A Monday in Matrix A user accidentally writes in the room of a Matrix space, resulting in every member of that space getting a notification. Matrix spaces are just regular rooms, and the fallback for old clients which don't support spaces is to render them as completely regular chat rooms. On the other side, new clients that do support spaces have very confusing UI when people start chatting in…
Dessin inspiré par mes balades en vacances dans le bocage normand .
Content Note: Explicit mention of various hard kinks and discussion of non-consensual activities, including rape The basics: FRIES Let's first look at some simple and straightforward consent models. Most people have probably heard of "no means no", or, preferable in most cases, "yes means yes". But those quickly fail to capture the complex depth of what it means to consent to something. A more…
Most people treat their relationships like a co-op game. However, that is only one way—and admittedly a fairly boring one at that—to approach that topic. For those who crave more intense emotions, the game of relationship also offers a host of more competitive modes. This is a tutorial for how to win at any adversarial relationship, against partners and metas alike. Fun for the entire polycule!…
These days, it is fashionable to have the Nixpkgs for your NixOS system managed alongside its configuration, pinned by some tool of choice. In Pinning NixOS with npins, this time without flakes for real , I've talked about how I want the same Nixpkgs to be used for both my system configuration as well as all my ad-hoc nix-shell s. However, there is a key distinction between any import <nixpkgs> {}…
Last year, Jade posted Pinning NixOS with npins, or how to kill channels forever without flakes . In short, what we want is: Get rid of channels (as in nix-channel , and not any other overloaded meanings of that word) as a source of impurity. Have one blessed Nixpkgs pinned with npins being used for the system's configuration as well as all <nixpkgs> invocations system-wide. The solution should…
A soul in an aquarium The inner world so rich Is shielded from the outside By blurry glass so thick A soul lost in a body Who wasn't made to fit It's yearning for a safe space Some place to call a home A soul on auto pilot To steer while it's away "I'm human" says the pilot And even thinks it's true The soul left its enclosure So fragile and exposed It's looking for a soulmate To share aquariums…
Two autonomous units With a power supply too weak One recharging in the other Taking breaks in alternance Independent but forever linked Two autonomous units Each with some broken gears Switching as to always complement the other The fragmented illusion of function In an eternal synchronous dance One autonomous unit
In a lot of conflicts within online communities I've seen, I've noticed a certain pattern of behaviour emerge. To talk about this, let's first distinguish three groups of people that can commonly be found in conflicts: The troublemakers. The trolls, the assholes, the abusers, the bigots. The enablers. Friends of the trouble makers, people who silently hold the same beliefs (or less silently but…
A ghost bus, slowly wating through the thick traffic. Blurry lights dance on the fogged windows. The outside world is not real. I blink in and out of existence—In one moment I'm suddenly here, just to slowly fade out again in the next. When I'm not here, will someone else take my seat? A ghost alights from the bus. Floating shifts into walking, as I eventually materialize again.
OBVIOUS CW: suicidality and detailed descriptions thereof People sometimes use this suicide scale to help them communicate their state of unwellbeing to friends more easily in situations of strong distress. That scale was initially created as a shorthand between friends and has no medical aspirations, as explained in a follow-up post in more detail. In the spirit of the original scale, I created…
I've been one of the main people driving automatic formatting for the Nix language forward. As such, a major point of contention which repeatedly appeared is the one about where to put the commas separating function arguments — before or after each item? This question is not new though, and the style can occasionally be observed in other languages as well, like Haskell for example. In this text I…
This is a collection of texts and books that I've read which I strongly resonate with or which have had an impact on my life. Some I just recommend reading, others I think everybody should have read, and a few are a must if you want to ever discuss certain topics with me. Posts and Articles undoing the pain – a guide to being free (PDF) A wholesome text about healing, for people who are deeply…
First non-digital art in the collection: An aquarelle painting.
In 2021 hat das ChaosInKl online eine "OpenTopicNight" zum Thema Nix veranstaltet. Dieser Vortrag über Nix auf nicht-NixOS-Systemen, mit Fokus auf nix-shell und Entwicklungsumgebungen, ist dafür entstanden.
Shamelessly riffing on the success of Fur balls #1 , but as we all know the sequel is rarely as good as the original.
Brush study with Krita. Inspired by one of the paintings somewhere on the Documenta Kassel 2017.
A more serious attempt at using the Animation nodes Blender extension for procedural generation. The image is 100% procedural based on modulated noise; the poodle is just a hallucination of your brain. (Seriously though, if you can't see the poodle then good for you because you won't be able to unsee it.)
This is the fourth image of a Minecraft world exported to Blender. It showcases the possibility of using creative materials on the model, in this case an X-ray inspired effect realized through volumetric effects. The third image shows a direct comparison: Minecraft screenshot – X-ray – Fancy render
A small procedual texture experiment which never got past these three test renders. While this is 2D, it too has been realized in Blender: An "Emission" material which procedurally generates the texture acts as a pixel shader.
One of the rare videos I did. This is an early experiment with the Blender extension Animation nodes, although more abstractly speaking one would better describe it as a vertex shader.
This is the third image of a Minecraft world exported to Blender. It showcases the theoretically infinite render distance one can achieve. The materials are taken from a texture pack which provides higher resolution and normal/illumination maps for all textures while remaining true to the Default Minecraft look.
This is the second image of a Minecraft world exported to Blender. It showcases the raytracing volumetric rendering which creates an atmosphere which cannot be achieved in real time. The second image is a 20% size test render, but which somehow accidentally turned out a lot better than the final version.
This is the first successful export from a Minecraft world to Blender using my (unpublished) tool Wavecraft.
Created by following a tutorial ·. Note that the second image is the original one. The first one is a higher quality re-render from 2019, in which the background was redone together with some other small improvements on the lighting.
First 2D image, done with Krita and a graphics tablet. This image initially started as a 64px × 64px canvas with random lines scribbled on it. (All gray, color got only added at the end.) Then it got repeatedly upscaled with details filled in, until it converged to some kind of meaningful image. This is also why the lines in the image are so big and a bit blurry.
Study for a shiny snow material.
I have deleted all other Christmas-themed winter images except for this one. So, enjoy this rarity.
This image was inspired by "Skyfall", one of the "zero G" free fall towers.
First attempt at a low-poly style.
Continuation of Carousel #1 . The carousel model is slightly improved and placed in a proper scene.
Small modelling study