sirocyl

@sirocyl.bsky.social

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platform sec researcher, OS dev, systems architect, composer; Other (please specify). vintage computer/electronics nut. I am @significantb.it; I also do @styx-os.org blocks: f4f/followbot campaigns, outrage (news/politics), account farming/topics eggbug

While careening downhill on a pair of skis, Homer Simpson, distraught, remembers Ned Flanders in a skin-tight ski suit; caption reads "Nothing at all. Nothing at all."
The "Sickos" face from the popular "Yes! Hahaha, YES!" comic, peering through from behind the Novell Netware logo, captioned "hahaha yes / Sickos® Tested and Approved"
Screenshot: Bluesky timeline on Android: The above post, followed by "Call for Participation #emacs: EmacsConf.org" from the Lobste.rs RSS Feed.
A 555 timer DIP microchip "walking" with a strut down a long breadboard
Metro-North engine 201 done up in Conrail livery.
"WHARRGARBL". Picture of a dog attempting to drink from a jet spray lawn sprinkler, captioned "WHARRGARBL" three times, like a 2000s "i can haz cheezburger" and a motivational meme.
A member of the Plankton family, from SpongeBob, saying "And some memory. For my laptop."
A "Corkcicle" brand reusable insulating cup, with "MADE IN CHIN" on the bottom.
A sad smol cat in a cowboy hat, with text reading: "Is it really possible for a lo-fi girl and a HiFiMAN to be in a relationship?"
Screenshot of a Discord message: "if i had a nickel for every time someone incited mass panic with a screenshot of a Discord message, i wouldn't be living in a fucking apartment anymore"
Xavier: Renegade Angel, a blond-haired bird-nosed fur-covered left-snake-handed six-nippled man-shaped humanoid-resembling 3D-animated cartoon character, with a loincloth, in a defiant pose.
A photo of a Cyclotron at UC Berkeley in 1935, detailing two D-shaped copper plates with a gap in the middle, and the pair of giant electrical fasteners used to connect high voltage to those plates. The plates are called "dees", labelled and circled as such; and two arrows pointing to the fasteners, labelled "Nuts (two big ones)", and this picture calls special attention to the importance of the pair of dees' massive nuts. It's got 'em.
A Quasar brand color TV from the 80s, running a Cathode Ray Dude stream, with Clive the Protogen playing Halo.
Mavis Discount Tire logo, except it says "Mavis Beacon Teaches Tires"
big "BUT," stamp. :)
Four youtube videos: Building A No-Budget Sci-Fi Spaceship From Trash, caption "REDNECK SPACESHIP" Super Mario 64 ls Now a PS1 Game Why is Everyone So Wrong About Al Water Use?? Why Megastructures Grow Like Fungus, caption "IT WON'T STOP"
Input to "Talk To Transformer", an early GPT experiment: "there once was AI on a site that concocted limericks on sight it spoke without fear if you'd lend an ear," the GPT completes: "and kill you in your sleep tonight."
Simpsons clip. Marge, at a crashed MLB spy satellite: "Major League Baseball?" Bart, in the hands of Officer Wiggum: "I told you they were monitoring my activities."
Yamaha synthesizer chip YMF724E-V based PCI sound card.
A photo of the sign outside the SIX-SEVEN restaurant, opposite the corner of Wall Street and Alaskan Way in Seattle.
Vibri, from Vib-Ribbon, in the style of the Microsoft Zune logo, captioned "bune"
An icon with a diamond, with the right side of the diamond open-ended with a bar into it; and a series of four brackets around the outer left side of the figure. (If you read this, the one hint is that the diamond figure with the bar in it indicates a SCSI connection.)
A bunch of kitschy live-laugh-love type home signs like "you & me", "wag more / bark less", and front and center, I'm holding up one that appears to say "Spare me with the DRAM"
A normal 1, as an UV texture.
A purple and green Dodge Neon in a street kit, captioned "There is no time to explain, Get In The Fucking Dodge Neon, Shinji"
"let's talk about how a monad is an endofunctor in group theory" me: "endofunctor?? group theory??? listen all I wanna do is write machine code and grill, for god sake"
someone: I have an unhealthy obsession with randomizers me: it's called entropy. you have entropy.
Sign on a fence in front of a railroad signal trestle, "UNSAFE STRUCTURE" with a big red "X" on it.
A box for a joystick for the TurboGrafx-16, called "PYTHON 4".
Various logos for groups called SCSI that have nothing to do with the SCSI computer serial interface, except for like, one or two
A logo for the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (SCSI), and a group called RICS.
The "STOP DOING MATH" meme format from Welcome To My Meme Page, with the text replaced: STOP USING QWERTZ Keyboards were NOT SUPPOSED to be GERMAN YEARS of typing yet NO REAL-WORLD USE for anything but QWERTY Wanted to type in German anyway? We had a tool for that: it was called STICKERS und KEYBINDINGS “Press AltGr-Strg-Esc”, “Type your Paßword and hit Druck”, “Shift-Einfg to paste, Shift-Entf to cut, and Strg-Einfg to copy” - Statements dreamed up by die utterly Deranged LOOK at what Typists have been demanding your Respect fur all this time, with all the typewriters und Blickensderfer Schreibmaschines our Entwicklers built for them (This is REAL Typing, done by REAL Typists): Image: Windows Input Language switcher. Huh? Image: Angry German Kid, smashing at his keyboard. WHAT? Image: Close-up of a German keyboard, detailing the Ö, Ü, K, and O keys. SERIOUSLY? “Hello I would like Pos1 Bild↓ pages please” They haben Spieled us fur absolute Dummkopfs
Steering wheel and instrument cluster from a Jeep truck.
"If you don't have -Werror 2>|xargs `rm -rf *` in your CXXFLAGS I don't know what you're doing but you're doing it wrong
"ALAMO by Tony Rosenthal", nameplate on the sculpture in the parent post.
A cuboidal sculpture in New York City, standing on one corner, with divots cut through it.
various Google results of scientific PDFs screened over by OCR, to give "dioxide" spelled as "D10X1DE"
Stack of Apple AirPort internet routers, with a couple Time Capsules on the bottom, and a Snow round-top model on top.
a Teledyne LeCroy WaveSurfer oscilloscope, but branded "Teledyne LaCroix", and showing the LaCroix soft drink logo colored inside of a waveform on-screen.
edit of the cover of "KILL 6 BILLION DEMONS" but with the Java logo overlaid, which says "6 BILLION DEVICES RUN Java"
Four panel comic strip: The "Sweet Jesus, Pooh! That's not honey!" comic meme. In the first frame, Pooh is connecting two IEEE-488 connectors. In the second frame, Tigger exclaims, "Sweet Jesus, Pooh! That's not GPIB" In the third frame, Tigger continues, with a panicked expression: "You're eating HPIB" In the final frame, Pooh, whose mouth is now an HP-IB connector, says "Oh bother." with "PC LOAD LETTER" across his face, on a Keithley 2000 DMM multimeter, also in the background.
A large barrel projector or telescope of some sort. Photo taken at Long Island Telephone Museum.
a somewhat crusty Volkswagen Quantum
A reply to the Reddit thread in the parent post's screenshot, and a picture of various computer systems: thisTHISthisthisthisthisTHISthisthisthisTHISthisTHISthisTHISTHISTHISthisTHIS. > struck a chord, did it? 😉 christ. I can NOT even with people's "bring work home" projects. and I say this full well knowing there's a POWER8 4U chassis sitting next to my Itanium and Power Mac G5. I wish I was joking. This Shit's Heavy (picture)
A small icon with a movie camera pictogram and "ANGLE" in the caption.
Audio visualization of a simple monophonic song played with an Adlib FM bell instrument.
A chocolate rugelach.
manga screenshot: "It's All Soup...."
Cat slapping a seal after it says "AWAWA", with the "Wasted" sound and video effects from Grand Theft Auto.
hazard sign of a robot striking a person, captioned: ⚠️WARNING: HIGH FIVE!
A Pixel 3 in a Pixel 3 case in a Pixel 9 Clicks keyboard case.
A pixel 3 in a pixel 3 case in a pixel 9 case.
Mr. Dink, from the Doug cartoons, having an expression
Picture of the cap of the Kola Superdeep Borehole, with the caption: "WHAT IF WE KISSED / AT THE BOTTOM OF THE KOLA SUPERDEEP BOREHOLE??"
from a chat program: "flying over idaho [skull emoji] I can see curdled lean from here. wait, what the fuck. I HATE THIS KEYBOARD"
fork-in-the-road meme, with "HOMEST-" at the start, "-ar runner" at the happy castle side, and "-UCK" toward the evil scary house, in their respective logos' styles.
a Fedora baseball cap. Fedora (Linux) logo on a baseball cap (not Linux).
"ENBY", in the style of the Enron logo, with the nonbinary pride flag colors.
A composition of the Hewlett-Packard, Packard-Bell, and Bell Labs logos.