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CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems

<p>Weird raccoon. Computer antiquarian, runs a small youtube channel that desperately needs more videos</p><p>Formally cursedsilicon@social.restless.systems</p>

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  • Post #4333329

    @emily Boop. CGHMN signup approved! Also since it&amp;#39;s on your contact page, there&amp;#39;s also the retro Discord if you&amp;#39;d like! https://discord.gg/TnpSG2P677

  • Post #4333328

    Why does eBay have a livestreaming feature? Like. I&amp;#39;m not even surprised it&amp;#39;s all slop thumbnails But why does EBAY need livestreaming???

  • Post #4302067

    Come to the Cursed Silicon Discord server Where I ask the HARD hitting questions

  • Post #4255390

    #mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #fedihelp Doing one final push to hit the goal before August 1st. I&#39;m a little nervous because GoFundMe seems to do &quot;weekly&quot; payouts. So I REALLY wanna get this finished before Friday to make sure I can pay them on the spot Monday. The whole &quot;yeah if you&#39;re late again we&#39;ll just evict you&quot; has had me in a low key panic since I got that email a couple weeks ago. Once I&#39;ve rent paid I&#39;m gonna call the WA governor office and...

  • Post #4180250

    Making the eternal mistake of checking out the orange site An article about Half-Life being ported by a fan to Mac OS 9 (1999) was posted Naturally all the fucking comments are &quot;waaaaow I bet they used AI to do this&quot; The absolute *dedication* that site has to the slop machine is truly a summation of the worst excesses of LLM&#39;s. It&#39;s a fishtank full of (usually) below average sand eaters crab bucketing each other about how great they are at being tech bros

  • Post #4171627

    #mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #fedihelp Another week. My unemployment is still being &quot;adjudicated&quot; (going on 12 days now) I&#39;m extra fearful of being given an eviction notice in August. So I wanna get on top of rent *before* August 1st ;-; the more runway I can give myself the better Truly cannot understate how much I appreciate all the help folks have given, even just boosting! I promise I&#39;ll have more videos coming out soon. I&#39;m juggling *several* retro projects all...

  • Post #4099419

    #mutualaidRequest #mutualaid #fedihelp #mutualaidboost I&#39;ve got EIGHT DAYS LEFT to get rent for August. I know folks are sick of hearing me ask for help. But I&#39;m teetering on that edge of oblivion &gt;: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-shaun-keep-a-roof-over-his-head https://ko-fi.com/CursedSilicon The state are still spinning their wheels deciding if I should get unemployment or not. It&#39;s gotten to the point I&#39;ve written to my congressional reps asking that they intervene as...

  • Post #4094279

    Not buying anything. But I felt compelled to at least make the pilgrimage #teardown2026

  • Post #4083408

    Hey, #netbsd folk. Forgive my ignorance on this topic. But I need to build a NetBSD port for a distribution that doesn&#39;t have one ready to go. Can NetBSD be built from source *on Linux* or does it need to be built from within a NetBSD environment itself? Just so I know if I need to spin up a NetBSD build VM first

  • Post #4021935

    Testing out a battery bank for my roommate and having a bit of a Hank Hill moment with it

  • Post #3873164

    Crying and shitting myself as I admit maybe the BSD folks had a point about &quot;code quality&quot; all along

  • Post #3851295

    #mutualaid #fedihelp #mutualaidrequest Despite paying rent on the 3rd, the landlord decided not to process the rent check until the 6th. Then slapped on a $75 late fee Today they sent a notice &quot;politely&quot; asking us when we&#39;d submit the payment for the remaining balance ...And then reminded us that if we&#39;re late again we &quot;may&quot; be evicted Gonna do one big final push to try and get this GoFundMe completed so I can pay the fee and August rent in advance ;-; anything l...

  • Post #3792338

    Cowards: Shaun, long Gatorade can&#39;t hurt you. It isn&#39;t real Long Gatorade:

  • Post #3782750

    I saw that the Sega Dreamcast got patches in the latest 7.2 Linux kernel and was curious about the state of running Linux on the ancient nugget Back in the day you could buy a 10/100 NIC upgrade for it (the &quot;Broadband Adapter&quot; or BBA) Internally the BBA is a bog standard Realtek RTL 8139c chip But then there&#39;s these two other custom(?) chips on the board. One of which is branded &quot;SEGA&quot; Seemingly nobody has reverse engineered these? Instead, folks have been harvestin...

  • Post #3752053

    Has anyone out there toyed with the &quot;snac2&quot; ActivityPub service? It&#39;s Mastodon *compatible* and seems to be geared toward &quot;low powered devices&quot; The fact it&#39;s completely Javascript free makes it extreeeeeeeemely tempting for retro computing stuff in particular. Has anyone out there used it and do y&#39;all have any thoughts?

  • Post #3732321

    This is where I post from btw

  • Post #3730975

    Cursed Silicon&#39;s got a good head on his shoulders And an even better one on his Hackintosh

  • Post #3707001

    #CGHMN now has an authentic PHPBB2 forum! Naturally the first thing I did when given admin was to shitpost and pin it

  • Post #3658961

    #mutualAidRequest #fedihelp #mutualaid Another week, no response from the WA unemployment office about my case. Reading online that it can take &quot;up to 30 days&quot; Renewing the push to cover rent and bills for August as I&#39;m currently overdrawn due to being double-billed for internet &gt;: (thanks Ziply!). https://www.gofundme.com/manage/help-shaun-keep-a-roof-over-his-head https://ko-fi.com/CursedSilicon GoFundme has been gently suggesting I end my campaign early due to not get...

  • Post #3546773

    I made the mistake of watching &quot;The Amazing Digital Circus&quot; And then because like Sideshow Bob I can&#39;t help but step on rakes I said I didn&#39;t like it in a group chat

  • Post #3529480

    I made a Spoony Experiment joke to a friend Then I had to explain &quot;oh he used to make Youtube videos&quot; The friend then replied &quot;his last video was 16 years ago?&quot; I-I need to sit down

  • Post #3417693

    I want sky ravioli..

  • Post #3417213

    #mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #fedihelp (Boosts suuuuper appreciated still ;-;) Getting kinda nervous as July 1st inches closer. Still need to hit at least 50% to ensure rent is covered for July https://www.gofundme.com/manage/help-shaun-keep-a-roof-over-his-head https://ko-fi.com/CursedSilicon And for folks who wanna just throw spare change at me for making retro computing stuff, I do have Patreon over here https://www.patreon.com/CursedSilicon

  • Post #3405241

    Important

  • Post #3403848

    #mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #fedihelp (Boosts heavily appreciated! ;-;) I&#39;m a little bit over 15% of the way to my overall goal to cover rent for July and August. I truly can&#39;t thank folks enough for helping out ;-; I&#39;ve got exactly 1 week left to ensure I get rent for July paid on-time https://www.gofundme.com/manage/help-shaun-keep-a-roof-over-his-head https://ko-fi.com/CursedSilicon Also for those that want like, rewards, I do also have a Patreon over here https://www.pat...

  • Post #3403840

    HEY, #retrocomputing lovelies. I made another video! Go check it out maybe? &lt;: I made the awful mistake of trying to teach a Mac to be a server https://youtube.com/watch?v=xFCvW9CoSek

  • Post #3384393

    I fucking hate hot weather like this. I literally can&#39;t function properly. I just get migraines and need to cower in bed ;-;

  • Post #3323848

    Sending a bug report to a small open source project is more nerve wracking than a fucking job interview &quot;Did I really check EVERYTHING before doing this?&quot;

  • Post #3296055

    I also get in the way unless placated with snacks

  • Post #3270333

    &quot;Please, call me CenturyLink. AT&amp;T was my fathers name&quot;