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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 13h

[re: ai again] the wall of claude commits originate from this motherfucker. no way this isn't just a bot someone turned loose with a "go fix bugs on a bunch of open source projects" prompt

photo of a github activity graph showing over 9,000 contributions in about six months time, going from zero activity to dozens to hundreds of commits a day. extremely botlike activity

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

logged back in to old school resonite with @modernballoonie.bsky.social , got to see some wonders & horrors it's wild how far resonite has come in 3 years in performance, usability, documentation, intuitiveness, productivity, stability, & not instantly causing motion sickness

two solamari in a hosted neosvr grid world take photos in a mirror together

a bit of logix code that says "bobool3ol > Trualse (maybe)"

a logix impulse display emits nested rainbow spheres on each impulse. pretty

photo of the neosvr logout screen, with a quote submitted by Frooxius: "We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us."

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

anyone who suggests cocaine is getting put in the CIA heart attack diaper

dril tweet 'im the only man to put on the CIA invented "Heart attack diaper" and live'

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

NetBSD is insecure because uh [rifling through dusty file cabinet] there aren't enough avali

photo of one of the last messages on the NetBSD tech-security mailing list, back in March 2024: "NetBSD Security Advisory 2024-001: Inadequate vali"

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

does anyone know the original artist for this? boosts ok!

a little art celebrating kde plasma 6.7's release, with a pixel art drawing on konqi doing the six-seven hand gesture with a big 6 and 7

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

credit where credit is due maybe like 2 or 3 of probably almost a hundred stations have made my ears itch. i was such a shoutcast junkie so this is the Shit to me. hitting the big "download and parse 8MB of XML" button takes like two seconds but its worth it

bit of protoflux code showing the number of stations available is 12866. clicking the big Call button randomizes the playing track. i'm good for a while

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

i like when i scroll away from a playing video on fedi and it does this popout thing. i always read this in an indignant whiny voice & it makes me laff. noOoOo puddit bAaAaAackkk

Grey screen with text "Put it back" and icon of such

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

i know what you're all wondering. "whgat the hell happened to the LR44 RTC battery holder??" the answer ,is obvious. it fucking exploded for some reason & was rattling around inside for ?maybe years?

photo of a surface mount bracket for holding a small button cell battery to a circuit board, half torn off the board and bent at a 45° angle. internal pieces of the button battery are visible on and next to the board

edge view of the same, showing a small clump of black oxide battery innards under the motherboard at the case corner

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

turns out i _can_ run a resonite headless on my old 6W TDP 1 GHz AMD Geode router with 4GB RAM it manages about 5-15 FPS/engine-ticks with two users and settles there to a cool 70+% CPU usage. maybe not ideal for parties

photo of an apu4d4 x86 router with the lid off, showing the innards. an ethernet cable and a rainbow-ribbon null modem cable are attached

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

POTION SELLER ENOUGH OF THESE GAMES

a purple lumistera with a strong distortion effect around its face, pinching down its snout and expanding its head

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

turns out replacing a 1 GHz amd geode with a 3 GHz i5 with dual-10gbit ethernet makes for a much better experience on symmetric gigabit fiber. yay this is with _no_ shaping set up. vrry nice

bufferbloat test shows 900Mbps upload and download with <10ms ping time increase with either saturated

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

love having my vr photos set to my wallpapers on shuffle and coming back home to this shit

two huge zoomed in mugshots of purple dromeowyrms grimacing at the camera and an inverted purple lumistera across three large computer monitors

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

why are my mozzarella sticks so complex

three mozzarella sticks on a paper towel. one is twice as long as it should be and slightly bent, so it looks like a radical symbol. the sticks are arranged to look like the square root of -1

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

remembering when i wanted to get into chainmailing and i wanted to make bracelets and pretty things but i did not take Any measurements before buying supplies but i wove the hell outta those rings on the bus anyway

a quite small densely interwoven black and steel chainmail ring sitting around the circumference of a cr2032 battery, with about a 3mm gap between the ring and battery

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

love how babble in continuous calibration mode strokes out with my headset on my forehead lmao

side by side photo of me through a wide-angle infrared camera aimed from the top of my head downwards. i am smiling and look goofy. on the right hand side, my purple lumistera makes a gruesome asymmetric expression

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

learned abt these bc before we were injection-molding marx-generator-field-mill-esp32s into heaven-taunting god-tasers, we got up to enhancing our field distortions the old fashioned way: lotsa exposed radioactive material! fsr these aren't used as much anymore […] [Original post on floofy.tech]

photo of someone gingerly holding a spiky patina'd copper lightning rod. it has a copper half-dome plate 3/4ths down the length of it and some downward spikes beneath

photo of what looks like some disassembled ionization plates in various states of weathering and corrosion sat on a concrete floor, along with a metal box thing with a radiation trefoil that says "Danger Radiation" and the text "CLIMBER" adjacent

photo from a top-down view of several plated disks arranged in a mounting plate around a lightning rod, where each is presumably carrying a significant amount of radioactive material

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

TIL active lightning rods are a thing. look at this angry bastard. it tries to, faster than Zeus himself, fire its own lightning (early streamer emission innit) back at the sky to beckon a strike to hit it instead of something more important. long live the fantastical hubris of NF C 17-102

brochure ad for the Indelec Prevectron 3 Connect IOT connected lightning rod. it is a cone-shaped metal thing with several pointy things at the tip aimed at a center upwards spike, a large metal band just beneath that, and several sharp looking triangular spikes aimed downwards in a cone. a bit beneath it is a small solar panel.

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

i like how the fast dot com speedtest just kinda makes shit up if you tab away while its running bc maybe the tab goes to sleep or something and then some timer catches up after. i have 1gbit fiber capped to 500mbit by CODEL and like 550-600 Mbit by cpu performance limits

fast sez i have 2.0 gbps internet. nuh uh

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

YOU CAN DO ANYTHING AT ZOMBO.COM resrec:///U-qualia/R-01a0d0a8-9baa-753f-a014-03bf61794f91 #resonite

a purple dromeowyrm with green hair excitedly points at a vr port of the original zombo.com, which is the colorful text "zombo.com" and seven spinning translucent colored circles beneath while an inspiring voiceover plays

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

[lewd if you're weird about feet i guess] steam i don't think that's what people mean when they say software

screenshot of steam suggestions for "Software Games", which includes Virtual Desktop, Flat VR, and "Haele 3D Feet Poses Pro", which shows a pair of highly detailed crossed foot soles superimposed over the mona lisa

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

bonus points if i can get more data than just a numeric heartrate value integer every few seconds, like I get now. these garmin bands are fairly nice and cheap, the battery lasts quite long, but the range and reliability is very poor

grafana graph of a week of heartrate data, showing large gaps in data and many vertical markers where connectivity is lost/gained

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

you may fascinate a qualia by giving it a gradient ty cyro for fueling my turbo addiction with increasingly pure uncut samples

screenshot of the resonite default gridspace and procedural sky with a Turbo gradient map covering half of it, exposing discontinuities and banding not otherwise immediately visible

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

as u can see its also had a bit of the 'ol doggirl sinkwater treatment. as they say

selfie of me sneering uncomfortably while wearing a water damaged v1 google cardboard with a too-big phone hanging awkwardly out of it

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

fucked up that computers don't look like this anymore. tell me you wouldn't live here if you were a one or a zero

side on view of a wilkinson ADC full of DIP ICs. it is very orderly and rectilinear and densely packed

side angle narrow DoF view of part of the board, showing lots of tantalum capacitors and 74 series logic

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

my poor old aching line conditioner has informed me that the nuclear instrumentation and the vr workstation may not belong on the same circuit

photo of an apc line conditioner in a 120%+ overload condition

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

well hey on the note of powerstrips wanting to burn your house down today i was suddenly approached by a large dracokittytaur with such gumption that it gave an old power strip an immediate panic attack & rendered it unfit for duty ~850W peak draw should not […] [Original post on floofy.tech]

side view of a small 120V 15A neon lit toggle switch showing localized change in plastic texture as might be seen from part of it overheating internally

inside of the switch, where one of the main contactors has subtle but noticable oxidative bluing

the other side of the removed switch panel holds a neon bulb. the leads are similarly slightly discolored at the point where they make contact with the switching elements

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

thinkin about the category of "eBay Product Photos Taken Under Conditions That Would Get Someone Fired If Taken During The Time Period When That Product Was Current" this was a $7000 CPU at launch. now it is: $60. sure put it on the bath mat

a Xeon 8156 CPU resting on a bath towel or something, contacts-down

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

y'all i think these might be used

photo of the underside of two ovenized crystal oscillators that have been not desoldered but physically cut out of the circuit board they were once installed in; the square of circuit board, jagged edges and cleaning residue (?) remains

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

floofy dot tech loves to give me 403s when i try to post snippets of code :C

a composed post on floofy.tech with a bit of shell script to download, compile, and run a clock test, with an included screenshot. floofy says 403 in response to trying to post

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

TRAGIC: little guy whom know the time has potentially the worst local clock granularity of any currently-running hardware this does seem to explain why PPS0 does not appear to have dropped below +/- 5us deviation, ever maybe a new kernel? preempt_rt? maybe LITHA & go work on some actual problems?

screenshot of terminal output running the clock_test utility three times, then some time running the cyclictest realtime scheduling tool from rt-tools. the former shows an absolute minimum latency of 1.5 microseconds, the latter shows a minimum 4.5 microsecond latency

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

i may not be good at maintaining a sleep schedule but i am good at making little doohickies that serve an extremely particular purpose to servicable quality but reliably manage to look like they shouldn't be allowed on a plane

photo of a beaglebone black small form factor computer connected to power and ethernet. its in a black metal case with the lid installed in a raised position to allow hookup wires to pass through. instead of being fastened in place with the four small screws it came with, a small safety pin has been run through one screw hole to provide some stability for the single remaining mounting screw. atop the unut, double-sided foam tape holds down the hookup wires to a small gps and its associated ceramic antenna. the unit has red, blue, and green LEDs active

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

i like when you can see a thing change on a graph

a grafana graph showing clock offset and skew for a single host over a six hour period. the offset goes from slow step responses up and down a few hundred microseconds to a bit of noise as i screwed around with stuff (and corresponding jumps in skew) to a markedly flatter line overall

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

sometimes in resonite you're in a real hurry to save something important which takes precedence over meticulous inventory management and then you come back two months later like "why are you laying face down in a folder full of pride badges. go home you're drunk"

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

close in on just the network servers and PPS and now there's meaningful measurements appearing in that line to celebrate my new thermometer, i pointed a fan at it. you can see it!

without the wildly deviating NMEA measurement on the graph, what was once a solid line of several overlaid measurements now shows the rough distributions between network time servers, some of which jump around a bit initially but generally level out to within some tens of microseconds offset each. near the end of the graph's timerange, the local PPS offset line shows a slight rise and drop back to baseline. it is otherwise almost completely flat except for some variation during early setup and testing

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

NMEA over 9600 baud serial sure do be deviating. i'll wind in that offset a bit for good measure meanwhile PPS is lookin bang on with NIST and some other ntp poolfags. groovy my DOP figures could probably stand to improve if i, like, get this thing a bit more isothermalized & more out in the open

a simple graph showing the output of a serial GPS as a spiky offset graph, while several other measurement sources (remote and local) are a flat rock-solid line

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

it seemed like a good time to pull in some weatherfacsimilen from honolulu

grainy weatherfax of the pacific ocean surface forecast showing three hurricanes

another grainy weatherfax showing satellite imagery of the three hurricanes

another aerial satellite photo of the pacific ocean, this one calmer(?)

another less-grainy weatherfax of the pacific ocean 48hr surface forecast showing three hurricanes

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

my icon 735's got some drift goin on during warmup :ying_think_woozy:

a weak weatherfax carrier swoops a couple hundred hertz down in frequency over a few seconds

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

making some silly little network requests bless the data nerds at brookhaven for their ongoing churning of 50+ years of atrociously overextended FORTRAN nuclear data cards into JSON & a very nice public-beta API which i shall try to poke at oh so politely […] [Original post on floofy.tech]

resonite desktop screenshot. i am extremely zoomed in to a single string value display showing half a megabyte of json openapi specification in uselessly tiny text. there's a populated chart of nuclides in the background and my floating solamari visible in a translucent mirror, surrounded by screens

screenshot of a slide from the linked presentation, showing a rendered list of gamma ray emission levels, the corresponding miserable-to-parse FORTRAN data card for that rendered data, and a small blurb: "The 80-column format is... dense. It is a relic of the halcyon days of FORTRAN and should be replaced by JSON "Soon™️"

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

this is absolutely someone's fursona Jeff Gipe - Cold War Horse

Jeff Gipe's "Cold War Horse", a life-size roadside statue of a horse in a shiny red and black full body hazmat suit with an integrated gasmask respirator

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

unfortunately resonite's websockets only work in line-based string data so you can't just hook it right up to a QEMU websocket serial console. alas

screenshot of a qemu window running netbsd. the qemu invocation shows a serial console has been attached in websocket mode. behind it, some resonite protoflux attempting to connect to and send/recv data from it

a wireshark screenshot from qemu showing the response from qemu that only binary format data frames are supported

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

i know this doesn't seem like much but the fact that we can properly work with arrays/collections in resonite now is like actually such a wild game changer. "download a UNIX fortune file/give me a random fortune" is like 15 nodes now. this was a far more complicated thing a few days ago

a small assemblage of protoflux nodes that download and store a file over http. then another small bit of protoflux splits that file's contents at a percent symbol into an array, then picks a random element from that array

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qualia @qualia.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

ooh it tingles so good :ying_woozy: zis why zhey call it "burning firmware" i zhink

multimeter AC voltage measurement between the shields of two USB-C cables reading about 116 volts. one cable is affixed semi-permanently to a quest 2 vr headset. the other is a temporary connection to a nearby computer

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