BinaryViolence
binaryviolence.bsky.social
BinaryViolence
@binaryviolence.bsky.social
I game. Mostly. Read the news. Do computer stuff. Enjoy animated media.

Otherwise I'm basically floatsam in life and consequently too boring to be of interest.

Oh. And I support people. Not hate. Just saying. ☮️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈👁️‍🗨️🌐🆒🎮🧠🫦🦾 They/them/etc
Okay! So. Pam Bondi is a mean girl!

You are not going to shame a mean girl with facts, and pointing out her feelings.

The only way you're going to get her to really mess up? Is you have to get everyone around her to laugh at her. Hard.

That's the only way to get under her skin.
February 11, 2026 at 10:35 PM
.... I swear. My day job is having to babysit the entitled rotten people enabled by their lack of education and speed fed TikTok videos.

I fucking miss full-timing in tech.

..... I miss --a lot-- of things right now....

But I have a three day weekend to look forward to. Just. Gotta get there.
February 11, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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#UK: Ending end-to-end encryption puts us all at risk. At a session in Parliament last week, Russian human rights activist and performer Olga Borisova reminds us of just how important encrypted apps are for our safety and privacy ⬇️
www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/02/form...
February 11, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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Repair Manifesto: If we can't fix it, we don't own it.
- Repair is better than recycling.
- Repair saves us money.
- Repair teaches basic engineering.
- Repair saves the planet.
- Repair connects people and things.
- Repair is sustainable.
#Minimalism
February 10, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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February 11, 2026 at 9:47 AM
You get off a call with a client feeling like...
a cartoon character wearing sunglasses and a tan jacket
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February 10, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Oh. Hey. A 3 day weekend.

Project time.

.... Of which I have dozens.

Guess I'll get the RetroPie box up and going then work on the EEE 486 PC build.
February 10, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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February 10, 2026 at 1:43 PM
So. Apparently I have no HDDs on hand? Thankfully eBay saves again. Gotta love clearance stock sellers.

Anyways. I hope today goes by quick.

... I'm tired of waking up to the niiiiightmaaaare.
February 10, 2026 at 1:07 PM
SNL needs to bring back Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny for an X-Files parody.

Only it's called The Epstein Files.

Both agents sit there in burned out, morbid silence, looking as though they've gone weeks without sleep.

Then one says, "We need to dump these on the internet. Unredacted." Fade.
February 9, 2026 at 9:57 PM
I seem to be blocking a large number of questionable accounts, seemingly bots all asking for handouts for relief. Anyone else seeing this...?
February 9, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Ordered a GeForce 680 it for the XP box as the last of my 550s was in the process of failing.

And for the price? I cannot complain. It shall be in a good home.
February 9, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Project idea: I've been jonesing to do a 486 build. The hardware does have a cost investment.

However. I have an Asus EEE 1015b notebook that is running FreeDos I used to program some radios.

And DosBos-X does have an emulation layer for use IN Dos.

Oh yeah. You see what I'm thinking? :3
February 9, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Ya know what doesn't need age verification or have a cash store and just works?

IRC. Which is what I am damn sure powers a large portion of discord on the backend.

.... Maybe it's time we FOSS that shit fr, yo.
February 9, 2026 at 6:27 PM
I miss the PlanetQuake network.
February 9, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Welp. I spent the weekend doing.... Nothing. Clients never got back to me.

I wasn't in the mood to tinker.

So I played classic NES games.

... I should probably get back into dating...
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ALT: a man wearing a surgical gown and a mask says but why
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February 9, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Waking up to my PS3 giving me the red light and 3 beep errors this morning. Swell. One more thing I don't have the time to sit down and diagnose/repair.

Fuck.

Guess it goes on the shelf next to the CRT that's also busted....

Not happy. Wanted to play Armored Core 4 this morning. :(
February 7, 2026 at 1:01 PM
I've had three calls from clients this morning asking me about alternatives to Windows 11.

Obviously I mentioned Linux.

Two of them were interested & I gave them resources to look at and promised them VMs to try.

The third was all "Oh hell yeah! Let's do it!"

Microsoft doing more for Linux. Lol
February 6, 2026 at 2:32 PM
GOP now stands for "Guardians of Pedophiles".

Make them wear their actions.

Idgaf if they don't like the label. They're the ones who suck.
February 5, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Turns out the MSI H81I Mini ITX board from the Node 202 is using an 85w i5. Which will have to go for something low power.

Then I'll need a SATA 6 expansion card and a decent rackmount case to home 6 HDDs, minimum.

Thankfully I have a low profile Noctua cooler sitting in spare!
February 5, 2026 at 2:11 PM
You know you're wired differently when it's 3 F at 0630, smiling and happy, yet the neighbors are cranky and miserable and cold.

I fucking. LOVE. The winter. x3
February 5, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Remember RoboCop 3?

Where OCP had hired mercenaries to go into Old Detroit and forcibly evict people out to camps so the company could build Delta City?

Then RoboCop and the Detroit police show up to fight the Mercs and their conscripted gang toadies?

... It's been on my mind a lot lately.
February 4, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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February 4, 2026 at 5:05 PM