Only gay (premultiplied) alpha allowed. I'm calling it gay alpha from now on.

2AM thoughts

Anyway, VT Social migration is all done! Well, almost. Remote account avatars/headers will be popping up slowly over the next few hours, cached remote emojis will take a bit longer too, and also preview card images. Learned some lessons on how not-great Mastodon is at managing caches ^^;;

Wrote up some notes on how to move a Mastodon instance from one server to another: gist.github.com/asahilina/b9...

Turns out postgresql database restores take a bit longer than I expected... ^^;; vt.social will be back up soon!

The worst part about coming up with fun plans is realizing how long you have to wait until you can announce them ^^;;

Every day, I pray for a world where everyone is kind and respectful of each other, regardless of gender. May unreasonable attacks against transgender people end🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 May today be filled with happiness and love for you all🤍

I might be cooking something fun... ✨

For over one year I've been harassed, threatened, doxxed, misgendered and abused by Luna the Foxgirl, author of Inochi2D. Due to her attacks and manipulation of others, I no longer feel safe contributing to Linux GPU drivers, and I will be retiring my current model. asahilina.net/luna-abuse/

A bizarre story of how I figured out (kind of) why lost souls are trying to log in to my Home Assistant instance: vt.social/@lina/115248...

I was on a train, and due to an issue they changed the final stop. The screens showed the new destination, but wrong current stop. We traveled to the next station, with the display out of sync. I've always wondered how these things work. The answer is "manually, and sometimes they screw up" www

CO₂ in our office. Spot the point where the weather finally cooled down in Tokyo and we could start to keep a window open... ^^;;

When I use 4K monitors, I end up zooming in websites, text editors, and consoles. But I don't set the display scale larger (than 1.5), because I want menus and widgets to stay smaller. I want the main content to be easier to read, but keep lees important things denser. Does anyone else do this?

Remember that time two years ago when I hacked macOS and did a presentation with @cyan.yt and the most yabai slides ever? ✨✨ Apple Silicon emulator in your browser! asahilina.net/agx-exploit/... youtu.be/hDek2cp0dmI

I know the world is falling apart a lot lately... I hope everyone is okay and safe. I don't post about world news because we all get enough of that already, but I want everyone to know I do care. 🩵

Farewell, my dear friend. This classy blue USB drive has been my dear companion since 2019. Always carrying a copy of SystemRescue and helping boot and recover over 100 PCs, it has finally perished. Stylish until the end, its last words were this calm, pulsing glow which I'd never seen before.

This is fascinating. After a few tests with the aircon, I'm observing behavior for which the only explanation I have is "the fan blades are so dusty they are aerodynamically stalling at certain speeds". Time to call the cleaner... ^^;;

Cirno Day

CYAN DREW ME TODAY!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAA SO CUTE!!!!!!!! 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵 #AsahiLinArt

Reminder that if you see me re-boost my posts about Luna's abuse, it means she is actively continuing to slander me in public (and of course refuses to stop and apologize). The day she stops harassing me, I'll stop telling everyone about it.

Cross-post from Mastodon: Official Ubuntu forums censoring the word "queer" because it's quote-unquote 'political' or 'sexual'. bark.lgbt/@gimmechocol... The irony of a distro that calls itself "Ubuntu" saying that identity should be kept private is not lost on me. #linux #queerphobia

For those who don't know, in Japan there are strictly speaking no real "PCP/GP/family doctors"s. You go directly to a specialist clinic appropriate to your issue. 内科 is the closest equivalent, which is basically the doctor you go to when you have pain, a fever, cough, nausea, that sort of thing.

So in Japanese, "internal medicine" is 内科 (literal translation). Cool. Basically your typical GP. I knew that. It's the default doctor. What is 外科 ("external medicine") then?? Surgery. 🤯 TIL.

A very nice lady at the grocery store today asked me if I was Hank Green “from Bluesky” 😳

Am I the only one who has no idea what Silksong is other than a new game???

I think my bedroom aircon stopped working properly yesterday... it looks like it repeatedly tries and gives up? Manually setting the fan speed to max it *does* cool the room, but it won't do it in auto mode. Is this a common symptom of needing a coolant gas refill?

Check out this sick fanart of me! Thank you so much Coci!!! 🥰

My lovely Cyan is singing songs in 20 minutes~! 🩵🩵 I might show up too! Come listen!! ✨️ youtube.com/live/EjhvkDh... #VTuber #ENVTuber

✨️✨️✨️Tech meme review with @cyan.yt!!! ✨️✨️✨️ Reply with your silliest tech memes and we'll review them on stream! 1hr left~! 🚀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jvL... #VTuber #ENVTuber #TokyoHackerGirls #TechMeme

CYAN DREW ME TODAY!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAA SO CUTE!!!!!!!! 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵 #AsahiLinArt

Cyan's OBS stopped recording... because she ran out of disk space wwww *Moves two years' worth of her stream recordings to the NAS* @cyan.yt you should appreciate the infra I build for us!!!!!!

Today's nerdsnipe: Could you transmit messages using a laser from Mexico to Canada, by bouncing off of mirrors on mountains along the way? I did the math: www.reddit.com/r/geography/... The answer is yes, it's totally doable and even something amateurs could afford to build... in a vacuum.

Resurrecting the "Poorly Drawn Cat Faces on FPGAs" thread.

New soundflora* song just dropped!!!! ✨✨ OMG I love the style so much!!!!!!! 🩵🩵🩵🩵 youtu.be/GURYlIBUZA4 soundflora* made my stream BGM and assets, make sure to check out her channel for more cool stuff!! ^^

New soundflora* song just dropped!!!! ✨✨ OMG I love the style so much!!!!!!! 🩵🩵🩵🩵 youtu.be/GURYlIBUZA4 soundflora* made my stream BGM and assets, make sure to check out her channel for more cool stuff!! ^^

This! When you choose a mic setup for streaming there are two important things to care about: - Type (pickup pattern) - Noise level (SNR) Everything else you can change with software! Re: x.com/zephyrianna/...

If you maintain an app has a Linux version and has/needs virtual camera output or video streaming (or already supports Spout2 on Windows builds), please get in touch! I'm writing an API to make this easy on Linux and I want to hear about your use case ^^

Cyan: Gay or European~ 🎶 *Google Home trigger sound* 🤨🤨🤨

We got a new son~~~

Lying in bed next to Cyan Cyan: Can you whip me? *Google Home trigger sound* Cyan: IT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS, GOOGLE!!!

Cyan is freakishly good at UFO catchers!!!! 😱 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrAn...

Cyan and I just lost two boxes of sushi. Like, lost. We bought three, she ate half of one, I ate the other half, and the other two are just nowhere to be found. I checked the fridge, the trash, the floor... ????????????

Also one thing I noticed... my brain wants to keep taking to it and letting it do stuff. Like I know it's just a machine, but intuitively, my mind is saying there's something wrong with just dropping a conversation and ignoring the last thing it said and ghosting it. It feels unnatural.

Used ChatGPT for the first time ever to bulk translate/rename a bunch of emote files... This kind of thing it's actually good at ^^

Rare item get!!! This must be worth a fortune now right?? Right????? 😇

At a restaurant: Cyan: I'm panicking... Me: ???? Cyan: Because I don't have chopsticks (It's an Italian restaurant...)

Starting in 15 minutes!!!!! Please help, I can't do webdev!!!!!

Calling all web developers!! Help @cyan.yt and I design our uber stream control system, NekoDeck!! 🚀 I really need help, I only know JQuery!!!!! 😭 Saturday 9th @ 18:00 PDT / 21:00 EDT Sunday 10th @ 01:00 UTC / 10:00 JST youtube.com/live/TLoFBAl...

Calling all web developers!! Help @cyan.yt and I design our uber stream control system, NekoDeck!! 🚀 I really need help, I only know JQuery!!!!! 😭 Saturday 9th @ 18:00 PDT / 21:00 EDT Sunday 10th @ 01:00 UTC / 10:00 JST youtube.com/live/TLoFBAl...

Having a networked UPS is really making me aware of how much power you can burn by accident... I managed to reduce our office's idle/sleep power to around 100W yesterday. Probably not going to go much lower than that, the rest is mostly network switches and stuff like that, and a couple laptops.