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MySetup

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 02:08:07 +0000

My Setup

This document contains the software and hardware I use.

Computer – Thinkpad T480s
Operating System – Devuan, I’ve used Alpine and Void, they’re good.
Email client – Thunderbird
Text editor – Neovim
Keyboard Layout – Dvorak
Shell – zsh
Web – librewolf with the following extensions: – block site – dark reader – libredirect – I still don’t care about cookies – Stop Watching Porn or Get Assaded – Yandex search – uBlock Origin – I occasionally use links2
Terminal emulator – st
Window manager – dwm
Video Editing – kdenlive, shotcut, & ffmpeg
Image Editing – gimp & imagemagick
Audio Editing – sox & audacity
Bible – commandline kjv with deuterocanon, or “OSB” for mobile
3D – Blender
Document viewer – sioyek, I use KOReader on mobile
Image/Video/Audio viewer – mpv & sxiv interchangeably
Music player – audacious, auxio on mobile
I used to use ‘Irfanview’ when I used Windows.
C Complier – zig cc
Search engine – 4get
Communication – Matrix, Telegram (church friends), sms, email
Keyboard: The integrated ThinkPad keyboard
Mouse: Either the trackpoint or a Perixx 517 Trackball mouse

..,,;;;::;,.. vilyaem@zaporozhie `’:ddd;:,. ————————— `‘dPPd:,. OS: Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus) x86_64 `:b$$b`. Host: 20L7001WUS (ThinkPad T480s) ‘P$$` Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-43-amd64 ;$$$$ Packages: 3822 (dpkg) .:P$$$$$$` Shell: zsh 5.9 .,:b$$$$$$’ Display (CMN14C9): 1920×1080

 60 Hz in 14" [Built-in]
             .,:dP$$$$$$$$b:'       WM: dwm (X11)
      .,:;db$$$$$$$$$$Pd'`          Theme: BlackMATE [GTK2/3]
 ,db$$$$$$$$$$$$$$b:'`              Icons: Windows-7-master [GTK2/3]
:$$$$$$$$$$$$b:'`                   Font: Sans (10pt) [GTK2/3]
 `$$$$d:''`                         Cursor: Bibata-Modern-Classic
   `'''`                            Terminal: st 0.9.2
                                    Terminal Font: TerminessNerdFont (14pt)
                                    CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8250U (8)

3.40 GHz GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 620 @ 1.10 GHz [Integrated] Locale: en_US.UTF-8

If I had to recreate my ‘bloat-maxxed’ Windows 10 setup 5 years ago, it would
be…

Computer – AMD FX-8350 Eight-core / MSI AM3+ 970, that thing HOWLED
Operating System – Windows 10
Email client – gmail webmail
Text editor – Notepad++ or gVim
Keyboard Layout – QWERTY
Shell – cmd.exe
Web – firefox developer edition with the following extensions: – dark reader – uBlock Origin – I still don’t care about cookies – Yandex search
Terminal emulator – cmd.exe
Window manager – dwm.exe
Video Editing – adobe premiere pro
Image Editing – pixlr, adobe illustrator, & adobe photoshop
Audio Editing – audacity
Bible – I seldom read scripture.
3D – Blender
Document viewer – firefox
Image/Video/Audio viewer – IrfanView
Music player – YouTube
C Complier – msvc.exe
Search engine – Google & Yandex
Communication – sms and the ‘cord…
Keyboard: Alienware Multimedia SK-8165, just a membrane, happens to be immortal
Mouse: Generic
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Introduction

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:29:36 +0000

Hello, welcome to my site.

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Volunteering is Nice

Mon, 04 May 2026 21:04:58 +0000

I have begun volunteering at a local food pantry. I didn’t know what to expect.
I have found that I enjoy it. Meditative physical labour is a satisfying
process. I woke up early one day, looked at the clock, not that I was late, but
I ran through my neighborhood to the building. Once I was there I met some nice
people and we just got to work like we were bees.

I will keep going.
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Taskwarrior-Setup

Sun, 03 May 2026 18:47:37 +0000

Overview

I use Taskwarrior to help complete and keep track of my tasks. It’s not really just a single program, though you could certainly use it that way, it’s more of a constellation of software that wrap around the original. I discovered it around October of 2025, and then took a break from it, because:

I only wanted to use it once I had a decent synchronized setup for both desktop and mobile
I wanted to meditate on what I actually wanted to achieve with this

So at that point I stuck to simple handwritten and plaintext TODOs, after my initial bout with taskwarrior and a lovely TUI called ‘vit’. Once I finally had the backend setup on my VPS, and all my clients in motion, It felt good, conducive to flow-state, it simplified many parts of my life, and brought me clarity that for some reason, previous strategies have not. I suspect it’s because of how low-friction and centralized it is, compared to having fragmented notes of varying mediums.

After a few months, I can’t say I’ll switch to anything else, I’m satisfied with what I have. I’ve thought about falling just a bit farther down the rabbit hole, studying the strategies and intricacies of UDA and Project usage, but I don’t care enough to do that, I believe I’m already at the peak before the diminishing returns.

Tutorial

Desktop

1. Install taskwarrior and vit, you specifically need a 3.x+ version, and repositories that serve older packages won’t have them. In my case I used Nix. Vit is the TUI frontend I use most often.

$ nix profile install nixpkgs#taskwarrior3
$ nix profile install nixpkgs#vit

Moblie (Android)

For mobile I don’t use vit, since that would require installing python, and python’s dependencies are huge, I opted to use tasksh, it’s like a simple Taskwarrior REPL.

1. Install Termux
2. Install tasksh and taskwarrior

$ pkg install tasksh

3. (Optional) Make a Termux shortcut to a script that runs tasksh

Synchronization Server

You will need a server for this, could be at home or a VPS, whatever. In my case it’s a VPS running Debian, as conventional as it gets. In my case I’m using Docker, because I don’t want to compile anything on my server, especially since Taskwarrior has changed to R*st (🤮).

1. Install docker

$ apt install docker.io

2. Pull the image

$ docker pull ghcr.io/gothenburgbitfactory/taskchampion-sync-server:latest

3. Run the docker image, this command assumes you’ll use a reverse proxy

docker run -d \
  --name taskchampion \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  -p 127.0.0.1:8081:8080 \
  ghcr.io/gothenburgbitfactory/taskchampion-sync-server

4. (Optional) Use a reverse-proxy to avoid conflicts, and to make it obey your web server if you already have one.

Making clients sync to the server

You’ll need to do these steps on all clients you want to have in order to have them synchronize. You could enter separate commands, but I prefer to enter it all at once in the .taskrc configuration file.

1. Install ‘uid-runtime’

$ apt install uuid-runtime

2. Generate your UUID using uuidgen, take note of this, or put it in your clipboard

$ uuidgen

Final client configuration

3. Open the .taskrc file in a text editor, go to the bottom, and add in your information:

sync.server.url=task.example.com  ...

T480s-1-year-review

Sun, 03 May 2026 18:31:17 +0000

Origin & Review

It has been a year since I have acquired my T480s, I don’t regret the purchase, and it has not broken on me yet. It has served me well so far. I purchased this laptop when I noticed the SMART stats on my T420s’ HDD (I did not replace it😉) climbing up quickly, I knew it was the beginning of the end, and that I should seek a replacement. It took some getting used to, I thought I would miss the original keyboard, but it turns out I don’t really care about that, the tactility feels the same. The NVMe was a dramatic improvement to boot-time and general performance. For reference, it takes around 3 seconds to open my phat browser for the first time. It would be nice to have a separate row for function keys. The Fn thing is strange to me. For migrating I remember just hooking both laptops to ethernet, setting up sshd, then just rsyncing it. Installation went smoothly. Battery life and capacity is strong, though I might stock up on replacements in the future. The T480s is obscenely quiet compared to the T420s, no coil whine, HDD churning, no fan sounds. The only time I hear the laptop make a sound at all is when it is completely maxed out. Using this laptop for the first time felt like alien technology.

Seems like it came used.

Commemoration

🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡

Links

psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_T480s/ThinkPad_T480s_Spec.pdf
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New-Commandment

Sun, 03 May 2026 03:46:16 +0000

John 13:34-35

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
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On Video Games

Sun, 03 May 2026 01:51:02 +0000

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⢴⠏⡙⡇⣿⣷⣦⢄⢁⢰⣶⠀⡠⠭⢦⡎⢸⣻⣿⣿⣿⢿⣃⣊⡋⠋⢍⢯⣭⣤⣭⣽⣵⢏⢀⢄⡐⠔⠤⣈⣉⠈⠙⠆⢭⢂⣽⣵⣉⡟⢯⣯⡓⢋⠿⡵⡬⡭⣤⢏⡄⣀⣠⡇⠀⡡⡠⠥⡛⡚⡯⠸⠶⣮⢺⢋⣿⠀
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⠁⡸⠭⠜⢀⠀⠧⣆⡐⣛⡕⠯⡆⠿⢈⢻⣾⣿⣸⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⡟⣟⡃⢴⢷⡿⢛⡧⣘⢸⢹⣇⣝⣖⣟⣸⢀
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One should take c…a…r…e of oneself, by not consuming

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File Organization

Sat, 02 May 2026 22:58:47 +0000

I’ve come to find that it is difficult to find information on how people
organize their computer files, at least for users like me. I remember for the
longest time I would struggle with the defaults of Windows and having
directories be absolutely packed with unorganized files. There are some
strategies I found on the internet, but the information doesn’t feel applicable
because the authors are either exclusively discussing note-taking, or they are
not taking into consideration what a ‘unix power-user’ would do to navigate and
use the filesystem.

Criteria for how I organize files

- The top-level ($HOME) should consist of one-character directories, if one has a feature like zsh’s autocd, all they have to do is type that single letter, and they are there.

% ~ a % ~/a

- Things should, as much as reasonably possible, use lower-case letters and dashes, the – is notably accessible on Dvorak.
- “Document” and “Archive” type directories should use something similar to the Johny.Decimal system, they seem to be most appropriate for that system.
- Keep it simple, and avoid redundancy as much as possible
- I think downloads being mounted as a tmpfs makes things cleaner, often you will come across an archive, in which you only want one thing. Why should the husk stay? It also compels you to put things in their proper place.

My Tree

This is not verbatim, I’ve left some room for your imagination.

├── a — archive
│   ├── 00-09-backups
│   ├── 10-19-art-assets
│   ├── 20-29-game-saves
│   ├── 30-39-communications
│   ├── 40-49-creations
│   ├── 50-59-notes
│   ├── 60-69-media-borgs
│   └── 70-79-media
├── b — book collection, each directory is a category
│   ├── …
│   ├── …
│   ├── …
├── d — ephemeral downloads (tmpfs)
├── k — markdown / note directory
│   ├── active — active referential text
│   ├── archive — old things
│   ├── journal
│   ├── media — embedded media
│   ├── people — relationships and contacts
│   ├── projects — notes and canvases on projects
│   ├── shadow — stagnant referential text
│   └── wiki — my personal wiki
├── m — media
│   ├── assets — assets to use in media
│   ├── family
│   ├── gems — the gems
│   ├── inbox — unsorted
│   ├── library — curated picture collection, each directory is a collection
│   ├── music — music collection, synced with phone
│   ├── tube
│   └── user — my media, and media projects
├── r — software repositories, things I git clone from the internet
│   ├── …
│   ├── …
│   ├── …
├── s — software, cad, and 3d modelling projects
│   ├── c
│   ├── scad
│   ├── forth
│   ├── python
│   ├── shell
│   ├── archive
├── w — wallpapers
├── x — documents
│   ├── 00-09-taxes
│   ├── 10-19-fitness
│   ├── 20-29-credentials
│   ├── 30-39-wage-work
│   ├── 40-49-business
│   ├── 50-59-resumes
│   ├── 60-69-certifications
│   ├── 70-79-quotes
│   ├── 80-89-school
│   └── 90-99-preferences
└── z — experimental / scratch └── vault — rclone mount point

Why the short top-level directory names?

I found myself shorting directory names like so: 0. Documents 1. documents 2. dox 3. x
This comes with a few benefits: – Shorter names, easier to type – Less prefix collision: “d” and “x” instead of “Downloads” and “Documents” – Shorter absolute file paths

How I navigate it

- zoxide
- tui file manager
- the zoxide integration in said tui file manager
- clicking around in a GUI

https://johnnydecimal.com
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/File_management#Deduplication
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/File_naming
https://vifm.info/
https://yazi-rs.github.io/
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On Pornography

Sat, 02 May 2026 09:39:00 +0000

Consider not masturbating and watching pornography.

Various reasons as to why you should consider:
- Masturbation is self-abuse
- God does not want you to abuse yourself
- Pornography will distort your sense of self, and how you perceive others
- It is rendering useful energy to inert ends
- The pornography industry profits off of victims to human-trafficking
- The ability for your ‘dihh’ to get erect will be damaged by you abusing yourself
- Most people correctly consider it to be a ‘weird and gross’ behaviour, and if you were to be caught, they may see you differently.
- Anecdotally, everyone that goons is a lame silly goober
- You get like superpowers or something if you don’t (I experienced ethereal projection, and am now able to cast fireballs at people)
- Usually results in a mess
- You have human ontological enemies that want you to fail in your course of life by this stumbling block, you of course, likely do not want to lose at anything.
- Doing these things may elevate your prolactin, observe the things that can do to you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolactin#Elevated_levels

Some easy ways to do this are:
- The much disliked, self control (impossible!) – I, in fact, believe in such heretical ideas like the ‘gnomic will’.
- Installing a browser extension, here are some: – https://blocksite.co/ – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stopwatchingpornorgetassaded/ – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearmind-block-porn-websites/
- Installing a certain /etc/hosts file to block websites, here are some: – https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
- Reading texts to thorougly inoculate oneself with the idea, that maybe shaking your parts at images may not be the best expenditure of time: – https://easypeasymethod.org/
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On Diet

Sat, 02 May 2026 08:53:16 +0000

Consider not eating.

- Products with soy
- Products with corn syrup
- Products with seed oils
- Fast foods
- Soft drinks
- All ostentatiously branded ‘vegan’ and ‘vegetarian food

Consider eating.

+ Antidoron and Communion
+ Locally made foods
+ Whatever Baba makes
+ Whatever Mama makes
+ Whatever may be served at coffee hour

I would personally like to ‘restrict’ (construct) myself to ‘2MAD’, eating two
meals a day.

As always, thank you for reading.
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Xrasher

Thu, 22 May 2025 12:20:14 +0000

Recently, I concluded a pet project that I would occasionally work on. It was a ‘cheat’ that worked universally for the ‘Xash3D’ engine, an-almost-clean-room-but-not-quite reimplementation of the proprietary GoldSRC engine. I embarked on this project when I was writing a multiplayer protocol in C, to scratch some itches and to test out certain thought experiments. The result was quite successful, much more than I anticipated. You can browse the source on my software forge. I thought to myself that I would modify the engine’s source itself.

Aim Assistance

The aim-assist in Xrasher works by modifying a networking ‘usercmd message’ almost immediately before it is sent to the server in the input gathering portion of engine/client/input.c (specifically, the IN_EngineAppendMove function), the following is the structure of such message.

typedef struct usercmd_s
{
    short             lerp_msec;     // Interpolation time on client
    byte              msec;          // Duration in ms of command
    vec3_t            viewangles;    // Command view angles

    // intended velocities
    float             forwardmove;     // Forward velocity
    float             sidemove;        // Sideways velocity
    float             upmove;          // Upward velocity
    byte              lightlevel;      // Light level at spot where we are standing.
    unsigned short    buttons;         // Attack and move buttons
    byte              impulse;         // Impulse command issued
    byte              weaponselect;    // Current weapon id

    // Experimental player impact stuff.
    int               impact_index;
    vec3_t            impact_position;
} usercmd_t;

The viewangles of the player can be changed instantaneously to any position on the client-side, there is some ramifications to writing an aim-assist that does this, you can’t visibly see how other players perceive you or what direction the aim-assist is making you aim. This sort of circumvents a lot of client-side effects as well, so when shooting a firearm, you would see bullet decals in front of you, regardless of the fact the server believes you are aiming in a completely different direction. It would be ideal to implement some sort of UI elements to assist with this. Early on when writing the aim-assist, I chose the dumbest possible implementation, just to see if it was feasible to implement in this certain way. When a key was toggled, aim at the physically closest player. It worked, but it was very
clunky and unreliable, movement was difficult and you would be bumping into walls. I discovered a few simple principles that are critical to the usability of an aim-assist.

1. Only activate if the left or right mouse button is held-down.
2. Lock onto targets in regards to angular distance not physical distance.
3. Have a maximum angular distance for locking, to cull out irrelevant entities.
4. (I didn’t do this) Only lock onto players that are visible.

Aim Assistance Algorithm

void CL_XrasherAim(usercmd_t* cmd){
    vec3_t aimDirection, targetAngles;
    cl_entity_t* localPlayer = CL_GetLocalPlayer();
    cl_entity_t* nearestTarget = NULL;
    float minAngleDifference = xrasher_maxdist.value;
    vec3_t currentAngles = { cmd->viewangles[0], cmd->viewangles[1], 0 };
    float angleDifference;

    for (int i = 0; i < CL_GetMaxClients(); ++i){
        cl_entity_t *ent = CL_GetEntityByIndex(i);
        if (!ent || ent == localPlayer || ent->player != true ) continue;

        VectorSubtract(ent->origin, localPlayer->origin, aimDirection);
        VectorAngles(aimDirection, targetAngles);

        angleDifference = fabsf(targetAngles[0] - currentAngles[0]) + fabsf(targetAngles[1] - currentAngles[1]);

        if ((angleDifference < minAngleDifference)){
            minAngleDifference = angleDifference;
            nearestTarget = ent;
        }
    }

    if (nearestTarget){
        vec3_t aimDirection, targetAngles;
        VectorSubtract(nearestTarget->origin, localPlayer->origin, aimDirection);
        VectorAngles(aimDirection, targetAngles);

       // Normalize pitch (aimDirection[0]) and yaw (aimDirection[1]) to -180 to 180 range
       aimDirection[0] = fmodf(aimDirection[0] + 180.0f, 360.0f);
       if (aimDirection[0] < 0) aimDirection[0] += 360.0f;
       aimDirection[0] -= 180.0f;
       aimDirection[1] = fmodf(aimDirection[1] + 180.0f, 360.0f);
       if (aimDirection[1] < 0) aimDirection[1] += 360.0f;
       aimDirection[1] -= 180.0f;


        // Apply aim assist by modifying the player's input angles
        cmd->viewangles[0] = targetAngles[0]; // Pitch
        cmd->viewangles[1] = targetAngles[1]; // Yaw

       Con_Print("FOUND TARGET\n");
       return;

    }

    Con_Print("NO TARGET\n");
}

Wallhack Implementation

Xash3D-FWGS has two renderer implementations, one OpenGL renderer, and one software-renderer (SW), in order to implement a wallhack, I decided to modify how the renderer rendered dynamic meshes in the world, these are referred to as “studiomodels”, in Xash, the world is usually built from brush level geometry, while the things that move around, like players, or pickups, are studio models. It was substantially easier to implement the wallhack for the OpenGL renderer, you simply just render another pass with no depth testing, and just like that you see things through walls. In regards to the software-renderer, it was more complicated, and to this day it is still non-functional in practice, I was modifying the ‘scanning’ portion of the rasterization process. It worked, sometimes, but very often models ‘obscure’ each other, and things become invisible. Specifically you are working with ‘rendering spans’, it is an optimization technique where you render strips of pixels at a time, rather than pixel by pixel. I probably would not implement a SW renderer like this, and I believe this is some legacy inheritance from Quake.

Automatic Ban Evasion

In Xash3D_FWGS, the maintainers added a “XashID” system, an attempt at Hardware identification, this is handled in the engine/client/identification.c file. The objective is to allow server administrators to ban users that have identical hardware. What Xash does is that it scans information about your hardware and with that creates a new ID based on an MD5 hash. All you have to do to circumvent this, is to just modify the engine to fraudulently create new IDs irrespective of your hardware, it is completely clientside, I made Xrasher generate a new one every startup. I didn’t think I would ever need to use this capability, but it was interesting to overcome such a system in such a messy way. This however does not account for IP bans, I had the assumption that XashID bans would be the initial response, of course if you are joining GoldSRC servers, the XashID system is completely irrelevant, and all bans are based on IP addresses and/or a St*am auth token.

Pictures

Links, References, and Resources

github.com/rehlds/ReGameDLL_CS/
github.com/FWGS/xash3d-fwgs/
github.com/Velaron/cs16-client

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Zoryana

Mon, 05 May 2025 04:01:56 +0000

New Job

I got a cool new government job; this is how it do.

Read & Seed

I am likely to get another one, once summer is in full swing, this one would be much quieter. On another, quite related, note, I have been working on a massive ‘ebook’ library, most of it is composed of things I have acquired over time, but only now have I begun making it spiffy. I wrote various scripts to help manage it, one allowed me to do bulk renaming of name metadata in Vim for PDF, EPUB, MOBI, and DJVU file formats simultaneously, quite a useful thing as you can imagine, I was assuming there would be a utility that does this but I don’t believe anyone has made this yet. I plan on pushing this to my software forge at some point. Another script I wrote took a website given a URL, ‘zim’ file, or directory, and made it into one uniform PDF file, with the index always being the first page, and the rest of the pages pasted on haphazardly. I believe this approach may be better than the whole Kiwix & Zim method of having locally browsable websites, while also resolving the mess a local scrape can be, especially if a dynamic website was scraped, they tend to have weird filenames.

Pascha

Truly, He is Risen!

I had an invaluable opportunity to attend Pascha in its entirety, I consider April 20th in particular to be one of the “best days” in my life, it was absolutely wonderful to participate with my brethren in communal prayer and to partake in a (most) grand feast afterwards. My family enjoyed the blessed contents of my basket the following day, can’t go wrong with kulich. I have been personally experiencing a spiritual-spring during this period. I occasionally meditate about my personal annual-habituality you could say.

On Writing To This Site

It’s quite obvious that I don’t post daily or weekly to my site, this is intentional, this is a form of communication in its own way, just as one spaces out their words so their sentences are comprehensible. I like the borderline neurotic stank the previous posts give off, perhaps it is what drives someone from just conviction, to action.

On another note, I advise everyone to actively struggle to purge themselves of misanthropic attitudes and mental-fits, life is too short to resent some no-good cityslickers or to be broodful. It’s worth it.

God bless all of you, much love.
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