Attachment: a black and white graphic without any antialiasing depicting, from right to left: a human central nervous system where the head is swapped with tree branches; overlaid is a black rectangular, geometric graphic that's reminiscent of a blueprint or circuit design, but it has symbols including a menorah in it; there is a thick black route extending into the center-left of the image, and several boxes/tiles laid out; and finally, spokes protrude from the and of the black route, each with the same image of am eye at their ends]]> https://merveilles.town/@xyhhx/116363156123412695 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:14:57 +0000 https://merveilles.town/@xyhhx/116363156123412695 “The UI is clean. The API is RESTful. The architecture diagram is beautiful. The outputs are wrong. Nobody checks because nobody on the team knows what correct outputs look like. They’ve never looked at the data. They’ve never computed a baseline.”
https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/

i have no work lined up currently despite my best effort to the contrary. any leads or donations are appreciated 🖤

https://lightcrystal.systems/support

Attachment: a black laptop lid covered in stickers, including shion yorigami who is holding her cracked begging bowl]]> https://cafe.nilfm.cc/u/nilix/h/1K4lSwPcx42kftRrJ5 Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:57:29 +0000 https://cafe.nilfm.cc/u/nilix/h/1K4lSwPcx42kftRrJ5 #kuro updates

• node lifetime supervision with auto destruction of associated 9pfs is working
• buffered reads of large files are implemented
• framework for executing arbitrary text is implemented

the main pieces of the backend that still need implementing are the auto generation of the text in TAG and EXE panes, the plumbing client, and Look (find) and Edit (sam style regex) opcodes. regardless i think now is a good time to write the unit tests around the core functionality

blade or die =w=

test harness and unit tests soon for an actual quality signal tho

Attachment: a low angle shot of a woman in a short black dress, black techwear coat, and fishnets sitting on her knees in a bright green tile bathroom. her brown and green hair curls around her face and she is holding a hand to her headphoned ear]]> https://cafe.nilfm.cc/u/nilix/h/Rgh2gC832HsB8h4vVl Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:15:40 +0000 https://cafe.nilfm.cc/u/nilix/h/Rgh2gC832HsB8h4vVl fishnets

i have most of the text editing primitives done and the 9pfs connected to the data structures.

next up:

• implement file read operations. it's gonna be chunked data
• write tests to validate and debug the 9p server
• start working on the UI

@MURRUMUR few know this but this is what the tranny flag was originally meant to symbolize. it is a NATO psyop making trannies into pawns of neoliberal neoimperialism. that's why I only salute the REAL girlflags!!

Attachment: magenta flag with nine-pointed pink/black/purple star, with a purple lambda in the middle surrounded by a purple ouroboros

Attachment: black flag with magenta syringe and labrys and magenta stripe on the bottom

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Attachment: closeup of an anime girl, she is blushing, some text demonstrates her thought process shoot I blurted out something only a total slut would say she looks ashamed of herself, maybe slightly excited? its hard to tell where am i going with this well as you know we are now running on year 2026 of some calendar or other and time inevitably marches onwards as we each try our best to progress on our ideals or at the very least remain alive this is your call to cease regretting the past and start acting on the present for your one future]]> https://snug.moe/notes/akfhrfubb2ee962i Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:46:53 +0000 https://snug.moe/notes/akfhrfubb2ee962i on to some really cursed bullshit:

𝓮𝔁𝓮𝓬𝓿𝓮("/usr/bin/id", ["id"], ٠𝔁٧𝓯𝓯𝓭٤٩٣٠٦٦٤٨ /* ٥٠ 𝓿𝓪𝓻𝓼 */) = ٠

Alternatively, if you think the software I build is cool[2], and can spare a few bucks, donations[3] go a long way.

Financial goals right now:

• child support
• May's rent
• new tires for my van so I can safely make it to iwp9

[1]: https://lightcrystal.systems
[2]: https://forge.lightcrystal.systems/nilix
[3]: https://lightcrystal.systems/support

• send a byte to tell the window to reread some data out of the 9pfs or terminate itself
• know when the window is closed so i can destroy its 9pfs

this is gonna be really cool tho ><

Attachment: ]]> https://social.xenofem.me/objects/091ad993-2010-4a98-b37c-7dbf88f84f6f Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:37:20 +0000 https://social.xenofem.me/objects/091ad993-2010-4a98-b37c-7dbf88f84f6f i promise nwc8 is still happening, i recorded another run yesterday and its sounding really fucking good

Attachment: The large pink petals of a magnolia tree, and the pink flowers of a rhododendron against a cloudy blue sky. ]]> https://mastodon.online/@latte/116271646467976044 Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:36:32 +0000 https://mastodon.online/@latte/116271646467976044 For all the daydreamers and night swarmers.
#ocular #painting #type #art
https://ocular.nchrs.xyz/feed.html#260322_TROYMER01.jpg

Attachment: A large painted mural reading the letters TAG TROYMER (misspelled daydreamer) and NACHTSCHWÄRMER (night swarmers).]]> https://merveilles.town/@rostiger/116273994977373169 Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:26:14 +0000 https://merveilles.town/@rostiger/116273994977373169 Free yourself from the bondage of time and place and status
For what peace do they give?
What truth do they reveal?
What lie do they live?
Whose blood weeps from these wounds?
Detach yourself!
Detach yourself!

For there is a war
Deep in our hearts
And that's where all battles ought to be fought
Come here
Lower your eyes
And surrender

update from my side of the world- ive been fortunate enough to get another short term contract and a gracious donation this week but im still about $100 from making April rent without dipping into my savings. if youve got another gig to keep the ball rolling or a few bucks to spare please help a girl out

https://lightcrystal.systems/support

#mutualAid #fediHire

• uf2 support (includes a monospace version of Geneva which makes the mscan output look nice)
• the order of the theme colors follows the standard
• scrollbars are pixel-perfect and the mouse pointer is a bit nicer
• search and pending indicators are gone; search button stays hilighted when search is active; pending indicator is not needed with the synchronous architecture
• new architecture! the backend uses the xrxs framework to expose a 9p filesystem, which the uxn instance reads and writes to

https://forge.lightcrystal.systems/nilix/taro

Attachment: taro window showing the mailbox Archives/2025 with a search query active showing the uxn mailing list in the mailbox contents; a translucent terminal reading the announcement of SUPERFLY is open in front of the uxn window]]> https://cafe.nilfm.cc/u/nilix/h/63SN8Vm1JG6rMr2Qq2 Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:30:05 +0000 https://cafe.nilfm.cc/u/nilix/h/63SN8Vm1JG6rMr2Qq2 #np in #theStudio: Yan Cook - Displaced

• drawing multiple lines of text in a listbox
• or drawing a single line of text in a label or text entrybox

when drawing a line of text, when i reach a newline, i increment the address and return it, so the calling function can draw the next line of text without having to reseek to it; when i reach the end of the string, i return a null short for the calling function to check against :>

as i explained at the beginning of my last blog post, it's not like i had a choice. i literally couldn't function anymore, so yeah i guess there's an element of bravery in quitting instead of letting them fire me but the end result would have been the same

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-two-worlds-of-programming/

by @baldur

|00 @System     &vector $2 &wst      $1 &rst    $1 &eaddr  $2 &ecode  $1 &pad     $1 &r       $2 &g      $2 &b     $2 &debug  $1 &halt $1
|10 @Console    &vector $2 &read     $1 &pad    $5 &write  $1 &error  $1
|20 @Screen     &vector $2 &width    $2 &height $2 &auto   $1 &pad    $1 &x       $2 &y       $2 &addr   $2 &pixel $1 &sprite $1
|30 @Audio0     &vector $2 &position $2 &output $1 &pad    $3 &adsr   $2 &length  $2 &addr    $2 &volume $1 &pitch $1
|40 @Audio1     &vector $2 &position $2 &output $1 &pad    $3 &adsr   $2 &length  $2 &addr    $2 &volume $1 &pitch $1
|50 @Audio2     &vector $2 &position $2 &output $1 &pad    $3 &adsr   $2 &length  $2 &addr    $2 &volume $1 &pitch $1
|60 @Audio3     &vector $2 &position $2 &output $1 &pad    $3 &adsr   $2 &length  $2 &addr    $2 &volume $1 &pitch $1
|80 @Controller &vector $2 &button   $1 &key    $1 &func   $1
|90 @Mouse      &vector $2 &x        $2 &y      $2 &state  $1 &pad    $3 &scrollx $2 &scrolly $2
|a0 @File      &vector $2 &success  $2 &stat   $2 &delete $1 &append $1 &name    $2 &length  $2 &read   $2 &write $2
|b0 @File_      &vector $2 &success  $2 &stat   $2 &delete $1 &append $1 &name    $2 &length  $2 &read   $2 &write $2
|c0 @DateTime   &year   $2 &month    $1 &day    $1 &hour   $1 &minute $1 &second  $1 &dotw    $1 &doty   $2 &isdst $1

( variables )

|0000

( program )

|0100 ( -> )

  ( default theme ) 
  #028d .System/r DEO2 
  #0a8d .System/g DEO2 
  #098d .System/b DEO2
  
  load_font

  #0400 .Screen/width DEO2
  #0300 .Screen/height DEO2
  
  #0010 .Screen/x DEO2
  #0010 .Screen/y DEO2
  ;wtf  uf2/draw
  
BRK

@load_font ( -- )

  ;font_file .File/name DEO2
  #2100 .File/length DEO2
  ;font .File/read DEO2
  
JMP2r

@wtf "Taro 20 "or 20 "something $1
@font_file "font.uf2 00

@uf2/draw ( text* -- )
	
	[ LIT2 15 -Screen/auto ] DEO
	[ LIT2r 03 -Screen/sprite ]
	&>w
		LDAk DUP ?{ POP POP2 POP2r JMP2r }
		#0000 ROT #20 SUB
		( addr ) DUP2 #50 SFT2 ;font/glyphs ADD2 .Screen/addr DEO2
		( move ) ;font ADD2 LDA .Screen/x DEI2 ADD2
		( draw ) [ DEOkr DEOkr ] .Screen/x DEO2
		INC2 !&>w

@font $100
&glyphs $2000

@neauoire i can't really identify what i'm doing wrong here

Attachment: screenshot of my font rendering test which ends up saying "4AROORSOMETHING" instead of "Taro or something"]]> https://cafe.nilfm.cc/u/nilix/h/VD2DrDF1TQ75Qv6RB7 Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:58:50 +0000 https://cafe.nilfm.cc/u/nilix/h/VD2DrDF1TQ75Qv6RB7 taro backend is rewritten as a 9p filesystem, just gotta clean things up a bit and push the changes, (also push the changes to xrxs itself) then i can start fucking around with the uxn side :D

#include "xrxs/types.h"
#include "xrxs/fns.h"

enum FileType {
  CTL = 1,
  DATA
};

void xrxs_attach(Req* r) {
  respond(r, nil);
}

void xrxs_read(Req* r) {
  Aux* a = r->fid->file->aux;
  switch (a->type) {
    case DATA:
      readstr(r, "some data\n");
      respond(r, nil);
      break;
    default:
      respond(r, nil);
  }
}

void xrxs_write(Req* r) {
  respond(r, nil);
}

int threadmaybackground(void) { return 1; }

void threadmain(int argc, char* argv[]) {

    Srv* fs = xrxs_create(xrxs_read, xrxs_write, xrxs_attach);
    
    xrxs_build(fs->tree->root, "ctl", nil, DMAPPEND | 0600, create_aux(CTL));
    xrxs_build(fs->tree->root, "data", nil, 0400, create_aux(DATA));
    
    xrxs_srv(fs, nil, "/home/nilix/n");
}

I think that whenever we find ourselves enamoured with a novelty from the labs of humanity we should sooth fears of missing out. And instead ask questions. What do I gain from this? What do I lose? What does the purveyor gain from my adoption? How do I want to use this new thing? Questioning: do I even want this? To pause and consider the risks. Risks exist independent of our perception.

In Charlie Stross's noughties novel Accelerando, the main character is a prolific and virtuosic user of artificial agents, which in the book are computer programs that perform acts at his bidding. The primary interface for this novel substrate is a pair of glasses. In one part of the book the main character loses his computational glasses. Lost with them is the capacity for any kind of engagement with the world. He finds himself cognitively bereft, lost in a non-capacious haze.

Smart glasses exist today. I don't have any nor does anyone I know. I could make an analogy to "agentic AI", but I don't use LLMs. Instead, the smart device I consult every day is the smartphone. Where I live there is a personal identification app, produced and owned by a consortium of the biggest banks. This app is woven into all facets of life. If my phone breaks, I lose access to the identification app. A minor personal catastrophe ensues. I lose the ability to pay bills or file taxes. I can kiss goodbye to making second hand purchases on the regional version of eBay. In spite of my physical debit cards, most Internet transactions fail because I will have lost the ability to countersign. Out of town family can't contact me, and I can only let them know through the grace of the few others around with their phone number. Public transit would become an immense hassle. When my smartphone breaks the haze settles on me too.

Reducing this dependence relationship on technologies feels important. Whether for gadgets, technologies, or information networks. I don't want to be reliant on technology where I lack a voice in how it operates, any say in future changes. So that when deprived, whether temporary or otherwise, I keep my change-making capacity.

In this new essay, I trace the line from Barlow's Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace through smart-home forensics, metadata killings, and Archive Team's non-consensual Tumblr scrape to ask: when did we decide that a jpeg is a photograph, that a profile is a person, that storage is memory?

The answer involves a boat off Honolulu, the early days of Signal, Iran's missiles over Amazon's Dubai AWS facilities, and the communities already building for a world where the server goes dark. This is an essay about infrastructure, memory, archiving without consent, and what we lose when we mistake the filesystem for memory.

It is also the angriest and most personal text I've ever written. I'm furious, and you should be too. We bet an entire civilisation on a brutal and unreliable stack. Now, fate has come to collect that wager.

California has a lot to fucking answer for.

https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/who-will-remember-us-when-the-servers-go-dark/

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Shielded from the winds above, invisible but to the darkness, Den Azar kneels onto the wet fiberglass, bend over the feroplastic membrane, bite at the loose shale and succulent cables; masticates, voraciously, my precious fabric before sinking into a satiated sleep.

The blizzard accumulates in small mounds of ash around her ceramic legs and pools in the recesses of her closing golden eyes.

The storm blows itself out, glass, the ocean reflects nothing back. A million sunflowers at the bottom of the Abyss stir.

Den Azar kicks at suffocating miasma, it liquefies, a metallic arc lights up the night. A sunflower notices and immediately looses interest. He swims through the lye, caustic, immaterial, wormlike toward the surface. Two iridescent florets of gold bloom.

"Hummingbirds?"

if you like my open source work and can spare a few bucks for my livelihood i would very much appreciate a donation

alternatively if you're in need of a sofware/web designer/developer or tech educator (see my CV and my consultancy) DM, email, or message me on signal per your preference; i'd love to see if we can work together :>

it should go without saying i do not use genAI in any of my work

#openSource #fediHire #mutualAid #noGenAI

I've made significant changes to service management and pipeline execution WRT privilege de-escalation and made the forms a bit nicer to look at since this was recorded but other than that i'm happy to share this with yall

https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/Fy4vr8J3a-VvXG1OKbYI3GpLwZdGFE5rDumVEoQr7XXiSK9bIqKw1jZArMnSCHxBascCgv0pEY4kOavA.L7fROjrDX9ishOqd