If I had x-ray vision I'd use it to see if the restaurant is too crowded before going inside

Tourist Decks vs. Real Cockpits
Cyberpunk Cockpit Manifesto

There’s a sickness in the feeds: plastic tourist cyberdecks. Raspberry Pi bricks with tiny keyboards, bolted into 3D-printed cases, paraded on Instagram like trophies from a war they never fought. They’re not tools. They’re cosplay.

Let’s be clear: a real cockpit doesn’t start with aesthetics. It starts with pain. Problem → solution → function.

•     No media keys? You build a pause bar.
•     Net keeps cutting? You wire in a pulse and watch your LEDs blink the truth.
•     Need signals streaming in real time? You spin up a ticker.

Every fragment is earned. Every organ of the cockpit exists because without it, the pilot bleeds time.

Now look at the tourist decks.

•     Four-inch LCDs that scorch your eyes.
•     Chiclet keyboards designed for toddlers, not operators.
•     Tethered to a smartphone that could do every task better, faster, cleaner.
•     It’s all form before function. Fake nostalgia. A cargo cult of movie props.

And the irony? Those movies — Hackers, The Net, every 90s cyber-thriller — got tech wrong in the first place. Neon GUIs, floppy disks with nuclear payloads, hackers typing like pianists on meth. Pure fantasy. The tourist deck isn’t just pretending to be a tool — it’s pretending to be a prop that pretended to be a tool. A Xerox of a Xerox. Dead on arrival.

Meanwhile, the cockpit grows like coral. Black boxes stitched together over years. Hardware knobs, kill switches, LED ghosts, fragments of code that live on because they work. It looks rough because it is rough. It looks alive because it is alive.

The tourist deck is a selfie. The cockpit is a survival rig. One is a weekend project for clout. The other is a control panel for your life.

Stop building props. Start building cockpits.

— Rev1

Goths aren’t “true to seed” in the sense that the biological offspring of two goths do not necessarily grow up to be goth, though inheriting the inclination for it from both parents increases the odds significantly. That is not how goths naturally reproduce.

The process is actually quite sophisticated, and requires the presence of a full-grown goth to trigger it. A pupal-stage proto-goth, at this point completely indistinguishable from any other small human child, only needs to encounter a mature specimen once - and while the initial imprinting that ensues will only take seconds, the incubation period often takes more than a decade, even several.

The first visible step of the transformation is triggered when the dormant goth suddenly gains awareness that they have free will and can do whatever they want with their appearance. While the progress may be gradual, or seem like the transformation happened all at once overnight, the initial seed was planted years ago. And now, in full bloom, a fully-fledged mature adult goth may finally be happy.

And that’s why it’s important to sometimes look goth as fuck in the grocery store. You might be seen by small child who had previously hoped to die before adulthood because everything they’ve heard about becoming a grownup is just pure misery, who will then consequently think to themselves “actually nevermind, that’s what I want to be when I grow up.”

hey guys im a person(???) who is here and a finallya wet fish ... there many things about me such as i am also like a dog and also a guy but consider also that i really like math. please consider these things. so like imagine a dog that is a guy that is a fish and hes kinda into math.

i am one of those anarchy people who try to do the mutual aid. thus i am meet people such as rachel and fishme. i like computers and am trying to become one. i would also am aspiring to become a beaver. i have other interests such as book.

Building BDAs in the rain

I learned this making vape juice 🤓

If I had the power to duplicate, I'd abuse myself. 😉 😜 😘 🥵🥴

Ooh, that's a good one.  Like if this was a dog show, that answer would get top prize.

If I had the power to duplicate, I'd abuse myself. 😉 😜 😘 🥵🥴

programming

• at least try disabling syntax highlighting. I use a very minimal theme: comments and strings are red, all other text is white. This enables me to read code naturally, like a book vs skimming
• I like helix for a text editor because it's like vim but good out of the box due to integrated LSP so "spending hours configuring <editor>" isn't a thing
• once steel scheme plugin support gets merged into helix some day I think we're gonna get something like org-mode and it will be amazing
• If you do a lot of parsing pls learn to write grammars instead of spaghetti code parsing for reasons (https://langsec.org/)
• learn readline shortcuts for bash/shell navigation https://www.bigsmoke.us/readline/shortcuts
• download Zeal and offline docsets because the modern web is slow and irritating

*nix

• EFI stubs can replace the bootloader
• most commonly shipped initramfs tools cook up some mid af initramfs, https://github.com/anatol/booster makes way smaller/faster ones (can improve boot time)
• systemd-analyze can help you improve boot times
• try a weird distro or BSD to learn about "standard" components via negativa: musl void linux = no systemd, no gnu libc, no apt (i dislike apt very much)
• if you care about FOSS networking: pfsense for router, openwrt for APs (because FreeBSD/pfsense network stack outperforms linux, openwrt because one place FreeBSD doesn't outperform linux is wifi drivers)
• also if you care about FOSS networking, Protectli sells corebooted devices
• watch this talk on how Netflix uses FreeBSD, it has so much good info on drivers, ISP <-> netflix relations/infra, kernel optimization for I/O https://youtu.be/36qZYL5RlgY. Amazing example of things being done different than you might expect because the theoretical "best practices" didn't turn out to be so great (e.g. not using ZFS on their ISP cache devices, just letting drives die)

physical stuff

• if your house is wired for coax, you can use MoCA adapters which often outperform wifi (and DEFINITELY powerline)
• use red lights at night for sleep / night vision preservation reasons
• self-dimming red night lights are pretty cheap and nice for non-bedroom house areas

minimalism

• hammock-driven development is real and I don't believe people can think/reason to their full potential well in front of a phone/computer/screen. write on paper.
• go completely offline sometimes, preferably often. I have firewall rules that disable internet after 6:30pm 10/10 highly recommend. Might add an exception so I can still use my OS's package manager
• use grayscale mode on your phone and you might find yourself reading books more
• compulsive phone use is literally a stim https://youtu.be/KKjMn_elwlY

How to get easy coral 🪸:

Post in the bullshit spam chat and whoever posts the 1000th gets all of Fishmé's things. Lmao

I don't want all of them, just a non-exclusive accessory.