natalie

natalie, 25 days ago to random

https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/7705797

natalie, 2 months ago to random

checking out the pocket386 because i'm not immune to propaganda. after seeing a comment about the audio circuit being scuffed, i confirmed that from the schematic... but it should be pretty easy to improve

ic7, 2 months ago to random

Bought a couple of these generic capture cards with hopefully a CX23881 chipset to start doing RF captures of VHS tapes and whatnot

natalie, 2 months ago to random

https://twitter.com/SupremumBH/status/1785507809532252223

icedquinn, 2 months ago to random

the thing about casette futurism is that magnetic storage tapes are still actually a chad and reliable way to store large volumes of data we could literally just put the big ca-klunk ports in computers right now and they work great

natalie, 2 months ago to random

bubble keiki - wake n bake #nowplaying #np #fediplay
cassette rip

video/mp4

natalie, 2 months ago to random

my follow request backlog got to the point where it was unmanageable (literally, trying to scroll down the list would keep loading the same few over and over) so i deleted all 236 of them from the db. if you sent me a follow request and i didn't accept, feel free to send another. still no guarantee i'll accept, but hopefully it will now at least be possible to accept...

natalie, 2 months ago to random

MegaGRRL OS v0.99.1dev
https://git.agiri.ninja/natalie/megagrrl/-/releases/v0.99.1dev

• New: Support for ILI9341 displays with inverted colors
• Improvement: Faster track change with less clicking noises

No more picrel!

natalie, 3 months ago to random

​:snek_no:​

natalie, 3 months ago to random

damn

natalie, 4 months ago to random

weaponized combat dolls when they need to make a phone call

allison, 4 months ago to random

Tfw just realized, Apple v. Psystar will probably be one of the relevant cases for Nintendo

natalie, 4 months ago to random

better of alone
Jan 28, 2008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcNzIOYk36M

natalie, 4 months ago to random

🥹

natalie, 4 months ago to random

https://twitter.com/SP_zh3000_Shark/status/1759331321967702339

natalie, 4 months ago to random

natalie, 4 months ago to random

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkYHac-rdIE

natalie, 5 months ago to random

MAGNET
MAGNET

magnet

natalie, 5 months ago to random

Beryl running on Xubuntu Linux 6.06 with AIGLX
Apr 8, 2007
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl5s8_qPNqw

natalie, 5 months ago to random

aliexpress is pulling no punches tonight

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natalie, 7 months ago to random

there is currently a bot inside MIT IP space, address 18[.]4[.]38[.]176, scanning fedi at large. i have confirmed this with 5+ unrelated instance admins, large and small instances, across mastodon/misskey/pleroma/akkoma.

the bot is poorly behaved. i have observed it making repeated requests, multiple times per second, for the exact same paths (the paths being, generally: user profiles, specific posts, and sometimes following links in posts). returning 403s does not stop this activity. one of my domains received hundreds of additional requests despite replying with 403 to all of them. i have also seen it make requests for paths containing html tags - seems like a badly written parser. the purpose of these requests and what data is being gathered is unclear.

PTR on the ip returns sts-drand03.mit.edu. a quick web search for "mit drand" brings back https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/directory/david-g-rand and his personal website: https://davidrand-cooperation.com/ (note: other IPs in the /24 also have names in the PTR which match up with names of MIT faculty, but only the .176 IP appears to be involved in this activity).
seems he's doing research into "misinformation" and "fake news" on social media. he also appears to be on fedi! so @Drand, given this activity is sourced from an IP with your name on it, could you share the purpose of this traffic? what data is being collected and how is it being used? do you plan to respect robots.txt or identify yourself in your useragent? is there a process for instance admins to opt out of this activity other than blocking the source IP?