DSA Video Going Viral

Arthur C. Clarke: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Me: "Therefore, any sufficiently complicated technical problem is indistinguishable from a curse."

#infosec #sysadmin #bofh

Not to let the cat out of the bag prematurely, but...

If you were going to start posting about cool servers that aren't run by Mastodon GmbH on the @Mastodon account, which hashtag would you use?

#Mastodon #Fediverse #MastoAdmin

You've got a smart watch? Shrug. I had one almost 30 years ago. Let me introduce you to the onHandPC, also called Ruputer in Japan. As the name suggests, it's a wristband computer with a 16-bit 3.6 MHz CPU and 2 MB memory. It has a serial and IR interface. The cool thing is that it comes with a software development kit and you can write software in C for it. I didn't really understand C at the time. In particular pointers were a complete mystery to me. #retrocomputing #smartwatch

If buying isn't ownership then pirating isn't stealing

“When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace.”

Climbing the Empire State Building antenna just to drop this quote is wild.

Message received, NYC.
Loud and clear. 🗽

Lots of small arc tiles make up this big Truchet tile rug plot giving a very textural feel.

CMYK on 24”x36” watercolor paper using a vintage HP DraftPro DXL pen plotter generated and controlled with Python.

Available in my shop: https://shop.paulrickards.com/large-plots/

#PenPlotter #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot #NoAI

Being handsome for #WhiskersWednesday

#CatsOfMastodon #Cats #FediCats

Your daily affirmation:
You haven't yet met all the people in your life that will be charmed and slightly horrified by your weirdness.
Take comfort in that.

:cat_tilting_head:

Happy Canada Day! I really shouldn't complain about too much rain while others are in severe drought and catching fire, but wow there are mushrooms everywhere and I am starting to worry about hoof-rot in my goats. It feels more like Vancouver winter than Saskatchewan summer...

If you live in Canada, you are living on Treaty land or unceded Indigenous land. Here's one program helping settler landowners like me share their land in the original spirit of the treaties: https://treatylandsharingnetwork.ca/

Right now, the only thing holding back most police from deploying armed drones and robots is the policies of companies and the social stigma surrounding the issue. Neither of these will hold forever. We need regulation. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/lawmakers-must-act-now-prevent-armed-police-drones

#Meme #Humour

Let July Be July ~ Morgan Harper Nichols

#Poetry

Revving those engines

Hivemind - somebody on Mastodon made a database of malicious VSCode and OpenVSX extensions, where it automatically scanned and databased suspect extensions. I lost the link. What is the link? 🤣

I painted a red panda! medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper #Illustration #Watercolor #TraditionalArt #AnimeArt #Nature #Animals

A haiku about #ADHD:

Walk into a room.

Stand in the doorway frozen.

What was I doing?

Poppies

#photography #WildflowerWednesday #Wildflowers #bloomscrolling #naturephotography #nature