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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

born to lurk profiles/discord servers forced to misclick the like/follow/call buttons

brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

was hoping to get 40k kills on my degreaser by the end of the halloween event but i may have slightly miscalculated - i'm about 400 kills short lol no new headshots on my bulb either, despite best attempts to earn a few however, i did reach tier 5 on my very last game!! >w< GG

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

as for this year's pull, kinda drier than usual not gonna lie i got like 10-15 duplicates, maybe a couple alright cosmetics, only two paper bags and no cursed souls (i got a duplicate demo soul like 2-3 times this halloween alone lol) at least i got the bunny head i wanted :3

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

i wish i could've played more tf2 this year but this makes up for lost time :3 also a massive shoutout to all my friends who helped me along the way, saving me hours of hunting that i otherwise might not have been able to dedicate myself to given my exceedingly tight schedule 💖

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

given i'm starting academia soon, while still working a job, the timing of this update was the absolute best it could've been not to mention that the maps themselves were really fun, and that the matchmaking issues weren't as problematic as they normally are thank you, valve 🧡

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

i was blessed by a couple days off work this week and i decided to put my ongoing personal projects on hold to degenmaxx through the contracts and degenmaxx i did >w< for the first time ever, i've gotten all the packages (about 30 hours of playing) in just under three days lmao

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

that being said, it doesn't have to be "spooky" to be a great halloween addition valve simply can not and will not miss when it comes to scream fortress :3 now if you'll excuse me, i have hats to collect ! (and i *really* hope the matchmaker won't intervene too much with it)

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

while TSL is not a "halloween map" per-se, it perfectly encapsulates the halloween vibe - one month of unfathomable silly chaos, the one single event in tf2 i look forward to every single year in contrast to the same-old small couple of maps we play all year round otherwise

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

as if i wasn't shocked enough that valve decided to release the halloween update on the first day of october, a feat that has only happened once before... ...i never would've imagined in my wildest dreams that TSL would become an official addition valve, bless your souls 🙏🧡

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i really miss the time when political figures didn't have social media accounts

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

with some research i was able to find that, when health checks were added, they were supposed to add restarts for unhealthy containers, because right now nothing happens when a container becomes unhealthy it didn't make the cut, and they stubbornly haven't added it since github.com/moby/moby/is...

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trigger restart from unhealthy status · Issue #28400 · moby/moby

what It would be helpful if an action could be triggered when a service status is unhealthy. why It would be sane trigger an action for a container when a status is unhealthy. Tying this into the r...

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

correct, that will make the container wait until they report healthy... ...on startup! on restart (including device reboot) however, depends_on is completely ignored because it is assumed that it already passed the health check :3

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

</3 systemd on the other hand <333

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

in today's edition of "the great unsolved problems of our universe" it is not possible to (conveniently) make a docker container restart itself after crashing, without also making it self-destruct on machine reboot

oh my FUCKING god death to docker compose

my docker compose project has FOUR (4) separate containers (which is batshit insane enough, but i digress) required to make my discord music bot run

for the bot itself to work, which is its own container, 2 of the 3 other containers must report healthy

i also added a `restart: unless-stopped` policy to these containers so they would boot back up as soon as they crash

this ignores the health checks, but it's fine because the containers will practically never all restart at once

can u guess what happens on machine reboot? :3

instead of them being started up normally, they are... all restarted at once!

this of course ignores all health checks, and the bot starts up in a permanently broken state unless restarted

because it's too fucking stupid to, oh i don't know, mayyyybe consider retrying the connection to the other containers after its startup ???

industry fucking standard software btw

if this didn't give me canceraids nothing will >w<

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

>open steam wishlist in browser >not logged in >can't log in >open steam wishlist in app (logged in) >not "logged in" >can't "log in" awesome :3

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

from now on i will try to also watch steam for new messages (i have steam chat installed, which *should* send me notifs, but it doesn't seem to for whatever reason) but it will essentially be on a best-effort basis, and i will very likely forget to check for long periods of time

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

ever since i got my new computer i disabled running steam on startup because i just don't need it anymore, not to mention that i haven't been playing games all that much lately even if i'm playing a game, i most likely won't be able to see the notification or read the DM anyways

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

i have other socials too but i didn't bother mentioning them because i either: 1. want to keep them private, or 2. likely won't get consistent notifications because i seldom use them in case i missed anyone's messages on steam in the past few months, my sincerest apologies

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

discord is by far the most preferable option, especially considering rebooting my phone wipes my notifications because, unlike bsky/twitter, i check/use it whenever i'm able to (ie. not busy with other things) which is nearly every single day, or at least once a month at worst

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

recently saw a notification on steam regarding multiple unread DMs naturally, since these DMs were probably 14+ days old, steam deleted the messages ⚠️ please DM me only on discord (i accept all friend requests :3) or bsky/twitter as a last resort if you don't want to use it ⚠️

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

i only hope that, once i go back to higher education in october, i will be able to play through the entire halloween event (i haven't missed a single scream fortress since i started playing 10 years ago) without any significant matchmaking issues a bulb can dream, i guess :'3

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

revisited tf2 again after 2 weeks, this time with ALL maps selected and no ping limit while it was enjoyable (mostly just cuz i miss playing the game) the matchmaking issues were still there (albeit less apparent) and i can't see myself playing the game like this in the long run

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

yooo i'm eligible for a kobalt tool

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

yesterday's post of mine got me thinkin the hardest part about reverse-engineering isn't: - finding the right tools and learning how to use them - understanding how memory/the CPU works - writing and/or debugging in assembly the hardest part is... reading other people's code :3

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

(this is the mindset of the people behind like half the projects i ever worked on/used :3)

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

sounds interesting :o i'll look into it!! ty :3

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

might not be the best implementation out there, but at least it's mine, so i know how it works & how to fix it ! i've written at least half a dozen parsers in my life and i will kay-eye-double-hockey-sticks someone if i ever have to write another one >w< github.com/brokenphilip...

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

in all my 14 years of programming i don't think i've ever written or come across a parser that isn't completely utterly deranged :3 spent half my day writing 154 lines of code (i didn't trust slopgpt) and half of them are comments cuz said code is completely unreadable otherwise

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

i miss playing tf2 i don't miss playing the same garbage maps like badwater/upward or any other payload slop for the trillionth time i want to play the game again without having to rely on an external driving force like a friend inviting me or a content update dropping :(

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

this, alongside the mentality of most tf2 players changing over the years (where they don't even bother to try the new content anymore, much less-so consume it) is making me *really* concerned as to how playable this year's halloween update would be (if at all in the first place)

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

it's been nearly a year at this point and i'm actually surprised it hasn't been fixed yet tf2 is genuinely completely unplayable right now at the very least valve tends to resolve matchmaking related issues in a timely manner - this has not been a timely manner for a while now

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

i revisited tf2 a couple days ago, matchmaking is still busted 30 minutes of waiting for like 3 matches, one of which was across the ocean (got desperate and disabled ping limits) unless you only play the top 20 most popular maps in the tf2, good luck ever finding a match :3

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

i did the thing 2 - Electric Bulbaloo

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

now that you mention it, i *do* have a tiny tv-(shit)box . . . couple months ago i put armbian on it and now it hosts my personal-use & music discord bots ...and these things you mentioned all seem like pretty cool use cases for it !! thank you for the inspiration meow :3

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

setting aside the incredibly vague and unhelpful error messages, the fact that you either have to create an entire useless user account for authentication, or set a group policy to allow unauthenticated access, is beyond abysmal :3

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

for some reason all my shared windows folders between 4 different devices stopped working for no reason whatsoever absolutely nothing about my devices or network has changed whatsoever, and absolutely nothing i tried managed to fix the issue may the SMB protocol burn in hell :3

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

just had to force myself into waking up because i got stuck in the cycle of: - falling asleep within 3 seconds - getting the same stupid dream - waking up and repeating everything about 5-10 more times within 5 minutes the human mind has to be studied, this is fucking insane :3

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

nvm i guess lol they closed my acc for inactivity and i was simply allowed/told to close and reopen it 🔥

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Five letter d word to paypal send tweet

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

"larp" didn't become annoying as quickly as "67" did, but oh my GOD i am NOT ready for the next few months (up to a year or two) as people start discovering about and (ab)using the new hip & trendy internet meme

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

i'm not even kidding in the slightest when i say that "larp" has officially become Significantly Worse than "67" i didn't think it was humanely possible for something to be even worse than "67", yet here we are :3

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brokenphilip @brokenphilip.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

that, alongside the usual steamrolls, is exactly why i quit tf2 in the first place, and, as much as i miss this game and want to come back to it, i don't think it's quite my time yet burnout aside, pretty good content!! pl_redwood is my favorite addition, it was quite a blast :3

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