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Mike P

@fentiger.wtf
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I first showed up here while experimenting with decentralised/distributed social media software. A few real-life friends are starting to show up now, though. Hmm. AKA @FenTiger on the Fediverse, or Wrongfellow in a few other places.

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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 29/09/2026
Has it escaped containment?
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 29/09/2026
Remember, you should never try to eat a PDS, unless you're 100% sure you know what species it is.
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 28/09/2026
...by an account less than a day old, with two followers, one of which is a bot that follows everyone. I wouldn't take that too seriously.
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Min @minneyar.fuzzyfox.social · 28/09/2026
This comes off as a joke, but I seriously think a *lot* of this comes from people who were raised on movies and cartoons that depicted sci-fi robots as sentient beings and believe genAI is the same thing instead of just a very convincing chatbot.
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 27/09/2026
Ruby on Rusty Rails? ;)
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 27/09/2026
Yay! I get to try out my shiny new armour!
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 27/09/2026
It's not real rain until you need SCUBA gear.
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 26/09/2026
I'm on the paleo diet. I show up with a spear and a live woolly mammoth.
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 25/09/2026
this seems like a real issue w/ the design of atproto in its present form tbh. i really don't want all my accounts to be entangled with my social media such that if the mods don't appreciate my tone i effectively no longer exist on all the other apps in the ecosystem
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 25/09/2026
My toilet includes an AI system to shut the water off when the cistern gets full.
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 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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ewan @ewancroft.uk · 23/09/2026
Websites are cool. Make one. Carve out your own space on the internet.
blog.ewancroft.uk
You Should Make a Website
I grew up on an internet that mostly asked me to make accounts. It took me until seventeen to realise I could make a place instead.
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 23/09/2026
The average lifespan of a Nazgûl is over 4000 years. "One-Minute George" was an outlier and should not be counted.
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 21/09/2026
You could use it as a test for proton decay, too. Put a rock or something in there for 1 decillion years, and see what's left when it opens.
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 21/09/2026
God help us all if the Mouth of Sauron sets up a group chat. ;)
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 21/09/2026
People are getting pretty quick at making new challenges. I'm imagining players just sitting there clicking reload until the battle finishes... ;)
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 21/09/2026
In a mathematical context, "normal" often means "completely perpendicular to everything else"...
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 20/09/2026
It's not a nap unless it's from the Napoli region of Italy. Anything else is just a sparkling snooze.
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 20/09/2026
Have you read the Final Architecture books? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fin... I loved these. He's got a great sense of humour in places.
en.wikipedia.org
The Final Architecture - Wikipedia
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 20/09/2026
Oh, look, a systemic issue. I will SHOOT IT!
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 18/09/2026
Saying "load-bearing" should always be gated on context-appropriateness.
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 18/09/2026
I sometimes wonder if we should switch to a model where you only pay for your journey _after_ the train has arrived.
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 18/09/2026
We're only going for walls and a door in the MVP. We'll put the roof on in phase 2 once we've made the initial sale.
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 16/09/2026
"Dunlending" always sounds like it should be some kind of retirement home for investment bankers.
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 14/09/2026
The waking trees? Easy one. Just sneak up on them while they're asleep.
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 14/09/2026
Self-hosting Mastodon be like...
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 13/09/2026
We stupidly left the room on our own, and slammed the door behind us on our way out ...
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 13/09/2026
My new CPU design has two registers: one to hold the zero bits, and another to hold the 1s.
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 13/09/2026
I just noticed the new chat command. So these battles are being triggered by players? I thought at first that they were random.
The command "who" gets a response: "A skirmish is already underway between ⚔️ Gondor and ⚔️ the Black Númenóreans. Check back after 9:30pm UTC (~8h) to issue a challenge."
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 12/09/2026
"Inside you there are two wolves." *full moon comes out* "Inside each of you there is half a human."
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 11/09/2026
Nothing can travel at the speed of light ... not even light. Bit paradoxical, innit? ;)
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 11/09/2026
Today's job: Trying to explain to hardware engineers that the customer can boot up the machine first and only plug in the cable afterwards. Shockingly, they can even unplug the cable and then plug in a different one! Who'd have thought such #witchcraft could occur? #Ethernet #FPGA #BangHeadHere
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 10/09/2026
Just get a can of Balrog food out of the cupboard. They can hear it from a mile away.
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 08/09/2026
I had an actual plan for a bit, but I rolled a 1 and lost it. :(
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 08/09/2026
I have a cost-optimised version of this in which I give you $0.01 ;)
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 04/09/2026
I vote for Jerry as the 39th most influential poster on Bluesky.
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 04/09/2026
The 39th most influential poster is going to be very disappointed.
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 04/09/2026
I heard that it comes with this kind of board, of keys, which you can press to make words appear on the screen. It sounds truly revolutionary!
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 03/09/2026
I hear that the One Ring is known for slipping from its bearer's grasp... ;)
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 03/09/2026
So your stolen carrot has been ... stolen? Soon someone will show up with a twice-stolen carrot. ;)
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 03/09/2026
How about a tiered system like a football league, where the best posters get promoted and the worst get relegated?
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 02/09/2026
How's that meant to be pronounced? It looks like it should be somewhere between "stink" and "extinct". Surely that can't be what their marketing department had in mind.
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 01/09/2026
Of course this is gated on how many times you use the term "gated".
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Sam Goto @sgo.to · 01/09/2026
@thisismissem.social @divy.zone and I recently went through an exploration of how the browser can help you login to websites with atproto accounts. We recently presented to the FedID CG and here is a sneak peek in case you couldn't join! This is early but we'd love your input before we go too far!
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 01/09/2026
I'll have to use this with my boss. "What are you working on right now?" "Unspecified initiatives."
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 31/08/2026
And for repudiable signatures? ;)
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 31/08/2026
They're MY leaves! ;)
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 31/08/2026
I just gave this a try. I see the same thing, but I can get it to work if I set a non-default User-Agent, ie curl -H "User-Agent: foobar/baz" mu.social/oauth-client...
mu.social
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Mike P @fentiger.wtf · 30/08/2026
But I have some leaves! My leaves will defeat your parchment. ;)
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Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh · 30/08/2026
all I know about the data center debate is that being dogmatically “pro” or “anti” are equally untenable and intellectually lazy positions to hold. the real work of organizing labor power and local community agency is happening in the big messy middle. only the trolls engage at the polar opposites.
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