iris 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
@catstret.ch
DID system • trans of gender • pl. they/them
neteng/sysops by day, pluralkit.me dev by night
you know that "there are two wolves inside you" meme? that's us, but several hundred cats instead
fedi: https://cloudisland.nz/@iris
blog: https://catstret.ch
neteng/sysops by day, pluralkit.me dev by night
you know that "there are two wolves inside you" meme? that's us, but several hundred cats instead
fedi: https://cloudisland.nz/@iris
blog: https://catstret.ch
sometimes i forget how stunningly beautiful my country is. and then i pull over on the side of the road on my drive home bc i need to pee and i go "oh. yeah."
November 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
sometimes i forget how stunningly beautiful my country is. and then i pull over on the side of the road on my drive home bc i need to pee and i go "oh. yeah."
my adhd meds have well and truly worn off so i am again Incapable Of Sitting Still, if anyone in welly wants to hang out and do things *please* let me know LMAO
November 8, 2025 at 7:37 AM
my adhd meds have well and truly worn off so i am again Incapable Of Sitting Still, if anyone in welly wants to hang out and do things *please* let me know LMAO
getting to leroy's sounds horrible (can't park anywhere close, and plimmer steps is named as such for a reason) and also hanging around people getting drunk is not a good idea for the whole "maintaining my sobriety" thing so i'm skipping the after party but y'all have fun
November 8, 2025 at 5:13 AM
getting to leroy's sounds horrible (can't park anywhere close, and plimmer steps is named as such for a reason) and also hanging around people getting drunk is not a good idea for the whole "maintaining my sobriety" thing so i'm skipping the after party but y'all have fun
and that's a wrap! much love to all the @kawaiicon.bsky.social crüe (& vols!), thank you for putting on such a great con (and for actually putting thought into accessibility!)
November 8, 2025 at 5:07 AM
and that's a wrap! much love to all the @kawaiicon.bsky.social crüe (& vols!), thank you for putting on such a great con (and for actually putting thought into accessibility!)
as much as i love the memes in this talk i wish they didn't have audio
November 8, 2025 at 3:55 AM
as much as i love the memes in this talk i wish they didn't have audio
back my hotel for a bit to Chill™️ before going back for movie and/or cahoots (haven't decided which yet) but. the crop top was a very good idea, i am cute
November 7, 2025 at 5:14 AM
back my hotel for a bit to Chill™️ before going back for movie and/or cahoots (haven't decided which yet) but. the crop top was a very good idea, i am cute
"i believe AI is the future" yeah and i believe that i'm going to sprout wings and become a real life mahou shoujo. both our hopes are gonna crash and burn at any sign of scrutiny, but at least mine don't involve burning the planet at the same time
November 7, 2025 at 5:02 AM
"i believe AI is the future" yeah and i believe that i'm going to sprout wings and become a real life mahou shoujo. both our hopes are gonna crash and burn at any sign of scrutiny, but at least mine don't involve burning the planet at the same time
sitting in my car eating my lunch with the aircon blasting cold at me, it's so warm
November 7, 2025 at 1:08 AM
sitting in my car eating my lunch with the aircon blasting cold at me, it's so warm
first day of kawaiicon! if you see me, come say hi :)
November 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
first day of kawaiicon! if you see me, come say hi :)
@kawaiicon.bsky.social just wanted to double check you're aware the CO2 dashboard is dead, i just get an nginx 301 error page (with no redirect)
November 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
@kawaiicon.bsky.social just wanted to double check you're aware the CO2 dashboard is dead, i just get an nginx 301 error page (with no redirect)
after waking up at 5am, driving for 6 and a half hours (with a few breaks), doing the con prereg, checking into my hotel, and unpacking my stuff, i'm now... quite tired! who could've seen that coming? certainly not me /s
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 AM
after waking up at 5am, driving for 6 and a half hours (with a few breaks), doing the con prereg, checking into my hotel, and unpacking my stuff, i'm now... quite tired! who could've seen that coming? certainly not me /s
i always have a little bit of a giggle when i'm driving through a rural township somewhere and see a sign for like. a model train museum. like, congrats on monetising your grandpa's autism, i guess?
November 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
i always have a little bit of a giggle when i'm driving through a rural township somewhere and see a sign for like. a model train museum. like, congrats on monetising your grandpa's autism, i guess?
now *mostly* packed for Kawaiicon! gotta wake up at 5am to start the trek down to Wellington, so I would like to get to sleep early, but the number of people letting off fireworks right now make me thing that's not likely to happen.....
November 5, 2025 at 8:03 AM
now *mostly* packed for Kawaiicon! gotta wake up at 5am to start the trek down to Wellington, so I would like to get to sleep early, but the number of people letting off fireworks right now make me thing that's not likely to happen.....
time for another installment of "iris gets a weird rebadged supermicro box, and spends way too long getting a normal BIOS flashed on it" - this time it's a HPE/Nimble CS1000 SAN
catstret.ch/202509/nimbl...
catstret.ch/202509/nimbl...
Repurposing a HPE/Nimble CS1000
another day, another rebadged SuperMicro
catstret.ch
September 17, 2025 at 7:57 AM
time for another installment of "iris gets a weird rebadged supermicro box, and spends way too long getting a normal BIOS flashed on it" - this time it's a HPE/Nimble CS1000 SAN
catstret.ch/202509/nimbl...
catstret.ch/202509/nimbl...
"we need to take time to figure out whether recognising Palestinian statehood would piss off the Israelis enough to not sell us the tech we're currently procuring from Israeli companies to illegally snoop into protestors' cellphones" - Luxon, probably www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
PM Christopher Luxon says famine declaration will not speed up Palestinian state decision
The Prime Minister has not confirmed whether New Zealand will recognise a Palestinian state.
www.rnz.co.nz
August 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
"we need to take time to figure out whether recognising Palestinian statehood would piss off the Israelis enough to not sell us the tech we're currently procuring from Israeli companies to illegally snoop into protestors' cellphones" - Luxon, probably www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
i think i still need a few more monitors tbh
August 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
i think i still need a few more monitors tbh
new blog post, in which i get the Sun Ray Server Software working on OpenIndiana: catstret.ch/202506/sun-r...
using Sun Ray thin clients in 2025
setting up 20 year old hardware is bound to work first try, right? ... right?
catstret.ch
June 30, 2025 at 3:39 AM
new blog post, in which i get the Sun Ray Server Software working on OpenIndiana: catstret.ch/202506/sun-r...
found a bug in SeaBIOS, struggled with NixOS along the way, wrote a blog post about it catstret.ch/202505/libre...
nix incantations to build libreboot
... along with a tale of a broken SeaBIOS commit
catstret.ch
May 2, 2025 at 2:22 AM
found a bug in SeaBIOS, struggled with NixOS along the way, wrote a blog post about it catstret.ch/202505/libre...
the problem with being on holiday in a city i used to live in (but that my partner has only been to once) is that i have completely forgotten about *all* of the Cool Things To Do.
April 19, 2025 at 10:23 PM
the problem with being on holiday in a city i used to live in (but that my partner has only been to once) is that i have completely forgotten about *all* of the Cool Things To Do.
i had forgotten how nice the vibe is in wellington just walking around lmao
April 18, 2025 at 5:46 AM
i had forgotten how nice the vibe is in wellington just walking around lmao
gonna be in Pōneke over the weekend if anyone wants to catch up ✌️
April 16, 2025 at 3:15 AM
gonna be in Pōneke over the weekend if anyone wants to catch up ✌️
@pikelet.nz were you at the porter robinson concert in melbourne last night? i think i saw you but was too anxious to say hi lmao
February 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
@pikelet.nz were you at the porter robinson concert in melbourne last night? i think i saw you but was too anxious to say hi lmao
oh how i wish i lived in a house that gets less sun and actually has airflow (it's 31° in my lounge right now, the AC is on turbo cooling mode, and i'm suffering)
January 23, 2025 at 2:27 AM
oh how i wish i lived in a house that gets less sun and actually has airflow (it's 31° in my lounge right now, the AC is on turbo cooling mode, and i'm suffering)