iris 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
@catstret.ch
DID system • trans of gender • pl. they/them neteng/sysops by day, pluralkit.me dev by night https://cloudisland.nz/@iris • https://catstret.ch 📍 Tauranga Moana, Aotearoa
extremely torn between "wanting to daily drive my OLPC XO-4" and "not wanting to risk any damage to a relatively rare machine where the availability of spare parts is effectively non-existent"
In this photo, they’re at Book Hero, who posted a blog post and social media in favour of the PM. So you can, yknow, never shop there again.
Russell Brown@publicaddress.bsky.social · 3d agoJust piss off, you desperate creeps. You've done this before, and it was a total waste of time and money. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
now, i'm no professional in RF coverage planning, but that doesn't seem like a good thing (this is my local DMR repeater)
passed my amateur radio license exam! got the highest mark of the class (somehow)! callsign allocation won't happen for a couple days probably but. yippee
Composer/Sound Director Masayoshi Soken stumps the Berlin crowd with illegal sound effects before being apprehended by security:
I can't wait for that gold saucer update.
Katt@sarcastickatt.bsky.social · 3mo agoYOSHI P TEACHES TYPING
i love it when i buy an old computer from a recycler and it still has the OS install from its previous life. this X220 Tablet i just got appears to have been used as ... an emulated patient monitor as part of a medical training manikin setup?
mmm, nothing like my car's brakes failing to set the tone of the day huh
spent half the day at work writing ansible playbooks. clocked out, realised we need to make a bunch of changes to our homelab. spent most of the evening also writing ansible playbooks. sigh.
once again thinking about throwing my hat in the ring for the InternetNZ board elections
Sorry for not posting for so long... I have been extremely busy working on my new project: The Enchanter (also called Modos Flow): a 300-ppi Eink portable monitor with 60Hz refresh rate and touch screen. It's fully open-source: gitlab.com/zephray/ench....
i can't explain it but the windows "updates were installed" notification feels like an incessant replyguy to me
I forgot to set up Anubis in front of my website on my new infrastructure, and since I published my blog post on the Sun Ray setup a couple days ago, several websites have published what is obviously LLM-rewritten versions of my blog post, which all rank higher in search results than my blog.
Kawaiicon is back for 2026 and while we get a lot done with volunteer help, Wellington City Council don't accept venue payment in high fives 🙏. The 2026 Kawaiicon Call for Sponsors is open! If you want a copy of our sponsor pack, throw us an email at kiwicon@kiwicon.org.
it's time for more telephony bullshit! catstret.ch/202604/avaya... (forgot to post this here after I published the post last night, oops)
using Kamailio to make Poly UC phones work better with Avaya IP Office
auto-answer is important, okay?
catstret.ch
I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.
Do I belong in tech anymore?
On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.
ky.fyi
And now thanks to multiple participants a pretty much fully featured SDL3 port to DOS! github.com/libsdl-org/S...
Add DOS platform support (DJGPP) by AJenbo · Pull Request #15377 · libsdl-org/SDL
This is the combined work of @icculus @madebr @glebm @jayschwa @ccawley2011 and me rounding it off with stability fixes and missing features, thanks to everyone for pitching in. This is a fairly c...
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Anatoly Shashkin💾@dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 11mo agoSDL2 port for DOS (DJGPP and VBE 2.0+) github.com/libsdl-org/S...
getting a brand new 3D printer right before a long weekend was a very good decision on my part i think
kawaiicon.org Kawaiicon 4: October 30-31, 2026 let the magical con ritual begin!
a cartoon drawing of a sheep wearing a black crown
Alt: a cartoon drawing of a sheep wearing a black crown dancing
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