iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Syfaro @syfaro.net · 03/10/2026

realizing I've been using the same banner art on sites for over 7 years ... and I still love it every time I see it 🎨 @compoundeyes.bsky.social

furry artwork, a purple fox laying down with a book flipped to "how to summon grapes" using a paw to summon a bunch of grapes appearing in a blue flash

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 22/09/2026

I don’t know what happened but I’ll take it 🤷

Email subject: “Your Hotel Reservation - Furcon 2027”

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 14/09/2026

scheduling a monthly scrub is probably great except for when the scrub takes almost a month to complete (I'm completely saturating the pool with reads, it'll speed up when that's done lol)

state: ONLINE
scan: scrub in progress since Sun Sep 13 00:24:01 2026
3.61T / 62.5T scanned at 27.0M/s, 3.54T / 62.5T issued at 26.5M/s
0B repaired, 5.66% done, 27 days 00:07:11 to go

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 08/09/2026

do you think they’re building this datacenter for AI-assisting security cameras for building datacenters

a construction fence labeled “PowerHouse Data Centers” with a sign saying “Warning, this site is under AI-assisted video monitoring 24 hours a day”

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 22/07/2026

... I'm not sure that's a very good offer

eBay screenshot, showing original price of $139, but with a Seller's offer of $145

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 16/07/2026

it's always correct to call foxes good while you tug their leash excellent ych from @remywolf.bsky.social that I'm just now remembering to post

purple fox laying back on pillow, legs spread, wearing a collar attached to a leash going out of frame near speech bubble of "Good Fox..."

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 07/07/2026

This Meshtastic node I brought to AC had surprisingly good range, could hit it from all around the area directly. The suction cup deployment worked pretty well.

a Meshtastic node suction cupped to a window attached to a long antenna, DLCC in the background

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 26/05/2026

I think it's finally time to retire the Android phone I've been using as a test device. 12 years is a good life, but the battery apparently swelled up enough that it's detaching the adhesive on the screen... I could replace the battery but there's not even aftermarket ROM support at this point.

side view of LG G3 phone, with visible light from the screen leaking out of a very thin line down the side, small bits of adhesive are visible in the gap

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 25/05/2026

Although I learned some interesting things about Linux memory management when deploying this. If you don't have enough memory for huge pages the latency gets wildly more variable! This was after redeploying it when a test job was using way more memory than it should have been.

graph of 25th, 50th, 95th, and 99th percentile latencies with 3 very distinct groups:
- initial (old BK tree), relatively flat with 50th around 30ms
- ideal (first deployment with plenty of RAM), relatively flat with 50th around 2.5ms
- bad (second deployment with limited RAM), extremely noisy, rarely hitting the ideal 2.5ms times and with 99th spikes above the original BK tree version

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 25/05/2026

Learned about a better way to efficiently query hamming distances against a dataset ("Fast Search in Hamming Space with Multi-Index Hashing") and compared to the BK tree approach I was using before it's a 90% decrease in median latency and 80% decrease in RAM usage and that's wild.

graph showing 25th, 50th, 90th, and 99th percentile query times, having an obvious drop-off significantly decreasing times

graph of memory usage, going from a flat 7GB to a flat 1.3GB

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 29/03/2026

Well, the AC definitely works in here at least. It’s still dropping in temp.

photo of a sensor reading 63.3°F in front of a thermostat set to 75°F

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 21/03/2026

Finally got around to revisiting cut line generation in this alternate client for the PixCut S1 and it's working much better now. All the tiny details are getting properly attached to the main shapes. Also added some basic features like background color and ability to reorder and not cut images.

a complex shape with many small and detached marks outlined in a orange cut line

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 11/03/2026

I started playing with them for con reg reasons, but they're kinda just neat, and now I've written some fun libraries for Zebra ones. Probably not many folks who want to use SNAPI features over WebHID, but it's possible now x3 Also have a couple of combo RFID units, and UHF RFID is also fun.

"I think think they're neat" meme but with a barcode scanner

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 20/01/2026

why am I like this

screenshot of eBay "Order confirmed, thanks!" message

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 18/01/2026

I tried a Waymo, it cut off a Tesla to make a left turn and did this, weird experience!

screen inside car saying “Something went wrong. Please try again.”

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 11/12/2025

youtube music suggested me a playlist with the best name

playlist titled "becoming moss and living with the woodland creatures..."

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 08/12/2025

early twitter was wild, I have no idea what I was posting about hundreds of times a day (and it's probably better for me to not look). I remember folks having alt accounts when they posted too many times a day and got hit with rate limits... and now I don't even post here every week

a "Twitter Report" showing a rate of 249 tweets per day

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 19/10/2025

perfect flags in this VRChat world

VRChat screenshot, Spirit Halloween flag and progress flag

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 16/10/2025

getting a fire pit was such a good idea it’s so cozy to sit out here with friends :3

a ring of fire in a propane gas pit against a black background

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 14/10/2025

wow mcdonalds pricing error actually makes this a wild deal

a $5.50 McDouble meal deal in cart for $1.49

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 01/10/2025

Affinity sent out this super vague email, and now you can't buy any of their products. That's a little concerning about what's going to happen...

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 29/09/2025

uhh, I think something went wrong here

iOS settings, showing iOS 26 is up to date, but also showing iOS 26.0.1 is also available

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 24/09/2025

Finally figured out the scaling (the numbers were really weird and the official app scales multiple times in different places, why!), so this project is basically ready for cut jobs. There can still be some weirdness with the cut line generator I need to sort out, but the previews are correct.

a sticker of an anthro fox, the artwork is outlined in a 1.5mm white border with cut lines that follow the contents of the work

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 21/09/2025

saw this in the video from an outdoor camera at my place, I love how glowy the eyes on this fox are

very low resolution photo of some plants next to a house, with two glowing spots that are the eyes of an almost unrecognizable fox

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 21/09/2025

I'm not 100% sure this is the cause yet but after poking at my GPU's power cable and having the issue go away I noticed just how toasted the wires look inside the sleeving and uhh that's probably not good

12 steel wires in clear sleeving, visible brown discoloration visible down the length of most of them

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 16/09/2025

I was expecting generating cut lines to be way harder tbh, but it appears to be doable with some basic operations, and there's good libraries for doing them. Still obviously some behaviors to work out, but I think I can make it work.

screenshot of an image on a website, with lines drawn slightly offset to the subject of the image

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 15/09/2025

Yup, actually enough information to do things :D Got printing working with completely my own code, next step is doing something about sticker cutting…

laptop sitting next to a PixCut S1, screen showing a preview of what is printed next to lots of debug logs

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 25/08/2025

what a beautiful spot (besides the venomous snakes)

looking into a tunnel with stairs coming down from the top on both sides, the left side also has a wooden walkway, while the right side leads to stonework covered in grasses

from on top of the tunnel entrance in the other photo, looking the other direction at the same path wrapping around a stone edge

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 22/08/2025

today's mood is collars... and all of the different and excellent ways artists have stylized mine :3

8 cropped drawings of a purple anthro fox's collar, varying between a rich blue and closer to turquoise, often seen with gold adornments sometimes containing a blue or red center

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 16/08/2025

fox dinner 🦊🍗 kinda underwhelming tbh, was very similar to normal baja blast

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 14/08/2025

how ridiculous would it be to go to taco bell just to try purple baja

Taco Bell app shopping cart with just a “Mountain Dew Baja Midnight” drink in the cart

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 08/08/2025

So fast.com is reporting speeds greater than the physical link between my router and ONT (2.5Gbps), wonder what's wrong with their calculations

screenshot of fast.com showing a 2.9Gbps internet speed

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 27/07/2025

friends :3 Great Falls is always so pretty

eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly resting on a leaf in front of a green background

great blue heron bird, standing on a rock surrounded by water, with beak slightly open

powdered dancer damselfly sitting on a small rock on the ground

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 15/07/2025

new type of yote just dropped

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 14/07/2025

looking back through commissions and this one from @snapbackotter.bsky.social has still gotta be one of my favorites, the colors and stylization and everything is so so good

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 14/07/2025

even managed to get a photo of both of these dragonfly species sitting on the same stick ... but only momentarily

a blue dasher and common whitetail dragonfly sitting on a stick

the same stick, but the common whitetail is out of focus and blurry moving towards the camera, the blue dasher now out of focus on a stick behind the other one

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 14/07/2025

okay now that I've woken up from an accidental nap on a friend, I pulled some photos off my camera, so many bugs are so incredibly beautiful

common whitetail dragonfly sitting on ground

blue dasher dragonfly perched on the tip of a stick

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 13/07/2025

my shoes may be muddy but it’s pretty nice out today

left edge of a lake surrounded in greenery

wooded area, with a curved trail covered in water and mud

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 12/07/2025

sometimes foxes can be shiny, as a treat 🎨 @marrowsoup.bsky.social

digital artwork, a purple fox on their knees, one handpaw also on the ground, the other crossed to grab the other arm, wearing a black latex catsuit and collar.

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 09/07/2025

I love the subsurface scattering on the edge of fursuit fur so much, need more local folks willing to let me practice photography lighting stuff on them...

close up of fursuit head ear and hair, a dark blue fur illuminated from behind by a brighter blue LED strip, causing the edges to glow. a white inner ear is front lit to appear almost magenta.

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 09/07/2025

still thinking about the last post I made over on the other place, which was somehow two years ago now... cons always remind me how much more rewarding being physically present is, and how frustrating it is that it's only a couple of weekends a year that I get that kind of opportunity.

screenshot of my tweet saying this:

I do not want to deal with "social media" I want to be a fox laying in a pile of animal friends

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 08/07/2025

wait when did there get to be so many of you

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Syfaro @syfaro.net · 07/07/2025

oh wow I’ve never seen a flock of wild cherry pickers before

like 30 cherry picker forklifts off the side of a road with just the lift visible above trees

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