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wow `IOCTL_GNTDEV_DMABUF_EXP_WAIT_RELEASED` is the most hilarious API blunder in the kernel. I'm not sure if anyone else has actually needed/used it before, but I did, and uh- so it's a blocking poll for just this one thing, the buffer being released, right? so you have to block an entire […]

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 13h

@bodil it's been fashionable to hate on firefox in Annoying Nerd Spaces for like a decade now, and fedi sure is one of those spaces..

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 29/09/2026

[aipol] @whitequark i wish i could raise funds to hire people for my silly projects… raising funds sounds like a lot of work in itself tho x_x

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 29/09/2026

@never_released woooaw. and I've heard that anthropic's obligations supposedly weren't nearly as fucked as openai's?? ho ly shit

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 27/09/2026

@morc wowwww... that moto was one i really wanted to have as a kid, way back when it was just announced,,

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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

by executive order, google is forced to rename honggfuzz to amerifuzz

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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

[re: war] @whitequark oh wtf that's, that's not a smol one,, also uhhhh.. huh?? those sure are two results

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

[re: war] @whitequark wow. I mean I know that the economics of war are nuts and there are _million dollar_ explodey missiles flying around but still, "sending an entire damn raspi to blow up" is such a wild thing to internalize, what the fuck

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

[food] Continuing the food thread… I didn't know what to do with kale (didn't rly enjoy kale chips sorry) until I just did pretty much the same thing I do to everything: throw it into the skillet with other stuff :D Now I do this pretty often […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

Skillet close-up with the food described in the post..

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

@never_released the most micro-est ones also do a lot for boot speed, like skipping the bootloader and initramfs, instead jumping into a static (nomodule) kernel build

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

@never_released just what kind of dark magic does apple have in there? or are they cheating the benchmark? xD

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

@never_released i think it's just that on a tiny smol phone screen the smearing and artifacting is less obvious than on a big screen so they feel like they can just handwave it away xD sure upscaling these days isn't *bad* buuut on a desktop monitor it's still always obvious when it's not […]

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

@never_released "ai enhanced connectivity" lol lmao oh wow 5ghz cpu on the phone soc now too? that's a lot of ghz

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

@maartje damn all the numbers but no six seven

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

[Picture of me] @maartje blown highlights are the new mark of photo authenticity. fuck digital signatures, this camera does analog signatures!

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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 · 19/09/2026

@drakulix ooh took me a moment to actually internalize the fact that it wasn't just steam big picture inside plasma!! nice

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 19/09/2026

@0xabad1dea in Argentina you can get a kilo for like 11 bucks. Toooootally for keeping in the freezer for a week and not for consuming it all in one sitting, right, um, wait why is there almost nothing left already,,,

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 18/09/2026

@krutonium don't think there are any such plans, local is kind of the point so the existing firefox translate (which uses local specialized smol LMs) was added to the "ai controls" because "well technically it's a model duh" even tho it's not really a target of the backlash like the chatbot […]

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 18/09/2026

@krutonium why would you block translations? They’re a good thing, I really don’t like that they’ve shoved them under the “ai controls” section. Machine translation has been a thing since way before the current slop wave..

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 17/09/2026

@erincandescent does serious philosophy reeeeally need to concern itself with the notion that a text prediction statistical model could be conscious? to me that sounds like something from the field of comedy, not philosophy

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

@never_released "buying a VR headset to play with a 'new' SIMD instruction set" sounds so wild lol

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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:

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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

@bodil mmmm, "bankrupting the entire VC world" would be a good consolation prize out of all this BS lol

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

@siriusfox I have a daily pmOS phone.. but I didn’t even sync my music to it xD Haven’t been listening to anything on the go like, at all

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

(BTW to this day still no one has explained what "mrmcd" stands for so I'll keep assuming it's "Mr.McDonalds". Don't tell me the real meaning now!)

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

@siriusfox beets to "manage", rsync etc. to copy around.. aaaaaa if I had infinite energy / executive function I'd have made a fork of Gapless that much more closely resembles iTunes 11, uses beets for the library, syncs over p2panda and and and …

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 12/09/2026

@drakulix YES LOL gotta actually patch vkcube to do this aaa

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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 · 12/09/2026

Actually the hard part is making contacts for the stock button x_x "Thin wires in the vague place where the spring will be" obviously don't work lol

Milk frother wand disassembled in two halves, motor installed, with a small lithium ion battery cell, a charging PCB with a USB-C port, a flyback diode, another diode in series, and metal wires reaching up into the space where the lid is (that is supposed to touch AA batteries, with these curved metal tab springs)

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 12/09/2026

@tendstofortytwo not an issue, why would it be. I don't expect interchangeable lenses on every camera, especially not on a 200g pocket one

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 11/09/2026

@tendstofortytwo lifehack: use postmarketOS on your phone, then "just" pulling out your phone means (for now) there's no quick camera access w/o entering the passcode and the camera quality is terrible anyway, so pulling out a proper camera is much faster :D (for my smol jeans-pocket camera […]

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