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I've spent nearly two decades running #NetBSD and for much of it, people's reactions were largely the same: "I have an x86 computer, pretty much everything is x86 now, why should I care about portability?" Despite being famous for it, portability is not what draws me to NetBSD. I honestly […]

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Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Fuck I just cut the rear cable >_< Good thing there were two in this bag.

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Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Bike shop around the corner is closed - but, fortunately, I have a basement of Infinite Forgotten ADHD Whims: seriously had no idea I had these, nor when I got them or why. Anyway replacement cable is on deck.

A ziplock plastic bag containing a pair of Sunrace shift levers and two unused derailleur cables.

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Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Oh THAT is why it's getting hard to shift gears.

Close up view of a bicycle, just above the crankset, where the shift cable connects to the front derailleur. Said cable is badly frayed with only a few strands still connected.

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Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

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 · 17/10/2026

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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Update: I've identified it. My gut feeling was right, it's not LLM related at all. It's far, FAR more stupid . I'm a touched miffed how much time I spent on it, honestly. I'll post a blog form update with details once I stop screaming - and am confident my countermeasure works long term.

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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

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Omacom Foundation

The foundation funding Omarchy.

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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

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

The counterpoint is: maybe we don't. The bad actors making this necessary aren't going to care, and anything further to restrict access based on behavior is only going to make the web smaller, more enclosed, less open. Giving a community more tools to enforce norms is good, but no technical […]

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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. )

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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.

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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.

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Aaron @aaron.chirp.zadzmo.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

And now, it's functional, at a proof-of-concept level at least. Only happy paths tested as yet. ... what was I building this for again?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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

You really shouldn't be "studying" people without their explicit consent.

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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.

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

"BUT BUT BUT I NEEEEEED NAT" *Burns your house down in Wayland*

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

"WAAAAAAH ALL MY ADDRESSES ARE DIFFERENT" *Angrily glares in systemd*

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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.

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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

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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.

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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 · 06/08/2026

A huge question is serialization: this is a huge and active field and I don't feel like weighing in on it. JSON is great for human readability, but won't support advanced features later. For example, I'd love to allow both ends to define ways to serialize/deserialize Userdata and send those […]

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

@Newbabyfly I still vividly remember 1024x768 being a nice monitor.

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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

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

There used to be a game, "Gpoglewhacking", wherein you try to find two words that gives you exactly one result on Google. Now all search engines seem send you pages and pages of irrelevant garbage instead of saying, "sorry, no matches."

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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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