💙🩷💜Brett🐡🍉🐧

https://swarm.coiloptic.org/brettm

pronouns: he/him/anything you want.

me: bi gen x computer toucher and healthcare worker.

posts/boosts: memes, computer stuff, pol memes with cw, gender equality, climate change, socialism, people's art.

if i block you, its probably because: bigoted; uspol-boosting-without-cw; vibe coder; or darwin award contender.

assassination coordinates: -33.93148, 150.92321

follow requests on to screen out bots, uspol and to vibe check. if ur posts are all private there may not be enough to vibe.

server: openbsd
tablet: postmarketos
phone: android 😞
mediacenter: arch btw
laptop: openbsd

interests:
◘ memes ◘ tai chi ◘ tcm/acupuncture ◘ shiatsu ◘ music ◘ foss ◘ scifi ◘ recreational programming ◘ geopolitics ◘ history ◘ weather/climate change ◘ hugs/headpats

header based on image:
https://au.pinterest.com/pin/fischl-bisexual-icon--142918988168575327/
then cropped and processed with graphicsmagick.

posts self-destruct after one week. snac too slow to chug through more.

#noai #noindex #nobot #nobridge

Public Key

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brettm_at_swarm.coiloptic.org@momostr.pink

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Last Notes

2026-04-08 04:55:42 UTC

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mew mrrr

2026-04-03 03:25:25 UTC

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my friends flight got rerouted via usa due to war with iran, she had to list all her social media accounts so they could have a read

2026-03-27 11:45:31 UTC

The Slow Death of the Power User
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/

2026-03-18 01:30:18 UTC

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2026-03-11 23:24:16 UTC

19th European Lisp Symposium (May 11-12 2026)
Call for Papers
https://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/2026/
#lisp
#scheme

2026-03-08 05:10:31 UTC

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rrr :3

2026-03-08 04:18:26 UTC

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mew

2026-03-08 04:14:35 UTC

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meow

2026-03-01 22:07:53 UTC

Paypal wants to verify my identity. The only thing I use it for is to donate a small amount monthly to OpenBSD. I guess I should write to them about setting up a better method. Hopefully Paypal will eventually stop sending me emails if I ignore the verification process.

2026-02-19 00:31:52 UTC

https://swarm.coiloptic.org/brettm/s/post-f2203a75febff647de701223f7d6e9c4.jpg

2026-02-18 09:55:06 UTC

https://swarm.coiloptic.org/brettm/s/post-7f165c752cd33f3fa0150ca0a935bbf6.jpg

2026-02-17 18:10:20 UTC

chat do i boost too much

2026-02-17 04:24:15 UTC

For anyone interested in getting into Common Lisp, this "Little Bits of Lisp" is an excellent playlist, bitesized snippets going through various features of the language, also there are a few long videos on macros and C FFI
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2VAYZE_4wRJi_vgpjsH75kMhN4KsuzR_
#lisp
#programming

2026-02-13 10:06:16 UTC

https://swarm.coiloptic.org/brettm/s/post-2fce2f71a3adf21b03d10b049fe94357.jpg

2026-02-12 09:04:27 UTC

i slurpu de vodka. tasty.

2026-02-12 06:29:26 UTC

https://swarm.coiloptic.org/brettm/s/post-c334bdd0acb104c6cbdfbc081e86d1a6.jpg

2026-02-10 05:49:48 UTC

"gasm (Gopher in Assembly)
A bare-metal i386 Gopher server for Linux.
gasm is a dependency-free Gopher server written in pure x86 Assembly. It is designed to run on the most resource-constrained hardware imaginable—from a rusty 1990s 386DX to a modern potato.
No libc. No runtime. No dynamic allocation. Just pure int 0x80 syscalls"
https://github.com/someodd/gasm

2026-02-09 03:57:22 UTC

https://swarm.coiloptic.org/brettm/s/post-d83b345e7df5ba88806efbe6d26a5df6.jpg

2026-02-08 02:19:57 UTC

federated vibeplug activated when any mutual likes or replies to ur post

2026-02-02 23:55:48 UTC

https://swarm.coiloptic.org/brettm/s/post-6ad13d030b0afd7d5f891209130cc844.jpeg

2026-02-01 02:11:21 UTC

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i would avoid

2026-01-30 06:06:30 UTC

Linux now has a continuity plan should Linus Torvalds be hit by a bus
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/102606402f4f5943266160e263c450fdfe4dd981#diff-6c81210e8795b03502471e1435cac0763110f72b823038bd0033eb617c15ab8d

2026-01-26 23:48:11 UTC

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My feeling is, uspol cw should be put on anything: directly mention us politicians or parties, police repression (eg ice or police shjptings), us military buildups, us military attacks. SometimecI put "uspol meme" or "uspol adjacent" if the mention of politician is tangental or its more a joke than a triggering subject.

2026-01-26 18:57:44 UTC

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cw uspol posts please
the only time republicans went anti-gun was when black ppl started arming themselves in earnest (reagan era)

2026-01-24 23:40:35 UTC

https://swarm.coiloptic.org/brettm/s/post-cb4cf51de646cdadeb6580f5294713ab.jpg

2026-01-24 00:25:00 UTC

What a cool book cover
https://swarm.coiloptic.org/brettm/s/post-be456601e050742e2c673e8115c9c78d.png

2026-01-23 23:56:16 UTC

Some more fedi server softwares:
https://github.com/bonfire-networks/bonfire-app [Elixir]
https://codeberg.org/gush/gush/ [Kotlin]
https://github.com/deemkeen/stegodon [Go]

2026-01-23 23:40:26 UTC

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2026-01-22 03:41:56 UTC

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2026-01-21 11:15:10 UTC

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2026-01-16 01:13:53 UTC

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2026-01-14 01:11:06 UTC

mascs with strap-ons will fall from the overhead compartment. and this seat is already quite cozy. mmmmmrm

2026-01-12 02:17:03 UTC

(source forgotten by my brain)
https://swarm.coiloptic.org/brettm/s/post-18453c7f25dcaeb442cf6d2e078debd6.jpg

2026-01-11 06:07:45 UTC

although typescript looks good i can't help but suspect its yet another 'embrace extend extinguish' scheme by microsoft

2026-01-11 03:30:29 UTC

https://swarm.coiloptic.org/brettm/s/post-be717fa60e354ea401171ddc9fe8761d.png

2026-01-11 02:44:11 UTC

https://swarm.coiloptic.org/brettm/s/post-f95688a200969810a4d4f1d5334e6f92.png

2026-01-07 01:20:44 UTC

my satchel that holds tablet comuter looks a bit boring, anyone have some suggestions for places i can get patches i can iron on or glue on with fabric glue

2026-01-07 01:07:25 UTC

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2026-01-07 00:48:49 UTC

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life will be so much simpler

2026-01-07 00:48:06 UTC

omg w3c community group draft report rambles on worse than a cooking website or a 2021 covid paper that spends 3 paragraphs explaining that covid-19 is a virus and that there was a pandemic pls ditch that entire introduction

2026-01-07 00:40:57 UTC

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2026-01-07 00:30:11 UTC

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2026-01-06 23:34:00 UTC

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2026-01-06 23:29:08 UTC

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CC: @npub1qgx…66wt
*glugs down third potion*

2026-01-06 23:06:21 UTC

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sure! *hands you another potion*

2026-01-06 22:50:42 UTC

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2026-01-06 22:03:27 UTC

"People with chronic kidney disease faced a higher risk of death and serious health problems when two tests of kidney function did not agree with each other ... The study highlights the importance of determining eGFR by measuring both cystatin C and creatinine levels. Doing so could help identify patients with chronic kidney disease who have increased health risks"
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/difference-kidney-function-tests-predicts-health-risks

2026-01-06 21:47:37 UTC

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best not to ask too many questions

2026-01-06 12:02:37 UTC

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i handroll each page as $pagename.raw then run a script to add the css header and footer to each page, for me that's the least painful way to do it, if I add a new page i just need to do the page and put another line in the header for the page to show in the hamburger menu

2026-01-06 11:45:38 UTC

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yep I agree and so does the author of that article, as they said "... if Lisuan can keep iterating on the tech"

2026-01-06 11:44:19 UTC

hehe
"Caveats: I wrote this on a transatlantic flight on a day that involved no sleep so expect bugs and other curiosities"
https://github.com/gleam-lang/example-lisp-interpreter

2026-01-06 11:18:50 UTC

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if i see the stay puffed marshmellow man im def calling

2026-01-06 10:39:23 UTC

walked out onto my verandah and for a split second off in the distance saw an ancient white station wagon with 2 flashing red lights on its roof, exactly like the OG ghostbusters car :-o

2026-01-06 10:07:56 UTC

"A new report out of China has indicated that Lisuan Tech has begun shipping out the country’s first homegrown graphics cards (GPUs). The move could potentially have massive implications for the hardware business as it currently stands if Lisuan can keep iterating on the tech"
https://www.escapistmagazine.com/chinese-home-grown-gpu-begins-to-ship-to-customers-heres-what-it-means-for-the-pc-building-industry/

2026-01-06 10:00:57 UTC

eeerp
Victoria, SA, NSW brace for 'worst' heatwave since Black Summer
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-05/worst-heatwave-conditions-since-black-summer/106197780

2026-01-06 09:52:23 UTC

another world event, another round of ppl to unfollow due to no cw

2026-01-06 09:35:53 UTC

Continuing my series of posts about random fediverse servers discovered in the wild, here is another one that looks promising, written in Crystal
"Ktistec is an ActivityPub server. It is intended for small numbers of trusted users (everyone is an administrator). It is designed to have few runtime dependencies -- for example, it uses SQLite as its database, instead of PostgreSQL + Redis + etc"
https://github.com/toddsundsted/ktistec/

2026-01-06 08:16:35 UTC

what's the story with fosstodon these days? i blocked them a while ago and assume 'nothing has fundamentally changed' but just checking

2026-01-06 08:09:49 UTC

what i can't understand about android keyboards is - just put the punctuation keys in the same place as a normal keyboard - like if it ain't broke don't fix it?

2026-01-06 08:06:53 UTC

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well on the plus side if you can smell the candles you probably don't have covid

2026-01-06 07:56:28 UTC

"Cuba announced the death of 32 of its military personnel and interior ministry officers in Venezuela as a result of an American operation" Cyberspec

2026-01-06 07:46:20 UTC

"One of the hallmarks of Western liberalism is an assumption, in hindsight, of virtuous resistance as the only polite expectation of people on the receiving end of colonialism. While the terrible thing is happening - while the land is still being stolen and the natives still being killed - any form of opposition is terroristic and must be crushed for the sake of civilisation. But decades, centuries later, when enough of the land has been stolen and enough of the natives killed, it is safe enough to venerate resistance in hindsight"
— One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
https://bookwyrm.social/user/pezmico/quotation/9346002

2026-01-06 06:58:29 UTC

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goodnight * hands you a potion*

2026-01-06 06:53:17 UTC

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e for egg or e for eskimo are in my non-nato alphabet

2026-01-06 06:51:59 UTC

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taught in US movies!

2026-01-06 06:50:50 UTC

whelp this version of snac crashes quite a lot. luckily i have a script that checks every minute if its running and relaunches. better update to 2.86 or whatever the new one is when i get home.

2026-01-06 05:14:12 UTC

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mrrr

2026-01-06 05:12:11 UTC

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true *headpat*

2026-01-06 05:09:58 UTC

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i think part of it is being able to id each user. like if 3 ppl in a house visit the same website, might be hard/impossible for server to know.

2026-01-06 05:03:49 UTC

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blip blip

2026-01-06 05:03:13 UTC

went to chinatown, delicious laksa consumed

2026-01-06 04:05:16 UTC

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all the time 🙂

2026-01-06 03:44:19 UTC

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my old boss threw a homeless lady out of the store one time, she went ballistic and was yelling about 'the ides of march' the next day was march 1st and the boss got hit by a bus

2026-01-06 03:37:31 UTC

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eeerp

2026-01-06 01:35:04 UTC

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its the same thing just with a worse name. just like an 'instance' is actually a 'server' renamed by some committee 🙂

2026-01-06 01:32:35 UTC

https://swarm.coiloptic.org/brettm/s/post-ea0181651b075ee17549970c1652c401.png

2026-01-06 01:11:12 UTC

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2026-01-06 01:03:02 UTC

I foresee the day when OS is upgraded, I run 'top' and see something like systemdAiClippyd running 225 processes. Probably this is more a matter not of 'if' but of 'when'.
Accompanied by large volumes of fanboys saying how great it is because it can [insert thing that can be done with 4 lines of shell script].
Anyway at least there is openbsd, alpine, slackware, freebsd, netbsd etc who have resisted the plague.

2026-01-06 00:37:35 UTC

unix: do one thing and do it well
systemd: hold my beer and hold my wine and hold my unicycle and hold my inbuilt ssh daemon

2026-01-05 23:36:54 UTC

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2026-01-05 23:36:14 UTC

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its finally happened the future has arrived

2026-01-05 23:18:06 UTC

https://swarm.coiloptic.org/brettm/s/post-37b22d33418760f0811fdf7a0dd03850.png

2026-01-05 23:16:10 UTC

https://swarm.coiloptic.org/brettm/s/post-32a05bd98036e6bee96e91410da0d9e5.png

2026-01-05 22:41:52 UTC

even larger red flag: terminal emulator that depends on webkitgtk. wtf.

2026-01-05 22:34:03 UTC

red flags: terminal emulator that depends on libtls and libunbound

2026-01-05 22:24:10 UTC

looked up the issue tracker for alacritty to see why "-e" does nothing and my nerds in christ there sure are a lot of issues

2026-01-05 21:32:49 UTC

1080p 24" computer screen always used to look super-clear to me but now i got used to 4K tv and 13.3" OLED tablet, regular 24" pixels look pretty jagged

2026-01-05 21:27:54 UTC

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for some reason Snac's web interface places the mention on the third line of the reply box so i sometimes delete it to get it out of the way. based on your meow i will leave them in future

2026-01-05 21:26:04 UTC

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For a mainline phone (ie not a custom-built expensive linux-first phone) I think https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/OnePlus_6_(oneplus-enchilada) is as good as it gets
sxmo is a great and super lightweight user interface, not so android-like but will give the best battery life.
(I don't use postmarketOS on a phone, I installed it on a chromebook to use as a tablet)

2026-01-05 21:20:10 UTC

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i got rid of the mention as i thought since its a reply to your post you would see it anyway. should i leave such mentions in? meow

2026-01-05 21:17:09 UTC

Hacktivist [dressed as Pink Ranger] deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during hacker conference
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/hacktivist-deletes-white-supremacist-websites-live-on-stage-during-hacker-conference/

2026-01-05 21:11:14 UTC

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mrr mrr mrr!

2026-01-05 21:10:52 UTC

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I beleive in some cases it means it won't show you the correct reading for current charge level, or won't do fast charge just slow charge, stuff like that.

2026-01-05 11:52:19 UTC

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2026-01-05 11:50:21 UTC

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hmmmm i content warned this but it did not cw

2026-01-05 11:49:28 UTC

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2026-01-05 10:51:39 UTC

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2026-01-05 10:44:39 UTC

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2026-01-05 09:31:20 UTC

"Mass protests have again erupted in Tehran, the capital of Iran ... Major cyber attack against Iran, multiple government and ministry sites are down ... The Israeli cabinet held a meeting on Iran which was concluded after approximately four hours. I suspect they will try to strike Iran soon whilst it is is destabilised"
Cyberspec

2026-01-05 09:19:49 UTC

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this all sounds very pagan 🙂