Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 11/11/2025Windows 7 traffic on my site has dramatically increased over the past 3 months. This was widely reported in the news, and frequently attributed as a statscounter glitch. But I don't use statscounter, and my Windows 7 traffic is still increasing. Why? A thread; 110
Reposted by Evan BoehsPython Software Foundation @python.org · 27/10/2025as a condition of funding, we were asked to affirm that we wouldn’t undertake any diversity, equity, and inclusion work, whether or not we used the government funds to do so. The PSF simply couldn’t agree to that statement, 31871265
Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 22/10/2025Pro tip: Deploy all infra to US-EAST-1 so when it all falls apart nobody blames you and you don't need to worry about failovers! boehs.org/node/us-east-1boehs.orgUS-EAST-1: All for One, One for All 010
Reposted by Evan Boehstaylor.town @taylor.town · 13/08/2025www.youtube.com/watch?v=80VH...youtube.comChess, but there are NO TURNSRTS Chess. Play Hyper Chess: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3830210/Hyper_Chess/ Hyper Chess Discord: https://discord.gg/qUNFSEpm | Music used (in order): Forest Funk from Super Meat… 021
Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 12/08/2025Call me a doomer but with 17 years of entrenchment and no corporate buyin iOS will never be fully interoperable. The DMA is great but it’s the sum of a bazillion little things that makes a product feel at home. Death by a thousand cuts. 210
Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 12/08/2025Using wired headphones bc my wireless ones went for a swim. First, wired headphones are a PITA. I don't like the tether. I miss ANC. I don't like the weight of the wire. But oddly, they sound just as good, maybe better. Definitely better than the wireless ones before an equalizer. They cost $20. 100
Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 03/07/2025@logfallen.bsky.social i'm trying to reach you any way, do you still have the Piglen 1.16 downloads? the mega links are dead and your discord is gone 000
Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 25/06/2025I know the Switch 2 just came on but I want to give you a love letter to my 3DS: boehs.org/node/3dsboehs.orgThe 3DS Still Holds UpNintendo Online costs $20 a year and can't do this 030
Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 10/05/2025As I correctly predicted, fare evasion increased. The MBTA says that “a loss of $30m threatens a lifeline,” and that “every dollar is important to us.” If that really was so, you wouldn’t have spent $1b to lose an additional $30m each year forever. Free the fucking T. boehs.org/node/free-th... 010
Reposted by Evan BoehsEvan Boehs @boehs.org · 25/04/2025In sum, tangled feels like a solution in need of a problem. GitHub offers a thin social layer on top of a decentralized protocol. If GitHub is threatened, decentralized alternatives already exist. Afaik tangled has no discernible value-add over these alternatives, other than “wow atproto”. 311
Reposted by Evan BoehsThe Onion @theonion.com · 07/04/2025Judge Gives Trump Administration 3 Days To Return Her From El Salvador Prisontheonion.comJudge Gives Trump Administration 3 Days To Return Her From El Salvador PrisonGREENBELT, MD—Decrying the deportation as “wholly lawless,” U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ruled Monday that the Trump administration had three days to return her to the United States from a Salvador... 565299736
Reposted by Evan Boehsdamienboyes.bsky.social @damienboyes.bsky.social · 03/04/2025That's the thing--you don't die from shame, it just keeps going until you become inured to it, then you cling to it because its all you have left. 4893
Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 03/04/2025Morgan & Morgan told me that it is illegal to transport a gorilla in the backseat of my car. Is it really? boehs.org/node/weird-l...boehs.orgPeanuts in Church and Casual MisinformationWhat absurd laws regarding gorrilas, chowder and mules tell us about media literacy 010
Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 28/03/2025One of the last good products just got fucked and I'm in shambles. RIP #Garmin boehs.org/node/garmin-...boehs.orgGarmin Connect+ and the beginning of the endOh how the mighty have fallen 030
Reposted by Evan BoehsThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 24/03/2025American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. theatln.tc/IuULQFiYtheatln.tcThe Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War PlansU.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling. 35038151555
Reposted by Evan BoehsWIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.freedom.pressWired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should followAs the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy 16249137423359
Reposted by Evan BoehsProPublica @propublica.org · 18/03/2025Help us dig deep and hold the powerful to account, for as long as it takes, by becoming a member today. Donate now: propub.li/41pyKzK 327569
Reposted by Evan BoehsThe Onion @theonion.com · 14/03/2025Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Themtheonion.comDemocratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices ThemWASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American pe... 676358877220
Reposted by Evan BoehsZach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 10/03/2025If you’re in the US federal government and facing blocked news web sites on gov’t hardware — apropos of nothing I might remind folks about Google’s official proxy browser (aka Google Translate). translate.google.com?op=websites Works great when you translate a language into the same language. 1163
Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 10/03/2025There’s something oddly pleasing about alligator cables and nobody is talking about it 120
Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 03/03/2025In 2017, a much younger Evan attended the march for science. It saddens me that we must march again, but I’ll be there. So should you. #standupforscience2025 030
Reposted by Evan BoehsChristine Hallquist @christinehallquist.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Okay, everyone. We are meeting at 2021 Bragg Hill Road in Waitsfield Vermont. Five thirty p m start. Many of us will be there around five. Here is a drop pin maps.app.goo.gl/6TJcvgCobyFB...maps.app.goo.gl 1172
Reposted by Evan BoehsEvan Boehs @boehs.org · 25/02/2025I say 'Racist', iPhone says 'Trump.' Tomayto, tomahto. boehs.org/node/racist-...boehs.orgApple Voice Dictation Writes 'Trump' When You Say 'Racist'Must've been the wind 053
Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 25/02/2025EXCLUSIVE: DOGE staffer previously wrote code to generate fake ballots A Rough Timeline of Technological Buffoonery in the DOGE Era boehs.org/node/doge-techboehs.orgA Rough Timeline of Technological Buffoonery in the DOGE EraIt's barely been a month! 030
Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 21/02/2025My dog had a great deal of excess electrons. I asked her where she got all of them from, and was shocked by her answer 000
Reposted by Evan BoehsMike Masnick @masnick.com · 13/02/2025See here's how to do a headline. fortune.com/2025/02/13/e... 229240176161
Reposted by Evan BoehsBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 14/02/2025“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.” 1038393098588
Reposted by Evan BoehsStef "inclusion is a human right" Christensen @wikisteff.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Via @zlz.bsky.social on X: "The DOGE website appears to be developed and hosted by Outburst Data, run by current DOGE employee Kyle Schutt. If you view the source of any page on the DOGE website, you'll see that the images are proxied through Cloudflare's ImageDelivery service. 6339130
Reposted by Evan BoehsEvan Boehs @boehs.org · 14/02/2025Doge.gov has now deleted the defacement from their database, or at least they attempted.... stains still remain According to a source, the remediation was to delete the endpoints from the code. doge.gov/workforce?or... 001
Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 13/02/2025if anybody wants a fun project, compile chrome to WASM so you can run chrome in chrome 010
Reposted by Evan BoehsEvan Boehs @boehs.org · 13/02/2025Yeah, you can probably manufacture viral content by playing into current trends, but that generally means forgoing what you care about, riding off fads, and becoming unauthentic. People come to social media looking for short hits of dopamine, whereas RSS users come looking for longform 011
Reposted by Evan BoehsMichal Melewski @carste1n.bsky.social · 09/02/2025I write to teach LLM wrong things 132
Reposted by Evan Boehsleah 🛸 @spacegirl.ing · 09/02/2025this is kind of cool vert.shvert.shVERT.sh — Free, fast, and awesome file convertWith VERT you can convert image and audio files to and from PNG, JPG, WEBP, MP3, WAV, FLAC, and more. No ads, no tracking, open source, and all processing is done on your device. 1172
Reposted by Evan BoehsCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 08/02/2025i know ppl here do not enjoy screenshots of X but this one is such a great encapsulation of what it's become 23971291130
Reposted by Evan BoehsSam 🐈⬛ @sammakescoolstuff.bsky.social · 08/02/2025In a sentence never before uttered by humans, I am delighted to share that an alligator stole my conservation instructor’s hat by jauntily walking into the water while wearing it 🐊 351217446591
Reposted by Evan BoehsDavid Buchanan @retr0.id · 07/10/2024Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter? (Yes!) www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/dram-em... 1539781
Reposted by Evan BoehsZach Maillard Reaction @zachmaillard.xyz · 07/02/2025A very normal way that Ginger likes to sit on all the chairs at once #schnauzer 41083
Reposted by Evan BoehsEllen L. Weintraub @ellenlweintraub.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon. 632414846227524
Reposted by Evan BoehsRussell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 31/01/2025I forgot about the fucking dorkscolds here. “CiTe Ur sOuRcEs” Um somebody sent me a text of a photo with zero context or attribution. You may be shocked to learn I am neither a student writing a paper, nor a debate team member, nor a fellow journalist. I am using the internet while shitting. 51042