@ObsidianUrbex@mstdn.social avatar ObsidianUrbex , to random

🗓️ I still have some 2026 calendars left! If anyone would like to give them a loving home, they are 20% off on my website now.

💌 Want more than one? family, DM for a extra discount

📷 12 captivating photos from my favourite places I visited in 2025

🗺️Locations from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Italy and Portugal

✈️Free delivery, worldwide

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https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/shop/calendars/beautiful-abandoned-places-calendar-2026/

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@blainsmith@snac.rblgk.sh avatar blainsmith , to random

Would anyone be interested in buying a 12th Gen (2024) System76 Oryx Pro? I haven't used it in so long I just need to sell it. Short specs on it are:

  • 5.8 GHz i9-14900HX
  • 16 GB DDR5 4800 MHz
  • 500 GB PCIe4 M.2 SSD
  • 6 GB GeForce RTX 4050 with 2560 CUDA Cores
  • 16" Matte Full HD+ 16:10 aspect ratio (165 Hz)
  • United States QWERTY Keyboard
  • WiFi 6E + Bluetooth 5

I paid $2,386.95 for it new last year, but I will entertain a best offer and ship it to you. I prefer to ship within the US since I can only imagine the annoyances of shipping international because of my dumb country right now.

Contact info are in the footer of my site: https://blainsmith.com

@CairoSteele@meow.social avatar CairoSteele , to random
@xenogon@sunny.garden avatar xenogon , to random

So I'm having a very large, very slow clearout.

I want to get rid of my stuff with minimal use of evil corporate platforms so I'm trying out listing it on my own website.

My sale site is here: https://epic-attic.co.uk

I've got about 35 items listed so far, maybe 100 or so more to come, once I've taken photos and so on.

This is a real project! You have to email me to buy/claim stuff there's no checkout and no tracking or scripts of any sort. EDIT( I just remembered there is one js script to run the image gallery, but it is entirely local and doesn't send or request data anywhere.)

I think we need a hashtag for selling and giving away stuff in the UK (for non business stuff)

What about ?

I thought ukForSale initially but that sounds like a political statement.

Is anyone else selling off their excess stuff in the UK? Should we start a ?

@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar aral , to random

Looks like I’m going to have to part with my beloved cube PC.

It’s a gorgeous fanless/silent machine that just screams. Best computer I’ve owned but I’m back to daily driving a Mac for dev and I’d rather it went to someone who’d use it every day instead of having it gather dust here.

Ryzen 5700G, 64GB RAM, 1TB SSD. Full specs in alt text of first image.

Thought I’d mention it here first. Ideally, will go to someone in Ireland. Thinking €1,500+shipping or pick up.

Same computer with the lid off, showing the items listed in the first image.
Same computer with the lid off from a top-down view.
Same computer, detail of the CPU and passive cooling kit with brass pipes.

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PS. I’ve been running Fedora Silverblue on it but I’m happy to install whichever Linux distribution you like on it.

And, in case you care about such things, this is the machine I used to code Kitten¹ and the one I was using for my videos/live streams.

(And yes, this is my work machine and the money for it will go to Small Technology Foundation².)

¹ https://kitten.small-web.org
² https://small-tech.org

Are there tools that exist to anonymize writing styles?

I feel like with the rise of AI something that anonymizes writing styles should exist. For example it could look for differences in American versus British spelling like color versus colour or contextual things like soccer versus football and make edits accordingly. ChatGPT could be fed a prompt that says “Rewrite the ...

brbposting , to Privacy in Are there tools that exist to anonymize writing styles?

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/b3fc7ded-232d-4710-a20f-f9fd6145b85c.jpeg

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(Two screenshots side-by-side showing a text converter with the following input, settings, output + new settings and new output)

For sale: baby shoes, never worn.

Make my text:
More professional

Available for purchase: a pair of infant footwear, never utilized.


Make my text:
More sociable (waffle)

Hey there! So I’ve got these super cute baby shoes up for grabs. Unfortunately, they’ve never been worn. But that just means they’re brand spanking new and ready for a little one to rock them! Let me know if you’re interested in giving these adorable kicks a new home.