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nilix posted 06 Feb 2026 21:10 +0000

my downtime today consisted of reading some plan9 papers, i think i need help lol

nilix shared 05 Feb 2026 16:47 +0000
original: Ashedryden@xoxo.zone

Most Americans don't realize exactly how wrapped up in the war machine their lives are.

Have a 401k? What do you think is creating those returns? Fossil fuels, prisons, defense contractors, weapons, surveillance software.

Oh you divested from those? Well your bank didn't.

The major tech platforms you use are data brokers selling location information on immigrants and dissidents, funding surveillance marketed as "smart cities", and vying for DoD contracts.

Capitalism means complicity.

nilix shared 04 Feb 2026 18:33 +0000
original: d6@merveilles.town

static site generator formats (cursedness tier list)

- html
- markdown
- org files
- S-expressions
- nroff
- LaTeX
- postscript

nilix posted 04 Feb 2026 17:17 +0000

today i mail my cursed windows machine back from whence it came

nilix replied 03 Feb 2026 18:07 +0000
in reply to: https://cafe.nilfm.cc/u/nilix/h/KBQdmxQrPqNvzD2B2f

another example closer to the spirit of the original conversation might be the leftist who is too preoccupied with general horror and living paycheck to paycheck to give themselves the space to grasp in fine detail what is actually going on.

and that's fine, i've done the research and i can give them a personal lesson if they're interested (and i do regularly in third spaces i haunt).

if they grasp it and step up, i'm glad; if not, then yeah unfortunately history will trample them one way or the other (re: i care more about being loud than being understood at this point)

nilix replied 03 Feb 2026 17:51 +0000
in reply to: https://cafe.nilfm.cc/u/nilix/h/7dGyqR38lVm7D539Z2

also, i'm just leaning on a common example in the wild of "anarchists" using big tech platforms for their organizational work and data storage, not at all saying that being liberated from mainstream social media is some kind of anarchist dogwhistle (if i can use that term in a neutral sense?)

nilix posted 03 Feb 2026 17:43 +0000

i suppose to clarify a point from an earlier conversation that might have been confusing or seemded contradictory (ie, understanding vs knowledge):

most Americans are aware that there is rot in our society; many are even aware of the twisted history of this place; but few even dare to consider that there has been and continues to be a nexus of pure evil that drives this history forward with all its might. even many of those who are aware of it, do not have a full or even realistic picture of what it is, how it propagates and maintains power, and how to fight it.

does this mean, as an example, the baby anarchist you meet on the street but is still stuck to Meta platforms is a bigot? fuck no; it means they still have a lot to learn; knowing who your enemy is is only the first step; effectively fighting this spiritual battle is a life-long practice

nilix replied 03 Feb 2026 16:40 +0000
in reply to: https://polychrom.ing/users/are0h/statuses/01KGJ4ZDNW654QQJ05MCDGZ7XB

@are0h nowhere in that conversation did i say "nah there isn't systemic hatred and oppression", i literally said your average streetwalkers are 1) indoctrinated into believing evil, often by other names, is on some level necessary, and 2) more complicated than you make them out to be; and here you go making a caricature out of _me_ and putting words in my mouth? i was just trying to have a conversation and you just haaad to have the last word, and then do something like this? not everyone is going to take the same hardline position as you; i should know, i'm often in that position myself. but it doesn't give you a free pass to just be confrontational and make these kinds of accusations about people's character just because they don't 100% agree with you

nilix replied 03 Feb 2026 16:05 +0000
in reply to: https://polychrom.ing/users/are0h/statuses/01KGJ3J8WCZ3DZ9J0PQRQ5ZNKX

@are0h @tychi some understand, many don't. part of the narrative being played out is evil hiding in plain sight, to the point it's absolved by being labelled as things that are less overtly insidious; and many people _do_ believe this. in any case, what i'm referring to in both cases are the people we are in direct contact with in day-to-day, as this is where our primary influence lies

nilix replied 03 Feb 2026 15:49 +0000
in reply to: https://polychrom.ing/users/are0h/statuses/01KGJ1PFKXYN3SNHZT5M7GKT8S

@are0h i think what @tychi is getting at is more that the "normal" person doesn't even understand the depths of depravity and darkness that have gotten to the heart of our society.

i tend to agree with you Ro, that rehabilitating the masses shouldn't be our concern, so much as just building our communities and trying to thrive in this space parallel to the mainstream; be loud - be heard - but not necessarily worry about being understood, cause if we're too concerned with the everyday person then we go too slow and we lose our chance to make it real; if people don't get it yet, at this point they're digging their own grave more or less literally

nilix posted 03 Feb 2026 15:26 +0000

wow it's nice to actually have mornings again; yay sleep schedule :D

nilix posted 03 Feb 2026 00:34 +0000

plodding along with #dollctl

data management API is done; it supports nested datasets, snapshots, and streaming; can create/delete directly and import/export. ZFS driver for now, will add btrfs and maybe fossil later

now building the web UI for this module

nilix posted 31 Jan 2026 23:36 +0000

designing a data management API is hard as it turns out ><

nilix shared 30 Jan 2026 05:00 +0000
original: vampiress@eigenmagic.net

SECOND HAND COMPUTER IS OUT!

SHC is a sort of vibes-based programmable #FantasyComputer designed to mimic my own experiences getting a second-hand computer too crappy to run graphical games.

Inside Second Hand Computer you will find a pile of random text games I've made, from the very simple (Hangman and 2048) to the gimicky (Wargames) to larger original projects such as Swords of Freeport and BOOTLEG.

You can even code your own games for it in Lua.

#IndieGames #IndieDev #GameDev

https://funtimeelectrics.itch.io/second-hand-computer/devlog/1335775/second-hand-computer-is-out

nilix posted 29 Jan 2026 00:55 +0000

So since I'm on that freelance game again...

Any #fedihire interest for a generalist software artisan? I consider myself expert level in go, C, C#, POSIX shell, and web technologies (including Angular and React, both of which I hate viscerally but am very good at), and I'm a fast study both when it comes to new domains and new tools.

I'm pounding the pavement locally with some interesting leads but nothing concrete yet. In the meantime I'm writing a tiny devops toolkit called dollctl (https://forge.lightcrystal.systems/nilix/dollctl).

If you're interested you can find my CV here: https://nilfm.cc/cv ; If you like the software I write and have a few bucks to spare I accept donations on stripe: https://lightcrystal.systems/support

nilix shared 29 Jan 2026 00:36 +0000
original: nasser@friend.camp

people becoming interested in decentralized autonomous governance but somehow missing 200 years of anarchist theory and arriving instead at fake computer money is galaxy level political illiteracy

nilix posted 27 Jan 2026 22:19 +0000

ok, CICD module of dollctl is done, time to pivot to Sigil to build the UI for it :>

nilix posted 27 Jan 2026 02:57 +0000

ok the past few days i managed to code a CI/CD runner. making big progress now that i'm able to actually do this full time :>

nilix shared 26 Jan 2026 05:08 +0000
original: d6@merveilles.town

created a mock-up of a visualizer/debugger/ide for the simplest muxn variant (muxn100: 512 bytes of memory, 16 byte stacks, console-only)

the goal would be to make simple #uxn puzzles/programs feel more like a zachtronics game

mock up screenshot of a uxn program. the left side contains a column of three 16x16 grids for zero-page memory, program memory, and device memory respectively. on the right, there is a box for console i/o, read outs for the working and return stacks, and a place to show program code as text. the idea is that the window shows the complete state of a running muxn100 virtual machine.

nilix posted 24 Jan 2026 20:39 +0000

just taught an 8yo how to write a little webpage with h1, p and img tags :3

nilix shared 24 Jan 2026 18:21 +0000
original: aleph@merveilles.town

Hey everyone, I need some help to keep my head above water for Februrary. The job search has been rough, and while I’ve been pushing hard to get back on my feet, but I’m at a point where I need some help to get through this stretch.

I’ve set a goal of $1,400 on Ko-fi to cover my essential living costs. This includes my rent, utilities, and bills. Anything remaining will go toward food and basic necessities.

https://ko-fi.com/aleph0x

If you have the means to contribute or can give this a boost, it would mean a lot to me. Thank you for your help.

nilix posted 24 Jan 2026 02:38 +0000

dollctl progress is good. service management is all implemented in both dollctl (server) and sigil (client), logs are persistent, and the sigil CSS is a little rough but slowly approaching something useable. next up is probably the CI/CD module so that i can automate service deployments

nilix posted 21 Jan 2026 23:45 +0000

girls who turn chile cheese fries into executable code

nilix posted 21 Jan 2026 22:40 +0000

dollctl service layer is built ^^

now i'm starting to build the frontend for dollctl, called sigil, which is just a web dashboard that interacts with dollctl across multiple hosts

nilix posted 20 Jan 2026 23:51 +0000

i'm unofficially officially consulting/freelancing.

will put in my notice at work at some point this week but... i just can't keep doing it, working on and with systems i find repugnant, for shareholder profit...

so ya heard it here first - Iris Lightshard, LightCrystal Systems - open for business. I'm looking for all sorts of contract work, not just software but also UI/HCI, graphic design, network infra, IT org consulting, etc.

in the meantime while i look for paid work i'm primarily working on dollctl

nilix shared 16 Jan 2026 18:47 +0000
original: clarity@xoxo.zone

drives me insane that suddenly everyone excited about cleaning up technical debt now that it'll help the AI write code better+faster. For some reason that's more interesting than helping ME write code better+faster.

nilix shared 16 Jan 2026 17:19 +0000
original: rek@merveilles.town

Voila, these are the last 3 rabbits of the series :)...

Dev, Rek and Ninj rabbit.

Thanks for following along~ I will probably continue to draw/share more rabbits, casually, but wont share them on this thread since they're not part of the core "100 rabbits" :>.

edit: All the rabbits are here:
https://kokorobot.ca/site/punk_rabbits

an ink drawing of some humanoid rabbits all sitting on a bunch of mossy rocks. Dev rabbit has a striped shirt and snakebite piercings, Rek rabbit has spotted fur and is wearing a black hoodie, and Ninj rabbit is basically a little ninja with ears. Ninj is waving and saying "Holla!"

nilix shared 16 Jan 2026 17:19 +0000
original: june@social.nouveau.community

A reminder that if you're advocating for the use of LLMs, you're advocating funding a surveillance state. You pay for tokens, you evangelize the tools, the companies behind them make money, that money circulates until hits a project, contract, etc. that aids in the surveillance and oppression of others.

Do not participate in laundering ethics and morality.

nilix posted 15 Jan 2026 00:42 +0000

inspiration/adaptation comes from the strangest places

nilix posted 12 Jan 2026 17:54 +0000

all i wanna do today is keep building dollctl's supervision layer. instead i gotta hail corporate :<

nilix posted 08 Jan 2026 17:44 +0000

just fyi im working on a devops/cloudops dashboard for self hosted clouds - informed by enterprise grade tools but taking a permacomputing design approach, and the primary blocker is burnout and time due to my dayjob. if i got donations to support my work, i could yknow, do it full time

https://nilfm.cc/support.html

nilix posted 07 Jan 2026 00:54 +0000

when your girlfriend gets you to build a PRUN companion tool :>

nilix posted 06 Jan 2026 21:07 +0000

i think im almost healed from my latest creative burnout mode

nilix posted 06 Jan 2026 20:46 +0000

i have been rewatching gundam seed and i honestly love how the Haros just tell it like it is and cuss when nobodys paying attention to them

nilix posted 06 Jan 2026 03:54 +0000

another python app that just breaks for no reason, yeah!

nilix posted 06 Jan 2026 02:16 +0000

robogirl who charges from her spare battery in third spaces

nilix posted 04 Jan 2026 23:59 +0000

nwc8 90% complete, expect a release in the next week or 2 :>