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Developer & Sysadmin. Webmaster @ transfur.social. Postmaster of many.

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pros of having your fedi handle as an email: its cool
cons of having your fedi handle as an email:
Spam emails folder containing 112 entries
December 14, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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google? why are you invoicing me for zero dollars?
December 4, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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I HATE SHIPPING
Subtotal: $15.20 Shipping: $58.40 Total: USD $73.60
December 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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suck it google execs I run what I want
A screenshot from a ChromeOS 142 device, showing uBlock Origin running natively.
November 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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facebook, that is a fire extinguisher
A thumbnail of a fire extinguisher is on the left. On the right, it is captioned: "Browse more Health & beauty listings in your area."
November 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Mapped the video durations to days and have this very interesting graph of roughly how much video i've watched per day for the last three years. Videos longer than 4 hours were excluded because indefinite livestreams were skewing the result way too much
November 25, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Where's the "youre showing me a members only video for a person i've never fucking watched before and am not subscribed to" button youtube?
November 16, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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@lissy why be a metaphorical missile when you could
November 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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she passed away this morning, sometime between 12:30 and 1:00am.
she was 14
Two cats lay on a light blue bathroom towel. The left one, a tuxedo, lays in their side, squishing the Right one, all black, against a pile of clothes. Dated February 26th, 2025 at 10:50:35 PM Three cats lay distant from each other on various objects. A tuxedo lays on her side on a glass coffee table on the left. Distance of roughly one meter An all black Male sits loafed atop a rectangular green bed laid on a couch in the top middle of the image. Distance of roughly one meter An all black female sits atop a fluffy, circular bed on the same couch, her head resting on the edge, on the right of the image. Dated September 6th, 2025 at 1:32:39 PM An all black female cat lays atop the rectangular green bed. She is mostly front on, according the camera with a tired gaze. Her head rests against the bed. Dated November 4th, 2025 at 5:28:03 PM Note: This is around the time we realized she was not well. An LED candle is set atop the green rectangular bed, atop the same couch as picture 2. It emits a warm glow in a otherwise dark room. Dated November 10th, 2025, at 03:27:18 AM Our memorial to her.
November 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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@n8dmt Here's the guts, I don't particularly see any crystals in here, i think it's all VFO driven. Worth noting there's two double-sided pcbs in here and I can't get them out easily, so something might be hiding inside.
October 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Almost forgot about the speaker-mic (designated **RSM-4**) it came with. Unfortunately, it was working Very badly when I tested, I peeled back the connector to find that the wires inside have frayed and broken from the connector... Which is going to make […]

[Original post on transfur.social]
The RSM-4 speaker mic in question, with a coiled cable. A close up view of the frayed connections inside the connector A closeup of the front of the connector itself. It has five keying slots arranged in a 2, 2, 1 pattern triangularly around the circumference of the connector. The 6 pins are positioned in a hexagon with the center empty. The pack of the RSM-4 Microphone. It has a label that reads: SPEAKER MICROPHONE MODEL RSM-4 MADE IN JAPAN There is debossing on the plastic case that reads "JAPAN"
October 15, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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Bought this beautiful piece of history for 15$ today. Still works! Ni-Cad battery is shot so I will be repacking it with some Li-Po's eventually. Google thinks this thing doesn't exist, so, internet, meet: the **Canadian Marconi Company VHF Transceiver Model […]

[Original post on transfur.social]
The CMC DP2071 standing in comparison to a Quansheng UV-K5. the DP2071 is exactly twice the height of the K5. The top of the DP2071 radio. It has a BNC antenna port, volume knob, squelch knob, A channel knob with 16 channels, a mini toggle switch labeled "PWR" with options "HI" and "LO", a mini toggle switch labeled "TONE" with options "OFF" and "ON", an unspecified 6 pin screw-on connector, and a 2.5mm audio jack labeled "EAR" The back of the DP2071 radio. It has a belt clip installed. A label reads: MANUFACTURED FOR: CANADIAN MARCONI COMPANY MONTREAL, CANADA VHF TRANSCIEVER MODEL DP2071 RF POWER OUTPUT: 1 OR 5 WATT FREQUENCY RANGE: 136 - 174 MHz DOC TYPE APPROVAL: 100 212 026I SERIAL NO: 80930162 MADE IN JAPAN A photo of the bottom of the DP2071 unit with tis battery removed. There are two spring contacts, both unlabeled. On the right of the spring contacts is 8 exposed PCB pads with a tin coating, Presumably for programming.
October 15, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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An alert from Grafana, pinging @craftxbox FIRING [1]: proteus Excessive CPU-Busy last 10m (>95% avg)
September 19, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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i pay for the whole damn CPU and RAM i shall use the whole damn CPU and RAM
A screenshot of the terminal utility htop. It displays a system with 12 cores, all of which are pinned at 100% utilization. Memory usage is at 59.3G of 62.7G Swap usage is 11.2G of 32.0G Load average is 16.69 Uptime is 581 days
September 19, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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@Koch
A stock photograph of Rocket Balloons
September 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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September 7, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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A security camera photograph. The IR light is on and the picture is without color. The scene shows the ceiling of a basement, with a coat hanging from the joists. A box has been superimposed over the coat, with a caption above it reading: "Person: 78% 123966" In the bottom left corner, text reads: CH1 2015-01-02 12:52:21 PM
August 1, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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A screenshot of a google search for "used ups" The first Four listings are for Uninterruptible power supplies. The fifth listing is the Wikipedia page for the movie "Grown Ups 2" The sixth listing is for uninterruptable power supplies.
July 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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here's my cat5e cable if you even care
July 20, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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vibrating excitedly
A screenshot of an order summary. Two items are listed 1. PixelNet Supermicro X8SIE-F Server, Xeon X3430 with 16GB DDR3, No Hard drives, 280 watt PSU for $24.80 2. Dell PowerEdge R620 Server, 2x Xeon E5-2640 with 128GB DDR3, H710 Mini Raid card, 2x 750 watt PSU for $45.00 The subtotal is $69.80 Shipping is $90.00 Estimated taxes are $23.97 Grand Total of $183.77 Canadian
July 16, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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WHAT DO LITERALLY ANY OF THESE FUCKING LISTINGS HAVE TO DO WITH CAMERAS FACEBOOK
A screenshot of Facebook Marketplace. It is searching for camera. The minimum price is set to 1$, and is sorting with price: lowest first. Not a single listing has any relation to cameras.
July 15, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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i think i found a bug with the way htop sees cpu cores in an lxc container
A screenshot of a linux terminal. On the left, an LXC Container is shown running a stress test. It has been assigned CPU 7 and 8. the Task manager shows that CPU 0 is pinned, while CPU 7 and 8 are completely unused. CPU 1 through 6 are marked as offline. On the right, The task manager is running on the host machine. It shows CPU 7 and 8 are pinned, and all others are nominal.
July 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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June 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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#caturday #catsofmastodon
April 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Screenshot of an Email. Subject: To The EVIL, DESPEICBALE SNEP Who Runs The Instance "transfur.social" Dated: April 1, 2025 3:08 AM NT From: detour@transfur.social To: craftxbox@craftxbox.com Body: To Whom It May Concern, I Was Browsing Your Instance When It Became Apparent To Me That It Is Not, In Fact, Regarding File Transfer In German Or French Or Somethign. [sic] Just Looking At That Shit Furrified Me. I Will Never Be The Same. Fuck You. - A Person Who Now Sits On A Tail Every Time They Sit Down
April 1, 2025 at 6:16 AM