「spectre of despair」, the master of fluffy tail

just the average creepy unc from 1971 - mysterious eccentric - discord: despair_8086 (No. 0) - voice/data network infra, software dev, firmware, gear hed, photo

[「spectre of despair」, the master of fluffy tail @__rvx86]

Jesus Christ is Lord, the Son of God and he rose from the dead

[trish @TrisH0x2A]

Rob Pike wrote a complete regular expression matcher in about 30 lines of C

it supports ^, ., *, and $ using only recursion and pointer arithmetic

it's still one of the best introductions to how regex engines actually work

[「spectre of despair」, the master of fluffy tail @__rvx86]

@KyleGMaster86 @al_7xyz radiation hardening methinks

[「spectre of despair」, the master of fluffy tail @__rvx86]

from 2001-2016 the only calls you could place natively at the 10288 prompt from a pay phone were calling card collect or credit card calls

[「spectre of despair」, the master of fluffy tail @__rvx86]

i mean, lumen-QC was one of the last carriers still supporting coin stations

[patrick orzechowski @shftleft]

Seen in the wild - it kinda works #phreakjng #2600 #hacking #cybersecurity

[「spectre of despair」, the master of fluffy tail @__rvx86]

the coin control was still there, but you couldn't carry traffic natively on att because a) OSPS/TOPS shut down in 2016 and b) they had long since stopped taking coins in 2001
the third party operator was forced to resell long lines or pick their own long haul carrier

[「spectre of despair」, the master of fluffy tail @__rvx86]

as for current operators that would be.....lumen, brightspeed, frontier (legacy service regions, going away soon), -maybe- kinetic? and whatever independent legacy fiber carriers in rural areas still have them

[「spectre of despair」, the master of fluffy tail @__rvx86]

haha wut

[1a3orn @1a3orn]

Somehow, the US Government in both 1926 and 2026 --
"We have to shut down illegal distillation of the most powerful spirits."

[「spectre of despair」, the master of fluffy tail @__rvx86]

comac should finish the y-10 prototype just to flex on the west for no particular reason

[Tom @n1tr0maverick]

there is something deeply wrong with me, but here is claude code running natively on windows 98. opus doesn't wanna believe it either.

[「spectre of despair」, the master of fluffy tail @__rvx86]

@ManMilk2

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

BREAKING: Spain defeated Argentina 1-0 to win the 2026 FIFA World Cup!!!!

[Old Internet @OldInternetFeel]

"why use google?" webpage, 1999

[「spectre of despair」, the master of fluffy tail @__rvx86]

i do suppose this was just a hold over from the pre digital era when passport photos were printed on special integral packs with four images per print

[「spectre of despair」, the master of fluffy tail @__rvx86]

you know what's weird? the requirment for -printed- thumbnails in the -same- form factor that a single mounted slide fits in (2" square)
at least the mounted slide can be blown up to the correct proportions

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced plans to let Americans take passport photos from home using a phone or laptop camera, instead of going to CVS, Walgreens, or another photo service.

The State Department says the photos would be verified in real time with facial recognition technology, part of the Trump administration’s push to make travel more convenient.

[「spectre of despair」, the master of fluffy tail @__rvx86]

please do not give wolf-like creatures cofee

[TechMarine062 @TMarine062]

@HarmlessYardDog Me fixing doggos coffee so he can doom post some moar

[「spectre of despair」, the master of fluffy tail @__rvx86]

@DickFaggotson14 @Secretly_Saucy you fool thats how she levels up