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cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems · 5d ago

the Glasgow Interface Explorer project's new LLM policy:

We do not accept contributions where code was generated partly or in whole using LLMs. These tools are designed to be extractive and place an unreasonable burden on OSS maintainers, both on the level of individual pull requests and for the ecosystem as a whole. If you didn’t bother writing it, we won’t bother reading.

https://glasgow-embedded.org/latest/contribute.html

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✧✦Catherine✦✧

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cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems · Mar 12, 2026

for your consideration: two git aliases that are very useful for debugging CI workflows

[alias]
        oops = commit --amend --no-edit
        yolo = "!yolo() { git add "$*"; git oops; git push -f; }; yolo"

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✧✦Catherine✦✧

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cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems · Mar 10, 2026

thanks to AI demand, Lattice cannot make enough FPGAs to fulfill orders on iCE40's (and probably ECP5's) with less than a year of lead time. this is likely to cause supply chain issues for Glasgow revD

words cannot describe my contempt for this shit, and my disdain for anyone still pushing it

(there is no shortage or supply chain issues with the silicon itself. rather, the problem here is the resin used to make a part of the packaging. in theory it would be possible to just glue a die to the PCB and bond it out during assembly, in practice this would be prohibitively expensive as far as I know)

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✧✦Catherine✦✧

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cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems · Mar 09, 2026

inspired by actual events

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AI nerd's imagination: For the purpose of the argument suppose we have a superhuman AGI and we're going to sandbox it safely, the theoretical problems are... What would actually happen: Just allow all

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cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems · Mar 09, 2026

@niconiconi in a sense, this is a superhuman intelligence that escaped its sandbox. it just didn't do this because it was smart. it did this because humans were greedy

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✧✦Catherine✦✧

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems · Mar 05, 2026

💭 can you bet on Polymarket that the CFTC will start enforcing Dodd-Frank rules whose current non-enforcement allows Polymarket to exist, and more importantly will they pay you out if it does

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✧✦Catherine✦✧

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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✧✦Catherine✦✧

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems · Mar 05, 2026

i've been seeing "A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE / THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION" image a lot lately and i've come to queston it

sure, a computer cannot be held accountable. but a computer can have properties that are much more valuable than "can be held accountable" (which has happened so little with corporate management that i'm not sure it's even a relevant question anymore): it can be verifiably transparent, and it can be modified in a predictable manner.

try doing that with a CEO's brain! (i mean, i would try, no claims about success though)

now of course i say "can" because the most recent movement in computing is to completely negate those two important properties

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✧✦Catherine✦✧

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cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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✧✦Catherine✦✧

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems · Mar 02, 2026

hot singles in your area! (measuring over 100 uSv/hr)

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✧✦Catherine✦✧

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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✧✦Catherine✦✧

✧✦Catherine✦✧

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems · Feb 28, 2026

hey do you wanna see a ludicrously high resolution image of a microSD card i'm deprocessing? enjoy

https://upload.whitequark.org/1772302728-20260228_175143.JPG

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✧✦Catherine✦✧

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cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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✧✦Catherine✦✧

✧✦Catherine✦✧

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems · Feb 28, 2026

today I learned that we (as a civilization) now can put 16 silicon flash dice into a single 700µm microSD card on a commercial scale https://www.ose.com.tw/en/ic-services/memory-product-package/microsdsd

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cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems · Feb 28, 2026

I would like to formally announce that the #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer revD development (the next iteration: with the same FPGA but 32 digital I/Os and 8 single-ended analog channels that can be configured as 4 differential ones) is well underway with a CrowdSupply campaign planned later this year; stay tuned!

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✧✦Catherine✦✧

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cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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✧✦Catherine✦✧

✧✦Catherine✦✧

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems · Feb 28, 2026

the SI people are right and everybody doing it otherwise is wrong; you should never use the "K", "M", etc unit prefixes to mean factor of 1024. sure, with small enough sizes you can usually ignore it. but scale it up and you quickly run into trouble

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cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems · Feb 27, 2026

heyyyyyy. check this out

i bought one of those chinese motherboards which get the UEFI package from American Megatrends and then enable options with the guiding principle of "YES."

check out how many juicy bits it has

you can turn the memory scrambler on and off! it even tells you the seed it has on, i think, this specific boot?

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✧✦Catherine✦✧

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cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems · Feb 26, 2026

i checked up on OsmAnd and apparently they're doing some pretty advanced stuff for offline route calculation now! beyond A* https://osmand.net/blog/fast-routing/

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cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems · Feb 24, 2026

USB tester in question (about $10): https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007910415726.html it does exactly one thing but it does it very well

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cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems · Feb 22, 2026

[while looking at https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/header/stdbit] they should just add C++ namespaces to C

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cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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✧✦Catherine✦✧

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems · Feb 22, 2026

people's reaction to IRCv3 will never stop being amusing to me

(join channel → talk about how IRC is no longer terrible against all odds)

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cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems · Feb 22, 2026

prompted by a discussion about naming things elsewhere

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cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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✧✦Catherine✦✧

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems · Feb 19, 2026

ircv3 is a stark reminder that while internet chat, as any nuanced human endeavour, is definitely complicated, it is not that complicated and requires neither xml abominations nor json abominations to have it happen

i almost started to forget, huh

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cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems · Feb 18, 2026

OH: "prepending my ham radio transmission with a DNI list of call signs"

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cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems · Feb 18, 2026

existence of post quantum cryptography implies the existence of put quantum cryptography and delete quantum cryptography

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cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems · Feb 18, 2026

existence of youtube shorts implies the existence of youtube longs and youtube ints

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems · Feb 18, 2026

IRCv3 is shaping to be amazingly good!

here's the things it offers, today, right now, on a chat server we just set up in one evening:

you don't need a bouncer (friggin finally)
there are moblie clients that work well
you can see backlog when joining a channel
you can browse chat history
you can connect from multiple devices with one account and nickname
if you disconnect, your nickname is still present in a channel you joined, marked as away
you can highlight or DM people who are away and they'll see your message when they join (without crutches like MemoServ)
there is a "last read message" marker and it is synchronized between multiple connections
messages have identifiers (and server timestamps) and replies can be tagged with the message you're replying to
messages can be redacted (for moderation)
you don't need to deal with fussy nonsense like NickServ authorization, ghosting, or such; connect with your username and password and that's it
there are typing notifiers, if you want them
there are message reactions, if you want them

here's the things it does not offer:

image, video, or file uploads (actively worked on: https://github.com/ircv3/ircv3-specifications/pull/562)
stickers
complex onboarding tools

caveat: since IRCv3 is a true extension of IRCv2, the features listed above work if they're supported by both the server and the client. in my onboarding experience so far, people do not find it difficult to find a suitable client, but your mileage may vary. on the flipside, legacy clients will work just fine.

unexpectly, i realized that IRCv3 can completely replace Matrix rooms for my own group chat purposes, and i'm probably not going to set up any Matrix homeservers again; it's just not worth it and frankly I should instead put that effort into coming up with a file upload IRCv3 extension or something

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✧✦Catherine✦✧

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems · Feb 17, 2026

"how's ram shortage going"

this is trending on aliexpress

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✧✦Catherine✦✧

✧✦Catherine✦✧

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems · Feb 17, 2026

oh wow, IRCv3 is like... actually good software. with features real people want, like "chat history stored on the server and loaded on demand" and "multiple logins under the same username"

you no longer need a bouncer or use one of those funny nickname|m nicks if you run irc on your phone! you can just do it, like in every other chat software lol

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Boosted by

Gay, loud and annoying !

@hj@shigusegubu.club

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✧✦Catherine✦✧

✧✦Catherine✦✧

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems · Feb 15, 2026

today in "cursed aliexpress items" × "cursed usb items"

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✧✦Catherine✦✧

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems · Feb 15, 2026

is x86 a _______ architecture?

explain your reasoning.

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✧✦Catherine✦✧

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems · Feb 13, 2026

Codeberg Pages documentation now lists git-pages as the deployment method to use going forward! https://docs.codeberg.org/codeberg-pages/

thanks to everyone on the @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de team for making this collaboration possible

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✧✦Catherine✦✧

✧✦Catherine✦✧

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems · Feb 06, 2026

in-band signaling is always a mistake and unix tooling is full of in-band signaling @zekjur@mas.to

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cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid "A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin." ✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧ ✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦ ✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶ ✷ nothing else matters ✷ # searchable

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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems · Feb 03, 2026

biblically accurate WLCSP @CursedFootprint@mastodon.social

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