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Gerard Krupa

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@uxian in the bad place. Politics there. Interests here. Programming, gaming, retro computing, manga/anime, urban fantasy, cats, cycling and 3D printing/laser etching.

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UV desktop printing is the wave of the future for home-made custom PCBs. This is way easier than pre-coated boards, dry-film photoresist or laser etching

05.03.2026 19:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"...in fact, he can’t even spell β€˜wizard’ – but no one specified whether competence was an issue. And they do have a very big stick..."
-- Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times

02.03.2026 18:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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My printer’s getting high off its own supply

02.03.2026 13:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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OPNsense: We're making DNSmasq the default for DHCP and DNS
Me: *spends a few hours changing Groovy code to use the DNSmasq API instead of the Unbound API*
Me: *notices the CSV upload button on the DNSmasq hosts page*
Me: *spends 10 minutes writing a file converter in Python*

28.02.2026 09:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeet is murder

28.02.2026 00:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just think of it as blue Morgana

28.02.2026 00:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m a rhinoceros

24.02.2026 23:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It felt good to be out of the… race?

24.02.2026 23:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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They say practice makes perfect. I’m going to need a *lot* more practice.

24.02.2026 20:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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You what? You what? You what?

16.02.2026 12:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This week I heard someone say that asking AI if his son's running times were good instead of learning about the sport make him a better father.

14.02.2026 20:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Roses are red
Violets are blue
So is the screen
Caused by my Voodoo

14.02.2026 14:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The β€œyou need to clean out the air fryer” alarm, formerly known as the β€œthe toaster is set too high” alarm is going off

14.02.2026 12:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They really need to learn about the dairy flavoured liquid of human kindness

13.02.2026 14:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

12 Angry Mend

12.02.2026 19:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Company trying to sell thing says controversial thing about thing to publicise thing. Exciting!

12.02.2026 09:10 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've managed to start and give up on FF7 Remake on 2 different platforms so far. Is it worth starting again and abandoning on Switch 2 as well?

11.02.2026 21:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

They obviously loved reading about Alun Gwynn

10.02.2026 22:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Pretty sure I just removed more lint from my phone’s USB-C port than is physically possible for it to hold. Thank you Mr Vinyl Spudger.

10.02.2026 22:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Jack Tramiel!

10.02.2026 20:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Warning may also contain one right answer

10.02.2026 20:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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It's when it's this colour you really need to start worrying

10.02.2026 20:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The word algorithm has been ruined by Twitter

10.02.2026 20:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That classic theme tune

God bless Pigeon Street
Viva Pigeon Street
Long live Pigeon Street
C'est magnifique, Pigeon Street
Magnifique, Pigeon Street

10.02.2026 20:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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It's more IOI than AI

10.02.2026 20:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm watching a man painstakingly drag all of the staff and visitors to an Italian vineyard into a wine press and crush them one by one over the course of about 20 hours. ASMR has definitely changed.

10.02.2026 20:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Having a stationary Laura Dern, Sam Neill, and Jeff Goldblum singing Dragostea Din Tei might even get me to watch a few seconds of American Football

03.02.2026 21:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I went and found my centre.

*My local recycling centre

01.02.2026 16:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Unlike C64 owners we could scream along to the loading sounds

31.01.2026 18:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Magic Muffile

31.01.2026 17:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0