MakerBlock

Madman with a box.

I like to make stuff, fix things, mod reality. I like to post longform nonsense here and on my blog. Avatar made by a real flesh and blood human.

MakerBlock.com, PlotterBot.com, Instagram.com/MakerBlock1

Link to Twitter deleted, because fuck that guy.

MakerBlock blog: Http://www.makerblock.com
Drawing Robots: Http://www.plotterbot.com
IG: Instagram.com/MakerBlock1

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2026-07-28 20:08:48 CEST

I really hate how with modern software you can't say "No, I don't ever want this".
What psychopath decided "Maybe later" is better than respecting consent?!

2026-07-16 01:24:11 CEST

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Yeap. Esp 30 years ago

2026-07-15 23:19:46 CEST

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Rural area. More a punishment for the family than the kids. :/

2026-07-15 22:04:28 CEST

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Early 90's, my high school there were these three kids who snuck into the computer room each night to use the computers to just noodle around on the nascent internet After a few such visits, they must have tripped an alarm because the cops were called, students thrown to the ground, prosecuted, charged with the use of "thousands" of dollars of computer "use" and expelled - for basically messing with modems, BBS's.
But the principal got in front of cameras 🙄

2026-07-15 21:24:19 CEST

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I honestly have no idea what you're referring to - but am curious

2026-07-15 19:04:54 CEST

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Heh, yeah. That irony isn't lost on me. Any time a website asks me to train their AI through a captcha, I GTFO.

2026-07-15 18:07:38 CEST

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What a time to be alive. I am old enough to remember pre-world wide web, wondering if it would really ever amount to anything beyond a nerd haven. Dot com bubbles, crypto, NFT's, tech bros would have seemed fanciful.
The idea of all that happening - and then wanting to ditch it all in favor of rotary phones and CRT's would have been even wilder.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/924/827/537/332/394/original/9286ebc73bcd915b.gif

2026-07-15 17:27:38 CEST

In any age when every fucking thing includes AI, I really hate having to perform cute little pet tricks just to prove my humanity to access a website