if the stuff in this thread https://cafe.nilfm.cc/u/nilix/h/VqD2Kg53t46Q2V241Z sounds cool to you please consider donating to my studio so i can pivot from wage slavery to full time artistry sooner than later. i live in a van now so my expenses are light and my goals are feasible

https://lightcrystal.systems/support

JCVI-syn3A, a synthetic cell with 493 genes (452 protein-coding; 41 RNA), is the simplest free living organism known. ~80% of the protein-coding genes are functionally annotated, but we still don’t know what the other 20% do (except that removing any of them makes it unviable). There’s also a whole-cell kinetic model for ~98% of the enzymatic reactions in the cell.

This is the real frontier of artificial life, not masses of linear algebra over a text model…

when the technical debt comes due, immediately

RE: https://cafe.nilfm.cc/u/nilix/h/8Q928sc6DF22T4W3H2

RIP tedu

they still doing weird shit with mastodon

we still out here

the #ryudov2 skel is almost there, i think i just need mimetypes and xdg user dirs?

My common rainbow seed-beaaring iris has been harvested!
#botany #tildeclub

mmmm uninitialized VRAM

why does cumming (as a tgirl) have like 4 different quick time events you have to pass?

The Things We Must Set Free Again And Again
—
https://helveticablanc.com/20260818-the-things-we-must-set-free-again-and-again.html
—
#helveticablanc
#wormsong
#worm
#sigil

"The season of the Smoke Moon drifts from Tiliard’s roots upward. It rises from the shores of the Catoptric, the pipework of rhizomes and limestone where falling pebbles spark like flint in the reeds. Green witch-flames burp to life on the water’s surface, both guideposts and hazards to passing riverboats. A blanket of black cloud rolls in from the fields as farmers light the harvest’s detritus."

-- The Works of Vermin

other "tech nerds': oh this new model is so cool, it gives such great results!
me: if i cant run it on 15 y/o hardware with 8GB of vram its just exploitationware

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@nogodsnomasters/117114761590039464

yesterday a fellow ex tech worker came up to me at the cafe while i was working on ryudov2 and we started chatting, and we shared this kind of feeling that you have to identify oppression in your life directly and be open enough to the risks to say "fuck no"

i had the additional observation that as someone who had a meteoric rise in my career, transitioned, and then went into poverty while the world falls apart around me, i have a very different relationship to risk, truth, and fulfillment than most, and for example working at the co op i see people of all ages just accepting the oppression of these low wages and gruelling hours while management gets a living wage and plenty of time off and nobody even THINKS to hold the board accountable- i suggested a strike one time and they thought i was joking...

here's a report I wrote in which I rant about my time at a transgender activism conference while slowly losing my mind

https://rebelsandpaper.wordpress.com/2026/08/17/the-boiling-frogs-convention/

hentai enthusiast | https://wyrm.online/hentai.html

finally packing up the homelab to be housed at audrey's place... now the house feels truly empty (although there are still furniture and boxes everywhere) :T

ok i'm actually writing the setup scripts for ryudov2, it's happening

beeps at u

we live in the fuckin apocalypse

RE: https://cafe.nilfm.cc/u/nilix/h/29zbZ2tSGCk4zj345m

oops i forgot links to conversations require you to be a logged in honker, you have to use the root honk! fixed now

if the stuff in this thread https://cafe.nilfm.cc/u/nilix/h/VqD2Kg53t46Q2V241Z sounds cool to you please consider donating to my studio so i can pivot from wage slavery to full time artistry sooner than later. i live in a van now so my expenses are light and my goals are feasible

https://lightcrystal.systems/support

so status update:

• throwing down for pretty important work on g wagon's brakes (last piece of work she needs before she's ready for a full travel season)
• clearing out the house to move out
• hanging on at the co op for as long as i can- best hours adjustment i can get is 4 days a week and not instantly, so its just a tipping point type thing now where im holding out till i feel i can safely quit (and i was going to leave for the west coast to make some important visits happen in october anyway)
• with the move, time theft and exhaustion my art and dev work is slow but never stopped, i have some exciting stuff in the pipeline on all 3 fronts (software, visual, and dj stuff)

robotgirl who gets mild anxiety when she has to bring her mech in for maintenance

@foxysen

ok i said i had 2 drawings to share (i was tired after dinner last nite =w=) but the one i was working on yesterday, ummm... disappeared somehow

anyway this is Maya. She's like if Samus was a black flag waving brat and she's also got psychokinetics (not showcased in this drawing).

#sketchbook

posted the wagon in tesuque next to the cowboy bar after doin laundry this morning and ive just been drawing and hangin out talkin to peeps. very nice change of pace.

ex wife who suddenly says "actually yknow how u have 100lbs of useless junk from our marriage i would like you to ship all of it to me" after being incommunicado for weeks

neat, the buckman road transfer station takes ewaste now so i dont have to drive all the way to albuquerque today just to dispoae of my lithium ion batteries!!!

ughhh still waiting for my part time schedule at the co op to kick in and juggling all this moving out energy but i can see a positive lifestyle on the other side and im so fucking readyyyyyyyy

what if we kissed under the auspicious shade of the mother of the night?

Trusting-Trust Attack against an Entire Linux Distribution through Binary Manipulation by @zacchiro et al: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.24888

few things feel as much like "coming home" as waking up in a steel and glass box on wheels thinking about how i need to try the new esolang

peanut butter and... mango? sandwich

is actually really yummy

anyone who tells you that linux is easy is lying. it’s not easy. it’s complex, sometimes arcane, and comes with very real trade-offs.

what i hope they’re actually trying to communicate is that the trade-offs and complexity can be worth it.

what i want to say is that linux (broadly) is imperfect and infuriating, but also far more free, in very material ways, than anything from a corporate os or platform. it is learnable, and in learning you make the tool you already physically own into something more wholly your own. you will understand it, keep it running, and be able focus on doing the things you actually want to do with it. not as an appliance, but as a tool that you shape into something that meets your needs, not the needs of the corporate owners or the millions of eulas and terms we’ve all agreed to.

your computer can actually work for you, in a way you like, setup for the things it can help you do in your life.

it is not utopian, it has a lot of deep problems in every direction. you will be angry at it. but aren’t you already angry? so far i prefer the trade offs and frustrations of the broad linux world over the more or less helpless rage i feel for apple/ms/google.

its easy to say fuck off ai music to a stranger

it takes courage / stupidity to say fuck off ai music to a friend

Futurism: It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico
"When those lights go out, man, you know you are in big trouble."

"...New bombshell reporting by Wired reveals an incident in which the testing of an experimental GPS jammer resulted in a medical plane crashing into the side of a mountain.

The horrifying incident happened in May, the publication reports, when a small twin-engine medevac aircraft carrying two pilots and two medical workers departed from Roswell, New Mexico. Heading West for the small mountain village of Ruidoso, the crew became the victim of an electronic warfare exercise being conducted at the nearby White Sands Missile Range, a test which rendered their navigational system inoperable...."

https://futurism.com/science-energy/us-military-gps-jamming-signal-medical-flight

#aviation #gps

the flock cams at de vargas center are gone but the huge camera lightpost thing on wheels in the middle of the parking lot is still there :<

@grendel84 grendel invented a machine that turned fake healing crystals into real healing crystals.

Starving millions of Americans to death isn't an unfortunate side effect of GOP economics; it's the intended outcome.

They're trying to "accelerate" societal collapse & violence so they can establish a white ethnostate.

News outlets like @NPR fail us when they overlook this fact.

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/03/nx-s1-5906797/snap-food-stamp-federal-changes-what-to-know

https://theconversation.com/a-field-guide-to-accelerationism-white-supremacist-groups-using-violence-to-spur-race-war-and-create-social-chaos-255699

i drove my van for the first time in 3 months today, she is such a good girl, started right up, engine sounds happy, cooling, steering, brakes are all happy 🥹

Text adaptation of my Software Should Work 2026 keynote

https://andrewkelley.me/post/dont-take-black-pill.html

External Attachment: https://andrewkelley.me/post/dont-take-black-pill.html

the G-Wagon's library is a literal bookbag

I sell Libreboot, and Libreboot accessories: https://minifree.org/

I'm having a discount sale since late July. Discount ends in September. Prices are lower than usual. Also: shiny new website theme. ALSO: Libreboot X280 launched recently.

I'm Libreboot's founder and lead developer; sales fund the project. These computers come with Libreboot preinstalled, which replaces proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmware. Libreboot offers far greater security and freedom to the user compared to proprietary firmware, removing or disabling certain malicious features (e.g. disabling Intel ME).

Libreboot gives you freedom. It's the same argument as using, say, Linux instead of Windows. Libreboot gives you control.

Your choice of Debian Linux, other Linux distro or a BSD

Libreboot is a special distro of coreboot (like how Debian is a Linux distro) that provides nicer features for ease of use, focusing on non-technical users, while also being highly configurable for experts.

Send-in service also available

#polycrisis 01.07

Our girl is feeling a bit anxious...

https://wyrm.online/polycrisis_01

ok i got cheaper insurance on the g wagon than i had before, she's legal to drive

i've got the rest of the month to set her up for liveaboard and get rid of my furniture and set up a new mailing address

my fellow european sibs, here is my unbiased review of w.eu, i mean w.social, i mean wsocial.eu 👍

#eu #wsocial #w #unix_surrealism #mobilek #phone_bad_book_good

if im gonna be broke regardless id rather be a destitute artist and freelancer living out of my van than work my ass off full time just to afford rent on my house...

in case anyone was wondering how easy it is to deploy a service update with #dollctl

you make a tarball with your executable and accompanying files
you navigate to your host in the sigil UI and click the "sv" tab
you click on the service you're deploying
you upload the tarball

once the upload is complete the service is unpacked, linked, and started in the background automatically

#sysadminDay #stacklessStack

oh wow i finally figured out why the websocket connection lifetime on underbbs was so weird. the conn.CloseRead(ctx) call makes sure that the context cancels when the websocket disconnects even though the HTTPHandlerFunc hasn't returned yet!

still in awe that a manager at a small local MSP told me this week that my 8 years of professional IT industry experience were immaterial to lv 2 technician position because i have never worked in an MSP before.

Entropy’s Rotoscope Issue I; new page everyday starting today: https://kamiokan.de/entropysrotoscope/issue1

RSS: https://kamiokan.de/entropysrotoscope/rss.xml

Support me on ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/j_g00da

CC0 / Public Domain

#unix_surrealism #comic #art #entropysrotoscope #kamiokande

#sketchbook

prototype of a cyborg huntress character, there will probably be more of her

#polycrisis 01.06

https://wyrm.online/polycrisis_01

fuck capitalism. been working myself to the bone for 3 months and have 2 measly days of PTO to show for it, and i have to spend one of them today to give myself a 3 day weekend to recover from a workplace injury...

ive been awake for an hour and a half and i have

• drawn lineart for a dirty picture
• remained naked

maybe i should get ready for work >>

love being so poor i can't even afford to do a load of laundry!

but at least i caught up on my rent x_x

People's bio on the fediverse tend have this.. I don't know how else to put it, it reads like Ken in that Barbie movie who says he's really into "beach". What do you DO Ken? Oh I just beach, I'm quite good at beach. Nice to meet you, I'm really into "emacs". Nevermind that, what do you DO? Well, I emacs, what, what do you want for me, I emacs, it's what I do.

so i had a difficult conversation with the (assistant) store manager yesterday, long story short im stuck at poverty wages and i need help. i cant afford food or child support on top of my rent and other bills without additional income.

as i have mentioned recently, i am open for development/sysadmin contracts (https://lightcrystal.systems) and i'll also do name your price art commissions (https://wyrm.online/visual_art). donations also welcome 🖤

https://lightcrystal.systems/support

#fediHire #mutualAid #artCommission

yeah money is really tight rn, i'll even go name your price on the first 3 art commissions ^^;

or if you just like my work whether its my open source projects, dj noise, or the beginnings of polycrisis (page 4 is up btw) and can spare a few bucks please consider donating

https://lightcrystal.systems/support

RE: https://cafe.nilfm.cc/u/nilix/h/8MtZq245183q125Sc1

waking up on a day off with the house all clean is so nice, i can just... hang out ^^

it's coreslop you only like it because it's core

Cirno and large Glenda

https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/182153619

#unix_surrealism #cirno #glenda #plan9 #9front

lets sing scar symmetry to the children to accelerate the evolution of consciousness

mighty mama tiamat i love being poly

ok so i have pretty much run out of the money that i got refunded from my car insurance and that means i need to hustle.

on the one hand if anybody needs an opinionated dev/sysadmin who does stuff like this you know where to find me

on the other hand if you want a pfp or full body character portrait in full color i am offering commissions for 30 and 60 usd respectively. my recent stuff looks like this

working in grocery at the co op i think a lot about the global food distribution chain and how fucked we will be once ecological collapse has past the threshold of being able to support this system

here in Santa Fe, we are lucky to have almost half of our product as local. but even in a "best case scenario" i would say all the capacity on that local product greatly reduced by their own supply chain dependence

so if the big box stores (except maybe whole foods? i shudder to think what that might become) disappear and the co op can only supply at best a quarter of what it does now and at insane prices, pretty much everybody will have to cooperate on food production and ecological support work to survive

Check out that lil guy with the groceries.

I mean look at that hat! Coming back with a bag full of carrots and parsnips and other things you've never even heard of. Where are they off to, what's the potted plant for, is it food? Is it a pretty centerfold? It could be sentient, it wouldn't be the last cactus to board a train and head someplace.

https://rabbits.srht.site/decadv/
#occ2026 x #Catjam, art by @rek

#fitCheck

bedding is washed, and i did some other self care things! time to go drop off a package and then i can noodle around until date night :>

ugh the main thing about not driving the past few months is that it makes doing laundry such a pain in the ass. i gotta wash my bedding on top of my other plans today and it... complicates things

i think i posted about this before but you can nicely maintain knife pleats with clothespins and hanging the skirt/dress in the bathroom during a hot shower ^^ dry cleaning usually not needed