Michal

#bloomscrolling #spring #butterfly

Today's 16km (175 football fields for our imperial friends) forest hike was very photogenic

#Mosstodon

#SilentSunday

It's happening!

#gardening

Achievement unlocked: managed to modify an existing 3D model (STL) in #FreeCAD

I essentially followed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBf5GWs65BE, TL;DW:

- Import STL, go to Part workbench
- Create shape from mesh (sew)
- Convert to solid
- Create a copy > Refine shape
- Switch to part design, create a new body (from scratch)
- In the new body, add a binder to the refined shape.
- Create sketches, pad and pocket as necessary!

My kids' #gaming experience has been spoiled by #Minecraft.

I'm now playing #TalosPrinciple2 and they keep asking what happens if I destroy this or that, not understanding those are pretty, highly detailed, but static and immutable game assets.

I just ran out of disk space on my VPS.

Fortunately I left an unused 2GB `/swap` file that I was able to delete and get some breathing room for cleanup operation while the sever continues running.

#JustAdminThings

Taking photos of the Moon is slightly disappointing.

Sometimes going to random places leads you to the nicest views

Upgrading my #RaspberryPi5 from Bookworm to Trixie.

Mid upgrade the terminal window suddenly disappears as it's upgraded and I'm left with a pending upgrade process waiting for some input 🤦

kill -9 and retry "apt upgrade" seems to work for now...

The Moon has better internet than my place in a city...

https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/artemis-ii-will-use-laser-beams-to-live-stream-4k-moon-footage-one-giant-step-beyond-the-s-band-radio-comms-of-the-apollo-era

(Firefox) Nightly....service: Consumed 1d 3h 16min 5.888s CPU time over 2d 2h 12min 27.243s wall clock time, 11.2G memory peak, 1.5G memory swap peak.

That's what I get for not closing the browser after use. I should enable NoScript.

Just got back from the cinema:

Project Hail Mary 👎

I caved in and started looking into Rust programming language, to see what this fancy new niche language is about, reading tutorials online.

Mutts, mutts everywhere!

I vibe-coded a tool to explore embedding models - it's just a page that calls out to llama-server and renders the computed values as pixels.

I tried the embeddinggemma model and noticed there are some "hot elements" (like "hot pixels" on a camera sensor), always stuck to some out-of-distribution value. Why? Is it some model marker? No one looked at it prior to release? Does it fulfill a function? How does it affect comparisons?

It's like if a hash function always had some bits set to 0 or 1...

I do enjoy a good pun

Watching the Olympics, the ever present camera drones following the contestants remind me of Half-Life 2 manhacks.

https://half-life.fandom.com/wiki/Manhack

How kids let you know it's time to clean up...

Trying to use an older, un-updated Android tablet (2GB RAM) on the modern web is really testing my patience ("can you look at this" from relatives).

I managed to install Firefox 143 from APK, which is the last version supported on this device, so at least I won't see all the "unsafe website (untrusted certificate)" and I managed to install NoScript and Ublock Origin...

An accidental kick finally led to the shutdown of my Pi server, for the hack job that it was it survived for 122 days straight.

@michal@toot.kottman.xyz

Very insightful article about zram vs zswap:

https://chrisdown.name/2026/03/24/zswap-vs-zram-when-to-use-what.html

I will be changing from zram to zswap on my desktop soon. I will still keep some zram as a compressed in-memory temp storage, but not as swap.

#Sauerbraten is a first person shooter (2004 era) that runs smoothly* on all the computers in my home, has a dedicated server, allows bots (ranging from stupid to snipes-you-from-across-the-map), lots of maps and game modes and has built-in multiplayer map editing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_2:_Sauerbraten

*On the #RaspberryPi500 it needs to run under Wayland to have smooth FPS for some reason (Xfce X11 => 10fps, Xfce Wayland => 60fps).

While exploring the Hormuz strait on the map I found this curiousity:

> Nahwa is a territory that forms part of the Emirate of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. It is a counter-enclave (or second-order enclave) within the Omani territory of Madha, which is itself an exclave of Oman and an enclave within the United Arab Emirates.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahwa

April 1st!