Tom "spot" Callaway :fedora:

Affiliations: :fedora_old:
Species: Meat popsicle
Pronouns: he/him
Job: Open Source Technologist @AWS
Old Job: @RedHat
O'Reilly Author | Opinions are my own | Hiding puzzles in plain sight

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2026-08-05 14:50:15 UTC

I'm running a project for work that involves sending out a small fleet of web crawlers to gather data for me, and I can't help it, I hear "Hello Crawlers!" and "Get out there and kill, kill, kill" I guess it's more like "scrape, scrape, scrape" though. #DCC

2026-05-04 21:30:57 UTC

Overheard: "But now instead of doing work I'm spending a couple of hours a day babysitting the AI. And then doing the work anyways."

2025-09-18 14:18:08 UTC

#fedora friends, I'm putting out an advanced call for reviewers who are willing to help do package reviews for the newly split out texlive packages (moving from one unholy unmaintainable nightmare to 52 separate packages based mostly on collection groupings). This means it will be easier to update TeXLive and updates won't require every tex component to rebuild (just ones within the same collection/scheme).
Lemme know if you're interested in helping to review.

2025-04-24 19:23:11 UTC

Still think "data information" is enough?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05566

2025-04-23 16:25:56 UTC

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BURN THE WITCH (i mean, cool)

2025-04-16 13:43:21 UTC

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Also, that was an _UGLY_ hack.

2025-04-16 13:43:02 UTC

Okay, progress. I put the OpenSUSE kernel (6.14.1-1-default) into my Fedora environment and _it_ boots my Fedora install now. Still no idea why Fedora kernels won't boot.

2025-03-26 19:27:38 UTC

"I will say a prayer for victory" is how I want to end all of my work conversations now.

2025-01-05 19:26:30 UTC

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when I say this, she doesn't hear it, but when you say it, you're a legend. 🤷‍♂️

2024-11-08 00:06:13 UTC

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I think the latter.

2024-11-07 23:42:26 UTC

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open source is people and people are political

2024-11-06 12:29:04 UTC

If you are not using Signal for your communications, you should start today.

2024-09-22 12:21:32 UTC

Being tall
Pros: Can reach things on top shelves, can tell you the weather, can change most lightbulbs, can always see the band/movie/speaker
Cons: Concussions, bad spine, geeky T-shirts are never in my size, forget that smaller humans exist, concussions, memory loss, depression, concussions.

2024-06-15 16:22:37 UTC

Both the TSA agents and the Sky Club employees recognized me today. I'm not sure if that's good or bad.
On my way to Paris, for the third and last time this year.