Thomas Karpiniec

@octet-stream.net

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Tasmanian dev often writing networking-related Rust. Mostly opinions about computers. AKA thombles and VK7XT. https://octet-stream.net/ https://site-validator.fly.dev/ https://social.octet-stream.net/@thomask

Screenshot of a terminal program. It shows an AI language tutor speaking in a mixture of english and polish, and logs about taking recordings and processing it via various local models including Qwen, Whisper, and PhoneticXeus. Some of the conversation: Tutor [en]: I think you said Tutor [pl]: Czy to jest blisko Śląska? Tutor [en]: That means "Is it close to Silesia?" Tutor [pl]: Tak, Tatry są niedaleko Śląska. Można pojechać samochodem. Can you explain the grammar of blisko Śląska. Tutor [en]: Sure. Tutor [pl]: blisko Tutor [en]: means "close" and is followed by the genitive case. Tutor [pl]: Śląsk Tutor [en]: in genitive becomes Tutor [pl]: Śląska. Tutor [en]: So Tutor [pl]: blisko Śląska Tutor [en]: means "close to Silesia." Similarly: Tutor [pl]: blisko Warszawy, blisko Krakowa.
Meme template, woman grimacing on left, looking interested on right. Left side has a screenshot of the windows 95 full-height busy hourglass mouse cursor. Right side has the variant of that cursor where the pointer arrow is still there and the animated hourglass is smaller and in the corner, indicating that work is proceeding in the background but you can still click on things.
Screenshot of billing summary on the Microsoft 365 admin center - charges $223, credits $-5,833, tax $-561
Screenshot of network monitor in btop showing incoming traffic over the last few minutes ranging from almost nothing up to 564 Mbps, with sharp peaks
screenshot of network stats from btop. Total download is 5.90 TiB and upload is 58.8 GiB
Screenshot of the blog post on Standard Search results list
(Systems that do not meet the ACID criteria are sometimes called BASE, which stands for Basically Available, Soft state, and Eventual consistency. This is even more vague than the definition of ACID. It seems that the only sensible definition of BASE is "not ACID"; i.e., it can mean almost anything you want.)
Jealous girlfriend meme. Girl at back: posting. Girl at front: scrolling “for you”
Screenshot of Windows 11 system tray with icons for lots of running chat apps: Zulip, Discord, mIRC, Signal, Element (Matrix), Teams
Screenshot of search results from the author's standard.site search engine, where several of the results have a Bluesky link that takes you to the post where they shared it
Spotted ladybird that has been scooped up on a piece of butcher’s paper
epic handshake meme. left arm: infosec. right arm: musical theatre. handshake: we're gonna need a key change
Screenshot of Windows Chat with Windows 95-era chrome. Window divided into two text areas. Left side says "Oh, pretty well... Thanks!" Right side says "So how are things going at your end of the network?"
Screenshot of bmon running in a terminal showing graphs of RX and TX bytes/second for eth0. The RX graph is showing mostly around 2 MiB/s with a couple of spikes in the middle up to 5.32 MiB/s.
Screenshot of HTML page source with a snippet of inline javascript highlighted. The highlighted line says "let time = Math.floor(Math.random() * 90);" and in the next line it is injected into the page as "${time} min read".
Screenshot of Wikipedia article text: Notes to lyrics a. DO NOT CHANGE THIS! “bob tail” (two words, no caps) is correct; see (link to PDF)
Screenshot of a crash caught in the Xcode debugger, showing Rust source code. The highlighted line of code is: unsafe { *buf.as_mut_ptr().add(i) = 0; } And the error message is: "Thread 1: Heap buffer overflow by 1 bytes".
Screenshot of a terminal with some output text selected. Specifically: # cat power-watchdog.log ... 2025-12-26 03:00:21 Internet failed, restarting router 2025-12-26 03:00:22 Power off succeeded 2025-12-26 03:00:27 Power on succeeded
Screenshot of a forum comment. "The way to write a non-NULL pointer argument in C is" int t(int a[static 1]) { return *a; }
A Raspberry Pi in a red/white case is powered on, resting on a dark surface next to a power board. In the closest plug of the power board there is a black wallwart plugged in via a squat square-ish white box, a controllable relay.
hackerman meme
Screenshot of Xcode showing a debugger stack trace on the left and some Objective C code on the right. One line is highlighted in red, ret[i] = 0; which has the debugger annotation "Thread 1: Heap buffer overflow by 1 bytes". It is showing that it's detected this assignment outside the range of the heap allocation returned by an earlier malloc().
Hand holding a book at a library: Blockchain for babies by Chris Ferrie and Marco Tomamichel
Screenshot of Spotify notification on iOS: new album coming soon. Johann Sebastian Bach started the countdown on Spotify.
Screenshot of copilot output: Your DNAT rules currently only match destination ports >= 40000 and >=49152. Since 41734 < 40000, those rules don't match, so the packets aren't rewritten to 192.168.10.144
A screenshot of a graph showing a rise overnight from around 850 to 2844 ppm carbon dioxide
Cropped screenshot of the bottom of a VS Code session with the terminal tab selected. The user has run the command "top" and the terminal is showing the expected text layout of "top" except that some text encoding error has occurred and all of the letters and numbers in top's output have been replaced by what looks like mostly Chinese characters
Screenshot of an update dialog for NetNewsWire showing the new features in 6.10. The top dot point has been highlighted and it says "Added support for Markdown in RSS via the source:markdown element. When present, the Markdown is rendered as HTML"
A young sheep lying in a field of grass
A computer game on a screen with a big button in a Perspex case. It’s in a public display area with a projector mirroring the screen overhead. The screen has a mock Program Manager from Windows 3.1 with an icon to start the game. Everything is in red and yellow colours.
Screenshot of an app running on an iPhone. Most of the screen is a previously captured photo of an open book, the first page of Mały Książę, a Polish translation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's "Little Prince". All of the text on the page has thin red rectangles around each line showing the bounding boxes where text has been recognised. Around the photo are some UI elements: "Retake Photo", "View Text", "Accurate", "Language Correction", and a language selection dropdown.
Edit of https://xkcd.com/303/ (Compiling) The #1 programmer excuse for legitimately slacking off: "My conversation's compacting!" -- (voice from inside office) "Hey! Get back to work!" (programmers having a sword fight on office chairs) "Compacting!" (from office) "Oh. Carry on."
epic handshake meme: left arm "gemini protocol", right arm "LLMs", handshaek "what if the internet was unstyled text without inline images"
ancient aliens meme "uber but for kubernetes. ubernetes."
a bar chart titled "Em Dashes". The X axis has the years 2014 through to 2025 and the Y axis shows yearly em dash usage ranging from about 14 to 48.
enlarged screenshot of the "bar chart" emoji, at least as envisioned by Microsoft
Outdoor photo of Tasmanian bush featuring a small waterfall with one flow from the left and another on the right, joining in the middle to create a horseshoe shape. Water flows over mossy rocks and the scene is framed by green fern fronds.