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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
terminal text editor file search UI, prompt "userborn-", first few found files are like "nixos/tests/userborn-{static,mutable-etc,immutable-etc..}.nix" but then we see "…*u*les/*ser*vices/we*b*-apps/p*orn*-vault/default.nix"
December 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Absolutely amazing password generated by #GNOME's RDP server here
How to Connect: Use a remote desktop app to connect using the RDP protocol. [..] Login Details Username: ubuntu Password: AsymmetricDumpsterNeoliberalLifeboatPeculiarly
November 28, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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boy have I got a nightmare screenshot for the Unix Conservatives out there,
Window titlebar saying "Waycheck". In big font below: "Compositor: systemd". Then some tabs "Upstream | Wlroots | KDE | COSMIC | Weston | ChromeOS | Deepin | Frog | Gamescope", the a table with "Linux DMA-BUF" (bold), "Presentation time", "Tablet",..
November 28, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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new OS who dis
Screenshot of a Windows desktop inside of a window with a "QEMU" titlebar. Firefox showing my purple website val.packett.cool, System → About showing some text about 4-8 GB RAM and no dedicated GPU, Terminal showing fastfetch
November 27, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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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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Modal dialog: Your tracker settings We use cookies and similar methods to recognize visitors and remember preferences. We also use them to measure campaign effectiveness and analyze site traffic. By selecting ‘Accept’, you consent to the use of these methods by us and trusted third parties. For further details or to change your consent choices at any time see our cookie policy. [Manage your tracker settings] / [Accept all] In the background: on top: "Sovereign AI is here. Is your organization ready? Inside the Gartner® Predicts 2026 report: key drivers, strategic insights, infrastructure analysis, and recommendations to future-proof your AI roadmap." In the background: bottom: " Modern enterprise open source Security, support, and managed services from the publisher of Ubuntu."
November 27, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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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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Snapped smol timing belt, still barely held together
November 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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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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3D printer mainboard (labelled SKR SE-BX V3.0) with 5 tiny driver boards populated. The bottom one has nothing connected next to it, the one above has 2 connectors, both populated with cables.
November 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Turns out the real two genders are Outline and Fill

(spotted at Pride, which yes is today)
two green public toilet cabins, one has a thin outline person icon, other has a solid while fill one
November 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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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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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/logseq/marketplace/master/plugins.json 429: Too Many Requests For more on scraping GitHub and how it may affect your rights, please review our Terms of Service (https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-of-service).
October 28, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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..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
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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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On the floor, a laptop (aluminum body, dark gray keys, Snapdragon sticker), with PulseView on the screen showing one signal line being successfully decoded as NEC IR. Next to it, a small plastic HDMI switcher box, a Sony camera connected to one of its inputs, a purple coiled "audio" cable connecting it to a tiny red TRRS breakout board, jumper wires connecting that to another copy of that breakout which is connected to the IR receiver, a cheap logic analyzer spliced in the middle with more wires, and a typical cheap gray IR remote with buttons that say 1, 2, and 3.
October 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Hello from #flashparty 2025 \o/
projector screen showing ascii art in white and pink on black background. big cog wheel thingy like from the ancient water mill whatever the fuck it's called?? and the word ARSE hahah
October 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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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?
big flame graph sorry hard to describe but InfallibleQuoteJSONString is clearly the big function
October 13, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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media pdoder and media suisor
performance trace view with a timeline, "CPU {n} Scheduling" rows, orange blocks of firefox-bin with thread names "MediaSu~Isor #6" and "MediaPD~oder #9" as subtitles
October 13, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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@never_released mm yep i like having Codecs (indeterminate)
October 9, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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free gluten!
cafe menu "PAIN DU JOUR Free Gluten"
September 27, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Scarlett? No thanks, I have a Violett :blobcat3c:

(oh no now I have to also fix alsa-scarlett-gui to match it)
Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 audio interface with case (and mic gain knobs) painted purple, on a wooden desk, one XLR mic and 2 headphone outputs connected
September 26, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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the OpenGL renderer string is the new User-Agent header
"GL Renderer: zink Vulkan 1.4(Virtio-GPU Venus (AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV RENOIR)) (MESA_RADV))"
September 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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that.. sure is a cursor
huge (2x) mouse cursor, top half being the vertical text bar and the bottom half being from the usual pointer
September 24, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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today in "hilariously self-defeating spam that got through the filters"
" Heads up! Your open-source contributions and regular participation across the Superchain confirm your eligibility for OP Airdrop #5. This recognition confirms that you are helping to scale Ethereum while building in public. Your provisional allocation is ready to view and claim your rewards. [my note: "the allocation is the subject viewing rewards??"] See Your Rewards [link going to a .vercel.app] Reminder: [underlined by me] Always double-check the URL before connecting your wallet. Keep private keys secure. Have concerns? Visit the documentation or the Optimism forum for support. Best regards, The Optimism Team"
September 24, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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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
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Now available in pharmacies: vitamins for better signing of Contributor License Agreements
Pharmacy shelf with a lot of boxes that say CLA. Actually something supposedly for weight loss lmao
September 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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SHE SIT ON MY TREE TIL I PARSE [EXTREMELY LOUD SIGABRT NOISE]
a bit of Helix text editor UI interrupted by crash messages: :o library/Data/Microformats2/Parser.hsmalloc(): mismatching next->prev_size (unsorted) fish: Job 1, 'hx' terminated by signal SIGABRT (Abort) ⏎
August 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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dope glitch art courtesy of venus/radv/amdgpu and format modifiers #mesa3d
August 22, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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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.)
Side by side view of a C header and Rust code with the same struct definitions. struct rutabaga_command on the left has two fields under an ifdef, while the Rust code on the right has no cfg'ed fields, it's all unconditional.
August 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM