circafuturum

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Software engineer.

I'm here for good vibes and new and interesting perspectives on business and technology, especially with security themes.

### Profile image ChatGPT 4o prompt

Please draw a line drawing of an embodied but hollow business suit with no head lying relaxed atop a giant single puffed grain of rice. Use only a black pen in white background, no shading. There must be a horizon line near the top of the image for perspective but no other objects.

### Profile background ChatGPT 4o prompt

Please show an extra wide ratio landscape of pure dusty sand with the horizon out of the shot so the image is all sand, no sky. Do it in an abstract jarring style with sharp angles and make the image grainy, and block shapes representing dunes and rocks.

Someone put a lot of time and money into this extremely detailed replica of the 1981 DeLorean DMC-12 time machine from Back to the Future. It's probably not their daily driver. They probably only drive it.... from time to time.
https://journal.classiccars.com/2025/11/13/pick-of-the-day-1981-delorean-dmc-12-time-machine-replica/
#WeirdCarMastodon #dadjoke
Every time a newcomer posts an introduction and somebody tells them they shouldn’t have joined Mastodon.social and need to move to a different server, an angel loses their wings.

#introduction #newhere

Hey everyone, I'm Ken, and this is my first post on Mastodon. I've been active on #pixelfed since summer 2025. I've quit using Meta's platforms and I'm happy being part of the fediverse.

My interests include #urbandesign #cityplanning #architecture #español #travel #language #photography #transit #streetphotography #publicart #spaceexploration #cats #gardens #minerals #sashimi #coffee #history #technology and I'm a #humanist.

I live in #Denver #Colorado USA.

this educational series is engaging but has a poorly calibrated difficulty curve towards the end
judging online information quality based on site where it appeared: a comprehensive guide

- "How To (...)" in the title, cookie banners, lots of side-information written in a way that wastes your time: SEO slop, don't bother. You might as well make a wild guess, same likelyhood it'll be correct

- official docs for $x, autogenerated by a rube-goldberg machine and automagically pushed into whatever-pages by a fully-skidoodled, post-quantum CI pipeline: describes everything, except the exact fact you're looking for.

- no HTTPS, tilde in the name, DNS with 4+ dots, likely hosted on some dusty uni server, white background with absolutely no CSS: one of the best resources on the subject. you question how it's even still online

- site titled "Garry's blog", default wordpress favicon, last update either previous month or 12 years ago: golden. crystal-clear exposition, good examples and screenshots framed so well you don't even need arrows pointing places. likely used as a cheat-sheet daily by everyone in the community

Graphically visualizing the erasure of a 16kbit #EPROM with a UV source in 16 seconds!

This time lapse shows all of the bits being flipped from 0 to 1 over about a 24 minute period. The first bit flips at 8 minutes.

What's fascinating to me is the bits "twinkle" as they flip back and forth before settling.

#RetroComputing #TimeLapse

Air to Ground Message:

THATS NOT GOOD LOL

Area: Nashville, TN, USA
A: #a13c357b771
F: #f99b6c0c201

#acars #vdlm2

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