DJ Sundog - from the spook-lab @djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology

Alert: #cybredecke has reached beta status and is fully untethered!

I remember showing up over here by following the jetsam [1] of the first infosec migration across the tumultuous seas of microblogging, slightly disoriented but little worse for wear.

There was a lot of space back then. You could swing a raccoon in a circle around your head [2] without having to worry about giving someone a faceful of frenetic fur. [3] Fewer than twenty-five thousand souls inhabited this archipelago [4] at that point, gathering on a handful of islands.

I was pretty sure I was destined to be consumed [5] by those who had arrived before my cohort.

In a way, I was. I am no longer the person I was when I arrived here. I have been changed by this place. I have been changed by this ever-changing group of groups of people. I have been changed by you. [6]

Fierce storms will batter these little islands. Battles will arise. Pain and grief are by-products of interaction.

But so are laughter and cheer and warmth and contentedness.

And love.

My neighbors, the very least that I wish for each and every one of you is to find days so filled with love that there's no time for hate and nights so restful that you rise burning with the force of the sun within you.

Mend what is broken. Build shelters you need. Make mistakes and make them count. This is your world and mine and it will be exactly what we make it, but the sky is the limit if we keep looking up instead of bringing ourselves down.

Thanks for being here, thanks for being you, and thanks for listening to the rambling of a silly old dog.

[1] unbeknownst to many, stale infosec memes are extremely buoyant
[2] assuming the raccoon consented to be swung such
[3] assuming someone wasn't throwing their face at the nearest bit of fur
[4] h/t to @priryo for https://linernotes.club/@priryo/100565446740959131 and @sydneyfalk for https://mst3k.interlinked.me/users/sydneyfalk/updates/85279
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[6] assuming I consented to be changed such [7]
[7] I did

achievement heckin GET

mastodon streaming on a #Kaypro 2-83 #retrocomputing

this is my semi-regular yet aperiodic reminder that this place here is a distributed federated version of Callahan's as far as I can tell and that is one of the most bestest things that can be.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callahan%27s_Crosstime_Saloon

Every one of you is precious and wonderful and unique and necessary and deserving of life and love and peace.

Anything your brain does to try to convince you otherwise is a mean trick.

Please try to remember this. Remember it unceasingly.

I get to award myself a million extra cool points if I end up using the #cybredecke to control an electric vehicle I am piloting, and two million if it's an electric vehicle someone else is piloting first.

Okay, so the power brick in the #cybredecke is solid for my average use case and load for 8 hours on battery without any optimizations (or additions).

The brick weighs 500g but, if I'm willing to add the extra weight and cost (us$70), the design can be daisy-chained effectively. More likely I'll keep a juiced spare offline and use it to top off the onboard batteries if necessary when I'm anticipating an extended period mobile.

I mean, I'll use it for other oddities too.

I think I might oughtta should make myself a little setup to vacuum form acrylic pieces for a #cybredecke enclosure

https://youtube.com/watch?v=KfZFw2zc3sc

Things to potentially add to the #cybredecke hardware-wise: secondary display/x86-64 tablet (pending hardware modifications to tablet), hdmi and USB switching, arduino sandbox breadboard mounted at surface level (with a smoked plastic hinged cover maybe), RGB LED arrays for system status blinkenlights, 9-DOF gyro/accelerometer/compass board (definite), amp and speakers (display has some weak speakers but c'mon), pico projector (someday, but I don't have one on hand)

Maybe for the new year I'll treat myself to some nice accent keycaps for the ergodox to make it look pretty.

Nine days ago I said I'd start working on this next week and now you know how my scheduling works.

I kinda like that the #cybredecke hashtag works as a project diary if I remember to use it

#cybredecke power status update: just peeked in on it at 3h50 uptime and two of 4 LEDs remain on the power bank, streaming mastodon in chromium and running htop with a wifi connection and the display on.

Definitely have room in my power budget for a bunch of blinkenlights without sweating it.