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📺 SHE/HER

Can you feel it? My soul breaking, my world crumbling; it's a tragedy, and it's one I can't fix.
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Cable Contributes to Life @cctl.me · Oct 18
Hi there. I'm somebody with a passion for analog cable television equipment, weather, and programming. Throw these three things together, and you get a person who thinks they are capable of building their very own cable television network.

Give a follow and join me on this bizarre adventure.
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i think you guys know what we need to do

hackaday.com/2025/12/26/p...
December 27, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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schizo.horse
Merry Crackmas #crackmiser
December 25, 2025 at 6:05 AM
cctl.me
what the fuck is happening
December 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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finally turned on the christmas music and i'm starting to feel christmas-y now

i think radio stations starting as early as November 1st is desensitizing me to it and it ruins the mood so I try not to listen to it too early
December 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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schizo.horse
Just a happy little guy
Dimly lit photo of a Compaq Deskpro with a CRT monitor displaying an MS Paint drawn smiley face
December 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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forgot to post i somehow managed to complete the Unity Cup career on the first try in uma last night
December 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
cctl.me
it just keeps making sense. python is the puppygirl language after all
python.org Python Software Foundation @python.org · 12d
At PuPPy, Python is for everyone 🐍 This PSF Fiscal Sponsoree brings together the Puget Sound #Python community across all experience levels, fostering diversity and shared learning. Support PuPPy and help us keep Python accessible to all with #PythonForEveryone!
psfmember.org/civicrm/cont...
Graphic with the text "Support PuPPy, a Fiscal Sponsoree of the Python Software Foundation". The top right has the campaign branding of colored blocks that states "Python is for everyone." The bottom left has the text "Your donations make a difference" and the bottom right has a yellow block of color with the PuPPy logo: a depiction of the space needle with the Python logo superimposed and next to it in text "Puget Sound Python".
December 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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caidan.dev
Built an orbit simulation tool with only vanilla JS and the Canvas API

Try it out: caidan.dev/portfolio/or...
December 13, 2025 at 4:46 AM
cctl.me
this screenshot did not age well (look at the date)
December 13, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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It's a Casio on a plastic beach
December 11, 2025 at 6:11 AM
cctl.me
stop KOSA
December 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
cctl.me
I have good news and bad news. The good news is I was able to dump the ROMs of the EAS-1 PCB. The bad news is the Trilithic SCG-1's firmware ROM (an Atmel AT89C52) has a security bit written, and therefore is unreadable.

If you'd like to take a look, here are the dumps:
dl.cctl.me/public/ROMs/...
December 3, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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schizo.horse
Comaq
A drawing/painting of my character Sandra using a computer. The background is painted in a semi-realistic style and the character is drawn in an MS Paint style. The computer is branded with a parody of the Compaq logo, reading 'Comaq'.
November 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
cctl.me
The duality of Gorman.
November 27, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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History was made today (for the cable archivists, anyway...)! I got my hands on the very rare and never seen Gorman Redlich EAS-2 (EAS-1 with a built-in CG).

I'll write up a blog entry on my site about this one soon, but not before recording a few things and dumping the EPROMs.
November 27, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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question for the weirdos: Does anybody know what kind of cart schools used to roll out the CRTs on? I had a stupid idea and I want to buy one but I can't figure out what to look up
November 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
cctl.me
2 weeks on Ubuntu as my work desktop OS... i have resorted to buying Ubuntu-branded merchandise
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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i finally realized why a friend of mine insists on "no ice" when getting a fountain drink.... because you actually get more drink. the lack of ice increases the volume for the liquid

i'm realizing this because i finished a soda unusually quickly and noticed the cup was filled to the brim with ice
November 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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thetechknight.bsky.social
Who coulda seen that coming.... 🙄
November 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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digiral.bsky.social
#HatsuneMiku #初音ミク
Miku and Camera
November 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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headend Teto (she eated a few cables)
A plush of the character "Kasane Teto" who has red hair, and twin "drill" pigtails. She wears a gray dress with red lining. The plush is sat atop a desktop computer wearing the "Dell" brand badge. Behind the plush is a series of black cabling. To the right of the plush, there is a black box with a series of yellow, white, and red composite video cabling attached. Above the plush are four monitor screens, each one displaying a different video signal. Each monitor screen has four knobs, each labeled: "BRIGHT", "COLOR", "TINT" and "CONTRAST". Above the monitor screens is another box labeled "EAS SYSTEM CONTROLLER" with a green LCD display on the left of the box. In the middle of the box there is a series of gray button, consisting of digits in a T9 layout, as well as buttons for CANCEL, SELECT, F1 (up arrow), F2 (down arrow), F3 (right arrow), and F4 (left arrow). On the right side of the unit there is another label reading "EASyCAST", "ENCODER/DECODER". Below that label there is a speaker grille with 7 holes in a circle pattern. To the right of that is a singular hole with the label "MIC" underneath it.
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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terminallyol.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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daily-driving Ubuntu at work day 1:

I fucking hate Windows Print Server and Samba printers
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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La familia.
A collection of computer systems in one room. On the left, there are three grey metal boxes, each labeled with "The Weather Channel" logo, stacked on one another. The bottom box is labeled "IntelliStar 2 xD", and the two above it are labeled "IntelliStar 2 Jr". Each computer has a vent exposed for air flow, with a fan behind each vent. The bottom two computers have fans that emit a blue LED. The top computer has a fan emitting a pink LED. Each of the three has a blue LED for power indication on the front panel. Sitting on top of the third IntelliStar system is a bare metal computer, with its rear side facing the camera, exposing it's I/O. There are various interface ports on the left side of the chassis, and on the right there is an interface with two pairs of analog video ports. There is a plug for power input. This system is an Silicon Graphics "O2". On the right side of the photo, there is a weirdly shaped computer system with a dark blue shell wearing a "Silicon Graphics" badge on the front. On the bottom, there is grey foundation piece that holds the chassis together, labeled "O2" on the bottom left. There are grilles for a speaker. In the center of the photo slightly to the right, there is a grey metal box mounted inside of a black computer rack. This metal box is labeled "Weather Star XL, The Weather Channel" on the front and has handles on the left and right side of the box. There is a white label on the front. There are two holes for power and reset. Above that grey box, there is another "IntelliStar 2 Jr" box exactly as describe previously, this time located inside of the computer rack. It is wearing a pink sticker with the text "VBA 4". Above that system, there is a beige, vertically slim system labeled "The Weather Star Jr. It has 8 LEDs on the front, three of which are lit up green. Above that system, there is a grey box labeled "The Weather Star Jr Audio Alert", with 2 LEDs, one lit red. There is a The Weather Channel logo on the right.
October 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM