Chris J. Karr

@cjkarr.bsky.social

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I wear a lot of hats: software developer, entrepreneur, weird fiction publisher, writer, non-profit founder, election worker, local handyman, open-source creator, and Macross & X-Men fan. Latest updates can be found at notesfromthevoid.cc.

GitHub header obscuring actual header with items I need to click.
CircleCI user interface broken on a 14" laptop screen.
Tropospheric ducting connecting our nodes in NE New Mexico (we are the 4 cluster) to nodes in Colorado Springs and Denver.
Sabin executes the suplex on the Ghost Train.
Puma Lane is our new repeater.
Elevation chart to the top of Sierra Grande.
Path taken to get on top of the highest peak east of the Rockies.
The MeshCore repeater looks TINY next to all the commercial antennas.
Second Street looking towards Raton Pass.
Located a Meshtastic node north of La Junta.
Missouri whirring by from an Amtrak observation car.
All six Masterpiece bots stored in a larger collector's box.
AQI 701!
Hazardous air quality in Chicago today.
Respirator purchased expecting tear gas and other chemical weapons at ICE's facility in Broadview.
231 Air Quality Index
189 Air Quality Index in Chicago today.
X-Men #4 cover by Jim Lee.
MeshCore screenshot.
Yup - cache is saving lots of repeated computations. UNDER the assumption that the text nodes don't change often / at all.
Debugging output as try to make some code go FAST.
Feishin showing concert recordings from Sturgill Simpson's 2024 "Why Not?" tour.
How to identify Brightbot traffic.
Partial list of known AI bot crawlers.
The facade of the Holiday Club has been stripped away.
Distant message path in MeshCore.
"Moving from Theory to Implementation: Challenges Encountered While Implementing a Mobile Ad-Hoc Network" paper for EECS 495 in 2008.
"Quiet Rumblings in the GIS Industry" short paper for WWS 457.
Number Two from "The Prisoner".
Late night skyscrapers in Chicago.
Chicago being attacked in "Transformers: Dark of the Moon".
The cover of "C4.5: Programs for Machine Learning" by J. Ross Quinlan (1993), with some notes that I don't think are mine. This has been lent out a few times.
Amazon EC2 taking its time creating a server image backup.
Current J105 fleet progress in the 2026 Race to Mackinac.
Main AS HQ dashboard for the new repeater I set yup yesterday.
$700 item is ACTUALLY $755 when you check out. WTF?
Nightcrawler and the ladies.
Danielle Moonstar of the New Mutants.
Somehow, Xcode forgets what an NSString is.
ISS on MeshCore.
The antenna weighs as much as the rest of the unit.
The cuts show how ill-considered the overall Xbox strategy betrayed the studio as it made single-player games for its longstanding fans. As noted, Xbox Game Pass was supposed to hit about 77 million subscribers by now, but the number stands at 30 million and it’s falling. One former studio head said that it was confusing in terms of goals that Microsoft wanted. Was it subscribers for Xbox Game Pass? High engagement time on Game Pass? Revenues and profits from standalone copies sold? Technology demos for the platform? id Software is a part of Bethesda, whose parent firm, ZeniMax, was bought by Microsoft in 2021 for $7.5 billion. Doom: The Dark Ages got a Metacritic aggregate review score of 83 out of 100 — not bad. The problem with it was that it was played by millions of fans, but many played it for free on Game Pass. Doom was like a counter to other PlayStation games like God of War or The Last of Us. But Doom: The Dark Ages standalone game sales, which would have generated more revenues and profits, were weak. That made it a target. If id Software knew that the goal was revenues and profits, it might have opted for live service or multiplayer modes instead.
Uncanny X-Men #335
Some of my Jellyfin TV collection.
In addition to viewers spending more time on other platforms, Netflix also has to contend with the way the streaming wars have fundamentally altered people’s relationships with episodic television. When the platform first launched, appointment watching was still a thing and people made an effort to keep up with programs from week to week. But Netflix’s binge model trained audiences to cluster around shows for brief windows before moving on to the Next Big Thing that folks are yapping about on social media. The binge model made it difficult for Netflix’s shows to maintain long-term engagement or generate the word-of-mouth buzz that turns people on the fence into paying customers. And while the company has had some success releasing projects on a weekly basis, it’s a bit too late in the game for that strategy to solve its fall-off problem.
Young grass is coming in very well. There are a couple bare spots, but those are treatable once this pass gets established.
Dr. Carl Hill from "Reanimator".
Don't enter a comic convention trivia contest, Qwen.
All part of upgrading older servers. With any luck, I'll be able to consolidate some of these!
Docking at The Magrathea.
"To end the endless copying, Anthropic has joined OpenAI in urging the US to view distillation attacks as a form of intellectual property theft. At a recent Senate hearing, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) agreed legal intervention is needed, arguing that the US needs “to carefully craft export control policy that is clear and concise” to stop China from using such attacks to “gain a technological edge,” the Post reported."
Old limp sad cable.
Sprouts are sprouting. The tricky bit is keeping the alive long enough to set in some decent roots.
The Reflecting Pool
Intermission!
Alamo preshow for "Lawrence of Arabia".
White House tweeting out that one cannot be a communist and a patriot at the same time.
Z-Wave smart plug hooked up to my washer.
I used a lot of electricity between 1 and 2pm.