Ben Zanin

Robertson screwdriver owner, believer in the value of personal-scale computing and skeptic of the value of computing scales any larger than that

(previously https://twitter.com/gnomon ; account de-funked)

Small hacks: https://git.sr.ht/~gnomon/

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2026-03-25 13:51:15 GMT

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@nprofile…u8z9 ooooof
Looks a lot like one of those "business / IT / management" illustrations where three interlocking gears make it impossible for anything to rotate

2026-01-19 13:05:45 GMT

In the last couple of weeks I've seen several folks pushing back on the pressure of a repeated idea that "Y2K was an invented crisis and was actually no big deal".
(Of course it actually was, and of course like any techie of a certain age I know that for certain because I spent a couple of years working on it, surrounded by many others doing the same.)
But the key point being missed in the pushback isn't that it actually happened but *that we could and should have prevented the fix-up work*.

2026-01-17 21:22:52 GMT

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@nprofile…u76z psst @nprofile…8hcc 👀↑↑ 🦖🦴🎲💸
https://io.mwl.io/@mwl/115911077594396673
Given the price of the above and the perennially light security of most museums I would like to propose A Caper™

2026-01-09 20:18:20 GMT

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@nprofile…ds0l don't dolphins have horizontal tails, not vertical?

2026-01-07 18:41:35 GMT

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@nprofile…u76z Sir, please allow me the pleasure of introducing you to the existence of "USB-PD trigger cables" which will negotiate for a specific voltage from a USB-PD power supply and pass the result downstream through a barrel plug, within the range of voltages supported by USB-PD/USB-PPS.
E.g. here is a 1.2m USB-C PD to 9V 5.5mm cable that can handle up to 5A, assuming source and target can too: https://www.adafruit.com/product/5449
And: https://www.adafruit.com/product/5501 (with a programmable voltage request target)

2025-12-20 00:16:58 GMT

Hey #Canadians: we support each other, we stand up for each other, and we show up for each other. Here is how we do that right now, today:
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7027
Even if you only read the petition, learning about what the Saskatchewan and Alberta provincial governments are attempting is a step in the right direction. Signing the petition is a step. It is going to be a long journey, but this is not one we can sit out.
#TransgenderRights

2025-12-03 03:39:02 GMT

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@nprofile…jnxp the vagen biking bable

2025-12-02 23:35:57 GMT

I hate the "cattle vs. pets" framing of managing larger clusters of computers with automation, implying that managing small clusters or single machines is done manually.
I hate it because managing a single machine without a framework suitable for automation has been generally poor practice *forever*.
But I hate it even more because the foundation of the metaphor is that it is OK and normal to treat livestock without compassion or care. It is quite simply not.
Retire that framing, please.

2025-11-27 19:13:50 GMT

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@nprofile…dcm7 mould management will become your entire personality

2025-11-19 13:48:31 GMT

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Maybe I'm just being twitchy and hypersensitive, but an article published by GitHub repeatedly highlighting an implicit difference between "git" as a set of cross-compatible tools and "git" as a specific open source project sets off my spidey sense.
The version of git that matters is the open source project.
The version of git that GitHub has implemented primarily serves the needs of GitHub, not the needs of users or developers.
I get the sense this is going to start mattering more soon.

2025-11-19 13:45:33 GMT

git 2.52.0 is out, and as usual the release notes make for fascinating reading¹ ², if somewhat cryptic if you don't follow the "what's cooking" post series³ ⁴.
But there is something a bit weird in GitHub's usual blog post about this release⁵: there are several mentions of GitHub's fork of git, and the article begins with "the open source git project".
¹: https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email protected]/T/
²: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/tree/Documentation/RelNotes/2.52.0.adoc
³: e.g. https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email protected]/t/
⁴: https://lore.kernel.org/git/?q=what%27s+cooking+in+git.git
⁵: https://github.blog/open-source/git/highlights-from-git-2-52/

2025-11-06 14:06:13 GMT

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@nprofile…f7sz I was a bit stumped at first too, unfortunately. (In particular I was tripped up by how the public-inbox list itself was a V1 archive but almost all the other lists I care about are V2, and the difference is material.)
Would you like some help? I've worked through these things recently, they're fresh in my mind.

2025-11-04 13:44:05 GMT

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@nprofile…dcm7 altogether decently so far!!
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/491/721/261/429/163/original/833190e1506c966b.jpg

2025-10-29 02:33:31 GMT

There is a group of a bit over a thousand people in Toronto who get on their bikes every week and deliver food to people who need it.
https://www.bikebrigade.ca
It is not a big, loud political activist group. It does not get a lot of funding or a lot of press. It has been going for years now: people just regularly suiting and armouring up, picking up their dispatches, braving weather and murderous motorists, and helping out.
This is a thing we can do.
#bikeTO

2025-10-26 01:27:44 GMT

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@nprofile…4unj *looks up from adjusting clamping forces with a tenths dial indicator holding a gourd in place on the bed of a CNC mill* yeah a paring knife works too

2025-10-19 02:09:12 GMT

For anyone else considering the seasonal pursuit of carving a pumpkin and spending time looking through dollar store toolkits or scrolling through dozens of identical crappy plastic tool sets in attractive clamshell zip cases on Amazon, let me save you some time.
The magic term you want is "drywall saw".
(If you're one of those maniacs who uses high speed rotary tools on your gourds, disregard my words. I have no wisdom for you.)

2025-10-13 17:43:11 GMT

@nprofile…q5wq hey, how are you and SWMBO feeling?

2025-10-08 04:21:55 GMT

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@nprofile…kyj5
The Ballad of the Saskatchewan Goat-Sitter
(chorus)
Oh it's cold in the morning
It's fucking cold outside
There's frost on the hay bales
You can't stay warm if you tried
But the goats need their breakfast
So it's to the barn you go
At the break of day you bring the hay
And the goats all say hello
OK someone take the first verse please

2025-10-04 17:42:07 GMT

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@nprofile…t3wn @nprofile…sgk6 on exactly that topic, have you seen these tools?
https://hypem.com/merch-table
https://remixrotation.com/convert-spotify-playlist-to-cart-on-amazon-or-beatport
They'll peek at a Spotify playlist or account and search out purchasable versions!

2025-10-03 02:37:36 GMT

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@nprofile…0j8a dire Least Weasels

2025-08-22 20:28:03 GMT

For pete's sake, @nprofile…muyw : if you want to measure whether the AI/ML features are worth a damn, put a big green "disable all AI in my browser" button on the version update screen and put some telemetry around how many people instantly click it.
Just about everyone I know who has taken the 142 update is working through about:config menus to toggle off everything under browser.ml.* and grumbling about it, or just straight-up abandoning Firefox in exasperation.
Turn the ship around. *Please*.

2025-08-16 17:44:53 GMT

There are six fundamental coding narratives:
1. Programmer vs Problem
2. Programmer vs. Project
3. Programmer vs. Tooling
4. Programmer vs. Self
5. Programmer vs. Current Limits of Human Knowledge
6. Programmer vs. Institutional Inertia
Rust is fascinating because to this time honoured list it adds a seventh:
7. Programmer vs. 🦀 The Goddamn Borrow Checker 🦀

2025-08-07 02:38:46 GMT

Hell of a thing to hear "buy into our tool fad or get of this industry" from the CEO of a company built on the halo of goodwill surrounding a movement literally built on & from determination to write software that cannot be taken away from anyone again.
Hell of a thing.
I don't think it's dunderheaded point-missing of cataclysmic proportion. I think it's a calculated risk to mortgage social credibility with developers against social credibility with investors.
I think it's a losing bet.

2025-07-30 17:43:17 GMT

HEY #BikeTO #mastobikes GUESS WHAT: we're keeping the bike lanes on Bloor, University, and Yonge, per Cycle Toronto's charter challenge of Ontario Bill 212.
https://www.cycleto.ca/cycle_toronto_wins
https://assets.nationbuilder.com/cycletoronto/pages/8767/attachments/original/1753895854/CycleTO___EcoJustice_Release.pdf?1753895854
https://assets.nationbuilder.com/cycletoronto/pages/8767/attachments/original/1753891585/Cycle_Toronto_v._AGO_Reasons_for_Judgment_PBS_July_30_2025.pdf?1753891585
Two months ago I stood out in the rain while the names of my neighbours killed in traffic were read aloud¹. This decision is a concrete step towards doing something to prevent future deaths.
¹: https://mastodon.social/@gnomon/114549722429678597

2025-07-29 00:42:29 GMT

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@nprofile…q5wq I recently got a Netgear WAX630E on the strength of how well it has served @nprofile…827z over the last couple of years...

2025-07-17 04:29:54 GMT

Hey #BikeTO, there wouldn't happen to be any of you out there who would be comfortable playing an accordion (along with at least a tuba accompaniment, possibly others) while riding in the bucket of a bakfiets cargo bike, would there? Like around September? Brunswick/Harbord ish?
🔄🙏

2025-07-16 23:50:08 GMT

Dear Toronto driver with the rainbow "this Tesla does not support fascism" sticker on the back: while it's fine that you have the good sense to be embarrassed about your vehicle, apparently you didn't pay attention to Musk's behavior before your purchase, which was more or less identical to it afterward.
I'm not quite sure which part of _paying the price of that vehicle to the company that made it_ qualifies as not supporting the people who profit from that company.
You can do better and more.

2025-07-16 11:56:07 GMT

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@nprofile…cee8 hey, on that topic, have you considered creating an @[email protected] account for posts from yourself in that role, to give your personal account a bit of space separate from those duties? I've seen admins on other instances adopt that model and it seems to work well for them. (It's usually called out which admin is using that account with a short signature in each post, plus a note in the account bio linking to the personal user accounts of the admin users plus the server policy page about it.)

2025-07-10 22:50:03 GMT

Sweet, Murderbot (TV series) has been picked up for season 2!
No mention of the expected release date, but that's fine. No need to rush.
https://www.thewrap.com/murderbot-season-2-renewed-apple-tv-plus-alexander-skarsgard/

2025-07-09 02:52:33 GMT

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@nprofile…p8uv @nprofile…y9ay I don't know, I'm seeing corroboration from a couple of sources. Haven't tracked back to primaries though, to be fair.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/prince-williams-friend-dies-after-swallowing-a-bee-at-polo-match/
https://people.com/prince-william-friend-sunjay-kapur-dies-after-swallowing-bee-windsor-polo-match-11754293
https://www.vice.com/en/article/billionaire-dies-after-swallowing-a-bee-during-polo-match/

2025-06-26 04:23:22 GMT

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@nprofile…q5wq c'mon, use bash

2025-06-18 01:50:43 GMT

Why do I like computing as a field of study and as an industry?
Why still, when the tech industry works so hard to find new reasons to be reviled - invading privacy; bending public sentiment against democratic institutions by monetizing disinformation campaigns; leveraging enormous financial instruments against laws, regulations, & social norms that have protected employees & preserved dignity; driving up profit for investors at the expense of environmental externalities borne by the powerless?

2025-06-17 01:57:05 GMT

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@nprofile…args does emacs via SSH from my phone count? This isn't a one-off, I use this setup all the time.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/696/218/489/868/703/original/7c635f28d4a37ae6.png

2025-06-17 01:27:33 GMT

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@nprofile…0n93 my lettuce has never been sunburned

2025-06-16 20:10:00 GMT

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@nprofile…cee8 I see that people are recommending screw extractors and pliers; I'll go one step further and specifically recommend a parallel-jaw plier wrench, the Knipex 86 03 150 pliers wrench, https://www.knipex.com/products/pipe-wrenches-and-water-pump-pliers/pliers-wrenches-pliers-and-a-wrench-in-a-single-tool/pliers-wrenches-pliers-and-wrench-single-tool/8603150

2025-05-31 00:22:46 GMT

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@nprofile…8kev I think that might be normal only for some kinds of hydraulic disc brakes? I have Hope hydro brakes on my Brompton and the bite point is definitely adjustable, and for my preference it's pretty short. (And I have a pleasantly even spectrum of force between the pads just touching the rotors and full lock-up, the modulation of braking force is smooth and superb.)

2025-05-30 12:39:55 GMT

I don't know if it's like this for everyone, but for me it seems to be so much easier to increase barbell squat weight rather than rep count, even if it ends up being the exact same power output. Bah.
Also, in related news: curse you, leg day

2025-05-30 12:09:50 GMT

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(Which isn't to say that Pride Toronto is a perfectly run organization, nor that it has had a spotless track record of financial management in the past, nor that corporate sponsorship of Pride in the abstract is an uncontroversial topic. Those are all things worth keeping in mind. In this specific case though I still think it's worth casting a bit of blame on two large companies making these particular sponsorship decisions, in this way, at this particular time, in this political climate.)

2025-05-30 12:06:19 GMT

Google and Home Depot both pulled verbally committed but non-contracted financial support for Toronto Pride 2025 on short notice¹ ².
😐👎
Of course corporate sponsors get to make and reevaluate sponsorship decisions at their discretion, and shouldn't be penalized for doing so; but I feel that it's quite reasonable to take a dim view of their poor timing in this case.
¹: https://www.thestar.com/business/pride-toronto-loses-two-more-corporate-sponsors-just-weeks-before-festival-launch/article_ecb8d784-cd2f-4c7a-aaa2-fc7e12a2b208.html , paywall bypass at ²
²: https://archive.is/1Q3AC

2025-05-29 12:10:04 GMT

If you use curl, the yearly curl user survey is up now and @nprofile…kxk4 wants to hear what you think about it!
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/05/19/the-curl-user-survey-2025-is-up/
It takes a few minutes but it's worth spending that time, on the one hand because the responses really are taken to heart to set and adjust the project priorities, and on the other hand because people have put a lot of work into that project and it's worth telling them you've benefited from that work!

2025-05-29 01:17:19 GMT

"data", singular: it's fine, TNG did it too so you're in good company
"data", plural: technically correct, the best kind of correct, also probably intolerably pedantic and strictly wears tube socks
"datum", singular: yeah OK this person is going to be insufferable in several predictable and at least a dozen wildly surprising ways
"datums", plural: this is going to get weird, probably a blackle post

2025-05-27 02:48:41 GMT

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@nprofile…jqvx in several ways - though not all - I would argue that documentation is the _only_ technology, in that it advances the state of the art of what is known, can be constructed, can be built upon, and can be abstracted and generalized.
Without documentation, a new invention is just a device: interesting, perhaps so much so that it sparks inspiration in someone else to understand it, but it goes little further than that until it is documented in a way intended to communicate its key insights.

2025-05-23 01:00:35 GMT

I have not re-watched Empire in like ten years and this is the best way I could have done it. A live performance of the score would have been more than excellent enough, but that the Toronto Symphony Orchestra is doing it in perfect synchronization with the dialog and sound effects is just tremendous.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/554/430/010/000/105/original/056e39299873ace7.jpg

2025-05-20 00:22:11 GMT

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@nprofile…d2rl mind linking to that wish list?
For, uh, research

2025-05-16 01:46:05 GMT

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@nprofile…q5wq oh it WAS deliberate

2025-05-08 18:36:32 GMT

In 2006, 19 years ago, the Nintendo Wii came to market. Its user interface included a separation of functions into "channels", each with its own distinctive background music.
Today this album came out, and I realized that I appear to have internalized all of that incidental Wii background music.
https://pokestir.bandcamp.com/album/wii-channels-collection-music-from-wii-channels

2025-05-03 00:12:22 GMT

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@nprofile…6m2n I don't love being a pedant so I hope this doesn't come across as nitpicking, but I think in the second text box there's a typo: "proram" instead of "program"?

2025-04-23 00:01:13 GMT

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@nprofile…npxa @nprofile…q5wq have you looked at the Goruck GR1? The price point is uhhh discouraging; in the last year or so they have drifted a little more towards the fashion rather than the utility side (which isn't to say fashion is bad, it's just not the domain in which Goruck originally found their footing); and they have a military-is-cool kind of angle which does not endear. But the GR1 has a terrific laptop sleeve, the pack is built like a damn tank, the stitching is excellent, materials are top tier.

2025-04-15 02:42:45 GMT

chat is this bash script real
https://www.ibis.ulaval.ca/services/bioinformatique/documentation-serveurs/telechargement-nanuq/
cc: @nprofile…s2jk @nprofile…dpa9 @nprofile…sr48 @nprofile…6m2n
(via: @nprofile…cuzg )

2025-04-13 22:24:39 GMT

Toronto has a municipally owned and operated greenhouse? And it is huge??
https://www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/parks-recreation/places-spaces/beaches-gardens-attractions/gardens-and-horticulture/conservatories/allan-gardens-conservatory/
And there are turtles there???
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/332/991/789/350/937/original/4cf81837e6d671e6.jpg
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/332/991/979/761/076/original/b5de1110ac628dcb.jpg

2025-04-11 02:56:34 GMT

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@nprofile…d2rl oh were you passing through Pearson?? I hope you're somewhere that you can rest a bit now.

2025-04-11 02:18:16 GMT

@nprofile…q5wq I didn't want to post it super publicly, but I figured you'd enjoy knowing that when I tried to rent it, the video store looked at the title and told me to take it and get out¹, and refused to charge me
¹: this is a mischaracterization, they were very kind about it
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/316/921/120/060/062/original/192d9807de321311.jpg

2025-04-08 03:37:53 GMT

My friend @nprofile…7c3n passed away last month.
I wish he was still here. He was a good man, joyful and kind. Made the world better by being in it, brought delight to people who shared their joy. Built way too many Reviung keyboards. Never met a cat he didn't love. He was cycling across a country on the other side of the world, then he was interrupted by a stage four cancer diagnosis, now he's gone.

2025-04-08 03:07:08 GMT

The mechanical keyboard market is a ploy by Big Ziploc to increase the sale of tiny ziploc baggies

2025-04-06 21:40:53 GMT

I blame @nprofile…q5wq for what is about to happen tonight. #monsterdon
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/293/174/864/737/218/original/d8f6a3dfceccb09a.jpg
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/293/185/634/005/211/original/8e11222f7fa85523.jpg

2025-03-27 12:38:33 GMT

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@nprofile…8kev oh hang on!
In a previous photo you showed your new G-line with the Eerder Metaal seatpost hugger block in place, but I don't see it in this photo! Is it that easy to take on and off?? I thought it required removing the entire saddle!

2025-03-26 02:29:32 GMT

LLMs are an interesting way to explore a large corpus of data, in theory, if the processing overhead wasn't simply unacceptable and if the accuracy was better.
However.
You know what actually does feel like magic? I have about 30G of SSD storage dedicated to mirroring a few mailing lists I care about, with another 120G for search indices. 25, 30 years of posts. Today at $JOB someone asked a question. In 5 minutes I had the bug number from 2012; in 6 I had the commit ID for the 2014 fix.
✨

2025-03-25 14:17:09 GMT

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@nprofile…cee8 speaking of goat farms, are you following @nprofile…kyj5 and #BabyGoatCountdown 2025? It's coming up soon!!

2025-03-23 22:24:25 GMT

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@nprofile…d2rl I didn't see whatever prompted you to say this, but I'm glad you're talking with Tay. Please tell them I care about them and hope they're OK.

2025-03-19 17:07:44 GMT

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@nprofile…3333 psst I think there's a character de-escaping issue somewhere upstream of this bot 👀↑↑

2025-03-05 18:43:40 GMT

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@nprofile…0n93 I got some vague handwaving about it in comp sci classes at Ottawa U and Carleton about a million years ago, but honestly the strongest guidance about avoiding global vars came from a careful examination of the performance costs of dynamic vs lexical scoping in RnRS Scheme. The takeaway was that globals were a convenience but are encumbered with a really quite surprisingly large perf cost. No mention of hygiene or "correctness", but that's the argument & lesson that stuck with me.

2025-02-23 18:54:11 GMT

Well recompiling and installing that took almost no time at all:
```elisp
(emacs-version)
"GNU Emacs 30.1 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.38, cairo version 1.16.0)
of 2025-02-23"
```
Happy #emacs 30.1 release day, everyone!
Unofficial release post: https://yhetil.org/emacs-devel/CADwFkmmda475UFry=jGedSAJhRQsXtMTAwDZ5nhTbbAfc1jU1w@mail.gmail.com/t/
Official release post: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2025-02/msg00009.html
NEWS for the 30.1 release: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS?h=emacs-30

2025-02-14 02:53:56 GMT

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@nprofile…6m2n do you mind if I share my favourite $PATH deduplication trick?

2025-02-14 01:35:37 GMT

This is probably a pretty cold take at this point, but I feel like SELinux is a failed idea. Not in that it doesn't function, because it does; nor in that its functionality isn't valuable, because it is; but in that it has failed to turn that value into a wide improvement in the security of the linux ecosystem.
I think a contributing cause for this is how it feels like a sales pitch: "buy our training course", "buy our consultancy package".
Feels like it was written by IBM. (It was the NSA.)

2025-02-13 12:11:39 GMT

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@nprofile…zwgs beware, I'll I've

2025-02-11 00:24:35 GMT

duckduckgo is void linux like void chickens stardew send toot

2025-01-12 17:28:00 GMT

It's less common knowledge than I would have expected, but sunscreen has a best-before date! It's a good idea to check that each season to make sure you don't need to replace it even if there's still some left.
Fortunately, expired sunscreen just gets less effective, not dangerous. You're still more likely to get food poisoning from the salad you put it on than from the expired sunscreen itself.

2024-12-24 19:26:49 GMT

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@nprofile…gpke I'm still fine! No symptoms, negative antigen tests. @nprofile…rsg9 is sniffling, sneezing, and snoozing, and still testing positive. More bored than distressed, but it's still no fun. :-/

2024-12-24 19:02:25 GMT

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@nprofile…gpke hope you're feeling better soon. It's hard to hit those high notes with a snoot full of snot!

2024-12-22 22:44:03 GMT

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@nprofile…827z this is a real shame. But "no longer"? So prior to now they considered their participation in FS/OSS codebases prioritized and sufficient?
This will help inform my decisions about the RK3588 in particular but also Rockchip part offerings in general.

2024-11-28 19:01:35 GMT

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@nprofile…u6uc can you describe the rough specifics of that busybox awk bug?

2024-09-07 01:04:06 GMT

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1. No
2. Yes
3. No
4. No
5. Yes
6. Yes
7. Yes
https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/113088683254075749 / @npub1gfd…7gg6

2024-08-15 01:18:00 GMT

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@npub1m9h…7spx SCEPTER CARBUNCLE ZEPHYR FORECASTLE ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM

2024-08-15 00:59:11 GMT

While mentally running a sentence or two ahead of my mouth to rifle through my meat-memory thesaurus my brain repeatedly tries to manufacture reasons to use the word "promulgate" but leaves me casting around like a fish out of water as it stalls during retrieval of the the word "deterministic".
Super useful. Definitely good work there. Thanks, brain!
Thain.

2024-07-20 16:40:56 GMT

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@npub1u07…utrd this alt text is terrific. Thank you so much. ❤️

2024-07-19 02:51:33 GMT

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@npub1m9h…7spx deeply un-cutting edge tech stack and moderation practices and both of these things are quietly but extremely Good, Actually™
EDIT: wait, heck, I read the as DreamWIDTH. Ignore all previous statements

2024-07-12 16:39:54 GMT

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@npub1uw8…88kr I hate to suggest the minister of national defence, but it might be a productive option to pursue?

2024-07-05 17:05:54 GMT

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@npub1upk…tcwy can I answer with a few features? I can pick a single one if that's what you need but I love a bunch of them

2024-05-29 02:03:00 GMT

I am NOT going to watch a four hour YouTube video about a star wars hotel

2024-05-28 19:53:12 GMT

i hab a code

2024-05-27 23:10:06 GMT

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@npub1u2r…4urs this series needs a theme song

2024-05-12 11:23:13 GMT

Hmm, rhubarb compote and walnuts on oatmeal..?

2024-05-07 02:33:21 GMT

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@npub1uw8…88kr oh hey, that's like 18 minutes from my front door! Right, see you there. Want me to bring you anything? Fisherman's Friend, air horn, pastries?

2024-04-24 15:27:19 GMT

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@npub1uw8…88kr I bet on the baby goats! (I popped over to your profile to check the Goat Status Indicator™ and neglected to notice that the top post about "I have new baby goats" was _pinned_, argh, sorry)

2024-04-24 15:25:58 GMT

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@npub1uw8…88kr YAY BABY GOATS

2024-03-23 02:50:34 GMT

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@npub1xsy…cevg 'tis
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ifSgwm2RVcR19aiq8

2024-03-23 02:39:58 GMT

Lotta snow out there today. Getting around on two wheels was a bit challenging. Tomorrow's going to be harder. 😬
Gotta do it though.
#dlws
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/142/682/341/243/549/original/15ff10ed06a96ce3.jpg

2024-03-20 12:10:44 GMT

If you have a few little scripts hanging around in your ~/bin/ that use regexes to destructure and/or synthesize URLs, give @npub1p45…89jz's trurl(1) a look. It's small, simple, speedy, and super useful; it makes the intent of the transformation a lot easier to infer from its implementation. I don't know whether it'll grow to be as popular as its big brother curl(1) - the niche is smaller - but I hope it does!
https://curl.se/trurl/
https://curl.se/trurl/manual.html
https://github.com/curl/trurl

2024-03-19 15:48:49 GMT

A very happy Miette Day to all who celebrate
https://twitter.com/TriciaLockwood/status/1108102037072433153

2024-03-18 17:39:23 GMT

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@npub1xzm…eykm it's been a whole year already?? That is WILD. Happy anniversary to you both!!

2024-03-02 17:00:43 GMT

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@npub1p45…89jz shouldn't take more than a weekend, right?

2024-02-28 17:54:43 GMT

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@npub1m9h…7spx am I misremembering the presence and use it cancel control messages for NNTP group moderation?

2024-02-21 18:26:42 GMT

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@npub1m9h…7spx booooooooo

2024-01-17 13:24:47 GMT

OK people I'm going to need you to hit me up with your best capybara images, please
Thank you in advance for your service
🔄🙏

2023-12-24 03:02:34 GMT

MOST HUMANS LIKE SHRAMP @npub1xmx…jnvj

2023-12-11 04:59:32 GMT

@npub1v4y…j7w0 s/forth/fourth/

2023-11-03 16:49:17 GMT

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@npub1rml…xa6t aww, lucky! I am envious!

2023-10-15 22:24:42 GMT

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@npub1xzm…eykm I worry about that, and I make a habit of visiting the local video store most weekends. I still think there is room to push back on this medium shift, but there is an incalculable amount of money pushing hard on the other side.

2023-10-05 00:46:52 GMT

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@npub1uw8…88kr omg is this going to be the first time the tiniest goats see snow

2023-09-06 21:09:22 GMT

Reminder: "milestone" should be pronounced as "minestrone"