Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 4hWherever sodium is, water will flow towards it, just like wherever cats are, humans will flow towards them. 000 0
Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 4hPC building tips (e-waste edition): 1. sort by price per unit low to high and buy the top one 2. roll your motherboard, not fold it, for safe storage 3. reuse PSU cables to reduce waste 4. snip off the connectors you don't need 5. use as few screws as possible to save them for eating 000 0
Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 16/10/2026What you get: Exposure. Don't worry about my repo only having 5 stars for now - it will be 5 mil soon TM. I'll also put your logo front and center on everything and stamp your sticker on my forehead. - Meow 000 0
Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 16/10/2026I'm doing a 200 pkgs monorepo which has Rust, TS, Kotlin. Notable apps in it are music player and file manager. Currently I'm CI constrained because GitHub is so slow. I estimate I'd use 250k unit minutes per month. Could you give me that for free forever? 100 1
Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 16/10/2026Here's my (intentionally bad first) draft to a CI service requesting they provide CI for free. --- Yo! 100 1
Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 22/09/2026I say: "My liability is limited to whatever you paid me in the last 6 months, or $100, whichever is more. Look, it was written on the bottom of the pet carrier. For further compensation, please consult my cat, who may or may not scratch more." 000 0
Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 22/09/2026I lend my cat to a friend because the friend wants something to play with and cats are soft and warm. My friend overstimulates the cat and the cat scratches my friend, resulting in a 1kUSD medical bill. However, no evidence of overstimulation can be found, as do everything about cats. 100 1
Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 19/09/2026I wrote my own limited regex engine called forbidden-regex. crates.io/crates/forbi... We only need to support a non-strict subset of regex and the usual api, so lots of optimization opportunities were there.crates.iocrates.io: Rust Package Registrycrates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects 000 0
Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 04/09/2026I setup Garage S3 on my VPS. Scripts on my phone and desktops. Then I sync a .kdbx file. Or if Syncthing works for you, you can do that too. 000 0
Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 29/08/2026Doctor: "What year is it?" Me: "For me? It's the year of Linux desktop, even though it still has so many problems." Doctor: "Who's the president?" Me: "Jim Zemlin, of course." Doctor: "What did you eat?" Me: "DEADBEEF" Doctor (to other doctors): "Book a CT scan..." 020 2
Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 22/08/2026People sometimes minimize others' experiences because they want to believe the world is alright, bad things can't happen, especially to themselves. The world is not alright. A person can believe the world is a good place but we should always be clear-eyed and know bad things can, and are happening. 000 0
Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 21/08/2026Before 1950: fish 1950 to 2025: viruses After 2025: AI agents xkcd.com/350/xkcd.comNetwork 000 0
Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 19/08/2026I would have told them to ask the LLM to iterate until they get it right. 000 0
Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 19/08/2026That won't work for current frontier LLMs, because they're much more prompt-injection resistant. 000 0
Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 10/08/2026I'm enjoying it, but I'm missing the feature to randomly generate levels. 000 0
Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 28/07/2026My bad fs tips: 1. compress every file with zstd 22 ultra, no exceptions 2. Setup raid 1 by partitioning your disk into 2 halves 3. Turn on quotas and set it to 100% of the drive 4. mount cloud storages in /tmp 5. align partition sectors to 8MB 010 1
Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 22/07/2026Looking at recent news, I've been feeling this more and more: Republicans often have concrete incentives: money and crushing people they don't like. Many Democratic elites are personally insulated from the loss of LGBT protections, the social safety net, and more. "skin in the game" 010 1
Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 13/07/2026I saw your book, I want to buy it, but I don't see a DRM-free option and I don't want a physical book. Will you (or the publisher) provide a DRM-free option? 010 1
Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 28/06/2026I used to like chocolate so much I licked one of my tooth pretending it to be chocolate and eventually it fell off. 000 0
Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 26/06/2026"Then divide $1000 by 50 years and it costs not even $0.05/day but dividing $1000 by 15 years and you'll find it saves $0.18/day, netting you $0.13/day! Buy sooner, save more!" /s 000 0
Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 26/06/2026"Buy our phone for $1000. You'll get to keep it for life, and it extends your lifespan by 10% because you'd have better mood, 10% because you'd save time, yet another 10% because you won't have to think of buying another phone, and if you've got 50 years left in your life, that's 15 years saved!" 100 1
Reposted by AquaticatVale @vale.rocks · 19/06/2026There are only two file formats: disguised zips and renamed text files. JSON? Text. EPUB? Zip. CSV? Text. EXE? Zip. SVG? Text. DOCX? Zip. ICS? Text. APK? Zip. 451064264 1.1K
Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 18/06/2026I avoid them because it's too easy to write catastrophic backtracking and the like. 000 0
Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 17/06/2026This is fun and I had a good laugh. I was going to suggest imaging an installed system somewhere then restore images to each target, but you probably know that. 110 1
Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 15/05/2026crates.io/crates/forbi... Fastest secret scanner (I know). Just published (by me). Deployed at github.com/Aquaticat/Mo...crates.iocrates.io: Rust Package Registrycrates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects 120 2
Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 08/04/2026Showerthought: Chickens grew legs for walking, but we repurposed them as handles for eating. 000 0
Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 01/04/2026According to popular health advice, please DON'T: 1. drink 8 glasses of coke 2. eat an apple device 3. take 1kg of vitamin gummies 4. run 1 light year per day. 000 0
Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 12/01/2026My (xkcd-style) Car Pro-Tips (Satire) 1. Add cooking oil to the little hole in front where you put in the oil gun to save on oil costs 2. Break the glass panels to see better. 3. Detach the rearview mirrors to be more aerodynamic 4. Unlock the place of the driving wheel to make it more ergonomic 000 0
Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 18/12/2025My business ideas: 1. Home VPS farm via VMware on my gaming rig 2. Manual AI: I’ll answer prompts for $100/M output tokens 3. Train stray cats into the workforce 4. Human 4K: Send me your 4K vids & I’ll describe to you how sharp they look on my screen 000 0
Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 22/10/2025I was planning to copy your art for practice because I'm a beginner. I'm definitely not gonna use my imperfect copies commercially. Thank you for being okay with my use, and thank you for creating good art. 000 0
Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 19/10/2025Bad advice for completing assignments: 1. reorganize your files by synthesia color 2. create a new esolang for every assignment 3. check xkcd and tvtropes for related themes 4. format your assignment using renpy instead of PowerPoint 100 1
Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 25/09/2025Where can I buy a seamless spherical hollow cardboard box for fun? 000 0
Aquaticat @aquati.cat · 21/09/2025My daily TODO living with CFS: What's the least I need to do today to make sure no one gets angry with me? 010 1
