or most consequential thing he's done, but I think Trump's threat to demolish the Kennedy Center if he isn't allowed to name it after himself is the clearest demonstration yet that he's gone mad with the imagined power of his office. It doesn't advance any policy […]

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Scott Ellis @scotte.ai · 20/09/2026

Picking a private international health insurance plan is no fun. I'm spoiled by the limited choices that my employers give me: only shitty choices I have no real say in. The international market has options. (Yes, that was sarcasm) #malta #insurance

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Scott Ellis @scotte.ai · 18/09/2026

The whole "We will send a code to your email to confirm it's you" thing has got to stop. Email is not a real-time medium! Don't make me wait for bits to work their way through various SMTP servers. I have better things to do than keep a tab open and watch my email. #email #stupid

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

I'm not one to fetishize film; though I respect those who prefer the medium, I haven't looked back since switching to digital over 15 years ago in my own photography practice. But man, this article on Kodak's film manufacturing process (focused on cinema and IMAX) absolutely made me drool.https […]

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Scott Ellis @scotte.ai · 13/09/2026

Switched my #homeassistant alarm setup from the AppDaemon/MQTT integration to the pure HA integration as a #qolsys remote device. Took about 10 minutes (mostly remapping automations and helpers), and now I have battery state for the PowerG sensors and one less panel login! Yay!

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Scott Ellis @scotte.ai · 05/09/2026

@pixel That series was SO well written. Lots of throw away lines, as well as gags that have a season long payoff. It was a masterpiece.

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Brian Harrod @brianharrod.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

#WOW... The Orange leader has improved food on US aircraft carriers so much that the sailors are growing extra fingers....

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Scott Ellis @scotte.ai · 01/09/2026

Tonight @rxmel74 thought she'd try her hand at blackberry pie. I eagerly await dessert time! #dessert #pie #blackberries

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

ever wondered how USB devices negotiate Power Delivery (PD) with each other? ordinarily, you'd need a specialized USB PD analyzer. the upcoming #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer revD has I/O drivers that natively support USB PD voltage levels, enabling you […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

SOURCE CAP message:
[1] [Fixed] 5V 3A (15W) [unconstrained]
[2] [Fixed] 9V 3A (27W)
[3] [Fixed] 12V 3A (36W)
[4] [Fixed] 15V 3A (45W)
[5] [Fixed] 20V 5A (100W)
[6] [Programmable|PPS] 5/21V 5A

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Scott Ellis @scotte.ai · 29/08/2026

I'm very impressed with #Qwen 3.8 on an ancient #nvidia Quadro RTX 8000 (Turing generation!). The normal 8 bit quant works really well...not frontier model level of course, but fast enough and good enough for a bunch stuff. Significantly better than 3.5 was.

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

RT @brianoneill.bsky.social Honestly, if this somehow wrecks Mar-a-Lago a lot of long-held beliefs I have about the afterlife will be hastily reconsidered.

Southern Maryland Weather Center
@SOMDWXCENTER

Hurricane Dolly now has a high chance of forming in the Tropical Atlantic.

In an unbelievable coincidence, Dolly is the next name on the Atlantic hurricane list, and country music legend Dolly Parton passed away today at age 80 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Invest 96L currently has a 70% chance of development as it moves across the Tropical Atlantic.

If this system becomes a tropical storm, it will be named Dolly.

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Scott Ellis @scotte.ai · 24/08/2026

Remove as much #x11 as possible from my work laptop (trying to get to 100% #wayland for no reason other than an experiment). Not too many X use flags needed in #gentoo + #COSMICdesktop , but the DCV Viewer I use for remote desktop grew a really ugly hack. ☹️ Thankfully it's only updated yearly […]

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Scott Ellis @scotte.ai · 22/08/2026

Almost done migrating from my #googlepixel 10 Pro to the 11 Pro. Last time it was work related apps and accounts that were a pain, this time it's some lost RCS messages. No biggie, just never 100% smooth.

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Scott Ellis @scotte.ai · 17/08/2026

I'm sure there'll be heat for "being AI slop" or "hosted on a privacy destroying company's site", but www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkbcuajiPJA is !$*%'ing hilarious. #AI #youtube

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Scott Ellis @scotte.ai · 17/08/2026

@helge Yeah, I'm hoping the jmap and caldav libs make translation easy, but worst case I leave it to Fastmail to sync.

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Scott Ellis @scotte.ai · 17/08/2026

I'm gradually coming to the conclusion that to keep #fastmail and #gmail semi in sync, I'm going to have to write something. Ugh. Imapsync does part of the job, but has limitations. Pimsync does part of the job but has limitations. Native calendar syncing works decent, but may as well do that […]

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Scott Ellis @scotte.ai · 16/08/2026

@kavey.bsky.social We bought an apartment in St Paul's Bay (which now has a ferry to Sliema), so many of your recommendations are excellent for us. :-)

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Scott Ellis @scotte.ai · 15/08/2026

@kavey.bsky.social Good post! We're moving to Malta in a few months, and love collecting places to go after we're settled that we haven't discovered yet. Thanks for sharing your experiences.

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Scott Ellis @scotte.ai · 14/08/2026

I'm not somebody who uses LinkedIn (other than for hiring), but #nvidia did a post on there which I thought was nice. I've been part of NVIDIA #dgx since the start, and have very fond memories of our first DGX-1 delivery! The LinkedIn post captures a few really cool pictures from when we were […]

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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 12/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@campuscodi/1170781… Zoom, the meeting app known for installing rootkits since 2020. Never install a Zoom client.

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Scott Ellis @scotte.ai · 11/08/2026

@adr Dockerized HA is the way.

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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

#TrumpsWar against #Iran has depleted #US weapons stockpiles to troubling levels, siphoning supplies from Asia & Europe… The rapidly shrinking supply of air-defense missiles & other critical weaponry in Europe & Asia not only leaves the US #military less equipped, but could also leave #Russia & […]

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Jan Schaumann @jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

Couldn't find the first occurrence to repost, but yes, AI companies trying to one-up each other by touting their incompetence to airgap their systems and chest-thumping their wantonly committing cybercrimes with no consequences is a vibe.

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

The coming months are going to be particularly rough for those of us concerned about and active in U.S. politics. It is true that the midterms cannot eliminate Republican Fascism from the federal govt, they are an opportunity to make a dent. And we so need to fight defeat fascism. Every […]

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Scott Ellis @scotte.ai · 08/08/2026

While futzing around with my mailbox (see other post about #gmail / #fastmail ) I ran across a message from 10+ years ago, when I was debating if I should take a new job with #nvidia or not. The email begins: "This is Jensen Huang. I am the CEO of NVIDIA." I can't imagine he starts out […]

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Scott Ellis @scotte.ai · 08/08/2026

Trying out #fastmail to replace #gmail and it seems decent, but despite what their FAQ says the 30 day trial doesn't let you send email, access *DAV resources, or a number of other things. Made a support request, maybe it'll get responded to in the next few days so I can try those features. I […]

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Scott Ellis @scotte.ai · 06/08/2026

@OrionKidder First time I found something I wanted to use and it was only an AppImage. And wow, not something I care to use.

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Scott Ellis @scotte.ai · 06/08/2026

What unholy thing is an "AppImage"? WTF? I thought the #linux world learned it's lesson with "flatpacks" and "snap" garbage, but I guess some are giving it the ol' college try again. If you want a standalone application, make a container or a statically linked binary. (#rustlang and #golang […]

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