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I make chunks of the internet, and I like some stuff. Rest assured I'm not famous in any meaningful way.

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2026-10-25 07:16:27 GMT

I feel like the people naming RCEs are getting lazy about naming. Someone cleverly pointed out that maybe we should name the pattern.
So, here it is: https://2shell2furio.us

2026-10-19 06:08:09 GMT

I feel like “arguing intensely to retain a tag that you explicitly consider an insult, explicitly so that you can keep insulting members of the community with it” may not be the most community-minded thing in the world.

2026-08-30 16:01:10 GMT

it feels like the "I'm going to move to Canada" of reactions.
#nevent1q…j6r7

2026-06-05 21:58:25 GMT

I forgot to celebrate a really cool personal milestone that happened earlier this week: I have a PR that has been merged into #Django.
https://github.com/django/django/pull/21307 adopts and slightly improves a long-standing extension command, `listurls`, which gives Django developers an easy way, built-in, to list the URLs that their application responds to. Thanks to the help from the Django fellows getting the PR into shape, and to Ülgen S for the middle pass at the PR.

2026-05-28 20:23:08 GMT

Working in tech in 2026 feels like hiding from the angel of death daily.

2026-04-20 03:13:04 GMT

It feels like I have this complaint every time I travel, but… if you are actively sniffling and coughing constantly while traveling, and you don’t wear a mask, I hope mosquitoes find your eyeballs delicious.

2026-04-01 04:54:27 GMT

There are 2 hours left in the #TransDayOfVisibility
Here's a longshot: In 2 hours, I will donate $1000 to the Trevor Project. Want it to be $2,000 instead? I'm offering up matching if you make it in before midnight pacific time. Show me receipts.
My trans friends and foes deserve better from our world. I'll help.
You in?

2026-02-26 14:30:03 GMT

I love RSS, folks. RSS feeds still surface some of the best things I read.
Today, it’s this: https://jenniferplusplus.com/what-is-a-token/
Out of this, I learned the term “Anchoring” to describe an effect I observe in myself when using an LLM while working on a problem, and that I find problematic. I hope to use the fact that I now have language for it to help me break out of that loop.

2026-02-20 23:01:34 GMT

This here; when the tools are fit for purpose and make engineers’ jobs easier, you have to pry them from our fingers. All you have to do is look at the dedication to vim/emacs adaptations you’ll see in older coders to see the lengths to which we go to use the tools we feel work best.
It is a massive quality red flag if you have to force your staff to use a tool.
#nevent1q…yd32

2026-02-14 16:18:14 GMT

I’m thrilled to see this feature from GitHub: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-02-13-new-repository-settings-for-configuring-pull-request-access/
Tl;dr it is now possible for repositories to disable pull requests entirely, or to restrict them to collaborators only. #OpenSource

2026-01-26 18:28:57 GMT

"This was an American Murder”
@nprofile…5pn3 nails it.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/26/an-american-murder/

2026-01-25 18:30:39 GMT

Recipe sites have gotten extremely aggressive at completely bailing when an adblocker is in play.
I’m not turning off my clean internet for your bullshit, sorry. This seems to have started with seriouseats, and spread like a fucking cancer.
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/115/957/159/603/657/394/original/9330961193dc3b3b.jpeg

2026-01-20 23:14:50 GMT

Memo to nearly every single fucking website: I don’t want you to log me out “due to inactivity”
Don’t be clingy; I use my computer for lots of other sites. I’ll come back to yours, I promise. Let me take my damn time, though!

2026-01-18 00:31:46 GMT

I vote, and I don’t want ICE agents to be better trained; I want them arrested, tried, and convicted.

2025-11-28 17:43:00 GMT

I’m amused that USians are so sensitive that there’s a whole-ass blocklist on Bluesky for those of us who use “USian”
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/115/628/558/249/642/795/original/5bc7d75a64376986.png

2025-11-10 20:25:26 GMT

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@nprofile…c97c Speaking of...
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/115/527/275/288/515/843/original/c1d5a4a6554c0d2f.jpeg

2025-11-05 00:27:49 GMT

I want to note, though, that even with all of this enthusiasm, the PSF is still not as funded as it would have been if they’d compromised their mission and taken the bestringed money offered by the NSF. This is good energy, to get grassroots funding to happen, but we *need* corporate sponsorships to step up commensurate with how much they gain from the Python ecosystem. Python is everywhere, and those who profit from it should do their part to support it. https://wandering.shop/@offby1/115494245333434831

2025-11-05 00:25:27 GMT

Thanks to @nprofile…sw2c for kicking it off, and to @nprofile…45mv, @nprofile…dc5u, and @nprofile…6j78 for sharing in the match. My part is half done. Tomorrow I’ll also forward this to my employer who will match my donation as well.
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/115/494/245/228/476/330/original/adcebd8443909a4f.png

2025-11-04 18:16:19 GMT

It's probably not a good sign when your outbound flight is leaving 70 minutes late when your connection time is 44 minutes, right?

2025-10-27 20:30:54 GMT

I have nothing but respect and sympathy for @nprofile…c97c in their decision to withdraw from the NSF grant program in order not to compromise on their mission to keep #Python a diverse and welcoming open source community
It's hard to turn down that kind of money
So, here's my .02c for it, metaphorically. I'll personally make a $1000 donation to help fill in that gap. There are certainly 1500 of us who can spare that much, in the global python community. Who's with me?
https://fosstodon.org/@ThePSF/115446659188615376

2025-10-21 18:41:30 GMT

In a culture that is brutal in its suppression of #SexWork, including disapproval, punishment, debanking, and every other means of devaluing the people who do it, to see #AI companies pivot to “horny" is even more awful than many of their other industries.
Let me get this straight: it's okay to throw billions of dollars at letting people get off to LLMs, but if a woman wants to get paid to turn men on, that's wrong somehow?
Fuck everything about this timeline.

2025-08-14 20:20:28 GMT

Folks... you really should leave facebook: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-guidelines/

2025-07-04 15:31:36 GMT

Happy 4th Of July for those who celebrate https://mastodon.social/@sjvn/114790360234519992

2025-06-20 23:31:29 GMT

gotta love Ballard summers. #seattle
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/114/718/296/338/313/671/original/8561c72a8af0c1df.jpeg

2025-06-19 18:29:32 GMT

Mastodon peeps, you *smoked* BlueSky. So far, not one penny reported from there, but Mastodon blew through it.
This is my match; I hope it helps even one person make it through a hard time in their life, or into something they dearly desire.
https://wandering.shop/@offby1/114710499045451226
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/114/711/446/703/268/537/original/3ba0d1c37cc6ea7e.png

2025-06-18 01:10:46 GMT

If I wanted to self-host a CalDAV/CardDAV server basically just for myself, what are my options? #SelfHosted #Homelab

2025-06-12 01:40:36 GMT

My partner and I are heading to NYC for a show in October, and I'd like to know if there's a comprehensive theatre calendar somewhere, where I can see everything on, off, off-off, or way the fuck off broadway on any given date.
Boosts for reach please?

2025-06-04 21:51:06 GMT

I am at a loss for words. https://www.tumblr.com/dduane/785456059367178240/brick3621-dorksidefiker

2025-06-02 13:57:21 GMT

My least favorite social media follow is the one where I talk to an author in person and find them nifty, so I follow them on Fedi, or Bluesky, or what have you, and it turns out they only post to promote their books.
I thought I was following you because you were cool. I didn't realize I was Engaging With a Brand™

2025-05-17 13:29:10 GMT

This is one of the reasons I love #PyconUS
https://ni.hil.ist/@asterism/114519216672506345

2025-05-11 14:51:26 GMT

A site I have been a member of for decades (#MetaFilter) is experiencing some AI scraper based slowness and has for a while.
That's not ideal.
The response of members in the thread about it, though, gives off strong "swearing at the fast food worker" energy. Just outright shitty behaviour towards the staff of the site. I'm really disappointed in a lot of my fellow community members there.

2025-04-30 14:47:09 GMT

Talking to LLM fans (with some exceptions) about how to implement a project idea often has strong “draw the rest of the owl" energy. Even in cases where I've never seen them advocate for LLMs before, there's a ... vibe, for lack of a better word. They'll list some vague steps that name tools that might be plumbed together, and wrap it up with "let me know how it goes!" or something like that.
Nothing concrete, no actual solutions, just vibes. They answer like LLMs.

2025-04-23 23:19:38 GMT

Why is printing so hard.

2025-03-26 17:41:48 GMT

‘When doing threat modeling from here on out, it is now unfortunately important to consider the question "Am I a moron?”’
Welcome to the USA.

2025-03-03 17:28:32 GMT

If you're not following it closely, you might have missed that #uv support in #dependabot is now available in beta: https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core/issues/10478#issuecomment-2691330949
#Python

2025-02-24 04:41:56 GMT

I recommend http://johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com/ tonight; it has instructions to reduce Meta's ability track your behaviour across the internet.

2025-02-07 17:59:19 GMT

"Can I build a secure network out of insecure parts in an insecure world?" - from a talk by Bruce Schneier at #Capricon right now
In the context of #AI maybe I'd want to ask "Can I build a trustworthy AI with untrusted processes operated by an untrustworthy party?"

2025-01-20 18:45:39 GMT

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@nprofile…36ju I am constantly impressed at the way you capture what looks to this untrained eye like orthogonal projections of buildings.

2025-01-19 18:20:53 GMT

If you, like me, find the introduction of #Yahoo's #AI summary button to be irritating and intrusive, #UBlockOrigin can remove it:
! Jan 19, 2025 https://www.yahoo.com
www.yahoo.com##div[class*="aisummary_"]
This can probably be generalized; if I see it on other sites, I'll be adding it.

2025-01-13 18:33:45 GMT

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@nprofile…5q8k I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Suddenly more today too for some reason.

2025-01-12 18:04:51 GMT

The changes at #Meta go deeper and are worse than just the moderation practices: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/technology/meta-mark-zuckerberg-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ok4.7NLD.nle0Wd-bkYuI&smid=url-share
* managers have been told to remove period care products from men's bathrooms
* ending DEI programs
* removing the option of theming messenger with trans flag colours
* hiding these policies from employees
It's bad, folks.

2025-01-02 18:46:01 GMT

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@nprofile…vdjy Congratulations, "the blogger”

2025-01-01 18:23:38 GMT

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@nprofile…ssyg I'll be honest, that looks like something an LLM would generate :D
Happy new year!

2024-12-30 23:36:32 GMT

What are my fellow #SelfHosted brethren using as a read-later service? I want to send it urls mainly from iOS apps' share sheets.
Bonus points if it can expose a full content RSS feed.

2024-12-13 19:11:34 GMT

Fuck me, am I ever glad not to be poor right now. Getting to Edmonton for my dad's memorial service is gonna cost me around $4000 all-in and took me almost 2 hours of phone calls and web purchases to set up.

2024-12-07 16:54:39 GMT

Whatever you think about the killing of the insurance company CEO a few days back, I think we can all agree that the amount of effort being put into finding this killer far outstrips the amount of effort put into solving the murder of "regular people".

2024-12-04 17:42:30 GMT

I simply cannot overstate how much I hate the substitution of the word "unalive" for “kill" or "murder”

2024-11-24 08:50:19 GMT

How's a guy make an auto-completing text field in #Django 5.1? I'm aware of https://github.com/yourlabs/django-autocomplete-light/ but its README and build give off signs of "not actively keeping up to date”; is it the state of the art?

2024-11-22 02:25:41 GMT

Now that Transgender Day of Remembrance is behind us, I want all of my trans friends and trans no-relations to know that I will also remember you the rest of the year.

2024-11-22 00:13:49 GMT

I'm kind of amazed to learn that while I may have to pay some out of pocket costs for the #Vasectomy I'm planning, it'll probably only be $20.
Good insurance!

2024-11-16 00:11:52 GMT

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@nprofile…typy @nprofile…v3kj I sincerely hope that there's a solution.

2024-09-13 07:57:37 GMT

(I am aware that my being part of a language-based tech community makes this seem hypocritical)
I am so, so tired of people introducing themselves in social situations with a catalog of technologies they love or hate.
YOU ARE NOT YOUR TOOLS

2024-09-12 17:55:26 GMT

Rrrgh... I hate it when I need to diplomatically not notice that yet again a breaking change was released by the same person who often releases breaking changes without due care and attention.

2024-09-11 05:41:45 GMT

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@npub1pfe…e2dm Fair.
And those moments of positivity are precious and sustaining.

2024-09-11 05:36:51 GMT

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@npub1pfe…e2dm I am still both of those things. I'm stuck in this fucking country for a few more years, and I *hope* things get better.

2024-09-08 17:41:37 GMT

Coming in to SeaTac on approach and the clouds are that distinctive yellowish tinge that tells me "Chris, you probably should have closed the bathroom window before you left"

2024-09-08 16:54:30 GMT

It's a little annoyance, but I wish my Apple Watch's “stand up" health notifications would notice that my watch is in airplane mode and maybe just leave me be while I'm stuck in the plague tube.

2024-08-13 06:17:23 GMT

One thing I hope is taken away from the #Glasgow2024 #WorldCon is that it is too soon to relax mask mandates at large events. I personally know over a dozen people who have tested positive with #COVID19 at this event, and masking was sparse at best.
I know masking isn't fun, it isn't comfortable, and it impacts accessibility, but I think it's still something events should consider making mandatory.

2024-07-06 08:10:08 GMT

“Kids need to get answers from humans who love them”
Neal Stephenson, personally putting a stake in the heart of the AI industry's claim to a moral high ground in education.

2024-06-23 13:54:15 GMT

I think there's a lesson here for a lot of online communities, and I'm glad Dan articulated it so clearly.
*stares very hard at some #MetaFilter users*
https://mastodon.social/@ifixcoinops/105778289798706182

2024-06-06 23:34:54 GMT

This poem, today, made my breath catch in my throat.
My granddad never talked much about it, but he was on the beach this day 80 years ago.
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/112/572/294/182/690/370/original/56748155abcd1d11.jpeg

2024-06-05 02:03:36 GMT

tl;dr, the developer of Bartender quietly sold the app to parties unknown about 2 months ago. v5.0.52 should, theoretically, still be fine, but consider turning off auto-updates.
https://mastodon.social/@webology/112561271072786435

2024-05-22 17:29:03 GMT

Also see #PyConUS mask policies.
(many caveats apply, especially once you take into account hearing disabilities and language barriers)
https://med-mastodon.com/@luckytran/112485571477215596

2024-05-21 12:55:58 GMT

The worst thing about #PyConUS is that there is no way to spend the time I want to with all the people I'd want to spend time with, even if I didn't also meet fantastic NEW people all the time.

2024-05-18 19:21:58 GMT

@npub1f6a…pnql we talked in the hall at PyCon and you mentioned a local LLM model that fit into 8Gb of RAM; I forgot the name, though. Could you refresh my memory?

2024-05-09 18:55:06 GMT

I'm oddly disappointed at how wholesome #asstodon is.

2024-05-09 05:12:42 GMT

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@npub172v…689n Well, I just yelled FUCK at the top of my lungs and feel like drinking. I'm sure you can guess.

2024-05-02 02:15:20 GMT

What's the current best practice for installing a macOS virtual machine (on my macOS M2 Max host machine; I'm being all license-compliant and all that shit)?
Please boost!

2024-04-12 23:08:32 GMT

It is 4 PM on Friday; why am I still sitting at my work computer when I can be sitting at my not-work computer?

2024-04-10 21:55:13 GMT

Lemme just say, the slow-motion grief that comes with some of the nastier cancer diagnoses can fuck off right into the fucking sun.
Fuck.

2024-03-19 16:33:31 GMT

I love watching a group of smart people look at ways to pile _more_ abstractions on top of Kubernetes.

2024-03-10 15:44:38 GMT

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@npub1pfe…e2dm I've decided that rather than let the drama that has attended last year's Hugo Awards get me down, I'm building the new nomination and voting system for the awards, with an eye towards increasing the community's trust in it. https://github.com/WorldconVotingSystems/nomnom

2024-02-19 20:34:50 GMT

@npub15l7…aang are you at the Kraken game? I would have sworn I saw you on the twins.

2024-01-10 17:28:09 GMT

This is the new #FlyingWithHynek
https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/111732079798833167

2023-12-03 20:21:47 GMT

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@npub1ept…jcl3 @npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1l4f…pgmw Is there any mitigation of this from the standpoint of being a widely-followed account? What features could they add that would help you?

2023-11-10 16:58:26 GMT

@npub1psd…9sr7 I have bad news for you: Your speech about the Torment Nexus is on HackerNews (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38218580)
I enjoyed the sound of the point whooshing by over many commenters’ heads.

2023-11-03 16:15:58 GMT

This concept — “Executive Function Theft” — is such a lucid description of a constant source of frustration that, like the author, I can’t believe it hasn’t been named before and dug into.
https://hedgehoglibrarian.com/2023/08/14/executive-function-theft/
It's the thing “where one entity offloads things they consider unimportant onto some other entity they consider unimportant”. Once you see it you can't unsee it.
(Via #MetaFilter here: https://www.metafilter.com/201252/Executive-Function-Theft)

2023-10-24 08:00:01 GMT

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1ytq…9rrp We’ve seen this on our instance as well, too. I’ve noted it in the report.

2023-10-12 06:50:09 GMT

Holy shit, is this true?
https://chaos.social/@isotopp/111215167443063573

2023-09-12 17:44:49 GMT

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@npub1psd…9sr7 I'm concerned that I'm getting tempted before they even start talking up the Pro models.

2023-09-12 17:34:38 GMT

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@npub1psd…9sr7 I am not 100% sure I'll resist.
Dropping lightning as a cable is _really_ tempting. It feels like a frivolous reason to spend so much money though…

2023-09-12 17:30:13 GMT

I still enjoy my #iPhone 13 enough that it's giving me advantage on my saving throw vs. Shiny. USB-C is going to be reeeeeealy tempting, though.
#Apple

2023-08-16 00:26:07 GMT

Where can I find a set of tips and tricks for #BaldursGate3 that are not in a youtube video framed around "mistakes you make" or other negging bullshit? I'm old and cranky about the way YouTube content creators present their stuff, but I'd love to learn from the wisdom of others.

2023-08-08 18:30:12 GMT

The censored Count from Sesame Street is one of the best things ever to end up on the internet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXPnH0C9UA

2023-08-07 19:48:10 GMT

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@npub1f6a…pnql if you're interested in a concrete answer I'm happy to explain, but yeah, it's frustrating

2023-07-15 15:46:29 GMT

I'm considering switching to #Kubernetes to manage some of the services on my homelab, in part because it seems to be one of the more coherent ways to make paired #Tailscale / service "endpoints" without having to have separate machines for each one, but I'm tripping over the fact that I utterly don't grok the abstractions and how they're implemented.
I hate the idea of having a magic API that I don't even know how to *talk about* much less modify.

2023-07-15 15:37:42 GMT

I am in what I think is the worst place on the spectrum of #Emacs skill: I know enough to have complex problems that exceed the ability and interest of the forums I'm in to help with, but I'm still too incompetent to solve the damn problems myself.

2023-07-04 16:59:53 GMT

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@npub1psd…9sr7 I am SHOCKED, I say, SHOCKED.

2023-07-04 16:51:49 GMT

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@npub1psd…9sr7 I can imagine a Bond movie where the status quo Bond is protecting is a fossil fuel economy, and the villain is a hardcore environmentalist. That'd be pretty peak Bond.

2023-06-10 14:32:21 GMT

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@npub1psd…9sr7 Bold of you to assume he reads.

2023-06-09 18:06:02 GMT

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@npub1psd…9sr7 aw fuck, that sucks :(