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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 10h

Unfortunately that's AI. :(

A screenshot from a SynthID checker, showing that the image from the previous post contains an OpenAI watermark.

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 17h

i am sorry i am very tired

A short snippet of valid Haskell code that reads as follows:

{-# LANGUAGE BlockArguments #-}

baby = undefined
shark = undefined

sing =
baby shark
do
do
do
do
do
do
baby shark
do
do
do
do
do
do
baby shark
do
do
do
do
do
do
baby shark

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 19/10/2026

welcome to Steel City (still in construction) (name pending) (details subject to change). 37 fully overclocked refineries making iron ingots, caterium ingots, and concrete, to produce 30 motors and 28 heavy modular frames per minute.

A screenshot of Satisfactory, showing a city wall. It is brown, ocer, and white. In the foreground is a big rock formation. A row of refinery chimneys can be seen above the wall.

A view of the 37 refineries in a row, with the Pioneer sitting on top of the first one.

A screenshot from Satisfactory, showing 12 water extractors, placed in two circles of 6, with pipes joining them pairwise in a shape somewhat reminiscent of a triskell.

Another view of the city wall and the refineries, with the Pioneer posing on top of the wall.

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 19/10/2026

having made it to phase 4 this weekend, i am happy to report that i am Back on my Bullshit

A screenshot from Satisfactory, showing a glass building at night in the centre of the frame, surrounded by other unlit buildings. Each floor is at a slightly different angle than the previous one, and each floor has pale blue lights highlighting its floor and ceiling.

A screenshot from Satisfactory, showing a vertical view of a building from the inside, revealing a large open tower of machines across multiple floors, organised in a quasi-circular fashion, resulting in a very symmetrical picture.

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 17/10/2026

i am rushing towards the endgame as fast as possible without taking the time to build elegantly (since IME you have to rebuild from scratch for a proper phase 5 anyway), so my base is currently a heap of beautiful spaghetti nonsense :)

a screenshot of Satisfactory, showing many conveyor belts crossing over one another without rhyme or reason. some machines are scattered here and there, including on a floating platform in the background.

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 16/10/2026

welp, this ongoing wave doesn't show any sign of slowing down. :/

A screenshot from Ireland's most recent wastewater surveillance report. It shows a figure, and its label. The label reads "Figure 5: Weekly distribution of population-nomalized SARA-CoV-2 viral load (gc/day/person), National Wastewater Surveillance Programme, week 19 2021 to week 37 2026". The graph itself is a color-coded representation of that distribution over time. The most recent datapoints show a sharp spike up that doesn't seem to be slowing down.

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 06/10/2026

spoopy season, spoopy nails

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 29/09/2026

stopping at 9 games was so hard... i tried to stick to one game per franchise and genre, and to only include games that permanently altered my brain chemistry in some way, but even then i am tempted to make a second page of honourable mentions.

A 3x3 grid of games in no particular order.
- Ocarina of Time
- Satisfactory
- Infinifactory
- Metroid Fusion
- The Message From Deep Space
- VVVVVV
- Final Fantasy VII
- Undertale
- Portal

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 10/09/2026

new nails! tried to make a short video this time to show how they shimmer :) we used a layer of black polish, a layer of sparkling blue polish, some blue foil for contrast (see my thumb), and then a layer of light blue magnetic cat's eye polish

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 05/09/2026

having found a fantastic hairdresser that's queer-friendly and COVID-safe, i'm back to having blue hair for the first time in years!!! i'm so happy, it feels so right :)

A selfie. I am wearing a dark blue FFP2 respirator, and my hair is an extremely bright blue.

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 15/08/2026

new nails! the top layer is magnetic, we used a small magnet to create the pattern. they shimmer in the light, it's incredible, but hard to capture in a single picture.

A close-up picture of my hand, with my fingers curved to show my nails. The nail polish is a deep blue, with purple accents / glitter.

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 02/07/2026

a new nail salon has opened just near me, and it's not super packed, so... i can finally restart the gel polish update chain :3 that picture makes them look very dark, but they're a beautiful sparkling blue!

A picture of my left hand, partially folded to show the nail polish: a sparkling deep blue. It appears almost black due to the lighting.

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 04/06/2026

look at my thinkpads... they're cuddling, and breathing in sync

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 14/05/2026

unclear. this post on mastodon is from three weeks ago, which IIRC lines up with that time when Why blocked thousands of people, breaking the site.

a post from David Gerard on mastodon, that reads:

woohoo, suspended for three days on bluesky!
no they didn't give an actual reason, i have asked
(it's making fun of Why, betcha)

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 13/05/2026

all those replies and not one fork bomb smh (art from YellowDog: meow.social/@yellowdog/1...)

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 05/05/2026

ok, our newly added end-to-end tests work on CI! it was a bit of a hassle, as there's no ubuntu package for npiet, meaning that we now need to build npiet from source in the CI... but at least it works!

A code snippet from the CI config; it's a YAML snippet that reads:

steps:
- name: Download npiet
uses: actions/checkout@v6
with:
repository: gleitz/npiet
path: npiet
- name: Install npiet
run: |
cd npiet
sudo apt install libgd-dev groff
./configure
make
sudo make install

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 23/04/2026

i mean, not that surprising given that some of the most popular and quasi-official feeds run of a machine personally owned by the "lead advisor".

the "disappointed but not surprised" meme, that displays the aforementioned text in a flashy font over a purple 90s style "futuristic" background

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 28/03/2026

i mean i don't know shit about theory either :D Barbie types are the ones where you do something similar to your approach, but the type argument is a functor, like so:

$a Haskell snippet, that reads data Fields (f :: Type -> Type) = Fields { _thagomizerLevel :: f Int , _fizzBuzziness :: f Double } type PartialFields = Fields Maybe type AnnotatedFields = Fields WithSource type ResolvedFields = Fields Identity$

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 22/03/2026

you're missing the reply that really elevates this post:

A screenshot of two posts from tumblr user "gayvampyr".

The first one reads "me after a minor inconvenience: i hope i get hit by a [remembers i'm anti car-centric infrastructure] pedestrian".

The second one contains a screenshot of a tag someone added in their reblog. It reads "#and i hope she's an older lesbian", to which user gayvampyr repeats "and i hope she's an older lesbian"

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 20/03/2026

also, here's the debug view of the IR for said program. this is what the pseudo-rust code gets reduced to before code generation happens. next step: writing an export of it to LLVM's IR, and target LLVM as an alternate backend!

A DOT graph representation of the flow of the program. Each block of instructions is represented as a node in the graph, and they are clustered together by function.

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 20/03/2026

OUR FIRST PIÈTRE PROGRAM! \o/ it's taken a while, and there's still a lot more to do, but it's starting to work! :)

$A screenshot of a program in pseudo-Rust, that reads as follows. fn main() { write_int(fibo(read_int())); write_char('\n'); } fn fibo(n: int) -> int { if n == 0 { return 0; } if n == 1 { return 1; } let prev = 0; let current = 1; while n > 1 { let tmp = current; current += prev; prev = tmp; n -= 1; } return current; }$ A big Piet program: it looks like a bunch of columns of random colors on a white background to the untrained eye.

A big Piet program: it looks like a bunch of columns of random colors on a white background to the untrained eye.

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 19/03/2026

made a very trivial dependency analyzer to visualize the dependency graph of groups of modules in my project, which revealed that "Internals" and "batteries" are not as isolated as i thought; it might be worth cleaning at some point. (code is here, but it's rough: github.com/nicuveo/depdot)

A Dot graph. Within a "Lang" cluster, several nodes: Pietre.Pipeline, Pietre.Export, Pietre.Stages, Pietre.Batteries, Pietre.Internal, and Pietre.Representations. They mostly form a directed acyclic graph, except for two bidirectional edges, represented in red, between Pietre.Representations and both Pietre.Batteries and Pietre.Internal.

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 18/03/2026

ok, we got IR DOT export working. next stream: built-in functions!

A DOT graph, describing the IR of a very small program.
On the right, the "main" function is represented by a blue rectangle, containing only one "block", one white rectangle.
On the left, the "fibo" function is divided in three blocks, with arrows representing the control flow between them.

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 12/03/2026

i am sorry to inform you:

the result screen from the JND test linked in the quoted post. it reads "your delta EOK JND", with a score of 0.0010. the comment underneath reads "This shouldn't be possible. I'm not saying you cheated, but not not saying that."

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 12/03/2026

third attempt: phone at max brightness in an otherwise dark room.

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 06/03/2026

on today's stream: we finally got to the point where we could do some very rudimentary tests! here's a trivial program, and the resulting image! no `print` yet so the result was verified by looking at the interpreter's memory. :D

A small piece of code, with syntax highlighting. It reads:

fn main() {
fibo(5);
}

fn fibo(x: int) -> int {
if x > 1 {
return fibo(x-1) + fibo(x-2);
} else {
return 1;
}
}

A large image that, at first glance, doesn't seem to make a lot of sense: it's just bright colors organized in columns over a white background. It is, in fact, a Piet program.

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 17/02/2026

interestingly, while looking for the original, i found several plagiarized versions that are just a tiny bit off, like those three. i don't believe they are AI, but they very likely contributed to feeding the model that generated the shitty one microsoft published.

a plagiarized version of the start in the previous post: it has the same column, the same time arrow going down, almost the exact same comments; it just has a few mistakes: some arrows are missing, and all the tags are the same (they all read "Tag 0.1").

Yet another plagiarized diagram from the previous post. This one has the exact same columns and the exact same commit pattern, but the comments are gone.

Yet yet again, a plagiarized version of the diagram in the previous post. Comments are gone, there are a few more tags and a few more commits, and the Time arrow is missing, but the pattern is unmistakably the same.

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 17/02/2026

i am so familiar with the original image that it plagiarized, that at a first glance i just recognised the original and didn't see the issue... and then i actually looked at it... (here's the original, for reference, from nvie.com/posts/a-succ... AFAICT)

a graph proposing a workflow for working with git. a big arrow labelled Time goes from top to bottom. commits are sorted on 6 different columns, two of them labelled "feature branches", one labelled "develop", then one labelled "released branches", one labelled "hotfixes", and finally one named "master". speech bubble add comments to illustrate the workflow, like how feature branches and hotfixes are always merged back into develop, and his commits to master are only merges from a release branch or a hotfix branch.

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 11/02/2026

well, see, the issue can be triggered when a user clicks a markdown link, which is, by itself, a valid reason to involve the network. ...but it doesn't explain how they fucked up "opening a URI", or why notepad needs markdown rendering now

A screenshot from a Microsoft site about the discussed CVE, showing two questions in a FAQ. The screenshot reads:

How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
An attacker could trick a user into clicking a malicious link inside a Markdown file opened in Notepad, causing the application to launch unverified protocols that load and execute remote files.

According to the CVSsS metric, the attack vector is network (AV:N) and user interaction is required (UI:R). What is the target context of the remote code execution?
The malicious code would execute in the security context of the user who opened the Markdown file, giving the attacker the same permissions as that user.

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 20/01/2026

FWIW, it seems to be authentic

A screenshot from a news website, only showing the title of an article. It reads "Source close to Macron says message shared by Trump is authentic". A smaller line beneath reads "From CNN's Martin Goillandeau".

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 12/01/2026

meanwhile, on twitter, the US government is posting barely-edited nazi slogans. i'm at a loss for words.

A screenshot of a tweet by the US Department of Labor (@USDOL). It reads as follows.

One Homeland. One People. One Heritage.
Remember who you are, Anerican.

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Antoine Leblanc @nicuveo.gay · 03/01/2026

presented without comment but with seething anger

A screenshot from Reuters, showing the title of an article and the top illustration, labelled as being from "3 hours ago (11:34 GMT)", by journalist Marianna Parraga.

The title reads: "Venezuela oil production suffered no damage, sources say". The photo is labelled with the following: "PHOTO: A mural depicting PDVSA oil workers near the company's headquarters, in Caracas, May l4, 2025."

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