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cypnk.bsky.social
Coffee & Cabins. Medical hardware industry (formerly). Keeping ancient machines running with tape and hope. Also on https://hackers.town/@cypnk and https://mastodon.social/@cypnk
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I play my games on Easy Mode because life is already on Hard Mode Get off my neck!

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My sleep paralysis demon got tired of waiting for me to come to bed so he's playing Animal Crossing

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It's kinda amazing that there is #Perl code, written from around the mid-to-late 90s, still chugging along. Some even serving web pages

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The clocks will move forward by one hour this March. Because time is a lie. A blight upon an otherwise pristine universe and I really should be sleeping now, but I forgot how pillows work

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It's kinda amazing that I can write the worst thing possible, be it code or literature, and publish it. Call it "My Life's Work" and there's absolutely nothing stopping me from doing so. No adult will step in and say that's a bad move, you'll regret it Why yes, I am sleep deprived How did you know?

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Not sure if this is mild gas or a midlife crisis...

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"Reinventing the wheel" is such a weird phrase, when you think about it Sometimes, the wheel is a square and you'd at least want it to be hammered into an octagon

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Current state of things

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*Diogenes runs into congress with a C64* Behold, a government!

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Some of y'all do things with your Animal Crossing characters that make me wonder when you'll get brought to The Hague

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BURNING FORCE NAMCO 1990 SEGA GENESIS

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Modularity is important Sometimes, you just want "tech" without "bro"

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the "notch" space on an iphone should be used for a serial port imo

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"...you gotta realize, a lot of these tools were made during a time when everyone smoked, drank, and had lead in their blood..."

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After further experimentation, I discovered that old wind chimes can be made into quite effective WiFi antennas since most are made of brass

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"Computer Restoration" - Bland - Clinical - Bourgeois "Hardware Necromancy" - Bold - Esoteric - Seizes the means of computing

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Take a moment to appreciate this carpentry prowess RIP Larry Haun 1931 - 2011

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For the technically inclined, trying to create tech solutions to social problems feels like the warmest blanket on a cold winter day I'm begging you to consider that not all your problems are nails. Using your keyboard to hammer at them is less than ideal

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Current mood

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Current status

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So anyway, if you ever thought what you would do had you lived during a certain historical moment in time, you're doing it right now

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Well, that was a chore Being offline for so long means catching up to a mountain of online work... which makes you sick of being online again

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Always fun to go through weeks of email after being in the woods for a while I stopped after 2K Now, coffee!

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Funny thing about folks being excited for a chance to run the machine is that they don't expect to be pulled into being one of its cogs or fed into it as fuel

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Going camping!

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Do you ever think about how, to a cat, you are Totoro-sized

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ChatGPT is my rubber duck

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I have finally exceeded my half-finished to completed projects ratio I should work on that... tomorrow

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I knocked over one of the rails for my CNC at 6 in the morning. Mighty racket I am become deaf, destroyer of heards

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"50% Off All Guests!" That's... dark

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mother, i will not be denied my

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Trail cameras seem to be getting worse, all the while being more expensive. Now there are "cloud" features added to some of them I'm working on a rural camp this weekend and I'm tempted to just get a decent PoE camera and paint it green. Then run some CAT6 back to the shelter

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3D printers are now good enough, with adequate fine detail, that it's possible to create an entire movable type selection to start a letterpress I don't know if wax printing is feasible for amateurs yet, but you can absolutely do "lost wax" casting with PLA

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I think we should bring back printing like this. While I normally dislike writing on texts I own, I do condone writing theorems with vague allusions of proofs on them (if nothing else, to entice readers for centuries)

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It's been two years since I've had to use Vim The sky has not fallen yet

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Shout out to gravity for keeping me grounded

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Do you experience episodes of moderate-to-severe cyber? Ask your doctor if an off-grid cabin in the woods is right for you

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You keep a metal bucket for your fireplace I keep one in case one of my batteries burst into flames while charging We are not the same

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