Brett Sheffield (he/him)

#FOSS hacker, working at the intersection of #HumanRights and technology. Founder of the #Librecast Project, building the Next Generation Internet with #multicast.

Also, tractors. Has a language habit.

Trans rights are human rights.

Blog: https://blog.brettsheffield.com
Librecast: https://librecast.net
Project: Librecast (npub1qky…mckc)
IRC: libera.chat [#librecast](https://chaos.social/tags/librecast ) @bacs

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2026-05-06 10:28:31 UTC

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Today I learned a new fact about echidnas.

2026-03-30 10:38:59 UTC

OMG it hurts! 🤣
Here I was, trying to eat my breakfast, when my darling wife tells me — and I need to be careful as this might set me off again — that Microsoft ... have started putting ... (just breathe) ... ads into GitHub pull requests 🤣
I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. I thought I was going to have a heart attack. That's how I want to go — laughing so hard my heart explodes and I fall face down in a stack of pancakes.

2026-03-28 18:09:35 UTC

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If you want the full holiday experience, this Daylight Savings, why not also pack a bag, lose it, throw a bottle of shampoo in the bin, then sit in an uncomfortable chair for a few hours while eating terrible food?

2026-03-28 18:04:53 UTC

Happy Bi-annual Jetlag Night to those who celebrate.

2026-03-26 19:48:38 UTC

On this day 25 years ago I arrived in the UK with enough money to last (almost) two weeks, no credit cards, no return ticket, nowhere to stay, and no job waiting for me.
We drown people of colour for less, even if we just bombed their country of origin, but I was white*, so I was alright.
I think about this sometimes.
* and male, and a native English speaker

2026-03-05 16:15:30 UTC

When looking at calculations of the environmental impact of LLM systems, consider carefully where the system boundary is drawn.
eg. Is the increased energy usage of the servers being scraped for source data included? Or the increased energy usage of every 3rd-party browser doing proof of work just to access the site? What about the network in between?
If I punch you in the face, and we want to measure the pain caused, we need to consider more than just how *my* hand feels afterwards.

2026-01-27 18:48:10 UTC

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One place I worked had the soundtrack CD and we'd play it often. I'd never seen the film.
Years later I was trying to track down the music, but all I could remember was "Koyaanisqatsi" intoned on the soundtrack and no idea how to spell it.
One day I walked past the local arthouse cinema playing Powaqqatsi and I wondered if that be related. I went in with no idea what to expect.
About 40 minutes in and not a word of dialogue, I realised this wasn't just the intro. Just wow. 😉

2026-01-24 19:28:49 UTC

I've been asked a few times in the past week to use #GitHub, and I'd like to be helpful, but I keep seeing Renée Good's face and it would seem disrespectful somehow.
Happy to email a patch, but I'm done with that site.
#GiveUpGitHub

2025-12-21 10:38:01 UTC

I guess I won't be reading Al Jazeera any more. *sigh*
"Al Jazeera Media Network says initiative will shift role of AI ‘from passive tool to active partner in journalism’"
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/21/al-jazeera-launches-new-integrative-ai-model-the-core
#AI #LLM

2025-12-10 16:55:35 UTC

Grab a cup of tea and read this piece by @npub159p…dhu3
Be prepared to feel something, because this is real.
https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/

2025-11-19 10:59:13 UTC

Frustrating to see new #IETF drafts and mailing list discussions etc. continuing to use legacy IPv4 in the examples with no mention of #IPv6
Normalize IPv6 by using it in your documentation and examples. The same goes for #OpenSource projects.
It would be nice if, at least within the IETF standards body itself, we could start dancing like it's 1998 🕺

2025-10-17 17:40:43 UTC

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I agree, it is preying on people's ignorance. It should be prosecuted, but isn't.

2025-10-17 17:34:46 UTC

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Once I might have agreed with you. FPTP is bad, yes, but the tactic of "X can't win here" is still used to suppress voting and maintain the status quo in places like Australia which has preferential voting.
We can't change the electoral system before the next election, but we can change our voting habits.

2025-10-17 17:15:03 UTC

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Tactical voting is a blight on democracy.
If we accept a few polls as inevitable and let them scare us into voting against our conscience democracy functions... well, a bit like it has been. Which is to say, it doesn't.
"Party X can't win here" is *always* a lie intended to preserve the status quo. Change comes only by ignoring the polls and campaigning and voting for the world we expect to see.

2025-08-08 08:58:03 UTC

People justify continuing to use #GitHub in all sorts of ways.
"OK, they're owned by Microsoft who has spent decades trying to crush FOSS, but..."
"Yes, they steal code to feed their planet-destroying LLMs, but..."
"Sure, they help ICE enforce fascist policy, but..."
"Yes, they're supporting genocide, but..."
There's no "but" clause that justifies supporting all of that.
Values require sacrifices. This is the price we pay for the world we want.
Don't collaborate. #Resist #GiveUpGitHub

2025-07-31 17:47:36 UTC

Can I just take a moment of your time to point out how awesome the folks are at @npub1nny…aef3
We take #LiberaChat completely for granted. Like the floor we walk on, or the air that we breathe it's just there. It works. We use it every day with #Librecast and it works so well we mostly forget there are real people that make it all work.
Thanks, while I remember. By tomorrow I'll have forgotten you exist again because you do your job just too damn well.

2025-06-22 07:23:14 UTC

People sometimes say
That vi(1) is difficult to exit
But I think I'll stay in here
Until it is safe to come out
#vi #poem #programming

2025-06-12 15:54:29 UTC

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It looks pretty bleak. I think you're right about the personality cult - his loss would weaken them. One can hope.
I can't really point to any organised opposition or leader, Dems or otherwise. Perhaps it just doesn't make the news?
afaict the Dems are just offering a gradual return to pre-Trump which isn't very inspiring.
If there was a coordinated plan to rebuild better this whole thing could be turned to good. No, I don't believe that will actually happen 😞

2025-06-12 15:37:32 UTC

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What I want to know is where is the opposition to Project 2025? ie. the equivalent plan to wrest power back and to rebuild.
Project 2025 is well organised and funded, and it's far easier to destroy than to create, especially if you're willing to deliberately flout all laws and traditions.
I'm not seeing co-ordinated resistance on the scale of Project 2025.

2025-06-12 15:31:09 UTC

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Watching from here, it doesn't look like an election will have much impact on his term length. US law clearly doesn't apply to Trump.
He might be removed sooner, if he pisses off the wrong people. 🙏 Or this might be a very long show with a very poor director. 🎬
There are ways to avoid holding an election, or to delay it, and Project 2025 has hinted at clinging on by any means. But even if he held one (and lost), I doubt he'll leave quietly.

2025-06-12 14:51:19 UTC

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Wow. It's a while since I've heard anyone say "4 years". Is there still a feeling over there that this ends with an election?

2025-06-12 06:33:23 UTC

Concerning Bad Faith Arguments
It's a sunny day and you find yourself standing in the middle of a busy multi-lane highway. Cars are whizzing by and you will surely be killed at any moment.
Someone at the side of the road offers to "help" and tosses you a bottle of suncream. They send you links to real studies pointing out the dangers of skin cancer and statistics that show that road safety has improved. They are "correct".
Ignore them. Block them. Focus on the main thing that's happening now.

2025-06-10 07:38:10 UTC

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There's a danger in copying without understanding. LLMs copy without any understanding of what they're doing, or any way to judge the correctness of what they "create".
LLM code is like a child's drawing. A child can draw a bridge without any understanding of what it is, the load it is expected to carry, the principles behind it or the materials required. It might look like a bridge, but don't expect it to stay up.
#AI #LLM

2025-06-06 17:13:54 UTC

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Quite a few people find these alerts useful and/or comforting, so I'm in the minority here it seems.
Perhaps my strong dislike of the nanny state blinds me to their usefulness, but I still struggle to see many cases where the people who would pay any attention to such alerts would not already have better information by other means.

2025-06-05 13:19:30 UTC

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They called it SimpleX ? I do hope none of their posts go viral.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex_virus

2025-06-03 16:43:39 UTC

📶 📱 ❓
Government emergency notification systems. You know, the things that make your phone beep and bong when they test them which have been rolling out in recent years.
Have you ever, in however long you've been alive, come across a situation where this might have helped? ie. where our centralized goverments might have vital, urgent information that we all must receive instantly that we don't already know?
Feel free to suggest a situation where this might actually be useful.

2025-05-28 11:07:03 UTC

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An ISP that doesn't provide IPv6 in 2025 is not, in fact, an ISP.

2025-05-28 10:36:32 UTC

I'm pushing for #RIPE to go #IPv6 only for the API and control panel, and surprise there are folks saying they don't have IPv6.
These are "professional" network operators. 🤦‍♂️
Companies like @npub1sv0…rq9x have been providing IPv6 connections in the UK for over 20 years now.
Let's set a date and switch this legacy stuff off. It's holding us back.

2025-05-26 19:26:26 UTC

Read the first paragraph of an interview with @npub1fdr…lvhs in @npub1ccc…32l5 on how "the Internet sucks. It's not just you".
Had to close the page because the broken javascript on the site was causing my laptop fans to spin up.
A point well made, Tyee!

2025-05-13 10:36:38 UTC

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Someone posted one of your recent articles to the RIPE mailing list the other day when discussing digital sovereignty. They reach people who care enough to be working on this stuff.

2025-05-07 15:58:15 UTC

Boise, Idaho makes Pride flag an official city flag 🏳️‍🌈 ❤️
https://www.eastidahonews.com/2025/05/boise-makes-pride-flag-an-official-city-flag-in-latest-jab-at-legislatures-new-law/

2025-04-11 13:10:57 UTC

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When typing, remember to arch your wrists as though there is a small dog sleeping in front of your keyboard.
#typing #ergonomics #programming
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2025-04-11 10:10:12 UTC

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Patiently waiting for lunch.
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/114/318/779/766/262/774/original/56c19a34bc212df4.jpg

2025-04-11 09:30:19 UTC

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Alonso's sausage detection apparatus is working just fine. Here he is, in plenty of time for lunch.

2025-04-10 16:42:10 UTC

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Our grocery delivery came. We have more of Alonso's favorite sausage and some more of his croquettes. I'm sure his nose is twitching where he is.
We don't feed him much on the assumption he eats at home, so here he eats only when we eat, and only a little.
He finishes his portion in seconds, and then tries to be a VERY GOOD BOY by sitting and looking at us but definitely NOT BEGGING, because he knows we don't allow that.
🐶

2025-04-07 16:26:31 UTC

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We had planned a walk for this afternoon. Not wanting to take Alonso in our usual direction across the main road, we went down the smaller road towards the lac to see what he'd do.
He excitedly ran ahead for most of the first kilometer, stopping to check we were following, then, at the crossroads with a small forest road he decided that way was more interesting and we parted ways. This is about where he disappeared last time we went this way with him, so it seems to be the end of his territory.

2025-04-07 14:49:39 UTC

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We need to buy more dogfood.
We do not own a dog.

2025-04-07 14:16:24 UTC

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Oh good. Alonso is here. Serious work can begin.

2025-04-06 17:04:55 UTC

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Every true forest has an old car within it, and no one can remember how it got there.

2025-04-06 16:11:51 UTC

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WUFF! 🐶
We both burst out laughing, then opened the door to find an Alonso.
For the first time ever he first stopped to say hello and get a pat *before* running into the kitchen to sniff about.
He seems quite pleased with himself today. A little bit late for a visit, so we'll have to give him back soon.
But not quite yet.

2025-04-04 10:47:46 UTC

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As I say, I don't use network manager, so I'm not the best person to ask. NM tries very hard to be clever and do things for you, which some ppl like.
I've never liked automagical systems that try to be clever. I write my resolv.conf once, and remove with exteme prejudice anything that tries to mess with it.

2025-04-04 10:33:10 UTC

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"If you'd like to manually configure your DNS configuration, you can point *.ts.net queries at 100.100.100.100"
Presumably network manager can handle this (I don't use NM), or you could set up a forwarding zone in a local resolver such as unbound.

2025-04-04 10:27:12 UTC

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Making it immutable stops anything messing with it, including tailscale.
If you're using their "MagicDNS" then it will want to overwrite resolv.conf unless you tell it not to.
https://tailscale.com/kb/1235/resolv-conf

2025-04-04 10:19:17 UTC

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echo "nameserver ::1" > /etc/resolv.conf
chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf
😉

2025-04-04 09:36:00 UTC

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Some coding done this morning. Just considering going out to drop some more of these dead trees...
... but here is Alonso.
He's wearing a collar today. If this was part of some plan to keep him in, it didn't work.

2025-04-02 14:33:28 UTC

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So far today Alonso has:
- slept under my desk
- slept on my lap while I was typing
and, when *I* decided to have a nap, he jumped onto the bed, stood on my chest, licked my face, turned around shoved his bum under my chin and lay stretched out down my torso, because apparently that's where he wanted to be. 🤷‍♂️

2025-04-02 07:56:13 UTC

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I was considering cutting down another tree this morning, but I don't trust Alonso near the road, and trying to keep track of him while wielding a chainsaw seems unwise.
The trees will be there tomorrow. Alonso is here now. Time for a bit more coding while Alonso sleeps under my desk.

2025-04-02 06:51:09 UTC

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Just having my morning coffee, and here is Alonso, who would like pats.

2025-03-31 18:10:03 UTC

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It's a nice day, so we tried to walk him home, but he has a habit of wandering across the road to explore our neighbour's yard (and sometimes, we suspect, have a little poo 💩).
He always comes back here within 10 minutes and wuffs at the door to be let back in.
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/114/258/366/832/575/177/original/22c9dbfd9032e7a7.jpg

2025-03-31 17:40:50 UTC

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Alonso is here! 🐶

2025-03-25 20:21:11 UTC

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Good thing we masked up - Alonso's owner is sick again. Her boyfriend came to collect him on the way home from his shift as she was too ill.

2025-03-25 19:36:20 UTC

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After a lot of unsettled running about, whining and odd behaviour, and much rearranging of his blanket, he's finally settled down for a nap.

2025-03-25 18:26:38 UTC

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7am or 7pm - we never know when he's going to arrive. It's almost dark and here is Alonso.
When he arrives this late he knows time is limited. It's closing time, and he wants to do all the things but doesn't know what to do first.
There might be time for pats, and possibly, a bit of sausage.

2025-03-21 18:13:50 UTC

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The #OSI 's one job is to protect and promote #OpenSource and the Open Source Definition (OSD). Undermining that definition with the weakened #OSAID has alienated much of the Open Source community, myself included.
I had hoped that might be turned around, but this year's reform candidates were likely the last chance to see that happen.
Watching the OSI promoting corporate sponsors was concerning, but this year's blatant election manipulation is the final straw.

2025-03-21 18:05:59 UTC

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Today, having seen the #OSI election "results", in which several valid and accepted candidates were removed from the listings, and the full voting results suppressed, we have replaced references to the Open Source Definition with the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) on which they are based.
It saddens me to do this. I have been a long time supporter of OSI, and gone in to bat many times when companies have tried to pass themselves off as Open Source without an OSI approved license.

2025-03-21 18:01:10 UTC

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When OSI ran their campaign asking projects to add an "OSI approved" logo to their software, @npub1qky…mckc complied enthusiastically.
When the new administration made a mess of the website and broke links to a lot of content (many of which are still broken, and referenced in Wikipedia), including the "OSI approved" logo, we updated all our repos (again) to fix this.
Last week we removed the logos after watching the first part of this election.

2025-03-21 17:55:25 UTC

They say to never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.
Unfortunately this year's @npub1djq…zj5f board elections go way beyond that point.
The current Executive Director is leading #OSI in a direction the community don't want to follow with #OSAID. By changing the rules as you go along in this year's election to exclude candidates who want to reform the OSI you have destroyed any remaining trust.
You shat the bed. It's time to change the sheets.

2025-03-21 09:18:53 UTC

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The entire fediverse knows that Alonso is here, but his owners do not. Yet.
This is our secret time 🤫

2025-03-21 07:37:25 UTC

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This makes typing difficult.
#Dogs
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/114/199/260/863/107/321/original/2770c376d4b2f0a2.jpg

2025-03-21 07:05:31 UTC

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We decided to get up half an hour earlier today so we're up with sunrise again. Establishing any kind of routine with #LongCovid has been a challenge, but we've been doing this consistently the past month.
I was just out of the shower and half dressed when I was interupted by a familiar WUFF at the front door.
After a week in solitary confinement in the garage, Alonso is back!

2025-03-13 19:57:55 UTC

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Alonso's female keeper was too sick to come get him, so her husband picked him up on the way back from work. He says his wife is very very sick, and he was sick for weeks. He kept his distance and we were masked. 😷
I really hope Alonso can't spread whatever they have. We're still not finished with the Covid we acquired 5 years ago. A little goes a long way...

2025-03-13 18:15:30 UTC

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Alonso is lying on his mat under my desk and happily chewing on a clothes dryer ball.
We've done *all* the things today, but I suppose we'll have to give him back soon...

2025-03-13 12:31:09 UTC

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We ordered more of Alonso's favorite sausage and the Intermarché delivery arrived an hour ago.
Guess who just wuff'ed at our front door? He's rather muddy, but he's very excited to be here.
Will set an extra place for lunch.

2025-03-08 21:09:52 UTC

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Alonso is not here so I am having the last of the sausage on my pizza. 🍕

2025-03-06 10:11:03 UTC

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It doesn't matter how many times we reassure Alonso's owners he is very welcome, they always apologise profusely for him coming here and offer up a new reason as to how he escaped this time.
Today's excuse: he was scared by the wind!

2025-03-06 07:43:26 UTC

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Alonso arrived before I'd even finished my morning coffee. He's astonishingly calm today and just wants pats. Normally it takes ages for him to settle down, but today he's straight up demanding attention.

2025-03-04 19:09:18 UTC

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Alonso arrived just before sunset, just in time to help me with some coding sessions.
I'm not convinced by his code review to be honest. He's changed my while loop to a wzadeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee loop.
When asked for explanation, Alonso offered only a facelick. Reluctantly, I may have to reject his patch. 🐾
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/114/105/731/352/570/501/original/00b8f0672d889e36.jpg

2025-03-02 07:42:04 UTC

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I managed to reserve some garlic sausage for my pizza.
Alonso did, of course, get his share. Putting some croquettes on top slows him down a bit, as he insists on eating the sausage first, even if it is stuck to the bowl under other food.
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/114/091/684/363/316/737/original/555b86a9155cdcc5.jpg
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/114/091/685/425/751/150/original/7795c86704b65215.jpg

2025-03-01 16:03:52 UTC

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My pizza dough is resting, and, of course, here is Alonso.
I tell you, he can smell sausage from over a kilometre away.
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/114/088/014/802/189/630/original/0a682e41c3264409.jpg
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/114/088/016/610/251/857/original/b975174f145326a2.jpg

2025-02-28 14:42:37 UTC

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Grocery delivery this morning. We have Alonso's favorite sausage.
I am determined to make some pizza 🍕 before Alonso gets here and scoffs it all. Again.
Even now, I know he's plotting his next escape.

2025-02-23 16:10:26 UTC

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Chatting over lunch.
"Did you hear something?"
"No..."
"Wuff!"
Alonso is here!

2025-02-22 14:00:02 UTC

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The sun came out two days ago, and so did Alonso.
We control neither.
☀️ 🐶
#DogsOfMastodon
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2025-02-20 13:14:19 UTC

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Alonso's owner came to get him at lunchtime, but we had a morning of running software updates together.
#DogsOfMastodon
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2025-02-20 10:03:52 UTC

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We gave him back last night.
And here he is again this morning, just as I'm having my coffee and running some gentoo updates.

2025-02-19 19:34:35 UTC

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Apparently Alonso's owners were cleaning, and turned their back for a moment...
straight here, as usual.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVC2XP_wAZM

2025-02-19 17:59:18 UTC

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A late Alonso visit this evening.
He missed my phonecall with my mother this morning, sadly, having photobombed my previous two video calls.

2025-02-17 18:39:58 UTC

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The problems of one small doggy don't add up to a hill of beans in this crazy world, but I'm still glad we can make the little fella a bit happier when he can get here. 🐶

2025-02-17 16:39:57 UTC

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We were outside planting the two rootbound trees that have been in pots on our front doorstep for several years now, and lamenting the lack of small doggies.
Looked across the garden to see Alonso just standing there.
He followed us back to collect our tools, and fell into his usual routine as we packed up to go inside.
Having been fed some sausage, he's now curled up under my desk and noisily licking his balls.

2025-02-14 18:48:33 UTC

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No sign of Alonso. Awaiting his next visit, while humming the theme tune to The Great Escape.

2025-02-12 15:30:29 UTC

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Alonso has managed to paste some text into vim and change it to reverse title case. 🐾 + ⌨️
I don't even know what the vim keys are to do that.

2025-02-12 15:15:12 UTC

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Opened the door to go outside and chop wood. In strolled Alonso.
I didn't hear him bark, so he must have just arrived.
Will let his owners know. Soon. He needs pats first.

2025-02-11 18:36:18 UTC

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No Alonso today.
Tonight is the night the vege man comes in his little white van. He comes every fortnight.
Last time he was here, so was Alonso, who ran out, and before we could stop him, put his paws up on the step, shoved his head in the van and had a good sniff to check for illicit sausages. To his disappointment, there were none, but it's best to check these things.

2025-02-07 21:44:03 UTC

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I got a bit more of Alonso's backstory this evening from the female half of the couple that keep him.
She says they've had him since he was small, but he's a rescue dog and yes, he was abused. Took a long time for him to trust them. That explains the fearty behaviour: the way he used to sidle in rather than approach directly when we first met him, the fear of being hit (especially in the kitchen) etc. He's such an odd little doggy, but I've made it very clear he's welcome here anytime.

2025-02-07 16:58:40 UTC

OMG! Alonso is here!
Haven't seen him for a week, as his owners apparently made good on their threat to lock him the garage.
But he's escaped (of course).
He's a bit fearty, but he's back!
We have missed him.
Previous Alonso thread was here:
https://chaos.social/@dentangle/113917922178493188

2025-01-19 09:12:11 UTC

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When the technical requirements are written such that they require features only provided by $vendor, then any detailed assessment will conclude that $vendor is the best option and that other services cannot compete.
Governments everywhere have long used this technique for tendering. It's how corruption can exist in the face of a "fair" tendering process.
For SIDN to conclude that there is no hosting in the EU that can meet their requirements says that their requirements are wrong.

2025-01-18 15:10:17 UTC

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Some libraries use clear adhesive contact film to cover paperbacks.

2025-01-17 12:49:51 UTC

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Many ISPs voluntarily put their residential IP ranges into blocklists like Spamhaus PBL. Fortunately (in the UK at least) there are real ISPs that actually provide full unfiltered Internet access like @npub1sv0…rq9x and don't engage in this nonsense. Unfortunately such ISPs aren't available in every country.

2024-12-31 16:44:17 UTC

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Yeah - that's pretty much my approach. I try to get a sense of what the essentials are behind a dish rather than getting too hung up on 10g of this and 350g of that. I'm a cook, not a chemist 😉

2024-12-28 15:56:44 UTC

It is totally OK to deadname corporations. In fact, it is to be encouraged. Why help with their rebranding?
X is the name of the windowing system I use. Metta was the woman who first showed me Linux. Threads are what I use to run concurrent processing.
Don't let them colonise our namespaces.

2024-12-26 15:56:00 UTC

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One of our aims is to make multicast easy for people to use. We're not there yet, but we're working on it.

2024-12-24 10:48:43 UTC

At this point in the capitalist downward spiral I'm genuinely astonished when any company gives good service and I cling to them like a toddler clings to it's mother's leg.
For the others, I try really hard to find an alternative, even if it costs me. Even if it means not doing/buying/selling that thing. It's just not worth it and I know with every dollar I spend I'm making the world worse.

2024-11-24 17:18:18 UTC

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The present Labour Party is to the right of Thatcher, so I just try to consider "What would Thatcher do?" and then imagine something a bit worse.

2024-10-14 19:08:35 UTC

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As you say, the citations check out. I treat it like something I read on Wikipedia. The report is more or less Stallman in his own words, catalogued and organised. Hoist on his own petard.
Anyone not hiding under a bush has known about much of this for a long time now. The scale and timings of some it is all that I found striking.
Not someone we should be pointing to as a leadership figure in our community.

2024-10-14 15:36:14 UTC

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The continued presence of Stallman in the FSF is why @npub1qky…mckc signed the open letter, and dropped "or any later version" from our code.
The lack of action from FSF to remove Stallman makes it clear that they cannot tell wrong from right and are not responsible stewards for our community.

2024-08-13 11:59:26 UTC

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Ditto hosting companies that have IPv4 only for their main website.

2024-08-13 11:56:32 UTC

A hosting company that hides its own website behind the skirts of Cloudflare does not inspire confidence.

2024-08-11 16:42:27 UTC

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Codeberg is connected to the modern Internet, unlike, say, Github which is inaccessible from IPv6 networks. 👍

2022-08-14 02:01:06 UTC

Heard the story of the girl throwing starfish into the ocean? A man watching her says "don't you know there are miles of beach and you can't make a difference?"
The girl bends down and scoops up another starfish and gently throws it into the ocean, turns to the man and says "it made a difference to that one".
I often think of this story when world events make me feel powerless. I can't help everyone, but I can help *someone*.
So... if anyone needs me to throw them into the sea, I'm here.