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nilix shared 23 Aug 2026 01:01 +0000
original: angelwood@merveilles.town

uxn affirmations

uxn affirmations

Your stacks are not leaking
You didn't mix up INC and INC2
You made sure to flip your conditions before refactoring code into a conditional lambda
You cleaned up the return stack before using JMP2r
You are not passing variables on the stack between vector calls
You're using relative pointers imminently after pushing them onto the stack
You are having fun

nilix posted 22 Aug 2026 17:35 +0000

wondering why my mobile data is literally dial up speeds since yesterday

check space weather

oh yeah an M-class flare yesterday, checks out

nilix posted 22 Aug 2026 04:47 +0000

9 days left before the lease is up - have a schedule for taking advantage of days off work to do the really annoying stuff...

it feels like i JUST did this... the past year went by so fast T-T

nilix posted 22 Aug 2026 04:15 +0000

hardstyle and noodle :>

nilix posted 20 Aug 2026 18:36 +0000

ok big progress over half the furniture has been extricated from the house. of the remainder, the big and heavy items are just the futon frame and the 2 cabinets in the spare room... might at least make a run with the cabinets later today after i take some downtime

nilix posted 19 Aug 2026 16:19 +0000

when u talking about fried wheat gluten but ppl think youre talking about The Enemy

nilix posted 19 Aug 2026 14:35 +0000

today i bring the g wagon to get the hydraulics in the braking system some needed TLC.

nilix posted 19 Aug 2026 04:52 +0000

oh shit i can't believe i've never sung Prism and Gate at work

nilix replied 19 Aug 2026 04:49 +0000
in reply to: https://swarm.coiloptic.org/brettm/p/1787114763.975397

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

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

@brettm i created the repo for honk and its deps primarily to revendor to ensure it can still be built from source but at some point i probably will go in and try to improve interop and UX and stuff (one thing that i have been thinking about lately is the need to manually 'unplug' unresponsive instances)

nilix shared 18 Aug 2026 19:42 +0000
original: jack@berlin.social

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…

nilix posted 18 Aug 2026 18:43 +0000

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

nilix posted 18 Aug 2026 17:13 +0000

mmmm uninitialized VRAM

a screenshot of a linux desktop with a simple bar and a fullscreen tanslucent window which is 3 quadrants white and the top left area a tessalation of blocky patterns that seem to be derived from the desktop wallpaper's overall colors

nilix shared 18 Aug 2026 15:56 +0000
original: akkartik@merveilles.town

"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

nilix replied 18 Aug 2026 15:44 +0000
in reply to: https://cafe.nilfm.cc/u/nilix/h/65hVp6c15213M9D462

and also there is the piece about how for disaster and weather forecasting and stiff like analytical chemistry there is a legit gap in methods and knowledge that is being filled. with 99% of the cases of mainstream genAI we are not filling a gap- we are creating one by robbing people of their livelihoods and capacity for critical thought and skill acquisition

nilix replied 18 Aug 2026 15:38 +0000
in reply to: https://cafe.nilfm.cc/u/nilix/h/Qrj1RY1vwbZtTNkmTL

and the homie Arvind in particular likes to say "but the weather and disaster modelling etc!" and like, yes, the underlying ML tech is basically the same but im not trying to sell you on modern webdev just cause web components exist am i???

nilix posted 18 Aug 2026 15:36 +0000

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

nilix posted 18 Aug 2026 14:32 +0000

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

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...

nilix posted 17 Aug 2026 16:07 +0000

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

nilix posted 15 Aug 2026 19:14 +0000

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

nilix replied 14 Aug 2026 15:19 +0000
in reply to: https://cafe.nilfm.cc/u/nilix/h/JWzclM5745f2x92V2g

and dj stuff:

  • new world chaos 9 is taking forever but its going to be awesome. similar to nwc5, it is going to be closer to 2 hours and broken up into phases. genres include: breakcore, industrial, phonk, metalstep, dnb

nilix replied 14 Aug 2026 15:18 +0000
in reply to: https://cafe.nilfm.cc/u/nilix/h/XTbz42NkJQS2hv48J3

visual art stuff in the works:

  • polycrisis, my slice of life yuri about being a poly transbian in the US. currently at ch1, page 8- meetcute is happening
  • i have 3 images of a (shaded but uncolored) hentai set. might add one or two more if i feel inspired. planning on releasing these on patreon soon and continuing to draw more smut.
  • i have another graphic novel idea rolling around in my brain, still very early but you will see more character sketches n stuff related to this pop up occasionally