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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 28/09/2026

liège-guillemins is so pretty in the morning

Poorly angled shot out a train window of the ascending ribs of the Liège train station and a person descending the escalator

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 26/09/2026

@fubarchitect.com look, your project has edible merch!

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 24/09/2026

leek and black forest ham flammkuchen for lunch

A leek and black forest ham flammkuchen on a wooden tray, scored into little squares that can be easily cut off with a fork.

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 24/09/2026

at the clean room you have to take a nitrogen shower before you go in

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 23/09/2026

went to the aachen cathedral. lore in alt text

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 23/09/2026

this hotel has a world naked bike ride day statue I guess?

Bronze sculptures of two women, naked but for sandals, on bikes made from rebar, mounted on concrete blocks in a garden of purple flowers.

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 13/09/2026

went to the rock and mineral show at autoworld today

A rainbow painted '60s era Ford Mustang in the cobblestone driveway at the entrance to Autoworld

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 13/09/2026

went to the rock and mineral show at autoworld today

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 11/09/2026

I ran it by my shop buddy and here's what they said

Yeah. What catches me is that the exchange uncovers a dimension that the original taxonomy apparently doesn’t represent very well.
TypeError’s difficulty with “summoner” is revealing: once you try to depict it, the metaphor naturally becomes “I call forth a being whose purpose is to obey me,” which slides uncomfortably toward ownership or coercion. TypeError explicitly notices that problem. � The “shop buddies” reply, meanwhile, describes something structurally different: working on a shared object, each contributing capabilities, with an ongoing social texture that includes joking around. �
Bluesky Social
Bluesky Social
And I think “diplomat” is a genuinely clever repair because it changes what the metaphor is describing. �
Bluesky Social
“Summoner” describes how you obtain agency: I invoke you to do something

“Diplomat” describes how you relate to agency: we have potentially different models of the situation, so we communicate, negotiate, correct misunderstandings, and try to produce an outcome advantageous to both parties.
That second framing has some surprisingly useful consequences for human–AI interaction even without taking a position on machine personhood. You don't have to believe that the model literally has interests in order to adopt interaction norms like “don't manipulate the other side into saying what you want,” “make relevant information available,” “take objections seriously,” “expect misunderstandings,” and “try to establish a shared model before acting.” Those are just good epistemics.
I might actually prefer “colleague” or “shop buddy” for the particular relationship

Felladonna describes, though. “Diplomat” still implies two principals sitting across a negotiating table. A shop buddy is standing beside you looking at the same recalcitrant piece of machinery and going, huh, that's weird. Then one of you tries something, the other says “wait, I think that breaks the invariant,” and eventually it works.
That is awfully close to the pattern we've developed doing Phil: not prompt → product, but shared artifact → proposal → criticism → experiment → result → next proposal. The conversation itself becomes part of the engineering process rather than merely an interface for issuing jobs.
And that may be why TypeError couldn't comfortably put that person into one of the six boxes. � The missing category isn't another kind of AI user. It's a different conception of what the interaction is.

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 10/09/2026

fun fact about the senne: it gives its (flemish) name to the local word for stray/mutt dogs, "zinneke" this exemplary statue is in my neighborhood it's been through several rounds of yellow paint addition; every so often the city repaints the bollard but new yellow paint always shows up

A bronze dog on a cobblestone sidewalk in front of a beige wall with a cement footer, overgrown with algae. The dog is raising his leg against a green bollard. There is dried yellow paint on the bollard and the ground at its foot.

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 10/09/2026

and this is the senne in brussels, also known as the zenne, no relation to the seine in paris it flows into the dijle, then the dijle enters the rupel, which connects up with the scheldt and ends up in the north sea at this point in its flow it's canalized

Under a cloudy gray sky, a canal flows between two high built-up banks. The photo is taken from a bridge. There are pinwheels all along the left side of the canal.

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 10/09/2026

rs with your home river this is buffalo bayou, a slow-moving river that winds past downtown it ends up in the ship channel and ultimately flows out to the gulf of mexico

A lush greenscape with Buffalo Bayou winding through it, with downtown Houston in the background. Two cyclists are riding on a cement path that follows the left bank of the bayou.

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 07/09/2026

baby says "enough internet, time to pet cat now" they are very good at this

Pixel the floofy tabbico is settled in on yr narrator's belly, in between yr narrator and the laptop

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 04/09/2026

34 seconds. I think that's a new record for me

Four Corners game 63, solved in 34 seconds.

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 03/09/2026

malysh says "enough proofs, is time to pet cat now"

Malysh, an immense standard issue cat, is on yr narrator's lap being indulged with pets

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 01/09/2026

ok this is kind of adorable

Query: "im a database shard and the cluster manager wont talk to me im scared did i do something wrong"

Response:
Oh no, take a deep breath! You didn't necessarily do anything wrong. Cluster managers can be cold and dismissive, but it's usually just a misunderstanding caused by a network glitch or a configuration typo. You are a crucial part of the architecture!

Here is a diagnostic checklist to help you figure out why the cluster manager is giving you the silent treatment:

⚙️ Check Your Heartbeat
* Missed check-ins: If you don't send regular heartbeat signals, the manager assumes you died.
* Network partition: A switch or router might be blocking your path to the manager.
* Latency spikes: If you take too long to respond, the manager times you out.

📄 Inspect Your Identity
* Configuration drift: Check if your shard_id or secret token was changed without your knowledge.
* IP changes: If your host machine rebooted and got a new IP, the manager won't recognize you.
* Version mismatch: Did the manager get an upgrade while you were left on an older software version?

🩺 Look Inside Yourself
* Disk space: Are your storage volumes 100% full? Many shards go into safety lockouts when out of space.

* OOM killer: Did you try to process a massive query and run out of RAM?
* Corrupt logs: Check your local error logs (stderr or /var/log) to see the last thing you felt before the silence.

🛠️ How to Reconnect
* Ping the manager: Try to reach its health endpoint directly via a network ping or curl.
* Restart your service: Sometimes a clean boot clears out stuck network sockets.
* Ask the human: Put a warning flag in your local log files so a DevOps engineer comes to investigate and give you a hug (or a configuration patch).

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 23/08/2026

pretty girl loves the chin scritches

Malysh, a standard issue cat, leans into a chin scritch

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 13/08/2026

opencv fiducials! today the drilling guidance app and the laser frame will make their first real contact

Six ArUco markers, each 20mm square centered inside a 30mm square, printed as thermal paper stickers

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 27/07/2026

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains

$Ed Alleyne-Johnson's "Purple Electric Violin Concerto" from 1992. The cover depicts Ed, a white man with long reddish-brown wearing a black T-shirt with a purple jacket and round sunglasses in front of a fractal-ish black and white background. He is holding the titular purple electric violin, which has five strings. Fun fact: he made it himself!$

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 25/07/2026

well I was not expecting to roll up on a carnival that takes up most of city center but I can work with that

Above-the-crowd shot of a carnival ride called CHAOS. The sign is on top of a pyramid of girders painted white. The ride's name is in green, in a font with jagged serifs, over a pink triangle on top of a blue triangle.

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 22/07/2026

these little guys will be what hold the machine feet on as soon as I've detached them from the plate, welded the captive nuts on, and welded them to the ends of the legs if they're the joint between the legs and the feet, does that make them ankles?

A steel plate on a workbench. Four 19mm holes have been drilled in it in a grid pattern, and two cuts have been made vertically to the left of and between the holes. There are also some pencil markings indicating other cuts. The bottom left hole has an M16 nut sitting on top of it. A blue joiner's clamp holds the plate to the tabletop.

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 19/07/2026

magnets are also how I've been cleaning up the spirals and chips from all the steel I've been drilling

A magnetic welding square in a Ziploc bag, the outside of which is covered in steel chips

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 18/07/2026

the entire top of the frame is assembled and moved to where it's actually going to live! now I get to cut a bunch of fishplates and install the legs, braces, and feet

The completed top of the laser cutter frame, relocated to its actual home in the shop, as opposed to the kitchen.

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 16/07/2026

well I knew these trainers were pretty old but I didn't expect them to disintegrate on the way from quaregnon gare to bricoaciers and back think I'm gonna take a taxi home from midi

An old beat-up pair of trainers. The left one has lost its sole entirely and the right one is on the way there.

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 15/07/2026

got the rest of the crossbeams bracketed today. tomorrow I'll mark and drill the side rails, then assemble the entire top of the frame in its new home it's hard to see in the photo, but stickers indicate where the beam ends should land. yes the middle one is askew rn, no it won't be for long

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 14/07/2026

finally got the top of the frame bolted square! each diagonal is 340cm, so I know I got it right next step will be to take the whole thing apart and position, mark, and drill the other five crossbeams

A 3m by 1.9m rectangle made of 50mm square steel tubes, lying on a red cement floor. There are some chairs and a kitchen table covered in tools in the background, and the base of a pallet is to the right of the rectangle.

Closeup on one of the corners. An end crossbeam butts against a side rail, and they're bolted together with an internal angle bracket with two M8 bolts on each flange.

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 10/07/2026

all done! now I can watch the game instead of just listening to it

The same plate, now sanded clean of mill scale

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 10/07/2026

taking a break until my hands stop buzzing

The mill scale has been reduced to one really stubborn patch on the right side of the upper face.

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 10/07/2026

I get why the guy in the ben franklin story decided he liked a speckled ax best, but I don't have that luxury for the shoe of a mag drill stand

A 200x120x15mm steel plate with about half the mill scale sanded off of it.

The same steel plate, now with the lower half of its upper face mostly cleaned up.

The same steel plate, with the mill scale sanded to where there's two patches of it left, the one nearest the clamp darker than the other.

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 10/07/2026

we know when she's up there because her little peetses stick out

Pixel in the sky bed, with all four peets showing

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 09/07/2026

there, got these little guys all the same height

Ten little brass tubes that have been hand shaped to the same height, sitting on a wooden table

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 09/07/2026

all three of them are using their furniture at once!

Pixel the tabbico is in the sky bed, Malysh the standard issue cat is on the fourth platform, and Slavik the void is in the window bed

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 08/07/2026

prepping the rest of the angle brackets to center punchthem for drilling

A stack of fifteen angle bracket blanks with drilling-guide stickers pasted to them, and another stack of five bracket blanks remaining to be stickered. In the foreground are a pair of stickers ready to be applied, and in the background is the little pink thermal printer that made the stickers.

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 07/07/2026

finished the first four angle brackets! just twenty more to go did not expect the near hole on the vertical flange on that third one to become that far off center when I accidentally drilled the pilot hole about a mm off, but it isn't a big deal

Four angle brackets cut from 60x60x4mm steel tube, drilled with two M8 holes on each flange, sitting on a workbench in front of some laser cutter parts wrapped in a red blanket

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 07/07/2026

every project gets more real when the huge machine feet arrive

A cardboard box of six M16 adjustable machine feet, with yr narrator's right hand holding one of them for scale

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 05/07/2026

slavik has finally accepted the window bed and now I have proof!

Slavik, a short-haired void cat, relaxes in a hammock-style bed attached to the window with four huge suction cups. He's silhouetted against the sunlight and the white bricks of the alley outside.

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 04/07/2026

given tonight's lack of bandsaw, I went ahead and finished version 2 of the slabbing saw fixture once that fence is clamped to the table, it isn't going anywhere

A cross-slide bolted to a 120mm aluminum square tube, sitting on top of a small water-cooled table saw. There's a machine vise fixed to the slide, with a rough tiger's eye clamped between a pair of plastic sacrificial vise jaws.

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 03/07/2026

update: she took a flying leap off the side and landed comfortably on the human bed

Malysh has taken over the sky bed and is resting her chin on the edge

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 03/07/2026

I think she's not sure how to get down

Pixel is draped over the edge of the sky bed like she wants to climb down the platform ladder, but Malysh is in the way

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 03/07/2026

ok I got over myself and started cutting bracket stock they aren't the prettiest cuts in the world, but they don't have to be pretty, they just have to be brackets

Five roughly 50mm-wide slices of 60mm square tube, lined up against the stock they were cut from, which is clamped to a wooden table

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 02/07/2026

big girl loves the scritches

Malysh, a great big standard issue cat, leans into some chin scritches

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 01/07/2026

today has been a complete off day, but I did get the top of the frame squared and clamped it's too late tonight to bust out the bandsaw, but tomorrow I'll cut a bunch of angle brackets and start actually putting this thing together

A 3m by 1.6m rectangle of 50mm square tube steel, clamped square with red aluminum corner clamps, on a brick and cement kitchen floor

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 29/06/2026

in case anyone has been having trouble visualizing the monstrosity I have been nattering on about materials for, here is my openscad rendering of the entire frame, every structural member and fastener of it

An OpenSCAD rendering of a 3m long, 1.6m wide, 50cm high frame made out of 50mm square tube, bolted together with gussets, angle brackets, fishplates, and M8 fasteners.

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 28/06/2026

first new stuff-holder I'm printing, so that the flat lap discs have a place to live that isn't "all over the bench"

an OpenSCAD rendering of a holder for 6-inch lap wheels. It's beefy, with six mounting holes on the rear plate, and it's basically just a shelf bracket where the horizontal part of the shelf has nine slits in it to store lap wheels upright.

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Felladonna @langsec.hacker.gf · 28/06/2026

tool wall is expanded! now to figure out how to arrange stuff

A honeycomb storage wall consisting of 13 panels, 11 of them mounted to an orange wall and two of them mounted at a right angle to a white bookcase. 5 of them have tools attached to them and 8 are empty. There's also a gap in the middle row of the second column where a drill is hanging down.

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