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• Post #1612019

  Today's 16km (175 football fields for our imperial friends) forest hike was very photogenic #Mosstodon

• Post #911952

  April 1st!

• Post #911951

  Just got back from the cinema: Project Hail Mary 👎

• Post #911949

  (Firefox) Nightly....service: Consumed 1d 3h 16min 5.888s CPU time over 2d 2h 12min 27.243s wall clock time, 11.2G memory peak, 1.5G memory swap peak. That's what I get for not closing the browser after use. I should enable NoScript.

• Post #911948

  The Moon has better internet than my place in a city... https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/artemis-ii-will-use-laser-beams-to-live-stream-4k-moon-footage-one-giant-step-beyond-the-s-band-radio-comms-of-the-apollo-era

• Post #911947

  #bloomscrolling #spring #butterfly

• Post #778856

  Achievement unlocked: managed to modify an existing 3D model (STL) in #FreeCAD I essentially followed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBf5GWs65BE, TL;DW: - Import STL, go to Part workbench - Create shape from mesh (sew) - Convert to solid - Create a copy > Refine shape - Switch to part design, create a new body (from scratch) - In the new body, add a binder to the refined shape. - Create sketches, pad and pocket as necessary!

• Post #778855

  While exploring the Hormuz strait on the map I found this curiousity: > Nahwa is a territory that forms part of the Emirate of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. It is a counter-enclave (or second-order enclave) within the Omani territory of Madha, which is itself an exclave of Oman and an enclave within the United Arab Emirates. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahwa

• Post #778854

  My kids' #gaming experience has been spoiled by #Minecraft. I'm now playing #TalosPrinciple2 and they keep asking what happens if I destroy this or that, not understanding those are pretty, highly detailed, but static and immutable game assets.

• Post #778853

  #Sauerbraten is a first person shooter (2004 era) that runs smoothly* on all the computers in my home, has a dedicated server, allows bots (ranging from stupid to snipes-you-from-across-the-map), lots of maps and game modes and has built-in multiplayer map editing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_2:_Sauerbraten *On the #RaspberryPi500 it needs to run under Wayland to have smooth FPS for some reason (Xfce X11 => 10fps, Xfce Wayland => 60fps).

• Post #778852

  I just ran out of disk space on my VPS. Fortunately I left an unused 2GB `/swap` file that I was able to delete and get some breathing room for cleanup operation while the sever continues running. #JustAdminThings

• Post #778851

  Very insightful article about zram vs zswap: https://chrisdown.name/2026/03/24/zswap-vs-zram-when-to-use-what.html I will be changing from zram to zswap on my desktop soon. I will still keep some zram as a compressed in-memory temp storage, but not as swap.

• Post #778850

  An accidental kick finally led to the shutdown of my Pi server, for the hack job that it was it survived for 122 days straight. https://toot.kottman.xyz/@michal/116165091524477973

• Post #778849

  I caved in and started looking into Rust programming language, to see what this fancy new niche language is about, reading tutorials online. Mutts, mutts everywhere!

• Post #479529

  How kids let you know it's time to clean up...

• Post #479528

  Watching the Olympics, the ever present camera drones following the contestants remind me of Half-Life 2 manhacks. https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Manhack

• Post #479527

  It's happening! #gardening

• Post #479526

  Upgrading my #RaspberryPi5 from Bookworm to Trixie. Mid upgrade the terminal window suddenly disappears as it's upgraded and I'm left with a pending upgrade process waiting for some input 🤦 kill -9 and retry "apt upgrade" seems to work for now...

• Post #479525

  I do enjoy a good pun

• Post #479524

  Trying to use an older, un-updated Android tablet (2GB RAM) on the modern web is really testing my patience ("can you look at this" from relatives). I managed to install Firefox 143 from APK, which is the last version supported on this device, so at least I won't see all the "unsafe website (untrusted certificate)" and I managed to install NoScript and Ublock Origin...

• Post #479523

  Sometimes going to random places leads you to the nicest views

• Post #479522

  I vibe-coded a tool to explore embedding models - it's just a page that calls out to llama-server and renders the computed values as pixels. I tried the embeddinggemma model and noticed there are some "hot elements" (like "hot pixels" on a camera sensor), always stuck to some out-of-distribution value. Why? Is it some model marker? No one looked at it prior to release? Does it fulfill a function? How does it affect comparisons? It's like if a...

• Post #479521

  #SilentSunday

• Post #479520

  Taking photos of the Moon is slightly disappointing.