ct4LunaFv

queer poly kinky disaster • digital sorceress • creative coder • reverse engineer • demoscener (yx)

pronouns: she/they
website: https://moonbase.lgbt/

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2026-07-13 12:07:40 UTC

so i'm having a fight with a register allocator

2026-06-24 23:53:53 UTC

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oh that one's a classic, guess i know what i'm watching again tomorrow ^^

2026-06-15 21:14:55 UTC

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i just don't understand why i seem to need a PhD to get two computers which are three feet apart to reliably be able to talk to each other

2026-06-15 21:08:10 UTC

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"is zen using DNS over HTTPS?"<li>none of these words are in the bible</li><li>i have no goddamn idea</li>

2026-06-15 20:54:23 UTC

i hate computers so fucking much<li>my laptop (mac) is running a webserver</li><li>my desktop (fedora) can ping the laptop</li><li>curl on my desktop can connect to the webserver</li><li>chrome on my desktop can connect to the webserver</li><li>zen (firefox fork) on my desktop cannot connect to the webserver</li><li>if i put the laptop's ip address into the desktop's /etc/hosts, suddenly zen can connect</li>

2026-06-13 17:19:28 UTC

BREAKING: The EPA is reportedly set to ban the sale of E-6 process photographic chemicals to individuals under the age of 21. For more information visit e621.net

2026-05-18 21:47:39 UTC

🖼
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/597/773/715/120/191/original/dd05c9f276396d6c.jpg

2026-05-13 01:12:17 UTC

MAN: Hello, police? It's a terrible thing, you see, my wife was killed last night, I was hoping you could send someone to investigate
OFFICER: Certainly sir, the great detective Columbo is in town. Go and see him, he will solve the case
MAN: Ah, I see, very good. Oh, officer, just one more thing,

2026-05-11 00:27:58 UTC

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idk how i feel about this one, the overall composition feels kinda sloppy
this was taken at the end of the roll, just trying to use up the last few shots on my way to the lab, maybe i'm too self-critical but i feel like it kinda shows

2026-05-11 00:17:28 UTC

selfie
📷 Olympus OM-20, Zuiko 50mm f/1.8
🎞️ Santacolor 100 (Kodak Aerocolor IV)
#FilmPhotography
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/553/052/833/721/444/original/b0cf6104f91f7547.jpg

2026-05-04 12:03:44 UTC

> An innovative organisation in the national security and defence space is looking for an AI Software Engineer. This role involves developing cutting-edge artificial intelligence solutions to support critical national infrastructure and security projects.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

2026-04-30 20:28:29 UTC

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i'll let you guess how expensive the wide-angle lenses are, relative to the shift lenses

2026-04-30 19:41:43 UTC

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i just think the idea of having the image circle not be centered on the film gate is kinda neat

2026-04-30 19:41:22 UTC

saw a mutual talking about tilt/shift lenses and now i'm yearning for the zuiko 35mm f/2.8 shift lens again

2026-04-26 23:58:51 UTC

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gosh, the colours! <3

2026-04-25 00:28:11 UTC

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I gotta do math when I’m more awake but that sounds promising actually

2026-04-25 00:21:48 UTC

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just gonna start sending my film to your lab

2026-04-25 00:13:44 UTC

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💭 what about the new AHU variant of vision3 since it doesn’t have a remjet layer and can be developed in C-41 chemistry without needing a prewash?
> I can’t find anyone selling it for noticeably cheaper than my usual C-41 colour stocks anyway
💭 [sigh]

2026-04-25 00:11:29 UTC

💭 maybe I should try shooting respooled vision3 since it’s so much cheaper than my usual colour filmstocks (when respooled from regular bulk rolls, we’re ignoring CineStill’s custom agreement with Kodak and their absurd price markup)
> the cost of ECN-2 development at my local lab is sufficiently more costly than the usual C-41 process that it essentially negates any potential savings
💭 never mind

2026-04-24 18:58:43 UTC

I feel like front-loading a podcast with two full minutes of commercials for other completely unrelated podcasts is a waste of everyone’s time but clearly I don’t understand iHeart’s business model

2026-04-24 02:25:41 UTC

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“what about Canon?” I hear you ask
[some quick image searches later]
so apparently they get the focus ring the right way round but the aperture ring is backwards instead?

2026-04-24 02:20:00 UTC

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the correct focus-twist direction is whatever it was on your first serious camera so I guess I’m an Olympus girlie for life now

2026-04-24 02:17:50 UTC

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don’t mind me just rehashing camera brand tribalism from like 40 years ago

2026-04-24 02:14:47 UTC

“maybe I’ll treat myself to a Nikon F-series SLR at some point”
[some research later]
“huh, they got the focus ring backwards, that’s silly”

2026-04-22 01:18:55 UTC

is that good?
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/445/720/023/590/174/original/540e0f5142635572.png

2026-04-21 23:04:58 UTC

I love the juxtaposition in this space at the John Rylands Library; the visitor centre has been attached to the outside of the original building, letting the historical exterior bleed through into the modern interior.
📷 Olympus OM-20, Zuiko 50mm f/1.8
🎞️ Ilford HP5+ pushed to ISO 1600
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/445/191/018/659/173/original/e7565009e623c9bb.jpg
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/445/191/207/076/220/original/aca2ff1fa571f7c7.jpg

2026-04-21 21:24:43 UTC

i've been using darktable to manage my film photos for like a year and a half and i only figured out tagging last week

2026-04-20 20:48:22 UTC

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for the camera sickos: both were shot on my Olympus OM-20 with the Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 kit lens, the portrait was on HP5 pushed to ISO 1600, the street photo was on HP5 pushed to ISO 800, and the camera she's using is an Olympus Superzoom 70G

2026-04-20 20:41:14 UTC

you should take photos of your loved ones, and then also let them borrow your cameras to lure them into photography too
(feat. @npub10cn…zpt6)
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/438/965/671/717/008/original/033b9ec7c8ae4403.jpg
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/438/965/356/992/634/original/0207be3c2caf96ba.jpg

2026-04-20 15:12:38 UTC

nvm, deleted that post, in this instance [Studio] actually does have a second office in [City] and i don't wanna put them on blast for me being an idiot
(though in my defense i *have* seen recruiters pull "office 'in [City]' is actually in a random town on the far outskirts" before)

2026-04-19 11:39:12 UTC

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boooooooooooooo

2026-04-16 01:09:28 UTC

This product contains chemicals heretofore unknown to the State of California.

2026-04-16 00:37:35 UTC

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well obviously :D

2026-04-15 18:57:50 UTC

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sure but I figure most everyone knows that DDG is a search engine, that’s not the point, the interesting bit is folks on fedi seeming to be more aware of how I might have ended up at the East Montgomery County Sports Association (which I’m not going to explain)

2026-04-15 00:39:12 UTC

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fascinating that this one’s getting more attention here on fedi than it is over on bsky, I’m taking notes

2026-04-15 00:26:35 UTC

thanks for the effort duckduckgo but I can assure you I was not looking for the East Montgomery County Sports Association

2026-04-14 00:02:27 UTC

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god that’s so cursed
and presumably that only works if the host system and victim program use the same architecture (if memory serves correctly I was dissecting GBA ARM code under an x86_64 host)

2026-04-13 23:51:40 UTC

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actually I think in one case I actually did the asm-to-c conversion by hand because I hadn’t learned ghidra yet 💀

2026-04-13 23:43:20 UTC

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> me: man I hate reverse engineering decompression routines. what if I just take the ghidra decomp of the routine and stuff it into a new C file, and call that from my python script? Surely that'll work?
> me: hurray, it worked! I can see no downsides to this!
are you me? I swear I’ve done exactly this on multiple reverse-engineering projects

2026-04-13 19:53:03 UTC

💭 wondering if there are bird therians who wear leg bands

2026-04-13 12:36:24 UTC

so i'm reading old QC...
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/397/425/208/993/153/original/ebdff09af1c225dc.png

2026-04-12 18:40:29 UTC

me: "does the c stdlib have a clamp() function?"
me, idiot: *types "c clamp" into a web search*

2026-04-09 22:39:04 UTC

🤔💭 camera strap that clips onto a collar's o-ring

2026-04-09 19:15:22 UTC

“you can’t have a fictive if you haven’t even read the fic”

2026-04-09 00:05:43 UTC

thinking about Mechasm by Fairlight today for no particular reason
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/371/812/866/296/473/original/0556451e4ea5ff8f.png

2026-04-07 22:36:50 UTC

how today feels
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/365/810/499/293/889/original/dfbdff598f270fa1.jpg

2026-04-06 19:56:30 UTC

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the article:
*"devices sure do demand your attention a lot huh"*
every line of text, every image, every diagram:
*animates in distractingly as you scroll*
prefers-reduced-motion media query:
*completely absent (obviously)*

2026-04-06 19:48:35 UTC

if i ever make a blog post that has scroll-driven animations just put me out to pasture

2026-04-06 17:14:08 UTC

the more I think about OTF metering the less sense it makes

2026-04-06 15:11:53 UTC

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everyone saying "they removed ftp support" missing the point:<li>why does the error message list https and not ftp as the problem? (answer: because it's reaching the ftp: link via a redirect and the browser engine has a bug)</li><li>why does it just give a hard error, instead of poking the system handler for ftp: links? it already handles torrent magnet: links just fine...</li>

2026-04-06 15:03:24 UTC

i have once again encountered the "firefox (and derivatives) doesn't like it when you visit an https:// url that returns a location header pointing to an ftp:// url" bug
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/358/367/458/804/377/original/d219740a7d1b4684.png

2026-04-06 14:37:57 UTC

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I put "no" but it was really "i think so but wouldn't put money on it"
(...just checked and i *was* right after all, go figure)

2026-04-06 14:20:53 UTC

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i can be trusted with an xpan, look at this beautiful 65x24 post
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/358/195/922/116/711/original/ed1a77860080fe1f.png

2026-04-06 14:16:21 UTC

- “the xpan is overrated”
- [i see photos by someone who knows how to compose for the wider aspect ratio]
- “i want one”
- [i cannot afford one]
(repeat)

2026-04-06 12:31:48 UTC

my kingdom for linkedin to add search filters for "not fintech" and "not crypto" and "not ai" and "not military"

2026-04-05 16:30:24 UTC

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thank you!! 💕

2026-04-05 15:18:14 UTC

it’s crazy that I just get to look like this now
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/352/762/729/631/252/original/793a4914aa8b56a2.jpeg

2026-04-04 15:34:37 UTC

https://moonbase.lgbt/blog/little-blue-marble/

2026-04-03 12:13:12 UTC

cool, wonderful, the chasers have made it over to mastodon now 🙃

2026-04-02 13:49:59 UTC

rocking up to the party with a cheap point-and-shoot bearing a sticker that reads “my other camera is a leica”

2026-04-02 00:37:55 UTC

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I’m sure the trend of webpage bloat is absolutely fine in a world where ram is increasingly expensive /s

2026-04-01 23:40:41 UTC

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banger album btw (Ukulele Seychelles by Masayoshi Takanaka)

2026-04-01 23:34:15 UTC

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“there was so much stuffed into it, there was no more room for the clock!”
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/332/052/646/167/662/original/d4abf4eeabc4487a.png

2026-04-01 23:01:34 UTC

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meanwhile, iOS 26 with reduced motion turned on… 🙃
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/331/932/853/110/610/original/e5b46f6631721aea.mp4

2026-03-31 22:16:19 UTC

RE: https://pony.social/@luna/116326037323748138
filmstock in question is Kodak Aerocolor IV (2460) btw
the one time I tried long exposures with it there was a heavy green cast (the negs were very visibly magenta) but I'm curious if anyone's done any actual rigorous testing of how it behaves
#note1tyq…fzuz

2026-03-31 22:02:34 UTC

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i would love to have a screenshot of the actual datasheet instead of copy-pasting the text in, but apparently despite all the computational power we have in 2026, putting an image in the middle of a text post can't be done, we just don't know how

2026-03-31 22:01:05 UTC

me: hmm, i wonder how this filmstock handles reciprocity failure for long exposures
the datasheet:
> No filter correction or exposure adjustment is required for exposure times from 1/10,000 second to 1/10 second.
thanks kodak i guess i'll go fuck myself

2026-03-30 01:13:14 UTC

posted a small thing on my blog
https://moonbase.lgbt/blog/macro-moss/

2026-03-29 18:14:49 UTC

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spot the dunce who struck out by guessing the correct song

2026-03-29 18:09:59 UTC

look I just think that if a rip features all four movements of Dancing Mad from FFVI, back-to-back, in order, it should accept Dancing Mad as a guess rather than requiring you to put in Dancing Mad (Movement 1), Dancing Mad (Movement 2), etc

2026-03-29 10:01:18 UTC

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daisy.

2026-03-28 19:39:57 UTC

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110 format is where the funky cameras are at

2026-03-28 19:37:57 UTC

uh oh, she's looking at weird cameras on ebay again

2026-03-28 18:49:00 UTC

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final update on this
i wiped my iPad and downgraded it to 26.3 and restored my apps/etc from a backup
settings is still prompting me to verify my age for some reason, but it's no longer locking me out of things for having not verified

2026-03-28 17:44:47 UTC

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big day

2026-03-28 15:50:49 UTC

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and if you're thinking "oh, use your passport, that's a national ID", nope:
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/307/591/261/992/374/original/33ef45aede767bd7.png

2026-03-28 15:47:55 UTC

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you can see the US defaultism in that list
"credit card or driver's license" might fly in the states but over here we have walkable cities and public transit and we don't really use credit cards all that much

2026-03-28 15:37:55 UTC

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oh, and the officially supported verification methods are:<li>credit card (which i don't have; note that debit cards are not supported)</li><li>driver's license (which i also don't have)</li><li>national ID (whatever that means)</li>

2026-03-28 15:33:03 UTC

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if you don't verify you're over 18:<li>browsers will block 'adult' websites - this appears to affect all browsers (not just safari) and can't be circumvented via a VPN, it seems to be blocked at the webview level</li><li>if you use safari extensions, you can't configure them any more</li><li>a little red notification badge on the settings icon until you verify</li><li>presumably a bunch of other bullshit too</li>

2026-03-28 15:27:27 UTC

well, time to downgrade my iPad from 26.4 back to 26.3 while i still can because of course apple didn't put "btw we're doing UK age verification now" in the patch notes

2026-03-27 01:14:57 UTC

watched *Underworld: Evolution* for the first time tonight and y’all I’m so normal
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/298/485/076/799/692/original/6b09fc625deb5157.png

2026-03-26 21:53:28 UTC

cathedral (cat·he·dral)
Having the form of a cat.
#UxbridgeEnglishDictionary

2026-03-26 20:11:44 UTC

Me: “oh, you wanna hear some good news?”
Sylvia: “Always!“
Me: “yeah, me too…”
[she hangs up the call]

2026-03-26 13:49:11 UTC

upon joining this polycule you will be granted access to the one (1) communal brain cell

2026-03-26 10:28:45 UTC

Merlin I appreciate the compliment but I was rather hoping you could identify the local birds for me
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/295/001/107/562/033/original/35e62b65e2ae47ff.jpeg

2026-03-25 18:30:13 UTC

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i'm not still bitter about the babelfish sequence in the h2g2 text adventure, honest

2026-03-25 18:29:51 UTC

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i'm gonna make a fork where typing license() tells you to set a particular environment variable and try again, at which point it needs another different environment variable, and so on for eight or so iterations until it tells you that it's run out of copies of the license, and you have to start the whole thing over and remember all of the environment variables you needed to set

2026-03-25 18:18:52 UTC

what are we doing here man
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/291/188/894/664/302/original/64dcc58e3946e861.png

2026-03-24 21:31:19 UTC

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i believe mine's one of the more readily moddable ones but i've not felt the need to do so yet

2026-03-24 21:30:53 UTC

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there are also various aftermarket hardware mods to upgrade the battery and storage capacity, if that's of interest to you then i'd make sure to do the research into which models are best for that first

2026-03-24 21:26:40 UTC

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I'm still using the apple tooling for now, but there are other options (and i've done a fair amount of poking at the database format myself and could cobble together my own tooling if i wanted) plus there's always rockbox to turn it into a regular-ass "just put the mp3s in the usb volume" media player

2026-03-24 21:21:09 UTC

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already got an ipod classic that i'm steadily reintroducing into my life ^^

2026-03-24 21:15:30 UTC

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so help me god i'll replace this fucking thing with a wristwatch and a walkman

2026-03-24 20:54:55 UTC

sorry what do you mean iOS 26 shrinks the clock if you have the big album art on the lock screen
who the fuck signed off on "yeah if you want the big album art you can't easily glance at the time any more"
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/286/130/004/707/714/original/a1ff6b8144bc6f0c.png
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/116/286/139/852/736/482/original/cd80fca4d5023f00.png

2026-03-24 19:23:20 UTC

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kodak alaris are still selling it as portra everywhere, kodak eastman are now also selling it as ektacolor in the US.
https://www.kodak.com/en/still-film/product/professional/ektacolor-film/

2026-03-24 18:56:23 UTC

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sorry did i say rest in peace i meant good riddance

2026-03-24 18:49:52 UTC

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kodak is actually two companies; eastman kodak manufactures the film, kodak alaris distributes it (nitpick: alaris distributes *stills* film, *motion picture* film was always handled by eastman)
recently, eastman has started distributing film directly to consumers (nitpick: in the US only) with name changes where alaris presumably holds the trademarks
portra is now being sold as ektacolor, so rest in peace "porntra"

2026-03-24 18:47:23 UTC

finally, the analog circlejerk subreddit will have to come up with a new joke

2026-03-24 18:08:28 UTC

why am i sitting here staring at a "cloning into [...]" wondering if this git submodule update has gotten stuck because it doesn't have a progress indicator
(you can get one by adding --progress to the command but it really should be the default)

2026-03-24 01:37:09 UTC

[rhetorical] is there anything more wonderful than taking a nap with a loved one?