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Mike P @fentiger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

They say it could be thousands of years before one of the new leap hours is needed. This means XKCD #2347 will need an update. #XKCD #Time #LeapSecond #LeapHour

An edited XKCD cartoon showing that "All Modern Digital Infrastructure" rests on top of "A project some random person in Nebraska used to maintain 1500 years ago".

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Mike P @fentiger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

They say it could be thousands of years before one of the new leap hours is needed. This means XKCD #2347 will need an update. #XKCD #Time #LeapSecond #LeapHour

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Mike P @fentiger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

When did this new term "#security #posture" start to become popular? I can't hear it without picturing something like this. #business #jargon

Cartoon image of a manly security guard proudly displaying his muscles.

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Mike P @fentiger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

When did this new term "#security #posture" start to become popular? I can't hear it without picturing something like this. #business #jargon

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Mike P @fentiger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

An unexpected bonus of the AI revolution: Sometimes it is useful to give your idiot coworkers enough rope to hang themselves. Today, #GenAI is capable of producing huge quantities of rope, at a very high speed.

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Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

A great deal of work is being done by folks like @goto and @thisismissem to support a decentralized login experience in the browser that's on par with the closed-system status quo. notes.erlend.sh/3mpodece2qk2g The fediverse can be a part of this by adopting the OAuth+FedCM (and […]

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Mike P @fentiger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Translation: "Maybe you'd consider eating something that's not on the brink of extinction?"

A sign on a supermarket shelf reads:

"Where's my mackerel gone?

There's no easy way to say this: mackerel's been overfished and no longer meets our strict responsible sourcing standards. So we've swapped it for just-as-tasty alternatives."

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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 14/09/2026

Self-hosting Mastodon be like...

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Mike P @fentiger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Today's job: Trying to explain to hardware engineers that it is possible for the customer to boot up the machine first and only plug in the cable afterwards. Shockingly, it is even possible for them to unplug the cable and then plug in a different one! Who'd have thought such #witchcraft could […]

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Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Has anyone written a "things developers misunderstand about probabilities" guide?

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Mike P @fentiger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Today's job: Try to understand some documentation that assumes I already know all the things it's trying to tell me. At least I'm getting paid to do this. #BangHeadHere

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Mike P @fentiger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Some interesting rumbles and flashes coming from the sky... Storm incoming! #feniverse

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Mike P @fentiger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Interesting to find that the National Disposable Barbecue Alert goes quiet if you take a screenshot of it. I think this idea could usefully be applied to social media, too.

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Licho @licho.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

I've put 18°C PCM (sodium sulfate+table salt in water with thickening agent) package in a hat. It cools my brain now. Can I be overclocking with that kind of CPU cooling? #solarpunk #pcm #lifehack #chemistry #phasechange #phasechangematerial

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Mike P @fentiger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

Somehow I've managed to get a bit of stock cube in my coffee. I have no idea how, but I can tell from the taste. I think I actually quite like it.

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silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

The NomadPub intro page now includes a "Research" section: codeberg.org/ap-next/ap-next/src/br… I listed the most important open research problems there: key management (alt-DIDs), alternative transports, E2EE and generic servers. #NomadicIdentity

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David Penfold :verified: @davep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

A fortune teller told me I'd suffer devastating heartbreak in 15 years' time so I got a puppy to cheer myself up.

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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

RE: indieweb.social/@tchambers/11675522… I've long thought #chatbots are the perfect #disinformation delivery vehicle. Tim Chambers and Will Robinson have the proof that this is so, based on a recent election. This may not even be intentional at this point, but it's bad […]

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Mike P @fentiger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

Bloody thunderstorm just rebooted my dev server. Note to self: Must buy new battery for UPS. On the bright side: Woohoo! Thunderstorm!

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Mike P @fentiger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026

Oh no! RADICAL LEFT TERRORISTS have INFILTRATED my home town! ;) #Ely #feniverse

A sticker on a bus stop reads: "We will never look away. Gaza will live."

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Mike P @fentiger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

It's Pride Month, so here's some WOKE ribbon cable. ;)

A reel of IDC (ribbon) cable. This isn't the normal boring grey kind - it's coloured according to the resistor colour code.

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Mike P @fentiger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

@saskia One of the worst things you can do with technology is to get too excited about it.

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Mike P @fentiger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

Right now I'm honestly feeling very grateful towards Domino's Pizza for setting a minimum delivery amount. If they hadn't done this, I wouldn't have a substantial stockpile of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, and I'd be feeling a lot less comfortable right now. #heatwave

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Mike P @fentiger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026

@jerry Hand wringing is so inefficient. These days it's better to automate your wringing using AI.

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Ky @ky.fyi · 14/05/2026

obsessed with this US department of agriculture zine about snail farming from 1986 openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/c...

Drawing of a snail on the soil. Drawing of a snail in the soil.

The text “see what snails eat at night” above two people observing plants under a crescent moon.

Each pen you build must also keep the snails safe from their enemies.
Snails have many enemies.
You must be careful to protect them from
• mice and rats
• shrews and moles
• walking insects that live on the ground such as ants and beetles
• slugs and other snails that eat snail meat
• birds that eat snails
• frogs and toads
• thieves

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Mike P @fentiger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

Starting the long and arduous journey to #CambridgeBeerFestival. (Well, sort of arduous. Just a little bit.)

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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

Another big boat in Leith. For a sense of scale, observe the light house in the first few shots, and perhaps the people under the yellow hook on the deck, in the later shots. This is the Seaway Alfa Lift, and it’s picking up bits of wind turbine to be […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Looking along a shoreline towards the rear end of an enormous heavy-lifter ship featuring a gigantic crane. In the bottom right of the frame is a tiny silhouetted lighthouse in the foreground, dwarfed by the huge ship behind.

People look across a stretch of water towards a ship in the distance. On the deck of the ship we can see a raised platform on which several people inspecting the bottom of a large house-shaped crane hook, dangling from an unseen crane high above. The hook is bright yellow, and painting on the side indicates it can lift 3,000 tons.

One end of a huge crane ship dwarfs a small light house, in the foreground. The clouds are heavy with cloud but sun is shining on the light house and part of the ship. The enormous crane looms in the shade of a cloud, high above.

Zooming in on part of the crane on an enormous floating heavy lifter vessel. It’s all cable and drums and trusses and girders, and it’s so big that a sense of scale is hard to grasp. Occasionally if you peer very close you’ll notice a flight of stairs, and there are some windows and doorways if you look closely enough. Vast.

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Mike P @fentiger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026

Translation: "We like you a bit, but not enough to give you a pay rise" ;)

An "AMD Spotlight Award" for Q1 2026, which consists of a silver hexagon which attaches magnetically to a black plastic base.

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Mike P @fentiger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026

Another morning, another #AI #slop pull request to review. Sigh...

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

come to think of it, i've never tasted ATP before. i wonder if i could taste ATP. i wonder what it tastes like i don't have the right taste receptors to do it _properly_ but i'd absolutely lick pure ATP powder

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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/03/2026

I'm super hyped to announce that Bluesky Socal PBC has given me a grant to work on the Federated Credential Management (or FedCM) standards to make them really work for all decentralized web applications. This is why I stepped up to be an Invited Expert with the W3C FedID Working Group earlier […]

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Mike P @fentiger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

First meeting of the day. Title: "Review Software Test Plan". Actual topic of meeting: "Review this thing my LLM spat out, which looks a bit like a software test plan, but completely fails to include any details of how we actually do things, or even what the project is about." #AI #LLM […]

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 25/02/2026

free software folks: what design/org patterns are there for publishing community software to mainstream app stores these days? eg, is there an umbrella org/institution that publishes free software apps to the app stores, on behalf of community projects? could be an org like ASF. I'm not […]

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Mike P @fentiger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026

@whitequark My project at work right now will ship with Vivado, and my job for this afternoon is to add the licence checking to it. Can I borrow some of your noises? I promise they won't be too dirty when you get them back.

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Mike P @fentiger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026

Customer: "Hey, we found a bug in your stuff. Here's a .pcap which triggers it. Can you fix it?" Us: "Sure, we fixed it, and we added your .pap as a test case!" <repeat several times> <years elapse> Me: "This .pcap looks like a capture from a live network. Are we sure we're don't have […]

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silverpill @silverpill.mitra.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026

In previous years, I published two "fediverse tech roadmap" posts: - Fediverse tech roadmap 2024 - Fediverse tech roadmap 2025 However, I didn't publish such post this year because not much has happened in 2025. Many problems I talked about require complex solutions, but unfortunately proposed […]

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