Sanqui 🦉
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owl 🟨⬜️🟪⬛️ devops • birds • full stack • nature • video game history • pixel art • digital archival • chiptune • historical linguistics • ROM hacking • internet and furry culture 🌐 https://sanqui.net 🟢 SFW account 🟢
Back home from the 25th camping get-together of the Czech Pokémon community! Alongside the usual hikes and games, we had a nearly 2 hour presentation about the history of the community and all the creative pursuits and meets. Was fun to reminisce, and it's crazy to watch aftermovie videos from 2005!
Ok, European friends, the ECB is going to redesign the Euro banknotes and are doing a survey to see what design europeans like the most. YOU HAVE TO VOTE FOR THE BIRD ONES!! LET US HAVE LITTLE BIRDS IN OUR MONEY. There are many designs to choose from as well: surveys.ecb.europa.eu/lng/en/pageT...
For the seventh year I helped organize @furryest.org, the Estonian outdoor furry convention. We are able to create a magical experience for 180 attendees only thanks to staff becoming year by year more professional and successful at onboarding helpers. This success makes me a little proud!
A selection of my Game Boy Camera photos from Elistvere Animal Park! (Bottom two are are taxidermy) #gbcam
We built our chickens what the manufacturer calls an "activity center". Usually they get to roam the whole garden, but when we go on vacation, they're stuck in the run. So it should bring them some variety!
Showing off the prototype of Pesík 🐕️, my overly ambitious Game Boy Color RPG, last worked on in 2016. Demo coming in December! 🙃
A successor website to redump.org from the same staff team just launched, featuring better registration and metadata submission processes and HTTPS in 2026 among other things #redump redump.info
![A screenshot of current redump.info main page. Official announcement text partially reads:
"As many of you are aware, there have been longstanding issues with the redump.org site infrastructure. Basic features such as HTTPS have been missing and the project staff have been unable to address this due to the site being tightly controlled by an inactive administrator.
This has become increasingly untenable over the course of the past year, with major site outages and issues causing real concern that data could be permanently lost. Staff have made multiple attempts over several years to contact the redump.org admin to ask for these issues to be addressed, but all of these efforts have been either rebuffed or outright ignored. We believe that the work done here at Redump is very important for long-term preservation of data, which has necessitated this shift to ensure the project is successful for many years to come.
As a result, this year we decided to take the initiative and move to a new site, giving us a more solid and modern codebase to work from, and a more collaborative governance structure ensuring that major site decisions cannot be locked behind the availability of any single member of the team.
[...]
The Redump staff would like to thank all of you for your patience as we've worked through this process, and over the past few years in dealing with the difficulties presented by the old site. We ask for your continued patience as we get up and running, as it will take everyone some time to get fully up to speed. In particular, for the moment we ask that you keep a note of any feature requests you might have. We will soon be announcing an official process for submitting these, and we have many ideas of our own, but for now our focus is on making this transition as seamless as possible."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eqa5kkjivbunsr4crntkyraf/bafkreidnelfmvptwpgyag2l3jx7otlnpby4g624yxph3fvrlpm4jtnepk4)
Every phpBB forum that hasn't been updated to 3.3.17 (released last Saturday) is vulnerable to a trivial admin session hijack. Tell your local phpBB admin to upgrade. pentest-tools.com/research/php... www.phpbb.com/community/vi...
phpBB authentication bypass: CVE-2026-48611 and CVE-2026-48612
Two critical phpBB vulnerabilities found by Pentest-Tools.com let attackers hijack accounts without a password. See how they work, who's affected and the fixes.
pentest-tools.com
And now for the conclusion! Watch as I install the electric motor I made in my previous video onto a road bike, and then test it out in the field! Did I succeed in making a useful motor? Is it even possible to make a useful motor at home? Only one way to find out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDi8...
I Built an E-Bike with My Home-Made Electric Motor
YouTube video by Birdbrain
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Recorded this on my Game Boy Camera when we went go-karting with colleagues last week. What an experience! All that practice in Mario Kart came in handy, believe it or not.
The, perhaps, long-awaited e-bike motor video is *finally* here! This is the first part in a series of two videos. In this first one, I go over the design- and build process of this from-scratch DIY 500W+ electric motor befit an e-bike. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pnC...
I Built an E-bike Motor From Scratch
YouTube video by Birdbrain
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I find myself struggling to keep up with all my commitments (as it happens), but at least I managed to plant all the herbs my mom gave me *before* they withered 😊
There's a general sentiment that GitHub is a sinking ship, so I went ahead and set up Forgejo (forgejo.org) at work so we could get a feel for it. Deployed it on a Debian VPS as Podman "Quadlets" using Ansible and it's like a devops dream. Clean and declarative!
We did a call for volunteers at the Game Archive (@hernihistorie.cz) and the amount of responses surpassed our imaginations. Now that we have split our responsibilities for them, I'm excited to start mentoring two new programmers!
💾 We created a cleaning mechanism for 3.5" floppy disks! Following our 8" version, this one is also 3D printable and helps preserve old media. Download: buff.ly/8slb7ar Questions? Ask on Printables! #floppydisk #retrotech
For @aftermath.site, I spoke with @seven.eurosky.social about the sudden, viral love for Moon Child and the rocky history that led to it. aftermath.site/moon-child-t...
After All These Years, it’s Moon Child
Moon Child languished in obscurity until the internet discovered the power to be his friend.
aftermath.site
💾 We created a cleaning mechanism for 8" floppy disks! You can 3D print it yourself and help preserve old media. Download it here: buff.ly/JPYiCtb Questions? Ask in English on Printables. #floppydisk #archive #retrotech
The "art of programming" might feel like it's crumbling, yet I'm still trying to keep up with software engineering developments. I'm now almost a year into learning event sourcing. It's satisfying to be able to write clean code even for legacy codebases. Sample con raffle feature—real world Python!
![Screenshot of Python source code:
```
from datetime import datetime
from sqlalchemy import ForeignKey
from sqlalchemy.orm import Mapped, mapped_column, relationship
from database import Model
from reg.models import Event, Registration, db
from reg.villa_raffle.query import is_registration_entered_for_villa_raffle
from reg.villa_raffle.end import VillaRaffleEnded
from reg.villa_raffle.start import VillaRaffleStarted
from user.models import User
from furryest.utils import Failure
class VillaRaffleEntered(Model):
event_id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(ForeignKey(Event.id), nullable=False)
registration_id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(ForeignKey(Registration.id), nullable=False)
entered_at: Mapped[datetime] = mapped_column(nullable=False, defalt=datetime.now)
event: Mapped[Event] = relationship()
registration: Mapped[Registration] = relationship()
def enter_villa_raffle(user: User, registration: Registration, event: Event) -> VillaRaffleEntered | Failure:
if not db.session.query(VillaRaffleStarted).filter_by(event_id=event.id).first():
return Failure("Villa raffle has not been started for this event.")
elif db.session.query(VillaRaffleEnded).filter_by(event_id=event.id).first():
return Failure("Villa raffle has already ended for this event.")
elif registration.event_id != event.id:
return Failure("Registration does not belong to the given event.")
elif registration.user_id != user.id:
return Failure("Registration does not belong to the given user.")
elif is_registration_entered_for_villa_raffle(registration=registration, event=event):
return Failure("This registration has already entered the villa raffle.")
villa_raffle_entered = VillaRaffleEntered(
event_id=event.id,
registration_id=registration.id
)
villa_raffle_entered.save()
return villa_raffle_entered
```](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l62vabhiophfeg3xbwm5jeku/bafkreibegqxosceazkyd2eequgasnfd65nvem3tp2crvel3zla77agqrmy)
The PC in every Pokémon Center allows you to connect to Bill's and Prof. Oak's computers over the network, just like a workstation connected to the Internet in the early days. The source code to Pokémon Red (1996) implies we are using System V UNIX.
Draw on the Game Boy and share direct to your phone with a #QRCode! No extra hardware and without the internet. QR-Paint is a small paint program for the #GameBoy with a fun way to export drawings. bbbbbr.itch.io/game-boy-qr-... #GBDK #RetroGaming #PixelArt #GameBoyColor
With age verification, we talk more about privacy and surveillance concerns, and some of us don't remember what it's like to be a minor, but that quote summarizes the other side of the coin. Personally I'm concerned about how sheltering children will make bad childhoods even worse.
Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · 5mo agoEFF is appalled by how quickly and uncritically internet restrictions are being adopted around the world, David Greene told CNET. "Even if they are under 18, or under 16, children have the right to access information, to speak and to associate.” www.cnet.com/tech/servic...
I'm working on an English translation patch for the Pokémon GS Spaceworld 1997 demo! youtu.be/_GkJu5_I4L4
English Pokémon GS '97 - Progress Update 3: Silver Version!
YouTube video by MDTravis
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Today, I have conducted a full two-and-a-half hour interview inside a text-based virtual world from the 90s... and only at the cost of waking up at 6 am!
I contacted somebody last night with an inquiry about an email they had sent in 1997. I found their writing poignant and before its time, so I wanted to ask for permission to quote it. They replied positively. I bet it was unexpected! Part of my learning to be a responsible archivist and historian.
I implemented dark mode for the Czechoslovak Game Archive website. It also has English text on more pages than ever! herniarchiv.cz/en/
While researching early internet culture, I get the feeling that communities these days just don't chronicle their history. No rich FAQs, no wikis. I see there was pride in mailing lists and websites; maybe running a Discord server just isn't the same? Telegram groups may as well be fast fashion...
Ten years after I last worked on it, people are still writing me emails asking for my unfinished Sega Game Gear port of Pokémon Red. So I published it in its glitchy state: www.smspower.org/forums/20703...
A little expirement-slash-art-project, this image displays the individual tile graphics used in Pokémon Gold for the Game Boy Color. They are arranged in chronological order as they appear during regular gameplay. You could read it left to right, top to bottom, page by page, like a book.
I'm imagining traveling somewhere remote, spending my whole days outside doing bird fieldwork, and then in the evening in the cozy log cabin... just connecting online with this setup and chatting on IRC.
Retro Tech Dreams@retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 9mo agoWireless internet with the Motorola MicroTAC and HP 100LX
Prague, park Grébovka. The sodium lamp atmosphere is one of my favorites.
