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   Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Friday, 07-Aug-2026 14:13:48 JST Lauren Weinstein

   Plan for tomorrow: Use a tiny piece of masking tape to "fix" an HDMI-CEC looping problem. This will probably earn me a position at least one circle inward in Hell. Fun fact: I did something very much like this to deal with a PDP-11/45 DL11 serial RS-232 interface card problem at the UCLA ARPANET Lab about 1000 years ago.

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     "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn (gorfram@beige.party)'s status on Saturday, 08-Aug-2026 10:37:15 JST "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn

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     • John Morris

     @lauren @jmorris
     Maybe the real hell was the internet we found along the way.

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     John Morris (jmorris@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Aug-2026 10:37:17 JST John Morris

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     @lauren Did the serial card also earn you a Hell circles "promotion" or is there a statute of limitations?

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     Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Saturday, 08-Aug-2026 10:37:17 JST Lauren Weinstein

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     • John Morris

     @jmorris The hell was seeing what the Internet became in the fullness of time.

     Steve's Place repeated this.