IngwiePhoenix
Ingwie Phoenix (aka. birb)

[ENG/GER] NOT a bitcoiner/stacker/maxi. I am here to have a damn good time!
Rabbithole conniseur; I enjoy random stuff. :D
Ex-Furry, (close to) blind, hobby developer/sysadmin, waifu enjoyer, long hair fetish (#hairjob).
I sometimes talk about NSFW stuff; because fucking is fun =)
(DMs always open.)

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npub1tcekjparmkju6k83r5tzmzjvjwy0nnajlrwyk35us9g7x7wx80ys9hjmky

NIP-05 Address

[email protected]

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2026-02-12 20:59:06 UTC

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Dude I was literally about to ping you in a reply - beat me to it xD
Thank you! Friend of mine was wondering why he couldn't find it after reinstalling his phone with GrapheneOS.

2026-02-12 20:57:10 UTC

@nprofile…l53s Question! Why is #Amethyst not on F-Droid?
Thanks!

2026-02-07 21:05:14 UTC

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smol thought! Early voice assistants deserialized incoming speech into intend and target. If you give a small model a scheme of that, and deserialize the input into structured objects, you could parse it. Relying only on the model's ability to understand natural language and then proceeding with maschine decisions may help.
Maybe. I dont know. But it's what immediately popped into my mind x)
type Intent struct { Subject, Action, Parameter string }
And then perhaps something like: func ExecuteOnIntent(i Intent | []Intent) // invalid Go, but basically, either one or many intents.

2026-02-07 20:58:42 UTC

I just had my "a-ha!" moment with Zig. It's C-interop is what I have been missing/wanting for V, what D implements partially in DMD and what Rust needs a complicated mess of binding generators for and that Go...uh... well it _has_ a C interop I guess. xD
Will dig more into Zig, I have a feeling there's some very, very interesting things that can be done.
I wanted to find a way to bind JerryScript, Lexbor and LVGL together for a super-smol Electron/Tauri alternative - and, with Zig, I could just import those C libs directly, and call it a day.
Could be really interesting... Heck, libsecp... or whatever that stupid BTC algo is called that I keep forgetting and that is used in Nostr IDs, could also be "just imported".
Zig's DX is impressive. Very impressive.

2026-02-02 02:46:16 UTC

Wannabe big shots: AI WILL TAKE ALL JERBS
Kimi K2.5 via OpenCode: *can't fix a makefile*
https://image.nostr.build/9dc57435f722ce2cd2bedc8d55d601d0a2d160da1c14c9f1753e14666b6ebe56.png
I am amoused. xD Picked up Sparse, kernel sub-project, told it to convert GNU C extensions to C99, and then build it via MSVC. Buuuut apparently, OpenCode emulates a Linux shell, which completely crashes with the Windows environment, which in turn means... well, this. xD
Hilarious as fuck, and a genuen head-shake moment.

2026-02-02 01:28:19 UTC

#asknostr To OpenClaw users:
How much are you paying to use it? I was looking into Kimi K2.5 subscriptions as a reference. Genuenly, I want to give it a shot by running one in an Incus container, but I could not find any kind of "how much does it cost". It eats through tokens, no doubt...

2026-02-02 01:26:00 UTC

We already have Clawstr?
Man, I am severely out of the loop when it comes to new Nostr things. xD
...gonna read x)
One day I want to built an AI server and fully selfhost my own OpenClaw instance; no external AI, just local shenanigans. But...this will take... a while.
#nevent1q…a9rr

2026-01-31 22:42:18 UTC

So apparently, ClawdBot/MoltBot/OpenClaw has Nostr NIP-04 support.
If I wasn't in such a hate relationship with TypeScript, I'd go and try to implement NIP-44 instead lol.

2026-01-29 15:22:43 UTC

By all the shit thats going on in the states, there is one "hot" take that I have.
You have some genuenly pretty politicians. The ladies you've got? Stupid as a loaf, sure, but at LEAST your eyes don't burn out.
Look at our german politicians. You'll understand. XD

2026-01-28 21:39:30 UTC

I want to put this in my homelab LMAO
#neat https://github.com/ftde0/yt2009

2026-01-28 16:51:27 UTC

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Your other half is a perfect practice partner it seems ;) Because this is the response I usually get when I want to purplepill someone. And, yesterday, Nostr just completely kicked the bucket for me withere my extension quietly stopped working and thus the entirity of nostr just...stopped. Any call to any of the `async windows.nostr.*()` methods hangs indefinitively, errors never appear due to that and so everything is just entirely broken.
We can't have that, if we want non-nerds joining... x)

2026-01-28 16:39:37 UTC

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I am rather fluid in learning new keybinds - _having them_ in the first place is what most apps lack a whole lot.
Here's the ones that I commonly use/goto for most apps - like, if I have a new one before me, I'll often try those to see if they work. If not, I will look them up. Also note; I am on Windows. And I am stuck here due to accessibility... but, different topic.
Anyway, so the list goes a little something like this:
alt+x / ctrl+shift+p = Command palette
ctrl+k or typing "/" = Search
ctrl+shift+n = Usually "new" but with something added/removed. In Brave it opens a private window for example
ctrl+enter (you already got this) = submit content in a text-/composer-box
typing @ and then tab = Select something for autocompletion
alt+enter / f12 = Full Screen mode
ctrl+<arrow keys> = Select panel
ctrl+shift+<arrows> = Resize panel
Those come from: Discord, VSCode, Flow Control (stupidly amazing TUI editor, love this thing) and Github.
As for posting a new note, just typing "n" when no input element is focused, could be a shortcut. Also, if you want to go even further, look at tab-index; this is usually looked at for accessibility, but can genuenly help you improve the flow of an app.
Example scenario: You are in the note composer box, pres tab to access the options (upload image, nsfw, ...) and then press spacebar to toggle that particular one. After, re-focus the text input to continue writing or commit with ctrl+enter.
On Reddit, where ctrl+enter does not exist, pressing tab focuses on the Post button - so I can immediately post that way. In OpenAI, pressing tab puts focus on the + button to select thinking/research modes and immediately refocuses the main input field.
Those are though, to be fully honest, nitpicks and just "optimizations". x) I can't VIM to save my life and will happily grab my mouse at times. But, each time that I do, I have to effectively move my (full-)screen magnifier around, so it eats into time... anything quick I can do with a keyboard goes a looooong way to making things faster.

2026-01-28 16:30:04 UTC

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So far, so good. Still getting used to the keybinds and dropping to Nostros for most things - but I think it could be my next mainstay for a while! =) Keyboard navigation rules. :)

2026-01-28 10:57:28 UTC

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Tried 2.5 too? I am considering to grab one of their subs for some testing. o.o

2026-01-28 10:55:01 UTC

#grimoire ACTUALLY HAS CTRL+ENTER OH MY GOD <3<3<3

2026-01-28 10:54:22 UTC

Trying out #grimoire - seems interesting, kinda wish it was a full-blown TUI instead.
Dude, 100% TUI nostr client would go so hard... <3

2026-01-28 10:51:49 UTC

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If that's what it is, I am humbled lol.

2026-01-28 10:49:04 UTC

I hate myself for having invasive thoughts like, "When will somebody shoot Trump dead?" But when I hear reports like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JFydXRH2wM
...then I kinda can't BUT think and wonder that. Like holy shit, USA is in a deadlocked downward spiral. Its _actually_ only gonna get worse and that is pure insanity o.o...
Bruh...

2026-01-26 19:07:09 UTC

Every day again, I read about another government wanting to ban social media for minors.
Thats gotta be some grifting shit at this point, right? ~15 years ago, scientists warned and experts explained, but nobody listened.
Now, 1-2 generations are algorythmically fucked. I do not see this being a good thing. At all.
Seriously what timeline are we living in? Tech-world is depression (RAMageddon), USA is the most unstable it has seemingly ever been (ICE) and politicians worldwide are attempting their damndest to ban stuff to protect kids while collecting all the data possible.
I want a time maschine...badly. Bring me back to 2000 when the internet was new, memes fresh, 4chan did real impacting stuff, Newgrounds was the place to be and games made to be played locally with no internet.
In a few weeks, I will literally go to rehab for burnout, but I will likely complain about this "stress" too because I am genuenly at my wit's end as to how to deal with this burden. x.x

2026-01-26 19:06:54 UTC

Since I passed my apprenticeship and switching to a 20h week for quite a while, I guess I am definitively going to pick up on my dev projects. And I will add a desktop nostr client that IS NOT Electron. Perhaps I can make Fyne work...? Either way, THAT was a desaster and a half. xD Im wide fucking awake now. #bullshitstr

2026-01-26 19:05:36 UTC

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certainly not me.

2026-01-26 19:04:21 UTC

Ok cool, cache busting fixed the other clients after removing AKA Profile and switching to keys.band
Bro i am losing my mind... Have NEVER had this fragility in Nostr, ever. x.x

2026-01-26 19:03:27 UTC

test

2026-01-26 19:02:34 UTC

test

2026-01-26 19:01:03 UTC

#asknostr Can you recommend any desktop nostr clients? Im done with this javascript jank and want a real, actually working, desktop client. xD Having like five clients break out of nowhere is annoying - so I want a fallback to make sure I havent lost my sanity when this happens again...

2026-01-26 18:59:04 UTC

Oh my god finally. #Rabbit works.
AKA Profile hangs, nostr.keys doesnt present permission popups and meanwhile, NoStrudel, Primal, Nostromos and basically most clients hang indefinitively. In the browser console log, I see a crapton of failed connection attempts to some localhost relays - which means that due to the outbox model (or something else?) i get a couple of trash relays blown into my connection list that break shit.
This is fucking annoying. x.x

2026-01-26 18:57:22 UTC

My nostr is entirely broken...

2026-01-22 04:39:05 UTC

Tomorrow, friday, my apprenticeship ends. I am supposed to do a presentation. And I fucking loathe presentations...
Last fight, then it's all over... hopefuly. x.x

2026-01-22 04:37:43 UTC

This beat is sick af o.o! I mean I am a sucker for koto, shamisen and also for EDM. This crossover goes really hard :3
#tunestr https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/track/3LXckbPJfpSVY9vL9ph4vi

2026-01-08 19:24:07 UTC

Cute little extension if you work with gallery-dl/yt-dlp :)
https://github.com/Cronocide/export-cookies

2026-01-07 05:41:22 UTC

That album cover is <3
#tunestr #mikustr https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/track/6GXI1x4hqz42g1ESsouo3J

2026-01-07 05:36:50 UTC

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Awwwww xD I was the same when I lived at my parents - like, precisely.
To this day I need ~45-60min to even get my senses together. Although I only leave for work at 7, I usually start waking up at 5, so I can do my bathroom tour by 6. xD
Some peeps just arent made for the early morning... ^.^"

2026-01-07 05:27:57 UTC

I found Phonk a while after finding Nostr. And for some reason, I can not think of one of them without the other.
So this is pretty neat. :3
#tunestr https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/track/0hKLWlvQuKImO5iFERplCR

2026-01-07 05:23:40 UTC

lul.
#tunestr https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/track/5fLo2QwMvYxOXXWwxfdBxP

2026-01-07 05:00:28 UTC

Ok wtf this is STUPIDLY DANCEABLE ERMAHGERD <3
#tunestr https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/track/5DqS4AJ9tAlxJfQGQdfUVA

2026-01-07 04:55:16 UTC

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G'Moin! ^^

2026-01-07 04:54:29 UTC

This song is what I feel like when I look at my 12U homelab and at my company's 2x48U desaster of Winbullshit :D
#tunestr https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/track/2XPi0uS7JQmk1h2CijrDek

2026-01-01 03:44:29 UTC

Happy new year to yall nostriches ^-^

2025-12-31 05:54:13 UTC

oi! someone took our ostrich :<
https://www.reddit.com/r/programmingmemes/comments/1pzoh1i/featherless_biped_seems_correct/

2025-12-30 04:32:52 UTC

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Oi thats so cute, thank you so much <3

2025-12-30 04:32:35 UTC

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Haha, vielen dank :3

2025-12-30 04:32:13 UTC

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Danke dir! :3

2025-12-30 04:32:03 UTC

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yayy thanks!! ^^

2025-12-30 04:31:51 UTC

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Vielen Dank =)

2025-12-30 04:31:35 UTC

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Thank you! ^^

2025-12-29 23:43:45 UTC

Well, here in Germany, it is now my birthday. ^^

2025-12-28 17:41:49 UTC

I hate the fact that I'll be buying RAM soon. Why? I want to build a SteamOS maschine and have everything else here, including SSD and whatnot. So this will suck, hardcore. But hell, I am not planning to buy any new hardware for a few years after my homelab is done.
I ruined my fingies fenagling stuff into 1U cases last night, I am already onto getting small things (risers, adapters, cables) to patch up the few missing bits.
The big SSD/HDD buys for the new NAS, RAM for my PC upgrade and SteamOS maschine, a >8xRJ45 10G switch and a WiFi AP. Those are all thats left.
Man I hate how depressing the tech enthusiast space generally is now. Fuck NVIDIA and OpenAI, seriously... x.x

2025-12-28 17:37:29 UTC

goofy and i like it. :3
#tunestr https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/track/2ffwvjIzSaKzekVzcUCiwU

2025-12-26 00:40:23 UTC

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Friend bothered me long enough so at some point I sat down and watched it with him x)
Highly recommend looking at Armitage III!

2025-12-26 00:39:18 UTC

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A purrily christmas to ya too (:

2025-12-26 00:38:26 UTC

Nostr is more fun when the client youre using is actually good.

2025-12-26 00:37:00 UTC

Wenn du plötzlich einen Fressrausch bekommst und dein halben Kühlschrank in gefühlt einem halben Atemzug vernichtest... x.x
Jetzt bin ich fit, satt, aber gottlos vollgefressen x.x

2025-12-23 21:32:34 UTC

How to *not* do christmas posts. XD
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1pu54gj/merryxmaseveryone/

2025-12-23 21:14:38 UTC

Literally the reason Instagram and X are the worst but still the best for reach in terms of promotion.
https://image.nostr.build/a7e59a41b7e152b956d787308130eb68131f6abf24e2c0d236650529e78bb47b.png
This is morbid.

2025-12-23 19:58:05 UTC

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Christmas, a rather small community overall (it really ain't _that_ big) and discoverability being what it is o.o
Thats just nostr. :3 Sometimes, we just dont do the social thing. ^^

2025-12-23 19:56:25 UTC

I am about to mirror myself stupid. Git on Nostr/Blossom is the perfect way to preserve important git repos that stand in the greyzone.
If Yuzu wasn't on Github, I am convinced that it would have been much harder to get rid of it.
Now we live in fork-city... x.x
#nevent1q…0s4j

2025-12-23 19:54:07 UTC

Alright - checked the settings and relay config and I REALLY like this new client. Very, very well done. =)
Fast to pick up, easy to use and does EXACTLY what it should. Relay management is top - would only love to see a direct "Add to read/write" list button to add relays in the connection list to my profile. Makes permanent changes a wee easier. That said, this is a superb client. ^.^

2025-12-23 19:46:54 UTC

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Trigger the submit button in the note composer.
It's a pet-peeve of mine, and very minor. But due to my visual impairment, I use a magnifier, at 400%, so submitting means mousing around, which in turn means shifting my entire viewpoint around - which is quite annoying x)
Many services, like Github, have ctrl+enter to send/submit. So far, basically no Nostr client does this. And it _bothers_ me. xD

2025-12-23 19:44:57 UTC

Hooooooooly shit... x-x
https://image.nostr.build/e5a97c08013a2e82116de0f8c070438ba43c2d1c89c9e6949b504a51b35f502a.png

2025-12-23 19:41:20 UTC

Nice UI choice. :3
https://image.nostr.build/49784f154296a6cd92107760f5f4403f44edecaf90846222e0b6e0ee1faa9b1f.png

2025-12-23 19:39:53 UTC

Trying out #nosotros o.o
...aaaand also no ctrl+enter
BROTHER I CANT

2025-12-23 19:36:01 UTC

Ain't nothing like a jolly good...
#tunestr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJsFomPS0LY
for christmas. :D

2025-12-19 08:55:12 UTC

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oh...? mind giving me a tldr then?

2025-12-19 00:26:35 UTC

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No? o.o I just haven't changed my relay list in forever. Lord knows how many survived. xD

2025-12-19 00:24:51 UTC

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2 minutes.
Then I saw the nips repo, read it in full, and became bullish.
Still here - even if not as active as I was a year ago or so but Nostr is still my "social home" x)

2025-12-19 00:21:04 UTC

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Nope. Never heared of it at all...
literally.

2025-12-19 00:19:32 UTC

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My single RK3588 running a single-node k3s instance and always being near memory pressure can relate. x)

2025-12-19 00:18:40 UTC

Hey, #nostr peeps.
Bored?
Invade here: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1pq4won/tiktok_has_signed_the_deal_to_sell_its_us_entity/
And tell them that Nostr fixes this.
... or not. iunno, thought it'd be funny. o.o

2025-12-16 05:26:46 UTC

I wanted to post the following comment to youtube. When I hit send, I got a dialogue box saying, "Keep comments respectful."
Yeah, I kinda get what that was for. :D Here's the whole thing; it was ment to go under a Bellular News video:
HOW TO ENSHITTIFY:
1. Create a product people like.
2. Take investment from random funds and equity.
3. Grow the platform by any means neccessary.
4. Run experiments for monetization.
5. Build and propagate a proper monetization strategy, turning loyal customers and enthusiasts into walking wallets.
6. Go public / IPO.
7. Shift your target audience focus from your loyal users/enthusiasts, that are now but wallets anyway, to share- and stakeholders as their wallets are even fatter.
8. Cry a river when suddenly the project goes sideways as something bad happens.
9. Promise to hit KPI and other monetary targets (aka. headpat the shareholders untill they shut up and open their wallet again)
10. Repeat 7, yearly, untill the bank account goes flat.
11. Increase prices. Repeat 10, otherwise move on.
12. Add buzzworthy feature (i.e. AI). Repeat 7. Otherwise moe on.
13. Tell users they're totally being heared and their criticisim is being taken seriously - and also shredder every incomming mail or email. Implement halfassed updates.
14. Repeat 7 as long as possible. Otherwise move on.
15. Get bought by another company and enjoy a sweet, sweet payday and fuck off into the sunset.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytUaFLVelWQ

2025-12-15 05:47:36 UTC

Instant mood booster. <3
#mikustr #tunestr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l8VZEyNRH8

2025-12-14 19:02:24 UTC

#tunestr https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/track/0rWq1vxdBWKUZtoKVxRAs3

2025-12-14 16:47:17 UTC

There's certain code that only a Java developer would write.
https://blossom.primal.net/978253e7b5ee2c81fa1a246fbd8558bb76f5f12413790ae03a73f41d47fb4e4b.png

2025-12-09 05:06:28 UTC

I just woke up.
https://blossom.primal.net/612e6d16526c0cea61ff04fdd4effdc9b8002893982a1d1ef0939a16422f0c12.png
Can the world stop burning, FOR A FUCKING MINUTE???
Seriously the uptick in outages eversince agentic/vibe coding was introduced is palpable at this point and I am not a fan of it.
Brother I am so done with the cloud... xD Getting my server hardware - only missing a switch and wifi ap and im done with the big things, then just some storage thingiemajicks. Brooooo i just cant man... xD

2025-12-07 02:41:53 UTC

Youtube decided to send me a LSDJ track in my recommendations...
AND ITS A MOTHERFUCKING BANGER OF A CHIPTUNE OMG <3 <3 <3
#tunestr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQk7p7nzz7w

2025-12-06 07:24:42 UTC

Welp, Bitcoin is officially about to chew out my SSD.
root@coinboi ~# df -H .
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/nvme0n1p1 985G 971G 3.9G 100% /
This is a problem. o.o

2025-12-06 07:10:09 UTC

Recompiled and reconfigured btc and cln.
What a hassle... x.x
And NONE of the cln plugins I use for Nostr integrations have seen an update in forever. Fun...
Is non-custodial this dead? xD

2025-12-02 13:24:38 UTC

migumon uwu
#tunestr https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/track/1jvRRj23Uwk5hr0UcCVn5V

2025-12-02 13:01:45 UTC

Seit wann haben wir so viele talentierte deutsche singende VTuber? o.o
Kannte bisher nur Selphius als Sängerin und später VA - aber da haben sich ja noch paar eingeschlichen und die sind... echt hörbar...sogar tanzbar. Huh. : ( )
#tunestr https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/track/1LrC776fnagnzAfmzezOVs

2025-12-02 12:24:48 UTC

So Chat Control in the EU has taken another hurdle. Fun... I hate it, with a passion.
The other day I was thinking about what a "cloud in the dark web" would be; Tor for the access, i2p for the infrastructure. The edges would be tor<->i2p nodes, acting as a reverse proxy to the internals, that are linked via i2p.
It's like, you get access by going into an alley, but each alley is connected by a sewer system.
Yep... somehow I ended up with that metaphor. Cloud vs. Sewers. xD

2025-12-02 09:23:32 UTC

Japanese EDM has such an epic vibe. Seriously, idk what it is, but after finding Amateras Records and digging around in their vicinity, I found myself listening to so much of this. I could dance to that. :D
#tunestr https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/track/7mJF5nMT2jfZQLwanJEiAY

2025-12-02 09:18:55 UTC

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That would get me to play that game LMFAO XD
#nevent1q…ms25

2025-12-02 09:05:40 UTC

migu makes me happy. ^.^
#tunestr https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/track/5XzakR0b10jH6nx939bEM2

2025-11-28 01:04:00 UTC

Whenever you think the world is done for, you discover a tiny gem.
#neat https://github.com/Facepunch/sbox-public

2025-11-25 01:27:36 UTC

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I have been having the same two channels for ages now - and unless you stuff 'em up, you can't pay out. And...that is my wallet is basically receipt only. The idea of lightning is neat, but the cost of entry is not to be underestimated. You can't just immediately get started unless you pick a non-custodial option... Which is unfortunate, because everything aside this aspect is neat.

2025-11-25 01:24:40 UTC

I remember buying cartridges and discs, being stupidly excited when I learned about modchips and CFWs and my first programming adventure was automating the conversion of PS1 discs to PSP PBPs to play my favorites on the go - POPstation and PALNinja, won't forget those names ever x)
Nowadays? You aquire a license to a timed product that eventually evaporates and leaves behind a memory, that you will never be able to share with the next generation.
You end up buying into hype because you are (made) unable to see the alternatives - namely, the indies and small-scale studios, because certain players simply play with an unfair advantage.
Most of gaming is now an "opportunity" - a revenue opportunity, a calculated business descision based off stats and metrics...not passion and the desire to make something that sticks. Soulless, heartless, cobbled together and these days partially AI generated crap floods storefronts - and because newer generations literally do not know better, they are gobbled up and bought. Pokémon ZA, the new CoD BO, the yearly FiFa. You can probably think of a few yourself also.
This, together with how the internet was one escapism in itself, is the reason for my pure "digital depression".
And I feel entirely, utterly and most definitively powerless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_YSYDUUZQ8
And now, add ontop the recent GrapheneOS posts; France is trying their damndest, and they are a four hour drive away from me. Anti-Privacy meassures are becoming more vulgar and, dare I say, "open and direct". It's starting to not be hidden behind "Fight terrorists!" or "Save the children!" acts anymore; its blatant, obvious, on the nose. And the only people profiting from it are either rich people who will become richer, or the people who have been playing unfair from the getgo anyway; they just get more or other opportunities. A scammer isn't affected or hurt by those laws - but someone who just wishes to protect themselves a little, is.
Working in IT has given me both the blessing and curse of "knowing what's up". I know how the whole stack from the low-level hardware to the high-level software is composed, how things scale in a network or even across a wide area network via clouds - and also, how those networks tie into applications on end-users.
Everything from how device manufacturers directly control device access through binary, proprietary blobs that are loaded as firmware by the kernel and executed verbatim at the most volunerable layer to how "verified and secure" applications on 1st party app stores are actually loaded with additional software to harvest and spy on data and usage. Perhaps a service like Posthog was not ment to be used for such, but any service like it that can send performance or usage metrics, behavioural patterns or other forms of telemetry, quietly runs without the end-user seing it. Because why would they pop a debugger, gawk at a tcpdump output or, heaven forbid, run a firewall in their network that can do real-time traffic analysis? ISPs give them a modem, access point, router and gateway in one device and make setup seamless; but actually put literal black boxes into customer homes. Look at all the CVEs hitting those devices these days - or, how Google kept collecting logs and telemetry from disabled Nest devices. Sure, too unsafe to connect to the internet, but safe enough to still act as a data collection agent; a rich man's Telegraf alternative ((Telegraf = metrics collector, Go, by InfluxData)).
I want to change the world but I can't: I have to work, to pay my rent, to pay my internet, to be able to have a bed so I can go to work. So I can buy food and utilities so I can survive, so I can go to work.
This system sucks, is unbalanced and urgently needs a rebalance patch but... that will never happen.
Crazy, hot take. At the rate things are going here, I am convinced that we may become even more "aggressive" than China. And they have the whole GFW (which, at least I heared, was built by the US company CISCO, ironically enough - however, that's really just heresay).
I really don't know where we're headed - I am both curious (and morbidly so...) and also scared. After all, I used to run a furry community, where the number ONE aspect was to interact and socialize with people under pseudonyms, different names and different settings to escape from the real world to either overcome mental challenges or to just "have a different live for a little while". Sure, there are furries I wish I could say a few things to...and offer them a knuckle sandwhich while I am at it... but I remember that community, that was the first to accept me and my nerdy, introvertedness, very fondly.
And this is dying. Hard.
I wonder, where is the next escape after the previous places have been "closed down"? The internet was one, gaming was another, the anonymity of protecting your privacy was also one. But they are being destroyed one piece at a time, one bill at a time, one software update a day.
Years ago I joked that Japan was probably the safest place because they had a habbit of keeping to themselves and being more focused on national interests. Well that sure aged like ... something.
I just don't want to feel all this pressure and stress anymore. Pressure from having a *very* broad understanding of the whole tech-stack behind most of this and stress from constantly keeping my eyes out and virtually double-taking whenever I move. Should I create this account? - Ah, let me grab an alias, and a generated password, and store it in my password manager. Should I put my whole network on a VPN? - Well this will mean I pay in speed and quality, and some online games won't work anymore so I have to add a whitelist...but what if that whitelist ends up being leaky? Should I invest more in "hidden services" or "eepsites"? - Well sure, but doing that via my phone is a pain in the arse and there is not really a convenient way of finding things "just like that".
You see? Even I want convenience, but I - and others - have to pay for it. And this constant stress of evaluating options, pros and cons and keeping up with the news to properly disable AI stuff and avoid tracking, keeping the tracker-blocking-enabled software like Piped and Brave updated as much as I can whilst also being concious which websites I randomly visit or browse by and shoeing every cookie banner whilst knowing full well that it takes but a simple `Cookie: ...` header.
When I was a kid and played Drakengard or Crash Bandicoot, all I worried about was keeping my discs in order and clean, my controllers hygienic and ensuring the cables didn't get messed up. When carrying my Gameboy, I only had one or two games with me. When syncing music to my MP3 player or iPod, I had to deliberately pick and choose what went on there. When I had a PSP, my universe was as big as my MemoryStick Pro Duo (yep, I remember that name still). But when I got home from school or a hospital trip, I would just dash out of the house, to my friend and we would either LARP or talk random crap, play cards or shared a controller for some Sly Cooper. Or perhaps we grabbed our Beyblades and had fun.
Yeah... having fun... Here I am installing BastilleBSD with Tor, I2Pd, Route-DNS (or ControlD; haven't decided yet), paying my ass out for homelab hardware to selfhost anything from Audiobookshelf to Timelineize and beyond to claw back my privacy, independence and alike.
I am sad. Often lonely. Sometimes full of desires (at times just to have someone here to talk, other times just to have the fun bedtime things others have and at other times all I want is to escape or immerse myself somewhere or in something).
A psychic wreck, fucked in the brain by the stress and pressure with no cure in sight.
...vent over.
When I finish my OPNSense based setup, I plan to document i in a project and make a guide for it. And it has... a perculiar name that hasn't left me the moment it got in my head:
Good bye, internet.

2025-11-23 21:13:42 UTC

Brother this stuff is majestic as fuck.
#tunestr https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/track/7HxhuorujGT3U6jj1fIfUC

2025-11-23 20:50:46 UTC

It must be a me-thing - but I am still learning OPNSense and it is forcing me to read and pay attention. You can't _just_ make a VLAN, you have to go through a couple of screens. This is far from done, but I am getting somewhere and I love it. :D
Still learning and progressing, still not ready to deploy it as my main and primary WAN - but, I am not far away from it either. :3
https://blossom.primal.net/e695cc57042b37cfb3915815cfe31a597e9b711a255d87a73ed17155b493d71a.png
Also, IPv6 can suck. my. dick.

2025-11-22 20:53:12 UTC

I see this in Primal's Trending column...
https://blossom.primal.net/6c94bcf2925b054935f94467a1a860060e7a1cfec6d5df1156a973f44007e77b.png
...and I wonder how many worlds apart we truely are.
I still can not buy a cheeseburger with bitcoin, heck, not even regular bread, coffee or my smokes.
Meanwhile, there's bitcoiners out there _apparently_ living this kinda world? Arite...

2025-11-22 20:50:26 UTC

It's happened three times now: I heared weird noises that woke me up. Over this and the previous day, I have been falling alseep mid-day and waking up from distorded-sounding notification sounds on my headphones I was still wearing.
My breaking point aint too far off at this point... that was a haunting experience, seriously. Too much stress and all that is really, _really_ getting at me. x.x

2025-11-22 00:45:12 UTC

I have spent so much time in Excel as of late...
Sanity check:
- 2 out of 3 Radxa Orion O6 32GB units
- OPNSense Firewall
- OpenBao-dedicated system - SpacemiT MUSE Pi Pro, in the mail
- Pi-esque rack mount + keystones - installed, ready to rock; missing the Pi boards, which will be MUSE Pi Pro + Radxa Dragon
- Milk-V Pioneer for CI/CD and NAS
- Secondary 8-bay NAS, OpenMediaVault, has NanoKVM for full power-down/-up backup scheduling
Missing:
- >8 Port 10G RJ45 + PoE switch (~450-650 €)
- WiFi 7 AP (~100 €)
- 3x 256GB NVMe Gen 4 SSD (Orion boot disk); Unknown, NAND prices...
- 3x 2TB NVMe Gen4 SSD (Orion shared data disk; k8s Longhorn); Unknown, NAND still
- 4x 2TB NVMe Gen3 SSD (NAS, "hot" tier, mergerFS+snapRAID); ...yes, NAND
- 2x 4/5TB SATA-III SSD 2.5" (NAS, "warm" tier, mergerFS+snapRAID)
- 2x 4TB SATA-III HDD 2.5" (NAS, "cold" tier); Unknown, havent checked yet
- 1x ICY DOCK PCIe NVMe to OcuLink adapter
- 1x 4x OcuLink to PCIe x16 adapter - ultra-low profile (HLHH)
- 1x ICY DOCK SATA carrier - literally enclosure only, goes straight to mobo
- 3x (Orion) + 1 (NAS) + 1 (Desktop) + 1 (AI Server) = 6 Sipeed NanoKVM (PoE option, ~100€)
- Oh yeah an entire fucking AI Server... Dual MaxSun B60 48GB Turbo, AMD Epyc, 265GB RAM - highly unknown, DRAM.
- 3x 1U short-depth Mini-ITX case (Orion); 50 € each
- 1x 1U long-depth Micro-ATX case (Pioneer); 90 €
- 1x Multi USB Type-C charger for Orions (at least 180W, 60W per socket)
- 1x PSU for Pioneer - wattate completely unknown. xD
Optional:
- Desktop PC upgrade from R9 3900X -> 9000-series (32GB RAM and board, rest stays)
Goal:
- Orions will build Kubernetes cluster (k0s, NLLB + CPLB) to run all selfhosted things, automate them through ArgoCD, connect to OpenBao with External Secrets / Cert-Manager to keep them off-cluster
- OPNSense acting as a whole-network VPN router to sink my entire traffic into a VPN bar exceptions - and also link with Tor and i2pd
- Home Assistant for inter-device / inter-service and (local) smart-home automation
- OpenBao for certs, secrets and sensitive data, HSM backed (NitroKey)
- Pioneer to automate building and testing of all the projects I find cool, act as a NAS and CI/CD into oblivion with Concourse CI, using QEMU to go between ISAs if needed too. It may become my new BTC/CLN node while I am at it, and may run solo miners in the time between jobs...because, why not. Also a big maybe. But, XMRing looks nice.
I am inching closer and closer and closer to replace every single cloud-service I need or want to use with a local option. It's basicaly my "Project: Good Bye Internet". I already prepared one of the pieces on the OPNSense within a BSD Jail and it will be glorious. =)
Also, I will be fucking broke for a bit, but thats fine, because after this, I have the exact lab I want, for good, for real, and it's mine. No shitty -aaS will ever take this away. :3
Heck I might some day build a solar powered, 4G modem backed device to help me reach my homelab even when WAN goes offline or something like that - and to send SMS lol.

2025-11-22 00:25:58 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/f24f24ea10cb8bab93bada92bb03d04cd3a03a4d7a8ade751948139650e8dc41.png
I have a Milk-V Pioneer at my table, 1.400 €. My homelab has been costing me a multitude of nerves, arms, legs and whatever else I could find. My goal to become fully self-sovereign is almost here but now I get buttfucked with DRAM and NAND prices.
Brother. I am gonna be so happy when I can close my rack door, knowing that everything I wanted is inside now - for real, for good, and most definitively. XD

2025-11-22 00:23:48 UTC

BROTHER I WANT TO SCREAM THAT AT RUST EVANGELISTS SO BAD HOLY SHIT
#TUNESTR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjYz3EQ5fOo

2025-11-19 21:39:06 UTC

I successfuly:
- Flashed a FritzBox with OpenWrt
- Set up a bridge (actually a relay) between the WiFi and LAN
- Bought, installed, configured a Sipeed NanoKVM
- And stuffed the whole thing into my basement segment!
https://blossom.primal.net/dbb25f5d1ca95809420c0de12a6293abcc91e4e6a45f771d67907b2db57d61ba.png
I can now turn this NAS on and off as I need. It's an Athlon 3000G, I intend to use it as my secondary NAS down the line (3-2-1).
THIS IS SO COOL 0.0 I can turn it on, off, get into bios, everything! aaaaaa <3 SUCCESS

2025-11-16 12:54:40 UTC

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.... chirp?

2025-11-16 04:03:02 UTC

This goes so hard for no reason... xD
#tunestr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1vswT-V1pY

2025-11-16 04:01:23 UTC

Compiled the zsbl, compiled edk2 - both with the properly pinned DTB.
Now I just need _a linux_... xD That should be fun.

2025-11-16 03:24:21 UTC

"zsbl" means "Zero Stage Bootloader" and is the very, very first piece of the puzzle to boot the Milk-V Pioneer - which I now own.
user@BIGBOI:/opt/zsbl$ du -h zsbl.*
132K zsbl.bin
944K zsbl.dis
772K zsbl.elf
240K zsbl.map
It feels stupidly weird to just... compile your bootloader. This is literally the first thing that gets invoked after the CPU; it is what bootstraps the initial hardware and eventually goes to EDK2 / u-boot. o.o
This is probably as close to an IPL as Ill ever get. xD

2025-11-15 02:25:16 UTC

Most people: Oh no, my Facebook got hacked! PANIC!
This lad: Oh no, my Facebook got hacked! Welp, I'll make it a song instead.
I SWEAR THIS GUY JUST FUCKING RULES HOLY SHIT
#tunestr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHCTTa8UP9U

2025-11-13 19:03:05 UTC

Hey @nprofile…duwt - quick question!
Have you patched CVE-2025-48561?
Thanks. =)

2025-11-10 04:26:37 UTC

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Genuenly did not see that before o.o
Will take a look at it! I am digging more into OPNSense, but perhaps I will give this a shot at some point also, just to see which one I like more.
Thanks for the pointer =)