@CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 2d ago

Oops sorry I've been quiet I've been super sick since Monday the 28th

In the few hours I've had awake each day though I've been working on building a "90's internet TV station" for my next big video project

By which I mean I've now taught Windows 3.11 to accept *real-time video streaming* over a network. Like Twitch or YouTube

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 2d ago

On October 4th, 1999. The domain gentoo.org was registered by Daniel Robbins

Happy birthday, #Gentoo

social.treehouse.systems

Treehouse Mastodon

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 5d ago

Got a final 10 day notice from the landlord as a "gentle reminder" that if we're still here after the 12th they'll start eviction proceedings

Tried telling her that we've been applying to move somewhere since AUGUST. Got the expected "well that sucks. Hope you can figure that out" reply

I'm so tired

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 2w ago

Replying to

Like literally just turning this kind of spite into a series

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 1w ago

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@sterophonick@wetdry.world He looks like the Scout's dad

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 2w ago

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I need maximum "you are a fucking clown" per square second of footage

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 1w ago

If Valve really wants Deadlock to succeed they should've had the rat king voiced by Danny DeVito And have grandma voiced by Fran Drescher

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 1mo ago

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@Ameboid@mastodon.social I might know a business partner for him #catsofmastodon

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 2w ago

Dave "serial liar" Plummer is making the rounds again. Bragging about working on Windows XP's serial keys And yet in his post, name-drops windows XP releasing in...1995? Was the "I have autism and therefore my memory is perfect this is how autism works buy my book that explains autism" guy... INCORRECT?

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 2w ago

Replying to

I need musician friends who can make me what I'm just going to call "clown music" as a backing track for it Like what Die Woodys did back in the 80's

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 2w ago

Replying to

This is my villain arc Becoming the Mel Brooks of clowning on AI slop bros

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 1mo ago

Replying to

Seriously I had 22 gigs of Nginx logs in a goddamn month I can't deal with that reasonably

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 2mo ago

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@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange Excuse you If I'm going to be getting intimate with cars it will be of my own accord

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 2mo ago

#mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #fedihelp Doing one final push to hit the goal before August 1st. I'm a little nervous because GoFundMe seems to do "weekly" payouts. So I REALLY wanna get this finished before Friday to make sure I can pay them on the spot Monday. The whole "yeah if you're late again we'll just evict you" has had me in a low key panic since I got that email a couple weeks ago. Once I've rent paid I'm gonna call the WA governor office and plead to have my unemployment request "expedited" (it'll be over 6 weeks by then) which should give me breathing room until at least the end of the year. I truly cannot stress how grateful I am to all the folks who've stepped up and helped me so far ;-; https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-shaun-keep-a-roof-over-his-head https://ko-fi.com/CursedSilicon

gofundme.com

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 2mo ago

Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social

#mutualaidRequest #mutualaid #fedihelp #mutualaidboost I've got EIGHT DAYS LEFT to get rent for August. I know folks are sick of hearing me ask for help. But I'm teetering on that edge of oblivion >: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-shaun-keep-a-roof-over-his-head https://ko-fi.com/CursedSilicon The state are still spinning their wheels deciding if I should get unemployment or not. It's gotten to the point I've written to my congressional reps asking that they intervene as a voter of theirs (apparently that's "the only way" to get expedited through unemployment "adjudication"

gofundme.com

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 2w ago

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@grimmy@mastodon.social @pidgin@fosstodon.org Petition to change one of these to "that's a paddlin"

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 1mo ago

Me when I go to Jersey Mike's

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 2mo ago

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Update: some kids still in line paid me $10 for it Watch out world. I'm makin' DEALS

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 2w ago

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Okay I made an "episode" of "Thumbnails aren't hard" Left it unlisted though so it doesn't obliterate my Youtube analytics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAs8zvOiRak

Thumbnails aren't hard

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 2w ago

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Worth it

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 2mo ago

Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social

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re: CW: Lewd, Shaun why

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 3w ago

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@elly@donotsta.re You have to be a fast cyclist in the Netherlands Or else Not Just Bikes will find you

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 2mo ago

Why does eBay have a livestreaming feature?

Like. I'm not even surprised it's all slop thumbnails

But why does EBAY need livestreaming???

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 2mo ago

Hey, #netbsd folk. Forgive my ignorance on this topic. But I need to build a NetBSD port for a distribution that doesn't have one ready to go. Can NetBSD be built from source *on Linux* or does it need to be built from within a NetBSD environment itself? Just so I know if I need to spin up a NetBSD build VM first

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 1mo ago

Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social

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My Mom is 71 years old and I was not ready for either of these conversations

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 1mo ago

Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social

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(To be clear she's extremely supportive of both things but...explaining them to her was. A tightrope walk)

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 1mo ago

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@oxy@social.bsdlab.au TWO MORE FEET AND I CAN FIT IT IN THE FRIDGE!

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 2mo ago

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@azonenberg@ioc.exchange @petrillic@hachyderm.io @bagmangood@infosec.exchange To be clear. I'm not an engineer. I do not know how to write in "real programming languages" (and when I write bash scripts, people very kindly ask me to not do that again) Apparently the closest analogue to what I do well is "SysOp" and that term died out 20 years ago after Devops started But I think the model of how I want things to be put together is functionally incompatible with "modern devops" as a result You can't pull a k8s cluster apart. You can't interrogate its individual systems. It's a black box that you submit your work into and pray Or, as an old roommate put it "it's the computer version of Marx's alienation of labor"

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 2mo ago

Making the eternal mistake of checking out the orange site An article about Half-Life being ported by a fan to Mac OS 9 (1999) was posted Naturally all the fucking comments are "waaaaow I bet they used AI to do this" The absolute *dedication* that site has to the slop machine is truly a summation of the worst excesses of LLM's. It's a fishtank full of (usually) below average sand eaters crab bucketing each other about how great they are at being tech bros

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 2mo ago

Replying to

UPDATE: FreeGeek Portland kinda underwhelming??? Or at least the back area is. They had a cordoned off area of a few shelves with bits and pieces. Most of which was "free because it's dead"

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 2mo ago

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@acsawdey@fosstodon.org @petrillic@hachyderm.io @azonenberg@ioc.exchange @fwaggle@moodoo.org @bagmangood@infosec.exchange Huh. Mine's been *rock solid* since I bought it Have you reached out to the Banana Pi folks for a warranty thing?

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 2mo ago

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@Flute@birdbutt.com nuhh ;-; every lil bit helps. You da bess

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 2mo ago

@emily@fedi.uni.horse Boop. CGHMN signup approved!

Also since it's on your contact page, there's also the retro Discord if you'd like!

https://discord.gg/TnpSG2P677

discord.gg

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 2mo ago

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@krutonium@social.treehouse.systems Ngl I was thoroughly underwhelmed. Especially compared to Re-PC

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 2mo ago

Testing out a battery bank for my roommate and having a bit of a Hank Hill moment with it

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 2mo ago

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@fwaggle@moodoo.org @azonenberg@ioc.exchange @petrillic@hachyderm.io @bagmangood@infosec.exchange I mean. Sure? Any system can be pulled apart if you *truly* are committed enough But it's something that isn't "designed" to be pulled apart was more my point. You build "the devops stack" and "the devops stack" is 30 different rube goldberg machines that all interact And then you surround those machines with logging and metrics and grafana and prometheus and terraform and all the other "bits" And you end up with this Katamari ball

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 2mo ago

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@petrillic@hachyderm.io @azonenberg@ioc.exchange @fwaggle@moodoo.org @bagmangood@infosec.exchange Folks are sometimes bewildered when I show them the "tech stack" at my workshop It's an OpenWRT One, a whitebox NAS running Gentoo and a DL360p G8 running Proxmox (for CGHMN stuff) That's it. That's "the whole stack"

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 2mo ago

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@RueNahcMohr@infosec.exchange I don't...know if I have that kind of legal recourse? I might have to talk to legal aid I guess

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 2mo ago

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re: CW: Lewd, Shaun why

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 1mo ago

Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social

I wish Dick's had an app so I could order ahead I know their entire model is based on the speedee system. But I want to blearily stumble out of the darkness, pick up a bag of burgers and scamper back into the night Y'know because I'm a raccoon. And I hate waiting in line

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 1mo ago

Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social

I'm glad this conversation wasn't in person because I was basically making this reaction for a solid couple minutes

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 2mo ago

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@RueNahcMohr@infosec.exchange I think a lot of those are a matter of resources available, though. Which I...lack ;-;

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 1mo ago

Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social

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I'm so glad this conversation was on the phone and not in person Because I was just sitting there like this the entire time

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Cursed Silicon @CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

· 2mo ago

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@RueNahcMohr@infosec.exchange Unfortunately I don't have any legal recourse against the state of Washington >: The tightrope I'm walking is that if I get a 30 day notice, I can phone the *governor's office* and ask that my adjudication be "expedited" But I won't get another 30 day notice. I'll get an eviction notice =/

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