been reading BLAME! on my reMarkable 2. this is what eInk was made for

ughhggg needed me some eep

a little rambling for my mental health | https://nilfm.cc/get_the_picture.html

#unix_surrealism

I woke up with an idea for a book, I wrote down the first page.

An ultratourmaline light is ever present but for the luminescent ripple awakened by a wave breaking, the spark from two rocks colliding or the storms igniting the crests of dunes; but here, nothing natural grows with eyes to see it. Eyes came from elsewhere.

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?"

so i've got a couple pupils and a little webdev project rn but i'm still very much living off of my savings and trying to bootstrap things here;

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

dollctl v0.1.0: we have the technology | https://nilfm.cc/dollctl.html

prediction markets' depravity economy is the culmination of deregulation and kleptocracy, lobbying to legalize sports gambling, the collapse of advertising markets, hustlebro culture, crypto, memestocks, ai bubble ... venn diagram of horrible: www.404media.co/with-iran-wa...

With Iran War, Kalshi and Poly...

for xnfm's fifth birthday and partially inspired by some posts going around lately I decided to write something reflecting on my history thus far with hosting xnfm, its entanglements with the conditions of the world today as well as my own life, and where things may go from here:

https://unlife.nyx.land/posts/close-this-world.html

my #dollctl presentation at #redfish is up!

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

wish people would cherish one another instead of killing each other :<

Its been a while since I created a mix on the Pacemaker device, but a recent trip to Budapest gave me some time to try out a few new tunes on the old #pacemakerdevice

I present the Budapest influenced : The shadow of concrete ruins mix.

Turn it up!

https://cubicgarden.com/2026/02/26/the-shadow-of-concrete-ruins-mix/

#Trans folx in #Kansas given 1 day to surrender their (now invalid) IDs and driver's licenses to the state. As of tomorrow (Thursday), driving while trans is a class-B misdemeanor ($1000 fine and up to 6 months in jail).

The zero-grace-period execution means driving to turn in your license is a crime.

Oh yeah, this bill also enacted a bathroom bounty program allowing private individuals to sue trans folx for using the restroom.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sends-letters-to-trans-people

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-advancing-anti-trans-bill

#AntiTrans #Authoritarianism #FuckTrump #FuckRepublicans #ProtectTransFolx

New blog post: Why "digital sovereignty" requires a free software alternative to Android and iOS, and how we're building towards that 🏗️

https://modal.cx/blog/sovereign-mobile-stack

today i will migrate the last server and build some cronjobs

#dollctl is pretty much ready. i've got my network 80% migrated.

• service supervision and versioning
• pipelines for testing, building, and deploying code, including private artifactories
• data management including on-demand snapshots and streaming
• straightforward virtual machine management
• structured logging

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

time to migrate another node

eepy =w= but i will slay i promise

oh yeah, i got a web design client :> things are happening!

performing some maintenance, so the lightcrystal forge will be down for maybe half an hour?

2025 photojournal complete | https://nilfm.cc/photojournal.html

i finally found a coloration method that really works for me. colored this #selfPortrait from a couple months ago!