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Kasami

@kasami.bsky.social
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Programmer, tinkerer, sometimes demoscene things, technical rambling. Website (with not very much on it yet): kasami.net

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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 4h
A month and a half later I think I've got the majority of it. 4993 items, 63GB archived. It's SO much more than short promo videos, there are also longer audio things in here. The only things I haven't got now are about 300 items that immediately return a 403 error on the player manifest.
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Random cheap reflective polarizer I got from aliexpress was the good kind this time, where the reflective side is actually linear. This will be fun to experiment with.
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downchasm @downchasm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
one aspect regarding retro gaming scenes that genAI has been blazingly efficient at is in trust erosion whether it’s fan TLs, FPGA cores, or recomp scenes, within the past year so much optimism and excitement regarding new projects has been swiftly replaced with doubt and suspicion thank you genAI
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Stupid idea that just came to me: desktop pet for cybiko. It seems like the kind of thing that might just barely be possible with its arguably very over-engineered OS. The default background processes are at least able to draw dialog boxes over other stuff with correct repainting so... I wonder.
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The Cutting Room Floor @tcrf.net · 24/09/2026
Howdy folks! Here's our writeup on the DDoS from last month: blog.xkeeper.net/the-cutting-... Thanks for your patience while we worked to get this out!
a chart from the linked post, showing our server's traffic stats over the last 30 days, annotated with various details. see linked post for full details
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Forgot how slow archive.‍org uploads are and started uploading 31GB through the normal web UI like an idiot
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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
the most depressing person to argue with about AI is the doomer types who're like "AI is bad and ruining everything but also it's never going away so there's no point in getting upset when ppl use it". Like.... you have pre-emptively chosen to be a person who will not fight for a better world
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trying to figure out a weird fault condition I saw with a DM160 VFD tube once. Was messing with like 50 on a board, all filaments in parallel, roughly applying the right voltages to light them as expected. Suddenly one lit up white-hot like the filament got overvolted? I can't possibly see how.
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
FSTN polarizer from AliExpress works like a charm on a cybiko. A bit annoying that I have to cut it at 45 degrees but I'll take it.
Holding a replacement polarizer sheet partially over a LCD screen that had its original front polarizer removed.
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Continuing to fight with computers, I just found out that when I updated and rebooted a server VM earlier and walked away from it, turns out it decided to make the mounted ISO the default boot, which it has never done before. So my main server was sitting on a gparted boot screen for idk how long :)
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Well shit. I saw that misrc-gui now supports cxadc so started testing it out, seems cool. Tried to use the client-server thing it can do and it just outright doesn't work. Went to the repo hoping to find out why... Turns out that feature (and possibly everything else) was vibe-coded.
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Well alright then, guess I didn't need that (I absolutely do need that)
A previously glued connector on a circuit board has ripped away with a cable still attached. Both the solder and glue joints have sheared off.
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
... aaaand the heavily AI-assisted loopy game translation has made it to VCFMW. Of course it has. Idk why I'm still worrying myself over all this mess. idk man.
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The two things I like seeing the most online are nice art and cool technical projects. Both near impossible to enjoy anymore because I have to spend too much time picking through AI slop. The hell am I supposed to do
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Family's old hifi system that my mom loves is sorta failing again and she keeps complaining about how hot it runs... I'm considering ripping out the power/amp board and replacing it with modern stuff but trouble is it needs like +20V, -20V, +12V, +5.6V, -30V, -25V +/- some AC for the VFD filament...
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
(Flicker warning) Cybiko got a little unhappy last night. I think it was due to a bit of moisture from cleaning that found its way to the LCD driver ribbon, because it came good again once it was fully dry. But damn this is one of the spookiest failure modes I've witnessed on anything.
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
probably like a month late to notice it but wow is youtube bringing back gradient buttons? this wasn't on my 2026 bingo card
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
May or may not have bought a second cybiko
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Dammit I've gotta get my motherboard replaced I think. I've been holding off but the list of issues keeps growing and the warranty window's closing. It's had SATA timeout issues since I got it (swapped drives and cables, it's not them). Now it's also randomly resetting or failing to boot at all.
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
That seems suboptimal
An error message in a Japanese Sony VAIO recovery environment.

Translated to English:
mshta.exe - Application Error
The instruction at 0x72726ff2 referenced memory at 0x34c7c190. The memory could not be read.
Click on OK to terminate the program

Original:
mshta.exe - アプリケーションエラー
0x72726ff2 の命令が 0x34c7c190 のメモリを参照しました。メモリが read になることはできませんでした。
プログラムを終了するには [OK] をクリックしてください
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Need DVD-RWs to burn some recovery discs for archival, found only DVD+RWs, first brand (Verbatim) got hard rejected by the drive so I thought it doesn't take pluses, then I found an older box of Tevion pluses and tried one anyway and it's perfectly happy?? I don't understand optical media after all.
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
have vibe-coders come up with an attempt at a derogatory term for the rest of us that we can reclaim yet? that seems like it'd be neat right about now
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Get Equipped With @getequipped.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
get equipped with awful software
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Damn, klipy is all in on the slop after all. "Scroll an endless feed of AI-powered games created by the community" nah I'll pass actually. This kinda sucks a lot because now there are Zero gif-sharing platforms that are even remotely good.
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
What the hell did I do for bsky to suddenly re-notify me of the last FOUR MONTHS of notifications???
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Dealing with the video CDN thing again and found out something real cool (/s)... The lowest quality video stream uses audio-0 and all the others use audio-1. audio-0 is 96kbps and audio-1 is 64kbps. Yep. You only get the better audio if you pick the worst possible video.
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Forgot to post this, the LED thing works. I've been fighting with math trying to stop the gamma and white balance making a mess of lower levels and I think I'm getting somewhere. This isn't in the laptop yet, just shoved under the bezel sitting on my desk.
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NachtHirschhund 🔜 WPAFW @aussiedeerdog.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Wet ICE contest where everyone just sprays ICE with garden hoses until their shit don't work.
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Wish I could channel my "just saw another headline about ICE" rage into something more useful than accidentally smacking my hand against the desk when I'm just trying to move stuff
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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 12/08/2026
just fucking click this and scroll down www.twitch.tv/settings/sec... instead of giving this horseshit clicks
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Well that wasn't a complete disaster, should be good for testing tomorrow.
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Bought a mPCIe bluetooth card to try in my D630 laptop just to see what happens. In the WLAN slot? nada. WWAN slot? works perfectly but no LED. They wired the LED signal to the WLAN slot to support dual-mode cards but then didn't connect USB for some reason. WWAN does get USB though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I glanced past the trending box real fast and it all blurred together and I ended up reading something along the lines of "Trump's secret chair opposes Italy's cheese strikes". If that was an actual headline I don't think I'd question it tbh.
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Found a small goldmine of videos that need archiving, writing the script to do so, and realizing I now have to choose between parsing HLS stream data or parsing DASH stream data and both of them kinda suck. Or I could just download premade MP4s they so kindly provide at HALF THE BITRATE...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/08/2026
the execs got tired of their employees demanding things like "don't use our tech to murder people" and "don't sexually harass people" and, during covid, "let us work from home" the message now is "more arbitrary layoffs are coming, be afraid for your jobs, and we will never listen to you again"
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it's bev! @tonyawolfe.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
New on the Secret Area: I hate AI vibe coded game projects. Terrible machine translations! Barely functional recompilations! It's a hot mess, y'all. Shares and comments appreciated, as always. asecretarea.com/2026/08/10/a...
asecretarea.com
AI vibe coded game projects suck. - You Found a Secret Area!
Time for me to rant about the current trend: AI vibe coded gaming projects. Lazy translations! Vibe coded recompilations! It's all here, y'all.
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Oh dear I didn't plan this one super well, I totally thought I had more room for connectors here and already built all the other stuff that is meant to plug in here... Well it's for a specific machine and I know I don't need all that space for the mounting hardware so I could just cheat
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
In other news, AliExpress appears to be trialling time travel
AliExpress package tracking status:

Package leaving origin country/region
Fri | Aug. 07 03:29
...
Your package is estimated to arrive on Aug. 06
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
inb4 trump throws a tantrum and starts just knocking down more parts of the white house just for the hell of it
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The Cutting Room Floor @tcrf.net · 06/08/2026
I'd like to use this opportunity to clarify something: if you think a text file that reads "delete everything" is malware, you are a clown. If you use Claude or other agent tools, you are a clown. You are not welcome on our site, in our community, or frankly anywhere.
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Update, they've now officially told me they lost it. So it got lost on the day it was meant to be delivered huh. If someone did steal it then I guess congrats on your £10 CPU that might not even work, don't go flip it on ebay too quickly
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Thought finding the dimensions of a mini-PCIe card would be the easy part of this project. Turns out nobody can agree on any of the numbers. Height is either 50.8 or 50.95, width is either 30 or 29.85, screw holes are also inconsistent, EVERY diagram omits at least one important measurement...
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Good job, ghidra...
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Holy, they left a whole debug menu in. Enabled with a single flag. It seems like just camera controls and a second toggle for the FPS unlock. Not sure what all the "Sync" lines in the top left are for, they never change. Also seems to reenable auto tracking when a scripted camera change happens.
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Spent hours printing shelf height adapter things for a display cabinet just using an STL someone made, assumed they'd done the height offset properly... they didn't. I cba to redo the prints so I'll try live with it and if it bothers me too much I'll just print some 1cm cubes to fix the height.
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Turns out Lucky Star no Mori has a turbo button built in already, it's just normally disabled. Enabling it just requires changing one byte. Then you just hold ctrl to go fast I guess. Ignore the whole resolution and texture quality thing I'm still working on it
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Managed to completely break a ghidra project in such a way that reanalysis is just making things worse and half the imported DLLs are forgetting where they're meant to be loaded, I think I'm gonna have to manually copy as much non-broken data as I can into a new project. Software is so great
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Yeah same tbh
Screenshot of a corrupted version of the game "Lucky Star no Mori" in which all 2D visual elements are more than triple their normal size. A large portion of the screen is covered with speech bubbles with exclamation marks, which normally indicate interactable objects.
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"Due to be delivered today" - Royal Mail, on thursday. It wasn't, and there haven't been any updates since. Not sure wtf they're up to. Unless they put it somewhere non-obvious AND forgot to mark it as delivered?
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Kasami @kasami.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Got a nasty cold and still stayed up crazy late poking around in ghidra anyway. why am I like this
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