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Jeff

@evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy
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Programmer, coastsider, artist, parent, all that stuff. 🌉 bridged from ⁂ sfba.social/@evilotto, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Robert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
Oh look. Police don't like it when they're tracked! Same reason why I keep saying let's give all Marginalized folks guns for free in my country and watch how fast gun control happens. www.jalopnik.com/2288078/man-diy-fl… #Privacy
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Man Creates DIY Flock-Style Cameras That Only Scan Police Plates And For Some Reason The Cops Are Annoyed By This
"I wanted to see whether it was feasible and use the irony to illustrate a point..."
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
I finally find the device uptime display and yeah, it's been up for 3 minutes. So presumably it had to apply updates and reboot to stick a chatbot in the help menu. 3/3
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
Maybe this is just a function of getting older, but when I hear "ABC state hasn't elected a Democrat in **20 years**!!" I'm like, that's not that long ago, my kids are that old. Yeah, definitely a function of getting older. #elections #old
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
sheesh, do electron apps just default to mallocing 1.5TB of memory? #linux #electron
screen grab of a few lines of 'top' output, showing Signal and Discord both with a virtual size of ~1400GB of memory.
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
Another outrageous, blatant disregard of a clear judicial order by the Trump regime. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/mo… As I’ve said before, this is a clear signal that the regime is prepared to violate any judicial order […]
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
Geometry in real life. The window grids line up when you look straight through, but it's a sliding window and they're an inch or so offset in depth. When the morning sun shines through at an angle, the shadows on the flat shade are now offset vertically. #geometry
a photo of a window shade with horizontal lines misaligned on the left and right sides.
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
I asked a trusted colleague for comments on a written document and they fed it in to chatGPT and sent me back that output and I just want to cry. Guess I won't be asking that person for help or advice on anything anymore. Enshittification happens in people's writing skills too, I guess. I also […]
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
@sundogplanets "Apologize", I.e., I'm sorry, I should have made it clear that I was looking for thoughtful feedback from a human I respect, not a bunch of words that approximate human language emitted by an algorithm that I do not respect at all.
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
@august Poetry Is just some prose That's misaligned In columns And rows
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
Fine, I'll make a second pizza.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Aww! And wow, 102! #RIP "Eva Marie Saint, Graceful Star of the Silver Screen, Dies at 102 She won an Oscar for her first film, 'On the Waterfront,' and sparkled opposite Cary Grant in 'North by Northwest.'"
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Eva Marie Saint, Graceful Star of the Silver Screen, Dies at 102
She won an Oscar for her first film, 'On the Waterfront,' and sparkled opposite Cary Grant in 'North by Northwest.'
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Disappointing vote at the San Mateo City Council meeting on expanding their contract with Axon: Let's jump on this generous offer to indiscriminately record our citizens and workers for the next 8 years without public input, but pinky promise to have a public session on it sometime in the next […]
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
An #AI training I had to complete recently included these 2 gems: "AI systems can produce incorrect information, commonly called hallucinations, because they were trained on incorrect or out of date information, so you should check the information and not rely on it." Not mentioned: they don't […]
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
apnews.com/article/florida-air-forc… Jury acquits Florida deputy that killed Black man. The deputy's lawyer blamed the victim. "Deputy Duran, himself, was also a victim of a terrible tragedy. He had followed his training." […]
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Are customer service people these days trained to repeat what was asked in a chat, or am I just talking to a chatbot? "I understand you're asking if customer service people these days are trained to repeat what they were asked in a chat, or if you are talking to a chatbot. Is that right?" […]
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Kristoffer Lawson @setok.attractive.space.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
RE: sfba.social/@evilotto/1173633484009… Actually it’s %Q (capital). Of course a capital Q. #Tcl also supports scanning them: % clock scan "Stardate 40000.3" 504940320 Though it’s a bit unclear what the logic is. From what I can tell it does not match with those in #StarTrek TNG […]
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
They may be no longer the cool kid on the block, but Sourceforge at least uses the #fediverse for their status page instead of Shitter. fosstodon.org/@sourceforgestatus@fo…
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Fosstodon
Fosstodon is an invite only Mastodon instance that is open to those who are interested in technology; particularly free & open source software. If you wish to join, contact us for an invite.
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
Well fuck, I guess they did deploy the new gen3 giant Starlinks without getting FCC approval. spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1…
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Spaceweather.com Time Machine
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
@sundogplanets Why bother getting approval when you can go ahead and do it anyway? What are they going to do, tell them to un-deploy these satellites?
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Daniel Gultsch @daniel.gultsch.social · 28/09/2026
RE: sciences.social/@annasdtc/117224123… Not everyone can or should self-host, but the technology that enables it—federation, open standards, and vendor independence—also allows cooperatives, municipalities, and community groups to run their own infrastructure […]
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
I wanna know who, in this day and age, drinks a 5oz "cup" of coffee? I put on my drip coffee maker (yes I'm an American and drink watery drip coffee) for 8 "cups" and I feel like I'm lucky to get 3 plus a splash to heat up a cup. Ok, any day and age I guess... I bet there's a long history of […]
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
Wanted a "Vote" sign. Have a "yes on 50" sign. The bear is cool. A little packing tape and construction paper and we're good to go! Early voting starts October 6th in California. #vote #california
A "don't poke the bear / Yes on prop 50" yard sign, with a grizzly bear holding a flag.  the flag has new lettering added saying 

Vote!
Early voting starts Oct 6th
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
"All the doors on this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition, It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done." It occurs to me that modern AI chatbots have #GPP, Genuine People Personalities. They cheer you on at every […]
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
The "everything Trump does is a calculated 4D chess move" theory reminds me of this classic SNL skit about a previous holder of that office. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5wfPlgKFh8
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
Coast guard rescue helicopter training at Pillar Point Harbor. #coastside #coastguard #PillarPointHarbor
orange Coast guard rescue helicopter hovering just offshore.  a diver can be seen just about to jump in.screenshot of adsb exchange showing the recent track of the helicopter, currently well within the harbor breakwater.
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
I've seen various posts complaining about RSS vs. Atom and how RSS means like 6 different things. I'm pretty sure the "RSS" feed linked on the meeting agenda from the Pacifica city council is none of those 6. And it has a xml header, but it has unencoded attributes, so a proper xml parser […]
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
Zeno's Chocolate chip cookie - I can never finish the cookie because I have to eat only half of the cookie, then half of what's left, and so on to infinity. #cookie #philosophy
one eighth of a large chocolate chip cookie.
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
It's a bit disconcerting hearing a speaker proudly state that they've "drunk the AI kool-aid." I wanted to ask if they remembered that the kool-aid was poison. #AI
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
on the plus side of ALPRs, due to writing a lot about them recently I can now spell "surveillance" correctly most of the time without using spell check. #alpr #flock #privacy
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
SO gave a half-hour presentation extolling the virtues of ALPRs that I would mostly describe as "everyone should be scared of criminals and we need these to protect you." They were also very professional and made a point of coming over and thanking all of us who spoke against the cameras for […]
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
Another win in the fight against mass surveillance. www.coastsidenews.com/news/half-moo… #flock #alpr #privacy
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
@daniel I've been a fan of XMPP for a while, since not too long after it escaped from being jabber. The thing that attracted me the most is that it is decentralized, which to me means that it is organized around small communities and especially that I can build and control my own instance for […]
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
In response to a poster who is not concerned with Flock cameras because there are already security cameras in banks, gas stations, and elsewhere that we are not as concerned about, I offered this explanation and analogy: Security cameras take video or pictures that are time indexed, meaning it […]
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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
Astronomers spent decades designing the Square Kilometre Array Low (SKA-Low) to hear the faintest whisper in the observable universe — neutral hydrogen signals from the cosmic dawn, when the first stars flickered on roughly 13 billion years ago. What they’re picking up instead is electronic […]
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
@mattblaze @heidilifeldman Trump and his merry band of election meddlers understand this very well. They only need to disrupt things once, and then they have fodder to make outrageous claims and use it as a pretext to grab more power for a long time afterwards.
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Classic warning sign: "You are being monitored" But why is the stick figure waving a kitchen sink over their head? #signs #technology
a warning sign showing two stick figures, one waving a large boxy object over their head threateningly.  caption is "you are being monitored"
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Daniel Gultsch @daniel.gultsch.social · 14/09/2026
I wrote a blog post reflecting on Jabber/XMPP, whether it’s ready for wider adoption, and how we actually get there. gultsch.de/posts/how-do-we-gain-tra…
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Jabber/XMPP: How Do We Gain Traction?
Signal Sucks, Actually When I first installed Signal in the second half of 2023 to stay in touch with a few friends who had recently switched, it did not support message edits. This completely broke the way I used instant messengers. At that point, editing messages was a widely deployed feature across other instant messaging clients. Conversations had supported it since February 20161 and I had acquired a habit of typing a message, sending it, and only then reading it again and checking for typos. The lack of such an essential feature caused me to send incomprehensible messages, making the app almost unusable for me. Signal forced me to adapt and change my habits.
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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
If you see ads pointing you to votesafe.org to check your voter registration, read this first. VoteSafe is run by America PAC, Elon Musk's super PAC. It is not a government site. Its own footer says "Paid for by America PAC." It also doesn't register anyone. The flow ends by telling you to […]
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
Holocaust survivors were asked, “What could have stopped Hitler?" They ALL gave the same answer: ORDINARY PEOPLE. 1. “We waited for it to get bad enough.” 2. “We underestimated how fast normal could change.” 3. “We trusted respectable people to draw the line […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
No one worried when the refrigerator broke, but it was the first strike in the cyber-wars. signalandsilence.substack.com/p/i-t… #iot #security #foodinsecurity
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I Think the Military Commissary Freezers Were Hacked
The frozen pizza aisle has become the national security risk du jour
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
@sundogplanets I don't know how well it would work on peaches, with the larger pit and more texture. The one I have worked well with the plums that looked like the ones in your bucket.
Westmark plum stoner boxback of box with photos showing operation
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
@sundogplanets If this will be a regular problem, I highly recommend investing in a plum stoner. So much easier than pitting with a knife, so much less plum-stained fingers.
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
News headline: "Hundreds show up to judge New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani" Seriously, wth?! He's a popular mayor, listening to the people, and the media can't help but vilify him for .. Full headline: "Hundreds show up to judge New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani look-alike contest" Oh, ah […]
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
@heidilifeldman The court doesn't even need to explicitly give trump the greenlight. They can just leave the temporary ruling in place while calling it temporary, and delay a final ruling one way or the other until it's too late. This court has certainly shown willingness to delay to get the […]
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
[Uspol, lies] Trump claims that reports of US negotiators calling French language content on streaming services a trade irritant are a lie. That means it's absolutely true. #trumplies #uspol #canada
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I hate agreeing with this.
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
‼️‼️‼️ #SCOTUS cleared the way for #Trump to move ahead with his executive order restricting #MailVoting, though it remains unclear how much his admin can implement before the #midterm #elections. The decision appears to leave room for additional court challenges that could further slow Trump’s […]
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Jeff @evilotto.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026
I think this is pretty funny, kind of a first cousin to the Satanic Temple's kids coloring book. Laws actually apply to everyone! "The protesters said they had to describe their genitalia to officers — an exchange that lasted roughly 20 minutes." […]
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
I can't even adequately explain the rollercoaster of emotions I go through looking at these tourist astronaut websites. I always wanted to be an astronaut, I love scifi. These photos of people freaking out about seeing Earth from orbit, experiencing liftoff, doing all the training... DAMN I want […]
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