Posts by occult@vox.ominous.net
(DIR) Post #B455HMrWgMDezjrJ2m by occult@vox.ominous.net
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Hey @prahou is your computer sad or happy?Is this Mr. Computo?From the May 1985 issue of UNIX WORLD magazine.#UNIX
(DIR) Post #B455HN6Pn083jupCFc by occult@vox.ominous.net
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These article illustrations are truly something.UNIX Review, April 1985.#UNIX #unix_surrealism
(DIR) Post #B455HNKawHTIRtSWLw by occult@vox.ominous.net
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When someone asks me what the #Fediverse, #Mastodon or #ActivityPub is I'll use this illustration from UNIX Review, April 1985.#UNIX
(DIR) Post #B455HNKawHTIRtSWLx by occult@vox.ominous.net
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Oh my, it's his father!
(DIR) Post #B455HNoN9ZI5wFOIlc by occult@vox.ominous.net
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OBEY.BYTE Magazine, October 1983.
(DIR) Post #B455HOH5QoG9NIpEWW by occult@vox.ominous.net
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From the same issue, this illustration could be used in an article tomorrow about #LLM overreliance.
(DIR) Post #B4NhzhiXnYktWMVL28 by occult@vox.ominous.net
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@RueNahcMohr @foone All the real pics are on https://subversive.pics.For real, I need to post again.
(DIR) Post #B4UDnHK0TSlpf8uCzg by occult@vox.ominous.net
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@prahou With BlueSky announcing their $100,000,000 investment from Bain Capital Crypto you should add a BlueSky logo.https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/bluesky-announces-100m-series-b-after-ceo-transition/
(DIR) Post #B4rgli0Pev4X9HQHI0 by occult@vox.ominous.net
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Watching the livestream of the Artemis II launch, I just witnessed one of the astronauts type in the password on their tablet while sitting in the capsule on camera.#ArtemisII #Artemis #Artemis2 #NASA #InfoSec #cybersecurity #OpSec #Privacy #SpaceExploration
(DIR) Post #B4y53rspEiuoqPpES8 by occult@vox.ominous.net
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How #BlueSky users describe what using #Mastodon and the #Fediverse is like.UNIX World, Sept. 1985.#UNIX #RetroComputing
(DIR) Post #B4y53sAu9VNRkUHfdI by occult@vox.ominous.net
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I tell anyone born after the year 2000 that this is how I used to turn my computer on in 1991.UNIX World, Sept. 1990.#UNIX #RetroComputing
(DIR) Post #B4y53sO1MjrwPAQ94q by occult@vox.ominous.net
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Oh, you use the #Mastodon advanced web view?I'm building my own setup for following multiple feeds.UNIX World Sept. 1990.
(DIR) Post #B4y53vRfzbZjtN9bgu by occult@vox.ominous.net
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I love this design. This is a full page ad for #UNIX networking software in UNIX Review magazine October, 1984.Today we have ads where Google thinks it’s cute that Gemini wrote a child’s letter to their hero.No one would dare put something like this out today for fear they may stand out.They all want to conform to what's safe and known.#Design #UNIX
(DIR) Post #B4y53vtKKnh3H85gn2 by occult@vox.ominous.net
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WHY BUY A DATABASE SYSTEM?I scream at my cat while I eat two handfuls of psilocybin mushrooms.
(DIR) Post #B4zNhUFGXBBFRsK4sy by occult@vox.ominous.net
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Installing #OpenBSD in 1996.#UNIX #RetroComputing
(DIR) Post #B4zNhVzk1rx0sJ4hxw by occult@vox.ominous.net
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Honestly can't wait for your new album to drop @ritualdust.VLSI Systems Design, August 1988.
(DIR) Post #B5OWhSMxGWemAZyhDU by occult@vox.ominous.net
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@th @mntmn just going to throw in this one I found at the MIT flea market with music created using an AD8 connected to an IMSAI 8080 in 1977.
(DIR) Post #B6nAjIcferV1e14CCu by occult@vox.ominous.net
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I used to be a Pixelfed user but left once I realized development was essentially stalled and the ActivityPub implementation was critically broken. With the developer concentrating on Loops, a TikTok clone which is filled with reposted TikTok brain rot, I discovered https://subversive.pics.I use Ocular by @rostiger and now have my own static image gallery at https://img.ominous.net/. There’s a growing community of users in the Ocular webring and participants in Subversive.pics.
(DIR) Post #B6nAjayxOk1OaLdFRY by occult@vox.ominous.net
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Ocular handles everything, RSS feed support, highly customizable and of course the users of these static image galleries are not following any trends. There’s no likes to worry about, no follower counts and of course no algo.At the end of the day, it’s a low-volume feed of interesting, cool people expressing themselves without worrying about what others think.It’s way more interesting than anything I ever saw on Instagram.
(DIR) Post #B6nAjfs3DqT5kNRIsC by occult@vox.ominous.net
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I appreciate what Pixelfed is, but as far as I can tell, the developer behind this project is extremely toxic and has some unresolved issues. I’ve seen more than a few community complaints related to the project that have turned me off from using it.It does, however, provide a nice off-ramp for Instagram users to enter the Fediverse, and there’s no denying that provides a lot of value.I have come to enjoy the simplicity of what a static image gallery provides.