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nilix shared 28 Nov 2025 18:12 +0000
original: jbcrawford@hachyderm.io

So I was at a conference and the Georgia World Congress Center is really something. You'll have to put up with a run of photos of it.

nilix posted 27 Nov 2025 17:09 +0000

one of the things i wanna do during my PTO over the next week is fix my icecast setup...

nilix posted 27 Nov 2025 17:04 +0000

we now return to regularly scheduled honks (server was waiting for the block storage decryption key all night after cloudops rebooted it T-T)

nilix shared 26 Nov 2025 15:18 +0000
original: fionafokus@mystical.garden

I find it disillusioning to see the casual use of "AI" slowly creeping into our hacker circles. Most of the discussions about AI focus on the quality of its output. I think we're not doing a good job communicating its more fundamental dangers.

In this blog post I write about how tools shape who we are and why the resource intensiveness of AI is ingrained in its purpose. About the devaluation of skills, and power cycles.

Let me know what you think.

https://fokus.cool/2025/11/25/i-dont-care-how-well-your-ai-works.html

nilix shared 26 Nov 2025 14:06 +0000
original: astraleureka@social.treehouse.systems

courtesy of brother industries:

if [ ! -e /usr/bin/perl ] && [ "/usr/bin/perl" != ''  ];then
  if [ -e "/usr/bin/perl" ];then
    echo ln -s "/usr/bin/perl"  /usr/bin/perl
    ln -s "/usr/bin/perl"  /usr/bin/perl
  fi
fi
if [ ! -e /usr/bin/perl ]; then
  echo ' ****** WARNING: /usr/bin/perl is required. ******'
fi

nilix posted 26 Nov 2025 02:22 +0000

@tedu is there a reason that honk only includes "ack"d replies in the replies collection?

nilix shared 25 Nov 2025 19:31 +0000
original: nullagent@partyon.xyz

Just finished landing Exit Code support. So now if more scanners are made or one of the projects gets more features you can quickly switch to whichever makes the most sense for your use case!

I literally lost a ton of sleep on this volunteer incident response work so I'm going to go touch grass for a bit.

More hacks later tonight, still got some loose ends gnawing at me lol.

https://github.com/datapartyjs/walk-without-rhythm?tab=readme-ov-file#how-to-use

#nodejs #npm #javascript #Sha1Hulud #WalkWithoutRhythm #Sha1HuludScanner #cybersecurity

nilix shared 25 Nov 2025 15:38 +0000
original: neauoire@merveilles.town

Trying to explain to someone that using Linux for serious audio production is really not that complicated, it's just a few simple easy steps, only a matter of navigating the trifecta of jack, pulse and alsa, there's nothing to it all, oh, hey come back, I haven't told you how to auto start the audio servers-HEY, get back here

nilix shared 24 Nov 2025 19:34 +0000
original: noracodes@tenforward.social

> The essence of Free Software is: “When it breaks, you get to keep both halves.” If something doesn’t work the way you want it to, you can change it so that it does. [...] If you want the software to get updated—to have bugs fixed and security vulnerabilities patched—you want something very different. What you want is an ongoing supply of software, not a copy of a specific software artifact. Confusing these two situations is, I think, at the core of the current angst about sustainability of free and open source software.

- Justin Warren, "Open Source Has Too Many Parasocial Relationships" on the PivotNine blog. https://pivotnine.com/blog/open-source-has-too-many-parasocial-relationships/

nilix posted 24 Nov 2025 02:30 +0000

@mariusor btw with your keen eye i fixed authorized fetch in underbbs and am making progress on the rest of my backlog; thanks ^^

nilix posted 21 Nov 2025 00:29 +0000

umm, i might teach a class. i drew up an 8 week lesson plan ^^ kind of excited to do a bit more research and pitch it next week!

nilix replied 18 Nov 2025 17:20 +0000
in reply to: https://merveilles.town/users/7047741/statuses/115571762925391532

@7047741 sounds like micro would be a good fit. it has built in multiplexing and tabs, extensible for linters and whatever via lua, embedded terminals, syntax highlighting, first class mouse support despite being a terminal app, etc. if you want lsp there is also kate which i find a bit less intuitive UI wise but still very useable

nilix posted 18 Nov 2025 02:58 +0000

work has me mostly opining on security and performance issues and filling spreadsheets and reports these days, which makes writing software in my free time all the more fun :D

nilix posted 18 Nov 2025 01:40 +0000

she plan9port/ on my linux till i acme

nilix posted 16 Nov 2025 21:18 +0000

the #nwc mixes just keep getting more aggressive lol

nwc8 is gonna be fucking bananas

nilix posted 15 Nov 2025 16:58 +0000

ugggh the girlfail moments compounded lastnight and i dont feel very powerful this morning lol

nilix posted 10 Nov 2025 16:32 +0000

starting the week with some filesystem shenanegins. i have website updates to make soon on this subject ^^

nilix posted 09 Nov 2025 01:22 +0000

very productive day: i cleaned house in the morning, then solved the lighting problem (cheap portable shop light for my kitchen counter, clamp light for the guest room, disco LED bulb for the porch), and finally picked up some furniture for the guest room so there's finally floor space in there ^^

nilix posted 07 Nov 2025 21:40 +0000

i love it when large parts of the operating system are just unresponsive

nilix shared 07 Nov 2025 20:02 +0000
original: dexter@bsd.network

“We’re standing on the shoulders of giants and they’re running downhill and pretty drunk.”

From the FreeBSD summit today.

nilix shared 07 Nov 2025 17:01 +0000
original: bonfire@indieweb.social

We're crowdfunding the next phase, building community-governed social infrastructure beyond microblogging in cooperation with communities and teams:

- E2E Encryption with @swf
- Collective Moderation @iftas, @kissane
- Federated Groups & Events @kfitz, @klasse_methode
- Collective decision-making @s0hw
- Bluesky bridging @anewsocial
- Mutual Aid Networks @lynnfoster @bhaugen
- Cooperative Hosting @coopcloud @paulbutgold
- Native apps @pachli
- and more...

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bonfire/community?refcode=FVxjqI1kLUOhHXxqyrS6-g

Bonfire roadmap: - **End-to-End Encryption** (with Social Web Foundation): bringing MLS-based privacy to the fediverse - **Collective Moderation** (with IFTAS, wreckage/salvage, Princeton HCI, ActivityPub Trust & Safety Taskforce): Cross-instance coordination tools so moderators can collaborate without losing local autonomy - **Federated Groups & Events** (with Princeton HCI, Knowledge Commons, LAUTI): proper organizing tools communities actually need - **Bluesky Bridging** (with A New Social / BridgyFed): end the last migration, connect protocols - **Mutual Aid Networks** (with Mutual Aid Networks, BuyNothing groups): gift economy and resource coordination for local communities - **Cooperative Hosting** (with Co-op Cloud): one-click federated deployment for non-technical communities

nilix shared 07 Nov 2025 16:59 +0000
original: rysiek@mstdn.social

Keep Android Open
https://keepandroidopen.org/

This is important. We already have a basic duopoly in mobile operating systems, now Google is trying to lock down their platform even more. Nobody benefits from this other than Google's shareholders.

Whether you are a device owner, a developer, or a public institution, this affects you and should matter to you.

Everyone can meaningfully help to push back.

#FuckGoogle #Android #FOSS #Mobile

nilix shared 06 Nov 2025 14:10 +0000
original: josemurilo@mato.social

"The Pipeline Made Visible

Unlike old #authoritarianism built on fear and force, this new system rules through code, capital, and infrastructure — making resistance feel architecturally impossible.
It’s a self-reinforcing loop:
#Ideology fuels venture capital → #capital captures the state → #thestate feeds the same private systems that built it. A new model of power — #privatizedsovereignty."
https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/

nilix shared 05 Nov 2025 00:02 +0000
original: jbcrawford@hachyderm.io

enabling an IDS out of curiosity, finding out that my home network is contaminated by SOFTWARE that is communicating with the INTERNET

nilix posted 04 Nov 2025 15:35 +0000

  • sent the car off to surgery before winter hits
  • further cleared out my spare room
  • started redesigning a project from the perspective of a malware dev
  • waking up on time!

good start to the week in my little corner of the universe at least

nilix posted 29 Oct 2025 04:14 +0000

hehe i always forget how easy it is to get into the flow state when i'm using BOTH my nice peripherals and my void plan9port/linux monstrosity.

debugging is comfy. writing code is effortless. now if only i knew what i was doing? lol

nilix posted 28 Oct 2025 14:58 +0000

wow i forget how good it feels to have my sleep schedule under control ><

nilix posted 28 Oct 2025 04:27 +0000

my qhd monitor just shat itself, RIP :<

nilix posted 28 Oct 2025 03:01 +0000

my debugger, my beloved

nilix posted 25 Oct 2025 22:00 +0000

underbbs's API/websocket/webcomponent flow now works in chromium (did you know chromium does _not_ follow the spec in negotiating the websocket subprotocol?), and includes a basic microclient to demonstrate core functionality. not ready for primetime yet by any means, there are more things to build on and fix, but it's starting to come together ^^

nilix shared 17 Oct 2025 14:27 +0000
original: prahou@merveilles.town

GRENDEL pt.3

prev: https://merveilles.town/@prahou/115371694753633066

#unix_surrealism #grendel #comic

bun in the middle

next: https://merveilles.town/@prahou/115372814373913565

#unix_surrealism #comic #9front #glenda #cirno #unix

GRENDEL: FRIGHTENING SPECIAL

prev: https://merveilles.town/@prahou/115371694753633066

#unix_surrealism #comic #grendel #technomage #cirno #glenda #plan9 #unix #linux #penguin #openbsd #freebsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #9front

bun in the middle

#unix_surrealism #comic #9front #glenda #cirno #unix

Glenda tells Fish about the time Nine and Rabbit came over and Grendel was acting super nice. Nine: "Hi Cirno! Hi Grendel!" Grendel: "Hey guys!" Cirno: "We're just testing Grendel's new CPU architecture!" Nine: "Hi Glenda! You're so cute." Glenda is skulking, monitoring Grendel. Grendel: "What a nice surprise you guys happened by! We can finish testing this anytime. It's not always we get such awesome visitors! Let's make hot cocoa and play quake! Nine: "You're the best, Grendel!" Fish: "You do realize none of this makes Grendel look bad? Maybe we're just old and overworked... We should keep an open mind before doing something harsh... Surely we'll laugh about it in the end." Upon hearing Fish's "keep an open mind", she remembers all the time Fish did not have an open mind. Glenda bonks Fish over the hand with a spoon. Fish: "Ouch.. Thanks.. I don't know what came over me. Grendel's magic must be gaining on me... You are right.. WE MUST KILL GRENDEL" Fish and Glenda load up on weapons.

nilix posted 15 Oct 2025 22:17 +0000

annihilation, ahab, ahab

the ship and the whale, both black suns consuming ahab

but let there be dirty bass