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I work in tech: unix (any) sysadmin. One of those weirdos that actively likes managing DNS - if you say "It's always DNS," I'm looking for a new job, consider hiring […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ chirp.zadzmo.org/@aaron, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 8h

Re: bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor/11745836… I've 90% of a full bore multi-server backup site sitting on my living room floor ready to go to a space I've been paying $30/month for and haven't used yet.

Nanoraptor (@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social)

This is your occasional backup reminder - if you haven’t yet, go start setting up backups of any kind. If you think you don’t need backups, delete everything you have on the device you’re using right now. If that seems like a bad idea then you need backups.

Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 12h

I need an electrical part and having trouble finding something that would work. I need a connector that is: - Going to new outdoors - in harsh weather even. Will definitely get wet often. - Will be connected/disconnected often. - Subject to a lot of vibration. - Twelve volts DC ( but could […]

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Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 17h

I quietly released Nepenthes 2.8, primarily a bugfix version, a while ago. Judging by the significant pop in downloads shortly after, I conclude the RSS feeds in the artifact manager hosting it work and are useful to people.

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Leigh @newbabyfly.schism.ink.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Early 2000s: I can't find a thing to do exactly what I want. Ok I'll do it myself. 2026: doing the exact same thing, for *almost* the exact same reasons but also because fuck gen ai, fuck enshittification, fuck the chokehold certain developers/companies have on the web, I WILL DO IT MYSELF.

Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

I have very strong opinions about unix ( Linux, and especially Redhat, isn't unix anymore. Just listen to Lennart. ) And no I will NOT back down. This is a holy war, one I enlisted in long ago. Promoted to officer, probably. I will not back down.

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Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

What helps people build communities? That's what I want to spend my time on.

Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

I switched to Linux full time around 2000, 2001 when I finally got my shiny new hi-def M-Audio sound card to work using OSS drivers. I've been learning a new sound subsystem every two to three years ever since. I've forgotten more than I can remember. Seems like audio APIs under Linux are […]

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Leigh @newbabyfly.schism.ink.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

I have decided that the year's end Sticker Club offering is going to be an entire ass sheet of anti-ai stickers. I haven't done a sticker sheet in a while, so this will be very fun!

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Bodil @bodil.lol · 31/08/2026

If you ever wanted a handy list of which tech companies to stay _well_ clear of: omarchy.org/patrons

Omacom Foundation

The foundation funding Omarchy.

Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

( Urgh, what the fuck did I just read ) Seems like some people watched a bunch of scifi movies on acid and think we're all about to be literally killed by statistical algorithms. If you really think LLM agents are a risk to collective humanity, just remember: cut power to the GPUs running the […]

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

given that LLMs and generative AI are all machines whose purpose is to lie and to be used as part of a system of lies, you do in fact need evidence for any claim made by someone who pipes up in support of slop

Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

We need a replacement for robots.txt. It should be opt-in, consent based: explicitly list what is allowed to be accessed, like sitemap.xml, but allowing permission to vary depending on who's asking. It should have teeth. Trying something not explicitly permitted results in consequences - up to […]

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Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

I'd rather eat another ten hour outage bridge on a Friday evening with no sleep because a datacenter's power distribution panel caught fire than do another daily standup. Fuck "Scrum." ( Yes that electrical fire is an actual incident I worked through back in 2016. )

Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Appears today is my anniversary of joining @glass back in 2022. These past four years have been a wonderful ride.

Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

I need a sigil. *ponders many thoughts* Probably spiral related, because fractals and fiddleheads.

Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

A post got out of hand and expanded into a Blog entry. zadzmo.org/blog/posts/2026/0818-THA… TL;DR: something is wrecking the web from underneath. People blame these scrapers on AI but I no longer think they are related.

THAT Crawler - Chromatic Aberration

There's something ugly lurking in the tubes of the Internet.

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

“I have a revolutionary idea for a new online voting system” is a terrible way to start a conversation with anyone, but an even worse way to start a conversation with people who study election systems for a living.

Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

Dude leading this bike ride ride screamed "HEY IT'S MIDNIGHT!" and held up his phone showing four zeros Which reminded me that PostgreSQL accepts "allballs" as a valid time meaning Midnight. Still giggling.

Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Today I learned disposable grills ( "barbecues" ) are a thing. What the fuck

Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

I'm yet to meet a "scrummaster" that hasn't been deeply annoying. Previous one would ensure every single meeting would expand in scope to fill all available time. One hour alotted and everything covered in 15 minutes? He'd find 45 minutes of bullshit to keep the clock rolling. Had hope this […]

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Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Today I learned about tiago.zip. This justification for being opt-out is .... dubious, to be honest. I just figured out how to make nginx choose differing back ends via User Agent. I'm going to make them opt-out FROM ME.

Screenshot of tiago.zip's Mastodon corpus download page:

"why isn't this opt-in?

if you don't know about it you can't opt in, and a snapshot of the few hundred people who did isn't useful for anything. it also wouldn't reflect the network, which defeats the point of studying it. "

Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Re: previous boost: IPv6 is NOT hard. And it simplifies shit. "THIS IS THE WORLD NOW JUST FUCKING DEAL WITH IT" is okay for planet burning slop machines that don't work, but a protocol upgrade that fixes real problems isn't? Get off my fucking lawn.

Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

"We might lose Oracle!" Good. It's a company full of expensive obtuse products licensed by trolls and assholes. If you are worried about their signature database engine, don't worry, enough Fortune 500's have wedded themselves to that piece of trash someone will scoop it up during the fire […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Sad to be missing today's total solar eclipse. If you've never experienced one in the zone of totality, it's like nothing else. Night surrounded by day. The sun seems to swallow itself up. Here's the 8 April 2024 eclipse, as seen at the DFW airport. But no […] [Original post on federate.social]

A total solar eclipse, with sun in upper right, over a dark airfield. The sky is dark and coudy.

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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

@nikitonsky @ogi Ads. React is an ad delivery technology that happens to also support poorly displaying a website

Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

They're so close.

Screenshot of a news aggregator:

"Claude's watermarking poses the question: Are you willing to proudly own that you write with AI?

Business Insider - Tuesday Aug 11 22:38"

Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

I'll believe LLMs improve software when Windows 11 on this shitty work-issued laptop is stable.

Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Using an LLM for a hobby project is baffling to me. "In did in three days what normally takes weeks!" Uh, why does that matter? "With this new Anthropic footware I hiked the entire Appalachian Trail in three days!" Dude you missed it. Not just the trail itself because you you went so fast […]

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Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

Just realized, one of the most profound and impactful sentences I've ever heard, was ten years ago plus or minus. August 2016. I can dig up photos to nail the exact date down when I get home. I was in Denver, Colorado, USA. Under a bridge. Talking to two older dudes who looked like unhoused […]

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Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

[#uspol] Re: mastodon.social/@gooba42/1170449968… What's being said here is exactly why I think the current SCOTUS interpretation of the 2nd Amendment is extremely wrong: The founders viewed the Constitution as a means to settle political disputes without violence, which at the […]

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Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

I keep running into "I wish Lua had a decent RPC mechanism" BRB starting another open source project because I need more of those like I need credit card debt.

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Leigh @newbabyfly.schism.ink.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

It is long overdue for me to make an old school button wall on my website. Do you have a webcomic? Do you have a 200x40px image banner? Give me them. So I can link your badass webcomic on my button wall! #comics #webcomics

Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

I remember when search engines used to work. You could do things like quote a word or phrase and every result would include it, or put "-" in front of something and none of the results would have that Instead of "Surely you meant this extremely popular on Tiktok thing that happens to be two […]

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

you can use a hammer to build or destroy. you can use a hammer to make music or noise. you can use a hammer as a weapon or as a fidget toy. parody was murdered by absurd men so we wouldn’t have any tools to perceive and comprehend the full scope of the vileness of their actions. if the […]

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Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

Re: mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/1170318246… Waiting for people to crawl out of the Fedi woodwork to complain such snark is not productive.

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NetBSD Foundation 🚩 (@netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org)

I've been hearing noise about Microsoft trying to make Windows 11 usable with 8GB RAM in wake of the shortage. Behold, 16MB: https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/dmesgd?do=view&id;=8726

Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

Describing the "$user Emphasized a message" messages in an SMS group chat as "iStuffs", as NULL intended.

Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

Leading a pontoon boat for a day on the lake. Friend 1: did you bring Malort? Friend 2: No * near unison * Friend 1: Good Me: Good Friend 3: Good

Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

#uspol If, by happenstance, you live in Kentucky - please make the phone at McConnell's office in DC blow up off the hook with constant phone calls: www.themirror.com/news/politics/mcc… The phone number is (202) 224-2541. Explicitly say […]

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Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

I collect Laserdiscs in part for sample mining. There's a lot of bad movies from 1975 to 1999 that can be had for a song with amazing quips perfect for industrial and/or metal bands. Was just reminded of Wargames; there's a killer sample within the first five minutes: "I want someone on the […]

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Scary "Grampus" Jerry 👻 @jerry.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

Anthropic: “our models went rogue and hacked companies way before that OTHER company’s models. And it was way worse and way better at the same time. In completely unrelated news, we are IPOing soon. Don’t forget! XOXO” www.anthropic.com/news/investigatin…

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Robert W. Gehl @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

I got angry and wrote a post about that Anthropic-shredding-the-books thing. I'm borderline blinded by my anger. Hey! But at least this post will be taken to train some LLMs. fossacademic.tech/2026/07/30/pulp-c…

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Contentification, Pulpification: From Books to Content

[Head's up... this one's an angry post that's probably not totally coherent. But it's from the heart, at least...]

Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

I made a post about #NetBSD a bit ago that managed to escape some of it's containment, and since then I'm up to four people who've tried it. Some successes, others who needed support and I did my best to route them appropriately. Looks like at least one new full time user, possibly more. I was […]

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Microsoft @microsoft.lea.pet.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

like this post to opt-out of being used as biofuel for copilot

Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

Oh shit this sounds amazing! A Servo-based browser project: nlnet.nl/project/Bisque "Bisque will actively "bring in" the surrounding desktop, while also exposing its own state transparently; for example, bookmarks and history as plain files and directories, or browser tab state and […]

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Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Yo, I'm heading up a brand-new community project. 👥 We write code by hand. 🤚🏽⌨️ It's a growing opt-in directory of software developers who write code by hand. When you hear someone tell you “nobody does that” you can point to this and say “well these folks […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

A page style layout with the following:

We write code by hand.

We use Natural Intelligence to build software libraries and applications in production today. Some of them you may be using right now.

There are people who say "nobody authors code by hand any longer." We are here to say that's incorrect. Because we do it. All the time.

If you write code by hand, add your name to this list!

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

I can’t emphasize this enough though: if your company’s name is listed proudly alongside Palantir, you’re fine with being listed alongside a company whose money is in selling an awful fucking product that’s used to target people for death and that’s because you’re also that type of company and […]

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

with almost comedic timing, here’s some of the money behind torvalds coming out as a slop peddler and look at that, a number of these companies (Palantir being the most notorious) have ties with fascism, right-wing misinformation campaigns, and the military industrial complex I wonder why […]

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Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Should probably log in an see why Teams keeps beeping, but there's a particularly bad case of the Mondays over here. It was a great weekend in the woods.

Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

So Linus showed his entire ass ( again, if you've been paying attention in the last twenty years, but for some reason this one really got noticed ), and now I keep seeing people talking about building weird #NetBSD / Debian hybrids, how Devuan was trying that, and You know you can just run […]

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

@gedankenstuecke a bitcoiner, an ancap, a 3-D gun printer, an alt-righter, the founder of Hatreon and a convicted kiddle fucker walk into a bar. The barman picks up a baseball bat and says “get the fuck out of my bar, Cody.”