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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 10/10/2026

"i wonder where saturn is right now" "oh, it's there"

a greyscale picture of space. there is a bright X at the bottom left with an oblog smudge of light. that is saturn and a few moons around it.

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 02/09/2026

a: lol bsky: b: this is the funniest way i have seen someone pop into someone else's replies to say they're posting bad

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 28/08/2026

i took a picture of DAL2854, someone let them know when they land in LA thanks

the partial-but-most-of-it lunar eclipse from today. the moon is a deep crimson with the top a bright widget peeking out from the earth's shadow. at the bottom of the moon is a silhouette of an airplane, with a bright red widget on the tail and two clear wing lights.

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 19/06/2026

instead i'm cooking this shit up organically

a rust impl. it's four lines. there is a type that is bounded by a two-lifetime existential. it's atrocious.

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 04/06/2026

i have been doing differential testing against masm/dumpbin recently for reasons

a screenshot of some source code.

"dumpbin knows about fstpnce as fstp1, but masm does not. since this is an undocumented instruction anyway, decode it ourselves..", followed by a match arm translating from some instruction bytes to an "fstpnce st(3), st(0)".

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 24/05/2026

asmlinator 2.1.0: in addition to running x86-64 code, now it can be happily configured to run 32-bit or 16-bit x86 as well (docs.rs/asmlinator/2...)

a diff of section of a markdown document with the header "future" up top. the sentence "and 32-bit/16-bit x86." has been struck out, and the text reflowed.

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 21/04/2026

pointed my camera up and this was out there

a narrow slice of sky, all grey from a thin smear of cloud across the frame. the sun is a bright splotch to the left, and darker clouds line the bottom of the frame varying from a bluish(!?) to outright dark grey. there are some rays of shadow cast from the clouds out away from the sun. in the middle of the frame is a bird going out towards the distance.

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 11/04/2026

meanwhile, the airplanes that captured such incredible video,

NASA808, a gulfstream 3, ADSB doing really whacky looping tracks around where integrity came in

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 11/04/2026

IT IS GLOWING BECAUSE IT IS HOT

integrity and the three main parachutes. the image is greyscale, infrared. integrity is glowing and clipping in brightness.

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 07/04/2026

they're right in the center, and i had to really mess with the light curve because they're totally drowned out by en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_Sco... over on the right there

a less noisy and much wider angle spot of sky. a bright star is clearly drowning out the image, reflecting off of parts of the imaging train and casting shadows on the sensor. it's a very weird image. somewhere in the center is a very faint grey non-smeared speck.

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 07/04/2026

not the remotest chance i would have seen them if JPL couldn't tell me exactly where they are and their apparent motion

another greyscale image, with stars as almost-horizontal smears. in the center of the image is a very faint grey fuzzball, that's Integrity.

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 04/04/2026

120 second exposure and Orion is still so tiny

another greyscale image, there's a dot in the middle and stars are smears going towards the bottom right

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 04/04/2026

everyone say hello to the artemis II crew

greyscale image with some light diagonal smears across the frame and a horizontal smear with an orange ellipse around it in the middle. the horizontal smear is the Orion spacecraft

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 21/03/2026

thank you @dcellgames.com for reminding me that i am an adult and that i understand that my actions have consequences

Beat from UNBEATABLE standing at a buffet looking mildly disinterested. there is a speech bubble above her head with the text, in parentheses: "I am an adult and I understand that my actions have consequences."

the careful viewer will notice that the E to switch to the next dialogue option is greyed out, implying (correctly) that this is the last option.

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 25/02/2026

there are like five things i think are remarkably nice about illumos and one of them is definitely that the philosophy is "look if you're root, it's your computer, do what you want" yes, i want to know what's in the gdt. you'll tell me? nice. i might want to patch it. -W and we're cool? cool

a hex dump from the illumos modular debugger, having printed the value of the variable "gdt0", then dumped 0x90 bytes of stuff from the address that printed

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 22/02/2026

thank you nordic semiconductor for putting a summarize button on your website, i am saved from the burden of reading the document and instead can read the document

a QSPI description from nordic semiconductor's website, it is a "27 minute read" with a "Summarize" button that i've clicked. the summarize button produced a "Zoomin GPT summary" box which so far has simply reproduced the exact text of the article

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 09/01/2026

actually fucking funny. @zkat.tech please just block me.

i'm in the slop list! evidence is that i learned something from Claude once.

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 06/01/2026

meanwhile in "worms who dish but can't take" etc etc

palmer luckey doing pearl clutching about people calling for people to be murdered, in reply to a palantir cofounder saying "communists" and "islamists" should be murdered

palmer luckey posting a screenshot of someone doing bad posts on x the everything app, to which joe replies "yikes", after saying that palantir was founded to murder "communists" and "islamists"

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 07/11/2025

finally stapled together some comet pictures

c/2025 A6 (Lemmon), the comet that recently passed by. the comet itself is a bright spot at the lower right, with a greenish glow about it. there's a prominent tail through to the upper left of the image, a diffuse reddish-grey smear with slightly brighter blueish veins. stars are visible across the frame as splotches of red, green, and blue from the individual channels that were composed for this image.

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 27/10/2025

comet season (lemmon, 90s in red)

a greyscale picture of a very bright smudge with a dusty smear behind it. several stars are in the frame lightly smeared up-and-to-the-right, clear evidence the camera is tracking the comet rather than the sky behind it

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 03/09/2025

when hacking on @elizas.website's operating system is going well

a screenshot of a discord conversation wherein i ping Eliza to tell her that i realized a serial thingy i did has a miserable pain in the ass bug. "the parts that aren't the bug are not reprehensible now, but it also is unlandable as-is"

an hour and a half later Eliza responded with an eyes emoji, presumably looked, and then below the "new" message divider is simply "oh no ixi oh fuck"

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 01/09/2025

congratulations to the stock market on its 15 year streak of overtaking the dot com bubble (i really need to just block this account and so do you)

a screenshot of the dow jones industrial average. it has been going up and to the right and beyond the dot com peak since about 2010

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 09/08/2025

hey @amd may i please have commit access to the APM i'd like to document cpuid leaf 8000001A EAX.3 for you (it's "FP512", "The internal FP/SIMD execution data path is 512 bits wide.")

a screenshot of a cpuid dump from github, for Granite Ridge. a value for register eax from CPUID leaf 8000001A is highlighted and has the value "0000000A"

a screenshot of the AMD Architecture Programmer's Manual showing that it was last updated July 2, showing the documentation for CPUID leaf 8000_001A register EAX. bit 0 is FP128, bit 1 is MOVU, bit 2 is FP256, bits 3:13 are reserved. the prior screenshot shows bits 1 and 3 set.

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 09/08/2025

an intel machine has been Constructed.

a pile of wires, LEDs, and a very blurry 7-segment display in the background. there's a switch on the left-hand side under some single-board computers, and on the right is a dangling SSD leaning against a tiny motherboard with a rather large heat sink and fans on it. the SSD is for some reason in a hot-swap bay.

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 08/08/2025

fun fact: on at least zen 2 you can hide PCLMULQDQ support by clearing bit 33 in MSR c0011004. but that doesn't disable the instruction itself n_n

a gdb invocation single-stepping through a program. it queries cpuid, shows that leaf 1 ecx reports that pclmulqdq is not supported, then boldly executes it anyway. it runs fine.

exact text does not transcribe well probably:

> gdb --batch-silent --command dbgscript -q --args taskset -ac 4 ./pclmulqdq
Function "_start" not defined.
0x401010 <_start>: mov $0x1,%eax
0x401015 <_start+5>: mov $0x0,%ecx
# cpuid leaf: 0x1
0x40101a <_start+10>: cpuid
# leaf 1 ecx: 0x7ed83209
# - bit 2 (pclmulqdq): 0
0x40101c <_start+12>: movups 0x401000,%xmm3
0x401024 <_start+20>: movups 0x401000,%xmm4
0x40102c <_start+28>: pclmulhqhqdq %xmm4,%xmm3
0x401032 <_start+34>: mov $0x3c,%eax
0x401037 <_start+39>: pextrq $0x1,%xmm3,%rdi
=> 0x40103e <_start+46>: syscall
[Inferior 1 (process 279224) exited with code 04]
# exit code: 4

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 08/08/2025

gdb you give x86 a bad name, what is going on here. at least i can find "pclmulqdq xmm3, xmm4, 0x11" in a manual

disassembly of an instruction in gdb. it is "pclmulhqhqdq %xmm4, %xmm3". sorry if something tried to read that as a word.

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 04/06/2025

look i recognize that fact checking is how the fascists win or whatever but it is trivial to see who brought up reddit here

a screenshot of the last six replies before this post. there's also a search bar for the word "reddit". it has five hits, all in frame. the person i am replying to made the first mention of reddit in this entire conversation tree.

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 08/05/2025

okay intel, ha ha, very funny prank

the Intel Software Developers Manual open in a PDF viewer, with a search open for "page table" showing one of 155 hits. the hit it is showing is a match for the top of a page that says "page" at the right side as one header, and "tables" at the left side, a line below, as a header for a different column.

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 12/04/2025

this is what llvm-produced code looks like (TODOs are from me)

a disassembly of some hexagon code. at most offsets there are instruction bundles with multiple instructions, often ending in a predicated jump or other predicated operation. there are a few single-instruction bundles in here but not many. there are "TODO: error; unconsumed extender" littered in between the lines.

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 12/02/2025

sometimes you realize you are looking at a website operated by the united states government in 2025, so maybe you shouldn't trust what you're looking at. then you compare with an old version from 2024, only to find a shoddy deletion of "Workforce Diversity and Outreach". behold:

a screenshot of a table from report.nih.gov outlining research/disease areas and dollars (in millions) spent over years 2016-2024/2025 estimate. the table is scrolled to the bottom, the last four rows are Women's Health, Wound Healing and Care, Youth Violence, and Youth Violence Prevention.

the same table as before, but an old copy from a 2024 version of this site. the headers are slightly misaligned but the substance of the table is almost the same except that the fourth row from the bottom is "Workforce Diversity and Outreach", right between Women's Health and Wound Healing and Care.

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 19/01/2025

hi there. did you know that incredibly luminous objects that are incredibly distant do not appear to be incredibly luminous compared to nearby objects such as local stars? what do you believe would be proof of intense radiation? either way, did you consider looking this up at all? let me help:

an image i got from the second result googling "Twin Quasar". a more exposed and mildly more colorful view of the field that Emily pictured above. it's also rotated almost 180 degrees from Emily's pictures. there is a circle around the twin quasar, and a few bright stars around it that all line up very obviously with the stars in Emily's closer crop of the region around the twin quasar.

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 18/12/2024

this is from before recent rain (which she also seems to be enjoying)

a cat stretched out sleeping on a blanket, which itself is on couch or sofa or something. the photo is washed out and blurry, and a box in the back is reflecting the sun so it's pretty washed out too. it's a bad picture but the cat is very comfy

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 05/12/2024

which english dialect spells it "intenrational"

language selector for a website, on the left is a button saying "Switch to US site". on the right is a link that says, typo and all, "continue to intenrational site". between them is a bare "or"

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 28/06/2024

and as a side effect it was almost trivial to add really basic syntax highlighting to dis.yaxpeax.net/x86_64/33c05... ... so now i just have to adapt all the other decoders to match ig

disassembly of a few x86 instructions. registers are a dark cyan, a few `xor` are present in a dark blue, `jmp` is green, `ret` is red.

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 12/04/2024

ya ok this travel was worth it

the solar eclipse from april 8 2024. the sun is fully occluded by the moon, but the corona is still almost blindingly bright around the moon. wisps of plasma from the sun's corona radiate out in irregular lines around the sun. a few stars are visible around the sun as specks; two close to it on the left, and two further to the right of the field of view.

the moon itself is very dimly illuminated from earthshine, just enough to see large surface features but dim enough it could be missed at a passing glance.

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 25/03/2024

this is what they told me and that's ok

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 17/03/2024

yaxpeax-arm is the one i *haven't* tried to optimize much at all yet and it's 100x faster than capstone. like this just feels like i have to be driving capstone wrong, it almost feels bad

a perf report of something called "capstone differential", with some functions at the top like AArch64_getInstruction and cs_disasm_iter. AArch64_getInstruction is 40.19% of runtime, while yaxpeax-arm's decode_into is 0.39% of runtime about 20 functions down.

between the two are many functions related to writing strings, malloc, realloc, string searching, text parsing, nothing obviously related to instruction disassembly.

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 07/02/2024

this is an incredible bit and i wish you luck in it

some kind of guy who is probably mad that water is wet

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 15/12/2023

all better (oracle of ages and oracle of seasons both do vram dma transfers to addresses like 0x9801, but the hardware ignores the low four bits. so i was copying data offset by one byte and everything got fucky as a result)

same image as before but now link looks normal, and not a garbled mess

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iximeow @there.is.no.aarch64.mov · 14/12/2023

link is supposed to look like that. he is happy. flourishing, actually.

a screenshot of a frame early in Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages. nayru is sitting on a tree stump on the left, singing a nice song. link is on the right and his lower half is... fine... but his upper half is super glitched out

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