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snek @snek.dev · 22/09/2026
I fear some of y'all did not complete your Whizzkidz™️ modules
Photograph of a big poster board that says:

"""

Whizzkidz(tm)

SOFTWARE MODULES INCLUDE

- Computer Literacy
- Ten finger touch typing
- English, Maths, Science and Technology.
- Discovery - The Environment, Musical Instruments, Animal Life, etc.
- Geography - Understanding the World around us.
- Interactive Story Development and Comprehension
- Word Processing, Desk Top Publishing, Databases, Spreadsheets, and Multimedia Presentations

Give your Child that Headstart in Life

"""
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snek @snek.dev · 16/09/2026
i just need to compile xarxa
`cargo build` output showing its compiling 693 different variants of `xarxa`/`xarxa(test)`
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snek @snek.dev · 09/09/2026
screenshot of a chat with my local homeassistant bot:

Nabu: How can I assist?
me: say i am alive
Nabu: You are alive.
me: oh my god
Nabu: Yes, it can be a lot with all the smart devices! Is there anything specific you'd like me to check or control for you?
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snek @snek.dev · 28/08/2026
why have you forsaken me
blahaj poking out of washing machine looking like some sort of melted goblin due to the stuffing getting all bunched up, the face is totally flat and misshapen.
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snek @snek.dev · 09/07/2026
hmmm
screenshot of tangled.org list of my knots, showing a single entry: forgejo.apps.snek.dev
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snek @snek.dev · 03/07/2026
openscreen in firefox? chromecasting in firefox?
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snek @snek.dev · 02/07/2026
i'm ready to ascend
yt screenshot. thumbnail:

WINDOWS 11
GOD MODE
99% DON'T KNOW THIS
OVER 200 HIDDEN SETTINGS!

Title:
This One Folder Changes Everything About Windows 11
Rashid Awan
8 Views - 3 days ago
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snek @snek.dev · 25/06/2026
Photo of goose superimposed with "Goose value 71"
Next to it the text: "It was the goose that created value 74 - 3 = 71"
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snek @snek.dev · 21/06/2026
google can't even insert ellipsis correctly anymore?
Actual website: "Rust is a memory-safe language. This means that under most circumstances, it is guaranteed that a program written in Rust will not read from or modify memory that it is not supposed to access."Screenshot of Google search result: "Rust is a memory-safe language. This means that under most circumstances, it is guaranteed that a program written in Rust will not read from or modify memory."
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snek @snek.dev · 15/06/2026
i'm always trying to channel this
screenshot of an androgynous anime character, with text overlayed: "am i a boy? am i a girl? who knows!! but everyone finds me hot and that makes everyone gay"
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snek @snek.dev · 06/05/2026
google i am begging you to let me do my fucking job
Screenshot of browser:


Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. Please try your request again later. Why did this happen?


IP address: 2a02:a45d:1948:0:5ebd:db19:961c:ad5a
Time: 2026-05-06T10:29:12Z
URL: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/v8/v8/+/7785591
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snek @snek.dev · 30/04/2026
had to add some logic to doom to scale *down* the rendered output due to how tiny this display is
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snek @snek.dev · 29/04/2026
hmmmm
unifi travel router displaying:
```
OpenWrt
-----------------
uptime
31m
load
0.03 0.03 0.00
mem
108/237 MB
wan
192.168.1.10/24
br-lan
192.168.69.1/24
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snek @snek.dev · 25/04/2026
migrating from paper to eink, synced from ics calendar data and using temporal js for the logic and formatting :3
photo of a paper week calendar next to an eink display showing a roughly equivalent view except with the addition of moon phase in the top left
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snek @snek.dev · 14/03/2026
screenshot of chat with thuisbezorgd ai chatbot
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snek @snek.dev · 27/02/2026
biblically accurate schuko plug found in my apartment's ventilation system apparently this is "perilex 380-400V 16A" for 3 phase, but it also has a big orange "DO NOT CONNECT TO THREE-PHASE POWER" warning written on it 🙃
photograph of a weird plug that looks sort of like a schuko but it has 4 prongs instead of 2 and a big flat blade in the middle.
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snek @snek.dev · 19/02/2026
the mysterious device wrapped in orange electrical tape has been inserted into the wall
photograph of something wrapped in orange electrical tape in a conduit box in the wall. there is a red led shining through the tape, and a white wire is coming out of the tape and connecting to a rats nest of other wires that are spilling out of the conduit box. four of the wires also go to a a terminal block on a black metal panel that is screwed to the wall next to the conduit box.
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snek @snek.dev · 06/02/2026
me: mom can we stop and get some kata containers mom: we have kata containers at home kata containers at home:
screenshot of the following dockerfile:

FROM debian:trixie AS cephwrap
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl
RUN curl -LO https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/noble/current/noble-server-cloudimg-amd64.img
RUN apt-get install -y qemu-system-x86 cloud-image-utils iproute2
RUN qemu-img resize noble-server-cloudimg-amd64.img +10G
COPY ./user-data ./user-data
COPY ./meta-data ./meta-data
COPY ./vendor-data ./vendor-data
COPY ./network-config ./network-config
COPY <<EOF ./run.sh
#!/bin/bash
set -ex

# a bunch of kerfuffle to put the vm directly on the network:
# - steal eth0's ip and assign it to the vm
# - create a bridge between eth0 and tap0

IP=\$(ip -o -f inet addr show eth0 | awk '{print \$4}')
IP_NO_MASK=\${IP%/*}
GATEWAY=\$(ip route | awk '/default/ {print \$3}')

sed -i "s|{{ADDRESS}}|\$IP|g" network-config
sed -i "s|{{ADDRESS}}|\$IP_NO_MASK|g" user-data
sed -i "s|{{GATEWAY}}|\$GATEWAY|g" network-config

cloud-localds cloud-init.iso user-data meta-data --vendor-data vendor-data --network-config network-config

ip link add br0 type bridge
ip tuntap add dev tap0 mode tap
ip link set tap0 master br0
ip link set tap0 up
ip addr del \$IP dev eth0
ip link set eth0 master br0
ip link set br0 up

qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm,type=q35 -cpu host -smp 2 -m 2048 -drive file=noble-server-cloudimg-amd64.img,if=virtio -cdrom ./cloud-init.iso -display none -serial stdio -netdev tap,id=net0,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=no -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0
EOF
CMD ["bash", "run.sh"]
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snek @snek.dev · 23/01/2026
              A COMPUTER
CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER
    MAKE A ROUTING DECISION
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snek @snek.dev · 16/12/2025
getting the sense github is trying to tell me something
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snek @snek.dev · 12/12/2025
discord really calling me out here
popup on discord android to select an emoji to be automatically applied when double tapping a message. "puppy_plead" is the automatically recommended one. the others are the normal pleading emoji, thumbs up, lock, and eyes
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snek @snek.dev · 01/12/2025
everything I need in one convenient shop
photo of a small airport store called "BOOKS & DRUGS"
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snek @snek.dev · 27/11/2025
love to see appliances that don't use windows
photo of JAL check-in information display, showing an ubuntu (18 ish? still has the older icons) desktop
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snek @snek.dev · 17/11/2025
one of these is chrome and one of these is firefox
screenshot of google in a browser on androidscreenshot of google in a browser on androidscreenshot of google tab in tab selector in browser on androidscreenshot of google tab in tab selector in browser on android
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snek @snek.dev · 29/10/2025
possibly the most syntactically insane code i've ever written
screenshot of code:

```
        request_body: match inner.request_body.take() {
          Some(RequestBodyState::Incoming(i)) => Some(i),
          Some(RequestBodyState::Resource(autocloser)) => 'exit: {
            if let Ok(resource) =
              autocloser
                .1
                .borrow_mut()
                .resource_table
                .take::<crate::request_body::HttpRequestBody>(autocloser.0)
            {
              if let Some(resource) = Rc::into_inner(resource) {
                break 'exit Some(resource.into_inner());
              }
            }
            inner.request_body = Some(RequestBodyState::Resource(autocloser));
            return None;
          }
          None => None,
        },
```
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snek @snek.dev · 27/10/2025
sometimes you need to improvise when the power cable doesn't fit
photo of a server with some pcie cards. the middle card has the cooling shoud removed and a power cable coming off some wires on the motherboard
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snek @snek.dev · 12/10/2025
we've achieved peak performance
photo of a running server with the top off sitting half out of a rack and half on the floor
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snek @snek.dev · 23/09/2025
this took way too much of my life but i have now successfully gotten the vgpu guest driver running in talos
screenshot of `kubectl get node k8s -o json | jq .status.nodeInfo`, showing a node running talos v1.11.1. then i create a debug pod from one of nvidia's cuda containers with a `runtimeClassName: nvidia` and run `nvidia-smi` to show that it sees an RTXA6000-16Q vgpu, and the license status is valid.
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snek @snek.dev · 05/07/2025
barber took too much off the top
photo of a house that looks awkwardly like the top floor was chopped off due to the style of the shingles
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snek @snek.dev · 01/07/2025
we've made it to the mythical three level nesting
screenshot of code:
```
let mut sock = rx.await???;
```
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snek @snek.dev · 26/06/2025
this is what booth seats are for right
photo of server lying across two seats on a train, and a backpack with some server rails
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snek @snek.dev · 22/06/2025
every couple months i remember to check mastodon and i'm always greeted with this thing, how does it have so many fucking critical security issues
Screenshot of red alert box in mastodon which shows:

```
Critical security update available!

Please update your Mastodon server as soon as possible!
```
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snek @snek.dev · 20/06/2025
excellent review from coworker
screenshot of text:

```
I love reading your commit messages in order, it really tells a story
it's like a haiku that decided to keep going on
the random strings of letters really brings it all together
```
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snek @snek.dev · 07/06/2025
they turned the trains gay
photo of ns train board, each row is a different rainbow color
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snek @snek.dev · 04/06/2025
accessible toilet at palexco looks more like a prison...
photograph of a steel toilet with no rim or seat
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snek @snek.dev · 25/05/2025
just in case you don't know, there's an option
screenshot of a11y page in bluesky app settings, showcasing the "require alt text before posting" setting
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snek @snek.dev · 25/05/2025
that weird black and white image of jony ive and sam altman
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snek @snek.dev · 25/05/2025
are you the origin of this sticker? my friend gave me one and a few months ago I used it on one server I racked in a dc
photo of 1u server in a rack, console port is plugged in, other ports (5 eth, 4 sfp) are not. two stickers one says "noc@routing.cafe" and the other says "we're here. we're queer. connection reset by peer."
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snek @snek.dev · 22/04/2025
if only minio supported PutBucketWebsite :(
screenshot of code:

```
	handle / {
		rewrite * /{bucket}/_website_config
		reverse_proxy http://10.0.0.3:9000 {
			handle_response {
				rewrite * /{bucket}/{rp.header.X-Amz-Meta-Indexsuffix}
				reverse_proxy http://10.0.0.3:9000
			}
		}
	}
```
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snek @snek.dev · 13/04/2025
this is fun too
using ctypes module to overwrite the object value of 42 to 5, and then doing `42 + 1` which returns `6`
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snek @snek.dev · 02/04/2025
cursed things are happening
screenshot of two terminal windows, on the left deno is running an http server on vsock cid: -1, port: 80. on the right curl makes a request to vsock 1 port 80. it is implied by the shell git status that deno and curl have both been modified.
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snek @snek.dev · 31/03/2025
today we are inserting storage
photo of 8 4tb ironwolf hard drives sitting on a desk in front of a laptop keyboard
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snek @snek.dev · 23/03/2025
wow we've got the same rack down to the location of the magnetic cable organizers
messy 12U server rack with two routers, two 4u servers, and cables everywhere
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snek @snek.dev · 23/02/2025
also! it seems my dad modded this to have an rj11 port!
photo of rear i/o with case off, showing a couple of aftermarket wires running from the "phone" port (looks kind of like a midi port?) to a separate rj11 port that has clearly been glued in.
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snek @snek.dev · 23/02/2025
one spot of pretty bad corrosion on the keyboard matrix :( also a lot of smoke residue lol
photograph of keyboard matrix, showing a spot across one side where some corrosion has taken out several traces
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snek @snek.dev · 23/02/2025
it lives! unfortunately the keyboard is broken so I can't do anything yet...
photograph of trs-80 model 100 turned on showing the list of rom programs (basic, text, telcom, addrss, and schedl) and date set to Jan 01 1900
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snek @snek.dev · 22/02/2025
this is where i skeet from
photo of a radioshack/trs-80 model 100 portable computer
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snek @snek.dev · 17/02/2025
delta what the fuck are you doing
screenshot showing deltawifi.com serving a self signed cert with CN=localhost, no SAN, and O=Kong
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snek @snek.dev · 08/02/2025
why does this hotel room come with a crossbow
small crossbow with suction cup dart loaded
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snek @snek.dev · 05/02/2025
i will never forgive apple and google for fucking up webauthn this badly.
Screenshot of text:

Ah, that might explain it: "Passkeys" are not "Security Keys".
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