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2026-04-05 16:19:56 UTC

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I'll be writing more once I get home! My flight is tomorrow morning (WEST). Surgery recovery sucks man lol

2026-04-05 09:05:49 UTC

Posts I'm probably gonna get flagged for:
> I mean, if you really want X11 to continue to be developed, there's this thing in society called "money" that you can use to exchange for goods (such as food and clothing) or services (maintaining a display server). I suggest using money to convince people to maintain it would be a good course of action.

2026-03-22 12:03:33 UTC

looks like anthropic got rid of the claude refusal triggering string :(

2026-02-12 16:44:11 UTC

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https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

2026-02-12 15:43:25 UTC

The Discourse has been Automated
https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/the-discourse-has-been-automated/?utm_campaign=mi_irl&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

2026-01-15 21:32:36 UTC

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If you need help, email me. I can work with you in case there's low hanging fruit that you missed.

2026-01-08 14:20:07 UTC

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At work the CEO has been sad I don't use AI more because "it could make you so much more productive" as if the thing making me not productive isn't the result of like 10 people being hateful.

2025-12-16 09:52:01 UTC

Time to do a load test! https://anubis.techaro.lol/.within.website/x/cmd/anubis/api/honeypot/xe-mastodon/init

2025-11-13 16:19:45 UTC

fucking dbrand: https://dbrand.com/shop/limited-edition/companion-cube

2025-10-27 16:15:47 UTC

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There are ways to do the migration more gracefully fwiw, it's just a pain.

2025-10-24 12:13:22 UTC

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good

2025-10-09 17:10:36 UTC

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it could be the excessively rare "it returns T for singular or T[] for a list" :D

2025-10-02 15:01:20 UTC

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2025-09-11 03:18:58 UTC

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nerd <3

2025-08-29 16:49:37 UTC

cisco this, cisco that, when do we get transco

2025-08-25 12:58:01 UTC

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2025-08-17 21:11:12 UTC

I scored 15/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

2025-08-15 18:24:45 UTC

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I really wish you contacted me at all about this before going public.

2025-07-15 20:35:02 UTC

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They're refusing to because people used to tag those short shas when compromising an action. It sucks but computers am bad.

2025-07-15 03:05:03 UTC

https://halone.within.lgbt need to test something, thanks!
Boost for reach!

2025-07-10 10:21:21 UTC

My downtime monitor can't be this cute
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/114/828/435/374/011/945/original/4cf77a902768b6ea.png

2025-07-09 01:35:15 UTC

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I have the best conversations with my lawyer:
Them: how is your business going to make money?
Me:<li>Software as a service</li><li>Developer relations consultancy</li><li>Merchandising</li>
Them: ...

2025-07-07 13:59:43 UTC

https://www.404media.co/the-open-source-software-saving-the-internet-from-ai-bot-scrapers/

2025-07-04 22:50:58 UTC

If the FSF calls your program malware, is that a sign that you've made it?

2025-06-20 16:39:01 UTC

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Wow, rare Hacker News W:
> This is the true problem with AI. It's with who owns it, and what they will inevitably use it for. Whether it can do cool stuff with code or equal a junior developer is irrelevant. What it can do is less important than what it will be used for.
> The owning class will use it to reduce payroll costs, which from their perspective is a cost center and always will be. If you're not an owner, then you have no control over the direction or use of AI. You are doomed to have your life disrupted and changed by it, with no input whatsoever. To quote the article, your six shillings a day can become six shillings a week, and you are left to just deal with it however you can. You are "free" to go find some other six shilling a week job. If you can.
> And if you think, "Oh, every technology is like this, it's always been this way", you are right. You have always been at the whims of the owning class, and barring a change towards economic democracy, where average people regain control over their lives, it likely always will be.

2025-06-20 15:50:49 UTC

Rolling the ladder up behind us
https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/rolling-ladder-behind-us/?utm_campaign=mi_irl&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

2025-06-16 00:32:33 UTC

The american mind cannot fathom the kiloinch

2025-04-29 14:29:22 UTC

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Read it and weep: https://xeiaso.net/notes/2025/k8s-dev-mac-oracle-linux/
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/114/421/724/337/682/541/original/3a11ea7944d540e5.png

2025-04-29 14:15:57 UTC

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My dev VM on my macbook is Oracle Linux

2025-04-29 13:20:28 UTC

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It's almost like annoying away the best contributors means they leave lol

2025-03-27 23:45:13 UTC

Well the cat's out of the bag. Anubis has broken containment: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/27/open-source-devs-are-fighting-ai-crawlers-with-cleverness-and-vengeance/

2025-03-17 16:18:59 UTC

TFW you actually need an artist for a thing but if you make an open request on social media you'll get spammed to hell and back.

2025-01-17 16:43:15 UTC

Amazon's AI crawler is making my git server unstable
https://xeiaso.net/notes/2025/amazon-crawler/?utm_campaign=mi_irl&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

2024-12-08 16:41:36 UTC

If you're interested in giving me feedback about your vibes on domain names for an article, please fill out this survey: https://tsdev.tulpanomicon.guide/index.php/918612?lang=en
Spread it to nontechnical friends if you can!

2024-12-08 15:51:55 UTC

Ah yes, I'm an expert in GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Jenkins, CircleCI, Perforce, Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, AWS, GCP, Azure, IAM, DNS, NewRelic, Datadog, Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis, Rancher, ArgoCD, Flux, Linkerd, Istio, Traefik, HAProxy, Envoy, Nginx, Terraform, Vault, Ansible, S3, and more, but I don't know how Cappuccino works so I guess you should just throw my resume out into the trash, am I right recruiters?

2024-12-03 17:07:33 UTC

This post took me basically a month to make. This is the resource I wish existed when I set out on this journey. It explains what's going on conceptually and what every part of the flow does. It also explains how and why SkyPilot is being used to make this easier.
Please enjoy the fruit of my suffering. This took ages.
Training with Big Data on Any Cloud - Tigris Data Blog
https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/training-any-cloud/

2024-11-25 20:25:29 UTC

Getting a pointer to a constant in Go
https://xeiaso.net/notes/2024/go-pointer-constant/?utm_campaign=mi_irl&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

2024-10-19 17:21:28 UTC

Pro tip for new developers: if a protocol or tool has "simple" in the name, it probably isn't.

2024-10-16 20:41:53 UTC

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The closest we get is Kubernetes on top of something like Talos Linux, and even then it sucks lol

2024-10-16 20:24:03 UTC

Your only real bet is to rely on things that are cross-cloud by default (Kubernetes, S3 or something that can speak the S3 API). There's no real way to go multi-cloud without lock-in. There's no real way to go single-cloud without lock-in. There's no real way to go on-premesis without lock-in.
Computers just kinda suck these days because of the capitalist rent-seeking powers that be that demand that everything be forged from the mines of pure suckitude.

2024-09-26 20:06:40 UTC

Easy mitigation: make your endpoint management fleet execute this command:
systemctl stop cups-browsed

2024-09-02 14:28:34 UTC

New patron-exclusive post:
What's happened and what I'm going to do about it
https://www.patreon.com/posts/whats-happened-111274315?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
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2024-08-25 11:03:25 UTC

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2024-08-04 15:50:01 UTC

Instead of using AI tools to tear people down, what if we used them to uplift others? Introducing Praise my GitHub profile:
https://praise-me.fly.dev/
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2024-08-01 16:41:51 UTC

Have you ever been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

2024-07-30 15:27:36 UTC

"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens
https://xeiaso.net/shitposts/no-way-to-prevent-this/CVE-2024-5535/

2024-07-08 14:40:33 UTC

I have been having some difficulty with motivation for creating things lately, and not because of writer's block or anything like that. I've actually been having difficulty with motivation because of the fact that whatever I make, it will just be the input to a system that will replace me. Or at least the input to a system that will be able to 80/20 the things that I do. And I don't know how to feel about this.
Per hour, I cost a fair bit of money, and I need to sleep at night. I need to take vacations. I can burn out. I can get sick. I have medical leave.
A large language model doesn't need to do any of that. AI tools don't have those problems. They go 24/7. They never have to sleep. They don't get RSI. They don't burn out. They don't take vacations. They just continue doing the thing that they're set up to do until the computer shuts off.
I don't know how to feel about it.
> The worst thing LLM's have destroyed isn't really jobs, but hope in people.
https://cdn.pony.social/media_attachments/files/112/751/384/678/946/194/original/bc0f8f4833f97540.mp4