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2025-09-15 18:15:57 UTC

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Chat control in the EU is reportedly off the table now, but you can see how this is playing out in the UK, whose institutions have had a totalitarian streak in them for as long as they’ve existed: peaceful protestors can hold up whatever signs they want in crowds of thousands as long as they can be arrested at home later, alone. Or at their community group, job site or job interview or family gathering. Pervasive surveillance means every citizen can be targeted at the point of maximum leverage.

2025-09-09 11:41:11 UTC

Truly blessed to be sitting at a patio window with a warm cup of coffee, watching the sun rise and thinking about how I was absolutely, totally right about NFTs the entire time.

2025-08-19 16:14:39 UTC

Oven just stopped working yesterday, no noise, no pop, just stop. Second time it’s happened, this thing does _not_ like spending too much time broiling.
Much gratitude today to the service guy who fixed it three years back; “yeah, it’s just the thermal fuse. I’ll leave you a spare in case”, and in case happened today.
Five minutes with a screwdriver and we’re back in business.
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2025-07-27 23:19:57 UTC

So, this is a funny thread about a gag Tom Lehrer left in an old NSA internal publications, and it’s a good gag, but I have to tell you that I find the idea of sixty year old math papers staying classified genuinely alarming.
https://bsky.app/profile/opalescentopal.bsky.social/post/3luxxx27nos23

2024-06-18 13:24:40 UTC

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SystemD is for landlords.
The whole system makes sense when your realize that SystemD's only constituency is people who want to rent out computers. Not for people who want to live under a their own roof, maybe in a community, to maybe build something together.
SystemD is just software for landlords.

2024-06-18 13:18:57 UTC

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Look, "/home is a tempfile" isn't just a footgun, or a bug.
It's an explicit ideological attack on the whole idea of what Linux is and who Linux is for.
If /home is just a tempfile to be purged when drivespace pressure hits some arbitrary threshold then Linux is a corporate-owned SAAS shim, and that's all it is. It's not just "breaking userspace", it's abandoning the idea that the people using that space and the stuff they've made there matter at all.

2024-06-18 13:01:55 UTC

https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/112637213238431183
A friend of mine joked when this came to light the other day that we should start the timer to see how long it would be before some SystemD person crawled out of the woodwork to say that was expected behavior and you're an idiot for using it wrong. And we laughed to ourselves, wouldn't that would be funny, that really is the reputation they have now isn't it.
Well, jokes on us, because that's the first fucking comment on the bug.
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/33349
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2024-06-17 23:17:43 UTC

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That's where booting from CDs and later USB keys got its start too.

2023-10-11 00:48:14 UTC

A slide from a presentation I just finished.
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