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kalviter@hol.ogra.ph

CyberArawak. 27. British-born Guyanese who likes to talk about Ursula K. Le Guin and The Pharcyde. Previously unseen type of cosmic disaster. I write science fiction, music, software, and whatever I feel like on <a href="https://rustredriver.com">https://rustredriver.com</a>. (they/them) :flag_enby::flag_pride:🏳️‍⚧️ solidarity, anti-racist, anti-colonial, anti-zionist (no antisemitism accepted here either though). Don't come at me with anything close to eugenics or you'll be blocked instantly. PFP: A star-like shining point that emits blue and yellow-orange lines. Made by a fourier analysis of a fake tape-cassette album cover. Banner: A cropped, two-tone image of a computer with salacious/unnerving text. The text on the left is legible and reads "

Posts

Post #4436905
pole-danced to a Cantonese ballad yesterday :crumb_dancing: does anyone have any recs for songs good for spinning around a bar
Post #4383735
@brib@bribstodon.xyz @davidgerard@circumstances.run i honestly think, based on how the article is written, that Yegge experiences agent usage as a power fantasy of owning/commanding people. You can see it in the strange governance structures and hierarchies that abstract him as the leader of some pyramid structure, rather than a set of interconnected tools. The antropromorphising of the individual software instances is another big clue - he has deliberately structured it to feel as much like con...
Post #4366246
thinking about whether Christopher Nolan knows you're allowed to make a movie where the sound design is more than just "what if it was the biggest bassist noise ever"
Post #4348653
Sorry, I had originally just boosted this because I like the idea of a dark sky app that uses proper astronomical data but I took a second look at the page and it has that LLM-generated feel to the UI. Can't explain it that well but it has The Stank. I apologise! RE: https://indieweb.social/ap/users/115948090307838315/statuses/117022764569677489
Post #4210337
heatwave so bad my webserver started screaming (fan curve kicked in) anyway now I have caching and rate limiting extended to all my web services and sites 🫠
Post #4183344
Latest on Rust Red River: How to get authentic analogue video from digital source I have tested and graphed a video processing pipeline that uses a VCR to add real analogue noise to computer video!
Post #4098509
a crocheted Lotad would save me
Post #4044415
trying to think of fun ways to telegraph my nonbinary identity to strangers and I keep coming back to THEY/THEM knuckle tats
Post #3863478
yay i have experienced my first Linus Torvalds Says And Does Some Fuck Shit moment since I started writing about software the perennial question is still what's the software version of a bindle? and god why do we keep having to find the answer
Post #3838673
@cobweb@corteximplant.com LLM's will radicalise me into learning enough Rust to contribute to Redox OS at this rate
Post #3835164
pepsi brand manual is my roman empire, my library of alexandria, my bible, my Necromonicom, and my dad all at the same time
Post #3828639
Has anyone else here watched The Substance? i was quite disappointed by it tbh - i really liked how it started but i felt a lot like it didn't trust me to get the point on my own. So much revisitation, so many things either told or so obviously shown you might as well be telling. Like "process that makes you hot and young but its excruciating and yucky" is a great metaphor for so many things about the U.S. obsession with aging and youth, but i felt like we missed out on so many...
Post #3744248
i have been busy which is why i haven't talked about the Giant Sun Mirror but rest assured, I have feelings about the Giant Sun Mirror
Post #3510500
yes I've seen the bandcamp layoff news, yes I will get around to a diff solution for selling my albums i know about faircamp, subvert, and mirlo, but I also have my own website already so might custom roll something on there - if you're a musician or label who is dealing with this as well I'd be keen to hear what you make of these services
Post #3403624
this goose factory Softbank slide joke just keeps on giving you could say its the goose that won't stop laying golden eggs- poster was crushed by a 71 valued goose foot
Post #2349195
did he chicken out or did he reframe his already-perpetrated war crimes as a furious crescendo to a damp ending idk i have noticed that the "taco" meme always seems to follow a period where the guy very much Did The Thing, but just threatened to do more Thing, and all of a sudden its "guys he never does what he says he'll do!" it was true for tariffs and deportations and ICE and Venezuela and now its true here could we possibly consider that being distracted by the spe...
Post #2008791
Fucked up a joke in my dream and the theme from SAO Abridged started blasting, woke up sweating like I'd just run two marathons
Post #2008790
An instrumental looking bandcamp Friday for me :) picking up https://phelios.bandcamp.com/album/dyson-sphere-beta-2 and https://pizzahotline.bandcamp.com/album/dream-select As always, you can grab copies of Drifter today and all the money goes to me :) https://kalviter.bandcamp.com/album/drifter I might even have some new stuff out later this year...
Post #2008787
https://blog.avas.space/cozy-gamers/ Ava's blog is normally a great read for data protection stuff, so this little insight into cozy games was a welcome surprise! i was half expecting someone else to have experienced the stardew valley Melon Madness but no just me and my partner :shrimp_pensive:
Post #1697255
can't find any goddamn non-ai orchid botanical diagrams on multiple search indices :cat_sadder: but shoutout to Dannye Chase Dot Com for pointing me to Artvee, where I found Mary Vaux Walcott's body of work from the 1920's that's perfect for what I'm doing :cat_disco: I wonder if aggregating a list of domain-specific AI free search engines would be nice
Post #366676
icymi, local net person Cory Doctorow has decided to give up his unofficial role as the fediverse's Emotional Support Celebrity in bombastic style by coming to the defence of "open source" LLM's https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/19/now-we-are-six/ (not tagging him to avoid a pile on) Tante has a good write up about the strangeness of his argument here https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/acting-ethical-in-an-imperfect-world/ (again, don't want to pile on). I also wanted to add that...