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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

nilix shared 10 Oct 2025 16:21 +0000
original: voidxwitch@438punk.house

feral in the woods (i.e., no pants, just fishnets and a strap)

feral in the woods (i.e., no pants, just fishnets and a strap)

ɪ ᴀᴍ ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴇᴀꜱᴛ, ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴇᴀꜱᴛ ɪ ᴀᴍ. 🩸some pics from the last visualizer shoot.

maybe it's obvious, maybe not, but every character i portray is a shadow aspect of myself that no longer wishes to be suppressed. i talk a bit about this in my recent Patreon post, but regarding the Beast of the Black Hill, it was... interesting putting the outfit on again and going back into the woods to film. it kinda felt like it's something i should do every year, until i feel i can fully step into what the Beast means for me, the angry protector and avenger and more. September may henceforth be BEAST SEASON.

obligatory Patreon plug: free members now get access to 3 posts and a free zine. https://www.patreon.com/voidxwitch

shot by @ritualdust

i'm dressed up as a Beast, with leather face harness, pierced ears, and claws and wrist cuffs. i have red eye contacts in and am looking at the camera me crouching in the woods, with face harness, claws, fishnets, and a strap. i'm making eye contact with the camera. hanging out in the woods in beast form. squatting on a rock, wearing fishnets and leather. i have red eye contacts in. standing the woods, wearing a furry coat and leather beast mask. i'm looking over my shoulder at the camera.

nilix shared 09 Oct 2025 18:56 +0000
original: inconvergent@mas.to

three renders of the same test scene. the first two have volume light w/different settings. the third has no volume light. all images show light streaming in through columns on the left into a cavernous space with boxes around the edges. everything is very simplistic #graphics

volumetric light visible coming from between columns. but also more stray/inexplicable light columns much bright rendering of the same image. the boxes around the edges now project a lot of volume light into the open space very dark rendering. we see reflection of the light source inside the columns. and some reflections in ceiling and glass/water base

nilix posted 09 Oct 2025 16:19 +0000

beeeeeeep -_-

fscking my brain this morning

nilix posted 09 Oct 2025 00:23 +0000

#honk, now at 5g speeds
the way the honknet was meant to be experienced

nilix posted 07 Oct 2025 01:07 +0000

anybody who fw websockets, please tell me why:

  • felt works fine in chrome/vivaldi
  • but underbbs doesn't - from the serverside it looks like the connection is opened properly, but from the browser it looks like the websocket connection fails. it works fine in firefox and webkit, and it doesn't matter if it's hosted locally or on a server with TLS

nilix posted 02 Oct 2025 01:40 +0000

i keep wanting to do some kind of underbbs work

and then i start and i don't want to T-T

nilix shared 25 Sep 2025 17:14 +0000
original: l03s@post.lurk.org

It has been 6 months since I passed my viva, yet I forgot to share my thesis here (due to it feeling unreal af... until... today :)

It's called 'The Image at the End of the World: Communities of practice redefining technology on a damaged Earth'. In it I describe communities which give voice and shape to different definitions and roles for technology within the polycrisis: permacomputing, computing within limits, collapse informatics, salvage computing, slow tech, redundant technology, low-tech, feminist technology, convivial computing, disability driven development and more.

https://researchportal.lsbu.ac.uk/en/publications/the-image-at-the-end-of-the-world-communities-of-practice-redefin

With contributions by so many amazing people! Including @ccl @alcstrt @anglk @amelia @decentral1se @cmos4040 @p_p @mara @reni @diacritter @constant @snisioi @rra @320x200 @wendy @kattrali @praxeology @michal @viznut @sister0 @pixouls @msavoritias @jonuriarte @smmrcr @hellocatfood @neauoire @rek @dougschuler @solderpunk @titipi @xocffoeg @aaaannet and more!

#happy #phd #permacomputing #lowtech #feminist #tech #smolweb #sustainability

Image with the title 'damaged earth catalog' and subtitle 'access to collective reimagining' above a block ascii image of the earth as seen from space.

nilix shared 15 Sep 2025 23:57 +0000
original: demi@wetdry.world

Have you seen the new code? It's on malloc. It's literally on volatile.

It's on #define with side effects. It's literally on long long.

You can probably find it on __attribute__((packed)). Dude it's on restrict.

It's a static inline original. It's on extern. You can #include <extern>.

You can go to extern and fopen("extern","r"). Compile onto extern right now.

Go to extern. Dive into extern. You can extern it. It's on extern.

extern has it for you. extern has it for you.

nilix posted 14 Sep 2025 23:27 +0000

i'm GONNA finish underbbs soon

finishing the adapters (now that the basics are in place it's not too bad to just bring them all up to the same level of the honk adapter), a little bit of UI cleaning and testing, and it should be ready

nilix posted 09 Sep 2025 04:59 +0000

i spent quite a number of hours the past month trying to find out what broke in felt sometime between the end of my gurps campaign and now.

finally having discovered it was not anything to do with code but that while i migrated the assets and users DB from the old server i did not migrate the main DB, so even though the metadata about the table existed in the users DB and the assets exist in the storage directory, the table itself did not exist in the main DB and so the websocket connection could never open because the subprotocol which must be one of the table keys in the main DB couldn't be negotiated =w=

nilix shared 07 Sep 2025 22:43 +0000
original: ray@goblin.camp

Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche on being gay and buddhist: "your sexual orientation has nothing to do with understanding or not understanding. You could be gay, you could be lesbian, you could be straight. We never know which one will get enlightened first.

Probably lesbians."

nilix posted 07 Sep 2025 22:41 +0000

my #mmzx OC's transformed state - Model Iz, the prismatic mega man

MegaMan Model Iz: her base armor is dark purple with black plating. her helmet has the zero-like swept back horns and a flickering holgraphic cyan forehead crystal; her torso armor is articulated with silver abs; her cuffs on wrists and ankles are silver, and her braces are black and her armor is form fitting, not unlike black thighhigh socks on her purple base armor, with silver plates on the hips; she is weilding a black saber with a prismatic edge and spherical prismatic crystal in the hilt, blocking with the blade across her face, and her platinum hair sweeps out behind her. two prismatic crystalline shield units emanate light on either side of her

nilix posted 03 Sep 2025 18:33 +0000

SLAM A COW THAT FOOL LOOKS ROUGH

nilix posted 03 Sep 2025 18:25 +0000

just about all moved into my new place, and luckily i have all month to clear out the old one. least stressful move in a long time ^^

nilix posted 27 Aug 2025 21:46 +0000

wow right when i was getting actually better from covid i get a call that im getting kicked out of my apartment in 2 months, gg

nilix posted 23 Aug 2025 17:22 +0000

im a sickie this weekend, this took about everything i had last night and this morning lol.

the opening double spread of "the monster wants to eat me" on my remarkable 2

nilix posted 21 Aug 2025 00:08 +0000

to blade or die... that is the question

nilix posted 18 Aug 2025 21:31 +0000

protip, never get in bed with a cishet witch

nilix shared 17 Aug 2025 23:59 +0000
original: ziphi@meow.social

Today I learned about this!

It's the first accurate image of a black hole, created by astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978, using an IBM 7040 computer with punch cards and plotting it out by hand with India ink.

A black and white image. A bunch of white dots form the accretion disk of the black hole, and some are visible above and below the event horizon due to gravitational lensing. There's even a ring to show the photon sphere that would be exceedingly close to the event horizon, where photons travel in an orbit around the black hole before ejecting off into space or getting lost below the event horizon. I would presume the values are inverted to make it look like white on black.