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m04

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having a lot of fun with the typst colorful boxes package

screenshot of a cover page for a reed college computer science thesis . where the title would normally go, there's a little skeuomorphic yellow sticky note that says "todo: title"

November 26, 2025 at 3:42 AM

m04

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wow that's such a huge change

November 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM

m04

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[misogyny, ?????]

i just got my first report from an external instance,,,,, this is so fucking funny thank you beloved instance mastodon dot social . don't worry i will ban myself from my self hosted instance ASAP

the user `@mastodon.social@mastodon.social` reported a post of mine with the comment:
"Misandry doesn't exists" is sexist.
To help with that try imagine someone saying "Misogyny doesn't exists"

November 21, 2025 at 5:47 AM

m04

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opam whenever i try to install one (1) singular jane street ocaml package:

> opam install ppx_accessor
The following actions will be performed:
install 55 packages
[long list of packages and dependency chains, including accessor, capitalization, fieldslib, higher_kinded, jane-street-headers, ocaml-compiler-libs, etc]

November 21, 2025 at 5:42 AM

m04

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ok i think this is everything? i'm sure there are things the data centers, utility companies, etc depend on but idk what they are

November 19, 2025 at 3:12 AM

m04

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orcaslicer's doing great rn

preset selection box in orcaslicer with "0.15mm Standard @Prusa MK3.5 0.4 no..." selected. the dropdown menu is open and where there should be text, the letters are replaced with rectangles with the width corresponding to however wide the letter should be in the font

November 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM

m04

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so that's why my instance was down for a bit? fascinating

emails from "Teemu from UpCloud". one says "We have identified an issue with one of our compute nodes" and was sent at 15:20. Another, sent at 15:32, is "We have resolved an issue with one of our compute nodes"

November 4, 2025 at 11:43 PM

m04

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but,

google search for "microsoft windows september 11th 2001". the ai overview has popped up and reads "On September 11, 2001, Microsoft was not directly involved in the terrorist attacks, but..."

October 29, 2025 at 1:53 AM

m04

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terrifying

header: Grill | Ballpark
menu item: SmashGPT Cheeseburger

October 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM

m04

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replaced the guts of my kensington expert trackball with an rp2040 and a pmw3360 sensor! in addition to fixing the issue where it would randomly stop working until i power cycled it, it's so much nicer to use now - mouse motion is much more smooth and i can […]

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kensington expert trackball with the top casing removed. the original green PCB is still present, but you can see some wires soldered to it going up to the rear of the enclosure, where an rp2040-zero microcontroller board is hot glued into place.

close-up view of the microcontroller board at the rear of the trackball, plus some of the wires running to it. it's a bit messy but functional!

October 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM

m04

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just checked in on my home assistant instance, it seems to have decided to start collecting nearby bluetooth devices like pokemon. unsure what the purpose of this is but i'll support it in its hobbies

home assistant page for the "ibeacon tracker" integration. it shows 224 devices and 1120 entities. there are a bunch of "Rivian Phone Key", an "OBDBLE 07A6", a Govee device, a "Roav Halo", and another randomly randomly named device

October 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM

m04

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just found this in a drawer ,,,, i miss the living computer museum :(
will hold onto it in case i ever figure out how to time travel, it will come in handy then !!!

bring in this coupon and receive
50% OFF ADMISSION
[photos of old computers and related accessories, such as a reel to reel tape machine]

October 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM

m04

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i require my code to be as dense as possible so that in emergencies i can throw it at someone and seriously injure them

screenshot of around 30 lines of dense ocaml code from https://github.com/Merlin04/reed-commons-menu/blob/1245634e6e8dd3c72796f10d3ae5dfc9195fd291/bin/scraper_thread.ml#L14

October 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM

m04

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awesome, thanks amtrak

amtrak payment page with a warning message at the top that just says "null"

October 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM

m04

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aaaaaa fuck what did i do
i tried adding this to my trusted-proxies but it didn't do anything!!!!!

Warning! It looks like trusted-proxies is not set correctly in this instance's configuration. This may cause rate-limiting issues and, by extension, federation issues.

If you are the instance admin, you should fix this by adding fd7a:115c:a1e0:ab12:4843:cd96:624a:944f/32 to your trusted-proxies.

For more information, see the documentation .

October 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM

m04

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finally got around to labeling my parts bin!!

vertical organizer with lots of small clear plastic drawers of various sizes, filled with electronics parts. each one has a label on it with one word/phrase from the start of the song "Locals (Girls like us)" by underscores

October 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM

m04

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try it. you *will* want it

it's genuinely fascinating seeing how composers who were famous during their lives over a century ago were described at the time