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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 05/10/2026

today in tech infra work: can someone please explain the concept of significant digits to AWS?

A table of instance stats from AWS. It reads:

Network performance [sort arrow pointing down]
Up to 12500 Megabit

Up to 12500 Megabit

Up to 12500 Megabit

Up to 15 Gigabit

Up to 15 Gigabit

15 Gigabit

22500 Megabit

30 Gigabit

30 Gigabit

Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 29/09/2026

@glyph Only the ones who are actually capable at it. The bad-to-mediocre ones just fail to delegate and take on too much work, and get rewarded for being mediocre while everyone else does "terribly" because they have nothing else to do

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Glyph @glyph.im · 29/09/2026

RE: wandering.shop/@phildini/1173552092… hell yeah let's bring some of that "but how can we possibly afford it" energy to the concept of cops. if you care about budget discipline we cannot afford to have cops, and now we have the data to prove it.

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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 29/09/2026

@glyph and in my experience, the people who _want_ to be the overall best-executing individuals generally aren't good people to work with

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Glyph @glyph.im · 29/09/2026

The thing that most helped me develop this outlook and let go of utilitarianism was building teams. Tech is obsessed with getting the smartest, best programmers onto a team. But the reality is that you cannot be The Most Programmer. Programming is a skill that (like all skills, really) is […]

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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 29/09/2026

This is quite possibly the biggest landmark in US political advertising I've seen in my lifetime. No I won't tell you why, just watch it. www.youtube.com/shorts/dr1KS5JepLA

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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 29/09/2026

@Unixbigot does flogging it the first time not help?

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Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dear Bluesky - A million years ago I found a figure on how much it costs the US Army in retraining every time Microsoft changes office. It was a great number, but that bookmark was like three computers ago. Have any of you seen it?

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robinhouston @robinhouston.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

For my birthday, my brother-in-law gave me a 4992-digit hex number that, when used as a seed for Python’s random number generator, makes it so that printing a sequence of “random” ASCII characters actually prints a birthday greeting. I find it rather amazing that this is possible! This is the […]

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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 26/09/2026

Being an immigrant means choosing who in your life you're physically proximate to. Most of the time, for me, that's been an easy choice. Now, for the next foreseeable future, there's people who need me, on both sides of a quite wide ocean, and I suspect I'm going to crossing quite a lot over […]

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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 22/09/2026

RE: ngmx.com/@pathunstrom/1173112158868… Consider submitting to a nonlocal conference as well. They can often have financial support for speakers.

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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 21/09/2026

RE: cloudisland.nz/@daisy/1173056265918… Every chance this is the CFP that you are also procrastinating over! Now's your chance!

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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 18/09/2026

things I could give a 5-hour talk on with prep, or a 60-minute talk with no prep: how and actually why airfares are perverse and impenetrable

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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 18/09/2026

STUPID AIRLINE TICKET SHIT I HAVEN'T HAD TO THINK ABOUT IN 10 YEARS BUT DO NOW: Alaska now book all of their round-trip tickets with round-trip fares. These cost the same as booking individual one-way, but if you cancel the return leg, your ticket is rebooked as a one-way fare ON THE DAY YOU […]

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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 18/09/2026

RE: fosstodon.org/@pybeach/117282739535… look! it's me! a real person, giving a real talk about a real Python feature! exciting!

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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 16/09/2026

RE: toot.community/@yvanspijk/117281092… for anyone else wondering why Pennsylvania Dutch is a German dialect and not a Dutch dialect:

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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@gedeonm/1172763948… My "I am not complicit" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions that are already answered by my t-shirt

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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 15/09/2026

RE: fosstodon.org/@ThePSF/1172762031684… so proud to have helped get this over the line over the last few months

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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 15/09/2026

Congratulations to those elected and re-elected to @ThePSF's board. It's an often thankless job, successes take months or years to deliver, but are so important for the community. I'm glad y'all have stepped up. The Foundation's in good hands. My time is up for now, but looking back, I got to […]

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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 14/09/2026

RE: tldr.nettime.org/@tante/11726935770… Last year I gave a talk about how Open Source has always been terrible at creating consequences for not following social contracts (www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsbUzGailCw); and also how moneyed interests are great at creating their own […]

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Omarchy is part of new fascism. But it's also a good case study about how little political resilience is built into FLOSS: The libertarian roots have not only made the whole movement ready for the taking by corporations but also by fascists. And sadly many influential organizations in that […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 11/09/2026

GOOD THING WE DON'T HAVE ANY MORE OF THOSE AROUND TODAY bsky.app/profile/eb99.bsky.social/p… h/t @sarahjeong.bsky.social

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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 02/09/2026

DOES APPEAR THAT PG&E SPRINKLED SOME DESICCATED UNRELIABILITY OVER THEIR POWER LIES OVER THE SUMMER

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Glyph @glyph.im · 30/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@iris_meredith/1171… An absolute banger. Such good writing that I am literally angry because Iris made some of the points I have been struggling to make for months, and she made them much better than I was going to. Read it, read the whole thing, make […]

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

if your opinions are actually good, people don't call your software "opinionated", they just describe it as "excellent" mas.to/@swelljoe/116382321356370995

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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 27/08/2026

@glyph how unusual for a popular terminal-based editor to have and dig into actively problematic associations

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North Bay Python @fedi.northbaypython.org · 27/08/2026

the ink is dry but chris has to get a day of work in before he can write an email and updating a website so feel free to pencil in june 19 and 20! back in summer (but in a venue with proper insulation) so you can enjoy more of downtown petaluma. we're excited.

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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 26/08/2026

@oscherler @SnoopJ @glyph @chrisjrn.fyi Yup, and indeed, Melbourne (Australia) is the only place I've seen a Bixi/Lyft/Citi/Boris Bikes program entirely fail. They wouldn't lift the mandatory helmet laws.

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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 26/08/2026

RE: fosstodon.org/@pybeach/117163275642… It's me! Come see me in Santa Monica in October, doing a basic, non-introspective, boring-ass technical talk for once. Balm for the soul after this year, I tell you.

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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 26/08/2026

@glyph @SnoopJ right. My view (and has been for a long time) is that any law that gets in the way of people deciding not to drive is probably a bad one

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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 26/08/2026

I just requested a redline on a contract because "[an perverse incentive] seems quite silly" I hope my argument was convincing.

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Christopher Neugebauer @chrisjrn.fyi · 26/08/2026

contribution to bike helmet discourse: Bike helmets are a great individual health tool because they stop you from getting brain injury Mandatory bike helmet laws are a bad public health tool because while they increase the number of journeys on modes of transit that make cycling unsafe (wheeeeee)

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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 26/08/2026

@glyph the cynic's view of public health: someone you know dying is a tragedy, one person out of a population dying is a statistic 🙃

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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 26/08/2026

remembering for the first time in a while that the 45RPM single version of Jolene sounds great and very very very different at 33RPM

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Christopher Neugebauer @chrisjrn.fyi · 26/08/2026

OK I hope there's some availability on an upcoming launch www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Sq... (RIP Tim curry)

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Tim Curry is escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism.

YouTube video by geoff EXE

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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 26/08/2026

RE: connectified.com/@masukomi/11715033… file under A for "people I have clocked as autistic without any other evidence"

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Matt Boyd @3psboyd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

I saw a pretty major contributor to Rust projects making the case for LLMs being used in programming, and one of the things they liked is that you can ask it all the technical questions you want without feeling embarrassed, and what an indictment of the work culture of software engineering that is.

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grudgey mcgrudgerson @honkifyouareantifa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

with alt text "Reacher is autistic... his special interest is fucking up bad guys."

This review makes Reacher sound more interesting than any of its advertising does, tbh.

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I used to think Jack Reacher was simply the apotheosis of the military badass archetype: exceptionally well-trained, preposterously competent, violently allergic to bullshit, and possessed of the sort of laconic self-assurance that comes from knowing that virtually every interpersonal disagreement can, if necessary, be resolved by throwing someone through drywall.

Then I actually watched the show with Terra here in Colombia and the entire character abruptly became clear. Alan Richtsons portrayal is spot on.

Reacher is autistic.

The man owns exactly one outfit. He has systematized his diet. He regards small talk as an annoying tax imposed upon human communication. He answers rhetorical questions with the grave sincerity of someone correcting an error in a technical manual.

Women can flirt with him so aggressively that nearby wildlife begins displaying courtship behavior, and Reacher will continue discussing ballistics because that is the subject currently under consideration.

He doesn't own a house. He barely owns possessions. His preferred organizational system appears to be nothing can become clutter if you own literally fucking nothing.

He encounters some obscure technical detail and immediately produces a twelve-minute dissertation on military logistics, forensic pathology, regional bus schedules, or the precise tensile properties of whatever object he's about to beat someone unconscious with.

And then I realized the most important part. Jack Reacher DOES have a special interest.

Unfortunately for the bad guys, his special interest is fucking up bad guys.

That's the whole franchise.

A six-foot-five, 250-pound autistic man wanders into town, notices that something is not as it is supposed to be, and becomes constitutionally incapable of leaving until he has identified the discrepancy, reconstructed the entire criminal conspiracy from first principles, and beaten everyone responsible to death with the nearest piece of civic infrastructure.

#Reacher #autismawareness #autismacceptance

#television #amazonfinds

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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 24/08/2026

Missing out on #PyConAU for the first time this year: the combination of 4 months of unemployment and _quite a lot of life_ this year has made making the journey just a tad harder to justify. Hope it's a good one, and see you all next year (hopefully)!

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Christopher Neugebauer @chrisjrn.fyi · 24/08/2026

Got a new Thunderbolt 5 dock to handle my Thunderbolt 5-capable work MacBook and is two attached monitors (which it can drive natively! omg!) For the first time ever, I've needed an actual Intel-certified cable for a Thunderbolt device to keep a stable connection. Weird. Expensive.

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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 22/08/2026

@Andres4NY @skinnylatte it's been a revelation. I'm really hoping that by the next time we replace everything, a common refrigerant line will be feasible, so we can just move heat around, rather than wasting energy running multiple heat pumps

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