System Notes: Expeditions
A record of technical explorations across computer systems and software internals.
This is catme0w.org
Welcome to my personal website, catme0w.org! Here, I share my thoughts, projects, and experiences on various topics including technology, gaming, and lifestyle. Feel free to explore the site and connect with me through the provided channels. Enjoy your stay!
My GitHub Copilot automatically made the text above for me. Don’t take it too seriously.
Anyway, there is still under construction. But this time it won’t take too long—finally, I started to start a new site after years of procrastination.
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Seventeen Years of Misunderstanding
2025-11-14 · System Notes: Expeditions
How a 2008 DRM triggered supply chain attack paranoia in 2025
The Furry You Are Following Does Not Exist: A Re-Introduction to 银碳Gintan
2025-11-01 · Observations
There’s a simple test to tell if someone is real or just a commercial project wearing a fursuit: Can you take them out for hotpot?
Lost One's Chiral
2025-10-22 · Behind the Scenes
When a top student weaponized “chiral carbon CAPTCHAs” to gatekeep communities, I built a neural network (plus a classic algorithm) to dismantle the Social Darwinist ideology being quietly normalized behind “just a CAPTCHA”.
Neglected - 5/10
2025-10-22 · catGN Reviews
After Finishing the Game, I Couldn’t Even Remember the Protagonist’s Name
Project Oasis - 6/10
2025-10-22 · catGN Reviews
Waking Up 3,000 Years Later, Only to Live in Someone Else’s Shadow
The Kernel Trilogy, Volume III: Undefined Behavior
2024-12-06 · System Notes: Expeditions
Beyond the boundaries of the specification, finding another possibility, and its cost.
The Kernel Trilogy, Volume II: Interrupt Return
2024-11-10 · System Notes: Expeditions
After a system reset, all states are lost, except for those memories written to non-volatile storage.
The Kernel Trilogy, Volume I: The Trap
2023-11-14 · System Notes: Expeditions
When the exception first occurred, I didn’t yet know that some errors cannot be caught.
24 Hours Ago, I Died
2023-08-07 · Observations
I suddenly vanished from the digital world. 24 hours later, when my internet self awoke from death, I finally understood: under the guise of “risk control,” your digital identity never truly belongs to you.
fursuit 吧: Archive and Time Machine
2022-09-02 · Behind the Scenes
In a dream, I stood under a spotlight, holding up a disc containing restored data, declaring to those who tried to make us forget where we came from: Go to hell, you didn’t succeed. After waking up, I spent six months turning that dream into reality.