Jeff Forcier

Please see my pinned intro post below, & https://bitprophet.org/bio/ 😊

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GitHub: https://github.com/bitprophet
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2026-05-03 17:14:23 UTC

Idly wondering how folks who are deep into personal web archiving (i.e. keeping full clones of pages or sites they've bookmarked) handle sharing those snapshots with friends or the general public, especially in this age of abusive bot scrapers.
Guessing the answer is "keep it all behind lock and key, and deal with the friction that represents on both ends"? Maybe some form of ephemeral/unguessable/unlisted sharing URL? (and obviously, bespoke tactics like Anubis.)
I'm putting the cart before the horse here, obviously, as I don't even have ArchiveBox or w/e set up yet 😅

2026-04-25 16:08:14 UTC

RE: https://ohai.social/@GIFS_of_Puppets/116465283196880472
Can’t fool me, this is just a video of @npub1n7k…7g0f taking Odin for a walk after he had a little accident with some orange paint.
#note10d5…lten

2026-04-21 15:45:35 UTC

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it’s saddening that you are giving it a shot specifically right now, when its visual/ux design is at an all-time nadir.

2026-04-20 02:18:09 UTC

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Kinda, thanks! I was imagining something where the explicit audience /is/ the boosters (in a "hi new colleague / person in a community / whomever, here's some stuff you should know, in a format you have little excuse not to read" sense) but this is still a great link.

2026-04-19 21:58:19 UTC

Contemplating banging out a page/post laying out all the anti-AI/LLM arguments in a well-formatted list of clear, non-histrionic summaries, with citations/links/receipts. Suitable for a readable, they-won't-need-to-ask-the-bot-for-a-summary list of "these reasons add up to why I don't want to use these tools" one can throw at neutrals/boosters.
Seems like this should already exist, but none in my bookmarks. Anyone seen this or do I need to get collating? (Bonus points if you have individual resources for inclusion /in/ such a page…)
:boosts_appreciated:

2026-03-26 22:52:42 UTC

OH: “AI programming tools have made the best programmer you know slightly more efficient, and the worst programmer you know infinitely more insufferable and dangerous.”
FUCKING CO-SIGNED

2026-03-15 19:49:36 UTC

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oh man I am literally finding cross-editor beefs on #Wikipedia now. Eg, many species of moss have a pseudo templated note of the form:
> [species] is known to be able to use artificial light to grow in places which are otherwise devoid of natural light, such as [placename]
Most of the time, [placename] is Niagara Cave, but some of the time it's eg Crystal Cave in Wisconsin, or other caves. I can just imagine some proud Wisconsinite going around changing some of the Niagara ones into the latter 🤣

2026-03-15 19:44:26 UTC

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Wikipedia editor beefing with one (1) specific species of moss: "/Buxbaumia viridis/ is a poor competitor, likely because it exists mostly as protonema, […]"

2026-03-15 18:41:52 UTC

/I'm/ not doing an exhaustive deep dive into moss species names/nicknames, /you're/ doing an exhaustive deep dive into moss species names/nicknames!!! 😝
#Naming #NamingOfThings #NamingThingsIsHard #HardestProblemInComputerScience #Hostname #Hostnames #ComputerNames #E_TOOMANYHASHTAGS

2026-02-13 18:11:39 UTC

assembling redundant machines using body parts from long-dead educator-administrators
that’s right…I’m reinventing from first principals!

2026-02-06 17:43:31 UTC

RE: https://socel.net/@DeborahLeagueFineArt/116024480060355586
Famous tattoo meme except it reads SNOW EGRETS
#note1a3y…t5u6

2025-11-25 02:33:38 UTC

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ooh where specifically was this, I’ve yet to get off Amtrak at that stop but now I kinda want to

2025-11-16 16:49:53 UTC

Back in my day, enthusiastically deploying software that had a known chance of being nondeterministically wrong, was considered irresponsible. Nowadays it’s just the latest fashion, I guess?

2025-11-11 20:35:43 UTC

IMPORTANT #SKA NEWS:
the new #Slackers album is good! Yes, this shocked me as much as it may shock you. Nevertheless. Please do the needful.
https://theslackers.bandcamp.com/album/money-is-king
Quality over quantity, but that's been how they roll this century, not going to complain!
#skankin #rocksteady #reggae #music

2025-10-25 15:46:47 UTC

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ah yes, judge-judging!

2025-10-15 03:40:20 UTC

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they also run a religiously-inclined pop-up therapy clinic called So Help Me God

2025-08-20 00:57:02 UTC

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My various mobile devices will be very sad if you ever stop posting these! 😍
(Does make me wonder - have you ever posted about where you source these all from? I don't see anything pinned.)
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/115/058/371/356/750/328/original/05990ade490d0f97.png

2025-08-01 15:46:20 UTC

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Hopefully one of those adorable tiny Shriners cars!

2025-06-28 21:00:03 UTC

TFW the scientists who have spent your lifetime screaming about how bad shit's gonna get, have now spent the last 5 years going "are you fucking kidding us? now the results indicate shit's getting EVEN WORSE EVEN FASTER than we already expected?!" 😞
https://theconversation.com/earth-is-trapping-much-more-heat-than-climate-models-forecast-and-the-rate-has-doubled-in-20-years-258822
To be clear, this is easily the, idk. Fifth? article with the same broad strokes (new data indicates things are even worse than expected) but about /different parts/ of the global system, I've seen this year.
#ClimateChange

2025-05-30 00:33:07 UTC

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big ugh at mobile browsers which have absolutely no idea how to get one to the actual correct anchor tag on large pages like this one 😩
thanks to my desktop, I am able to share for anyone else reading the replies down here: search the page for "mispronouncing" - there should be one hit and it's the correct comment!
also, WOW!

2025-05-15 22:31:10 UTC

Wondering if I will go back to catching keynotes this year or keep up my latter-years “the rest of the day will be significantly easier to handle with an extra hour or two of sleep” streak 🫠

2025-05-15 17:33:01 UTC

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Biggest nerd on the bus.
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/114/513/043/642/036/969/original/bfdb4ab3a6cf9811.jpeg

2025-05-15 17:22:04 UTC

On a nice bus to the Cathedral of Learning.
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/114/513/000/526/567/397/original/5184e47f1ba70339.jpeg

2025-01-22 20:21:08 UTC

Bugbear: people who say “series” when they mean “season”, re TV shows.

2025-01-13 00:16:32 UTC

Beat Ori & the Will of the Wisps. It was good! Not perfect of course, but a good followup to the original with some very fun evolutions in the platforming and combat. Kept the good parts (gorgeous artwork, great music, incredibly snappy and just-challenging-enough platforming).
Did have some absolutely bullshit boss sequences, but that's why I play on Easy 🫠 it made them merely frustrating and/or “ok I gotta look up wtf I'm missing here”.

2025-01-01 17:34:01 UTC

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Thankfully, I have the @npub1tnw…dc6y daily desk calendar to showcase my mood 🥰
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/113/754/297/509/840/381/original/017509907a2283c1.jpeg
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/113/754/297/906/886/826/original/cbe9747468bc3257.jpeg

2025-01-01 05:03:05 UTC

It’s officially the future now!
Boy, this was not the future I was promised as a kid in the late 20th century.

2024-12-20 18:57:41 UTC

Anyone else finding the @npub1lyn…ve6v notifications feed (on macOS) getting "stuck" and never updating without a few rigorous Shift-Cmd-R’s?
The main TL is fine, it's specifically a second column I have set to Notifications view.
Have reset account cache and restarted app to no avail.
(Ivory 2.2.3, macOS Ventura 13.7.1)

2024-12-15 16:30:19 UTC

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it's trivial to visit Jersey City and/or Hoboken from Manhattan, just hop on PATH at 33rd Street (or points south)

2024-12-14 22:52:00 UTC

"Reskeeting your Toots, and Other Cursed 2020s Sentences", a how-to guide. #mastodon #BlueSky
:blobaww: @ [@bsky.brid.gy](https://bsky.brid.gy/ ) - the system works! follow on both ends, follow “bridged-mastodon-me” on bsky, reskeet as desired, bing bong so simple.

2024-12-14 04:46:13 UTC

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*waves sheepishly*

2024-12-08 02:59:52 UTC

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huh. the fuck is wrong with those people then? but I guess that's on me for continuing to expect anything from the average person these days.

2024-12-08 01:19:23 UTC

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Should note that while I’m deeply disappointed in the PyCon mask change, I’m a notch or two short of /angry/ and will /probably/ still attend. Just in case anyone is liable to read histrionics into my posts tonight 😛
I’m already feeling sad about multiple people I got to hang with last spring who I would expect may decline to return, though. Which is the heart of the matter. Were we really in danger of losing people who were too small-minded to put up with a mandate? Cuz vice def gonna versa.

2024-12-08 00:47:37 UTC

Time to wrap up Silo S1 to distract me from how 2025 keeps managing to perform below expectations before it’s even started.

2024-11-29 22:59:52 UTC

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https://www.microcenter.com/product/671225/samsung-990-pro-4tb-samsung-v-nand-tlc-nand-pcie-gen-4-x4-nvme-m2-internal-ssd

2024-11-25 20:54:04 UTC

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I think this post is missing a few crucial words, but also 💯, I really need to add bluesky to my mute list lol

2024-11-17 02:24:35 UTC

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So far I've just kept this thing in "xbox emulating mode" instead of "switch pro emulating mode” because while I /do/ love Switch style screenshot button and I /do/ hate having ~2 completely useless buttons on my gamepad, Steam has halfway decent "chording" configuration, and this controller is responsive enough that using said chording isn't much of a pain.
So it's back to ye olde "home button + right trigger" for screencaps for meeeeee

2024-11-17 02:10:17 UTC

#8bitdo makes nice hardware. I had them down as "only for retro gaming needs" (which I do not have, I played most of that stuff already when it was new, 👴) but they branched out!
My only gripe with this Ultimate 2C Wireless is stuff not their fault, like "you can have analog triggers XOR a screenshot button", thanks Windows/Steam/whomsever's fault that is.
Well ok, I can also gripe that 8BD's desktop app doesn't support anything but firmware updates. No macros to work around the above!
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/113/495/861/575/491/795/original/f71af7e917f717b1.jpeg

2024-11-16 23:32:22 UTC

Deep Sea Soy Sauce #DaveTheDiver

2024-11-15 03:03:48 UTC

This is not in relation to anything specific, but been thinking lately I should have some employment-law related resources handy so I'm not scrambling whenever I /do/ need some.
Ya’ll got any good tips/directories/whatever for finding an employment lawyer? Bonus if they have experience supporting the tech sector. #AskFedi #Employment #Lawyer

2024-11-10 03:48:08 UTC

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no, I'm resisting the use of third party intermediaries for now. Will see if that lasts.

2024-11-10 02:44:52 UTC

Awwwww the 8bitdo controller I got doesnt know how to tell Steam about its extra buttons (the share and star ones). That’s unfortunate.
I apparently might be able to make it show up as a Switch controller (the irony, as it is replacing one) to fix that, but then the triggers would no longer be analog, which has been a nice upgrade otherwise.

2024-11-09 19:46:19 UTC

Bell Telephone pole test site, Chester, #NewJersey
(brief 🧵 cuz why not)
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/113/454/715/667/497/569/original/d519db4d963cf97d.jpeg

2024-11-09 04:12:16 UTC

lol, stupid millennials and their SATA drives, zoomers know it's all about NVME/M.2 storage.
Something Ancient? Thanks Anyways.

2024-11-07 23:04:16 UTC

Sudden realization that #Signal and #Tailscale are, at a really high level and if you have really bad eyesight, essentially "the same thing”.
Per recent boost about how Signal is largely just key exchange and contact lookup. What else is largely "just” moderating key exchange plus a bunch of endpoint client work?? Exactly!
For the hard of reading: this is 50-75% joke.

2024-11-07 15:28:17 UTC

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To be clear here, my going assumption is that the boosters in this scenario don't know any better — thus my urge to clue them in. Psst, did you know?
But having to keep the collection of receipts required to prove the naysaying gets old fast.

2024-11-07 15:07:40 UTC

I’m sick of having an embedded ethics committee (even tho /being/ sick of it is a privilege). Constantly overriding the urge to tell friends they shouldn’t boost folks who have shown their ass.
Oh no, don’t repost that Linux desktop environment guy, he’s on record repeating so-obvious-you-can’t-claim-ignorance anti-Semitic tropes.
Argh, don’t share that article by the lawyer guy with the faux-religious handle, he’s constantly okaying transphobia and paling around with known fascists.
Etc.

2024-11-04 15:22:24 UTC

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2024-11-03 17:49:30 UTC

I hear that some people manage to go through life without ever having a piece of music give them goosebumps. So difficult to imagine, and just incredibly sad.

2024-10-31 14:19:43 UTC

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pipx, what's that? is it like pipsi? *ducks*
(I actually had to look it up, I thought pipx was literally a renaming of pipsi, but I guess it's just inspired-by? we're getting to "linux distribution family tree" levels of Python packaging related tools…)

2024-10-31 13:36:30 UTC

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while this is largely true from my remove, I thought uv’s interpreter feature in particular was just yanking down from some third party prebuilt binaries repo?

2024-10-31 04:55:53 UTC

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did you just skip over pyenv or something? (Contrary to the name, its main purpose is actually to build Python interpreters 😂)

2024-10-30 04:27:25 UTC

My feed is going to be significantly quieter once botsin.space goes away. Not even sure how to contact half the bot maintainers to find out where (if) they move to new homes.

2024-10-29 16:07:16 UTC

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Sure, why not! though I assume most will fall under “suck it up, buy some groceries and cook something in big batches that reheats easily” 🫠

2024-10-29 16:00:44 UTC

Basically everything I could reasonably get for lunch that isn't labor-intensive cook-your-own-from-farm-to-table-ingredients is one of
a) bad for me (red meat, pizza, lots of processed grains, etc)
b) recently likely to contain E. coli or Listeria (salad veggies, deli meat, chicken)
c) something I'm already eating a lot of and am pretty sick of (fish, tofu)
Makes it super easy to end up in a low blood sugar analysis paralysis spiral!

2024-10-26 02:27:06 UTC

HOW HAS NOBODY MENTIONED LÖÖPS YET
https://mastodon.social/@Sarahp/113369453411770261

2024-10-23 14:55:00 UTC

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big 80s News Screens energy, who I guess moved to threads? https://www.threads.net/@80snewsscreens

2024-10-14 04:24:21 UTC

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TBF a lot of that stuff varies widely by state. My ballot this year was under a dozen standard federal/state/county offices plus one ignorable-for-me municipal BoE thing. Vs California where it was a lot of random stuff including all the propositions.

2024-10-14 00:59:53 UTC

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I'm over here just trying to find a server/devbox operating system whose sticker I would not feel faintly embarrassed to display. Like, those certainly exist, but do they also exhibit the technical properties I'm currently looking for? Who knows!
Turns out being happy is a privilege.

2024-10-14 00:53:55 UTC

Must be nice to not know, or care, about pesky little things like ethics. You get to shop literally anywhere! Use any software you like! No bad feelings!

2024-10-12 19:50:05 UTC

The thing that bugs me the most about "#AI" in the #LLM age is that a bunch of presumably intelligent people heard the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle:
> The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.
And said to each other: "ok, but what if we made that into MULTIPLE orders of magnitude?! 🤩"

2024-10-12 16:25:03 UTC

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needs more "SOLICITORS WILL BE FED TO DOG" signs posted 🤔

2024-10-10 17:30:27 UTC

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sounds painful and potentially deadly 😵

2024-10-08 19:15:54 UTC

psst! hey!
STFU!! it's #TGV Tuesday!!! #trains
(Sound strongly recommended!)
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/113/273/400/187/074/891/original/99bf422c74bfeace.mp4

2024-10-07 00:03:12 UTC

Starting #DaveTheDiver (tho I'm still in the same early bits the Switch demo covered) ... and ordering #sushi for dinner. As one does. 🍣 😋

2024-09-28 16:11:04 UTC

Kind of annoyed how dosing instructions for drugs are all “if you missed a dose and it’s almost time for your next dose, don’t double up” but nobody ever quantifies what “almost” means here. Like, is it safe to take a twice a day drug only 8h apart sometimes instead of 12h? Big shrug!

2024-09-14 19:10:52 UTC

Still registered to vote 💪🏻
If you live in a democracy: don't forget to double-check /your/ voter registration periodically too! Shenanigans abound.

2024-09-10 00:36:36 UTC

Who the goddamn stinky fuck is running "AAA games like Assassin's Creed Mirage" on their PHONES?

2024-09-07 19:22:32 UTC

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I’ll leave you to it then! 😂

2024-09-07 18:17:27 UTC

Any y'all mutuals involved in the `uv` discussion which branches off the below toot, planning to blog about it?
I've been taking notes and might write it up as a(n objectively framed) post, but don't want to duplicate too much work 😅
https://social.jacobian.org/@jacob/113091418140504394

2024-08-29 15:54:00 UTC

This is a super cool #BlueSky feature that I honestly wonder /if/ it could work on the #Fediverse? But edits, etc function seemingly fine here so I assume this would too?
Sure, minor chance for 'drift' as the detach event chases down the original post event, but again…we use edits all the time which would have the same property.
The point about binary thinking is spot-on, anyway.
https://bsky.app/profile/fraying.bsky.social/post/3l2sb53aiup2f

2024-08-14 14:18:54 UTC

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yes. Hm maybe that's an argument for dedicating my various AirPods to specific use cases?

2024-08-14 13:54:57 UTC

God DAMN but does iOS need per-app volume controls 😵
Every single time:
- put on podcast while I mow the lawn, at maybe 75% volume because spoken word + lawnmower
- 18 hours, including a couple hours' sleep, pass
- "ok time to put on some background music while I try to work”
- AAAAAHHHHHHHHH SO LOUD WTF