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iris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @catstret.ch · 09/09/2026

git.soupnet.cc/iris/labelpr... i did a thing

iris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @catstret.ch · 03/09/2026

now, i'm no professional in RF coverage planning, but that doesn't seem like a good thing (this is my local DMR repeater)

an RF coverage map, showing a bunch of rural areas have excellent coverage, but the nearby city has almost no coverage at all

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iris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @catstret.ch · 30/08/2026

passed my amateur radio license exam! got the highest mark of the class (somehow)! callsign allocation won't happen for a couple days probably but. yippee

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Nova Crystallis @novacrystallis.com · 25/07/2026

Composer/Sound Director Masayoshi Soken stumps the Berlin crowd with illegal sound effects before being apprehended by security:

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Katt @sarcastickatt.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I can't wait for that gold saucer update.

A riff on the Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing cover with Yoshi P that reads "Naoki Yoshida teaches typing"

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iris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @catstret.ch · 14/07/2026

i love it when i buy an old computer from a recycler and it still has the OS install from its previous life. this X220 Tablet i just got appears to have been used as ... an emulated patient monitor as part of a medical training manikin setup?

a Windows 7 desktop with a few icons. the desktop background is a medical manikin lying supine on a white backdrop

the same Windows 7 desktop, with a "Select Manikin" dialog box opened, offering the choice to use a virtual manikin. the dialog box has a close up of the eye of a manikin on the left side. there is a text entry box labeled "Manually connect to" and a "Test wireless performance" button

a simulated medical monitor showing no sensor / leads off messages for all data points. the user interface looks like a clone of what i've seen on a Philips IntelliVue patient monitor

the same emulated patient monitor, now showing simulated data

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iris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @catstret.ch · 09/07/2026

mmm, nothing like my car's brakes failing to set the tone of the day huh

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iris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @catstret.ch · 17/06/2026

spent half the day at work writing ansible playbooks. clocked out, realised we need to make a bunch of changes to our homelab. spent most of the evening also writing ansible playbooks. sigh.

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iris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @catstret.ch · 10/06/2026

once again thinking about throwing my hat in the ring for the InternetNZ board elections

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Wenting @wenting.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Sorry for not posting for so long... I have been extremely busy working on my new project: The Enchanter (also called Modos Flow): a 300-ppi Eink portable monitor with 60Hz refresh rate and touch screen. It's fully open-source: gitlab.com/zephray/ench....

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iris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @catstret.ch · 15/05/2026

i can't explain it but the windows "updates were installed" notification feels like an incessant replyguy to me

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iris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @catstret.ch · 09/05/2026

I forgot to set up Anubis in front of my website on my new infrastructure, and since I published my blog post on the Sun Ray setup a couple days ago, several websites have published what is obviously LLM-rewritten versions of my blog post, which all rank higher in search results than my blog.

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Kawaiicon @kawaiicon.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Kawaiicon is back for 2026 and while we get a lot done with volunteer help, Wellington City Council don't accept venue payment in high fives 🙏. The 2026 Kawaiicon Call for Sponsors is open! If you want a copy of our sponsor pack, throw us an email at kiwicon@kiwicon.org.

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iris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @catstret.ch · 30/04/2026

it's time for more telephony bullshit! catstret.ch/202604/avaya... (forgot to post this here after I published the post last night, oops)

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using Kamailio to make Poly UC phones work better with Avaya IP Office

auto-answer is important, okay?

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Ky @ky.fyi · 24/04/2026

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

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Do I belong in tech anymore?

On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.

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🌐TORI.PNG🌐 @toripng.com · 18/11/2025

🌐 #art

clippy drawing that reads "have you considered using your brain instead of asking chatgpt?"

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iris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @catstret.ch · 02/04/2026

getting a brand new 3D printer right before a long weekend was a very good decision on my part i think

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Kawaiicon @kawaiicon.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

kawaiicon.org Kawaiicon 4: October 30-31, 2026 let the magical con ritual begin!

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a cartoon drawing of a sheep wearing a black crown

Alt: a cartoon drawing of a sheep wearing a black crown dancing

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iris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @catstret.ch · 04/02/2026

euuuugh i need to retire some of the x86 home servers i think... want to move to using aarch64 as much as possible (both bc x86 sucks, and perf/watt is so much better... the x86 machines run so hot) but any ARM stuff that's actually decent perf-wise is so expensive :(

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iris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @catstret.ch · 26/01/2026

you ever accidentally leave the flash on and end up taking a photo of your cat that has the same aesthetic as a mid-2000s digital camera photo? yeah

an orange and white cat on top of a dark speckled blanket. the camera focus is way off point, the cat is mildly blurry, and his eyes look like lamps thanks to the camera flash. he is lying on his side with his head perked up facing the camera.

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iris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @catstret.ch · 26/01/2026

auuuuugh the numbers in the bank account are looking Bad this week, and there's still bills to come out...

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iris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @catstret.ch · 21/01/2026

well, i'm supposed to be flying home to Tauranga in a few hours... remains to be seen whether that'll actually happen with the weather esp now that a local state of emergency has been declared

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iris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @catstret.ch · 15/01/2026

got that Wheelchair User Privilege™️ (the security guards at Bayfair split the crowd in front of EB Games for the closing down sale right down the middle to let me into the store before the stampede)

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iris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @catstret.ch · 18/12/2025

man it'd be nice to have Any Amount Of Savings huh. sudden expenses are horrible when you barely scrape by normally

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iris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @catstret.ch · 09/11/2025

sometimes i forget how stunningly beautiful my country is. and then i pull over on the side of the road on my drive home bc i need to pee and i go "oh. yeah."

Ruapehu Maunga from the side of the Desert Road

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iris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @catstret.ch · 08/11/2025

my adhd meds have well and truly worn off so i am again Incapable Of Sitting Still, if anyone in welly wants to hang out and do things *please* let me know LMAO

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iris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @catstret.ch · 08/11/2025

getting to leroy's sounds horrible (can't park anywhere close, and plimmer steps is named as such for a reason) and also hanging around people getting drunk is not a good idea for the whole "maintaining my sobriety" thing so i'm skipping the after party but y'all have fun

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iris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @catstret.ch · 08/11/2025

and that's a wrap! much love to all the @kawaiicon.bsky.social crüe (& vols!), thank you for putting on such a great con (and for actually putting thought into accessibility!)

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iris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @catstret.ch · 08/11/2025

as much as i love the memes in this talk i wish they didn't have audio

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iris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @catstret.ch · 07/11/2025

back my hotel for a bit to Chill™️ before going back for movie and/or cahoots (haven't decided which yet) but. the crop top was a very good idea, i am cute

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iris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @catstret.ch · 07/11/2025

"i believe AI is the future" yeah and i believe that i'm going to sprout wings and become a real life mahou shoujo. both our hopes are gonna crash and burn at any sign of scrutiny, but at least mine don't involve burning the planet at the same time

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iris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @catstret.ch · 07/11/2025

sitting in my car eating my lunch with the aircon blasting cold at me, it's so warm

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iris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @catstret.ch · 06/11/2025

first day of kawaiicon! if you see me, come say hi :)

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iris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @catstret.ch · 06/11/2025

@kawaiicon.bsky.social just wanted to double check you're aware the CO2 dashboard is dead, i just get an nginx 301 error page (with no redirect)

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iris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @catstret.ch · 06/11/2025

after waking up at 5am, driving for 6 and a half hours (with a few breaks), doing the con prereg, checking into my hotel, and unpacking my stuff, i'm now... quite tired! who could've seen that coming? certainly not me /s

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iris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @catstret.ch · 05/11/2025

i always have a little bit of a giggle when i'm driving through a rural township somewhere and see a sign for like. a model train museum. like, congrats on monetising your grandpa's autism, i guess?

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iris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @catstret.ch · 05/11/2025

now *mostly* packed for Kawaiicon! gotta wake up at 5am to start the trek down to Wellington, so I would like to get to sleep early, but the number of people letting off fireworks right now make me thing that's not likely to happen.....

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iris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @catstret.ch · 17/09/2025

time for another installment of "iris gets a weird rebadged supermicro box, and spends way too long getting a normal BIOS flashed on it" - this time it's a HPE/Nimble CS1000 SAN catstret.ch/202509/nimbl...

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Repurposing a HPE/Nimble CS1000

another day, another rebadged SuperMicro

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