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  1. Further experimentation into #9front...

    ...I still feel like I landed on Mars, but I've just now (finally) managed to walk in a straight line for ten paces without landing on my face, so... XD

    #Plan9 #ThePlanFellOff #TheFrontFellOff #UnixSurrealism #PostUnix #WhatAmIDoingHere #AmIKoolKidNAO? #ReadTheHashTags

    #LossyPNG: original 40-color image reduced to 23 colors for a reduction down to 65% of original size, only losing some of the colors in stats(8) display.

    Yeah. ;) (text after hashtags to force clients to fully display them, because [hashtags are poetry], dadgummit! ;)

    P.S. Bitmapped fonts are SOOOO CLEAAAAAN. Dude. XD

  2. Further experimentation into #9front...

    ...I still feel like I landed on Mars, but I've just now (finally) managed to walk in a straight line for ten paces without landing on my face, so... XD

    #Plan9 #ThePlanFellOff #TheFrontFellOff #UnixSurrealism #PostUnix #WhatAmIDoingHere #AmIKoolKidNAO? #ReadTheHashTags

    #LossyPNG: original 40-color image reduced to 23 colors for a reduction down to 65% of original size, only losing some of the colors in stats(8) display.

    Yeah. ;) (text after hashtags to force clients to fully display them, because [hashtags are poetry], dadgummit! ;)

    P.S. Bitmapped fonts are SOOOO CLEAAAAAN. Dude. XD

  3. Further experimentation into #9front...

    ...I still feel like I landed on Mars, but I've just now (finally) managed to walk in a straight line for ten paces without landing on my face, so... XD

    #Plan9 #ThePlanFellOff #TheFrontFellOff #UnixSurrealism #PostUnix #WhatAmIDoingHere #AmIKoolKidNAO? #ReadTheHashTags

    #LossyPNG: original 40-color image reduced to 23 colors for a reduction down to 65% of original size, only losing some of the colors in stats(8) display.

    Yeah. ;) (text after hashtags to force clients to fully display them, because [hashtags are poetry], dadgummit! ;)

    P.S. Bitmapped fonts are SOOOO CLEAAAAAN. Dude. XD

  4. Further experimentation into #9front...

    ...I still feel like I landed on Mars, but I've just now (finally) managed to walk in a straight line for ten paces without landing on my face, so... XD

    #Plan9 #ThePlanFellOff #TheFrontFellOff #UnixSurrealism #PostUnix #WhatAmIDoingHere #AmIKoolKidNAO? #ReadTheHashTags

    #LossyPNG: original 40-color image reduced to 23 colors for a reduction down to 65% of original size, only losing some of the colors in stats(8) display.

    Yeah. ;) (text after hashtags to force clients to fully display them, because [hashtags are poetry], dadgummit! ;)

    P.S. Bitmapped fonts are SOOOO CLEAAAAAN. Dude. XD

  5. Further experimentation into #9front...

    ...I still feel like I landed on Mars, but I've just now (finally) managed to walk in a straight line for ten paces without landing on my face, so... XD

    #Plan9 #ThePlanFellOff #TheFrontFellOff #UnixSurrealism #PostUnix #WhatAmIDoingHere #AmIKoolKidNAO? #ReadTheHashTags

    #LossyPNG: original 40-color image reduced to 23 colors for a reduction down to 65% of original size, only losing some of the colors in stats(8) display.

    Yeah. ;) (text after hashtags to force clients to fully display them, because [hashtags are poetry], dadgummit! ;)

    P.S. Bitmapped fonts are SOOOO CLEAAAAAN. Dude. XD

  6. @js I just had a hunkering to post on /c/unix_surrealism or whatever that board's called and I couldn't so I'm here bothering you instead.

    OpenBlade is edgy.

    That's all I wanted to say. Thank you.

    #analognowhere
    #analoguenowhere
    #digitaleverywhere
    #openblade
    #unix_surrealism
    #unixsurrealism
  7. In some ways, anime policewoman Noah Izumi is a better FOSS mascot than the existing ones.
    - Fairly nontechnical, yet still strives to get the most out of her exoskeleton (even does a little maintenance)
    - Dismantled the C&C server of a botnet that spread through a backdoored OS update: in a film that came out decades before the age of constant automatic updates
    - Defeated the Griffon (advanced prototype thingy) by using a last-gen machine that didn't have the Neural Network motion control software: in a genre that otherwise loves mid-season upgrades
    - Infectuously energetic and optimistic
    - Named after God's oldest backup engineer

    #frugalcomputing
    #permacomputing
    #unix_surrealism
    #unixsurrealism
  8. @ricci all temporary hacks are permanent. They live eternally.

    That is not dead which can eternal lie,
    And with strange aeons even death may die.

    #unixsurrealism

  9. Once upon a time, I used to work as Web Developer in an environment where each developer had their own development instance of Apache, all running on a shared Linux box.

    Overheard this conversation in the cube jungle, over cubicle walls:

    SysAdmin: "Looks like a web server is causing the development box to hang. Hey, which Apache instance is yours?"

    Developer: "...the one that says 'bad motherfucker' on it."

    #OH #TrueStory #UnixSurrealism

  10. YAAAAS

    #UnixSurrealism #AnalogNowhere #Laptop #Stickers

    cc: @prahou @mirabilos @amin @joel

    Note: The blurriness on the top right is caused by the camera angle and overzealous webp compression. The actual sticker is perfectly legible.

  11. CW: The Extremely Short Stories By triapul.cz Are Mocking Me And I Love It.

    (First on https://kaka.farm/posts/2025/11/07/the-extremely-short-stories-by-triapul-cz-are-mocking-me-and-i-love-it.html (mirror: https://kakafarm.codeberg.page/posts/2025/11/07/the-extremely-short-stories-by-triapul-cz-are-mocking-me-and-i-love-it.html))

    The two following extremely short satirical stories "We, the window managers" and "blue hair", written by the surrealist artist of analognowhere fame, are mocking people like me and I love it.

    "We, the window managers" is a day in the life of a religiously motivated digital minimalism advocate, specifically minimalist window managers.

    "blue hair" is the experience of patronising a cafe as a free software developer, specifically one of the ideologically deplorable 9front project.

    #9front #fiction #plan9 #shortstories #shortstory #triapul #triapulcz #unix_surrealism #unixsurrealism

  12. Every time I read #UnixSurrealism it makes me want to switch to #Plan9.

    This is absolutely not a reasonable option for me, but it doesn't stop me from wanting to do it.

  13. RIP. We had science fiction to prop us up, and reality to knock us down.

    https://triapul.cz/automa/the_case_of_eternal_computing/

    cc: @jae

           ----------
          /          \
         /            \
        /              \
       /    HERE LIE    \
      /    KAKAFARM'S    \
      |      HOPES       |
      |       AND        |
      |      DREAMS      |
      |                  |
     *|     *  *  *      | *
    _)/\\_//(\/(/\)/\//\/|_)_
    

    #actualmachinesfuckingmagic #amfm #pmjv #sciencefiction #sf #triapul #triapulcz #unix_surrealism #unixsurrealism

  14. @passthejoe

    Don't forget the #UnixSurrealism artwork... I'm not saying that the previous versions' artwork wasn't awesome, but this release has a real banger by @prahou!! ;)

  15. FOSS Wars episode... I don't know. I lost a few comics. There is a time skip here. #unixsurrealism

  16. ATTENTION ALL COMPUTER TOUCHERS!

    "Sudo is Sexy" Stickers are now live!
    (actually a real object now!)
    ko-fi.com/s/b88ff4f3ae

    Ask your computer for consent for taking in files, accessing deeper places, and making updating information.

    #prints #stickers #linux #FOSS #GlitchArt #Art #MastoArt #FediGiftShop #cyberpunk #UnixSurrealism

  17. I have a question about #UnixSurrealism

    Does my glitch art of Linux distro logos count?

    It's okay if not, but.....I'm thinking it might!

  18. Adolf Born Merz

    I don't want to rotoscope anything else in the nearby future.

    If you want the perfect loop of Mach a Šebestová walk cycle on a transparent background, email me.

    #startMeUp #windows95 #machašebestová #adolfborn #unixSurrealism #art #animation

  19. @jns @cat @ihnn @tomasino @dokuja

    'quite the step up from Flash' aka ascii animation.

    (I'll put the script up when I'm at the machine where I left my laundromat keys. this was surprisingly easy to make, let's talk ideas on how to make it less shitty.)

    In the meantime:

    (I tagged the washers I know of on mastodon, 'xcusme me, if I forgot anyone. And @ihnn, who supplied the music. I don't remember the name of the song; I downloaded it a year ago and my file naming standards are not standardised at all.)

    #unixsurrealism #laundromat #runbsd #art(?)

  20. Jindřich Štyrský and Josef Hora consult the lpr(1) man page, while attempting to print Hora's latest collection of poetry.
    circa 1928.

    #praha #runbsd #unixsurrealism

  21. A while ago, after a discussion on Operating Systems of our choice, a friend and a colleague I've worked with on several projects, presented me with the following illustration after showing her the mascot of OpenBSD:

    Here's Puffy by the genius Czech eroticist artist Bara Bacova.

    #art #praha #unixsurrealism #eroticism #openbsd #puffy #unix