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Jacob Farkas
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I have discovered a truly marvelous proof, which 140 characters is too short to contain.

Currently full time dad. Previously built CloudKit and iPhone […]

🌉 bridged from https://mastodon.farktronix.com/@jacob on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
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Jacob Farkas @jacob.mastodon.farktronix.com.ap.brid.gy · Jul 29
I was able to bring back to life one of my favorite bots, @harvardsentences

It posts one phonetically balanced sentence a day.
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rileytestut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
RE: https://mastodon.social/@rileytestut/115917812751736532

OK nevermind, THIS is the coolest thing I’ve ever done to my iPhone
January 18, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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johl.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy
openchaos is a self-evolving open source project. Every week, the community votes on PRs, and the winner gets merged.

https://www.openchaos.dev/
Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project
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www.openchaos.dev
January 10, 2026 at 6:11 PM
jacob.mastodon.farktronix.com.ap.brid.gy
https://blog.horner.tj/how-to-kinda-download-more-ram/
A tweet that says "Wait you can actually download more ram if you set up Google Drive as swap space" and the output of a `df -h` command highlighting a gdrive:swap mount point with 1.0P size
January 6, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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ricci.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy
Here's the document release you were waiting for today!

The UNIX V4 tape!

https://archive.org/details/utah_unix_v4_raw

#retrocomputing
UNIX V4 tape from University of Utah (raw) : Computer History Museum : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
UNIX V4 tape from the University of Utah, received by Martin Newell circa June 1974 around when he modeled the Utah Teapot.This is the raw analog waveform and...
archive.org
December 19, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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ricci.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy
The attempt to read the UNIX V4 tape is underway!
A laboratory environment with a tape driver and person leaning over other equipment Thalia Archibald looking at the proceedings Several men (sorry, I don't know names, will try to add later) in the lab More lab equipment
December 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy
FFS. For the first time, non-citizens will be charged a hefty surcharge to enter US national parks (an extra $100/person, and annual passes for noncitizens will cost $250 instead of $80).

Our national parks are absolute jewels, and a significant contributor […]

[Original post on federate.social]
Changes to Entrance Fees and Passes in 2026 Beginning January 1, 2026, changes to entrance fees and passes include: + America the Beautiful passes will cover entrance fees for up to two motorcycles. « A new America the Beautiful pass for nonresidents of the US will be available for $250. All other America the Beautiful passes will only be available to US citizens and permanent residents. + Entrance fee free days will only apply to US citizens and residents. Nonresidents will be required to pay entrance fees and applicable nonresident fees. o The following parks will have a surcharge of $100 for each nonresident of the US entering the park: Acadia National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Everglades National Park, Glacier National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, Grand Teton National Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks, Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National Parks, and Zion National Park.
November 26, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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fay59.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy
I saw that last week and it made me very sad that my favorite inexplicable crash urban legend turns out to be false https://infosec.exchange/@neilmadden/115567211427547874
Neil Madden (@[email protected])
“Our error logs cover 2000 billion MB-hours for the MareNostrum 3 supercomputer and 135 million MB-hours for the Mont-Blanc prototype. Our analysis combines quantitative analysis, formal statistical methods and machine learning. We detect no indications that cosmic rays have any influence on the DRAM errors.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16487v1
infosec.exchange
November 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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tychotithonus.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
I don't know how how it happened that this is how I found this out.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/us/politics/alaska-phone-voting-anchorage.html

No one who understands the problem space thinks this is a good idea.
November 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
So much this. This is my experience as well—I knew I wanted to be a girl when I was very young—and this is why it's so important to support trans kids. The science fully supports them, and we should too. Fight back against the propaganda; it's from the same people who claim climate change is a […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
my husband made it so the home assistant voice assistant can use full-on ollama to interpret instructions. then he told it to turn the lights on. it's been explaining its thought process for over five minutes now and the lights are still off.
November 15, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
If you make or use software, read this. There will always be bugs.
https://chaos.social/@ez/115513437034818530
Elizabeth Zagroba (@[email protected])
“You desire something that doesn’t exist.” @[email protected] https://www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/why-didnt-testing-find-this-issue-because-you-desire-something-that-doesnt-exist/
chaos.social
November 9, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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ricci.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy
Try my new file format, OCSV: Oxford Comma Separated Values
November 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
@jacob Supposedly here: https://fidoalliance.org/9to5mac-apple-work-passkey-portability-is-finally-here-in-ios-26-and-macos-tahoe-26/
fidoalliance.org
October 16, 2025 at 2:17 AM
jacob.mastodon.farktronix.com.ap.brid.gy
I love passkeys but 1Password's browser integration with Safari is so broken that I've stopped upgrading to passkeys on websites that offer them.
I guess it's time to migrate everything to the Apple Passwords app. Is passkey migration even possible, or do I need to just set up a new one for […]
Original post on mastodon.farktronix.com
mastodon.farktronix.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
jacob.mastodon.farktronix.com.ap.brid.gy
My kids were asking when they could have their own iPhones and I got to use “when I was younger and I wanted an iPhone I had to build one myself!”
October 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
jacob.mastodon.farktronix.com.ap.brid.gy
We listened to a podcast where they mentioned cooking lasagna in the dishwasher and the kids HAD to try it, so now this is happening
October 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Thanks to my hardware store. New insult unlocked.
Photo of a white plastic bag with a UPC bar code. The text of the product name reads “BALLCOCK SHANK NUT BAG.”
October 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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samhenrigold.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
hey wanna see something kinda interesting? this was the entire fix to the iPhone Antennagate in 2010. 20 bytes.

(this is going to be a very long thread 🧵)
Assembly code between iOS 4.0 and 4.0.1. It's basically the same except one instruction points to a different address. A lookup table tweaked between 4.0 and 4.0.1.
October 7, 2025 at 12:43 AM
jacob.mastodon.farktronix.com.ap.brid.gy
This is the one thing I’ve been waiting to do since I’ve gotten the receipt printer.
October 1, 2025 at 1:20 AM
jacob.mastodon.farktronix.com.ap.brid.gy
I found a cheap receipt printer on Amazon so I upgraded the kid’s label printer to a mini newspaper.
September 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Random childhood anecdote, posted as individual toot in order to not derail some random joke post about kids these days not being into non-Euclidean geometry:

I have three siblings, spaced two years apart each. All three of us went to the same high school. My youngest sister's math teacher […]
Original post on infosec.exchange
infosec.exchange
September 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM