amos

@fasterthanli.me

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hi, I'm amos! 🍃 they/them 🫐 currently working on https://vixen.rs and ML/ASR stuff, occasionally making videos about my latest code crimes 🦀 rust shill until something better comes up 📚 https://fasterthanli.me 📺 https://youtube.com/@fasterthanlime

codex actions reading the pcbrepair code, creating its own bin crate, listing files in ASUS TUF GAMING B550-PLUS.fz
7.9Gbps down, 7.4Gbps up, ping 8ms
me uploading a video to youtube, 430mb done in... what feels like 2 or 3 seconds
2.3Gbps down, 2.3 up
A fully decked out PCI express NanoKVM, connected to a DB9 to UART adapter itself connected to a DB9 to COM cable. All the ATX switches and LEDs are plugged in, too.
7 Shelly plugs daisy chained
Four NanoKVM cubes zip tied to a shelf.
2 PDUs and 3 4U rack mounts
6 Sipeed NanoKVM
Claude Fable 5 driving the Debian 13 text-based installer through Tmux and SSH.
A DAC (Direct Attach Cable) cable, not a DAC (Digital to Analog Converter)
vixenware/fj (private repo) readme showing commands like fj auth, fj run, fj api etc.
The civilization culture victory screen
A Radeon 7900XTX modded with 3 Noctua Fans
Screenshot of a suggested Reddit post from r/LocalLLM promoting “EULLM,” described as an EU-sovereign LLM engine for Windows, Linux, and Mac, claiming a 35B MoE model runs at 10 tokens per second on an ARM CPU without a GPU. The post image shows a black Radxa Orion O6 mini PC with an “EULLM European Sovereign LLM Platform” card on top, alongside visible USB-C, USB-A, HDMI, 2.5G LAN, audio, and power ports.
DAC packaging says do not kink the cable
codex: I'm checking the blah because 236.99 for one 16GB SODIMM looks catastrophically wrong. me: THIS IS THE STATE OF THE WORLD. RAM WENT 4 AND IT'S GONNA GET WORSE. I KNOW THAT. STOP BEING SURPRISED PIKACHU ALL THE TIME.
left: 2.8gbps, right: 1.5gbps
Now there's a big warning that says computer port limitation. Connected devices may be limited by this computer's port throughput.
like I said in the post
topology schema from Hubble, hard to describe completely honestly 🐝︎But the most interesting thing to me is that there's a host controller. There's two three point one buses, even though it's all on the same cable. There's a USB three generation two hub going to the LAN interface, which is great. The USB two hub going to the Scarlett Solo fourth gen and the studio display, which is weird. And the four hundred eighty each, and then on the other bus we have a USB two point oh hub going to Thunderbolt four docking station weird, and a USB three point oh hub going to USB three point one hub going to another LAN which is the one that's built into the Ugreen, and then sorry of the previous USB two point oh hub. There's also another USB two point oh hub, which is going to USB billboard device, which is a shitty display that I have.
7843 mbps down, 7259 mbps up, ping.. 7 / 20 / 9 ? how do they count.
6 sfp transceivers, and a wav link USB4 10gbe interface
charlie from IASIP conspiracy meme
Okay, there's like too much to say here, but basically, a blink or W A N is through Freebox Pro. It goes into this. This is one gigabit port that goes into an N150 appliance for firewall for Internet of Things. Then we have one of my MSR1 boxes that acts as a 10 gig router slash firewall, which then feeds into the Microtech CRS309, which is fanless and it's managed from there. We have three DAXs going through to our three Ryzen boxes. We have a DAC going to not a DAC. We have a cage to go RJ forty five cat six A into my Mac dock. We have a fucking another cage going artery forty five into a TP Link and managed switched a TL SX one o five that has ports going to well uplink and then three workers two of which are max and the other one is um an another arm sixty four machine. Meanwhile, there's also a sixteen port tender switch, which is also unmanaged, and it has all of the like, like home assistant things, the nano kvm things, all the low speed things.
a triangle saying 'performant', 'silent', 'affordable,', pick none
chrome task manager showing typos-dict on docs.rs and crates.io side by side. the docs.rs tab uses 131MB ram and 100% CPU (for minutes..) and the crates.io tab uses 100MB and 0% CPU.
A bunch of Noctua grey spacers for AMD shit
French product diagram of an extremely plain, generic-looking black Thunderbolt 4 dock. Its featureless rectangular slab, deep cooling fins, tiny ports, and stark technical callouts give it a slightly ominous, almost industrial appearance. The dock includes HDMI 2.1, two Thunderbolt 4 ports, USB-A ports, 2.5 Gbit/s Ethernet, an SD card reader, a 3.5 mm jack, and up to 96 W laptop charging.
A cat lying under a 19" rack. There is a UPS on the floor, a Mac Studio and MS-R1 on the shelf. There is a Miri sticker on the Mac Studio
04/29/2026 bios aw yiss
UART console showing UEFI shell, with FlashUpdate.efi etc.
Three cables coming out from under the minisforum, plugged into an UART USB adapter
Cables threaded through grid to escape the box (no other practical holes)
Three wrapped cables plugged into the UART port of my MS-R1
properly shrunk plastic tubing so that there is no contact between them inside the mobo
A UART TTL usb c adapter, with three cables crimped with female uhhh I forget the technical terms. Ima heat shrink these fuckers and put them on an RS-M1 motherboard though.
discord UI, showing menu => view details => description (alt text) with a truncated version of my alt text.
debian 13 install screen
C&H's "Welcome abord!" panel
It's the classic meme where there's a couple in bed, both saying "I consent," and then there's a figure of Jesus saying "I don't," and it normally reads the myth of consensual sex, and both people are saying "I consent," and Jesus says "I don't consent," and then it says, "Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask?" Except now, the two people are actually, respectively, Asahi Linux and KVM, and Jesus is actually Apple.
19.5, 32.6K
discord message: amos 13:25 wanna go halfsies on 8xB200?
Raspberry Pi Imager v2.0.10 writing an image, saying limited by storage device speed 56MB/s
15% 395MB 1.9MB/s 18:20 ETA
It's a RYZEN CPU which sounds like risen which is what happens at Easter there's a ghost that is risen and people eat food.
A screenshot of my phone.
You wouldn't steal from sussman
🚩 The RAM is wildly overpriced. €364.99 for a 32 GB (2×16) DDR5-5600 SODIMM kit is ~3.5× market — that RAM is normally ~€90–110. You're about to pay ~€730 for 64 GB of laptop memory that should cost ~€200. Two options, both better: swap for a correctly-priced 32 GB kit (~€100) → save ~€530, or for roughly what you're overpaying now, get 96 GB (2×48) per node (~€200–250/kit) — real headroom for heavy compile/LTO actions. Either way, don't buy 32 GB at 96 GB prices. And note: 2×16 fills both SODIMM slots, so 32 GB is a dead-end for this buy — upgrading later means binning these. That alone argues for 2×48 now if the action profile ever wants big RAM.
girl thing pointing a gun at you, with eyes wide open, saying: I lied, take off your shoes, we're fixing my Tailscale ACLs
will gpt-5.6 be released by July 6: 1%, then 13, 15, 75, 80, 85, 92, 92, 95, 98
Flaubert passait sa phrase au gueuloir comme on passe un binaire au profileur. Il voulait entendre la branche mal prédite, la virgule qui cache un saut, le mot qui alloue trop de sentimentalité. Madame Bovary n'est pas seulement une histoire d'adultère et de dettes ; c'est une démonstration de précision, presque une horlogerie morale. Une phrase juste peut condamner tout un monde sans hausser la voix.
a wine bottle label: chateau fifty six
sychronous exception at ...
a 2TB samsung 990 pro vs a 1TB kingston whatever. the bottom one looks like a toy. I've redacted everything like a motherfucker because jesus there's so many unique numbers on there.
debian gnu/linux 13 booting normally
We have a cheap UARTUSB adapter we have a wireless keyboard dongle and a USB-C cable and a nano KVM cube all plugged into a machine with a sand that's visible
Um, this is part of my current efforts to replace Cargo with something nice, and it's using a new language called Vix, which was originally going to be used to implement the semantics of building Rust code with it but it also turned out to be an excellent fit when it comes to implementing dependency resolution, which is a hard problem that the Cargo solver is at hoc. There were plans to use Pubgrub instead, but those plans never materialized fully. There's research doing a lot of interesting things, and I came up with something that is a distant cousin of something like salsa or Adapton, because the build system is the resolver is the language, et cetera. It's it's it's all come together in the past few weeks and this is this is the extreme payoff of it. This is this is an entire parsing framework with it that's inspired by but then generates AST for you and lets you write LSP queries in Vixx itself because it's a command driven language, it's the laziest language in the world, everything is lowered to a VM, which also has a just in time compiler, which is based on Copy Patch, so it's not actually that that costly to warm up and say It's all It's all vertically integrated it's all in the facet ecosystem universe, the facet cinematic universe, where you can actually go look at all that on the facet Monorail right now. This is like twenty five different write ups. There's no way I can write about all of this all at once. I just thought it was funny to do a write up in the old text of an image, because you have a great number of characters to to do this with. For example, my website generator is also going to be effectively re implemented in V because it's just incremental computation with inputs and outputs you have to have precise tracking of everything that goes in there. My templating language is going to be used not only in Dodeca, where it's already used, but also in the build system which means you again you have exact tracking. it's.. it's all coming together
And the bootstrap ladder is the house discipline applied to itself: the Rust checker comes first as the differential oracle (no-two-novel-implementations — same as the fable query oracles); the vix checker is written against it and diffed on the corpus; and the endgame test is the one that gives me chills in the good way: the vix checker checking its own source — self-application as the fixpoint proof, with warm re-checking falling out of the machine’s memo. Per-definition incremental checking — the entire rust-analyzer value proposition — obtained not by building an incremental framework but by writing a plain checker in a language whose evaluator is one.
a genuinely blank image to fuck with everyone sighted, since the bluesky CDN is down right now