this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2024
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one should not chase the electric dream, but strive to became an extension to its dreamer

Automatism in the age of the children of Unix.

It's a box of antique photographs. A blade, a girl and a fish. Whatever it means, you're invested.

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fun fact, sometimes computers can grow crystals from their solder.

tin whiskers

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisker_(metallurgy)

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago

Beautiful, thank you for sharing.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

clean up after yourself when you're done please

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

CRUSH UP THOSE CRYSTALS AND SMOKE THEM

only then can you become one with the machine.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You are banned for saying the T-word.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Oh noes 😭

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

At least there wasn't a third party, kernel level security software suite installed.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Who's that character on the right?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I hope to one day be brave enough to switch to 9front

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Sign up for the winter sdf bootcamp! https://sdf.org/plan9/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

The good news is the magic smoke is still inside the chips, so we can fix it! Get me some flux stat!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Pretty, let's make those big suckers into jewelry!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

We call them crowdstals down there. They used to only target ancients NT kernels but apparently they evolved to infect other environments. Eh, nature.