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Maker of physical objects, often from upcycled or unconventional means or materials.
Some people like things I do or say. I swear, I mean no harm.
I hope to occasionally be a light for someone in a dark place through humor.
I might be a cartoon.

BOOSTS: Random, but also for good causes when possible.

#randomchurch
#ascii #asciiart

#alttext enthusiast in this medium.

#building #construction #making
#sheetmetal #revit #bim #blender3d

#crochet #knitting #craft #leatherwork #sewing #tools #steel

#japaneselearning #日本語
#digitalparenting #sailing

alt header image text: Metal brackets stacked horizontally showing an adjustment in the break depth for bending them. They are 10 guage.

Labels?https://nullsense.thejikz.com/
That's what he/they said.Feel free to use them.

There's a post goin' around about how Mastodon is an echo chamber that needs to let in more representation of AI voices instead of shitting on them.

Okay. So? Every social network on the planet is an echo chamber, of which at least two are right-wing echo chamber nazi bars, and every media outlet out there is beating themselves off to every fucking machine learning advancement/product there is. No matter how shitty it is, or how unethical its resource waste is for marginal gains.

You don't like it here? Don't get ass prints on the door on your way out, or in a slightly nicer tone, the Fediverse lets you run your own server and choose who to associate with, so you can, hypothetically create your own sloperator network, and what's more you don't even have to ask an AI to create the software to do so for you,, its already there. So, I don't know what else to say.

Maybe the Fediverse has its problems. Maybe we are an echo chamber. Maybe we can be more inclusive of diverse voices. But I'll also say, that this is the social network I'm most comfortable in, and I don't want to see it change for the worse. AI techbros have enough representation across literally every goddamn form of media and social network out there, so pardon me for saying: fuck off, I don't want it.

So, did I mention that the developer of FiwixOS is currently working on bringing the networking to the OS? I am really looking forward to it, so in the meantime I'm doing what I can to help out.

Years ago I touched Netsurf browser (https://www.netsurf-browser.org/) and tangentially helped with its ports to obscure platforms. It was a pleasure to discover that it is still as snippy, powerful and portable as it was back then.

Yep, you're reading it right, I compiled a web browser to FiwixOS. Funny how Netsurf got to Fiwix before links2 did.

The networking part is still not working, but it should be easy to add when a port of libcurl will be completed.

(it is a part of a 🧵 about Fiwix OS, tiny UNIX-like OS made mostly by a single developer and so can be understood by a single person, too)

just blooms
Blessed Easter to all my Christian brothers and sisters and others EXCEPT all the Christian nationalists y'all can get stuffed

Fiwix understandably misses a few important tools here and there. Having an emulator capable of running different systems would be nice, right?

Qemu is generally quite portable, but DosBox is smaller, and is good enough for running a large chunk of software I might want to run on my system.

FiwixOS has an SDL1.2 port, so compiling DosBox for it was not difficult at all (a couple of patches are still required). I've thrashed around the video card settings a little bit, until I got it mostly working. I need to figure out why the keyboard is buggy, but I can start Windows under Fiwix, and play a game of solitaire.

So, uh, viva FOSS? Great stuff, hobbyists! It is super duper awesome that I can just get a random toy-like OS, and simply compile the stuff I use regularly for it, and it would work. Extra kudos when the toy OS can boot with as little as 8 megs of RAM. Not gigs, megs.

🧵cont?

Australian software engineer Sarah Spencer hacked a 1980's knitting machine to create "Stargazing: a knitted tapestry" to show the universe in a unique way. 🇦🇺

Sarah explains, “By using a floppy drive emulator written in Python and a web interface, I can send an image to the Raspberry Pi over the network, preview it in a knitting grid, and tell it to send the knitting pattern to the knitting machine via the floppy drive port ...

https://magazine.raspberrypi.com/articles/knitting-network-printer

#WomensArt #Tech #Knitting #raspberrypi

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Passed another kidney stone. I do not recommend it as a general voluntary practice, but when it is finally gone, you feel insanely better in only minutes! Such a little jagged bastard, but wrecks your system up so much. 0/10.

Thursday meme dump

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Props to Vermont for coming up with an April Fool that doesn't leave me wanting to punch a wall. @jessamyn

'Hundreds of visitors at Killington Resort returned to their vehicles Wednesday to find what appeared to be orange parking citations tucked under their wipers...

The flip side told a different story.

“Happy April Fools,” the paper read.

The authentic-looking parking ticket served as a wrapper for a Hershey’s chocolate bar.'

https://vtdigger.org/2026/04/01/a-parking-dragnet-turns-out-to-be-a-sweet-surprise/

A parking ‘dragnet’ turns out to be a sweet surprise

“We’re looking to have a good time and not take things too seriously,” a Killington Resort spokesperson said of an annual tradition.

VTDigger