I love having so many gay creatures in my browser (scrolling through Fedi) :3

@spud God your profile pic makes me want to pet you so much. Not sure if I ever said that x3

I'm going to need an XP VM for this thing (childhood website editor software). Wine runs it but the visuals are just....off x3

My homelab's future with Nix is bright. Why? I found out you can make JSON outputs, which Terraform can read via a small shell script via `data "external"...` blocks. So now the servers declaring their own services and hostnames autogenerates DNS entries as well, which then automatically gets […]

Alright, this is my homelab's machines on NixOS now. Dropped my "run everything as Docker" posture, it made keeping everything up to date so annoying. Now at least I only got one repo (nixpkgs) to worry about for upstream stuff :3

After the recent @TechTangents video on CD ripping, I decided to (out of curiosity) take out my BluRay archiving drive. Turns out redumper does not support the 1.03MK firmware version (it's an LG BU40N), however it does support 1.00. So one downgrade over USB later (I have the Archgon USB […]

I wish the people DDoSing the AUR a very get your butt off the internet please.

Can I just say, I really appreciate Philip's way to reset their Hue bulbs. Within 30 minutes of powering them on (so just flick them off and on with a physical lightswitch or breaker), simply hold any of the little hue remotes right up to light and hold two buttons on it, and the light will […]

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https://github.com/Doridian/uds-proxy + OpenSearch with proxy auth = OpenSearch with SO_PEERCRED (unix socket auth auths you as the username that opens the unix socket) This is going to be great for my NixOS stuff, no setting up users/passwords, it all just auths via unix sockets like MySQL and […]

Making good progress on my NixOS stuff :3 I think I got my own libraries for presets and easy service development in, autoloading etc. (Since I want things like each service running on its own IP, so with its own network namespace, and also with full systemd confinement / "chroot") See […]

I'm kinda starting to fall for NixOS. I think soon my servers will be fully deterministic :3

normalize being silly

Somehow, in a certain way, there's nothing as relaxing as listening to records. The impulse to constantly skip tracks suppressed by the inability to do so. And in a way I feel this is actually helpful to me. Picture related, it's my setup :3

Installing a GSA (Google Search Appliance) VM locally was the best idea I ever had. I pointed it at my local Kiwix, so I will soon have fully searchable Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, iFixit and Project Gutenberg archives, all local. Thanks @ChlorideCull for the mostly-auto-install script :D

Bought a fairly cheap NVMe heatsink (well, two) for my server. Wasn't sure what to expected. Reduced temps from 77C average to 68C average. Happy with that honestly :3 (Their warning temperature is 84C, so now I feel like I got a good buffer)

I'm really falling down the "weird media" rabbit hole.

Looking through the (Open)ZFS commit logs, SLOG devices are about to become even less useful in most workloads thanks to https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/commit/be1e991a1a83f50c84608709c63d20740fae762f This allows the use of metadata special vdevs (my beloved) which are already incredibly useful […]

ZFS question: ZFS arc max is supposed to default to 50% system memory, right? Because on my current kernels, it defaults to 100%, which OOM'd one of my servers (lol). I manaully set ARC max to 50% now, but....isn't that supposed to be the default?

Having a phone number with an area code where you know no one is great. I literally blocked 406-* on my phone and it catches 99% of spam that my carrier doesn't already block x3

The amount of dopamine my brain gives me for figuring out how to fix a kernel patch (the fbcondecor stuff), while I don't even exactly know just how or if I'll even USE IT is unreal xD

Ahahahahha, I win, and all it took was to call a function that says "Don't use in new code" (drm_fb_helper_damage_area). Sorry for the bad contrast, but :D

Do I by chance know any Linux framebuffer experts? I'm trying to resurrect fbcondecor, and, for the life of me I can't figure out why it can perfectly draw, once, after a "clear", but it just does not redraw anything at all ever during regular printing D: I assume I'm forgetting to call […]

Not gonna lie, the shaders in this modpack are kinda beautiful :3 #Minecraft

If you ever feel bad about mistakes you make, just remember AMD used an example key to sign their CPU microcode in production: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/03/06/5 :3

Finally managed to successfully flash the BIOS on my server with an NVMe patched one. So soon I can boot off of NVMe directly :D Had to use SUM (Supermicro Update Manager) hidden "--force_update" flag as for some reason the Intel ME on my server is stuck in "Recovery" (likely a jumper setting […]

The Apple Watch uses IPSec over Bluetooth?!?! That’s mildly horrifying but also a certain level of genius https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07210

Oh, well, that's unexpected. I finally figured out how to enable developer mode on the Lytro Illum thanks to some random archived manuals I never saw before (basically hold two buttons while its booting). Try "adb shell", drops me into a normal user shell […] [Original post on furry.engineer]

Today hanging out I saw lots of beings with their silly cameras, like Instax, and other analog things to take pictures of fursuiters outside. Makes me wish I brought my silly camera <.< And by silly camera I mean my Lytro Illum. At the same time, I'm also worried how long I can keep that thing […]

Thanks to the friendly @fossdd who packaged anubis for Alpine, making it much easier to use in my Docker image crimes :3 (Also congrats on becoming an Alpine Linux developer)

M-more??!! G-gosh you two just keep going~ 🎨 www.furaffinity.net/user/vaitins/

Random Dorifox thought of the day: Mh, my electronic load can simulate transients in the kHz range. Can I use its UART control interface to turn PSUs into instruments? Like, with heavy enough transients I should be able to make them coil whine at specific frequencies, right?

RE: Last boost for people with Qualcomm WiFi cards This contains the updated ath12k firmware, which, on some Qualcomm WCN785x (FastConnect 7800) cards, requires kernel 6.16, which is still in RC. So this might break WiFi (ask me how I found out...). I would suggest taring up your […]

I think I really wanna move my servers to Nix at some point? I'd go K8s with a bare K8s type OS but I wanna do enough whack crap that K8s will probably not enjoy so >.> (such as multiple NICs per container, usually one internal bridge and then passthru SR-IOV NICs for external connectivity)

[mh(-)] I think i really need more friends I talk and do things with on a daily basis. I know I got lots of good folk that I definitely consider close friends, its just....they're all busy (and I don't blame them), so its hard to find time to actually do things, or even just chat. (And also […]

RE: Last boost I am on both sides of this. Both don't understand those "indirect" invites but also too shy/anxious to directly reach out >.<

Ah, seems I've been hit by the "Windows 11 currently doesn't like host passthru CPU config in qemu/KVM" as seen here: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/amd-bsod-unsupported-processor-since-windows-build-26100-4202-update-kb5060842-its-preview-kb5058499.166828/ Luckily setting a more limited CPU […]

I hate Windows so much. It just updated in my VM and bricked itself. God fucking damnit.

DeepSeek-R1 17b is giving me pretty good results for the fact it fits entirely on my 16GB VRAM GPU in my server, meaning it can actually generate tokens at a tolerable speed and without the server trying to light its CPUs on fire x3

Lots of people seem (even technical ones) seem to be confused how things like ASUS Armory Crate and the like can just "run" in Windows after boot, without any user interaction, on a clean install. So I figured I'd give a brief explanation: Your BIOS/UEFI provides this thing called ACPI tables […]

[fox noises] AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA yipyipyip [screeching noises] That's all. You may now pet the fox :3

I really hope @frameworkcomputer makes a translucent purple bezel for the FW16. I would so buy that the second I see it <.<

I have chosen violence. I am now implementing an MSN server in (GNU)COBOL. With explicitly MSNP7 so I don't have to deal with "Tweener"/passport auth. https://github.com/Doridian/mscob Here you can see the early beginnings of the NotificationServer :3

COBOL is an...insane language. It seems both too low level AND too high level for its own good. And some things I still don't even understand the meaning of. But as stupid as it sounds, completely stumbling around like this is kinda fun, reminds me of when I first got into programming and my […]

Just cursed Dorifox things: Work has a new interview question, so after solving the previous one in x86 assembly, I'll now solve this one in COBOL :3

@glauca Just created an account and wanted to transfer one of my domains over (foxden.network specifically). I looked up the general prices for .network domains, but somehow this domain is priced at almost twice that? No other registrar sees this as a "premium" domain and just handles it via […]

I don't / try not to care about numbers on stuff, but getting 400 stars on one of my GitHub projects does feel good :3 Of course also thanks to all the others who contributed their findings c:

On a random note: Whenever I hear those incredibly complex x86 instructions like PHMINPOSUW, it feels like it might almost be easier to memorize the binary form than the text form?! x3

Just fox things: Manually running the tape backup script instead of a cron so I can walk down and listen to my tape autoloader make those good mechanical noises before I do x3

I can hear the sigh through this notification E-Mail oof. See last commenst: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220108