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nilix posted 10 Feb 2026 00:44 +0000

#dollctl pipelines have been debugged and confirmed working, and #sigil has been cleaned and refined now with proper roles and aria-live attributes on a bunch of the UI and the affordance that any non-button that is clickable uses the accent color so it looks like a link ^^

nilix posted 09 Feb 2026 18:07 +0000

i've been on that underground techno grind for the past 24 hours and it's very healing

nilix posted 09 Feb 2026 17:08 +0000

another centralized service: goes down
me: sips coffee

nilix posted 08 Feb 2026 20:57 +0000

low key need me that SGI espresso maker

nilix posted 08 Feb 2026 17:04 +0000

the steam machine reminds me a lot of those purpose built high end unix workstaitons in the 90s

nilix posted 08 Feb 2026 00:26 +0000

low key forgot about luakit; qutebrowser but it's not python, i'm here for it

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