Replying to
@catsalad@infosec.exchange More pertinent: If a vegan bites someone, does that someone become a vegan?
Remote
phryk 🏴
@phryk@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Your friendly neighbourhood hⒶcker hobo.
Likes dinosaurs, dislikes hierarchy.
Come for the music recommendations, stay for the #propaganda.
1514 Followers
710 Following
50 Posts
Joined April 03, 2017
web:
a/s/l:
3x/lel/fortress europe
damaged:
beyond repair
Managed to scout out the petrochem thing yesterday.
Only got one shot I actually like out of it, but the company owning it does outreach and tours, so I have some hope of gaining access *without* trespassing. 
Do I know anyone with (ideally active) #graffiti contacts in #Vienna?
I'm explicitly *not* interested in the gentrification clusterfuck of legal graffiti-as-a-service crews.
I'm interested in trying my hand at long exposures of pieces during their creation – specifically so that the writers aren't identifiable.
Replying to
@futurebird Hell yeah, the amount of flat roof space that's just outright wasted in urban environments is one of my pet peeves.
Don't forget to throw up some PV and seating, too. This roof just looks perfect for this kinda stuff – lots of space and a great view. <3
Updates finished. Everything up again.
I also finally deployed Anubis, which should protect against "AI" crawlers.
Previously I was forced to enforce logins on my gitea instance, otherwise "AI" bots would just straight-up cook the CPU.
"AI"-bros forced me to lock down access to the tech I develop for our commons and that still pisses me off to no end.
Thanks to Anubis, it's all publicly available again.
Doesn't seem to get in the way of cloning repos via http, either. :)
Replying to
@doomsdayrs@cyberpunk.lol
I've been meaning to do the same, but sadly haven't gotten around it.
Are you far along enough yet that you've heard about vector space search? For me, that was the next big topic to look into and I suspect that this is where much of the (useful) complexity of a search engine lives.
// @futurebird@sauropods.win
Replying to
@doomsdayrs@cyberpunk.lol Also if you've already looked into how to feasibly distribute/federate crawls (and their results for search index building), I'd be very interested to hear about it.
I don't think a single person or small organization will be able to map the entire web without exhausting itself to death, so I think it's important to decentralize at the very least the crawling from the beginning.
// @futurebird@sauropods.win
Just ordered a couple batteries for my new camera. Because of availability, sadly from Amazon.
Accidentally clicked the confusingly labeled button that immediately subscribes you for a trial period to Prime (which would automatically be followed by a paid subscription).
Cancelled that shit so fast the unsubscription mail arrived before the "Welcome to Prime" one. ¬_¬
Look who I met.
Some of the local corvids seem just as curious about me as I am about them.
Replying to
Another shot from this trip that I quite like.
Taken a day later, when it was overcast, so maybe not quite as idyllic, but it feels like maybe I did a less shit job with the composition?
Infrastructure going down for maintenance. Wish me luck.
Finally formalized an update procedure covering the variations over all my FreeBSD hosts, to be spun into a set of scripts at a later point.
Did my first excursion with the DSLR tonight.
I apparently suck at focusing (no wonder, got pretty bad astigmatism) and I didn't really do much in terms of composition, but I managed to do proof-of-concept shots for a few things I wanted to do for nearly 30 years now.
Replying to
@riley@toot.cat
Yeah, I'll take the one without the buzzwords, please. :P
@doomsdayrs@cyberpunk.lol @futurebird@sauropods.win
Replying to
@doomsdayrs@cyberpunk.lol Followed and put you into my "Persons of Interest" list, but would still be grateful for a mention when you announce so I don't miss it. :)
// @futurebird@sauropods.win
Replying to
@doomsdayrs@cyberpunk.lol You have my attention – but do I really have to wait (and possibly miss it)? What language is this and can I get a look at the code for contribution/inspiration/interop? 🥺
// @futurebird@sauropods.win
Replying to
In the end, the EnfuseSimple plugin from this collection did the job without inducing cognitive overload in my squirrel brain:
https://github.com/AyedaOk/DT_custom_script
The author also made a video explaining how to set it up and use it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcHRvXXtQOY
Replying to
@futurebird@sauropods.win @lispi314@udongein.xyz @catsalad@infosec.exchange
Won't the wasp be pretty angry if it's fixated like that? Also, how would you get it off the tape without getting stung?
Personally, I tend to just put down the blinds and open a window – the light from outside is usually enough for them to find the way out out after a couple minutes.
Thunderdome is a criminally underrated concept and we should be bringing it back big-time.
Messy social conflict in your hackerspace? Thunderdome!
Beef with a colleague at work? Thunderdome!
Political debates? Nah, bruh, just put them fuckers in the dome. Two politicians go in, one politician comes out – THUNDERDOME! \o/
Chorus is a decent arcade space sim with a stellar soundtrack and the most stupidly pretentious writing I have ever witnessed.
It's like a physical manifestation of what a westerner having an "epiphany" while backpacking in India is like.
The protagonist literally kills billions of people before the game even starts.
My journalism pet peeve: Teleconferencing has made interviews objectively worse.
Interviews with shitty audio are now the norm and I fucking hate it.
Replying to
These are my first HDRs built from handheld exposure-bracketed sets of shots done with the new camera.
Took me quite a while to figure out how to do this with FOSS only.
Darktable has built-in exposure stacking, but without any image alignment whatsoever (not even manual), so that simply doesn't work for sets you shot without a tripod.
Replying to
@futurebird@sauropods.win I'm still kinda hoping that there's a giant freshwater version of dunkleosteus somewhere… that'd make for some terrifying stories.
Replying to
@janamarie I can tell by the pixels. 😂
Nah, the gradient just looks very striking, but I have no idea what heuristic my brain uses here…^^
Replying to
@mntmn@mastodon.social If you ever do a RISCV machine powerful enough for serious use, I might go over that budget, but even then I have a hard budget cap around 1k and only have openings for such a large acquisition at most twice a year, when I get an extra salary.
@seindal@mastodon.uno
Replying to
@mntmn@mastodon.social Definitely below 500€, but usually I get an old used one for 200-300€ every decade or so – hence me asking about third-party cases. Seems like it could be a cheap-ish way of keeping older hardware around.
Still have an old x240 or something lying around with a broken keyboard, but I already replaced the keyboard once and it was an awful experience that I absolutely won't repeat.^^
@seindal@mastodon.uno
Replying to
@seindal@mastodon.uno Yeah, no. I love the project, but it's far outside of the realm of affordability for me.
I think @mntmn@mastodon.social might be one of the better-positioned people to develop third-party aftermarket bodies for laptops, but I doubt that's a direction MNT will try in the foreseeable future with their ecosystem still being in something of a fledgling state.
Replying to
None of this should be an unreasonable ask – all these features were available at different points – and with most laptop manufacturers just ignoring the demand for maintainable machines these days, third-party cases seems like an obvious niche to form, even from a capitalist perspective.
Replying to
@futurebird@sauropods.win @catsalad@infosec.exchange @lispi314@udongein.xyz
Oooh, that might've been what the last wasp I killed a couple years back was doing. Kept aggressively flying into my face and following me.
Replying to
@lispi314@udongein.xyz @catsalad@infosec.exchange @futurebird@sauropods.win Then why not just outright use one of those electric flyswatters?
Without ever having used one of those on a wasp, that intuitively sounds like the most reliable way to me.
If you go for tape and swish at it and don't properly catch it on the tape, you'll have the same issue as with a normal fly swatter if you don't kill it on first try: You're now dealing with a wasp that's pissed off.
Replying to
@dielinke@mastodon.social Alter, ich bin jetzt fast 40 und habe trotzdem schon in der 7. Klasse gelernt, dass sich das mit der alternden Gesellschaft mathematisch nicht ausgehen kann – wie wärs, wenn ihr statt dumm rummzuseiern mal tatsächliche Lösungen vertretet?
Ich gehe jetzt seit über 20 Jahren einfach schon davon aus, nie eine Rente zu kriegen und wenn selbst die eine einigermaßen linke Partei so eine Blödheit dahingehend verzapft scheint mir das nur umso mehr in Stein gemeißelt zu sein… 🤮
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPslvBVqJp8
Knife Party – Internet Friends #np #dubstep
All the way from 2012, this music video wasn't even official and yet it's iconic as fuck and hasn't lost one bit of its relevancy – best cokehead Zuckerberg on the market, accept no substitutes.
Messed around a bit with Faust ( https://faust.grame.fr/ ) today.
One neat thing is that applying an LFO onto anything is literally just multiplication – you can apply it to an arbitrary number of signals with just `:> _ * os.osc(lfo_freq)`.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcB4zu4KX10
Vita – Merz Leck Eier #np
VITA - MERZ LECK EIER
Predator Badlands is a Marvel movie and I mean that in the most insulting way possible.
Replying to
@nixCraft@mastodon.social @reddy_1975@mastodon.online Huh? The PR says "Closed with unmerged commits" while it only contains one commit.
Unless I'm completely missing something fundamental, this means the opposite of what you're claiming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dka4mcVQ4mA
Ah yes, another climate tipping point we might've already sailed past. What is it, the second? Third?
I think at this point it's simply factual to make the case that eco-terrorism is morally good, at least from an utilitarian standpoint.
Replying to
@catsalad@infosec.exchange I mean, realistically, the case can be made… because kinky vegans are a thing and romantic partners tend to have a pretty big influence on each other. 
Replying to
@davidism@mas.to Nullable with default null, then implement handling for it in the form validation/coercion layer.
It's cleaner from a data model perspective and I tend to treat that as the ground truth most other things are based around.
I've seen another person in this thread advocate default empty string saying you otherwise *might* have two different "empty" values (if you don't distinguish between null and ''), but with that you *definitely* introduce a different empty value ('') based on type.
Replying to
@qbe@chaos.social Yeah, I don't think I can afford that. Otherwise I'd just get a framework or MNT Reform.
Oh no, I now have a DSLR and I'm going to use it – in all the WRONG ways! 🫨
Replying to
Replying to
@mntmn@mastodon.social Maybe let's evaluate a completely different route. I see the mainboard of the Reform is available for 350€ – can it run in isolation with external IO and power?
Like, I can deal with not having integrated display, mouse, keyboard and battery for a while if I can add them later on.
// @seindal@mastodon.uno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpA23XqUnq0
"Hunted by Moonlight"
Holy shit, this is probably the most gorgeous piece of paleo media I've ever seen.
Replying to
@lispi314@udongein.xyz @catsalad@infosec.exchange
Well, if it's enough of an issue to think about at this depth, it might be worth the investment, considering you can get them pretty cheap.
Not gonna talk you out of the tape idea, but I'd be curious to find out how it turns out if you try it.
Also @futurebird@sauropods.win correct me if I'm wrong, but agitated (generic/social) wasps release pheromones that attract and agitate other wasps, so there's a definite incentive to do the deed quick or not at all.
Replying to
@lispi314@udongein.xyz @catsalad@infosec.exchange @futurebird@sauropods.win
No idea what region you're in, for a quick comparison I just looked at US amazon and saw a 12$ one in the first couple results.
Pretty sure I've seen them for around 5€ in cheapo shops around these parts (central Europe), too.
Replying to
@kamstrup@fosstodon.org I still think we should introduce [dis|re|un]combobulate to coreutils.