sigh. catstret.ch/202603/we-de...

nice night for it

ascolour crop top my beloved

euuuugh i need to retire some of the x86 home servers i think... want to move to using aarch64 as much as possible (both bc x86 sucks, and perf/watt is so much better... the x86 machines run so hot) but any ARM stuff that's actually decent perf-wise is so expensive :(

you ever accidentally leave the flash on and end up taking a photo of your cat that has the same aesthetic as a mid-2000s digital camera photo? yeah

auuuuugh the numbers in the bank account are looking Bad this week, and there's still bills to come out...

well, i'm supposed to be flying home to Tauranga in a few hours... remains to be seen whether that'll actually happen with the weather esp now that a local state of emergency has been declared

man.

got that Wheelchair User Privilege™️ (the security guards at Bayfair split the crowd in front of EB Games for the closing down sale right down the middle to let me into the store before the stampede)

now *that's* an outfit

man it'd be nice to have Any Amount Of Savings huh. sudden expenses are horrible when you barely scrape by normally

sometimes i forget how stunningly beautiful my country is. and then i pull over on the side of the road on my drive home bc i need to pee and i go "oh. yeah."

my adhd meds have well and truly worn off so i am again Incapable Of Sitting Still, if anyone in welly wants to hang out and do things *please* let me know LMAO

getting to leroy's sounds horrible (can't park anywhere close, and plimmer steps is named as such for a reason) and also hanging around people getting drunk is not a good idea for the whole "maintaining my sobriety" thing so i'm skipping the after party but y'all have fun

and that's a wrap! much love to all the @kawaiicon.bsky.social crüe (& vols!), thank you for putting on such a great con (and for actually putting thought into accessibility!)

as much as i love the memes in this talk i wish they didn't have audio

back my hotel for a bit to Chill™️ before going back for movie and/or cahoots (haven't decided which yet) but. the crop top was a very good idea, i am cute

"i believe AI is the future" yeah and i believe that i'm going to sprout wings and become a real life mahou shoujo. both our hopes are gonna crash and burn at any sign of scrutiny, but at least mine don't involve burning the planet at the same time

sitting in my car eating my lunch with the aircon blasting cold at me, it's so warm

first day of kawaiicon! if you see me, come say hi :)

@kawaiicon.bsky.social just wanted to double check you're aware the CO2 dashboard is dead, i just get an nginx 301 error page (with no redirect)

after waking up at 5am, driving for 6 and a half hours (with a few breaks), doing the con prereg, checking into my hotel, and unpacking my stuff, i'm now... quite tired! who could've seen that coming? certainly not me /s

i always have a little bit of a giggle when i'm driving through a rural township somewhere and see a sign for like. a model train museum. like, congrats on monetising your grandpa's autism, i guess?

now *mostly* packed for Kawaiicon! gotta wake up at 5am to start the trek down to Wellington, so I would like to get to sleep early, but the number of people letting off fireworks right now make me thing that's not likely to happen.....

time for another installment of "iris gets a weird rebadged supermicro box, and spends way too long getting a normal BIOS flashed on it" - this time it's a HPE/Nimble CS1000 SAN catstret.ch/202509/nimbl...

"we need to take time to figure out whether recognising Palestinian statehood would piss off the Israelis enough to not sell us the tech we're currently procuring from Israeli companies to illegally snoop into protestors' cellphones" - Luxon, probably www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

i think i still need a few more monitors tbh

new blog post, in which i get the Sun Ray Server Software working on OpenIndiana: catstret.ch/202506/sun-r...

found a bug in SeaBIOS, struggled with NixOS along the way, wrote a blog post about it catstret.ch/202505/libre...

the problem with being on holiday in a city i used to live in (but that my partner has only been to once) is that i have completely forgotten about *all* of the Cool Things To Do.

i had forgotten how nice the vibe is in wellington just walking around lmao

gonna be in Pōneke over the weekend if anyone wants to catch up ✌️

@pikelet.nz were you at the porter robinson concert in melbourne last night? i think i saw you but was too anxious to say hi lmao

oh how i wish i lived in a house that gets less sun and actually has airflow (it's 31° in my lounge right now, the AC is on turbo cooling mode, and i'm suffering)

soop

NEW STICKERS!! yall i am SO excited for these ones. first is one of my favorite designs i have done! its pride flags but like the tube map, so if ur a gay transit enthusiast this one is for you! it is also my biggest sticker at 2.5"x5" (i call it intersectionality hehe) spacefag.gay/products/int...

bought a new pair of pants online! they arrived yesterday! they look really cool! they barely fit :( i keep only accounting for the waist size when buying mens pants, forgetting estrogen has blessed me with thick thighs and a fat ass. sigh

i typed "pk;s new" and got this error, anyone seen this?

kibby

well it looks like I'll be in Melbourne in February

him

GUESS WHO JUST GOT AN ADHD DIAGNOSIS & A PRESCRIPTION FOR MEDS. IT'S ME, FUCKERS!

so sleepy.....

guess who just (almost, pending blood test results to fully rule out other autoimmune stuff) got a formal hEDS diagnosis!! it's me!!

chomped...

meow! it's our birthday in a few days, if anyone wants to help us get something nice we'd appreciate it (though no pressure ofc!) NZ bank xfer: 38-9023-0504536-02 or ko-fi.com/irises

the face of disapproval after i stopped him eating pieces of the broken spa pool cover

blep