90s Script Kiddie
Drop-out, network admin, automation dev, co-founder Slo-Jam studios,
lover of: games, text, maps&mods, urbex, cats, kind souls. :heart_nb:
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(HTM) 8/28/2026 7:29:11 AM
#3goodthings
It's Friday!
Our escape to a rented cabin is coming up soon!
Coffee will be brewed in 5-10 minutes and I'm gonna read my book while
I drink it and enjoy the cool morning air
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(HTM) 8/27/2026 3:24:54 PM
I got some data nice and massaged today. I still have an hour left of
my day but I'm done. I'm stopping and I'm gonna read some of Alton
Brown's book, then we are gonna walk to the bakery and get nice bread
so's we can have it when we host A's cousins for dinner tomorrow. I
wish everyone a nice relaxing coast into the weekend.
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(HTM) 8/27/2026 1:31:04 AM
Sarah Mancuso / Esselfortium really rocks a synth.
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(HTM) 8/26/2026 6:42:24 PM
If you play Minecraft and you hate the f***ing launcher, get PollyMC.
Faster. Better. No BS.
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(HTM) 8/26/2026 6:11:01 PM
Had to listen to a lot of AI nonsense today. I was the only one in the
chat to not have drunk the kool-aid, so I just shut up. The writing's
starting to be on the wall for me. I've been taking notes on some of
the tech stuff I should study and get skilled up on, and I've been
looking at the job postings I get in my email with a new eye. I might
start looking to jump ship.
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(HTM) 8/26/2026 5:45:55 PM
Figured out I was barking up the wrong tree trying to replace my old
iPod's hard drive with a flash drive. Also, the hard drive started
working again, no idea why, so I bought 70$ worth of hardware for
nuthin' - oh well, having spare parts around isn't so bad.
Learning that I wasn't as clever as I thought I was was pretty
interesting though, because I got to read this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ipod/comments/17mk3dd/i_found_the_real_cause_of_a_flash_modded_ipod/
And, when I'm ready to spend another 70$ / when the hard drive really
does die, I now know exactly what I need to get to *actually* upgrade
to flash memory.
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(HTM) 8/26/2026 5:43:53 PM
Tim Curry died too. 😢
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(HTM) 8/25/2026 3:03:57 PM
As if things weren't bad enough, Dolly Parton died! 😣
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(HTM) 8/24/2026 11:08:35 PM
My uncle died. We weren't very close, but back when I was applying to
high schools, he wrote a letter trying to get the school I wanted to
go to, that rejected me, to reverse their decision. He was a
well-regarded educator, and he tried to leverage his clout on my
behalf. I only found out that this happened years later. He was a
hardworking activist and organizer. He made a difference in his
community, especially to the youth. He was a devoted husband and a
stern but loving father to my cousin. He always treated me like he
held me in high regard, though honestly he treated most everyone that
way. I will remember him as a good man.
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(HTM) 8/24/2026 1:20:26 PM
ok, ok, I've almost got it. I'm so close. I have no idea why but
suddenly the dockhand container is being launched both by the wrapper
systemd service I created for it and docker itself, so we tell docker
not to start it itself anymore, that *should* do it! Maybe it was
always doing this and it somehow race condition/RNGd itself into
working most of the time. Anyway, this should fix it. Here I go, makin
ISOs again.
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(HTM) 8/24/2026 10:07:17 AM
Oh hell yeah, updating live-build itself solved my problem! For some
reason the kernel image and headers I was using stopped resolving, but
I went down one kernel version and everything still works thank
goodness. I was afraid I would be fighting this thing the rest of the
week!
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(HTM) 8/22/2026 1:07:41 AM
I put password guesses into my boss' old blackberry until it wiped
itself. I can't get any of the blackberry software to talk to it,
although I did manage to get drivers installed for it and its serial
ports appearing. Oh well! Guess it'll go into the 'ol electronics
recycling box. It's a neat little thing to play with for 2 minutes but
I'm not gonna put anymore effort into it.
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(HTM) 8/21/2026 3:03:41 PM
Adjust a config, build a new iso, dd the iso to usb, boot the target
machine from the usb, go through the installer, see if the problem's
fixed. It's not? Repeat as necessary.
This task is taking a long time. I'm really close though! (I hope)
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(HTM) 8/21/2026 12:57:32 AM
Ok, I found an old industrial flash card that speaks the same UDMA as
the iPod (32gb! hopefully the ipod's okay with that) and I bought a
1.8" IDE to CF adapter off amazon. Spent about 70$ total - to
resurrect a VERY obsolete music player. If everything goes well maybe
I'll even buy a new battery for it. Not sure what I'll do after that.
Use it to test headphones and speakers I guess! :D
The battery still holds a charge, though I don't know for how long
since I haven't really been using it. It should last longer on a
charge with solid state innards. It'll be interesting to test.
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(HTM) 8/21/2026 12:09:36 AM
Ongoing projects:
- Making the Palm Tungsten integrated enough into my infra that it can
be an everyday carry. It checks my email, syncs with my Google
calendar, and I can manage it through Palm desktop running on a
Windows 7 VM on my server. I just need to write some web scraping
software for some of my more commonly consulted information sources.
The browser isn't exactly modern web friendly.
- My firewire iPod drive died so I disassembled it tonight (to see if
I could without wrecking it... success!) and I'm rolling myself a J to
celebrate the successful unshelling and researching if replacing the
drive with a compactflash card is the right move.
- (for work) Creating a custom debian installer for use on these
video-less APU boxes that'll turn them into wifi environment sensors.
The software has to self-configure and start talking to our cloud
infra, and since they don't have video you need to be able to do the
install over the serial port. Baseline functionality was completed
today!
- Found that blackberry in my junk drawer. It belonged to a former
boss who gave it to me (he also gave me a Treo! but I'm gonna dispose
of it because somehow the screen got cracked and the rubber coating
turned to sticky glue... did the companies that coated their stuff
with that crap know that was gonna happen? As a retro electronics
enthusiast that stuff is the bane of my existence) anyway it's
password locked but I'm gonna see if I can get into it, maybe make it
run some interesting software
You might also see the little video capture box and the condensor mic.
That's for when I clean up the bench enough to livestream working on
one of these projects or one of the many other ones that don't have
bits and pieces in this photo. It'll probably be shouting into the
void like most of my posting here but whatever. This stuff makes me
happy, and so does, every now and then, writing or talking about it,
whether anyone's listening or not. 😎
[Image: A cluttered workbench with wires, tools, and old electronics
like a disassembled 10gb iPod, a Palm Tungsten TX, and a Blackberry]
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(HTM) 8/20/2026 11:09:20 AM
I'm almost done this live-boot project - or anyway getting it to the
point where it can reproduce the system I built by hand.
Once that's done, we're back to actually extending its feature set.
It's a bit limiting working with only 16gb of space but we can
probably do better than that if these things go to production as
actual appliances.
It's been fun learning how this tool works and using it to produce
something that actually does stuff. I feel like I have a new power now
- building customized linux distributions!
Also it's made me think about how I can reproduce my server if it
dies. My first plan was just compress the nearly terabyte-sized root
filesystem and drop it onto an external drive, maybe ultimately an
offsite backup, but I feel there's got to be a better way...
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(HTM) 8/19/2026 4:15:39 PM
Been gettin' into Orla Gartland lately.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK4IOfmLlIo
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(HTM) 8/18/2026 11:31:10 PM
Somebody managed to get into our car and went through the glove box
and all the other storage. We don't keep anything valuable in the car
so nothing was taken. Still doesn't feel good though. 😑
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(HTM) 8/18/2026 11:56:13 AM
Fixing live-boot issues! Kinda fun!
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(HTM) 8/17/2026 1:58:50 PM
Ok, got the driver WORKING in the VM I'm installing on, but it doesn't
work on first boot, so, working on that. Hopefully once I've got this
all clean it'll work the same on real hardware...
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(HTM) 8/17/2026 1:12:03 PM
I *think* I have my custom debian installer doing everything it needs
to now. If it works, it'll just need a bit more tweaking to install on
headless machines and my assignment'll be fulfilled, the biggest,
dumbest part of it anyway.
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(HTM) 8/17/2026 12:45:18 PM
Drivers are such a pain in the ass in Linux. It either works perfectly
out of the box or it's a nightmare, no in-between.
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(HTM) 8/16/2026 12:34:39 AM
@undefined_variable bent and rekt
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(HTM) 8/16/2026 12:23:26 AM
I guess it was nice but all-day D&D is so draining, and it's not kind
on my guts.
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(HTM) 8/15/2026 6:11:42 PM
Long day that's still not over, tired, muscle ache in my side, butt
hurts from hard chair... I wanna go home 😑
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(HTM) 8/14/2026 10:06:44 PM
I have returned from my city-hike and am quite tired but feeling good.
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(HTM) 8/14/2026 3:30:02 PM
Off on a little city-hike!
[Image: white dude, grey shirt, sunglasses, hat, camel-bak, nikon dslr
camera strap around the neck]
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(HTM) 8/14/2026 12:09:23 AM
Yeah I'm digging Joe Pera. They made a man putting a jack 'o' lantern
into a river to watch it go over a waterfall into this kind of
beautiful moment.
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(HTM) 8/13/2026 1:45:11 PM
I'm finding it hard to work today.
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(HTM) 8/13/2026 1:36:54 PM
@scanlime thanks for the rec! Grabbed the 1st season and I can already
tell this is gonna be in the evening wind-down rotation
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(HTM) 8/12/2026 11:11:28 AM
#threegoodthings
- Got a great evaluation
- I've been reading pretty regularly
- Going away to the chalet in a few weeks
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