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r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖
@cypnk.bsky.social
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Coffee & Cabins. Medical hardware industry (formerly). Keeping ancient machines running with tape and hope. Also on https://masto.hackers.town/@cypnk and https://mastodon.social/@cypnk
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Folks, maybe we can pull through this

www.scientificamerican.com/article/racc...
Headline page from Scientific American: "Raccoons Are Showing Early Signs of Domestication" "City-dwelling raccoons seem to be evolving a shorter snout—a telltale feature of our pets and other domesticated animals" Featuring a photo of a little raccoon sitting in a trash bin
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Reddit user atfricks: "English is just 14 other languages in a lumpy trenchcoat."
November 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Kitten having a nap in a cat bed next to a stuffed pink elephant toy, which is wearing a sailor girl's uniform
October 23, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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This is likely a codec issue or slight corruption mishandling that they haven't fixed on their end yet. Usually, after I put a vid through ffmpeg, it goes through
October 17, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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'Tis the season
Sweatpants!
October 14, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Purely in the interest of science, I mapped my keyboard to this layout for the past week. The results are as follows...
An ultra minimal keyboard layout with just 40 keys. Bottom row: Hyper, Super, Meta, Space, Level 1, Level 2. Number row removed and other features achieved through level shifting
October 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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This is the greatest promo of all time
IG: newberlinlibrary
October 11, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Reddit user WarLorax on a thread about organic molecules being discovered on Saturn's Enceladus: LLMs (AI) can't create new ideas, they're just very complicated auto-complete.
October 4, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Current mood
Stop Doing X meme edited: Stop doing JS Bundlers (uppercase) - JavaScript was supposed to be handwritten - Years of Bundling yet no real-world use found other than making bloated websites - Wanted to include multiple JS files in one HTML document anyways for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "multiple <script> tags" - "Yes please give me WEBPACK of something. Please give me ESBUILD of it" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged Look at what Frontend Deevelopers have been demanding your Respect for all this time with all the hardware & software we built for them (This is REAL Frontend Development, done by REAL Frontend Developers): [screenshots of various IDEs with multiple snippets of JS followed by multiple question marks underneath] "Hello I would like R apples please" They have played us for absolute fools
September 25, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Intel Inside marketing logo edited to read "AI inside"
September 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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I'm at that stage in my life where I can look at a datasheet, think I could do the tests better, go into an unholy mess of raw data, try to start the setup, fail, give myself a headache, and spend the evening staring blankly out at the rain through the window, while the coffee gets cold in my hand
September 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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TIL Crotchet is Turing Complete. I imagine knitting is as well

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzkf...
Christina Burger does a video presentation on the basics of crotchet and the intersection of it and programs. Slide in view is a Venn diagram with two circles, "Computer Science" and "Old Lady Crafts" with an arrow pointing to the intersection captioned "You Are Here". Clipart of crayons, a ball of yarn with a crochet needle through it, a pencil, and a hot cup of a coffee surrounds the frame
September 16, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Dagnammit!
Edited motivational cartoon of a man pointing his index finger at his own reflection in a demanding manner. Caption: "You WILL stop making grunting noises every time you sit down or stand up"
September 15, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Looking back at the U.S. from [country] I'm in right now
Scene from "I May Be a Guild Receptionist". Alina looking at her home with a giant boulder sitting next to its destroyed front with melancholy and shock. "I still have thirty years left on the mortgage"
September 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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I forgot to setup group policy again on my work laptop after a drive restore (long story) and of course Windows 11 decided to update itself without telling me

What's this malarkey? AI can now think for you by injecting itself into your business?
Post update welcome shown via Edge, auto opened. Second screen showing the new AI features via Copilot. Welcome page second screen, titled: Your WIndows 11 PC has been updated. Subtitle: Discover 5 features to help you get more from your device Blurb: "Your second set of eyes. Activate Copilot Vision on Windows for helpful summaries, to translate texts, or decipher images. Share your brower or app. Copilot can help with whatever you're working on and even coach you through it aloud." Speech bubble: "Hey Copilot, can you quiz me on this paper" Copilot: "Sure can! Let's go!" Conversation overlay on a paper of some sort
September 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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TIL There's an AI Darwin Awards

Tagline: Honouring Those Who Asked "Can We?" Without Ever Asking "Should We?"

Here are the 2025 nominees
aidarwinawards.org/nominees-202...
The AI Darwin Awards proudly continue this noble tradition by honouring the visionaries who looked at artificial intelligence—a technology capable of reshaping civilisation—and thought, "You know what this needs? Less safety testing and more venture capital!" These brave pioneers remind us that natural selection isn't just for biology anymore; it's gone digital, and it's coming for our entire species.
September 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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The Nokia 3310 was released 24 years ago

It had a dot-matrix, monochrome, LCD and typical 5-line display. The platform was Java-based and had several built-in apps. Including snake. NiMH 900 mAh battery basically lasted a week

This pic was from the an eBay listing, but mine is the same/still runs
Blue Nokia 3310 in original bezel
September 2, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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I've been looking at these military handsets for an outdoor coms project. They seem to be injection molded in two parts and use screwed on ear and mouthpieces

This lends itself very well to 3D printing and someone already came up with plans earlier this year

www.printables.com/model/117021...
Front and side profile of handset with talk button and coiled Back profile of the handset showing attachment hook
September 1, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Ctrl + C = Copy on most text editors

Emacs:
Trollface meme. Looking forward to the "It came before" replies, but I'm guessing most people don't even look at the alt text. Why am I even wasting my time.
August 27, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Oh, good. I couldn't remember the word for that
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
August 27, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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This is peak 2000s alt-online culture
Animated angel-like figure from Chasing the Ghost by Collide. Circa 2000s
August 26, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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I remember, in 2000, this album briefly turning me goth

Amazing that folks are still trading the original CDs after all these years
auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/q...
Auction photo showing front cover of Chasing the Ghost by Collide. Released in 2000. Cover features composite image of angel like figure with somewhat demonic features, white eyes, and halo with star points
August 26, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Reject Modernity

Embrace #Goblincore
August 21, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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A tale in two acts

#Vibecoding
Meme: Vibe-coding - The late pope Francis, still sharp and smiling Vibe-debugging - A ragged looking Jonathan Pryce as the High Sparrow in Game of Thrones
August 21, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Woody Guthrie, 1944
I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling. I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it's hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work.
August 19, 2025 at 7:59 AM