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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2026

Why do people keep using #Debian for their base images instead of, you know, a distribution from people who know what they're doing? Am I supposed to go explain them what --user means or are they hopeless (since they clearly treat their users as idiots)?

Container build running "pip install --user tox" on Debian. PIP reacts with their "safeguard" for overriding system packages despite --user.

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

This time, I took a few precautions to not get sick after the conference. So I got sick right during it! How do I survive 6 hours on a train with a nasty cold? I need your tips, fedi.

Windows XP message dialog: "Task failed successfully"

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Nerd paradise in Söll (Wilder Kaiser) 😍

A large model railroad in an outer court of a guest house. It has at least two layers with intersections and bridges.

The same model railroad. From this angle you can see a bridge over a small pond.

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Buckle up, it's #slop time! ✨✨ What does this word salad even mean? Are they trying to hire me? The last paragraph makes me suspect it, but I'm not even sure. Their description of a recently merged feature (nothing major, by the way, definitely not something […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

I’m looking to discuss a scope around bare-metal lifecycle architecture for GPU infrastructure. Your Redfish inspection work is a useful example of the decisions involved: when to trust out-of-band data, when to boot an agent, and how to keep the controller’s state consistent through failure.

The opportunity I’d put forward is to carry that expertise into GPU platform qualification, provider integrations and recovery semantics. The aim is a repeatable software platform for operating hardware as OpenAI’s planned compute buildout grows.

I’d want to align the technical scope with what you’d like to own next. Would you be open to a conversation?

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

"Mum, can I go outside to watch the #eclipse?" "No, we have eclipse at home!" Eclipse at home:

A string of eclipse shaped light images (from holes in blinds) on a white cupboard door

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Small holes in the blinds allow watching the #eclipse on any surface, including walls or human hands.

Sunlight builds three lines of eclipse images on a white wall

The same small eclipse images on my forearm

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

... to suddenly end up in a rocky desert typical for #Karwendel while descending to Reither Joch. Reither Spitze was not on the program this time, so we descended further through the forest and along the cliffs all the way to Rosshütte. Can you spot climbers […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Our weekend retreat to #Seefeld in #Tirol for your #MountainMonday! Located nearly 1200 meters above the sea level, the Australian town tends to be several degrees cooler than Munich - what else could we ask for? Well, we could ask for a fantastic view of […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

An absolutely normal work day in year of our Lord 2026. These AI security reports will be undoing of my already dwindling sanity...

Recursively grepping the "Security" directory for "FIND" headings. 247 results.

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

Yesterday's circular walk to the south of lake #Kochelsee. Because of the heatwave, the route was chosen to be rather short and on the north side of a mountain range. All photos are more or less to the south because of that. #MountainMonday #hiking #wandern #Oberbayern

Mountain landscape under clear sky: a meadow with a lonely tree in the foreground, then a forest, then a low mountain far away.

View from a small hill on a lake behind some trees. The same mountain is partly hidden by a light cloud.

Surface of a lake covering most of the view. Water is different shades of green. The previously seen mountain is right on the opposite side.

View along the lake partly hidden by a few fir trees. A rocky wall is peeking from the left.

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

PSA. Don't come to a FOSS project leading with "your documentation sucks, please migrate to our solution". Even if you're acting in a good faith, you absolutely don't sound like you do. I'm not going to link to the specific discussion or name the solution […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Summary

The current Metal3 documentation hosted at https://book.metal3.io/ and maintained in https:/github.com/metal3-io/metal3-io.github.io &
https:/github.com/metal3-io/metal3-docs appears to be outdated in terms of structure, readability, and discoverability.

To improve the overall documentation experience for users and contributors, we should consider migrating the documentation site to …

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

After a thorough visit to a large sports store (shout-out to Sporthaus Schuster in München for having a testing wall with actually challenging footholds), I decided to replace my Solutions (of which I own the 5th or 6th pair already) with these Mantras and […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A pair of mostly black-and-white climbing shoes on the floor next to their box.

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

Late contribution to #MountainMonday: impressions from the alpine* route called Luftiger Grat (airy ridge) in #Nagelfluhkette in the #Allgäu. It starts from the Hochgrat gondola station, goes up and down along the ridge and then descends 1000m into the valley […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Ridge between two peaks covered by fir trees. A gondola station visible near the top of the far peak. Distant mountain ranges visible behind the saddle.

View over a lush green valley with a small lake. More peaks in the distance.

A rocky outcrop with trees on top of it. A green slope behind, followed by distant hills.

Several hills covered by a dark green forest.

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

#AI take of the day: "our trusted password manager now accepts LLM contributions, so let's switch to a fork by a random person with an anime avatar and no real name in the profile!" Presented without a comment (because I cannot any more).

Meme with an alpaca screaming into the void

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

Blah-blah-blah. All right words, all wrong context. Neither of these qualities grow on trees. You get them by tinkering with things, researching things, changing things, failing and succeeding, and failing and succeeding again. You can use AI to get more […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

The consequential work belongs to engineers. Engineering has always been about more than writing code. Great engineers are problem solvers and builders who care about system design, distributed systems, reasoning through failures, safely integrating new capability into critical systems, and making decisions under ambiguity. These are exactly the skills the agentic era needs more of, especially as the volume of software increases. The supply of deep technical problems is multiplying, and the engineers who can solve them will be among the scarcest and most valuable talent in the market. Our core users’ roles are evolving, their importance is only increasing.

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

FFS I'm tired from reading takes like this (#gitlab). "Human in control" only works if you use AI as a fine tool: carefully and only when benefits are clear. For agentic development, it's bullshit company leaders tell each other to make their strategy seem […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Software will be built by machines, directed by people. AI is the substrate on which future software gets built. Agents will plan, code, review, deploy, and repair. Humans still own the judgment that matters most: architecture, deep understanding of the customer problem, the tradeoffs that require taste. This is why we built and released the Duo Agent Platform in January. Our first quarter adoption is promising, and we're ready to accelerate.

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

Meanwhile, my parents are still "enjoying" winter

View from above on a parking lot. All cars are covered by a decent layer of fresh snow.

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026

First trip to the #Alps in the summer season: the classic route from #Mittenwald to Lautersee and Ferchensee with fantastic views of Karwendel. It's quite easy by alpine standards and thus attracts a lot of people even in late April. On the bright side: beer […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Sunny day in the mountains. A green-blue lake in the foreground, a mountain range with numerous patches of snow visible from behind the trees.

Another lake, a bit grayish in color and a peak in shadows to the left of it.

View in the same direction as the first photo but from the lake on the second photo. Snowy peaks of Karwendel are barely visible behind the trees.

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026

#Fitness notes I've been a big fan of Decathlon's muscle gainer (essentially halfway between an actual gainer and a protein shake) for quite some time, but today I tried making it with 50/50 low-fat milk and filter coffee (!) instead of water and the result […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A packing of Muscle Gainer (Whey & Oats) with 36g protein per portion.

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026

#Bouldering vlog The finish of a long project! In the end, the secret was to come fresh and with some skin, and commit to squeezing the slopers for long enough to turn the foot. #climbing #klettern

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026

First summit of the year on Sunday: Großer Rachel in #BayerischerWald. Not technically challenging and not very tall with its 1453m - exactly what you need for early April. We did end up unpacking our spikes for the descent because of the spring snow. The […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Flat mountain top covered with snow with occasional pine trees poking through it

Panorama view from above over a forest landscape with snow visible between trees

A person on a dirt road looking into distance, where a valley and distant mountains are seen

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2026

#Bouldering vlog Funky acrobatic bloc. Not very hard to do once you understand what needs to be done (I had to watch some actually smart people do it). #climbing #klettern

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2026

#Bouldering vlog It's not always a success, even if my videos make it seem so 😆 Spent half of the session today on this incredibly cool boulder. I'm puzzled for now: should I somehow get out of the heel hook that is blocking me from moving the body to the […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2026

#Bouldering vlog The move doesn't mean that we stopped bouldering, only that I stopped making videos 😆 Our home gym is now Boulderwelt München-West in #Freiham, which seems to lean towards newstyle boulders. Here is a scary slab rated at round 6c. No video […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026

The snow storm today and tomorrow is expected to produce more snow than we got in the entire winter so far. It's already a winter wonderland in #Mürren (Bernese Alps), #Switzerland, but we preferred to leave skis in the apartment and explore it by foot for now. #MountainMonday

View from above on a snow covered town with a gondola and a ski slope right below.

Cloudy view of a distant valley covered in snow. A tree branch in the foreground also carries fresh snow.

A mountain chain with numerous patches of fresh snow against dark stone. Low hanging clouds keep producing more snow

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026

For #MountainMonday I got you views of ski resort #Grindelwald-First (part of #Jungfrau region in the Bernese apps) above and below the clouds. #Switzerland

View from above on a plateau covered with bright snow with a ski slope and a snow park in the middle of the shot. Behind it, rising from thick clouds, a few summits in the shadow.

View in the same direction but now underneath the cloud layer. The peaks are no longer visible but now you can see the valley with scattered buildings and patches of forest below.

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

Tranquility on Starnberger See. In the summer this area will be packed with people. #München #Bayern #Bavaria

A vast grey lake under low clouds. The lake is absolutely calm, only a few seagulls and ducks disturb its surface. A light blue strip of distant mountains is visible in the background.

The same lake but there is a white table with two cups of tea in the foreground. The cafe area is surrounded by fir trees remaining from Christmas, and there is a small artificial one on the table.

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

Arguably the best part of living here: there is a cat cafe downstairs! 😻 My sunglasses fell and broke, and the kittens immediately started playing with them. @ Katzentempel #Freiham #München

3 black-and-white kittens playing with a part of sunglasses under a black table. A black kitten is watching carefully.

A black-and-white kitten on a bench next to a backpack and a jacket is watching intensely someone Kira is out of the picture.

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026

Y'all: take public transportation, it's fast and easy Public transportation:

A screenshot from Google Maps that shows a bus trip from two stations located not too far apary. The bus makes a few loops all over the surroundings, calling at a dozen stops.

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026

Dream comes true: casually going on a hike in the mountains 😎 Easy track from #Eschenlohe to #Oberau. #München #Oberbayern #Alps #Wandern #hiking

Landscape under bright blue sky. In the middle - a river flowing left to right. In the foreground a field with a thin layer of snow. Mountain peaks in the background, Zugspitze is visible as a silhouette.

Half-swamp, half-lake: clean water and a lot of vegetation. A few trees in the back, hills behind them.

In a forest. A layer of pretty deep untouched snow shimmering in the sun with some shadows from the trees. Rigged mountain range with snow flecks in the background.

A shallow river in the bottom, the water is completely transparent. Then a long building in a snowy field. In the background a pyramid shaped peak standing out from a ridge. The left side has some snow on it.

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2026

Now it's official: we have moved to Munich!

A bright living room full of boxes to the half of its height

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025

Yes, I mean that. It's a war, and we cannot afford losing it.

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025

#Komoot is now incapable of opening one of just three things that really matter in their overbloated app: saved routes. Enormous success, I hope they add AI in the next revision.

A screenshot of the Komoot app: 4 large buttons. "Saved routes" and "Completed activities" have a spinner next to them.

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/11/2025

I'm fed up and ended up actually reporting this. For the year of Linux on desktop, let's stop harassing our users with obscure notifications. #Fedora #abrt

Today I, once again, got this bizarre notification from abrt:

A kernel problem occurred, but your kernel has been tainted (flags:GW). Explanation

W - Kernel issued warning

Kernel maintainers are unable to diagnose tainted reports

For 99% of your users it's just a word salad. What are they supposed to do with this? The only option is to delete the report, so why not just delete it yourself? (Many of the users, myself included, are also
wondering why kernel maintainers decided that these bugs are not worth their attention, but I understand being overloaded and not wishing more obscure reports.)

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2025

One of the main things that annoy me in the #Golang package ecosystem. A patch update of a dependency brings in a requirement of a new compiler version. What are the chances that #etcd folks sincerely believe they're following semver? The reason given is […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A screenshot from Github. A change bumps the etcd v3 client from 3.5.22 to 3.5.24, and that involves bumping Go to 1.24.

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2025

Central #Düsseldorf close to where I am now. "You shall not pass!"

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2025

Yesterday we had a fun competition in a local #bouldering gym! We fared... not so well 😆 I got 175 points out of 400 possible, which obviously wasn't enough for finals. Some lessons learned. While I had least been aware of rather weak fingers (that have […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A (still empty) competition form with a bouldering gym in the background.

The bouldering gym from above. It's now completely packed. Some people are in the middle of their routes, one guy has just topped out on an island to the left.

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

Are all Kompass guides so bad, or is Bergisches Land just too boring, or are my expectations entirely off? The main thing I want to know, especially outside of the most famous and spectacular regions, is where a certain tour is worth the travel to its […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Travel guide: Bergisches Land by Kompass.

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2025

New finger training setup for the home gym. I tried hanging these tools on the pull-up bar (as intended) but it feels rather awkward to train under body weight. #bouldering #climbing

A black pin with an eyelet, a wooden ball with a carabiner on a rope, a hexagonal fingerboard, also on a rope with a carabiner. A few black plates in the background.

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2025

Now that the main vacation season is over, we can use the remaining warm weather for relaxed #camping. A pretty minimal setup today. Enough for one night, we don't want to spend an hour assembling everything. Our favorite site near Afferden in the Netherlands.

A meadow mostly in the shadow covered by a large tarp. Under the tarp there is a rectangular mesh tent. In front of it are two camping chairs and a fabric table.

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2025

#Bouldering vlog I'm very happy with how this turned out. White difficulty is my "aspiration" level, and this route did not initially look doable: slopy volumes followed by nearly completely blocked crimps. The part leading to the third volume proved to be […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2025

#Bouldering vlog. A very productive session today (maybe because I eat well and a lot in the bulking phase of my weight training 😁), but not much to show on video. Here is a nice slab route. The first difficulty is the start, namely to realize that I didn't […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2025

A common problem with bloody computers: not actionable notifications and errors. Take this gem from Abrt in #Fedora. What the hell am I supposed to do with this notification? File a bug "my kernel got tainted, please help"? Has nobody on that team tried to […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Notification about unexpected system error. The package is kernel-core, the message is: A kernel problem occurred, but your kernel has been tainted. Explanation: W - Kernel issued warning. Kernel maintainers are unable to diagnose tainted reports.

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2025

#Book recommendation: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. 5/5 beautifully written, an absolute must if you like books that are both haunted and haunting. #BookLovers #bookstodon

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2025

For #MountainMonday, here are a few cloudy shots around Fellhorn from the last day of our trip to the #Allgäu. #hiking #Wandern #Germany

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Dmitry Tantsur @creepy-owlet.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2025

Delayed impressions from the hike on Wednesday. This was shorter but technically more challenging than the previous one, and also more diverse: from barren rocky terrain to farms with a mix of dirt and cow poo (a lot of it!).

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