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playing with krita and my old drawing tablet
a watercolor-style illustration of a sleeping fox. the fox is depicted in shades of orange and brown, lying down on a pale yellow background.
December 17, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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i never actually played civilization, i was too busy playing as the elerians in master of orion lol
Master of Orion 2 screenshot of the diplomacy screen with text "Greetings, Emperor Peerik Krieel. I am glad to finally meet you in person. It will make watching your destruction so much more pleasurable"
December 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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pov: you're trying to follow a link to a scientific article that the author just proudly posted, and that sounds quite interesting
Access this article The computer you are using is not registered by an institution with a subscription to this article. Please choose one of the blablablablablal
December 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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sure, we can do non-intellectual too 😀
this is (for reasons i won't explain) always photo 0 on my photo roll
A plush toy dog sits on a desk surrounded by computer equipment. The main subject of the photograph is a stuffed toy dog, which is the focal point of the image. The dog is cream-colored with black stitched eyes and nose, standing upright but static on a table. Its ears are floppy, and it has a friendly, innocent expression.
December 16, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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if you see this, we implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation
diagram with x axis: virus-like -- group-like y axis: less agent-hood -- more agent-hood with various labels like "Hive Mind", "Brainwork" laid out
December 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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new hair color came out darker than expected but it works
cryptid with dark brown vaguely violet tinted hair some cryptid seen from the side
December 15, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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A snapshot taken underwater. It features what looks like three seals swimming in the water. The water has a greenish tint, and the background seems to be a constructed pool or tank with visible walls. The image is somewhat grainy, and in the top left corner, there is a timestamp: "2025-12-14 13:29:26 | Fase 3 - Sub". The image features three seals underwater. One is looking into the camera. The water has a greenish hue, and the background appears to be a pool or enclosure with visible walls. The timestamp "2025-12-14 13:29:30 | Fase 3 - Sub" are visible in the upper left corner.
December 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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just decided that this is going to be my new pride flag
lospec.com palette analysis of CGA palette 1
December 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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strange, so apparently the prompt is locked to one app password now?

here (on bsky web), "birthday" only has the word "Edit" besides it, and when i click it i get
You recently changed your birthdate There is a limit to how often you can change your birthdate. You may need to wait a day or two before waiting again.
December 9, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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it can work with any bitcoin node through RPC
the source code is here utxo.live/oracle/UTXOr...
it's very well-documented
# Step 8 - Construct the Price Finding Stencil # Users don’t just send round fiat amounts, they also tend to send them in # predictable proportions depending on the amount. For example, users spend $100 # far more often than they send $10,000. We use this proportionality both to lock # onto round fiat amounts and to determine which amount is which. # Through historical testing, we’ve measured the average histogram bin counts for # each common round fiat amount and hard-code these values into what we call a # price-finding stencil. The most common and heavily weighted amount in the stencil # is $100. Less frequently used fiat amounts are assigned lower weights, since we # expect to see them transacted less often. # Even when users are not transacting at a perfectly round fiat amount, their # behavior is still influenced by Bitcoin’s long-term rise in purchasing power. For # example, if we plot a bell curve of output amounts, we find that the center of the # curve shifts toward smaller BTC amounts over time. # This provides additional information we can use. We first apply a smooth stencil to # estimate a center of gravity for the price within a broad 20% range. Then, we apply # a spike stencil based on perfectly round USD amounts to refine the price estimate # to within about 0.5%. # Parameters num_elements = 803 mean = 411 #(num_elements - 1) / 2 # Center of the array std_dev = 201 ⋮
December 7, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Atari ST vibes
Atari ST 1040 home compute. It's a beige-colored, all-in-one unit with an integrated keyboard and a distinct rectangular housing for the internal components. The function keys have a typical slanted design.
December 7, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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i hope so ! 64-core at least sounds serious. i have enough rpi class devices for a lifetime anyway
[excerpt from wikipedia] "In Jully 2025, during the RISC-V Summit, they announced a new SoC, called SpacemIT K3, that will be based on the RVA23 compliant X100 core. This core can be made in cluster up to 64 cores. The new SoC would be available for end-users in 2026."
December 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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could've been a haujobb album
Track listing for Haujobb's "Solutions for a Small Planet" 1. Clockwise 2. Anti/Matter 3. Rising Sun 4. Depths 5. Sub Unit One 6. Journey Ahea 7. Distance 8. Deviation 9. Nature's Interface 10. Sub Unit Two 11. Cleaned Vision 12. The Cage Complex 13. Net Culture 14. Transfer 15. Sub Unit Three
December 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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it all makes so much sense now 🤷‍♀️
> When using `guix download` and `guix hash` there are (among other) the > formats > `nix-base32` and `base32`. It appears that when writing a package definition > I > have to use the former with the `(base32 "...")` expression. This really > confused be because I thought that "base32" means "base32" on both sides. > What > is the deal with this? Package definitions expect a nix-base32-formatted string, even though the macro is called ‘base32’ and not ‘nix-base32’. Internally Guix uses ‘nix-base32’ exclusively so you shouldn’t have to worry about it.
December 5, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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nothing unexpected here !
Word cloud visualization for 2025 showing your 50 most-used words, sized by frequency. Top 10: "least" (50×), "makes" (35×), "instead" (34×), "code" (32×), "bitcoin" (32×), "game" (31×), "games" (30×), "hard" (28×), "trans" (28×), "foss" (27×) (from Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest) Emoji bubble chart for 2025 showing 33 different emojis used 186 times total, visualized as bubbles sized by frequency. Top 10: 😅 (58×), 😆 (45×), 😀 (21×), 🙂 (7×), 😄 (7×), 🫂 (5×), 😱 (5×), 🦭 (4×), 😂 (3×), 😢 (3×) (from Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest)
December 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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i always wanted an apartment with a view on Saturn's hexagonal storm

a beautiful, relaxing, and dynamic view, and far enough away from all the traumas of Earth
drawing of girl looking out of window of a space station hexagonal storm on Saturn's north pole. image from Cassini probe
December 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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i was raised on these streets
top-down city screenshot from the game Sundog: Frozen Legacy (1985), with various brightly colored buildings. the player's car, which is simply a rectangular block sprite, is driving along the main road
November 30, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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ah yes the three genders: sir, madam and dead person
Aanhef: Meneer ("sir") Mevrouw ("madam") De erven van ("the heirs of")
November 27, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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this one is still my fav but it's close lol
screenshot from starcraft 1 with character dialog. Kerrigan says "I don't think so, admiral. you see, at this point.. i'm pretty much the queen bitch of the universe. and not all your little soldiers or space ships will stand in my way again". in the background is a gigeresque zerg ship interior.
November 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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no idea what happened here but this photo came out quite nice
picture of a canary, taken in Frankfurt Zoo, rain in the background
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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also the land of infinite fun from Iain Bank's excession !
"III Technically, it was a branch of metamathematics, usually called metamathics.  Metamathics; the investigation of the properties of Realities (more correctly, Reality-fields) intrinsically unknowable by and from our own, but whose general principles could be hazarded at. Metamathics led to everything else, it led to the places that nobody else had ever seen or heard of or previously imagined. It was like living half your life in a tiny, stuffy, warm grey box, and being moderately happy in there because you knew no better… and then discovering a little hole in one corner of the box, a tiny opening which you could get a finger into, and tease and pull at, so that eventually you created a tear, which led to a greater tear, which led to the box falling apart around you… so that you stepped out of the tiny box's confines into startlingly cool, clear fresh air and found yourself on top of a mountain, surrounded by deep valleys, sighing forests, soaring peaks, glittering lakes, sparkling snowfields and a stunning, breathtakingly blue sky.  And that, of course, wasn't even the start of the real story, that was more like the breath that is drawn in before the first syllable of the first word of the first paragraph of the first chapter of the first book of the first volume of the story." "consummate joy and absolute enlightenment.  All that humanity knew and could understand, every single aspect, known, guessed at and hoped for in and of the universe was like a mean and base mud hut compared to the vast, glittering cloud-high palace of monumentally exquisite proportions and prodigious riches that was the metamathical realm.  Within the infinities raised to the power of infinities that those metamathical rules provided, the Minds built their immense pleasure-domes of rhapsodic philosophical ecstasy. That was where they lived.  That was their home.  When they weren't running ships, meddling with alien civilisations or planning the future course of the Culture itself, the Minds existed in those fantastic virtual realities, sojourning beyondward into the multi-dimensioned geographies of their unleashed imaginations, vanishingly far away from the single limited point that was reality. The Minds had long ago come up with a proper name for it; they called it the Irreal, but they thought of it as Infinite Fun.  That was what they really knew it as.  The Land of Infinite Fun. It did the experience pathetically little justice..."
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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kind of getting the hang of this lol
November 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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dont crash
November 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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the video stream on this thing is very noisy and tends to get a violet tint. could be uv? the noise is due to the receiver more than the transmitter, recording on the goggles is much better
November 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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mara stop being silly with the lidar sensor challenge
November 22, 2025 at 9:47 AM