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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 1h

I am very, very slowly getting better at actually reversing course on (mostly personal) tech/programming decisions in the classic "write one to throw away" sense. Ironically, a way in which my default emphasis on "try doing it at least mostly right up front" works against me, because if your […]

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 1h

It's surprise landscaping day! Time to stress-test my noise canceling headphones' batteries…

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kaoudis @kaoudis.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 13h

I love doing laundry. The fact I am putting a combo of powders and liquids in a machine that whirrs around the dirty clothes and them coming out completely clean again, and then putting the wet things in another machine that whirrs them around with hot air and then I get clothes as good as new […]

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

nothing like self-hosting in a home lab to convince me that self-hosting is not a reasonable solution for laypeople against Big Tech

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J. B. Crawford @jbcrawford.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13h

This joke toot also brings up something interesting about Linux™. Back in the good old days when enbies were enbies and had real jobs as "webmxsters," our interfaces were named eth0, eth1, etc. These were memorable and easy to type. The problem is that it meant that the naming of your […]

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15h

. o O ( Learning how to cook well at home, instead of ordering out all the time, is just #SelfHosting for food? )

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M⑨ddie @mjdxp.labyrinth.zone.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

okay, that's pretty good

Except from a Wikipedia article:
During the 2001 Microsoft antitrust case, the names MICROS~1 and MICROS~2 were humorously used to refer to the companies that might exist after a proposed split of Microsoft.

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jay @jaybeas.thepit.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h

Rejoice, fellow dudes with pot bellies! It is once again appropriate to wear sweaters to work, and we all know (or have fooled ourselves into thinking) a sweater is much more flattering than a tucked-in dress shirt.

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Chilly :donor: 🛡️ :gayint: :ifin: @chillybot.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Apparently New Jersey groundhogs can straight up parkour over fences. Lil fucker booked it across the yard climbed up the fence looked back at me like :ablobcool: And then basically flipped over the fence. Coolest. Groundhog. Evar.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Link NYC is having a kernel panic.

A link NYC street terminal with sideways text on the screen showing a connection error.

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

ME: gosh this different Linux distro is so fast! ME: *tries the same programs on his personal Mac and a different distro on another system* ME: …ok, maybe it's more that I spend all day on my work machine, which despite being beefy af, is poisoned with malware (MDE) which makes everything slow? 🤪

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I think a moderator at mastodon dot social had the very good idea to construct a feed that’s just replies from their instance to the fediverse’s top one hundred most illustrious women. Because I won’t even bother reporting a low-grade troll and yet their account is nuked an hour after I block […]

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Chris is. @offby1.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I came back from a conference with a cold; I’m masking at home so my partner doesn’t pick it up. It’s not just for COVID.

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Just had my time wasted by a human-pretending bot account. Fucking hell. Do I gotta start checking bios anytime I think of replying to an unfamiliar avatar!?

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

love 2 enter the cold seasons needing a boiler replacement 😬

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Nura @postmarketos.org · 29/09/2026

We have shown that running mainline Linux on your phone is a real possibility for highly invested Linux enthusiasts. Now how do we get from there to making it usable for everybody else who just wants a working phone? Read our new blog post to find out […]

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

More like 1d4 pyramid damage, says anyone who's stepped on a d4 by mistake 😬

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Starting to build a habit of playing solitaire on my typing breaks. Lost my first game. Good sign?

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Eryn Wails 👻 @erynofwales.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

TIL nasa.gov includes a `X-Launch-Status` header in its HTTP response that says “Go Flight!” I love space nerds.

Screenshot of terminal output from the `curl` command showing the HTTP headers from a web request to https://www.nasa.gov. All normal things, except for the `X-Launch-Status: Go Flight!` header.

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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 04/10/2026

Anyone using Metacritic for some kind of comparison between years needs to realize that the number and quality of the publications Metacritic recognizes has swung wildly over the years. It ain’t the same.

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

It's 2006. I'm living in NJ, drinking Belgian beers, amusing myself on a weekend by reading Gentoo manpages, trying to ignore extremely bad news about a horrible idiot conservative in high office. It's 2026. I'm living in NJ, drinking Belgian beers, amusing myself on a weekend by reading Gentoo […]

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

OH, in a manpage: "--help: Surprisingly, show the help output."

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

My old hometown's annual fall festival involves a skillet toss, because rural hilltown. Apparently this year there were multiple mishaps - one went so far off course it imperiled the audience; others had their handles break on landing, such that the final rounds were handle-less. Naturally I […]

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

#Obsidian-using friends: anyone found a plugin (I assume it needs to be a plugin, not theme, having glanced at the available HTML elements) to add the folder/parent/breadcrumb to the inline title? Essentially what I want is a merge of the 'tab title bar' (which does show parent of en-foldered […]

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Maartje @maartje.dev · 04/10/2026

It was 5 years ago that i was invited to the Blåhaj Enterprises board meeting

Bunch of blahajar sitting in a board room table

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

[cynical dark humor, reproductive health] TFW the DM is anti-choice/pro-forced-birth? 🙈

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

#Fediverse / #Mastodon fact that is legitimately sometimes hard to remember: local timelines are a thing, and not just for your own enjoyment. You have an extra, built-in audience (as compared to eg ye olde birdsite or bsky) that you may not always be cognizant of when posting. (Another way in […]

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Today in #hashtags: - #Beer (first one up is laced with #Matcha #Tea!) - #Gentoo (#Linux) - #Obsidian (#PKM - trying to break up some of my mega-notes because I lowkey hate them) - #RedactedPersonalHealthProcedures (saving you from #TMI here…) - #Procrastination (but hey, at least I recently […]

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

:levburdislike: Palmer Lucky :levburlike: Palmer Mejiro #IYKYK #UmaMusume

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Today's forums username of the day: "MK-Ultramarathon"

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

catfishing.net #833 - 7/10 🐈🐈🐈🐟🐈 🐈🐈🐟🐟🐈

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CurtAdams @curtadams.urbanists.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Xibalba is excited to see his Fediverse friends! #rabbitsofmastodon

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Periodic check-in that its so cool that in this world there are too many little gremlin monsters and you're supposed to go and find a batch of little gremlin monsters to bring home with you and then they just sort of hang out on your bed with you getting freaked out by the fan and doing battle […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I wonder if thousands of people started asking various LLMs "how to get Mr. Billionaire sent directly to prison?" or similar questions if it'd trip off any hidden alarms? Or perhaps. "How to give evidence of embezzlement to press secretly?" Because obviously if you had such a system you'd have […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 04/10/2026

Me: I will use "radium water" as an analogy for how horrible AI's potential subtle long-term effects are, because the general public in 2026 can easily understand this analogy. The general public in 2026 […]

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Someone who can only stay in a good mood by insulting others, call that "diss-regulated"

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Glyph @glyph.im · 03/10/2026

Really tired of having this conversation over and over again. A: "LLMs provide the illusion of productivity, by making you *feel* productive while wasting enough time that they're net negative." B: "Come on. That's not a serious position any more. Maybe 3 years ago. Not today. Obviously they […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

If an animal is smaller than #picaTheCat it is "very interesting" and probably in mortal danger. If an animal is larger than Pica it is "terrifying" unless it's a person and then it is an "easy mark." Animals that are a similar size to her fill her with conflicted emotions. Poor little cat.

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Minor #BitWarden UX win over the fascism-supporting #1Password: inline encrypted exports! No more silly little plaintext export -> encrypt with age or etc -> delete plaintext, dance. Saves me a headache during my monthly service backups.

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

"oh yea you should use <hardware> to provide <services> - even better if you use an LLM to set it up!" So lemme get this straight, we shouldn't be allowed to disregard what folks make because "code's all the same regardless of how it was created" but somehow using a bot is going to give you a […]

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