Posts by jonty@chaos.social
(DIR) Post #AzeuQwxeqlDB5JgfFw by jonty@chaos.social
2025-10-27T19:47:52Z
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Nothing beats the rush of realising your PGP key will expire in a matter of hours and racing against the clock to remember exactly how you sacrifice a goat to extend it's lifetime
(DIR) Post #AzfZl6gsTy3XAjZJZ2 by jonty@chaos.social
2025-10-28T13:37:05Z
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I always forget about my complete archive of UK government source code until I receive panicked emails asking me to delete things from it.This time it was password hashes. A *lot* of password hashes.
(DIR) Post #B0HXUVT0RBPIctOEBk by jonty@chaos.social
2025-11-15T21:18:15Z
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"Those puzzle games won't teach you anything" said my parents.30 years later, rewiring my boiler:
(DIR) Post #B0U0NOaVU9gr3jEq80 by jonty@chaos.social
2025-11-21T18:04:18Z
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Discovered our industrial receipt printer can produce output of unlimited length, really fast.So here's a two story high version of timecube.
(DIR) Post #B0eYmL5kFX2NZLOOVk by jonty@chaos.social
2025-11-25T19:52:43Z
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While walking down the street a dead drone dropped out of the sky and almost hit me.Finally, it feels like living in the future.
(DIR) Post #B0gU2C1rbJTqdmElTE by jonty@chaos.social
2025-11-13T16:35:50Z
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@benjojo Get back to me when you've got 65534 files in there and have been forced have a one-in-one-out policy
(DIR) Post #B0sD5q2NwLTAGl9Wim by jonty@chaos.social
2025-12-03T12:03:38Z
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Idiots: "The arts have no purpose"Me:
(DIR) Post #B0sFdbSSqt1so3ZxoW by jonty@chaos.social
2025-12-03T13:34:26Z
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Mastodon, the social network for people who love being explained at
(DIR) Post #B1BtNnycEEADAVsUHg by jonty@chaos.social
2025-12-12T22:04:39Z
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Sometimes you read about old technology, get to the end of the sentence, and have to read it again because it sounds so completely ludicrous you can't quite believe it actually worked.Anyway Eidophor projectors are what they used for Apollo Mission Control.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidophor
(DIR) Post #B1a93CDHS3jJmfj16W by jonty@chaos.social
2025-12-24T17:59:21Z
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Time between walking through my relatives door and fixing a tech issue that has been "driving them mad": 8 minutes.The TV was in demo mode. It has been in demo mode for several months.
(DIR) Post #B1a93K7C4ZcAI6wGjA by jonty@chaos.social
2025-12-24T18:02:44Z
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"Now I can see the answers on the quiz shows!"It has been scrolling a list of features across the bottom of the screen, between settings being constantly changed to show off various features.And they were watching television like this. I would have been driven to violence.
(DIR) Post #B1a93Skpx44x5NY2d6 by jonty@chaos.social
2025-12-24T18:04:35Z
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On the upside, motion smoothing wasn't turned on
(DIR) Post #B1qpVKsc7xr9NLWAm8 by jonty@chaos.social
2026-01-01T13:04:50Z
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Things we should make illegal in 2026: - Websites that default to the sign up flow instead of the login flow - Websites with an app that automatically opens when you click on them, but the app has less information than the website - Websites with so many pop-over notifications and discount dialogs it feels like 1999 - Honestly just websites are we sure this is still a good idea
(DIR) Post #B22jTBMCyKBIUGmky0 by jonty@chaos.social
2026-01-06T20:28:48Z
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Oh you think your Home Assistant install is cursed?A friend of mine has a broken fridge thermostat. For the last year it has been regulated by Home Assistant using a zigbee temperature sensor, turning the entire fridge off and on with a smart plug. He likes this.
(DIR) Post #B33R3L4W6zpNvNbq7M by jonty@chaos.social
2026-02-06T15:16:07Z
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Did I really need this 10,000mah battery shaped like a pager which can also *actually page other pager batteries*? No.Do I have another pager battery to actually page? Also no.
(DIR) Post #B36uDUwFlLcdZAov6u by jonty@chaos.social
2026-02-08T10:46:28Z
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This is an act of cultural vandalism: https://zombo.comRIP zombocom, 1999-2026. You could do anything at zombocom.Anything at all.
(DIR) Post #B36uDdEGwEmzHNJQJ6 by jonty@chaos.social
2026-02-08T10:46:50Z
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...fortunately I preserved the original zombo.com flash on https://welcometozombo.com, and will do so for as long as I live
(DIR) Post #B3BnhdZQVSGL8VMpqS by jonty@chaos.social
2026-02-10T20:16:18Z
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Everyone going "Just move to IRC!!!" clearly has no understanding of *why* other things have been more popular than IRC for the last ~12 years, and why this won't happen.Before you reply with "lol IRC is great you don't get it": I say this as a die-hard IRC user who worked for an IRC client company and also ran a large organisation on IRC for the last decade (until we finally gave up and moved to Mattermost this year).
(DIR) Post #B3BnhfH4AglSQ8nCVM by jonty@chaos.social
2026-02-10T20:18:19Z
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That said, I wish it was true. I want IRC to win.But without people actually wanting the protocol to move forward, servers changing, and new clients being written to handle it, it ain't gonna happen.
(DIR) Post #B3BnhgEyZwgdPwp2sy by jonty@chaos.social
2026-02-10T20:23:48Z
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And to be clear, it's not like people haven't tried. They really, really, really have.But have you ever tried convincing people to modify a protocol that is mostly unchanged since 1993, across a massive set of servers that are largely derived from the same codebase but warped in interesting ways, and run entirely by volunteers who go to war with each other every decade.