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polyfloyd

@polyfloyd@hsnl.social

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Programmer, hacker, colored light connoisseur, treasurer of Hackerspace @bitlair@hsnl.social, 🇳🇱, bicycle enjoyer 🚲 and fidget toy engineer.

Big fan of electronic music. Drum & Bass, Synthwave, Vaporwave, (Psy-/Prog-/Tech-)Trance, Ambient, Frenchcore, etc. Tag me in your favourites, I'm always looking for new stuff to listen.

Golang, Rust, Python. Dislikes: unwarranted complexity, repetition, disharmony, bigotry

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Joined November 04, 2022

Blog:

https://polyfloyd.net

Codeberg:

https://codeberg.org/polyfloyd/

Pronouns:

he/him

Forgejo:

https://git.polyfloyd.net/polyfloyd

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polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Apr 30, 2026

Replying to @homeassistant@fosstodon.org

@homeassistant@fosstodon.org Are these events officially organized by HA/Nabu? Or are these more like community initiated? I was thinking of organizing something like this at @bitlair@hsnl.social

polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Apr 28, 2026

Looking for thoughts on the following:

I was tending to https://bitlair.nl again today and I see that it getting hammered by crawler bots again. The server is really beefy so it handles it just fine, be it a little bit slower.

But I am wondering whether to set up Anubis to block the bots? Like, it does not sit well with me to waste compute and energy to serve empty MediaWiki Talk pages over and over.

The counter argument is that Bitlair is already hard to find by people as-is as we have no clue how to do proper promo. There *may* theoretically be people using chatbots to discover Bitlair in a way that a search engine also would.

polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Apr 26, 2026

RE: @labria@social.yeschenko.com

Before corporate had access to LLMs:

polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Apr 21, 2026

OH: "One persons trash is another persons rage-room"

polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Apr 09, 2026

Replying to @star@amazonawaws.com

Done

polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Apr 09, 2026

Hey Europeans!

If you do not like what the State of Israel is doing to Palestinians, Lebanese and the stability of the Middle East in general, then please please sign this petition on halting the EU-Israel Association Agreement:

https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2025/000005_en

Germany 🇩🇪 is still a big country that is still below the threshold, so if you are German and have not signed yet, then please do so and spread it along your fellow countrymen!

European Citizens' Initiative

Initiative detail | European Citizens' Initiative

polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Apr 08, 2026

Replying to @osmosisch@idlethumbs.social

@osmosisch

polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Apr 04, 2026

What is a decent document scanning app for Android nowadays?

I used MS Office Lens until now, but it started requiring MS Drive now :(

Other apps require creating an account and monthly subscriptions...

polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Mar 22, 2026

Replying to @vectrun@hachyderm.io

@vectrun@hachyderm.io @hack42@chaos.social Oeh! Aan grafisch ontwerptalent geen gebrek bij Hack42!

polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Mar 19, 2026

Replying to @Bubu@chaos.social

@Bubu@chaos.social Ah dangit

polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Mar 13, 2026

Replying to @pheonix@hachyderm.io

@pheonix@hachyderm.io Because they can

polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Mar 08, 2026

Replying to @jani@floss.social

@jani@floss.social I really feel this. Having started out as an somewhat impoverished teenager, software engineering got me into a middle class. This profession is incredibly accessible to people that are stubborn enough. I hate to see it being gate-kept with stupid LLM tools.

polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Mar 05, 2026

Replying to @bas@hsnl.social

@bas Where did you bought these panels and mounts?

polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Feb 20, 2026

Replying to @notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com

@notjustbikes That bit with the Corporate_Video.wav was amazing

polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Feb 11, 2026

Replying to @dthompson@toot.cat

@dthompson@toot.cat @cwebber@social.coop @spritely@social.coop The most mentioned one would be https://stoat.chat/ I heard it is decent but I have not tried it myself.

Alternatively:

And probably a few more that I have not yet discovered. This is a crowded space, holy shit

polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Feb 11, 2026

Replying to @cwebber@social.coop

@cwebber@social.coop @spritely@social.coop Will you pick an existing project and nurture it? Or start from scratch? There are plenty of alternative Discord-projects out there, some of which already have some degree or promise of federation. I would find it wasteful to start the Nth competitor. XKCD 927.

polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Feb 11, 2026

Replying to @morrigan@social.xenofem.me

@morrigan Literal Nazi shit. We have monuments and a museum dedicated to acts like this where I live

polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Jan 19, 2026

Replying to @polyfloyd@hsnl.social

This should render with image and descriptions from opengraph metadata: https://bitlair.nl/Wiki

polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Jan 04, 2026

Replying to @polyfloyd@hsnl.social

Current progress. I'm going to take a break for a few days before I continue. Lot's off stuff that could still be improved, but the low-hanging fruit is should be accounted for

polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Jan 03, 2026

Replying to @polyfloyd@hsnl.social

Eh, Firefox screenshots do not pick up on backdrop-filters?! 👀

polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Jan 03, 2026

Replying to @polyfloyd@hsnl.social

I merged the double headers. So now there is a big empty space at the top of the page which I can shove some more navigation items in at some point. I also set a background with a bit of blurring and it kind of slaps? I blatantly stole the Hero image from Space Leiden to test, but it would be cool to have something to break the monotony. What kind of imagery though? It feels a bit stereotypical to go for circuit boards or code to me

polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Jan 03, 2026

Replying to @polyfloyd@hsnl.social

Just got to the "eh, good enough" point of hacking the footer. I wonder if I could get a kind of Hero banner to work. Only on the Welcome page that is

polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Jan 03, 2026

Replying to @polyfloyd@hsnl.social

Taking some inspiration from https://spaceleiden.nl/ and https://www.tkkrlab.com/ which have really good looking Hackerspace sites :)

polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Jan 03, 2026

Replying to @polyfloyd@hsnl.social

Progressssss

polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Jan 03, 2026

Today's rabbit hole: getting the MediaWiki site of @bitlair@hsnl.social to look more modern.

I already got its looks up from 2003 to 2012, now let's see if I can push it to look like a site from >2020...

polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Jan 02, 2026

Oh btw, here is the yearly particulate matter readout around new years. Mind you that I was not at home and kept everything closed. I did forgot to switch off the mechanical ventilation, which is likely how it still got inside 😬

polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Jan 01, 2026

Back home again from #39c3 and new years celebrations

Please remember to take the time for aftercare for your post-con drop. You will have likely exhausted your brains happy-chemicals so feeling like shit would not be out of the ordinary

Rest, talk to people, rewatch some lectures. At least that is what I will be doing

And thank you all for being there! I always enjoy the vibe of people acting out their unmoderated weird self :blobhaj_heart:

polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Nov 18, 2025

Replying to @IcyPalm@mastodon.social

@IcyPalm I moved all of my own and the hackerspace's stuff to mijn.host last year. It is an independent party, has IPv6, DNSSec and an API.

polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Oct 07, 2024

Replying to @polyfloyd@hsnl.social

Was not expecting this to blow up 😬

polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Oct 06, 2024

Replying to @deneb@wetdry.world

@deneb@wetdry.world And not only that, the CPU bar stats are also hardcoded. My laptop actually has 16 threads

polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Oct 06, 2024

Replying to @polyfloyd@hsnl.social

Source here: https://github.com/polyfloyd/gadgets-for-linux It's still super limited in functionality and only runs on whatever GTK-Layer-Shell supports. I doubt I will spend a more time on this than a few hours per week. But you can play with the 3 gadgets in the screenshot though. Have fun making Frutiger Aero unix porn screenshots y'all

polyfloyd @polyfloyd@hsnl.social · Oct 05, 2024

In a move that absolutely no one asked for:
I am porting the Windows Vista/7 desktop Gadgets to Wayland with some GTK sorcery.

These widgets are actually zip files with web resources plus some metadata.
I got the Machine CPU and RAM stats working, along with some of Microsoft's weird JS API's.

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