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hyperreal
@hyperreal.bsky.moonshadow.dev
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FOSS geek, privacy advocate, digital archivist, cypherpunk, mental illness advocate, RPG enthusiast, coffee lover.

Website: https://hyperreal.coffee
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Reskeet with a time you looked cool.

This photo is from 2006.

I still look just as cool now I think. Just a bit heavier.

Also my attire in this photo was so goblincore at a time when I didn't even know goblincore was a thing. Maybe it wasn't a thing in 2006, idk.
November 21, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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A photo of two birds intimately close to one another. They are both wearing bird blankets that cover their head and body. There are two fake candles that appear to be burning in front of them. The text reads: "when ur candles are fake but it's ok bc ur love keeps you warm".
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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While I was driving today, there was construction on the road, with signs telling people to merge into one lane on a two-lane road. However, if you were far enough in the queue, the cars in front of you made it difficult to see the construction signs ahead. A guy behind me got road rage, and kind of angrily pulled out into the other lane and sped off. He immediately slowed down when he saw the construction signs and then he wanted to merge back into the queue. I have to laugh at how what probably motivated this guy's actions was that he saw all the cars queuing in the one lane, and must have thought something like "All these people are stupid and don't know what they're doing!", and then after speeding off and noticing the construction signs, he must have been like "Oh, that's why. Now let me back in the other lane." Of course, People Are Doing The Best They Can With The Information They Have Available At The Time™.
November 20, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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What COSMIC DE would need for it to be usable to me: Weather panel applet Panel applet for arbitrary command output (e.g., uptime -p) Quake style drop-down terminal Clipboard manager Maybe some or all of these are currently in the works. Drop-down terminal and clipboard manager can be achieved with third-party options, but it would be nice if they were integrated with the rest of the COSMIC UI.
November 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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🔫 pew pew pew
Screenshot of a Fediverse post from @earthshine@masto.hackers.town. It's a poll with the question, "Does Microsoft understand consent?" The poll options are "yes." or "ask me later". 112 people voted in the poll. 0% voted "yes". 100% voted "ask me later".
November 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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I'm going to the T-Mobile store later to get a new phone. Not sure what kind of phone I'll get. It will have to be the least expensive option, or whatever the deal that T-Mobile offers. This may include the latest Google Pixel. But honestly I don't really need anything that fancy, and I'd prefer to avoid Google wherever possible. I'll take any reasonably specced phone I can flash Murena /e/os onto.
November 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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No, *I* need attention!
Screenshot of an email from Indeed. The subject line reads: "Jeffrey, your profile needs attention!"
November 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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The problem: I did NOT have "Open previous tabs and windows" selected. The solution: Select "Open previous tabs and windows". I thought "Continue where you left off" was the same thing. - Why...why are these two separate settings? - Moreover, why is "Continue where you left off" seemingly nested under "Open previous tabs and windows"? - Why have "Continue where you left off" at all? What does that setting do, exactly? I'm sure (I hope) the difference is explained deep in the documentation somewhere, but a tooltip or clickable help pop-up button would be a convenient place to explain the difference.
November 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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🙄
I tried TrueNAS SCALE as my NAS operating system. I thought the ease of ZFS dataset replication that it offers would be worth it. But I hate how everything's locked down, containerized, and virtualized. I've concluded that nothing can compare to the system-level flexibility that a regular operating system like FreeBSD offers. So, am installing FreeBSD again. I swear, my open-mindedness about this stuff will be the death of me. Good thing nothing here is mission-critical. It's a good thing we don't live in a Cyberpunk world where you can swap out bionic components like you can with computer operating systems. I'd probably have cyberpsychosis by now.
November 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Photo of Tali'Zorah from Mass Effect. The meme is meant to be presented as: Tali watching you use AI for everything: [Photo of Tali] "Bosh'tet."
November 16, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Map of the city of Karnaca, Serkonos from #Dishonored2
Screenshot of the map of the city of Karnaca, Serkonos from Dishonored 2.
November 15, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Map of the Empire of the Isles from the #Dishonored universe.
Screenshot of the map of the Empire of the Isles from the Dishonored universe.
November 15, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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CW: broken flesh

Time for the nitrile gloves.
Photo of hyperreal's thumb showing the effects of skin-picking.
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Why is John McAfee's wife in my People You May Know on Facebook lmao
Screenshot of the People You May Know section of Facebook suggesting the profile of Janice McAfee. Her profile picture shows her embracing her husband John McAfee.
November 12, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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I want what Emily and Wyman have 🥺

#Dishonored #Dishonored2
Screenshot from the game Dishonored 2. It's of a sentimental note to Emily Kaldwin from her boyfriend Wyman.
November 11, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Picture of a drawn person poking a brain with a stick and saying "C'mon, release the happy chemicals"
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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nufmt is awful.

Left: My own formatting of a .nu file.
Right: The same file run through nufmt.

What is even this. I don't know if it's a bug or just a feature I'm using incorrectly.
Screenshot of the difference between formatting of nushell scripts. The nufmt (right side) is clearly less readable.
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Never Make a Deal with a Binary Blob. It may seem all peachy at first, but at some point it's gonna start demanding freshly baked oatmeal raisin cookies to feed its insatiable craving. Before you know it, you'll be pawning off everything of value you own for ingredients to make them. And when the time comes that you've pawned off your oven and baking utensils -- and, oh, it will come -- the Blob will surely and truly suck the remaining essence out of you, and leave you as a husk of your former self. It's simply not worth it.
November 7, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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#OCD #mentalhealth #mentalillness
A graphic listing the various subtypes of OCD. Myth: People with OCD are germaphobes, clean a lot and are always organized. Fact: There are many different sub-types of OCD with various symptoms. Sub-types / the spectrum of OCD: - Pure O OCD - Checking OCD - Health OCD - Superstition OCD - Pedophilia OCD - Religious (scrupulosity OCD) - Somatic (sensorimotor OCD) - Suicidal OCD - Existentialist OCD - Contamination OCD - Metaphysical contamination OCD - Skin picking (dermatillomania) OCD - Hair pulling (trichotillomania) OCD - Sexual orientation OCD - Relationship OCD - Harm/Responsibility OCD - Hoarding OCD - Postpartum OCD - Symmetry OCD - Counting OCD - Just Right OCD
November 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Source: www.facebook.com/leftistgamer...
A pixel art image of a girl with pink hair, a white blouse, and pink striped pants sitting down. Her avatar is shown with dialogue that says "In a surveillance state, we're all cam girls."
November 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Guess what, fam.

#Debian #FOSS #Linux
Screenshot of hyperreal's KDE Plasma 6 desktop. A konsole window is open with two panes. The left pane shows the output of the fastfetch command on a Debian system. The right pane shows a running btop process. The desktop wallpaper is from the game Starfield. Screenshot of hyperreal's KDE Plasma 6 desktop. The Lagrange Gemini browser is open on the left side of the screen, showing the homepage of hyperreal's Gemini capsule. The Okular document viewer program is open on the left, showing the Spring 2025 edition of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly in PDF.
November 6, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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I like to watch her bowl. She's real good.

Elise Bolton on Facebook.
Screenshot of Facebook reel showing a thick curvy brunette woman bowling.
November 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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It would be cool if there was some sort of system for color-coded mood indicators. The problem I'm having with this is that there's no efficient way for me to display an indicator such that it would be visible to people and I could easily update it on demand. Er...maybe this is a shitty unsound idea from my depression-addled brain.
November 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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CW: self-harm, suicide

I dunno if Camus actually said these words, but I wouldn't doubt that he felt them.
Photo of a coffee cup filled with steaming black coffee. The coffee cup is set on a saucer, with coffee beans scattered around it. The background is dark, black, and the coffee cup is set on top of a reddish wooden surface. There is a quote that is attributed to the existentialist philosopher Albert Camus: "Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?"
November 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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I want a significant other such that we'd spend our final moments together like this if the city was destroyed and we were dying from the Rat Plague. 🥺 #Dishonored
Screenshot from the game Dishonored. It shows the corpses of a couple who spent their final moments of life holding each other before succumbing to the Rat Plague.
November 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM