Post #1273808

2026-04-17 17:34 UTC

Anyone know what circuit board this easter egg is from, and who made it? I'm trying to find a source to attribute. Not the quote itself, I know that's from System Shock. I mean the board that had this printed on it. Looking at reverse image search, it's one of those meme images that's been around for ever and has gone through the social media human centipede so many times that the source is just "idk internet engagement farming bots". I'm hoping the six degrees of separation thing works out, and someone recognizes the board and can tell me who to credit.

Replies (13)

@pixelworship@gamepad.club 2026-04-17 18:51

@danderson@hachyderm.io I'm thinking @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social might have something to do with this

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@danderson@hachyderm.io 2026-04-17 17:38

I think you can tell it's somewhat old, just because the silkscreen printing quality looks fairly coarse to me, compared to what a fab would be able to do today? Or maybe it's just printed very small, from the scale clues this is probably what, around 10mm total height?...

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@th@social.v.st 2026-04-17 17:44

@danderson@hachyderm.io it's not the Open Book Project, which also features some extensive annotations on the silkscreen layer.

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@jordan@sometimes.social 2026-04-17 18:48

@danderson@hachyderm.io is this a @foone@digipres.club thing maybe?

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@fasterandworse@hci.social 2026-04-17 19:01

@danderson@hachyderm.io I found this https://www.ppa.pl/graffiti/obrazek/4095/look-at-you-hacker

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@Doomstrike@metalhead.club 2026-04-17 19:55

@danderson@hachyderm.io Looking at C41 and C51 though something looks a little off, they look kind of sawn-off on the north side, and looks like the solder pad shorts across the south.

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@airwhale@beige.party 2026-04-17 20:34

@danderson@hachyderm.io A perfect, immortal machine eh? [Unplugs power cord]

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@fmn@mastodon.social 2026-04-17 20:59

@danderson@hachyderm.io 1) might be late, 2) didn't read other commets just yet; i am not sure if it's the original source, but sounds a bit like system shock video game?

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@nicksilkey@hachyderm.io 2026-04-17 21:19

@danderson@hachyderm.io thank you sm for circling back with details! 🫂 And for using #askfedi power. ✨✌️💙

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@vnikolov@ieji.de 2026-04-18 03:34

The text reminds of Peter Sinfield's lyrics: But I gave you life! WHAT ELSE COULD YOU DO? To do what was right! I'M PERFECT! ARE YOU? (Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Karn Evil 9, 3rd impression; 1973). @danderson@hachyderm.io

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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-04-18 04:17

@danderson@hachyderm.io Immortal, perfect machine, is it? Pretty sure I'm going to outlive those capacitors. Just saying. 😂

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@elithebearded@fed.qaz.red 2026-04-18 17:33

@danderson@hachyderm.io I had wondered about that, too, and hit the same wall of reposts. Glad to see someone figured it out

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@ruurd@mastodon.social 2026-04-19 13:47

@danderson@hachyderm.io @wiert@mastodon.social Dear board. My soldering iron wants to have a word.

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