Posts by nycki@bark.lgbt
(DIR) Post #AtNsd3P0n5MBVwPh6e by nycki@bark.lgbt
2025-04-22T21:28:57Z
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update: it is dark and I have fallen in a hole
(DIR) Post #AtioRwWKEiQHhqdBOS by nycki@bark.lgbt
2025-05-03T04:42:35Z
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mixed vibes, optimistic overall---Do not take hacking for granted. It is not some magical market force that will inevitably step in to correct misdeeds. Many digital goods are now encryption-locked to specific hardware. That hardware can be emulated, and that encryption can be broken, but it takes a lot of time and teamwork. Hackers are not known for being good at teamwork.Go thank your local hacker. Send them money if you can, but even if you can't, let them know you appreciate their hard work. They get hundreds of github issues and discord pings a day asking "can you get me free hax" or "pls update now!!!" and it's just really sad to see.I think it would be really nice if they got more messages along the lines of "wow, you saved my childhood!" or "thanks so much for maintaining this, I use it all the time!"Make sure they know you love them.#programming #hacking #homebrew
(DIR) Post #Au0OBlADakgXt8BxR2 by nycki@bark.lgbt
2025-05-12T03:16:57Z
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I found a paint app for Android that doesn't suck!!! it's called Pocket Paint and its about as close to MS Paint as you can get on this platform.Warning: no auto-save. Make sure you save your work before switching apps, especially if your phone likes to clean up background tasks on you.https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.catrobat.paintroid#review #good_software #lomp
(DIR) Post #AvFMaDX4WuLUdghYjg by nycki@bark.lgbt
2025-06-18T01:18:23Z
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does anyone else ever think about doing a simple task, and like, sit down and take out your tools and start doing the thing, and then immediately have this intense "NOPE" reaction in your brain???like, I understand that part of ADHD is not being able to start things, but this time I thought I was "already started" and suddenly I backed out. what the fuck brain.#audhd
(DIR) Post #AvWsDkCI3QomseRyXg by nycki@bark.lgbt
2025-06-26T17:07:42Z
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@vantablack oh absolutely. heck, even if you outlive the average, you deserve to take control of your life early.
(DIR) Post #AwuMyByaZW0F7SyoIS by nycki@bark.lgbt
2025-08-06T22:53:19Z
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hot take: esports are only real sports if the game is self-hosted and moddable. like, anyone can buy a baseball bat and play however they want, and you can also do that with some retro games because of emulators, but if you try that with e.g. LoL you'll get banned.y'know what we call stuff where you can only play if a certain company says so? that's a game show. at best.
(DIR) Post #Ayso8Ith2uLFAoKO4e by nycki@bark.lgbt
2025-10-05T01:04:26Z
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@foone a "fake death" generator, if you will
(DIR) Post #Ayy14If2FlNmTagzkO by nycki@bark.lgbt
2025-10-07T13:11:31Z
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@N33R please put a sticker on this sign so it says "please avoid the following SKELETONS"
(DIR) Post #Az2ZUsO8DTersyTBEO by nycki@bark.lgbt
2025-10-09T18:03:20Z
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IN BRIEF: I would like to improve society somewhat. What's a project that would love to have me?---If I could pick one thing to change about software: I want to make it more usable for non-technical folks. I want better interfaces, both text and graphical. I want undo buttons that work, and when something is not-undoable I want to make sure the user knows what they're committing to. I want desktop notifications that can be easily filtered so you only get the ones you want. I want html editors for art and scrapbooking, that still give you full control over your CSS but also let you drag and drop an image into the document.My best skill is technical writing. I'm very proud of this guide I wrote recently about how to add markdown to your website, assuming you already know html. https://github.com/nycki93/eleventy-for-neocities-usersI've also done my best to document everything I've learned about self-hosting, since when I came into the hobby it seemed like "container" was a magic word people threw around without explaining why you even want one. I still need to work on this but I think it's a good start:https://nycki.net/cookbook/my second best skill is scripting. I've written scripts in python and javascript, and I've dabbled in windows cmd, linux bash, and the occasional lua file. I'm a good team player too, here's a script I collaborated on with SArpnt and it was a really cool experience!https://codeberg.org/nupanick/qrplayin my professional life I've made some pretty good diagrams and flowcharts. I also commission furry artists a lot and I've been told I draw good stick figure references. and it seems like every few years I end up tutoring someone "how to make friends in the city", and I'd like to think I have some success being an autistic liason.so: do I sound like a useful contributor to your open source project? reach out to me! I want to help!#programming #software #opensource #volunteering #job_offers_also_welcome
(DIR) Post #Az2a9EdCw6MWSGlY5w by nycki@bark.lgbt
2025-10-09T15:23:13Z
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Rocknix is a linux distro that targets 'retro handhelds' like Retroid and Anbernic. Those devices normally run Android, which is currently in full fuck-you mode, so if I were to buy a retro handheld I would be running Rocknix on it instead.However, bad news: I asked in the Rocknix discord if i can count on them to take an anti-fascist stance, and their response was, in a word, "no".Specifically, I asked if they were centrist, they gave me a "no politics" warning, which is a pretty clear answer to that.If anyone else on the team wants to correct me, I'll gladly edit this post.EDIT: I WAS BANNED FOR THE FROWNY FACE. edit 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/SBCGaming/comments/1o29jjz/is_rocknix_problematic/#rocknix #RetroGaming #fascism
(DIR) Post #Az2a9NDf0SH55dsm1Y by nycki@bark.lgbt
2025-10-09T15:29:31Z
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the admin has DMs closed so i can't appeal the ban. kinda unprofessional.anyway are there any mobile operating systems that aren't fascist?
(DIR) Post #Az2aIPh7AoZrN9yCgK by nycki@bark.lgbt
2025-10-09T18:16:07Z
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@EllisDee I would love for it to not be political! I'm fairly certain that "fascism is bad" is an apolitical statement, though, so I really don't get why people are arguing about it.
(DIR) Post #Az2aZmpWPQEk37BcoK by nycki@bark.lgbt
2025-10-09T18:19:17Z
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@EllisDee okay then instead of fascism pretend I said "giving money to organizations that exist to get black people killed and deported"
(DIR) Post #AzrMc5tz4spQc3aefY by nycki@bark.lgbt
2025-11-03T06:13:57Z
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@thebirdwashere heck yea, proud of u :3
(DIR) Post #B0G7KnmYh82wZIHsA4 by nycki@bark.lgbt
2025-11-15T04:38:27Z
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@foone have you seen messagease/thumbkey? i love it so much
(DIR) Post #B0G9qtLZjwxd0C5ykK by nycki@bark.lgbt
2025-11-15T04:51:10Z
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@foone oh! like in the original paper? I think their original goal was to retrofit this to T9 phones.
(DIR) Post #B0SQcwlattfltma3Vo by nycki@bark.lgbt
2025-11-20T05:18:01Z
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do you have art? do you want to put it on a website, that *you* own, for cheap-as-free?im writing a program for that! you just drag and drop your art into a folder, and run "galleryify", and it generates html for each image, and adds everything to a thumbnail gallery. you can group with tags and style everything however you want, too.it outputs static html, so you can upload it to neocities or nekoweb or basically any free web host. the tradeoff for being cheap-as-free is that there's no server-side interactions (e.g. no comment section).i need testers! if this sounds good then please comment and let me know your level of comfort with art and with html.https://nycki93.github.io/eleventy-image-gallery/if you just wanna know "the stack", this is made with NodeJS and Eleventy. if that doesn't mean anything to you, dont worry about it.EDIT: wow, a lot of you said you'd be interested in testing! Okay, I've just put some usage instructions up on this page, please try it out and let me know how it goes!https://github.com/nycki93/eleventy-image-gallery/#website #art #code #programming #html #heycohost #eleventy
(DIR) Post #B0SQd4pmuBmSv6bW9w by nycki@bark.lgbt
2025-11-20T06:54:32Z
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surprised nobody has commented on the fact that I have dead links in my bookmarks bar that I never bothered to clean up
(DIR) Post #B1Pa3M8SqyU474SWjQ by nycki@bark.lgbt
2025-12-19T16:16:28Z
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@N33R true, but just a few years ago it was on 12/12/12
(DIR) Post #B2iwqOWH6CEh4BJ1Zg by nycki@bark.lgbt
2026-01-27T16:53:20Z
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I'm #colorblind and I use https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/ frequently.Randall 'xkcd' Monroe did a survey of over 100,000 readers where he showed them random rgb colors and said "what would you call this?" and afterwards he did his best to sort the results into the most popular color names and the colors they refer to.It's like a box of Crayola for the internet. Finally, my colorblind self can grab a sample of "dark magenta" that doesn't just look like "grape purple" to everyone else.The data is freely available as a .txt file under CC0, which I've converted into a .css file here: https://git.hatspace.net/nycki/nycki.net/src/branch/main/static/xkcd.cssso now when I want a color on my website I can just write `color: var(--xkcd-off-white)` or so on. it's really convenient :)#programming #color #css #website