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Kit Bashir

@Unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
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Hacker. Parent. Scientist. Rantist. Atheist. Roboticist. Treehugger. (she/her 🏳️‍⚧️). At Accelerando Lab I research, design and build custom IoT and electronics […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ aus.social/@Unixbigot, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 14h
Every time voidcat Thordis Longleap is wandering around the house forlornly looking for her escaped brother (he escaped again today) I explain to her in my best (worst) imitation of the Kray Bros bar fight scene “ere, your bruvva’s done a runner!”. (Snorri came back very chagrined since it is […]
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 14h
@hacks4pancakes I read The Cuckoo’s Egg, at the urging of one of my high school teachers, circa 1989 before I knew what Unix or Emacs was. When I encountered those as a university 2nd year in 1991 I was primed to latch on.
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026
My grandma served with the UN Aunties corps. They went into war-torn failed states like Russia, USA, and Britain and they healed them. So called peace-keeping forces has failed; violence, even the threat of it, begat only more of the same. It was a cup of tea, a friendly ear and a darned shirt […]
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026
My grandma served with the UN Aunties corps. They went into war-torn failed states like Russia, USA, and Britain and they healed them. So called peace-keeping forces has failed; violence, even the threat of it, begat only more of the same. It was a cup of tea, a friendly ear and a darned shirt […]
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h
@thejessiekirk my eldest kid started with Enterprise, enjoyed it, and then went back and watched the older series . Aged 21ish they finally said “i’ve been wondering my whole life why the network name of the TV is ‘OnScreenMrData’”
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026
@rothko fleet of tea tankers?
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Ra (Freyja) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩 (cringe EU-brained military girl) @freya.highenergymagic.net.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
#duckduckfedi is there a LoRa communicator device like the LiliGo T-Deck that doesn't suffer from "we failed to understand what a keyboard is for syndrome"? Requirements: needs to have audio output and input, wifi, bluetooth, LoRa, battery, a keyboard that preferably isn't some 35-key tiny thing […]
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026
“Boxing Helena” but with Palmer Luckey and his puppy-torture machine and it’s not all a dream.
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026
Ugh, it’s horse torture season again.
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026
@RinaVolpina *knock knock* Hi, I’m from the server next door. I think I have your minutes.
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026
“You sold. The ship. To scrappers. My ship. The ship you promised me.” I left. Just barely before I hit anyone. I took a runabout and just flew. I dived into the rings, recklessly, hearing ice ping off the hull. I don’t think i wanted to die, I just wanted not to think. Another ring […]
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026
“You sold. The ship. To scrappers. My ship. The ship you promised me.” I left. Just barely before I hit anyone. I took a runabout and just flew. I dived into the rings, recklessly, hearing ice ping off the hull. I don’t think i wanted to die, I just wanted not to think. Another ring […]
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026
Why, Miele, do you put a countdown timer on your appliances if they cannot finish within a quarter hour of the displayed time. Your shitty little LED display had literally one job.
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026
@freya *duckduckwends* TIL <3
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026
@freya this ¹ looks slightly less worse - looks like it has an arrow rocker and maybe those app keys can be rebound. BTW the t-keyboard module ( in the t-deck also available separately) has a scroll wheel and its own cpu so maybe we could update it to be vi-friendly ¹ […]
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
@fluffy @afewbugs industrial deafness?
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
When the cyber planet returned it found a million asteroids parked in its orbit. The belters claimed squatters’ rights, and the ICJ on Phobos supported them, but as always a laser finger trumps a court order out in the expanse. #Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #Title_Parking_Lot
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
When the cyber planet returned it found a million asteroids parked in its orbit. The belters claimed squatters’ rights, and the ICJ on Phobos supported them, but as always a laser finger trumps a court order out in the expanse. #Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #Title_Parking_Lot
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
Cripes, Kurtis, I would not be sitting with my legs inside the tracks of the jacked-up excavator like that.
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
Some fabulous cinematography and creative editing in today’s CEE.
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
There are not enough ice moons to imprison those who design-in cr2025 cells where cr2032 would fit.
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
If this file would please finish copying to flash drive so i can :tgif:
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
Done now, proceed with apocalyphpse
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
TIL Obsidin desktop is Electron. A little less in love.
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
Aldi special buy "vanilla" hand cream smells divine. Probably good I didn't get the pistacio flavour (srsly).
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
It’s a lower numbered code key sir, but it checks out. I was about to clear them.
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Rain雨, the Radical Dame~ @reignofraining.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
This feels fitting after the past few days~ ​:woozy_baa:​
A picture of a wizard looking towards the stars and the sun setting behind some mountains with the caption "sorry I missed your text I am processing a nonstop 24/7 onslaught of information with a brain designed to eat berried in a cave"
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
Actually, now that i think about it, the silly analogy in this shitpost is perfect. IB(owel)S: it’s a diagnosis of exclusion, as best we can tell there’s nothing badly wrong with you, your body just has random off days; be kind to yourself and get lots of fiber. IB(rain)S: ditto.
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
“Dispatch agent 63583828184841858281734 to investigate!” “Slow down boss, six three five…what was next?”
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
@MelissaBearTrix Irritable Brain Syndrome
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
Intelligence community rocked by revelation that secret agent codes were insecure. Some that have been recovered include 86, 99 and even 7.
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
wait a minute, FOUR ISN’T EVEN A PRIME NUMBER
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
@MelissaBearTrix <3
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
@MelissaBearTrix at least he doesn’t smuggle budgies
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
Reredinated
Kit is at her desk, holding an SD card between lips as is not uncommon as yet another weird experiment begins.
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
Reredinated
Kit is at her desk, holding an SD card between lips as is not uncommon as yet another weird experiment begins.
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
The great hall of Angus McGyver Technomage Academy—named for an early technomage of the planet whose rubble supported the asteroid campus—thundered with applause. The graduating class stood on stage as the applause died down and the chancellor spoke. “—am immensely proud, as would be my great […]
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
The great hall of Angus McGyver Technomage Academy—named for an early technomage of the planet whose rubble supported the asteroid campus—thundered with applause. The graduating class stood on stage as the applause died down and the chancellor spoke. “—am immensely proud, as would be my great […]
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
Oshit, i updated all my clients’ servers bit forgot to do my own. Nobody unleash the apocalyphpse until tomorrow, kay?
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
Wow that's purple
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
Ah, the "to the resident" mail was a deniable "get rid of the dead cars out front youse ultrabogans" warning for the hackerspace peeps (phrased as if it is a general warning for the whole suburb, but it definitely applies here)
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
Ah brissy
Heavy rain has soaked the letters in my letterbox
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
Thank you everyone who burned midnight oil to ensure that all the orchestrated services I just rebuilt had incorporated the fixed PHPs. We return you to your regularly scheduled doomscrolling.
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
@MelissaBearTrix QR code that goes to pressthefuckingbutton.oneofyourdomains.tld
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
Problem: you need a hostname for yet another rasbperry pi¹ Tactic: grep -i pi /usr/share/dict/words | grep -v -e '^.......' | less Result: ooh, how could I have not used 'epic' yet. ¹ I don't buy them any more but I have a boxful
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
Yeah the bleach phase that I skipped this time turns out to be advisable in future
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
“Oh, and take an item from the table provided by our sponsor Victorinox on the way out.” #BonusPanel
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
LBT¹: This is a better-said expression of something I’ve been saying for years: techbros got to the top by lying constantly and effortlessly their entire career; of course they fell for the lie machine ¹ hachyderm.io/@datarama/117480866064…
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Please stop anthropomorphizing AI company executives. They're not sentient and they can't actually think. They just predict token sequences using statistical patterns scraped from LinkedIn, X and the Financial Times. The apparent "understanding" is simply a parlor trick: They produce text strings that *sound* plausible, but they don't actually have any understanding of the world. I'll grant that they became a lot more technically impressive when Reinforcement Learning from Investor Sentiment pipelines were introduced, but fundamentally they're still just stochastic bullshit generators. Running them in a loop and giving them access to the internet will end up being the most expensive mistake in the history of technology.
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026
"Furries? Why are there furries *everywhere* today?" "Big kerfuffle on the Internet. They're doing what they can." "Which is?–" "Here come a couple. Watch." Furry 1: "Hi, we'd like to disclose that we're wired for simstim. We are soliciting HUGOPS for sysadmins." Furry 2: "To be clear, if […]
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026
Meta: i just realized this is basically a foxes-in-love comic seen from the other side of the paper.
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