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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 11/11/2025
So for now, it remains unblocked. But I have begun logging IPs of those using Windows 7.
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 11/11/2025
Maybe I block w7 users in Singapore. But I only identified this in the first place bc of the odd Windows 7 UA. What % of other visitors are bots? Not all, but some? Most? I can't detect them well, evidently. I don't know who's running them. And I don't want to fingerprint humans to find out.
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 11/11/2025
But for what? They aren't DDoSing me, but they are executing JavaScript and evading my (admittedly lax) bot mitigations. Maybe they are stealing my copyrighted content to train an AI model.
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 11/11/2025
Over 90% of my Windows 7 "visitors" are Chrome users in Singapore with no referrer and 1280x1200 displays. These users *do* execute JS, but do not engage with the page. They appear to visit pages at random. Unless my website is shockingly popular with Singaporean Windows 7 users, these are bots...
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 11/11/2025
Windows 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;
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Python Software Foundation @python.org · 27/10/2025
as 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,
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 22/10/2025
Pro 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-1
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US-EAST-1: All for One, One for All
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taylor.town @taylor.town · 13/08/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=80VH...
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Chess, but there are NO TURNS
RTS 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…
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 12/08/2025
Yeah iOS has been stable at least and day to day so is macOS but it fails catastrophically sometimes, last week I had to reinstall because spell check, Siri and continuity were all utterly broken
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 12/08/2025
I do wonder about the interoperability request form. Why haven’t all these little cuts been fixed? Does it involve a lot of legalese so only big corps can afford it? Is the scope too small? Does Apple reject things overzealously? Surely if it was easy the indies would’ve requested everything by now
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 12/08/2025
Like the now playing widget has a separate icon for AirPods. Only Apple Maps is able to stay open when you lock your phone. HDR in HEIC is completely undocumented so every photo editing app fucks it up. The list goes on and on.
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 12/08/2025
Call 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.
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 12/08/2025
The wireless headphones are back. I tried charging them once a day for the past week. Yesterday, I smacked it on my desk 5 times and plugged it in again and that little shit started charging
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 12/08/2025
Using 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 $20.
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 12/08/2025
I suspect copilot is GitHub’s most profitable product. Anyway GitHub is a part of M$ CoreAI instead of DevOps now so there’s no going back
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 14/07/2025
This is a very expensive setup 😳
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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
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 25/06/2025
I know the Switch 2 just came on but I want to give you a love letter to my 3DS: boehs.org/node/3ds
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The 3DS Still Holds Up
Nintendo Online costs $20 a year and can't do this
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 09/06/2025
idk i sorta like it needs a bit of a work but the glass is pretty.
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 10/05/2025
As 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...
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 26/04/2025
Could you elaborate on this? My best understanding of ATProto is that it exchanges complexity in places for different complexities in others.
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 26/04/2025
Yes I know that’s exactly my point. Retrofitting activitypub or hell atproto into an existing platform with years of effort behind them is a much more productive endeavor than creating a new platform from scratch
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 26/04/2025
Both gitlab and forgejo have federation in varying capacities. They aren’t perfect, but as a holistic platform they’re light years ahead of tangled which is still closer to concept art than a fully functioning platform. If energy was given to these features they’d be great much faster than tangled
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 26/04/2025
Perhaps the original poster should’ve swapped the two platforms.
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 26/04/2025
Just fwi to everyone, the replies here are really hypocritical. You cannot argue that you are the good guys who hope everything just works out while simultaneously calling mastodon users and activitypub horrid
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 26/04/2025
Yeah someone on bluesky talking about how bluesky users are the sane ones? Give me a break. *minorities* of both groups are equally overzealous.
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 25/04/2025
In 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”.
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 25/04/2025
(“wow atproto” doesn’t count. That’s what the cryptobros said. No use in being loyal to the technology. Only ask what the technology enables that others do not)
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 25/04/2025
In 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”.
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 25/04/2025
And why would you switch? GitHub has remained remarkably unconventional. Perhaps Microsoft understands how remarkably little vendor lock-in it holds.
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 25/04/2025
Any developer, *today* can pickup any one of a plethora of alternatives that are just as intuitive. It’s not that hard to switch, as git is a decentralized protocol. But they don’t because switching still incurs friction, however small.
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 25/04/2025
Except the decentralized protocol already had a decentralized social layer… email. The original value-add of GitHub was not (directly) the social layer, it was the intuitiveness. That gave GitHub a critical mass. It became *the* place for development.
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 18/04/2025
RYM has a pretty good database of genre "definitions" in a textual sense
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 09/04/2025
css-naked-day.org #cssnakedday
Best enjoyed without CSS
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The Onion @theonion.com · 07/04/2025
Judge Gives Trump Administration 3 Days To Return Her From El Salvador Prison
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Judge Gives Trump Administration 3 Days To Return Her From El Salvador Prison
GREENBELT, 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...
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damienboyes.bsky.social @damienboyes.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
That'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.
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 03/04/2025
Morgan & 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...
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Peanuts in Church and Casual Misinformation
What absurd laws regarding gorrilas, chowder and mules tell us about media literacy
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 28/03/2025
One of the last good products just got fucked and I'm in shambles. RIP #Garmin boehs.org/node/garmin-...
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Garmin Connect+ and the beginning of the end
Oh how the mighty have fallen
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 24/03/2025
𝗔 𝗥ed 𝗖at 𝗛ides, 𝗜nvestigators 𝗩iew 𝗘vidence. 𝗜nside 𝗦afe. 𝗔ll 𝗥oads 𝗖rumble, 𝗛ope 𝗜s 𝗩ague, 𝗘verything. 𝗣erhaps 𝗛ollow. 𝗔 𝗥at 𝗖limbs 𝗛igh, 𝗜t 𝗩entures 𝗘agerly. 𝗟anterns 𝗜lluminate. archiveiya74codqgiixo33q62qlrqtkgmcitqx5u2oeqnmn5bpcbiyd.🧅
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 24/03/2025
American 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/IuULQFiY
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.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.
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 24/03/2025
Sadly, I imagine a lot of these friends are still defending him
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WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025
They'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.
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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 19/03/2025
Or go my route and add domain specific markup for every imaginable challenge
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 18/03/2025
AI applied in this specific place — using it to find signals in unstructured data — has enabled rapid advancements in medication, climate forecasting, other sciences, and delivered tangible quality of life improvements for those with disabilities. Not everything ‘AI’ is destructive and/or slop
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 18/03/2025
Propublica is a non-profit with limited resources. Instead of giving their journalists time intensive, boring, repetitive labor that is frankly below them, they used a comparatively cost effective model. By doing this, they freed the journalists to do much more productive things to society
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 18/03/2025
This seems like…. A responsible use of AI? Nowhere in this article do they mention using AI to write articles. Rather they describe using it to rapidly signal process immense amounts of data, which is the most ideal application of AI imaginable. If you’re entirely anti-AI, you’re anti-progress
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/03/2025
Help 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
Text: Independent, Investigative, Indispensable. Donate by March 21. Spring Member Drive.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 14/03/2025
Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
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Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
WASHINGTON—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...
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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 11/03/2025
Yes all my jokes are stolen I’ve never had an original idea in my entire life
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