I was feeling a bit under the weather the last couple of days and today decided to get some vitamin D pills for the first time. Took 2500 IE earlier and I feel honestly incredible. No idea how I slept on that all my life, but wow, definitely good to take them during winter.

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

Things are going great over at X, The Everything App

OMG I just saw that they announced a free Expedition 33 DLC at the Game Awards yesterday, and it's available already! Perfect excuse to finish my NG+ replay, which I kinds stopped halfway through.

hey you! yes you! thinking of building your own slime trackers? I've released a guide on how to build my Miro design online now! github.com/spironoo/mir... STL and full tutorial included

I just completed "Reactor" - Day 11 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/11 Holy crap, part 1 was very trivial but part 2 was really really hard for me. Had to get out the pen and paper for this one, but in the end I beat the damn graphs :D

I just completed "Factory" - Day 10 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/10 Part 1 was easy to brute force but part 2 gave me a reason to pull out the LP solver again. All in all a fun day!

I just completed "Movie Theater" - Day 9 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/9 Not proud about my super inefficient part 2, but at least it found the correct answer after like a minute :D

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

I just completed "Playground" - Day 8 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/8 Finally time to get out the graph library :D

Thank you everyone who came to the POOLGANG Christmas event yesterday, and special thanks to all the DJs! If you liked the world, it's public now, so feel free to host your own christmas event or popup there: vrchat.com/home/world/w...

It's really crazy, we're wasting all this energy on the AI bubble and even in the year 2025 Alexa can't process a super simple command like "Turn off Room A and B". What the fuck.

I just completed "Trash Compactor" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/6 Got both on the first try this time. Feels good after having failed part 2 yesterday :D

Tonight is the night!

Wow, I just wanted to upgrade some packages in ALCOM but had a versioning problem with Gesture Manager not being compatible with the latest VRC SDK. Just as I was typing a message to the ALCOM dev about how to do a force install, a new version that worked became available. Very spooky :O

I just completed "Cafeteria" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode Sadly I failed on part 2 and looked up what the correct answer was before fixing my code :/ I just missed a stupid edge-case and after knowing I was off by 8 (??), I could fix it and then got the right answer.

I love/hate Linux so much dude...

Transparent PLA is cool

And then you look at the subreddit and see that your solution is way too complicated and could be simplified into a few lines. AoC never fails to make me feel like a total idiot, lol

I just completed "Lobby" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/3 Part 1 was trivial but part 2 was pretty tricky already. Took three attempts at an algorithm that even worked at all and then one wrong submission before I fixed the last bug.

No idea if anyone's actually using this script, but I just released a little 1.1.0 update that adds support for native OVR Toolkit notifications and a new sound effect, in case the default Windows notifications are too annoying. github.com/jangxx/openv...

I just completed "Gift Shop" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/2

Is anyone here participating in Advent of Code? I've been doing it since 2018, but since university I've never met someone else who does :D It's a really fun advent calendar of puzzles that you usually use programming to solve, and this year it's only 12 days instead of 25.

I just started watching my first yuri anime and it's surprisingly engaging? Could be the meme of aros really liking romantic stories or maybe there's more to it 🤔

VRCDJLIVE presents...VRCDJ Radio! Get your 45 minute mix in for replay during the holidays! Submissions End: Dec 7th! Get your mix ready and fill out the form: bit.ly/4c2uACM

@dotlocal.bsky.social and I put together a little event next week on the 6th of December, to continue our yearly Christmas Hardstyle tradition. This time with an all new world I made. Event starts at 18:00 EST, make sure to bring a Christmas outfit (not required obviously)! vrc.tl/event/19384

How does one ever take a compliment properly? Every time someone compliments me, it's either for something I just randomly stumbled into without real effort or it's something I've been doing for such a long time that it'd be surprising if I wasn't good at that thing. How does anyone square this?

I was thinking about writing a tool to integrate SteamVR and Home Assistant in a way that would allow me to turn on a lamp whenever my headset enters a specific area of my room. Then I thought about it some more and ordered a little 12€ Zigbee button as a light switch instead :D

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

I needed to take some photos of a VRChat world, but the built-in camera has an annoying distance limit. Luckily we can control the camera with OSC now, so I quickly whipped up a little script that lets me move the camera anywhere with an Xbox controller. github.com/jangxx/vrc-c...

I felt the Lego itch once again, so I splurged a bit on some Lego and a Blue Brixx advent calendar for the winter months

I'm working on a VRC world right now that's mainly lit by audio reactive Light Volumes and I was wondering if there was a better way to deal with non-LV avatars than just having them be very dark? Not sure if there's already some convention among world creators or something.

I found some motivation to work on the particle sphere idea again, and I finally got the simulation to work how I wanted now. Also I found that putting the sphere next to the main platform actually looks pretty cool too (maybe even better?) while also being a lot less disorienting.

I just made some tortellini filled with pork and the packaging had a little label about how no baby chickens were killed for it?? I... uhm... kinda expected that to always be the case for a pork product 😅

I recently fell in love with the album I Love My Computer from Ninajirachi, so much so that I decided to buy my first physical music medium in over 10 years. I have to say, it feels nice to support an artist by buying a physical album and to know that I now have a copy that no [..]

I started watching the anime Clevatess yesterday and finished it today. Until like 95% of the first episode I was sure I wouldn't continue watching it, but then I was hooked 'til the end. It's not the best anime I've ever watched, but I had a good time nonetheless.

I just got reminded that Snapchat still exists. I don't think I've opened the app at all the last 2-3 years. Anyone here still using it?

I created a little Grafana dashboard to calculate how much power my electronics use over one whole year and the unit automatically switched to MWh for my PC 😭 At least now I have definitive proof of where a lot of my electricity bill comes from 🙃

Ducks Daily Roundup for Thursday 23 October 2025. Ok im trying buffer.com to crosspost this to both Twitter and Bluesky.

Did one of the guys quit? 😢

I really believe generative AI is a cognitohazard to an entire column of humanity. I don't know, there's a something it fucking does to people that displaces their own entirely-capable cognition and independence, further they seemingly cannot perceive the deficits of. This is not a moral argument.

I just noticed that frickin Softonic made a fake SEO page for a chrome extension I maintain. Does that mean I've made it now? :D

I made a little script to send me notifications whenever one of my SteamVR devices stops charging. That should hopefully fix the problem of the powerbank in my pocket running out and the Quest suddenly losing charge without me noticing. Maybe it also helps someone else. github.com/jangxx/openv...

Through the magic of buying two of them I have now hopefully forever fixed my Quest battery running out.

Tried running Handbrake on Linux today: - Flatpak version: Doesn't open filepicker (???) - Unofficial AppImage: Crashes when transcoding - Version from apt: 100 years out of date I guess that's a "no" then 🤷‍♂️

This lamp is very close to triggering my trypophobia 😅

Walking through Florence would be a lot nicer if there wasn't a fucking car squeezing through the pedestrians every five seconds. No idea why that's even allowed, the streets are clearly not designed for this much car traffic.

I never thought it would get to this point... but honestly i am out of options. I'm incredibly ashamed to ask for help... but it's literally my last option at this point without any Family that could help me get past this... gofund.me/a565e2c04