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Wolf480pl

@wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy

Sysadmin stuck with k8s, Linux nerd Likes The Unix Way 🇬🇧🇵🇱(🇯🇵 a bit) 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mstdn.io/@wolf480pl, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

@jmaris

A pop-up from Heroes III with the text:

Astronomers proclaim weel of Sugar. Concentration of eryhtrulose in interstellar space increases.

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026

@jmaris ok, found it it was in www.astralcodexten.com/p/against-ag… which claims that this chart is inflation-normalized. IIUC, it's possible that both statements are true - that median income is higher relative to consumer price index, but […] [Original post on mstdn.io]

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/01/2026

[weapons] @nytpu Fido the FA-50 Fighting Eagle would like to follow you. (unfortunately, he couldn't find an appropriate fedi instance to register on)

A photo of FA-50 Fighting Eagle, a South Korean light fighter jet.
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RoKAF_T-50_Golden_Eagle.jpg

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/11/2025

periodic reminder that DB-9W4 doesn't exist and cannot hu... kr.element14.com/norcomp/685m9w4103…

A connector, shaped like DB-25 (male, PCB-mounted), except it has only 9 pins: 5 normal ones in the regular two-row pattern you'd expect, and 4 much larger coaxial ones - 1 on the left and 3 on the right.

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/11/2025

why do they no longer make mice with extra buttons on the sides of the main buttons, like Logitech G300S had :(

A photo of a Logitech G300S computer mouse. It's a wired, optical mouse.

In the middle between the main buttons it has a scroll wheel, and behind it stick out two small rectangular buttons labelled G8 and G9.

More importantly, parallel to the scroll wheel, at the outer edge of each main button stick out two thin extra buttons. They're slanted inwards. The ones on the left are labelled G4 and G5. The right ones are G6 and G7.

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2025

You know what, this deserves a screenshot. Just look at this thing. An analog voltmeter whose dial moves between a row of LEDs and a row of phototransistors. And then the digital circuit can't binsearch the result, so it loops through all 2^32 possible results […] [Original post on mstdn.io]

A photo in a magazine:

An analog voltmeter with an quarter-circle PCB stuffed in the place where you'd expect to see the dial. The PCB has a row of small green elements along its outer curved edge, "ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTER" written on the silkscreen, and a 2x17 goldpin connector.

Below it is another PCB with an LPT port, a bunch of ICs in DIP cases, and another 2x17 goldpin connector with a ribbon cable attached to it. Half of the ribbon cable is folded somewhat under that PCB, but a bit to the side, with the connector on the other end sticking out, not connected to anything.

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2025

> New LuCI theme dropped > it's called OpenWrt2020 > *looks inside* > 2002

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

@harold Meanwhile AMD releasing Zen 2-based Ryzen 7000 laptop CPUs:

Two panel comic of the awkward monkey.
The monkey is sideways to the viewer.
In the first panel, the monkey's eyes turn sideways towards the viewer.
In the second panel, the monkey looks straight ahead, avoiding viewer's gaze.

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Wolf480pl @wolf480pl.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

[war, drone strikes] According to Jarosław Wolski[1] the drones that violated Polish airspace last night consisted of two groups: - Shahed/Geran strike drones that after enterng PL airspace turned south and then west towards rargets in UA, taking a long way to […] [Original post on mstdn.io]