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Hawkuletz
@hawk.ro
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Somewhat passionate about retro-computing and other tech stuff
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A while ago I started doing a thing. It's actually mostly done (fully operational, so to speak) except that I didn't get around to adding a printer for the full effect.
What is it?
Well, a while ago everyone was writing sudoku solvers in a variety of languages. This is a bit more of a challenge 1/
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Reminds me of...
A newspaper heading with the title "Your bowl of rice is hurting the climate to", as well as the image of a bowl of rice, followed by a reply below "Damn, I was gonna blame the billionaires with private jets, but sure - let's go after my lunch."
October 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Today: Evening light, powerline, hills, woods.
A view of a powerline pole surrounded by woods. Some hazy hills are visible in the yellowish late afternoon light. The picture is taken along the powerline path (and right-of-way).
August 31, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Image of an old punch card labeled "ORDRE FORTRAN". The logo cii - COMPAGNIE INTERNATIONALE POUR L'INFORMATIQUE is shown in the middle. The card shows some punch holes up to column 29
July 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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a while ago
screenshot of a tweet from @suntzufuntzu reading: stop doomscrolling. put down your phone and take a doomwalk outside. doomdrink some water. doombreath. tweet sent 11:25 AM - 28 Nov 2020
June 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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And here I was using it as a side-kick when playing Kerbal Space Program some years ago (when KSP didn't have automatic delta-v calculation; used it mainly for the fun factor, of course) :)
Image of a Sharp pocket computer with small thermal paper printer. Image of part of a Sharp pocket computer and a thermal paper printout of a BASIC program Image of text printed on thermal paper, stating: M=22.9T FUEL MASS=12.335T ISP=800.S DV=4855.527468M/S
June 10, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Hmmm.
The whole book is about passageways. Expanding and shriking and changing shape and disappearing and reopening unexpectedly and trapping people and sometimes, but not always, spitting them out.
Image of an almost blank page, apart from three lines of text and a footnote. The page number is 242.
May 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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A caffe with a telling name (Pizzino) in Florence, Italy, has taken a different approach. You want to sin? Pay for the indulgence!
Extract from a menu showing different varieties of pizza. All are priced 9 euro, and have a list of ingredients, except the last one, named Pineapple pizza, priced at 14 euro and with no ingredients listed.
March 31, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Taking my chances. Look, I even printed a flower.
March 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Iron ore (hematite?) from Elba island. If you go, don't miss the visit to Rio Marina mines! ❤️
A small rock with lots of shiny faces, assumed to be hematite.
March 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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I see your electrician genius and I raise you another genius that wired a Schuko extension cord in such a way that the earth was live. Which I found out the hard way 😡
(cable w/ 2 wires only bc who needs protection/s; the wires got pinched so that the ground tab connector touched the live wire)
An extension cord and a voltage tester showing live on the protective earth tab.
March 4, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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See alt text.
Image of a punched card. Logo is cii - companie internationale pur l'information. Punched code is, roughly: A teletype, a terminal, and a card punch. Also a 9 track tape and a man.
March 4, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Serves me right for fooling around.
An low apartment building and some trees. Poorly colored image (because of it being an extremely low contrast image from expired film(
March 3, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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I can resist anything but temptation (to uncover hard-to-see detail / show off)
Crop, then auto input levels in GIMP.
For those who don't know, auto-input levels linearly adjusts the color curve so that darkest part (of each channel) becomes 0 and lightest part becomes 0xff (255, maximum)
Very badly colored image of some cranes and their reflection in water. A dark band is visible on the right side of the image, as well as various other film/scanning artifacts.
March 3, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Much UX, very help
support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/...
Screenshot of a browser session with the URL "https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/january-14-2025-kb5050009-os-build-26100-2894-bdbfb097-ea20-487d-9171-718d15e26f1b" The page is mostly white, with a gray column occupying around a third of the width. In the gray column there is a very narrow column of text, one to two words wide, the rest of the space is empty. At the bottom of the page there is a feedback request asking "Was this information helpful?" with blue background Yes and No buttons. The scroll bar indicates that the view is located at around 75% of the page. The page is viewed in MS Edge browser, there are two red-bordered rectangles masking the Favorites bar and the other tabs
February 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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A bit further "down" (in latitude): Thurso, Scotland
A sandy beach at dusk. There are som big rocks in the foreground, and water has pooled around them. A low coastline is visible in the backround, the sky is very light and the soil appears quite dark.
February 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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It still lives! 😍
A text mode terminal. In the middle, the words Tiny Tim are created as ASCII art (made of X characters) On the top there is the following text: [0:gm/h/hawk> telnet yay.tim.org 5440 Trying 204.87.226.42... Connected to yay.tim.org. Escape character is '^]'. Welcome to TinyTIM, the world's oldest MUSH! [LOGO] It's not just a game... ...it's a really, really BIG game! create <name> <password> to create a new character. connect <name> <password> if you already have a character. WHO to see players currently connected. QUIT to return to the dreariness of life.
January 31, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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I have a "screenphoto" of playing (I think) the first NFS under DOS, but it's on film (and not at hand)
So, one of the "earliest" software I can show is WordStar under CP/M, editing a FORTRAN program. This photo was shot in 2020, though :)
A picture of an old HC-91 computer with a green-phosphor CRT monitor. The monitor background is green, text is black. Text appears to be a FORTRAN program. On the left there is a robotron printer and a bit of fan-fold paper. The image has a watermark with the name Mihai Gaitos and mihai at hawk.ro email address.
December 28, 2024 at 2:53 PM
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Look what you did! (lovingly)
Not I have to figure out how to open it and figure out where should I insert some composite signal. (suggestions welcome)
The only other trouble is that where I am now, I don't have many tools, so this might prove to be a challenge.
A Sony Watchman pocket TV held in hand. The screen is lit but no discernible image can be seen (it's "snow" only)
December 11, 2024 at 11:39 PM
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A few days ago, when eating at Pizzino (Florence, Italy) with a few non-Italian speaking friends, one of them noticed an interesting item on the (English language) menu. My take: as long as one is willing to pay for their silence, they will deliver.
A pizzeria menu in English (from Pizzino, in Florence). Multiple typical varieties of pizza are listed with various names and ingredients, as well as cost. All of them cost 9 euros. The last one is "Pineapple pizza" costin 14 euros, no ingredients listed.
December 3, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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What can I say.. I saw this at just the right (wrong?) time, just as I was about to finally boot my Olivetti Prodest PC1, so.. I couldn't not do this...
An B&W CRT monitor showing the end-game image from "Leisure Suite Larry" - the image shows a woman in a hot tub (not much visible above the "water" line) but it's implied that she's naked. There is a bottle of wine and a glass next to it just behind her. The image is on screen is monochrome (grayscale). Top of screen reads: Score: 165 of 222 - Sound: on An old Olivetti PRODEST PC1 computer with a single floppy drive. The ON led is lit and there is a diskette in the drive. The computer is of the type where the CPU, keyboard and FDD form a single unit.
November 24, 2024 at 7:53 PM
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November 23, 2024 at 10:47 PM
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Nothing motivates me more than a grudge!
A story of PowerShell, MS Documentation and MgGraph file services.
hawk.ro/stories/mgdr...
GitHub and MS's own learn site are unable to display their own documentation. Thus was the ranty story born.
Photo of a HP 200LX Palmtop PC with 2MB of RAM. The screen shows WordPerfect view of MGDRVI.MD, 2,199,941 bytes, at 7%. The screen is full of text, first two lines containing - `[WebHtml <String>]`: For embed links, this property contains the HTML code for an <iframe> element that will embed the item in a webpage. [...]
November 7, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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Congratulations Microsoft, you are the f

(from learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powers...)

FYI, only about 3-4 % of the actual document is visible. That also can't be seen on GH (github.com/MicrosoftDoc...) because in the year 2024, 2MB ought to be enough for everybody. But at least can be downloaded.
Screenshot of a webpage, only the bottom part visible. The text end suddenly with "contains the HTML code for an " Screenshot from GitHub, showing a file of 2.1MB, but where the file should be shown, there is a link titled "View raw", and a notice: "(Sorry about that, but we can’t show files that are this big right now.)"
October 27, 2024 at 12:15 AM
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Not to mention that my weekend is gone because I started another playthrough, and now, on the third day...
YOU - "What about the kebab?" KIM KITSURAGI - "What about it? The deceased ate some kabab." He shrugs. "It's probably from a nearby place, maybe in the Pox..." LOGIC [Medium: Success] - Sometimes a kebab is just a kebab.
October 21, 2024 at 8:14 PM