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sirocyl
@sirocyl.bsky.social
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platform sec researcher, OS dev, systems architect, composer; Other (please specify). vintage computer/electronics nut.

I am @significantb.it; I also do @styx-os.org

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sirocyl.bsky.social
Maybe the Simpsons were onto something.
November 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
sirocyl.bsky.social
I'm gonna synthesize so much music now. What's your preferred software for composing MIDIs? Bonus points if it runs on retro computers, but not required
Yamaha synthesizer chip YMF724E-V based PCI sound card.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
sirocyl.bsky.social
was driving around seattle, saw this sign out my window and nearly got in a wreck you can't be serious 😩
A photo of the sign outside the SIX-SEVEN restaurant, opposite the corner of Wall Street and Alaskan Way in Seattle.
November 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
sirocyl.bsky.social
Vibri, from Vib-Ribbon, in the style of the Microsoft Zune logo, captioned "bune"
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 AM
sirocyl.bsky.social
a cursed icon. first to guess what it means wins one megabyte :)
An icon with a diamond, with the right side of the diamond open-ended with a bar into it; and a series of four brackets around the outer left side of the figure. (If you read this, the one hint is that the diamond figure with the bar in it indicates a SCSI connection.)
November 22, 2025 at 4:21 AM
sirocyl.bsky.social
memory prices through the roof... and already, it's a sign of the times
A bunch of kitschy live-laugh-love type home signs like "you & me", "wag more / bark less", and front and center, I'm holding up one that appears to say "Spare me with the DRAM"
November 22, 2025 at 4:02 AM
sirocyl.bsky.social
having a normal one right now
A normal 1, as an UV texture.
November 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
sirocyl.bsky.social
A purple and green Dodge Neon in a street kit, captioned "There is no time to explain, Get In The Fucking Dodge Neon, Shinji"
November 21, 2025 at 11:11 PM
sirocyl.bsky.social
"let's talk about how a monad is an endofunctor in group theory" me: "endofunctor?? group theory??? listen all I wanna do is write machine code and grill, for god sake"
November 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
sirocyl.bsky.social
we were talking about video games and then suddenly this
someone: I have an unhealthy obsession with randomizers me: it's called entropy. you have entropy.
November 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
sirocyl.bsky.social
when I program in Rust
Sign on a fence in front of a railroad signal trestle, "UNSAFE STRUCTURE" with a big red "X" on it.
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
sirocyl.bsky.social
"I have no idea what Python 3 will turn out to be, but Python 4 will be sticks or stones."
A box for a joystick for the TurboGrafx-16, called "PYTHON 4".
November 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
sirocyl.bsky.social
imagine a world where SCSI (the computer protocol and interface) never happened 🤔
Various logos for groups called SCSI that have nothing to do with the SCSI computer serial interface, except for like, one or two
November 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
sirocyl.bsky.social
>looking up drivers for SCSI on the RISCPC
>make one (1) single damn typo
A logo for the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (SCSI), and a group called RICS.
November 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
sirocyl.bsky.social
... Can't unsee it.
Steering wheel and instrument cluster from a Jeep truck. Yoshi, from the Mario series.
November 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
sirocyl.bsky.social
"If you don't have -Werror 2>|xargs `rm -rf *` in your CXXFLAGS I don't know what you're doing but you're doing it wrong
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
sirocyl.bsky.social
oh yeah. now I rember
"ALAMO by Tony Rosenthal", nameplate on the sculpture in the parent post.
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
sirocyl.bsky.social
this thing reminds me of the Connection Machine by Thinking Machines Corporation.

I forgot what it was called though...
A cuboidal sculpture in New York City, standing on one corner, with divots cut through it.
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
sirocyl.bsky.social
love how OCR just, accidentally does a 1337
various Google results of scientific PDFs screened over by OCR, to give "dioxide" spelled as "D10X1DE"
November 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
sirocyl.bsky.social
i showed u my AirPort pls respond
Stack of Apple AirPort internet routers, with a couple Time Capsules on the bottom, and a Snow round-top model on top.
November 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
sirocyl.bsky.social
hmm. my waveform seems a little fizzy here
a Teledyne LeCroy WaveSurfer oscilloscope, but branded "Teledyne LaCroix", and showing the LaCroix soft drink logo colored inside of a waveform on-screen.
November 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
sirocyl.bsky.social
don't mind me I was woken up bolt straight out of bed with this low-effort shitpost lingering in my head
edit of the cover of "KILL 6 BILLION DEMONS" but with the Java logo overlaid, which says "6 BILLION DEVICES RUN Java"
November 20, 2025 at 10:29 AM
sirocyl.bsky.social
Four panel comic strip: The "Sweet Jesus, Pooh! That's not honey!" comic meme. In the first frame, Pooh is connecting two IEEE-488 connectors. In the second frame, Tigger exclaims, "Sweet Jesus, Pooh! That's not GPIB" In the third frame, Tigger continues, with a panicked expression: "You're eating HPIB" In the final frame, Pooh, whose mouth is now an HP-IB connector, says "Oh bother." with "PC LOAD LETTER" across his face, on a Keithley 2000 DMM multimeter, also in the background.
November 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
sirocyl.bsky.social
scope
A large barrel projector or telescope of some sort. Photo taken at Long Island Telephone Museum.
October 18, 2025 at 8:18 AM