=w= second half of nwc9 is still pretty challenging, trying to tighten it up and add a couple more tracks i've been thinking about. but it's getting there

I remembered to take cameras with me and was rewarded.
(these are jpegs straight out of the camera)

talked to a friend who has been working with a nonprofit involved with the democratic party

in case there was any doubt, yes they are all braindead alcoholics and so easy to bribe (oracle bribed our probable governor for only 18k)

Released a firmware for the XTE INK 4, it displays text and draws pictures, and wait for it, it remembers your page. That's it, there's no other features.

http://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/xte_ink
#uxn

#begPosting #mutualAid

Anything helps, I'm over here every day working my ass off. I started dollctl from scratch earlier this year and it now has all the makings of a production-ready devops platform. I'm on my way to finishing the first chapter of Polycrisis, now averaging 2 pages per week. I live in a van, I don't drink, and I don't eat out, but money is unfortunately still necessary to make shit happen.

https://lightcrystal.systems/support

We now return to your regularly scheduled programming.

#polycrisis 01.13

Rena might be crashing out a little bit :T

https://wyrm.online/polycrisis_01#p13

➡️ Introducing Brut, the Brutal Router for Unix Tools: https://brut.sh

Brut is a POSIX shell script for building command-line programs composed of many small executables. It is small (~120 lines), but features thorough literate documentation for those of us who still appreciate the value of readable, understandable code.

Programs written with Brut can run entirely from source with no additional dependencies beyond the standard POSIX utilities, which makes them easy to audit and embed.

External Attachment: https://brut.sh/

in the process of migrating all lightcrystal services to be specified as code and deployed automagically by dollctl pipelines :D

HARD TIMES HARD MUSIC

The Gender Dysphoria Bible now has its first new page in six years! @Impossible_PhD has contributed a new section on transition regret rates and if a gender transition is worth it. https://genderdysphoria.fyi/en/regrets/

For anyone interesting in helping out the site, there are 17 languages that will need this page translated.

External Attachment: https://genderdysphoria.fyi/en/regrets/

ok #dollctl v0.2.1 is released, with sigil and dollcmd also up to date in step

(sigil has basically the same versioning scheme as dollctl but dollcmd has no versioning yet as it doesn't yet have feature parity with sigil)

ok so out of respect to xtractr there's nothing wrong with their library, i was fucking up my upload because i forgot i used a completely nonstandard way to upload my tarballs. i still am just gonna shell out to tar though cause it reduces my compile time dependencies significantly.

all this to say, i have a private IaC repo triggering pipeline runs which automatically rebuilds and uploads a service ^^

love it, dropping xtractr means dollctl's _ONLY_ compile time dependency is quartzgun

“Dining with wolves – Notes from a data witch”

https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2026-10-05_dining-with-wolves/

> Ideology is dark, it is violent, and it is not built atop reasoned beliefs. You cannot have a polite conversation at the pub with someone who openly wants to kill you.

External Attachment: https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2026-10-05_dining-with-wolves/

yet again, not all implementations are as enlightened as #honk

zip.NewReader: gzip: invalid header

useless library is useless

Who should I thank? My so-called "colleagues," who laugh at me behind my back, all the while becoming famous on my work? My worthless graduate students, whose computer skills appear to be limited to downloading bitmaps off of netnews? My parents, who are still waiting for me to quit "fooling around with computers," go to med school, and become a radiologist? My department chairman, a manager who gives one new insight into and sympathy for disgruntled postal workers?
My God, no one could blame me---no one!---if I went off the edge and just lost it completely one day. I couldn't get through the day as it is without the Prozac and Jack Daniels I keep on the shelf, behind my Tops-20 JSYS manuals. I start getting the shakes real bad around 10am, right before my advisor meetings. A 10 oz. Jack 'n Zac helps me get through the meetings without one of my students winding up with his severed head in a bowling-ball bag. They look at me funny; they think I twitch a lot. I'm not twitching. I'm controlling my impulse to snag my 9mm Sig-Sauer out from my day-pack and make a few strong points about the quality of undergraduate education in Amerika.
If I thought anyone cared, if I thought anyone would even be reading this, I'd probably make an effort to keep up appearances until the last possible moment. But no one does, and no one will. So I can pretty much say exactly what I think.
Oh yes, the acknowledgements. I think not. I did it. I did it all, by myself.

and wow this kid tried to tell me agentic workflows are necessary to build a storefront that can "compete with big corporations"

AI-pilled people are so fucking dumb

dogfooding dollctl CICD and dollcmd (the dollctl CLI client) hard rn. almost have a working service deployment from a private IAC repo...

i can lock in... i can lock in ><

wow i slept in hardcore ><

I heard you little freaks (complementary) liked this kinda stuff. #Mosstodon

first skate session since i fucked up my leg and then got sick. my lungs are still recovering from the bronchitis so my stamina is very low but im glad to be back on it

They have been reduced to bugs, and yet we're surprised when they act like bugs

#polycrisis 01.12

gayyyyyyyy

https://wyrm.online/polycrisis_01#p12

#MutualAid , begposting

hey y'all, i always hate do this (and if i am doing it the situation is desperate) but i'm needing some financial assistance. rent is due and because of some unexpected events i'm short. i've just started a job but won't be getting paid for about two weeks so i'm asking for help. i'm not even going to bother putting a number on it because it's a lot, but needless to say i need all the help i can get. as always please don't send anything unless you can definitely afford to. venmo and BTC are preferred because it's the easiest way to send in my rent, but i've provided a few other options as well. thank y'all 🖤 🖤 🖤 (boosting for visibility is also appreciated.)

Venmo: @ruadh__

BTC: bc1qqqxkd0rzuk45sn0cuqhqtq9e7xculyduxl47cg

Cashapp: $ruadh666

Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/ruadh__

#MutualAid

finally got the little homeserver back online <3 devops days ahead

get a rare message back from a company on indeed with a few questions to answer

"oh cool, very simple and no red flags as of yet" click click... wait what?

"messaging for this employer is currently disabled, check back later" what the FUCK

drawing polycrisis

all of a sudden out loud: aw yeah that's gay

Hey what fresh new hell is this? Perpetual begging?

I'd prefer not. And -actually- catching up on bills would make it possible for me to STAY on top of them. Have so many projects in the pipe to try and keep the lights on but its hard to get them done when I'm THIS economically strapped.

October Fund Raising:

$0 / $2000

$1000 - passed due bills
$1000 - late fees, current bills...

Venmo/paypal - $nullagent

https://ko-fi.com/nullagent

#MutualAidRequest

wow this element parked behind me has probably 30k+ in aftermarket parts and addons and he doesnt even live in it T-T

he parked downtown and went mountain bike riding... like what?

i am 100% dependent on donations to make ends meet currently. i live in my van and have few expenses (fuel+insurance on the van, phone bill, cloud bills, and food basically) but having all that accounted for lets me focus on my work, ie polycrisis and my open source dev+research

in a couple weeks i'm gonna be leaving Santa Fe for the west coast to see some people and switch it up for a while, so i'm gonna dump a bunch of money into fuel. would love to be able to offset that preemptively

you can donate (or hire me for contract work~~) at https://lightcrystal.systems/support or please boost for reach #mutualAid #transMutualAid