hexaheximal
@hexaheximal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
I make things sometimes. Desktop Linux by day, Mobile Linux by night.
Follow requests on to prevent spam and follows from accounts I don't want following me […]
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oh hey got my @pidgin Christmas card! and it came with stickers! thank you pidgin developers :)
January 6, 2026 at 10:00 PM
oh hey got my @pidgin Christmas card! and it came with stickers! thank you pidgin developers :)
RE: https://furry.engineer/@charcole/115845899626698240
The solution to cheating is to build better games.
It is a fundamental principle of cybersecurity that you cannot blindly trust the client - but many game developers don't understand that. This is why client-side anti-cheat *cannot* work […]
The solution to cheating is to build better games.
It is a fundamental principle of cybersecurity that you cannot blindly trust the client - but many game developers don't understand that. This is why client-side anti-cheat *cannot* work […]
Original post on mstdn.social
mstdn.social
January 6, 2026 at 3:21 AM
RE: https://furry.engineer/@charcole/115845899626698240
The solution to cheating is to build better games.
It is a fundamental principle of cybersecurity that you cannot blindly trust the client - but many game developers don't understand that. This is why client-side anti-cheat *cannot* work […]
The solution to cheating is to build better games.
It is a fundamental principle of cybersecurity that you cannot blindly trust the client - but many game developers don't understand that. This is why client-side anti-cheat *cannot* work […]
Anyways! More cursed Xbox 360 stuff coming soon hopefully.
January 2, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Anyways! More cursed Xbox 360 stuff coming soon hopefully.
normally I wouldn't post this publicly but because bridgy fed doesn't support dms:
@maxine.puppykitty.racing please actually pay attention to my profile bio. unless I'm misinterpreting your profile, don't follow me. I should not need to say this.
@maxine.puppykitty.racing please actually pay attention to my profile bio. unless I'm misinterpreting your profile, don't follow me. I should not need to say this.
January 2, 2026 at 6:59 PM
normally I wouldn't post this publicly but because bridgy fed doesn't support dms:
@maxine.puppykitty.racing please actually pay attention to my profile bio. unless I'm misinterpreting your profile, don't follow me. I should not need to say this.
@maxine.puppykitty.racing please actually pay attention to my profile bio. unless I'm misinterpreting your profile, don't follow me. I should not need to say this.
any day now someone is going to place an 802.11ax access point next to an 802.11be access point and...
uhhh...
yeah...
uhhh...
yeah...
January 2, 2026 at 12:44 AM
any day now someone is going to place an 802.11ax access point next to an 802.11be access point and...
uhhh...
yeah...
uhhh...
yeah...
A few hours ago, someone told me something like "Give me your contact info, I think you're going to be rich someday."
https://hexaheximal.com/blog/building-for-the-greater-good strikes again...
https://hexaheximal.com/blog/building-for-the-greater-good strikes again...
Building for the greater good
My thoughts on ethics in computing (and beyond)
hexaheximal.com
January 1, 2026 at 5:09 AM
A few hours ago, someone told me something like "Give me your contact info, I think you're going to be rich someday."
https://hexaheximal.com/blog/building-for-the-greater-good strikes again...
https://hexaheximal.com/blog/building-for-the-greater-good strikes again...
Happy new year! :)
January 1, 2026 at 5:00 AM
Happy new year! :)
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psychology literature on autism is all so cringe.
"90% of autistic people are men" 100% of us can't believe you've fallen for this self-fulfilling diagnostic issue. ... and 90% of us wear striped knee socks.
"a few autistic people are so high-functioning that they even manage to hold down a […]
"90% of autistic people are men" 100% of us can't believe you've fallen for this self-fulfilling diagnostic issue. ... and 90% of us wear striped knee socks.
"a few autistic people are so high-functioning that they even manage to hold down a […]
Original post on infosec.exchange
infosec.exchange
December 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
psychology literature on autism is all so cringe.
"90% of autistic people are men" 100% of us can't believe you've fallen for this self-fulfilling diagnostic issue. ... and 90% of us wear striped knee socks.
"a few autistic people are so high-functioning that they even manage to hold down a […]
"90% of autistic people are men" 100% of us can't believe you've fallen for this self-fulfilling diagnostic issue. ... and 90% of us wear striped knee socks.
"a few autistic people are so high-functioning that they even manage to hold down a […]
December 28, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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i am close to just starting my own list of specifically llm content farm blog domains because they're so goddamn annoying and prevalent and the existing lists are either much broader in scope or focused on specific communities
December 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
i am close to just starting my own list of specifically llm content farm blog domains because they're so goddamn annoying and prevalent and the existing lists are either much broader in scope or focused on specific communities
mobile-config-firefox is truly cursed. I try to mute an account, it freezes, and the page scroll jumps around randomly
December 27, 2025 at 1:51 AM
mobile-config-firefox is truly cursed. I try to mute an account, it freezes, and the page scroll jumps around randomly
I ran a Minecraft server on an ASUS router with OpenWrt. Somehow, that actually works.
December 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I ran a Minecraft server on an ASUS router with OpenWrt. Somehow, that actually works.
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One thing I wish folks knew better about "Linux" that the annoying evangelists never seem to care to mention.
One of the most important differences from other platforms if *how you get your software*.
You don't download it from the author/publisher who might be (these days, is) bundling […]
One of the most important differences from other platforms if *how you get your software*.
You don't download it from the author/publisher who might be (these days, is) bundling […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
December 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
One thing I wish folks knew better about "Linux" that the annoying evangelists never seem to care to mention.
One of the most important differences from other platforms if *how you get your software*.
You don't download it from the author/publisher who might be (these days, is) bundling […]
One of the most important differences from other platforms if *how you get your software*.
You don't download it from the author/publisher who might be (these days, is) bundling […]
Reposted by hexaheximal
in case fedora drinks too much of the AI kool-aid: what linux distros out there are "easier" (no arches or nixes please), have a decent software library, and keep everything _reasonably_ updated (as in, a step or two below rolling release breaking everything)?
December 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
in case fedora drinks too much of the AI kool-aid: what linux distros out there are "easier" (no arches or nixes please), have a decent software library, and keep everything _reasonably_ updated (as in, a step or two below rolling release breaking everything)?
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I don't mind if your site is doing a stats recap thing, but... please don't announce it by pretending that I have two thousand and twenty-five unread messages.
December 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I don't mind if your site is doing a stats recap thing, but... please don't announce it by pretending that I have two thousand and twenty-five unread messages.
I'd like to take this opportunity to state that I am now very annoyed by networkmanager
December 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I'd like to take this opportunity to state that I am now very annoyed by networkmanager
[subpost, what]
cafeos open source reimplementation when
cafeos open source reimplementation when
December 17, 2025 at 3:01 AM
[subpost, what]
cafeos open source reimplementation when
cafeos open source reimplementation when
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if you don't like what mozilla/firefox is up to, consider throwing a bit of money (or better yet, set up a recurring donation) at servo. you'll help fund a future better option and hopefully not have to deal with your browser developers constantly chasing trends
Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.
Servo is a web rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications.
servo.org
December 16, 2025 at 11:57 PM
if you don't like what mozilla/firefox is up to, consider throwing a bit of money (or better yet, set up a recurring donation) at servo. you'll help fund a future better option and hopefully not have to deal with your browser developers constantly chasing trends
[what, joke]
"Yes please give me cr50 of something. Please give me SuzyQable - Statements dreamed up by evil wizards
"Yes please give me cr50 of something. Please give me SuzyQable - Statements dreamed up by evil wizards
December 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
[what, joke]
"Yes please give me cr50 of something. Please give me SuzyQable - Statements dreamed up by evil wizards
"Yes please give me cr50 of something. Please give me SuzyQable - Statements dreamed up by evil wizards
shout out to quad9 for being undeniably THE best dns provider
December 16, 2025 at 5:16 AM
shout out to quad9 for being undeniably THE best dns provider
I keep getting notifications where I expected it to be from someone and/or about something specific but the actual notification was completely different, just with coincidental timing
December 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I keep getting notifications where I expected it to be from someone and/or about something specific but the actual notification was completely different, just with coincidental timing
why is mastodon recommending that I follow an account on an instance that was shut down years ago
December 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
why is mastodon recommending that I follow an account on an instance that was shut down years ago