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Smalls
@smalls.online
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I do IT magic things with the cloud, servers, and stuff. Also do programming, primarily in C#/Rust, and scripting with PowerShell.

#WarDamnEagle #ECUAlumni #Sysadmin #Developer

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https://smalls.online

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Here's an example from The Powerpuff Girls when they fly.
January 11, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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Fuck you.
A post by Donald Trump on Truth Social that says the following: I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense. Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital. The situation is being studied, in its entirety, but the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis. They are just trying to do the job of MAKING AMERICA SAFE. We need to stand by and protect our Law Enforcement Officers from this Radical Left Movement of Violence and Hate! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
January 8, 2026 at 2:28 AM
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Guess I'll be eligible to get my phone's battery replaced soon. 😬
This iPhone battery health screen shows the battery is in normal condition with an 81% maximum capacity, indicating it's performing as expected. The cycle count is 635, and the battery was manufactured in August 2023 with first use in September 2023.
January 6, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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December 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Did you get that thing I sent ya?
December 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Clair Obscur with the new forced Steam Deck settings looks like booty compared to the low preset.
A screenshot of Sciel with the Steam Deck settings. A screenshot of Sciel with the low preset. A screenshot of Maelle with the Steam Deck settings. A screenshot of Maelle with the low preset.
December 12, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Nice
A progress bar showing the task "Extract Subtitles" is 69% complete, indicated by a blue line and a clock icon on the left.
December 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Was going through all of my exported videos from LumaFusion and found this from April 7th, 2020.

Arf arf motherfuckers
December 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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December 2, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Hi. I was today years old when I found out there has been a USB-C charging port on the Magic Keyboard, for my 2018 iPad Pro, that I've had since it came out back in 2020.
A close-up of a hand holding a black Magic Keyboard accessory, focusing on its USB-C port, attached to a 2018 iPad Pro.
November 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Choosing December 25th is a choice. Most people will be nowhere near work.
This email from Microsoft Azure informs users that their Azure account will be migrated to a new billing platform on December 25, 2025, to improve the billing experience. The update will happen without disrupting services, and customers will see three key improvements based on feedback.
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Rewatched Scott the Woz's "The Dark Age of Nintendo" videos and... Oh... Oh no... That wasn't five years ago. There's no way it was five years ago. Right? RIGHT?!?!? 🫠
This screenshot shows a video from Scott The Woz titled "The Dark Age of Nintendo (Complete Series)" with 140K likes and 11.6 million views, uploaded on October 9, 2020, with a red arrow pointing to the upload date.
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Whoever at Microsoft thought it was a great idea to remove pinned apps in the sidebar from the new M365 web app into a tiny menu icon at the bottom that isn't sortable, you fucking suck. I had all of my usual pinned apps in the sidebar and had it sorted to my liking.
This image shows the sidebar of the M365 Copilot app with options like New Chat, Search, Library, Create, Teach, Frontier, Agents, Notebooks, and Chats. At the bottom, there's a profile section for Timothy Small indicating premium features are enabled, with a red arrow pointing to the four-square app menu icon next to the profile.
November 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Yeah. I guess an ouija is a hazard.
This image shows a block of white text on a dark background explaining how to extract a summary from hazard-related information, highlighting the word "OUIJA" in red as an example hazard listed under "POTENTIAL HAZARDS," and noting that only an overview paragraph summarizing near, short, and long-term hazards is needed for the forecast.
November 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Nice
The image shows a phone screen displaying that the battery is 69% charged with an estimated 9 minutes remaining to reach 80%, along with the time 2:45.
November 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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I guess that's one way to get off a cliff.
November 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Something interesting I've noticed with GPT-OSS 20B these last few months is that it will use a narrow space Unicode character (U+202F) instead of the usual space Unicode character (U+0020).

I'm guessing the narrow space reduces tokens?
A screenshot showing the text "10 June 2025" with narrow space Unicode characters, which is shown as "10 June 2025".
November 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Holy shit. I have been wanting to turn this off ever since they made it a thing years ago.
The image displays a list of new features for iOS 26.1, including a new Camera setting that allows users to turn on or off the Lock Screen swipe to open the Camera.
November 4, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Oh God.

#TheOuterWorlds2
November 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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October 31, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Of course it's Front Door. It's always Front Door.

https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status
The image is a screenshot of a Microsoft Azure Front Door connectivity issues notification. It details that customers and Microsoft services using Azure Front Door may be experiencing issues due to an inadvertent configuration change. The notification outlines steps being taken to resolve the problem, including blocking changes and rolling back the AFD configuration, and provides a link to resources for failover strategies. The message was last updated on October 29, 2025.
October 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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It works though. Now what is it for? Well... I'm dicking around with getting hourly/daily forecast data from the NWS... Through an MCP server... For my locally hosted LLM... To reduce the amount of tokens used...

Yeah. That's how fucking stupid it is. 🫠
This image displays a daily weather forecast processed with an LLM using data from the National Weather Service. The forecast includes a summary of expected conditions, temperatures, chances of precipitation, and wind speeds for the upcoming days, with specific details for Tonight, Wednesday, Wednesday Night, Thursday, and Thursday Night. The summary highlights a transition from wet to drier conditions, with highs climbing into the mid-60s and a generally pleasant, dry environment expected by the end of the week. A table at the bottom breaks down the forecast by period, showing conditions, temperature, precipitation odds, wind speed, and gusts.
October 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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It can't be that bad, right?

Look... I had to write a macro to unwrap potentially null values with similar types, but not always. Top it off with the fact that I wrote a macro to use inside another macro and did multi-nested pattern matching.
This image displays a snippet of code written in Rust featuring several macro rules for unwrapping quantitative values and handling different input formats with optional conversion functions and unit strings. The code includes multiple pattern-matching `match` statements that analyze inputs and conditionally apply transformations or return formatted strings, often involving rounding values or formatting them with specific strings for display purposes. The image shows a snippet of Rust code, likely from a project involving formatting and rounding quantitative values with unit strings, handling input value matching, and conditional formatting based on minimum, maximum, and conversion functions. The code uses pattern matching and type conversions to process numerical data in a structured way, displaying a focus on precise value handling and display formatting. This image displays a snippet of Rust code, with various variables and error handling mechanisms for extracting hourly forecast data. The code uses the Result and Option types to handle potential failures gracefully, converting quantitative values like temperature, wind speed, and precipitation probability into human-readable strings, while also including units conversion from Celsius to Fahrenheit and kilometers to miles. It includes conditional checks for valid input types like DateTime, and features a clear structure for parsing and validating weather data from a grid point hourly forecast period.
October 29, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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"What music have you listened to the most this year?"

Definitely something that is 100% not political. Nope. Just something completely unrelated to politics, anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, and whatnot.
This is a screenshot of a music listening tracker showing album scrobbling data for the period from January 1, 2025, to October 28, 2025, with 170 albums scrobbled during this time. The top-scrobbed album is "Clockworked" by Stray From the Path, which has 316 scrobble entries. The interface is set to display the "Albums" section in a dark theme with navigation tabs for Scrobbles, Artists, Albums, and Tracks at the top.
October 28, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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This got a good laugh out of me. lol
This is a screenshot of a Reddit thread with three posts on a dark background. The first post by MaleficentAnt8895 says Alabama is assembling an all-star roster of “dog water” elected officials, a slang term for mediocre or unimpressive people. The second post by bwolven asks if they’ve ever not been “dog water,” and the third post by wolfenstein734 replies that the person in question is “better than George Wallace.” Each post has a username, upvote count, and a small team logo or abbreviation, with the time since posting shown as “7h.”
October 24, 2025 at 12:24 AM