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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 01/03/2026

A real-life case of spacebar heating.

Screenshot of a software manual, text reads:

Appendix B: Beeps 4 life

The default windows command-line uses a character set named Code page 437. Its historical relevance goes back to the days where Unicode wasn't yet ubiquitous.1

In the early days of butler, we were using the CP437 character 007 to display bullet points (whenever butler starts a new task). However, that particular character is also used to emit a system beep2.

This was a bug, of course, but early users got attached to it. It was soothing. The bug has since been fixed, but the historical behavior can be restored by using the --beeps4life option.

Note that this option is not listed in the program's inline help.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 26/02/2026

Nyx, magnificently and magnetically attracting attention

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 20/02/2026

Had to check the publish date quick (1998, whew). Poor de Bono.

Photo of a chapter frontspiece in a book - it reads:

Three of the Methods of Simping:
- Historical Review
- Shedding
- Listening

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 16/02/2026

I thought maybe visuals / QED would help. These are sample official vehicle license paperwork, a sample driver's license card, and the disc you display on your car. They're all bilingual.

A vehicle license form for South Africa, with labels in English and Afrikaans

A South African driver's license card, and a license disc, both displaying bilingual labels.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 28/08/2025

hadn't seen this in atuin before. Mondays seem busy (and TIL 137 -> OOM)

A screenshot of a terminal / CLI. It's a TUI, showing a detailed history of a command entry in atuin (rebuilding my nixos), a terminal history manager. It includes histograms, return code distributions, timing info.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 17/06/2025

Things you don't want to see at your teller machine

A cash teller machine, but the screen is just displaying an Internet Explorer era error message.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 12/06/2025

It's (unknowingly) referring to the trope about there being an 'I' in Team's a-hole.

The word "TEAM" written in large, with the negative spaces in the upper-case "I" forming the lower case letter "i", and the caption that says "There is an I in Team, it's just hidden in the A hole"

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 07/02/2025

somehow, I had never seen these xahlee.info/kbd/apple_ad...

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 06/12/2024

I know I needed a symbol for our collective social memory, but I can't remember why

A screenshot of some DDR5 computer memory chips with LED lighting. The text below notes they're only meant for aesthetic use, and contain no actual DRAM memory.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 18/11/2024

Get you a Stanislaw Lem. Revel in delight.

A scanned book cover, of the Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem. It depicts a surrealist absurdly proportioned robot standing en pointe on a hand.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 15/11/2024

My name is on Mars at least. Although tiiiiny science.nasa.gov/resource/sec...

A 'ticket' issued by NASA for my name going to Mars.

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, put the names onto this tiny 0.3 square inches (8 millimeter-square) silicon wafer microchip using an electron beam to write extremely tiny letters with lines smaller than one one-thousandth the width of a human hair. The dime-size chip is affixed to the InSight lander deck and will remain on Mars forever.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 13/11/2024

Pino / Ergo Proxy. A series worth the journey.

A young girl autoreiv in a onesie with large ears, with an annoyed expression. She's reading a book.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 11/11/2024

Now my most popular post is a screenshot of this app's settings.

A screenshot from the X-Files. Scully is subtitled [ Disgusted Sigh ], and is wearing the appropriate exasperated expression.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 11/11/2024

the first mouse. Thanks, Doug. and obligatory - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mot...

A cracked wooden box held in a downturned hand. A large metal wheel/disc is visible.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 11/11/2024

I know why I'd screenshot this, but I can't remember what from.

A subtitled movie frame. "I just wanted to fart to relax a little"

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 10/11/2024

And the mute options include muting by post text and tags.

The mute options bluesky settings screen, which allows for muting by post text and tags.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 09/11/2024

I built a greenhouse / shade thingy out of recycled bits and scraps. Mostly for PT/OT reasons.

A greenhouse / shade tunnel structure in a garden, with an attached cat tower.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 09/11/2024

One more. Trillian, my space cadet.

A calico cat, lying down on a cat tower, with her front paws tucked under her chest.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 08/11/2024

I picked up in earnest at AD&D 2E, but

A paper dungeon map, and cardboard figures of horses and armor clad heroes, with the 1st edition D&D books and box in the background

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 07/11/2024

Jonesy knows nothing of our concerns and worries.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 04/11/2024

It's almost like what they enjoyed was drugs and being a famous rock band.

John & Yoko waiting for the maid to make the bed so they can continue protesting against the system, 1969

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 03/11/2024

Street art - Unknown, Observatory, Cape Town, 2017. They seem to be depictions of the local area, but prior to dense urbanization, and rendered in an oil-painting style.

Painted scenes in an oil-painting style, on a street-side utility box. They depict 1900s life in the area.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 03/11/2024

if we're talking Robert Longo and black and white, have we seen his chalk 'paintings'?

A black and white portrait of a high altitude pilot's masks and breathing apparatus, with detailed reflections of the clouds and cockpit in the visor.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 02/11/2024

Obligatory kitling. We're warming to the place.

A brightly lit ginger cat, lying in a plant pot, basking in the sun.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 29/10/2024

Further adventures in Nostalgia and Housekeeping. Please ensure your Amiga has at least 1 megabyte of RAM though. Circa '93.

A photograph of a video game box for the game Frontier Elite II, released for the Amiga in 1993

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 29/10/2024

I wish to return to the afternoon of Queck

A sketch of a duck with antlers, saying Queck, in a notebook on a restaurant table with a fresh beer.

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 28/10/2024

From between 1203 - 1283 Zakariya al-Qazwini زكرياء ابن محمد القزوينى Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing كتاب عجائب المخلوقات وغرائب الموجودات at publicdomainreview.org/collection/m... Mostly, I just wanted to link the amazing public.work site. You will find art

Two stylized humanoid figures, drawn with circular inset heads, from Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing, from the 13th century

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Matthew McLeod @vai.noetic.work · 28/10/2024

Source unknown. See also the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of...

a typewritten poem - it says:
on the contemporary
ship of fools, money
circumnavigates the globe
in the insane pursuit of
profit without responsibility

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