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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 24/09/2026

if there's a debian inference portal there must be a debian outference portal somewhere nearby. simple physics. you go in through one side and come out of the other side.

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 23/09/2026

RE: fosstodon.org/@KernelRecipes/117314… can you imagine an alternate reality where traditional (slopless) fuzzers got the same corporate marketing and "dangerous cyberweapon" hype? i bet trump would've been so excited about the greatest cybergreatness of the AMERICAN fuzzy lop

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 23/09/2026

AppImage is so infuriating. Some developers demand issues be reported using official builds which are AppImages, and I literally cannot run them!! Trying to "just run lol" always results in a bunch of "Error relocating … symbol not found" because I'm on a musl system and gcompat is never good […]

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dra!_kulix @drakulix.de · 22/09/2026

[ranty, KDE, DDH, big tech] I swear FOSS discourse has evolved into the same reactionary infighting seen in leftist spaces. It is wild to me, how a bunch of people scream “nazi bar”, when a certain guest speaker in the KDE space brings up Omarchy as a bad example and publicly denounces DDH […]

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 22/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@pojntfx/1173155199… I do hear plenty of criticism and skepticism even in IRL non-nerdy interactions buuuut, yes, holy shit, the annoying people on here have such a trigger-happy radical position that it's tiresome and it feels like they're about to harass you […]

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 22/09/2026

ngl some people on this hellsite do need to take a deep breath and go touch some grass

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 22/09/2026

please tell me I won't be the only one calling it the Booglegook

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 22/09/2026

"Agentic computing": it's when federal agents intercept messages from your computer

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 20/09/2026

GitHub's landing page is all about slopifying your business and so on but their CI run examples on the screenshot include fixes for Internet Explorer 12 and 11. Does anyone even remember IE anymore? I guess you could say that the one good thing "AI" […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

github.com "Automate your path to production" "Ship faster with secure, reliable CI/CI." with a screenshot of CI runs, among them "Fix IE12 incompatibilities" and "Fix IE11 incompatibilities"

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dra!_kulix @drakulix.de · 19/09/2026

Code for this madness, if anybody else wants to have a go: codeberg.org/drakulix/drm-lease-hack (And yes it would probably be nicer to do the same thing by proxying the dbus-system socket and intercepting logind calls, but that is far more involved and might need more permissions and/or […]

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 14/09/2026

Huh, these days LineageOS does not complain at all about not having reset userdata and just picks everything up from a stock ROM… to very cursed results

Notification shade with:

MotoApps, now
We personalized your device with a few
selected apps

Android System, now
Discover Trust
Get to know how to assure your device is safe

Moto App Manager, now
Setup complete
Your device setup is complete. See what applications were installed.

<More Info>

Security & privacy, now
Identity Check works with more apps
Identity Check prevents unwanted access to
your apps. Now available with any app that u...

<View details>

App menu with "All Docum…", "Amaze GO!", "Ball Sort P…", "Block Blast!", "Bubble Sh…", "Candy Cru…", "ChatGPT", "Temu", "Tile Explorer", "Vita Mahjo…", and stock basic apps from LineageOS including very characteristic ones like AudioFX

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 14/09/2026

lol portuguese UI just abbreviates sexta-feira as "sex"?? that's… fun i guess :D

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 13/09/2026

Achievement unlocked: get a shoutout in a talk that also features the strange æons “nosy bitch” meme :D @drakulix o/

media.ccc.de player: slide titled “SIDE-QUESTS” with a screenshot of codeberg repo view for wl-cross-domain-proxy with my commit being the latest

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dra!_kulix @drakulix.de · 12/09/2026

There main reason we need a good geoclue2 replacement, is that we need to make vkcube spin the other way around in the southern hemisphere.

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 10/09/2026

Finally found one of those disposable vapes, without specifically looking for one. Someone, uh, disposed of it right in the bike lane. That's a whole-ass 3.7V 900mAh cell!! (112038) And an 8051 based MCU of course. Probably not gonna just keep […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

Diaassembled disposable vape with a rectangular cell and the PCBs (one little button one attached perpendicularly to the main one that has the LED panel (with fixed icons to shine thru) and the MCU amd stuff

Disassembled super cheapo milk foamer, just a motor and a battery compartment directly powering the motor

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 09/09/2026

"Alignment Science"? is that when you observe how CSS layouts work and experiment on them and discover new facts about how they work?

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 08/09/2026

RE: slime.global/@ticky/117226633011214… Did anyone make dank memes/mashups/YTPs with "We Own The Glass" already?

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 07/09/2026

My first #CriticalMass \o/ this was fun, even if it did give me critical(ly sore) ass after cycling through the entire length of the city back and forth. Best part: DOGGO! Second best part: the DJ blasting “Blue” by Eiffel 65. 📷: Lumix GF5 / Lumix 20mm f/1.7.

A little flag of Argentina hanging from a pole horizontally attached (like outwards) to a bike suspension fork that also has a wide wooden box with a metal electronics (audio) box inside. Background is quite blurred but you can see there are people with bicycles

A tiny dog, chihuahua, in a red plastic milk crate mounted to the rear rack of a bicycle

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 04/09/2026

Huh, the funky Qualcomm PCIe-switch-and-dual-10GbE-with-time-stuff chip (QPS615), as seen on the Radxa Q8B, is actually a rebadged Toshiba part or something?? lore.kernel.org/all/20260904-pci-tc…

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[PATCH v3 2/5] gpio: tc9563: Add support for the embedded GPIO controller - Lorenzo Bianconi

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 04/09/2026

RE: social.treehouse.systems/@dee/11720… in the future, local llms will be used to sandbox these CEO-brained people into a fake simulated business reality where they can't harm the real world with their management it will be ethical because the harm from those people […]

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Pottery by Osa @potterybyosa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

I hope that showing my test tiles—including those strange, unexpected, sometimes undesirable results—gives you a window into what it takes to produce a piece like this that turns out just as intended. Each section of the surface began as a test tile that I […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

My hand holding a bowl I made in front of bright green foliage. The bowl is decorated with dark orange terra sigillata and bright chartreuse green glaze. The design features a bold diamond pattern with added raised dots of texture. The rim is stamped with texture and the interior is glazed chartreuse green. The sun shines brightly onto the bowl and background.

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 03/09/2026

[food] Today’s edition of Fried What’s-left-after-not-getting-groceries-in-a-week: 2 onions, a carrot, a bag of tofu, a bell pepper, a can of corn, and parmesan type cheese. Pretty good! Probably the best I managed to make tofu taste at home so far […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 03/09/2026

I was today years old when I found out that #Xonotic uses the DarkPlaces engine. Yes that one. The Quake 1 fork that I've played Quake 1 with a decade ago?? What even. I was 100% convinced for years that Xonotic was a Q3 derivative 🤦‍♀️

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Glyph @glyph.im · 27/08/2026

Sad that the successor project to Vim — a project which loudly encouraged its users to donate to a charity to help AIDS victims in Uganda — has become an advocate for white supremacy and ethnic cleansing. Just including the DHH endorsement could have been a mistake, but this seems quite explicit […]

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 26/08/2026

Greetings to @metalab 🇦🇹 friends who visited @rlab 🇦🇷 yesterday!!

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 26/08/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@wdormann/11715124… OMARCHY IN THE U. K. IT'S COMING SOMETIME MAAAYBE JACKED BY A CLICK, RUN A DEVICE NAME YOUR FUTURE DREAM IS A SLOP MACHINE

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 24/08/2026

Have you ever opened a glass-back phone with nothing but estradiol pill blisters, only to put it in the freezer? …yeah so my old OP7T that my roommate was using. Suddenly not responding, not even to long presses. Popped out the battery, turned it on […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

Phone open from the back, back glass panel on the side, two pill blister packs

Phone in a freezer on top of plastic food containers, open back side up, battery inserted, USB cable going out of the freezer

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 24/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@never_released/117… Back when there were no decent aarch64 desktop processors at all, literally my dream was that AMD would bolt on an aarch64 decoder onto Zen… Nearly a decade later, IBM z mainframes make that real???!?

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 24/08/2026

Woooo hecking yes \o/ the True 100% Zero-Copy Fast Path for Wayland SHM sharing over virtio-gpu works!! This has been kind of an open side-quest for me for like a year. Finally was motivated to actually-just-do-it by the fact that on Xen it's […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

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Longhorn @never-released.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Claiming that other ISAs are "legacy" when those other ISAs have 100% marketshare (literally) on desktop, laptop _and_ server APs is truly something to behold wait at least until there's somewhat of a foothold before claiming _that_

RISC-V is just cheaper!
▪ RISC-V enables competition
• Yes, cheaper can be one consequence of competition, removing
monopoly tax (lower cost is not a bad thing)
• But competition also drives other metrics: performance, power,
features
▪ RISC-V provides freedom to innovate but with support from a
standard software stack
• Not possible with legacy ISAs

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 23/08/2026

RE: social.treehouse.systems/@krutonium… yessssss… hopefully by the time the full game comes out they manage to get a soundtrack at least like half as good as underground1/2!!

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 17/08/2026

So many people keep saying kill chain technology is useless for anything but war. Wrong! It definitely has a huge market in the targeted assassination space. I've heard there's a startup developing a private kill chain for armed robbery.. Might want to invest early in that IBO (Initial Bullet […]

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 17/08/2026

TECH TIP: Did you know what "CI/CD" stands for? It means "Continuous Integration / Continuous Disintegration". Software developers are like little kids with Lego™s, constantly putting things together and pulling them back apart into their little bitty parts. No one quite knows why this is […]

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 16/08/2026

[CP2077 ending reference i guess, shitposting not rly about the game tho] tfw your aesthetic inspiration and #goals is judy from cyberpunk actual main game but your actual real situation and personality is more like the version of her from the normiefication ending from phantom libiberty

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 16/08/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@inthehands/1170846252… I guess I saved a lot of time by skipping straight to "realization of ethical disaster" as soon as it became "everywhere"! All thanks to special brain superpowers I guess!! If only the flip side of those wasn't having executive dysfunction […]

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 15/08/2026

we need some Linux Foundation Repair to make it do a better JoJ

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 15/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@dosnostalgic/11709… fun fact: i know that song because of a nethack parody of all things lol

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 11/08/2026

had some coffee-infused pla filament for a couple months.. finally got a reason to use it xD #3dprinting

A moka pot basket in a printed support and with a printed funnel on top, all standing on the bottom part of the pot

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 08/08/2026

[SLOP SLOP SLOP (visual)] What in the fucking shit is this stupid crap

"YouTube Playables", with all AI slop thumbnails: "Gas Station", "Train Miner", "My Mini Mart", "Makeover Stylist", "Running Pet"

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 08/08/2026

big benefit of not living in the "first world": you couldn't've been in the framedork leak even if you wanted to because they don't ship to your country xD

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 07/08/2026

people on here keep mentioning "sncf" which is some european train company i guess and i keep trying to read it as "..something native computing foundation"

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Rairii :win3_progman: :win3: @rairii.labyrinth.zone.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

i didn’t think it was physically possible, but there’s finally something worse than `curl | sh`

Install with an AI agent (recommended)

The fastest way to get ghidrasql running end-to-end is to point an AI coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Aider, etc.) at the bundled installer prompt:

(link to install-prompt.md)

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 02/08/2026

“mrmcd2026” ah yes i’m going to uhhhh, mr. mcdonalds

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 02/08/2026

Finally got an internal gear hub installed on my bike (got a lucky local deal on a lightly used Nexus 7.. ha why does that sound like a tablet name-) aaaaaaa it’s so good now. Fuck derailleurs, all my homies hate derailleurs.

Close up photo of the rear wheel of a parked folding bicycle, with an ice cream cone in front (for scale, err, to celebrate). The wheel hub is thicc and there’s only one sprocket visible outside.

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