Adrian Chadd

@erikarn

* he/him * (was) VR/AR prototype work at FB/Meta * KK6VQK when RF * Discord - therealerikarn * FreeBSD, WiFi drivers/stack, Retro Computing, Random Electronics, and occasional kid/puppy stories * for links to everything else

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Adrian Chadd@erikarn· Jun 27

ABSOLUTELY

88% woke 64% techbro 59% doomer 86% davos closest match is Zohran Mamdani - I am in good company

Adrian Chadd@erikarn· Apr 16

I couldn't post it without the spaces between http, dot and version because it threw a fucking bsky proto error

Invalid app.bsky.feed.post record: Invalid uri (got "http.version") at $.writes[0].record.facets[0].features[0].uri

Adrian Chadd@erikarn· Apr 8

re: artemis ii nice

Adrian Chadd@erikarn· Apr 5

ie it's literal waste dump testing now

the artemis capsule with the moon in the background and little reflective flecks coming out of the spacecraft

yup thats poop/pee being vented

Adrian Chadd@erikarn· Apr 3

re: artemis ii again with the toilets

artemis ii - crew activity: toilet noise FTO

Adrian Chadd@erikarn· Mar 21

ha holy shit @adriansdigitalbasement.com 's latest XT video found pdf's on /my/ website!

Adrian's Digital Basement - looking at a browser tab, where he's using my website (erikarn.github.io) and my collection of PDFs! neat!

Adrian Chadd@erikarn· Mar 18

lol sigh

linked in {:hasViewJobTitle} - {:hasViewCompany} - ie, an email went out without the template runner running

Adrian Chadd@erikarn· Mar 17

sigh youtube ads, sigh

a youtube ad featuring a young woman in a bikini against an ad "date without age boundaries" and jfc wtf

Adrian Chadd@erikarn· Mar 15

I have some positive and some very negative views about the current AI stuff, however this is just absolutely a big fuck you from me. A service that takes open source input and spits out a re-implementation, stripping away the attribution/licensing.

CLEAN ROOM AS A SERVICE

Finally, liberation from open source licence obligations.

Basically, a fuck you to open source via AI agent/robots for companies wishing to steal shit

Adrian Chadd@erikarn· Mar 13

AMAZING! and done, this is the kind of stuff we need

$50 one time contribution to kat, because OFC

Adrian Chadd@erikarn· Mar 6

hahahahah at least it wasn't a middle finger

me: 'please draw an LLM for me'
ai: "puter explode :c"

Adrian Chadd@erikarn· Feb 27

sigh

an ad for "realistic ai girlfriend" - "no games, no ghosting. just an AI girl built to understand and engage" sponsored by get dash honey dot ai.

an ai generated woman, early 20s, blue eyes, white skin, grey/blue neck length slightly wavy hair .. ugh, why am I describing an AI generated woman? sigh.

Adrian Chadd@erikarn· Feb 16

oh shit what did i do now

Adrian Chadd@erikarn· Feb 8

I was almost shocked - printing from FreeBSD to my old Epson Stylus NX420 worked a couple years ago when it was USB attached but in this new house it's now setup as network printer. And it worked. Almost. Except it isn't. The colour alignment is now wrong. sourceforge.net/p/gimp-print...

A picture of Moana from the Moana TV show, but showing the CMYK inks are vertically misaligned. Like, by a good print-head amount per colour.

Adrian Chadd@erikarn· Feb 6

I opened up a power supply to, you know, check before i used it. mmmmmm these are some leaky bois (I tossed the PSU, screw it.)

A photo of a power supply pcb with a bunch of leaky electrolytic capacitors. Nice big chunks of dried up electrolytic just trying very hard to escape.

This came out of an Apple Airport Prototype Unit (A Marvell eval kit) from one of the guys that worked on it years ago. No, it's all since been recycled. Sorry.

Adrian Chadd@erikarn· Feb 2

Miss 12yo brought home a bunch of rocks from camp today. I do not like having to be bad cop here and tell her they're a million percent unsafe there and she needs to move them. :(

a marble shelf, about 6ft hgh, with four levels, and various trinkets. yes thats a partial pic of a taxidermy corvid on the top, and a fairy house on the bottom.

anyway, on the top level is the new shiny rocks, about 30 in total, and about 10 of them are big. like adult male fist sized big. like, "if this falls on you when you're sitting or lying down, you die" big.

so, ive told her they're not safe, and after she's out of the shower i'm going to make her remove them. sigh.

Adrian Chadd@erikarn· Jan 24

(in between being angry at the news) why yes I'm staring at why power8 performance on 160 CPUs is like 90% kernel and not userland, and wow I see some shit

Adrian Chadd@erikarn· Jan 22

i'll write a post about it soon but in the meantime please enjoy photos of the leakybois caught in action and preventing my 1992 Technics CD player from working.

a photo of a green pcb with a couple components on it but importantly a bunch of removed capacitor spots with electrolytic goop everywhere. ew.

the leakibois (electrolytic capacitors) scattered on my desk. They're little aluminium elecrolytics - like 5mm to 8 mm wide by about 6mm tall, covered in black plastic and bits of crusty leakiboi juice.

Adrian Chadd@erikarn· Jan 9

who the f is this guy and why's he show up in all of the health ads on youtube but none of the image searches I try with his face?

an elderly guy with white hair, glasses, a suit, ah fuck it that's not important what's important is he's trying to shill health products and i wanna know who the fuck he is

Adrian Chadd@erikarn· Dec 28

"Ah shit what did I do that left containment ffs"

bsky notification icon, with "30+" in blue over the alarm image

Adrian Chadd@erikarn· Dec 24

Uhuh. Either I've been scrolling for too long or something's lying

An informational from bluesky (likely couldn't fetch an update) - "We ran out of posts from your follows. Here's the latest from Discover."

THe people I follow would never stop posting. Ever.

Adrian Chadd@erikarn· Dec 23

ma'am its being torrented so hard right now

my qbittorrent client showing the CECOT 60 minute segment being Very Busily torrented. 228 active nodes. Crazypants.

Adrian Chadd@erikarn· Dec 13

A story about an SGI Indy motherboard in three parts. First, a 47uF capacitor that exploded once I fired it up. (yes I checked the board for shorts first, no shorts.) Wow that smelled. Second, the board didn't boot right. Third, a 47uF capacitor which was a >150C, it had DEVELOPED a short.

two surface mount black aluminium 47uF capacitors, with 47-16 F9 written on them. One is missing its lid as it blew up. THe other is intact but the fucking fucker burnt my fucking finger when I touched it. Fucker.

an IR camera shot of the shorted cap, after I had turned off the board. It was at 111.1C here, down from 150.0C which I think is the max the FLIR can report.

Adrian Chadd@erikarn· Dec 13

The best part of this SGI Indy IOC2 chipset datasheet so far. IYKYK

bit 0 - R/W - Power state (active low), when low the supply is off. when high, the supply is on.

Adrian Chadd@erikarn· Dec 13

sigh, the DNCC is really scared, they're sending me so many "please donate" emails anyway I donated another $25 to @katmabu.bsky.social like I said I would any time the DNCC tries to scare me into donating

a screenshot of my donation to kat on actblue - $25.00, One Time, Kat Abughazaleh

Adrian Chadd@erikarn· Dec 6

I have the best new idea for a PFP (sorry @swiftonsecurity.com )

A bongocat playing guitar in the ophelia bongocat video - white cartoon cat, two feathers twisted into a heart as a head piece, white/pink hair, an electric guitar (pink?) on table

Adrian Chadd@erikarn· Dec 4

WHAT THEY REALLY TOOK FROM US. look at that *AESTHETIC*

two computer part packages, minus the plastic bubble cover. The first is "SCSI ACCESSORIES" in white on a dark blue bar, with large yellow/gold streaking. The second says "COMPUTER ACCESSORIES" in white on a grey background with blue horizontal bars above it, and a big yellow then dark blue stripe diagonal along the bottom right.

Adrian Chadd@erikarn· Oct 18

FINE

a snapshot from kofi where i gave some money, saying "THIS IS WHAT YO UGET FOR TAKING SO LONG GIVING ME MY STICKERS KATIE SMDH"

Adrian Chadd@erikarn· Oct 13

good morning from my new mug

me, holding an empty mug up to a backdrop of a blue/white rug and wooden floor. the white mug says "it's a beautiful day to leave me alone" which is like my introvert anthem

Adrian Chadd@erikarn· Sep 19

And I quote, $42.69 to Kat please keep up the good fight!