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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I'm putting together a NAS for one of my partners and while I'm perfectly fine throwing Debian and mdadm on a NAS for myself, she's going to need something a lot friendlier. Anyone have any suggestions on good NAS OSs / software I can build this thing around? […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

Sperry / Univac 9400-series disk packs courtesy of technikum29:
https://www.technikum29.de/en/devices/univac9400/discdrives/

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Me, coding PHP back in the '00s as a closeted trans woman: "Yeah, this is perfectly normal dude stuff. Nothing weird here."

A line of PHP using the regular-expression replacement function, preg_replace and some variables that all end in "me."

It's a sex joke. I'm sorry.

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

I see your fancy automated, agentic, modular and containerized Developer VM and raise you this pile of parts: My hastily-assembled Developer PM (physical machine)! #agentic #productivity #10x #grindset

A random assortment of computer parts plugged into a motherboard. It’s supported at a jaunty angle by one of my 3D-printed testbenches.
Notable components include a Thermalright heatsink with an NZXT fan on it, an SSD by HP, and two sticks of laptop memory plugged into adapters in order to fit the desktop DIMM slots on the board. There is no video card visible.

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

One of my partners recently completed her first public model: The Exoroark! An edit of Kaide's Expie (with Kaide's blessing!), it's one of the most expressive Pocket Monsters available on VRChat jinxxy.com/Fenyote/Exoroark

The Exoroark in its two colorways of purple and gray, and red and white.

I think that means one of them is shiny? I'm not sure, I don't really Poke Mans.

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

@lomg.fyi @volpeon @TrebleSketch @nausiyan @taq @faoluin @kubie This project isn't dead, but the tariffs did nearly render it stillborn. Looking to launch before the end of the year, hopefully. furmeme.com

Three metal signs parodying various actual warning signs: a blue notice sign that says "proper PPE required beyond this point" and the PPE is a collar and leash, a yellow radiation warning sign that warns of "therianizing radiation risk: remaining in area may cause permanent changes" with a delta-theta therianthropy symbol in place of the radiation burst icon, and finally a black, white, and red Danger sign that wans of a "werewolf enrichment area": not responsible for unexplained pregnancies, transformations, howling, or livestock deaths

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

🔬 Is it normal to keep a list of all the thin clients you own? Is it normal to own more than zero thin clients?

Spreadsheet view of a dozen thin client PCs, all of various vintages from the Original Pentium era all the way through to Zen1 Ryzen. It's a little excessive.

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

Putting out feelers for anyone in the Pacific Northwest (US) who’s in need of an ECM engineer… I’ve got decades of experience with Hyland OnBase, all the way back to version 8, and just about ten years now with Kofax / Tungsten products (Capture, KTM […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

💜 Hah! I managed to make something before the day was over! Whew! #TerribleComicsDay #TerribleComicsDay2026

A crude one-page comic of Shimmer (our art headmate) debating what to draw for Terrible Comics Day.

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

🔬 I have three mini-PCs that I need to consolidate before we move out in August. Not difficult work, just annoying work. But if I can get the Dell and the Mac Mini imaged and running inside Proxmox on the HP thin client, that’ll be two fewer machines to move and set up at the new place.

A shelf in the corner of my office. There is a Canon laser printer and three tiny PCs on the shelf: an HPt740 thin client, a Mac Mini from around 2010, and a Dell Wyse 5070 thin client running my Home Assistant setup.

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026

🌳 The New York Times is a meme at this point. But also, congratulations, Mexico!

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

🔬 My "We Have Steam Frame At Home" setup is getting closer... - New hotswap batteries triple runtime of the Quest 2 - Quest 2 talks to WiVRn on CachyOS just fine - WiVRn runs VRChat just fine w/o SteamVR - SlimeVR server talks to WiVRn just fine Next up […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026

🔬 Filters and mutes in Mastodon are a fucking godsend

A post about Anthropic (the AI company) being horrible, surrounded on the timeline by multiple placeholder posts that read “Removed by filter”

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026

🔬 Oh, yeah, the "Type" stuff refers to the Enneagram, a somewhat woo personality rubric intended for singlets that's worked incredibly well as loci around which to organize our fragments and thus, headmates. An example interpretation of the Enneagram […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

An infographic of the nine-pointed star of the Enneagram, showing all nine personality types, their core traumas (fear, anger, or shame/image), and their good and bad health stress lines.

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2026

I’ve been slowly rebuilding my computing life on Linux since about December. The latest thing I’ve gotten working is #BasiliskII for Classic MacOS emulation. Runs like a champ! I’m on CachyOS, and installed the git version of Basilisk using the package […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

A MacOS 8.1 desktop running inside BasiliskII on Wayland.

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

[plurality] Curious if any other #osdd / #median / #polyfragmented systems out there have found the Enneagram as helpful a tool as we have…? As a therapeutic instrument for singlets, it’s borderline useless, but for polyfrag systems it provides powerful loci […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

A basic enneagram circle, showing the nine primary personality types exposed by the instrument, along with their three base fear groupings, and lines indicating good health and bad health behavior tendencies.

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025

Greetings from #Linux ! I've successfully migrated from Windows 10 to CachyOS!

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/12/2025

[uspol, evil] Welp, that's enough internet for me today

The "hey little man" meme format.
Panel one has the anonymous narrator asking a United States flag: "Hey little man, how's the land of the free and marketplace of ideas?"
Panel two is a screenshot from an article from The Arizona Mirror quoting US ICE chief Todd Lyons: "We need to get better at treating this like a business. [...] our goal is to deport immigrants as efficiently as Amazon moves packages. Like Prime, but with human beings."
Panel three is the narrator staring down with a blank expression on his face, seemingly soaking in the information.
Panel four has the narrator saying "jesus fucking christ"

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2025

My homelab has definitely shrunken over the years….

Three miniature PCs: a Dell Wyse thin client, a Mac Mini, and an HP t740 thin client all on a shelf together next to a Canon laser printer

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/12/2025

So this is exciting and terrifying... The FURMEME.COM store is officially online!* *in a closed beta state Over the next couple of weeks, I'm going to chat with some close friends, run through some guided orders with them, and see what the store generates […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/12/2025

@lomg.fyi @volpeon Also, I'm working on a version that you'll be able to order in real metal...

The current version of the Therianizing Radiation sign by me ( eventually to be sold through furmeme.com )

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025

#NoButsNovember day 4 Some middle-school-class shading from me. I think I need to start following some tutorials. Maybe this weekend. Actually learn some technique

A sketch of snake scales, close-up. The outlines are rough and the side-of-the-pencil shading is rougher.

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2025

#NoButsNovember day 3: a twofer! "Shift" a vent art piece "Recycling Plant" an idea that came to me during work today and I wanted to get down on paper before it evaporated

"Recycling Plant" - a large, boxy robot appears to yell as flames shoot from exhaust pipes on its back. In front of it, sitting on a conveyor belt high above piles of discarded machinery and computers, a scribble of a protogen waits its turn for recycling.

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2025

#NoButsNovember day 2 "Crossover Episode" 30 minute sketch. Thought I'd try sketching a physical object using a reference photo.

A rough sketch of a Multipass from the movie The Fifth Element.

The Multipass is for Shyra, and it lists her as non-human.

This sketch includes some three-dimensionality and very rough pencil shading.

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2025

Oh, yeah, I only play Factorio when I'm depressed. Makes me feel like I can actually accomplish something, y'know? That my problems are solvable... What do you mean "how many hours in it?"

Factorio as seen in the Steam launcher, showing a total playtime of over 1,220 hours so far.

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2025

It was always bound to happen, but it appears that Bluesky’s CEO is currently pulling an elon and targeting users who call her out or who label others as transphobes. Attached is an example of the latter. #fediadmins , there are a lot of scared queers on […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

Screenshot of Bluesky. A moderation list that allowed users to label (and thus avoid) transphobic accounts has been administratively hidden for supposedly violating terms of service

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2025

[drider tf] Having thoughts about where to take my snake OC... (art is by Cervelet of Lighope's character Mathias) www.furaffinity.net/view/51639528

A comic.

Mathias is at a checkup appointment after being recently TF'd into a snake by the mysterious doctor.

Mathias complains that mobility, especially up and down stairs, is limited with the long snake tail, and asks for legs again.

The doctor knows just the ticket, and presents a vial of red liquid.

Mathias drinks it and is suddenly transformed into a snake-spider-taur.

Incensed, Mathias asks why and the doctor glibly responds that Mathias asked for legs, and eight legs must be more stable than two!

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2025

Furmeme update: One of my providers opened a new print factory in the US and the proofs from this facility came in this morning. These look terrific, and are still cheap enough that I can hit the price target I want to. So I think Furmeme has product! I […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

Me holding a pair of freshly-printed yellow aluminum warning signs. Signs read: “Warning: Therianizing Radiation Risk. Remaining in area may cause permanent changes.” with a link to furmeme.com at the bottom.

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2025

venting toxic gasses (updated the meme text to get a little closer to my feelings)

The “Dr. Manhattan vaporizing someone” meme format.
Dr. Manhattan is the text “being casually introduced to a non-maladapted worldview that seemed impossible to attain just moments ago”
The person being vaporized is me.

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2025

[movie review, poster cw eye contact] Watch “The Animal Kingdom” (Le Règne animal) last night in VR movie night. Honestly really good. The practical effects were terrific and it was clear that the writers were exploring the concept with grace and […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

A poster for the film. A human eye gazes at the viewer, wreathed by scales.

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2025

Been having kaiju feelings since the full moon

A scaley black, purple, and pink creature with spikes and fins and four eyes and too many teeth. This is a VRChat screenshot in a flight world.

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2025

Modern Computing Is Going Just Great dot jpeg

Meme comparing the Apple Human Interface Guidelines from 1985 (beta, published 1987) with the newly-announced "liquid glass" interface shipping across all Apple devices next year

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2025

Spending the weekend at Furality, and this sticker has never been so true! I’ll set up the Shopify for these after the con

A VR headset with a yellow warning sticker on the side. Sticker reads “Device Emits Therianizing Radiation when Energized”

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Nightshades 🌘& θΔ @shyra.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2025

So... Philips (yeah, *that* Philips) is releasing a "library of 3D-printable replacement parts" for some of their home products. Interesting! Here's the ad announcing the initiative: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q85lZdNStGs Here's the site: www.philips.cz/fixables

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