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Brian Campbell
@unlambda.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
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Working on eVTOLs at Beta Technologies. Python, C, Rust.

Too many hobbies, but right now spending the most of my time learning to fly.

[bridged from https://hachyderm.io/@unlambda on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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@futurebird Of course, looking through some photos of it, it becomes obvious why there was so much confusion about the name; depending on the angle, "EVERGREEN" or "EVER GIVEN" might be the more prominent text that you see.
Large green ship, piled high with shipping containers, stuck in a canal, red paint below the water line exposed. "EVER GIVEN" in white text on the bow. An excavator on the shore is dwarfed by the ship.
January 22, 2026 at 2:35 AM
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@futurebird The confusing part is that despite the name of the ship being Ever Given, the company is Evergreen and that's what's painted in large letters on the side.
Large green cargo ship piled high with shipping crates in a canal, with EVERGREEN in large bold white text on the side.
January 22, 2026 at 2:23 AM
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@xgranade Heh, this got me looking into the LIT file format and tools that already deal with it.

One of them is "Convert LIT" for stripping DRM off of LIT files, which had to provide two links to download the source because back in the bad old days of no HTTPS […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
Screenshot of Convert LIT download page. The "Convert LIT 1.8 Source" link is being pointed to, showing a download URL with a filename of "clit18src.zip"> There is an alternate link titled "Renamed link for censoring ISPs."
January 19, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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Wow, GitHub is having a tough day today, huh?

There was a GitHub actions incident earlier. Now I'm getting a Unicorn error trying to load some pages. When I checked their status page, it was down too. The status page resolved after a few minutes, but it's […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
Angry unicorn image. "No server is currently available to service your request. Sorry about that. Please try refreshing and contact us if the problem persists." Error 503 first byte timeout on loading https://support.github.com/request/landing With some extra details from the Varnish cache server
January 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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[Confusing AI art]

@whitequark This should help explain it.
An obviously AI generated illustration, of a kind of steam engine like thing, with various anthropomorphic and regular animals embedded in the wheels and stuff, nonsensical labels like "Witnesses", "Polecats", "Crew", "Dogs" with each label pointing at multiple different kinds of animals, and each animal having multiple labels pointing at it. "Fuel (plans)" comes in and "merged code" comes out as steam. I dunno, I feel like I'm going to go crazy if I try to describe it in any more detail.
January 14, 2026 at 10:44 PM
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The bunnies visiting grandma's for giftmas

#bunny #rabbit #bunniesofmastodon #rabbitsofmastodon
Big black bunny cuddled up against little Dutch bunny on a Persian rug.
December 24, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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@kirakira meets the bunnies.
Dark haired woman in Hello Kitty shirt takes a picture of bunnies eating veggies Woman petting a Dutch bunny
December 21, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Willow learned how to climb the stairs today.

Like our other bunnies, down is far more daunting than up, so she's only learned up so far.

So today, when she learned that she could go up, we had to carry her back down in her litter box, then she'd immediately […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
Large black bunny carefully navigating staircase Large black bunny nearing the top of the stairs. A small Dutch bunny peers down, as if offering her encouragement Close up as the large black bunny nears the top of the stairs.
December 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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@whitequark The energy use on the other hand. That's quite the increase.

It's a massive increase in data center energy use; it was flat for a long time because increased efficiency was keeping pace with expansion, but suddenly there's a huge growth of this much […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
Graph showing US data center energy use between 2010 and 2024, and projections into the future. It shows mostly flat energy use under 100 TWh (maybe 75 TWh? A bit hard to tell as some of the scale is cut off) from 2010 to 2017. Then a steep climb from 2020 to 2024 at ~175 TWh (there's a discontinuity between 2017 and 2020 due to missing sources for that time range), and continuing steep climb estimated to as much as 400 TWh by 2030.
December 9, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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@shauna
December 8, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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@ai6yr Looks like Tesla on Tesla violence to me.
Dark colored car lifting off as it crashes into a silver car. Both look like Teslas.
December 3, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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@bagder Lol, you haven't assigned copyright over to them, the University of Virginia, or Mbed TLS.

I can see a way of doing something like this with some amount of care and configuration, running a few basic linters, coverage checks, and the like to do some […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
A The header block does not contain one or more of the following: '(C)" or ‘Copyright’, the copyright owner "TIOBE' or ‘University of Virginia’ or “The Mbed TLS Contributors’. Rule: 5.1.1.b Level: 8 Category-Conceptual Models Synopsis: Each source file shal start with a file header, for which the "fle name, “description” and "history information" and copyright notice are to be filed in. Ruleset: C Coding Standard Tool: TICSc 151388, TICSpp 152745
October 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Cookie monster
Cute Dutch bunny munching on a cookie
October 26, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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@futurebird How about bnuuy?
Whiskery brown Dutch bunny face.
October 14, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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@ai6yr @t3rminus I was trying to look for this in a different way, by seeing if I could that Season's in a phonebook.

Turned out to be much harder than I was expecting. Finding digitized phonebooks from that era is spotty. And of course LA was too big to have […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
Sambo’s Restaurants Inc Calabasas 4929LasVirgenesRd Calb .......880-5626 Canoga Park 22200 ShermnWy CPk ........348-5255 Granada Hills 17921Chatswrth GHIs........368-1217 North Hollywood 12520 ShermnWy NH .....764-7313 Northridge 8726Tampa NOF ..evevessss....886-3545 Sepulveda 15651Nordhf Sep «...evevses...893-3810 Studio City 12215VenturaBl StudoCty......766-8748 Tarzana 18461Ventura Tarz ..............881-7272 Construction Site 4929LasVirgenesRd Calb .880-5757
October 5, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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Face!
A Dutch bunny gets pettins on the couch, his face and whiskers picking up a bluish glow from the left of the frame.
October 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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@darkuncle @ai6yr "There's no war in Ba Sing Se."
September 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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The fanciest cock I saw today.
An iridescent peacock tilts his head suggestively.
September 14, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Took a walk to clear my head, and had a chance to see Reginald Q Tortoise.
A grassy fenced in area in front of a house. There is a sign on the fence, and a tortoise behind it. Close up of the sign, hand painted to read Reginald Q Tortoise, with a painting of a tortoise and some grass and flowers Close up of Reginald Q Tortoise himself, with dry lizard like skin and big chunky scales on his legs
September 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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[Pet loss]

My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

#rabbit #bunny
September 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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@myrrlyn.net Ask and you shall receive, poorly.
James Earl Jones poorly photo manipulated with his hand on a big red button containing the ChatGPT logo
September 4, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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Always fun to watch the ADS-B and listen to the ATC of what is temporarily the busiest airport in the world.
Map showing ADS-B data of dozens of aircraft in line for arrival at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. It is so crowded they look like they are overlapping on the map Other planes are departing over the lake, or flying above the arriving aircraft. Insets show video feeds from the ground.
July 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Whenever I have this debate about what to call it I think of this clip.

Credit: from Tuca and Bertie, Season 1 Episode 1, created by Lisa Hanawalt, voiced by Tiffany Haddish and Ali Wong.
June 22, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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One of these years we're going to have the spoons to have more people over for a Solstice feast, but this time just did a very simple one with the two of us.

Bruschetta (or is it crostini? or am I being too fancy and should just call it toast?) with a fresh cow […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
Two of each of: a plate of toast with cheese, mushrooms, and vegetables, a bowl of colorful red white and green insalata caprese, and a foamy beer in a glass.
June 22, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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One of the things I love about the butterfly is that if you Spoonerize the name, you call them a flutterby, which is just as apt a description as their actual name

#butterfly #tigerswallowtail #flutterby
A tiger swallowtail, a yellow butterfly with spots of orange and blue between black stripes, perching on a clover blossom among verdant greenery.
June 22, 2025 at 3:10 AM