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  If Valve really wants Deadlock to succeed they should've had the rat king voiced by Danny DeVito And have grandma voiced by Fran Drescher

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  Dave "serial liar" Plummer is making the rounds again. Bragging about working on Windows XP's serial keys And yet in his post, name-drops windows XP releasing in...1995? Was the "I have autism and therefore my memory is perfect this is how autism works buy my book that explains autism" guy... INCORRECT?

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  I wanna make a genre of youtube videos called "spite thumbnails" Where I just (badly) re-make a fucking AI slop thumbnail in Photoshop in literal minutes to show just how breathlessly lazy these fuckers actually are

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  So for some reason, cursedsilicon.net likes to randomly fall over dead As far as I can tell this is just due to the nginx log filling. Entirely due to being a wiki and thus fucking mana from heaven for AI slop bots But unlike TCRF I do not have the time, resources or (especially) energy to stick it behind Anubis or something So, instead

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  I wish Dick's had an app so I could order ahead I know their entire model is based on the speedee system. But I want to blearily stumble out of the darkness, pick up a bag of burgers and scamper back into the night Y'know because I'm a raccoon. And I hate waiting in line

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  Getting a phone call from my Mom: Mom: Yeah Cindee's (her BFF) project is taking off. She wants you to meet the programmer guy so you can get hired. He said you sound perfect Me: oh, good! Mom: Now. Before you meet him. Do you know what...furries are? Me: Wh- Mom: and what poly-armory?...(Yelling) Cindee, how is it pronounced? Me: ...Polyamory? Mom: Yeah! He's apparently both of those. The furry thing is a sex thing and the poly thing is he's got a girlfriend but she's a...

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  I'm glad this conversation wasn't in person because I was basically making this reaction for a solid couple minutes

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  Me when I go to Jersey Mike's

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

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

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

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

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  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 "waaaaow I bet they used AI to do this" The absolute *dedication* that site has to the slop machine is truly a summation of the worst excesses of LLM's. It's a fishtank full of (usually) below average sand eaters crab bucketing each other about how great they are at being tech bros

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  #mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #fedihelp Another week. My unemployment is still being "adjudicated" (going on 12 days now) I'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'll have more videos coming out soon. I'm juggling *several* retro projects all...

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  #mutualaidRequest #mutualaid #fedihelp #mutualaidboost I've got EIGHT DAYS LEFT to get rent for August. I know folks are sick of hearing me ask for help. But I'm teetering on that edge of oblivion >: 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's gotten to the point I've written to my congressional reps asking that they intervene as...

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

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  Hey, #netbsd folk. Forgive my ignorance on this topic. But I need to build a NetBSD port for a distribution that doesn'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

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

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

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  #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 "politely" asking us when we'd submit the payment for the remaining balance ...And then reminded us that if we're late again we "may" 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...

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  Cowards: Shaun, long Gatorade can't hurt you. It isn't real Long Gatorade:

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  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 "Broadband Adapter" or BBA) Internally the BBA is a bog standard Realtek RTL 8139c chip But then there's these two other custom(?) chips on the board. One of which is branded "SEGA" Seemingly nobody has reverse engineered these? Instead, folks have been harvestin...

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

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  This is where I post from btw

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  Cursed Silicon's got a good head on his shoulders And an even better one on his Hackintosh

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

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  #mutualAidRequest #fedihelp #mutualaid Another week, no response from the WA unemployment office about my case. Reading online that it can take "up to 30 days" Renewing the push to cover rent and bills for August as I'm currently overdrawn due to being double-billed for internet >: (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...

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  I made the mistake of watching "The Amazing Digital Circus" And then because like Sideshow Bob I can't help but step on rakes I said I didn't like it in a group chat

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

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  I want sky ravioli..