aki-nyan //nullptr::live

abyssal witch | deranged catgirl hardware/software engineer + vtuber | that crazy SCSI girl | she/her

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Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/akinyanya
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Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/lethalbit
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GitHub: https://github.com/lethalbit

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2026-04-06 01:31:24 UTC

remember friends, backup your music library /before/ you go and try to do bulk metadata fixing and re-encoding and de-duplication....
Anyway, I have an unknown number of songs with fucked metadata now, oops.

2026-01-08 05:24:27 UTC

getting bullied by tokenizers, ough

2026-01-02 18:08:55 UTC

you ever just, ya know, nya?

2025-12-29 18:30:47 UTC

*replaces ur current problem with the halting problem*

2025-12-15 22:13:15 UTC

Hey rust frends!
Is there a crate that can make the output of `assert_eq`/`assert_ne` more readable, especially when dealing with large nested structures or large vecs of structures?

2025-12-09 03:05:20 UTC

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That sounds terribly cursed, video and color space stuff scares me...

2025-12-06 02:25:41 UTC

Why is it so hard to poke someone and go "Hi! I think you're cool and wanna get to know you more!"

2025-12-01 16:23:04 UTC

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w-what?

2025-12-01 15:42:24 UTC

.oO( semi-rigid RF coax shibari )

2025-11-22 04:36:41 UTC

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Ooooh, I've been looking at Warudo recently, not sure how well it runs on Proton but it looks really cool

2025-11-20 04:07:44 UTC

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But it's just so eeeeeasy to call `unwrap`! Who has the time to properly use the `?` operator! /j
But yeah, imo I think `clippy` should by default have `.unwap()` calls be errors during lint,

2025-10-13 05:26:46 UTC

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:neocat_hug_sad:

2025-10-05 02:47:30 UTC

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yay 🎊 :v

2025-10-05 01:41:56 UTC

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I slept for a whole 7h, time to get back to the grind :v

2025-10-04 18:10:55 UTC

I have been awake for far too long, not quite 24h, but close,
I think it's time for bed

2025-10-04 17:31:48 UTC

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Rather "App Settings" not "Preferences" sorry :v
https://vt.social/media/media_attachments/files/115/317/084/752/081/882/original/7c6db3c74eb7d579.png

2025-10-04 17:29:17 UTC

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There is, if you go to your preferences there is a setting for "collapsed toots" which you can turn off.

2025-10-01 05:22:34 UTC

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I thought the Y in YUV was for Yuri :neocat_thinking:

2025-09-30 01:15:50 UTC

ADHD Friends,
Y'all have any good and ADHD-friendly ways to keep a todo list/schedule and actually have it like, work?
I've tried quite a few things, and the common "oh just gamify it by doing X" has never really worked for me despite me trying.

2025-09-29 07:23:37 UTC

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Fair!

2025-09-29 06:39:05 UTC

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If it's in Rust then i'm sold :3 lol

2025-09-28 22:18:06 UTC

Thinking about stream overlays, and I know a lot of people use Godot or Unity for theirs and do a window capture w/ compositing
But I was thinking about maybe doing a standalone thing that uses PipeWire DMA-BUF sharing directly into OBS.
It would render on an in-memory only texture, so you wouldn't need any window capture or anything like that, and so could run in the background.
Dunno if that's worth poking at though.

2025-09-27 16:25:11 UTC

Remember Kids:
Don't gatekeep or harass people about the tools they use!
It's okay to gently offer a suggestion and ask their reasoning for using something, but constantly bugging them to use "X" or making them feel bad for using a thing that works for them is not good!
Let people use the tools that they know, work well with, and work well for them! Don't be an asshole!
But I would like to say, if at all possible, especially in the FOSS space, we should try to guide people away from using things that are built by bigots, abusers, transphobes, etc, those projects don't deserve the support.

2025-09-27 16:19:13 UTC

Hot Linux Tip:
In Bash/ZSH, if you've `cd`'d into a directory you meant to `pushd` into, you can do `cd -` to switch back to the last location you were in!
Who needs zoxide 😤

2025-08-25 09:52:36 UTC

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Yeah i've tried that, no dice :/ (just my luck, lol)

2025-08-25 09:30:55 UTC

OH, also, for my RE friends out there,
Is there a decent tool that can do best-effort guessing for a chunk of machine code?
If i have a ROM file and I have no idea the ISA, I want to take a rough guess at it any hints? Especially as it could be almost anything.

2025-08-23 04:11:54 UTC

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I wanna add a patch to KiCad to give it a krita-like pop-up pallet and then it would be perfect :3

2025-08-20 02:47:54 UTC

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Right!? I found out just the other day out of the blue!
Apparently it affects something like absorption.
Supposedly its only within a like, 2-3h window around when you take it, but still

2025-08-20 01:22:46 UTC

So it turns out Vit C hampers the effectiveness of ADHD meds?
That sucks because I love the sour stuff, a good mix of ascorbic, citric, and malic acid are life,

2025-08-20 01:08:03 UTC

Using display drawing tablets for their real purpose, EDA CAD :v
https://vt.social/media/media_attachments/files/115/058/411/226/178/774/original/6975685e86fbc81b.png

2025-07-29 05:22:26 UTC

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🫂

2025-07-14 03:04:02 UTC

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Yeah that's what I did, I ensured they all were on the same profile and were reset and then synced them all with ddcutil.
So now they finally all at least *look* the same, I still need to get a colorimeter to do a proper cal but it's something at least :v

2025-07-14 01:24:56 UTC

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Update on this; So it *is* possible *kinda*
These monitors have stupid "profile" thing that can't be set via a VCP register, while things like the brightness and contrast *are*
So I still need to fuck with the OSD to get them all on the same profile, reset the defaults, then I can mostly adjust the other things via ddcutil and the VCP registers.

2025-07-13 23:04:39 UTC

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This *might* be possible with `ddcutil`, currently trying to fight it to see if I can sync my color temperature settings over all three monitors on the CLI :V

2025-07-13 22:54:02 UTC

In other news, I wish every monitor vendor had the ability to control all the settings via the DP AUX channel and not just the OSD, because ough, getting 3 screens to match is rough,

2025-07-10 16:28:20 UTC

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because it's a good song! :v

2025-07-04 05:06:05 UTC

https://vt.social/media/media_attachments/files/114/793/214/186/191/806/original/b1376cecf6aa793b.png

2025-07-02 19:54:34 UTC

Also, it's kinda fucked that libvirt/virt-manager does not have an easy way to just, move a volume to a different pool and update the associated machine,
What's up with that?

2025-06-23 13:45:28 UTC

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I am, `--enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland`
As for kwin support for it, huh, https://wayland.app/protocols/wayland-protocols/18 didn't mention any compositors supporting it, maybe because it's not the "final" version, I might need to fuck with some flags or something to enable it.
No idea

2025-06-23 13:26:53 UTC

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I don't think so? I'm on 6.4, and chromium supposedly has support for it, but they just didn't talk I guess?
I didn't think Plasma implemented the `xdg-session-management` protocol as it's not been merged yet afaik, but supposedly chromium added support for it 2 months ago, so *shrug* dunno

2025-06-23 13:14:24 UTC

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Yeah, maybe, but the lack of session and window positioning stuff is a non-starter at this point, I kinda need my web browser to be able to remember and restore all it's windows onto the appropriate virtual desktops/monitors, which currently is not really possible :/

2025-06-23 13:08:16 UTC

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With my normal monitors, yes, that was fine, but it's never seen the tablet before, I expected it to just stick it to the rightmost and i'd have to move it, but not for it to re-order literally everything,
That and there were some, uh, other problems :v https://vt.social/@lethalbit/114729566343433885

2025-06-23 12:53:18 UTC

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The kicker is they were fine *until* I plugged the tablet in *then* it scrambled *all* of them.
As for the tablet stuff, yeah, unsure, I suspect it's partially also the `udev-hid-bpf` auto-loading broke so I had to manually fix that so it would work under X11 again,
The not having a good way to re-map the macropad I could work around, but right now the biggest killer for me not being able to use wayland is the session stuff, I really am just unable to use it until that's in and working.

2025-06-22 22:25:10 UTC

I have come to the conclusion that Wayland just, still isn't ready (for me, at least), it's been more fiddly and problematic than X11 ever has been for me.
Especially right now trying to get my drawing tablet set up, first of all it scrambled the order of *all* of my monitors, and then after that was sorted, I was able to re-map the input positioning to it's screen, but no matter what I tried the pen buttons *would not* remap to be what they should have been, which made it almost unusable.
Normally i'm a good FOSS steward and will put together bug reports and the like, but i'm just too exhausted from all this fiddling, it's not worth it.
I think i'm going to keep sticking to X11 because at least my shit all works properly there

2025-05-31 23:35:24 UTC

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And you can't pull the "It's more technically correct/accurate terminology" because like, 90% of the time it's *not*

2025-05-31 23:34:51 UTC

I'm begging folks in the embedded/hardware spaces to drop the whole "master/slave" terminology *please*
There are so many better options for things like I2C and SPI, and such, please, we can improve things, we just gotta get together and try.

2025-05-14 01:25:17 UTC

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Please dont! They're all sitting idle because I don't have the power or cooling (or money for either!) to run them so they're just taking up space being old and heavy and in the way, lol

2025-05-14 00:58:50 UTC

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There we go, a little better, had to evict my VSA from the rack, but the HAPS-80D still lives there for now, and there is a second FC fabric switch in the back of the rack, might need to move the front one to the back and hook them up over the 10Gbps ports so I have enough FC ports for the machines and storage.
https://vt.social/media/media_attachments/files/114/503/448/878/528/878/original/40a8142ded696e57.png
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2025-05-14 00:44:23 UTC

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Aki: 0
Cage Nuts: 1

2025-05-14 00:31:39 UTC

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I also just dropped 8TiB of spinning rust on my foot (in 1TiB increments) owwwwwwwwwwww

2025-05-14 00:13:21 UTC

"I should free up 2U in the raack so I can have the JBODs be contiguous"
Which promptly shoves the FC fabric switch up to the top of the rack, *or* I need to move 8U of server up 1U,
... Fiber is cheap and the speed of light is fast, I think the fabric switch can live at the top of the rack

2025-05-05 13:21:50 UTC

I'm asking people to please, read this carefully.
Lina is such a kind soul and good friend, it crushes me so much having had to see what she's been going through.
And I'm so incredibly angry at Luna, who I once thought was a friend for directly putting her through this all while playing the victim and using her own struggles as excuses.
I just want this to all be over so Lina and Cyan can look to a brighter and happier future together.
https://vt.social/users/lina/statuses/114453525309759623

2025-04-17 02:29:49 UTC

Have a poorly and quickly done "meme"
https://vt.social/media/media_attachments/files/114/350/941/794/924/876/original/f4f650b56719f7be.png

2025-04-06 20:51:58 UTC

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2025-04-06 16:01:53 UTC

Shout out to all my friends,
Y'all are awesome and I love you all, sorry i'm not very social and don't really reach out as much as I should, but you all mean the world to me.

2025-04-01 18:34:28 UTC

Thinking about Sachi again.
I'm so happy that Squishy has such a cute mascot
Give Tyson Tan some love, he does some amazing work for FOSS projects: https://tysontan.com/
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2025-03-17 00:18:34 UTC

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maybe? I have no idea, a clean install might fix it but I don't have the spoons or time for that 🙃

2025-03-16 22:09:43 UTC

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also, I can't edit my mouse settings because the mouse KCM can't find the appropriate backend???
this is so exhausting, x11 ***just works***

2025-03-16 21:51:59 UTC

cool KDE Wayland but I just hit trying to test it out, a handful of applications don't show up in the icons only task manager, like Thunderbird,
Are we really sure Wayland is ready? because I've had no end of problems with it.

2025-03-03 13:07:27 UTC

I am such an idiot, my ADHD appointment is *tomorrow* not today, waaaaaaaaa
Gonna need to push the stream to wed then, I guess, blegh,

2025-03-03 09:01:31 UTC

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nya~

2025-03-03 08:01:09 UTC

ugh, only got 6 hours of sleep, it's going to be a long day,

2025-03-02 14:51:56 UTC

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T~T

2025-03-02 14:49:05 UTC

I am now grumpy that it is almost damn near impossible to have a generic grammar that can describe instruction encoding for arbitrary ISAs without special-casing things,
Like how do you reconcile the madness of amd64 with something like arm64 and rv32 without having to have special handling in the grammar for each of their oddities?

2024-12-07 23:30:48 UTC

It would be really cool if the glaze/nightshade team would produce builds for Linux :v
Not that I particularly have a use for them right this moment, but I still think it would be a good thing

2024-12-03 22:24:56 UTC

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I always forget PIC exists and is an odd duckling,
I guess because I never really used it that much and it's not really that popular anymore, but yeah, it fits :v

2024-12-03 19:19:48 UTC

normalize weird embedded cores with weird bit-widths,
Where are my 5/11/18-bit ISAs?

2024-09-16 23:54:27 UTC

pro tip: soldering irons are hot
pro tip: this means, subsequently, that solder gets hot
pro tip: your fingers are closer to the end of the solder than they look under magnification
pro tip: ow

2024-09-12 01:26:30 UTC

once again, begging, nay, *pleading* with developers, please *please* **please** ***please*** follow the XDG base directory spec, or at least support an env option to let me set where your application puts it's crap.
I'm ***so*** tired of the root of my home directory being full of junk T~T

2024-09-09 11:20:35 UTC

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Yeah,,,, There are a few pain points in KiCad like that still, i've also recently hit some bugs with the length/skew tuning tools where they have float comparison issues causing DRC to fail, and then they also don't calculate total trace length properly meaning that the numbers need to be manually adjusted and just, so much pain T~T

2024-09-09 10:55:29 UTC

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The schematic editor /still/ doesn't have scripting support, it was planned for 7, got bumped to 8, got bumped to 9, and now who knows 🙃
It could be done externally yeah, but it makes it annoying in the schematic editor itself where you need to note down what sub-sheets are DNP.
It's not a huge deal, just a minor gripe

2024-09-09 10:37:24 UTC

I wish I could mark a whole schematic subsheet in KiCad as DNP,
I've got a few instances of a schematic subsheet, and might want to mark all but one as DNP, and that's just painful

2024-09-07 08:47:13 UTC

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Yeah! it's so cursed

2024-09-07 06:13:22 UTC

Memory manufacturers must be stopped, this is an unholy crime against the order of the universe.
https://vt.social/media/media_attachments/files/113/094/783/122/412/018/original/385568c8a41c601e.png

2024-09-06 13:13:26 UTC

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ohnooooo, I hope you two feel better soon

2024-09-03 21:58:29 UTC

I know this would break so much ABI and other stuff, but I really wish there was a compiler flag to switch from null-terminated strings to length-prefixed strings in C.
Null-terminated strings are a mistake and we will never recover from it, it's too late.

2024-08-31 21:01:05 UTC

more books need catgirls on the cover

2024-08-17 11:22:10 UTC

Wife just called me "somewhat perpetually anxious" and, I want to protest and disagree, but I really can't :v

2024-08-14 20:21:53 UTC

If you laser/sand the part numbers off the ICs you use, you're one of the worst types of people/vendors.
Only scumbags do that.