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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 5h

someone extruded a full-screen super mario kart hack. the whole thing reeked of slop so i checked the github and hoo lordy homie you even had it write the fuckin "it was just assisting" paragraph. good grief

AI-assisted development

This project was developed in collaboration with an AI assistant.

The AI handled a large part of the technical implementation: analysing the game's code, writing reverse-engineering and diagnostic tools, implementing patches, testing hypotheses and automating repetitive checks.

(LOUD DIARRHEA NOISES) directed the project, deciding what to investigate, proposing and discarding approaches, interpreting results, identifying problems, choosing which solutions to pursue, testing the builds and validating the final behavior.

The distinction matters: the AI did a great deal of the programming work, but the project itself was not produced by asking for a finished hack and accepting the first result. It was an iterative process of investigation, implementation, testing, failure, correction and regression testing.

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 6h

why are there so fucking many of these things. go away

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 01/10/2026

caught someone trying to scrape the site again. autobanned them a few times as they rotated through a few proxies. a bit later, i get an email: "I was wondering how long this IP ban lasts for. Thank yoU!"

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 01/10/2026

i don't think i've ever gotten one of these completely unsolicited "check out this random streamer" *notifications* (I did not love it)

"New to you: discover [xxx], a streamer we think you'll love."

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 30/09/2026

it technically already can but yeah, i might need to make it better at this rate

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 30/09/2026

in unrelated news, we hit the big five thousand today

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 30/09/2026

if it was in the last month or so, maybe? i'm not super familiar tbh

(from "founder & ceo @ fluxer")
Aug 21
[...]
Please keep submitting issues and starting discussions. If you'd like to take on some work, comment on the relevant issue first. I read everything, keep an eye on the feed, and act on anything pressing when I can.

I don't want the open source project to be a second-class citizen. I value every contribution, and I want to be much faster at acknowledging and reviewing them. As Fluxer grows, I hope I won't remain the only person responsible for all of this. For now, I can't turn myself into a team of 30 people.

Thanks for sticking with me while I work through it.

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 29/09/2026

checking various projects for something i need and this fucking thing is at the top of every single one of them so far. cool

a user you've blocked has previously contributed to this repository.

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 28/09/2026

i would love to know why an ai-powered pixel art editing site is requesting random pages from the wiki, but not as much as i'd love to throw a molotov at that site

cloudflare worker for some sprite generator website i'm not listing

screenshot of the linked site, "generate polished pixel art in minutes"

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 28/09/2026

favorite unused pokemon design — コーニャ Koonya, meowth baby. its so cute alterspring.org/@Xkeeper/a/1...

sprite art of that scrapped mon, a tiny cat laying on its belly, with a -w- look

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 27/09/2026

Not every post is a personal, hand-written invitation to debate. You can disagree with me, that's fine. People do it all the time. But this is trying to pull me into an argument and I'm not interested (well, I wasn't, until they did this). Some people can't get over getting told "you're a loser"

the guy screenshotting my post after i removed it

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 27/09/2026

I removed this quote from another post, but note the argument here: "the tools are just too useful, too good at what they do" Consider that about anything *but* code. Would you still say that AI output is "good enough" that we can start ignoring by-human art, writing, music, videos, research?

For code, this policy is already very rapidly approaching a time when it is not only unenforceable by any reasonable measure, but also an absurd thing to expect of people. At a certain point, the tools just become too useful, too actually-good at what they do. That point is already in the past.

I could argue here about externalities and how awful the AI corporations are with managing and running their own services/products, but differentiating those from open or even locally-run agents/models doesn't seem to interest this person, so clearly that's not the thing they care about

I can ask Claude Code to figure something out about a gigantic, undocumented codebase going off nothing but a natural language description of user experience, and it just does it, and will probably explain it quite well and offer a solution. Anthropic is also a terrible company. These facts coexist.

You don't solve that second fact by pretending the first is false. When something is useful enough, especially in a competitive environment, people will use it. The regulation needs to change, but "no LLMs ever" is solving the wrong problem AND a non-starter given how useful the tech has become.

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 26/09/2026

(enjoying turning off channels, again)

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 26/09/2026

hot take: scroll bars that have high contrast are cool and good, actually. screenshot: my blog i got tired of trying to find "gray on slightly dimmer gray" and said fuck you. i wish every site had scrollbars like these

a scrollbar on the right side of the window. the page background is black and dark purple; the scrollbar track is a middle solid purple; the scrollbar itself is a stark white

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 25/09/2026

time for another game of "guess that music's game": this one's on the gbc (more instruments are turned on when it loops)

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 24/09/2026

as for what it looked like on the backup server before it got taken down, here's a live feed of ifconfig eth0

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 24/09/2026

no, that's exactly *why* we don't like it! we don't *want* people forced to a single viable option! something has to be done *now* before we're *all* forced to use it

Yes, this is one of the things that many anti-CloudFlare folks often don't seem to get - there's no one else out there that does what they do.

They're a dogshit company led by dogshit people, but they will eat a giant DDoS and laugh about it for free while everyone else will charge you hundreds of dollars a month if they can even successfully mitigate it.

Is it sustainable? Probably not, but for the time being they're basically it and that sucks.

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 24/09/2026

This is a chart I need to add to the blog post soon: our Cloudflare 30-day history chart. It makes it pretty clear what "normal traffic" looks like, versus days where we have our special guest visiting, and the sheer scale of junk they throw at us.

cloudflare web traffic, requests through cloudflare graph. most of the days are around 5-7M, but at least 7 of them have spikes ranging from 20 to 80 or 100M

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 24/09/2026

Another one: why would we pay for extra capacity? Our server sits around 33% of capacity for the vast majority of the time. *Normal* LLM requests really aren't that much of a contributor that we have to ban them — I just hate LLMs. (nevermind that it's 4 *cores*, not threads)

Today I learned that The Cutting Room Floor runs on just four threads and 8 GB of RAM. No wonder why do they need to permaban any LLM user agents.

cpu graph of our linode. note that our CPU cap is 400% (4 CPUs x 100%), so 200% CPU usage means "50%"

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 24/09/2026

For example, it's very easy to say this in hindsight — if I knew it would last for twelve and a half days, obviously I would've moved sooner. But recall that the advice we were given *by our host* was to wait it out, and after two days (one of which was spent thinking it was over!) we did move.

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 24/09/2026

your chat program will also be your screen sharing program which will also be your self-hosted threads and forums platform. please don't ask about how any of this has worked in the platform we're copying (poorly) or who likes it (nobody), but by god we're going to step on every rake

#6: Threads, forums, and publishing to the web

Fluxer will support threads and forums. Forum channels will also have an optional public web mode. If a community turns it on, anyone can read those posts without an account, find them through search engines, archive them, and follow them with RSS or Atom feeds. Communities choose what to publish, and private chats stay private.

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 24/09/2026

l, m, a, and further more, o. draw the rest of the owl

federation is coming, but exactly how it will work is still up for debate

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 24/09/2026

if there's one thing i love more than having one account i use to access everything in my chat app, it's having a billion different instances that i have to have accounts in and separately signed into!!! people are going to be ALL OVER this

screenshot from fluxer's roadmap 2026, showing their "choose an instance" menu

showing the "switch accounts", with one for fluxer and one for some random-ass domain nobody gives a shit about

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 24/09/2026

Q: don't get the hostility against switching off discord. people are acting like discord has some special sauce thats impossible to be replicated when its just a social media platform at the end of the day and sometimes the grass is greener on the other side alterspring.org/@Xkeeper/a/1... (long)

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 24/09/2026

(here's the particular bit about @fastly.com , because the way this whole thing shook out still just. seriously? seriously???)

We’ll skip ahead in the timeline momentarily to their response (Aug 31, 11:17 AM), as Fastly exits the story afterwards:

Hello X,

Thank you for your patience while I worked with internal teams on finding the cause here.

We were able to see the cause of the account being turned down was marked as Excessive Bandwidth Usage, and was disabled for bandwidth abuse. This appears to be because the account was a Dev account, and those are generally used for testing functionality or creating a POC, and not fielding that volume of bandwidth.

I’ll be honest: in the process of writing this (currently 9/23), I had to go check the archives to double-check that the instructions said, quote,

Under active attack? Create a free account to route your traffic through Fastly’s network in minutes for immediate DDoS mitigation.

What they don’t tell you is that the “immediate DDoS mitigation” is also measured in minutes (a bit less than 900). At least for us.

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 24/09/2026

checking in on Fluxer (I'm still not going to use it). They did a big "v2" change a while ago that changed the LLM policy. what strikes me as extremely strange is the focus on not having "write access". this code of conduct is only for normal people, not maintainers. are they held to the same?

LLM Usage Policy
Abstract

This document defines how a person without write access to this repository may use a large language model (LLM) when preparing a contribution.

An LLM may assist a contributor privately with learning, investigation, planning and review. It MUST NOT author any part of a submission.

3. Scope

This policy applies to every person who does not have write access to this repository.

It applies to all content that such a person provides to the maintainers or publishes through the repository, including...

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 24/09/2026

i like it when my adhd cooperates and i can lock in on something. oogh

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 23/09/2026

this feels like the kind of anti-cheat that if you actually gave half a shit about it, you could probably very easily bypass it but also: lmao. how dare you have Task Manager open

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GS 3.0 :: 2026050201
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Gepard::PA Code: 0::0::0

Illegal software has been detected!

Process Hacker

Please close and restart game.
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OK
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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 23/09/2026

we had another attack this morning, but it really does just boil down to "wait 10 minutes and try again". once a day or so it spins up, shits everywhere, and then goes away. annoying, but a lot less bad than what started this mess

cf error giving a "temporarily rate limited" error

uptime monitor showing a few flakes around 7:30 AM

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 23/09/2026

unless you're playing motocross maniacs i don't want to hear it

bsky mutes for "nitro" to expire in 7 days

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 22/09/2026

their current modus operandi is blasting the server with a bunch of (often repeated) gibberish URLs, all pretending to be some mobile Safari. they've tried different tactics a few times, but this seems to be the one they've settled on

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 22/09/2026

this one didn't even manage to make uptime kuma register any downtime...

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 21/09/2026

a quick demo of the Lua script I use when doing Link's Awakening randomizers. I like knowing what the item is but wanted to make it show up nicer, so I hooked the "give item" routine and made it so

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 21/09/2026

life's tough when you're constantly going up and down www.twitch.tv/xkeeper_/cli...

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 20/09/2026

lufia 1/2 port/remaster? huh *looks* *immediately takes critical damage and fucking dies*

terrible, terrible design on the in-game font, where there's no descenders, so the "y" in "Jelly" is just a "u" shifted up one pixel with a pimple on its butt

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