occult

https://vox.ominous.net/@occult

Serving the darker bits.

#engineering #hamradio #meshcore #science #pinball #film #retrocomputing #history #poetry #urbanism #astronomy #NetBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #Plan9 #Linux #Unix #Unix_Surrealism #Boston #CambridgeMA

Website: https://ominous.net
Matrix: occult:ominous.net
Home: Cambridge, MA
Last Listened: The Fat of the Land - The Prodigy

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2026-03-08 21:21:36 GMT

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Hey @npub1lym…fqe3 is your computer sad or happy?
Is this Mr. Computo?
From the May 1985 issue of UNIX WORLD magazine.
#UNIX
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2026-03-06 17:28:27 GMT

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Imagine thinking this illustration was appropriate for UNIX WORLD magazine in 1985, geared toward business users, not realizing that in 2026 it could be used as banner art for an LGBTQ+ self-hosted Mastodon instance.
#UNIX
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2026-03-06 16:42:51 GMT

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Will I see you at UNIX EXPO this year?
I hear pink computers and floppy disks are debuting!
#UNIX
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2026-02-23 16:32:47 GMT

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Thought I’d post a rare selfie while I was out.
#Boston #CambridgeMA #Blizzard #blizzard2026
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2026-02-20 16:13:48 GMT

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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
#UNIX
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2026-02-20 14:54:27 GMT

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Boss: I need art for an article on #UNIX networking technologies for the next issue of UNIX WORLD.
Artist: come back tomorrow.
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2026-02-17 22:33:31 GMT

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Editor: quick! I need art to accompany the article on internationalization of #UNIX for our Dec 1985 issue!
Illustrator on shrooms: say no more.
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2026-02-17 22:27:16 GMT

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we need to normalize Lisp fan art like this.
#lisp
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2026-02-17 16:05:57 GMT

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There’s an LLM coding joke in here somewhere.
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2026-02-17 15:59:29 GMT

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new Radiohead album art just dropped (1988).
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2026-02-17 13:15:08 GMT

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This is some proto- @npub1lym…fqe3 art right here.
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2026-02-10 21:31:59 GMT

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In an alternate universe, deep in a datacenter, Scully takes control of the situation and orders Mulder to kill the AI.
“Ghost in the Machine” (S1E7).
#AI #LLM #TheXFiles #ArtificialIntelligence
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2026-02-03 21:55:41 GMT

Imperial Beach, CA.
February, 2015.
Sand patterns at low side.
#TextureTuesday
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2026-02-01 16:25:37 GMT

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for me, once I had reached my new baseline of no phone, suddenly I noticed the buzzing became downright annoying. I knew it wasn't anything important. I was turning on Do Not Disturb mode more often to shut it up.
I went from worrying about what I was missing to being annoyed that I was being pinged so much. Sure enough, I'd take a glance at my screen, and there was nothing I needed to care about.
My behavioral changes are much less dramatic walking around a city, of course.

2026-02-01 16:23:33 GMT

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You know, I've never thought about it like that. My sense of oblivion has been walking around the city of Boston; yours is much different than mine, with higher stakes. My concerns of leaving the phone behind are downright comical compared to your adventures in and out of oblivion.
I think you're more qualified to write about that kind of mindset than I!

2026-02-01 16:16:14 GMT

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thank you for the feedback.
There’s a lot I wish I could have covered but it would have gone on too many tangents.
I believe what you're describing is temporary, people adjust to this and let go of those anxieties, I know I did eventually.
Everyone will be different on how they acclimate, suddenly you go out on a 2-hour walk without the phone and you didn’t even notice you left it behind.
This change in behavior is just our lizard brains trying to deprogram from our baseline.

2026-02-01 13:27:18 GMT

I've published a new essay on my website.
“Into the Dark Wood: The Right to Be Unknown.”
Oblivion, autonomy, surveillance, and resisting a world that refuses to let us disappear.
https://ominous.net/The_Right_to_Be_Unknown.html
#Privacy #Surveillance #DigitalRights #DigitalAutonomy

2026-01-31 15:35:37 GMT

Hey @npub1lym…fqe3, look what I found. It’s like finding ancient Roman coins around an archaeological dig site.
#Sun #SunMicrosystems #SPARC
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2026-01-30 19:17:53 GMT

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So... interesting timing. This is exactly what my next essay is about, to be published on my site next week titled "Into the Dark Wood: The Right to Be Unknown." I've been refining it the last few days, preparing to publish it. I think you'll appreciate it.

2026-01-28 17:54:57 GMT

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let me know when the standards committee forms I'll join. ;)

2026-01-28 03:14:04 GMT

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nice! I love this trend. Added your RSS so now you have to keep updating it!

2026-01-26 23:46:43 GMT

Since my last update on the #Boston #MeshCore network, we’ve grown a couple more repeaters and are now within spitting distance of bridging CT!
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2026-01-22 15:54:29 GMT

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I've also created an image gallery.
https://img.ominous.net/
In the same vein as https://subversive.pics/ by @npub1lym…fqe3, I will be curating and dumping random images I find on the internet or take around town.
There's an RSS feed and a Mastodon mirror @npub17d8…rg2c available.

2026-01-22 15:49:41 GMT

I've created a personal website.
https://www.ominous.net
It is built with the Oscean static site engine written in Uxn by @npub1z8r…mrq6, who along with @npub1lym…fqe3 and their respective websites, have inspired me to develop my own.
I have set a goal to write a long form essay once a month with my first being “The Stars in Your Eyes Are Stolen: Æon Flux and Decentralized Power Systems” found here: https://ominous.net/Æon_Flux.html
I hope folks enjoy my little corner of the internet. I intend to expand it often.

2026-01-20 17:23:28 GMT

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and isn't it amazing how bad the original Newton's handwriting recognition was?

2026-01-19 22:53:49 GMT

Went to the Boston Science Museum with my buddy and saw the largest Van de Graaff generator, which was built by Jan de Graaff himself. They had a number of Tesla coils on display, and it was all pretty rad.
#Science #Museum #Boston
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2026-01-19 01:31:58 GMT

Started playing Beyond Oasis for SEGA Genesis with @npub1uqm…xl0q. It has similar game mechanics to Light Crusader. Big sprites, pleasant color palettes, I especially love the water effects.
#SEGA #MegaDrive #RetroGaming #VideoGames
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2026-01-18 23:11:23 GMT

Went to the Winslow Homer exhibit at #MFA. I had not realized he was from #Boston and grew up in #CambridgeMA.
The watercolors are quite striking in person and flat photographs don’t do it justice. The exhibit ended today, but if you get the opportunity to see them, I recommend it.
#Art #Watercolor
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2026-01-18 16:22:13 GMT

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How timely! I just started taking my first steps into #Uxn by setting up Oscean as my site engine. I wrote a static image gallery generator as well to dump random things.
The about -> now section actually updates my status in realtime via various scripts/webhooks and nginx SSI.
I’m still filling out the website and expanding its sections each day as part of my 2026 goals.

2026-01-11 18:21:36 GMT

Went to the #Boston #Museum of Fine Arts yesterday. Nice to have such beautiful things in my backyard. Saw some Monet and Dutch masters.
Don't forget to visit your local #library and museums this year!
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2026-01-09 22:17:54 GMT

RE: https://blahaj.social/@maartje/115867225088740197
I am old enough to remember using WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) when I first got a cell phone in 2001.
Originally built for accessing mobile websites over cellular data but now over #Meshcore!
#note1wm3…tcx7

2026-01-07 21:53:51 GMT

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh-9rBYmGow&feature=youtu.be
https://youtu.be/FdpggGnA3Kw

2026-01-07 21:53:05 GMT

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You can, and folks have booted it on real hardware!
https://vox.ominous.net/@occult/115759331681756867

2026-01-05 21:16:34 GMT

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The network is now expanding the into New Hampshire and are closing in on linking with Hartford, CT.
We are hoping to deploy more repeaters south into Rhode Island, where there are pockets of #Meshtastic users wanting to connect to the #MeshCore network in New England.
Once connected and with MeshCore's stability over tens of hops there's no reason we can't have someone from CT or RI reliably message folks in NH via routes through Boston and eventually via redundant paths.
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2026-01-05 21:05:37 GMT

Our #Boston #MeshCore community has rapidly grown over the last few months. We went from a single repeater in my window to over 100 with as many users in the Boston metro area spanning over 300mi².
One of our users created a live map of the network, which parses the packet routes and visualizes them in real time as well as showing the history of routes weighted by activity. Remember every dot is a former #Meshtastic user.
Watch the packets zip around our mesh live:
https://live.bostonme.sh/?lat=42.36010&lon=-71.15000&zoom=12&layer=light&history=on&heat=on&labels=off&nodes=on&legend=on&units=mi&history_filter=0
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2026-01-02 02:12:37 GMT

I just learned that Stewart Cheifet passed away only a few days ago on December 28th, 2025. For those unfamiliar with him, he was the creator and host of The Computer Chronicles in the 80s and 90s and over 400 episodes.
It’s fascinating to go back and watch old episodes. This isn’t just a time capsule of retro-computing, they actually aired informative, highly technical, computer-oriented television on PBS like this episode from 1985 on UNIX.
#UNIX #RetroComputing #PBS
https://archive.org/details/UNIX1985
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2026-01-01 20:30:50 GMT

"...and uh, the most advanced operating system."
“It’s called UNIX."
Stanley Kubrick definitely would have been a Plan 9 user.
#UNIX #unix_surrealism #9Front #Plan9
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2025-12-29 19:32:48 GMT

Fun talk by @npub1aw0…7ktg at #39C3
"Celestial navigation with very little math."
An analog computer that turns a sextant reading into your latitude, solving spherical trigonometry with rotating rings.
Replacing 100+ pages of nautical tables with a single slide rule.
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-celestial-navigation-with-very-little-math

2025-12-28 21:05:13 GMT

Catching up on #39C3 talks from #CambridgeMA / #Boston.
Make sure to see @npub1wh2…zlqx discussing geostationary satellite signals interception and insecurities.
https://www.wired.com/story/satellites-are-leaking-the-worlds-secrets-calls-texts-military-and-corporate-data/
Recording: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-don-t-look-up-there-are-sensitive-internal-links-in-the-clear-on-geo-satellites

2025-12-20 19:03:12 GMT

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I would buy her side-project solo album on vinyl.

2025-12-15 14:10:21 GMT

#Amtrak #Acela from #Providence to #Boston after a quick visit this weekend.
#Trains #Transit
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2025-12-09 04:00:46 GMT

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Watching it today, I get the sense that the world depicted would incorporate collapse computing or #permacomputing.
See https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/collapse_computing.html and https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/permacomputing.html for explanations courtesy of @npub1z8r…mrq6 for more info.
The stories and characters are nuanced, have extreme depth and surprising relevancy to our world 30 years later. It's required multiple viewings over decades to grasp it all and apply it to the context of the present.
It's worthy of a complete viewing every ten years.

2025-12-09 03:52:02 GMT

We need to talk about Æon Flux.
I see a lot of people talking about fighting fascism or discussing #anarchy but no one seems to remember the icon that was Aeon.
I remember watching this episode "Thanatophobia" (S03E03) back in 1995 and this opening scene punched me in the face the same way 30 years later.
If you've not watched ÆonFlux I recommend it. I still hum this to myself all these years later.
It's anarcho-biopunk-core with #CyberPunk elements and much more.
#AeonFlux #Animation #90s
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2025-12-06 17:59:49 GMT

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it would appear @npub1lyn…ve6v dropped the ball by never updating their client and neglecting their users while the competition passed them by. I've given up on them and have switched to @npub1frs…09cc and will be giving them money. Even @npub1cnh…wtw0 which is completely free has surpassed Ivory and I recommend it if Mona isn't going to work for you.
I'm not a subscription fan either, but I will upgrade. I believe in Mastodon and ActivityPub and will support the ecosystem where I can.

2025-12-06 17:28:58 GMT

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yeah, zero contacts made. I did not bother with Meshtastic, not worth it.
My friends and I have plans to link Williamsburg to Gowanus via our buildings and some carefully placed nodes around the canal.
We did a site survey and some testing to make sure it was viable.
Next up is to look at SDR waterfall and make sure things are looking clean in order to use recommend settings.
There will be an organized Brooklyn MeshCore group in 2026 if I can help it.

2025-12-04 02:50:39 GMT

Doing some #MeshCore in #Brooklyn.
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2025-11-29 02:11:15 GMT

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Another friend just tried it, not logged in, and had no account and again it was able to look up their location.
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2025-11-29 02:03:42 GMT

After seeing some #AI #privacy posts about #ChatGPT claiming to not be able to see your location, IP, or anything I decided to test it.
With no account or history, I asked it a few questions, and sure enough, it not only knows exactly where I am but is gaslighting me into thinking it was pure coincidence.
A friend followed the same instructions and got the same results in his location as well.
Yikes.
#ArtificialIntelligence #OpenAI
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2025-11-26 22:05:33 GMT

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Where is this?!

2025-11-18 13:45:37 GMT

#CloudFlare may be down, but the Japanese Maple in #CambridgeMA are fine. Go outside and visit your local tree.
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2025-11-18 12:32:03 GMT

Cloudflare may be down, but #MeshCore is up.
#Boston #CambridgeMA @npub1lcc…lcye https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115570551884305954
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2025-11-13 14:35:00 GMT

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Yes.
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2025-11-13 14:26:17 GMT

Never mind the dead internet theory - we're about to have AI agents calling other AI agents and having English language conversations about what’s in stock to buy.
https://www.theverge.com/news/819431/google-shopping-ai-gemini-agentic-checkout-calling

2025-11-07 17:33:07 GMT

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yeah, I wasn't sure if it has become a thing in the sailing community. I feel like it fits in nicely, but it's obviously a bit redundant, I suppose, given the many established and reliable means of communication available.
With it becoming more popular, it might not hurt to have a node when you're hanging off the coast somewhere!
Regardless, I've been enjoying reading the many adventures of cool hackers at sea!

2025-11-07 17:24:45 GMT

@npub1z8r…mrq6 @npub1z2c…laft I’ve been reading posts about your travels aboard PINO as well as Permacomputing principles and have wondered if you’ve ever tried MeshCore or Meshtastic while sailing. I should include @npub1aw0…7ktg in this question as well.
It seems like something that would fit nicely into permacomputing and your low bandwidth/limited communication needs. There’s a large community of users in the PNW and we have created a very large mesh here in Boston.

2025-11-07 16:30:49 GMT

#Boston area #MeshCore has continued to grow over the last few weeks thanks to both the local volunteers who make stuff, design stuff, hike up hills, and install repeaters, as well as a number of very generous people donating time and money to make it happen.
We have been deploying nodes north into New Hampshire and increasing overall repeater density, which has brought redundancy to various links.
Every dot is a former #Meshtastic user repurposing gear.
New live map:
https://analyzer.letsme.sh/map?lat=42.36888&long=-71.06654&zoom=10
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2025-11-06 15:40:25 GMT

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I feel like someone should reach out to the Mamdani / NYC administration and explain to them why having a Mastodon presence would be beneficial to their portfolio of social media outreach.
Perhaps also for NYC services and announcements.
Someone like Zohran may be receptive to including it in their overall strategy. Now is the time!

2025-11-05 20:08:50 GMT

Just received a very exciting email about testing the new Virtual Charlie Card for #MBTA!
From the looks of it, I may be able to test a Charlie Card tied to my monthly pass using my iPhone Wallet, so Apple Watch and iPhone tap and go will work for monthly passes.
It says I should receive testing materials in a few weeks.
#Boston #CambridgeMA #Transit
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2025-10-20 19:36:46 GMT

Does anyone in #Seattle know where the best vegetarian friendly Mexican food is for my buddy @npub19h2…lv9e? https://vox.ominous.net/@rolento/115404167143934586
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2025-10-18 21:23:50 GMT

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Cities around the country should be thinking about how projects like #Meshtastic and #MeshCore fit into events such as #NoKings.
It requires the support of technical members of the community taking the time to set up this infrastructure, which has a cost and is certainly not free.
I’d estimate some members of the #Boston MeshCore network have spent thousands of dollars on equipment.

2025-10-18 17:51:39 GMT

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For context this is what the whole #Boston #MeshCore map looks like right now.
The bulk of all traffic is concentrated around the area of #NoKings downtown.
The #mesh is certainly doing its job right now.
Community run, #decentralized, #encrypted, open-access #infrastructure at work.
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2025-10-18 17:36:06 GMT

Seeing an increase in #MeshCore traffic around the downtown #Boston area today. Glad to see folks out using it during #NoKings.
This is an example of community-run, #decentralized, off-the-grid #mesh networking #infrastructure playing an important role in society.
Folks are reporting that cell phones are essentially unusable due to the volume of people but MeshCore and Meshtastic are both functioning.
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2025-10-15 02:32:27 GMT

My #Introduction.
I talk about life in #CambridgeMA and #Boston, MA, #engineering, #science, #radios (#SDR, #HAM, #LoRa, #MeshCore, and others), #pinball, #film, retro computers/video games, and more.
Occasionally I collect #art, watch #LaserDiscs, study #horology, visit museums often (The Met, MFA, Harvard Art Museum) and support my local libraries.
I read #poetry and books on #architecture, #design, and #urbanism.
I walk or take public #transit everywhere.
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