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