Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire:

Kvetching, not complaining.

Writes books. Pet rats. Martial arts. Punch Nazis & terfs. If it wasn't on Industrial Records it's not industrial music, it's just sparkling noise. He/him. Bangpath old. Detroit, MI, US. Gelato!

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2026-04-07 09:43:19 UTC

Three days left to get the Windows-free Defenestrated Edition of "Networking for System Administrators!" Get the skills you need while protecting your Unix purity!
Once the Kickstarter is over, it's gone forever.
https://mwl.io/ks

2026-04-02 16:04:16 UTC

Me: Moon exploration is not broadly useful. We know there's little there for us. Give us the asteroids and L5 instead. Sure, loop the moon as a test flight, but plan future missions with an eye towards growth.
Also me: HOLY CRAP WE'RE GOING TO THE MOOOOON

2026-04-01 22:36:08 UTC

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA MOON LAUNCH

2026-04-01 10:48:52 UTC

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@nprofile…xy8s yup

2026-03-29 15:46:30 UTC

It's almost time for my next daft scam.
https://mwl.io/ks
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2026-03-25 11:58:08 UTC

oh. right. marketing. no matter what. Sigh.
Fine. Here you go.
"Given enough eyes, all murders are shallow."
https://mwl.link/git-commit-murder.html
There. Happy, are we?

2026-03-19 18:36:49 UTC

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@nprofile…72qt
Mikrotik is the quintessential Redundant Array of Inexpensive Crap.
I use one for my gateway at home. I keep a spare. When it dies I swap it, throw out the old one, and buy a new cheapie.

2026-03-19 17:54:42 UTC

Truffle says it's a good day to chill in bed with a buddy. #rats #petRats
a cute pet rat lounging in the door of his hut, looking interested but unworried. His brother is visible right behind him.
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2026-03-19 15:20:27 UTC

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@nprofile…lp0c it is a plot device, no question.
it's also a good point. outsource your thinking and you lose yourself.

2026-03-19 11:37:12 UTC

Satire? People who pay for X don't do satire.
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2026-03-09 18:38:58 UTC

My home uses radiator heat, which means there's very little exchange of air with the outside world.
Every spring, on the first nice day, I open the windows to release a great cloud of accumulated fug and gasp "oooh, that's better out than in."
Which is a long way of saying: I'd like to apologize to everyone on my block. Sorry.

2026-03-08 15:17:13 UTC

Which reminds me: I still need to offer a charity for the Kansas trans folks.
Any recommendations?

2026-03-08 15:15:26 UTC

One day left on the stupidest charity auction I've ever done!
Seriously. This is daft. I don't know how it reached $777.
The winner gets something pointless, and helps either Kansas trans folks or MN ICE victims.
https://mwl.io/archives/24580
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2026-03-07 17:56:59 UTC

I'm not claiming that I do too much #writing, or that I use short paragraphs, but my laptop's ENTER key just broke.
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2026-03-04 15:59:37 UTC

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@nprofile…rwst not sure, he's a rescue, but we think he's about 2.5yo

2026-03-04 15:52:41 UTC

Cashel is getting old, and needs a bit of Happy Rat to ease his morning aches.
Of course he doesn't want to leave the hammock while he's achy, so I need to hold the spoon up for him. #petRats #rats
Cute pet rat stretching out of his hammock to lick a spoon of ice cream laced with ratty ibuprofen
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2026-03-02 19:44:09 UTC

"You’d expect that digital storage technologies like SSD and NVMe would have learned from past mistakes and chosen to be honest about the block sizes used internally, but vendors freely admit that they won’t tell you what’s actually going on inside the device and you should just trust the values they report because the truth would only make you sob." #openzfsmastery
Might be too honest but... I think I'll keep it.
Help me keep the lights on while I write? https://sponsor.mwl.io

2026-03-02 17:08:43 UTC

Charity Auction for Kansas Trans Folks and/or Minneapolis ICE Relief.
Related to my 1 April Kickstarter.
https://mwl.io/archives/24580
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-53d788bcd8441bb97cfb7a64f2552521/media_attachments/files/116/160/678/929/806/757/original/a861947e141a57c9.jpg

2026-02-27 15:50:33 UTC

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Before anyone comes at me about Heinlein: I grew up on his books. I loved his books.
Teenagers need to learn about the importance of being able to stand on your own and take care of yourself and think for yourself. His books were great for that! Hopefully, once they learn to do their own laundry and cook their own meals, they learn about humanity's natural competitive advantages of collaboration and community and love and respect.
I will, however, defend to the death the entire genre of "build your own rocket and fly it to the Moon to shoot Nazis." TO THE DEATH.

2026-02-27 15:42:46 UTC

Teenager Quercy is contemplating writing a sprawling future epic about an immortal rat who explores the galaxy 19th-century style and spouts the wisdom of the successful colonizer.
He'll call it "Time Enough For Noms."
#petRats #rats
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2026-02-26 02:22:38 UTC

Geez, you give a group money once and hit you up forever!

2026-02-25 16:23:45 UTC

Today's plan:
# freebsd-update upgrade -r15.0
# pkgbaseify
#freebsd

2026-02-24 17:34:25 UTC

"Write a second edition! It'll be easy, just update the text for the changes and slam it out."
Tracking changes is easy. The white text is unchanged. The blue text is new.
I would appreciate your help keeping the rats fed as I write #openzfsmastery https://sponsor.mwl.io
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2026-02-22 02:53:43 UTC

I've been using #FreeBSD since 1995. 31 years, more or less.
I was never aware of this most vital community resource.
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Community/Dogs

2026-02-20 13:36:06 UTC

aw, crap! I forgot to replace my CR2025 batteries with CR2026s.
Is anything bad going to happen?

2026-02-12 17:18:35 UTC

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@nprofile…d6ag
Possibly?
I believe you underestimate your cryptidosity.

2026-02-11 17:06:35 UTC

Hey #sysadmin folks! Is "short stroking" a hard drive still a thing?
For the youngsters: this was when you used only the fastest part of a hard drive, leaving the slow parts of the disk empty. Short stroking improved spinning rust performance.
I haven't heard of this in years, and it seems that with LBA abstracting the drive innards would eliminate the benefits. (You'd still get extra spare blocks for when the drive starts failing, sure.)

2026-02-06 15:42:00 UTC

If I want people to buy my books, I must write them first.
The world is very unfair. #writing

2026-02-06 15:09:33 UTC

When a band I love isn't on Bandcamp, I'm always disappointed. I understand the licensing issues, but buying through middleman-heavy retail channels feels like betraying the band.
Anyway, for my 59th birthday I bought myself all three Blue Oyster Cult 50th Anniversary Live albums via the Bezosbeast.

2026-02-06 02:33:29 UTC

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@nprofile…3qha Growing up in a farm town and attending the local university, with a public scrapyard full of rust and a hardware store that sold powdered aluminum and magnesium tape, I am amazed that any of us lived long enough to graduate.
can't imagine what we woulda done with a warp core.

2026-02-06 00:30:21 UTC

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@nprofile…dla5 that is the intent, yes.
alhough "I need cheesy poofs" should go in there somewhere

2026-02-05 18:20:37 UTC

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@nprofile…6wcx yep. and if you're a new user? There's no way they're getting over that learning curb without handholding.

2026-02-05 17:26:19 UTC

Been running through the FreeBSD installer multiple times for debugging and testing the OpenZFS book, and realized:
much of the learning curve could be eliminated by adding two options in the disk setup menu: "Single Disk ZFS" and "Single Disk UFS." Select those, and many other

2026-02-05 17:14:24 UTC

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well, ⬆️ sparked discussion.
There are linuxes that integrate ZFS into the installer, like Alpine and Chimera, and support ZFS on root. Good for them!
In general, though, more most linuxes, ZFS on root is an edge case that requires above average expertise with the boot loader. (If you have that expertise you think it's not much, but for many folks it IS a big deal.) Properly covering ZFS on root on Linux would require I write a book on initrd, UEFI, and more. I don't want to write that book. The workarounds various folks use evolve constantly, and by the time the book comes out they would have changed.
Looks like Linux ZFS root with ZFSBootMenu will be relegated a final chapter for the advanced user. :flan_shrug:

2026-02-05 16:26:08 UTC

Wreathed in shadow. Cashel lurks above. When the call comes, justice will plunge down upon the wrongdoers. Until then, he remains vigilant. #rats #petRats
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2026-02-02 23:54:09 UTC

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@nprofile…z80j @nprofile…d6ag
Yeah, d2d is the best of the aggregators out there. So far.
Just understand that they're not in it for the love of books as art or craft: they're techies who happen to like books and saw a business opportunity and took it.
(They might love books as readers, don't get me wrong; but that's very different than "I love books so much I will spend my life honing my art and craft so that I can express myself exactly what I wish to people I have never met.")

2026-01-29 15:41:31 UTC

Cashel is stepping away from his responsibilities to spend more time with his banana chunk. #petRats #rats
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2026-01-28 18:51:27 UTC

I've repeatedly said that computer folks should not be allowed to name things. I respect y'all, but... no. Just no.
The ZFS devs stand out by actually picking decent, sensible, unambiguous names.

2026-01-28 15:15:51 UTC

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and... done! total elapsed time, ninety seconds.

2026-01-28 15:14:18 UTC

Time to update the jails! #freebsd

2026-01-27 13:41:09 UTC

Pepperoni and pineapple on pizza. :flan_nom: :flan_hearts:

2026-01-27 12:46:20 UTC

Why do people strip CWs off replies? What possible motive do they have?
If you strip my CW I won't boost your reply no matter how fiercely I agree.

2026-01-27 02:05:54 UTC

Recently, "defund ICE" was the moderate position.
Now, "prosecute ICE" is the moderate position.

2026-01-23 17:56:03 UTC

Remember: when they talk about "the economy," they mean "rich people's yacht money."

2026-01-20 23:42:24 UTC

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/rackspace-raises-email-hosting-prices-by-as-much-as-706-percent/
<cough>run your own email<cough>

2026-01-20 15:02:40 UTC

The degrees of True Love:
1) I want to spend my life with you
2) I would kill for you
3) I would die for you
4) I would build a complicated table in Microsoft Word for you

2026-01-14 16:10:15 UTC

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or, I have a spare molex connector.
I could buy a molex-to-sata power adapter, two sata-to-satadom adapters, and yolo my way through! :flan_set_fire: :flan_on_fire:

2026-01-14 16:01:53 UTC

The satadom on my FreeNAS MiniXL died. Fine. Buy a new satadom.
But... supermicro uses a proprietary satadom power cable. :flan_rage:
Anyone know the right adapter to plug a thick supermicro satadom power cable into a smaller regular satadom power cable? Or am I better off returning this one, buying supermicro, and getting on with my life?

2026-01-07 17:05:53 UTC

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apparently I've been saving DC power supplies for many years. Decades. Surely I already own the one I need!
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2026-01-07 17:00:26 UTC

I need a 9v 1a DC power adapter for my label printer.
Have I achieved Nerdvana? Do I already have such a power supply?
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2026-01-03 16:45:40 UTC

so it's now legal for, say, the EU or Vietnam to kidnap the US president? Have I got this right?

2026-01-03 15:19:27 UTC

fucking Trump, oil, and alt-right.

2025-12-12 15:33:57 UTC

Rewatched the Doctor Who Comic Relief show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do-wDPoC6GM
I'd have to make a list to be sure, but I'm pretty sure every single gag in here was deployed in the reboot?

2025-12-11 03:10:25 UTC

Finally got a chance to see the Weird Al/PtM cover of "Killing in the Name Of."
Media stars meticulously manage their images. For Weird Al to break his image like this? The man is PISSED.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COZcKrUx1Ts

2025-12-09 05:05:46 UTC

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@nprofile…337l Some signed books have. The last of the signed books are on my porch.
Dropships have not yet started arriving anywhere, because of the holiday.

2025-12-03 00:51:41 UTC

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@nprofile…k8w0 don't worry, it's not personal.
I use my powers against everyone, but most especially myself.

2025-12-03 00:48:34 UTC

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@nprofile…k8w0 oops! unintentional.
My signature is unintelligible, that's all.

2025-12-03 00:45:19 UTC

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@nprofile…k8w0
"indistinguishable."
Such a nice way to say "unintelligible." Thank you.

2025-12-02 23:59:40 UTC

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@nprofile…k8w0 yep! one-bit authenticity checksum

2025-12-01 20:25:39 UTC

My new fiction collection is out, but disappears forever on Christmas. Grab it now or regret it forever.
https://mwl.io/archives/24487
You'll also get 13 other excellent books, as part of the Wee Beasties bundle.

2025-11-25 13:03:22 UTC

ICYM yesterday's announcement:
https://sponsor.mwl.io
#openzfsmastery #sysadmin

2025-11-21 00:31:09 UTC

US #n4sa2e sponsors: these go out to you tomorrow.
I'm gonna go find dinner now.
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2025-11-19 21:56:05 UTC

Hey print-level Patronizers! This is for y'all. #n4sa2e
Not a Patronizer? You could be. https://patronizemwl.com/
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2025-11-18 18:23:03 UTC

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@nprofile…zlhf
knowing my readers?
next con I attended, I'd be greeted with hundreds of folks wearing my pinky print...

2025-11-18 18:11:55 UTC

The #n4sa2e paperbacks have arrived, so it's officially "author with dysgraphia forges his own signature" day.
(Dysgraphia is broad, so to be specific: I can neither read nor write cursive. My signature is meaningless.)
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2025-11-10 20:22:36 UTC

SCOTUS somehow refused to reopen gay marriage?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/politics/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-obergefell-kim-davis
Also: to hell with Kim Davis

2025-11-05 18:33:07 UTC

Me: I'm gonna write #openzfsmastery in order. No bouncing around in the manuscript, just clean text from beginning to end!
Also me: My test host needs the new compatibility flag for the root pool. I guess I better jump ahead four chapters and write that. :flan_heckk: #sysadmin #writing

2025-11-03 19:15:29 UTC

Linux has no fstat(1) command? How do #Linux admins access that information? Just reach straight for lsof? #sysadmin

2025-10-25 20:54:42 UTC

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@nprofile…uvs9
Finishing a book while sick is the worst.
I've never had to do it with a migraine, but I'm pretty sure you deserve the trophy. :flan_trophy:

2025-10-25 02:00:15 UTC

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@nprofile…xv4g
Barnaby and Jones are the stars from episode 1 on.

2025-10-24 22:30:31 UTC

Knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein was not the monster.
Wisdom is understanding that Frankenstein WAS the monster.
Enlightenment is understanding that I, the person who brings this up at every chance in every conversation, am the monster.

2025-10-23 18:59:37 UTC

My pal @nprofile…me0f had a blue Nissan Cube that reminded us all of a Trek shuttle. He parked it legally. A jerk rammed it. The car's a total loss.
We live in Detroit. If you don't have wheels, you're done. He could use some help.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-zig-replace-his-beloved-galileo

2025-10-20 23:35:20 UTC

Waiting in restaurant, and cashier says: I adore this song, it's so romantic and full of love and about staying together forever and ever!
Me, smiling while biting tongue: You know she's singing to a dead guy, right? It's in the lyrics that he's dead?
File Janet Jackson's "Together Again" on the Misunderstood Songs list right next to Depeche Mode's "Somebody."

2025-10-20 00:20:35 UTC

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@nprofile…0ayd I think this goes in my next StSbM column...

2025-10-19 23:22:07 UTC

If you live in Alberta, you need to reserve your 2026 covid vaccine starting now.
https://www.facebook.com/675475737/posts/10161070514675738/
If you don't live in Alberta... well, helping Alberta make sure they have enough covax stockpiled is clearly doing Dog's work.

2025-10-17 16:56:18 UTC

okay, got bhyve going the way I want.
Now to install debian zfs-on-root. Send hope, I'm gonna need it...

2025-10-15 20:34:36 UTC

New blog post: N4SA2e Print Sponsor Address Check
If you want to see the #sysadmin Baby Jesus cry, there's a link for that.
https://mwl.io/archives/24445

2025-10-14 23:59:01 UTC

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@nprofile…muq2 @nprofile…2ftm
I have given up predicting WHAT you lunatics will take seriously.
Also: the test happens when people order the book, not before.

2025-10-14 22:26:24 UTC

Because it was discussed elsewhere and I had to dig up this blog post: if you're an author selling books direct to readers, should you use Shopify or Woocommerce?
If you want a career, the answer is Woo.
https://mwl.io/archives/23490

2025-10-14 17:43:06 UTC

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the solution: an /etc/rc.conf entry that specifies ZFS, just giving the pool name
vm_dir="zfs:vm"

2025-10-14 17:08:26 UTC

TFW you copy-and-paste your error message into your least loathed search engine and it produces one result, in a language you don't speak and that can't be auto-translated. #sysadmin
(because y'all'll ask: it's "/usr/local/sbin/vm: ERROR: cannot use ZVOL storage unless ZFS support is enabled" )

2025-10-14 16:21:17 UTC

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@nprofile…2ftm @nprofile…r749 @nprofile…k48u if you're a sponsor, Patronizer, or ks backer, you should have gotten a note about the ebook?

2025-10-11 21:01:04 UTC

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@nprofile…ax88
I really, REALLY want to bite the bullet and switch to libreoffice.
I won't know if it works or fails until the book comes out, gets into distribution, folks order it, it goes wrong, and the book gets pulled from global distribution. :flan_sick:

2025-10-11 20:53:43 UTC

A few months ago, MS informed me that my 365 subscription fee was increasing $30 to cover the cost of Copilot. I could downgrade to "classic 365," without the lie machine, and keep the same fee.
I downgraded. Because not only am I not paying for the lie machine, my business makes Copilot inherently non-useful.
Just got an email from MS. The cost of my classic 365 subscription is going up $30.
I suspect many people rejected the forced upgrade, so now they're just saying "screw you."

2025-10-11 15:02:36 UTC

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@nprofile…wu8p yes, that was obvious.
some folks think the FF pays me for those columns, that's why I always correct it. no worries.

2025-10-11 14:08:39 UTC

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@nprofile…wu8p
For the record, I do not get paid for letting it rip.
Until the Kickstarter, that is.
I'm rather glad that Polin Cercival has decreed that pkgbase is happening for 15, and that the dragon will finally be slain. Because I can stop hearing that "pkgbase will solve that."

2025-10-09 19:31:51 UTC

Dear Patronizers and sponsors: you have a preliminary thing, check your accounts and/or emails

2025-10-09 14:06:09 UTC

Been pondering transformations on how I think about open source groups for a while now.
Barn raisings are about neighbors and shared problems. It doesn't matter if you absolutely loathe your neighbor: if they need to raise a barn, or get a car out of a ditch, or recover from a flood, you show up and help.
Open source is a barn raising.
I'm known as "part of" several open source projects. I deliberately refuse commit access, however. A community has standards for its members. Open source... doesn't.
Mind you, some of the people are great! I foster relationships with those people. But if your group accepts racists, sexists, and transphobes, I don't want to be "part of" that group. I'll attend the barn raising as they attend mine.
Pretty sure that identifying an entire group of such as "found family" is unwise and unhealthy. Identifying yourself as a "barn raiser" is full-on weird.
Not sure where to take this, or how to change things.

2025-10-09 13:40:47 UTC

Today: review the #n4sa2e print PDF and ebook.

2025-10-08 11:34:55 UTC

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Yes, airport stroopwafel are clearly inferior to what you'd buy in Amsterdam proper.
But I would submit that Amsterdam airport stroopwafel are better than any you'd find in the US.
Also: US adopt modern measurement system when?

2025-10-08 11:33:48 UTC

Bought stroopwafel in the Amsterdam airport!
Turns out metric stroopwafel are incompatible with imperial tea cups. An engineering solution was necessary.
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-53d788bcd8441bb97cfb7a64f2552521/media_attachments/files/115/338/326/870/989/952/original/ed3c19d9e1ac481f.jpg

2025-09-15 14:12:35 UTC

#n4sa2e Kickstarter launches tomorrow! https://mwl.io/archives/24417

2025-09-09 17:20:29 UTC

Mezzo understands that he had a cold and needed antibiotics.
He also understands that he got a Rat Sundae twice daily so that he would eat those antibiotics.
He agrees that he's feeling better after two weeks.
He sees no reason the Rat Sundaes should stop, however. #petRats #rats
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2025-09-05 15:10:23 UTC

Truth.
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2025-08-27 11:23:35 UTC

Yes, yes, I write entire books as pranks. But it's rare that even the book's title is a lie.
This is one of those times.
Coming 16 September on #Kickstarter: "Networking for System Administrators, 2nd ed." #sysadmin
https://mwl.io/ks

2025-08-26 11:46:57 UTC

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@nprofile…567e
wholly sensible

2025-08-25 18:36:19 UTC

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@nprofile…fn2k Utterly brilliant, just like Delaney!
Agriculture was a mistake. So was money. Four-legged pots are revolutionary.

2025-08-25 15:49:48 UTC

Finalizing the #n4sa2e Kickstarter rewards.
Looks like rates to ship to the EU have gone up $5-$10. :flan_piteous:
I would use someone other than USPS, but UPS often charges $50 to take $2 in customs fees. :flan_rage: :flan_molotov:

2025-08-25 14:17:35 UTC

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@nprofile…vvj5 @nprofile…xs46 what's the domain?

2025-08-25 11:54:51 UTC

Bright and early Monday morning?
Yippee.
You're probably at work. My next book supposedly teaches networking for #sysadmin types, but really, it's about how to survive employment. Coming to Kickstarter 16 September.
https://mwl.io/ks