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creature! ✨ (Nall) @nallchange.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

So, you know all about being granted wishes, in maliciously compliant ways that in theory may not be to your liking? Our updated book is full of poorly-worded wishes that get you transformed into one of many creatures -- which is secretly what you wanted all along~ ✨ #tf

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 04/09/2026

memtest86's page on it: www.memtest86.com/blacklist-ra... -- though they're also trying to upsell you to pro so that they can charge you to generate the string to pass to windows.

memtest86.com

PassMark MemTest86 - Memory Diagnostic Tool - Troublingshooting Memory Errors

MemTest86 is a memory test for x86 computers.

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 04/09/2026

I felt like it was worth mentioning since the only thing I've seen mentioned here so far is windows bugcheck codes. Sometimes, it's best not to make assumptions about what people have or have not tried.

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 04/09/2026

If you think it might be a bad ram page or something, it might be worth running memtest86 or similar to confirm, and then trying to setup the windows badmemorylist to stop using the bad pages

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drowsy dragons @drowsydragons.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

sleepytime for synfs

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 31/05/2026

This video is the reason I got a dual hose unit. Only reason I didn't get a window unit was because I didn't want to deal with the safety concerns of DIYing a mount for my sideways sliding windows.

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 06/05/2026

hi! <3 no worries btw, we can always find another time to hang out :P

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 28/03/2026

It is worth noting, however, that we *don't know anything* about this particular bug, and it may not be related to image/video parsing: bsky.app/profile/tech...

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 28/03/2026

If the image/video/audio/etc. parsing code has no bugs, then everything is fine. Unfortunately, these types of file formats tend to have a lot of surface area for bugs to surface, and files can be crafted to intentionally exploit those bugs to cause undesired effects.

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 09/03/2026

TIL that the original pokemon opening got partially reused in a later season, with ~half the lines cut. Just something to keep in mind when doing spontaneous group karaoke, i guess -- not everyone might be thinking of the same version! this might explain some past occasions...

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 09/03/2026

... though it really makes me wonder how pokemon language works in the PMD universe, and if it's the same as the rest of pokemon media. if all pokemon understand each other, how do "lyrics from another language that you don't actually know" work?

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 09/03/2026

do a concert: caramelldansen, dragostea din tei (numa numa, if you prefer), never gonna give you up, still alive, etc. popular songs in general might do it. relying on any one song *will* miss some people. (I've had to introduce several college students to the concept of rickrolling)

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 04/03/2026

The Bestboi avatars are all available for free, if you're looking for something to test with.

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Rebane @rebane2001.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript) you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS lyra.horse/x86css/

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 17/02/2026

Don't worry, I don't know anything about Bestboi lore either, haha. And yeah, I exist here! Even if I'm not all that active.

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 17/02/2026

What fox type am I?

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 10/02/2026

The IRC server Ergo implements the draft/chathistory extension (and has at least one other mechanism for this) so you can use it without a bouncer/the server as a bouncer. (i still have a bouncer, but that's because of other servers, not my friend's instance of Ergo).

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Dana Fried @leftoblique.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Saw this on Mastodon, never don't repost.

A four panel cartoon of a small bird on a branch; the original images are from falseknees.com

Panel 1: "mov rax, rbx"

Panel 2: "add rax, rcx"
Another speech bubble appears, covering that one that says: "HELLO IT'S ME THE KEYBOARD"

Panel 3: A corvid appears next to the small bird; the new speech bubbles belong to it. It says "I HAVE AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE"

Panel 4: A closeup of the small bird with a frustrated look on its face. The corvid's speech bubble behind it reads, simply, "E".

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 02/02/2026

Wow, that was unhelpful.

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 02/02/2026

Hey, it worked. Time for testing.

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 02/02/2026

The smart thing to do would be to compile the linux kernel on my fast machine(s), then transfer it to the slow machine. Or distcc. Or something. Instead, I'm running 3 builds in parallel on the slow machine, and just letting it go overnight. *shrug*

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 01/02/2026

Looks like there's already progress on this front. proton-cachyos, at the least, includes umu.exe, which is a version of the steam.exe with steam client dependent stuff stripped out, which means that vrreg.exe from my repo is unnecessary.

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 31/01/2026

(firefox, 1password, discord, steam, vs code... that's 5 different instances of webtech that i was commonly running at the same time. i've replaced vs code, and steam is now optional, which just leaves 1password and discord, but i'm not sure either of those are going anywhere any time soon.)

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 31/01/2026

Dug into why people were having trouble with VR & umu-launcher, and created some tiny wrappers to maybe help with that. (github.com/kitlith/less...) So now I can run VRChat w/o the steam client, because it's nice to have one less thing that embeds a web-browser running in the background I guess.

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GitHub - kitlith/less-steam: Couple of small utilities meant to work with umu-launcher and replace the usage of the `steam.exe` included with Proton.

Couple of small utilities meant to work with umu-launcher and replace the usage of the `steam.exe` included with Proton. - kitlith/less-steam

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 31/01/2026

Anyway, stuff I've been doing! Ran my Valve Index off of my M1 on linux. (relevant mesa patch: gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/...) Made a PoC that might eventually help with steamvr or monado running inside of a flatpak (and steamvr on nixos).

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 31/01/2026

It's always fun how I seem to jump between "coasting, not doing much of anything" to "being somewhat productive in 3 different (new) areas at once." And yet the backlog of "things that should be worked on" remains untouched. *sigh*

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 30/01/2026

I've done this with one of the pooltoy avatars I have with texture based expressions, taking the Quest version from "completely static expressions" to "has complete PC parity" (Avatar base creators are in the best place to do this in the first place, but it's not impossible to retrofit it!)

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 30/01/2026

This technique can also be used to help replace duplicate geometry that is transparent or cutout so that you can display an expression on top of the base texture. Instead of creating duplicate geometry, you can create a secondary UV map for the expressions, and use a decal/detail map with it.

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 30/01/2026

Decals are good. The detail map in quest shaders can, with care, be treated as a single non-rotatable decal. Just set the UV wrap mode to clamp, so that it doesn't repeat! Toon Standard makes this really easy with the "Alpha Blended" detail blending mode. (I would like a threshold/cutout mode, too)

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qdot @buttplug.engineer · 28/12/2025

this spec was hell to get through the w3c committee but at least the hacker news comments on chrome integration were mostly just “meow” As always, firefox still refuses to implement

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lolcatz 🐈💌➡️MFF @dyrdeer.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

autistic people wont be happy until you give them digitigrade legs

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 02/12/2025

Do I truly keep (almost) nothing irreplaceable on there? Feels like I'm missing something.

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 02/12/2025

I'm losing one of my VRChat avatar projects. "Oh well, my texture customizations are minimal, and the material/UV map changes I talk about at every relevant opportunity and can therefore rebuild." Inconvienent, but not "fuck, gotta scour the drive for the FBX/blend so I don't lose it."

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 02/12/2025

Wonder what it says about me that my windows partition got wildly corrupted and there was only one file that I have concern over. Like, I'm absolutely going to lose stuff. photorec can pull things out, but it largely seems not worth sorting through a grab bag of random files.

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The C Programming Language @c-official.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

The only legitimate software development methodology: 1. Think very hard about an implementation 2. Don't do anything

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 30/11/2025

But! My hardware and hardware support experiences are not reflective of the norm. Valve probably has a better idea, given the steam hardware survey.

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 30/11/2025

For what it's worth, there's nothing stopping SteamOS from supporting as much hardware as it can, while still allowing people to turn off secure boot and play games that don't require anticheat that requires secure boot. (i.e. I don't think it needs to have perfect support for it to be viable.)

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 30/11/2025

There are social and political reasons why it's not feasible to hit all mainstream gaming hardware for this, yes. My point was not "this is the direction I believe things will go," but that "linux has the technical infrastructure in place for this, lying dormant."

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 30/11/2025

However, there's already a reason people use Bazzite instead of SteamOS when they want a SteamOS experience on their desktop PC, and that's at least partially hardware support.

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 30/11/2025

It would be trickier for them to properly support all hardware in SteamOS, due to the plethora of hardware that people own. Grabbing a DKMS module from github to support your wifi card that doesn't have upstream support would likely be out of the question.

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 30/11/2025

Valve could choose to be their own central signing authority for SteamOS, which is why I brought them up.

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 30/11/2025

@sharkcheese.bsky.social 's comment about it being more political or social reasons more than technical reasons could also be the reason here, but I neglected that in my initial reply on fedi.

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 30/11/2025

TL;DR: "never" is a strong word, given all of the use cases linux tries to support. And Valve is in an interesting position, giving themselves incentives to make as many games as possible work on linux (and now aarch64). (you didn't bring up valve, they're just at the top of my mind.)

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 30/11/2025

I don't know if they've chosen not to do so because of ideological reasons or out of practical reasons/time constraints. Maybe they're working on it in the background, but aren't shipping until there's something meaningful to show.

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 30/11/2025

If Valve wanted to, I'm certain they could setup SteamOS to use these features, and verify the boot chain, leading to kernel-space (or more) being very hard to touch. (Time to crank out the DMA cheat cards again.)

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 30/11/2025

Linux has the option to only allow loading kernel modules signed by a trusted key. It can work just fine with secure boot, if you enroll custom keys. Both measures are used on android phones. (The boot chain is different, but it's the same goal.)

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 30/11/2025

(saw this first on fedi, reposting on bsky since my masto isn't bridged) *Desktop* linux has not yet moved in this direction, yes. But you need only look over at android, which still uses the linux kernel, to see something that's much closer to windows in this respect.

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Kitlith @kitl.ing · 17/10/2025

You're welcome! :3

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