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Val Packett 🧉
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Purple is my natural hair color. I have strong opinions about software and sometime I even get to make them reality. Same for the state of the world in […]

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now that's some fuzzy search results lol
December 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Absolutely amazing password generated by #GNOME's RDP server here
November 28, 2025 at 6:39 AM
boy have I got a nightmare screenshot for the Unix Conservatives out there,
November 28, 2025 at 4:13 AM
new OS who dis
November 27, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This is what ubuntu.com looks like currently. Holy shit. Apparently this isn't even _that_ new.. Just a couple years ago their main offering on display was a whitepaper on autonomous cars. Two more years back, a webinar on 5G and whatever the heck […]

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November 27, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Where they did cut costs instead? On the belts, apparently. Now sure I am running much higher accelerations than stock firmware but.. just snapping like this, really?!

These even have fake Gates branding, but they're "reinforced" with, idk […]

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November 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
This has got to be one of the strangest decisions in 3D printing. This Biqu BX ships with..

5 motors (dual Z) ✅

5 motor drivers ✅

each motor wired to its own- ❌❌❌

No, the Z axis ones are connected in parallel to a single Z driver, and the 5th […]

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November 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Turns out the real two genders are Outline and Fill

(spotted at Pride, which yes is today)
November 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The slopmachine scraping has gotten so bad that my **actual real home IP address** (dynamic and this keeps happening, so might be the entire ISP's IP block) is constantly 429ed by `raw.githubusercontent.com` now. Thanks to their abuse of residential […]

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October 28, 2025 at 4:03 AM
..yeah, of course it's easy enough to have fully wired control with an stm32. Kinda funny, using the infrared crate but there's no actual IR happening.

What is all this _for_? Well, I have a little system to help me run A/V for conference type […]

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October 22, 2025 at 5:01 AM
So you know these cheap HDMI switcher boxes right? Shopping for one, I noticed that this one had an IR remote. Surely can be PC-controlled with an IR blaster right?.. Ha, no, it gets better! The IR receiver is external, connected via 3.5mm TRS jack […]

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October 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Hello from #flashparty 2025 \o/
October 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
why am i having 150ms jank just scrolling a bugzilla page in firefox that's caused by..... quoting JSON strings??? JSON delaying stuff, really, what is this, GTA V?
October 13, 2025 at 8:36 AM
media pdoder and media suisor
October 13, 2025 at 6:37 AM
@never_released mm yep i like having Codecs (indeterminate)
October 9, 2025 at 3:19 AM
free gluten!
September 27, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Scarlett? No thanks, I have a Violett :blobcat3c:

(oh no now I have to also fix alsa-scarlett-gui to match it)
September 26, 2025 at 6:12 AM
the OpenGL renderer string is the new User-Agent header
September 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM
that.. sure is a cursor
September 24, 2025 at 7:21 AM
today in "hilariously self-defeating spam that got through the filters"
September 24, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Slightly unexpected/unnoticed/non-obvious benefit of #vulkan Video… it Just Works with paravirtualized GPU via vDRM/nctx.

…well, so does VA-API, of course, heh. So that's actually a benefit of having the video codecs bundled inside of the GPU.
September 17, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Now available in pharmacies: vitamins for better signing of Contributor License Agreements
September 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
SHE SIT ON MY TREE TIL I PARSE [EXTREMELY LOUD SIGABRT NOISE]
August 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
dope glitch art courtesy of venus/radv/amdgpu and format modifiers #mesa3d
August 22, 2025 at 9:09 AM
PSA: do not ifdef struct fields in the header that aren't actually conditional in the ABI! Maybe don't ifdef struct fields, like, ever.

(Yes, reported.)
August 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM