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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14h

What it's like to be a @pidgin developer... Needing/having way too many accounts... #Pidgin #OpenSource #IRC

A screen shot of gamja showing that I have 4 distinct clients connected to libera.chat.

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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14h

[Execution Uspol] Spicy Take: While I would never push for it myself, I'm kinda glad that such a disgusting and unpopular President is pushing to Livestream the execution by firing squad of a helpless handicapped man. When we do capital punishment behind closed doors and with a sterile "we […]

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Best potato harvest so far. This is my second year trying to grow potatoes. #Gardening

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Just found a new issue to add to my #XMPP beef... It turns out coyim is using the @pidgin logo in their DOAP file. According to blame, it was added 11 months ago, but I just now noticed it on xmpp.org/software/?category=clients. Surely others have seen it and chose to do nothing. Rather […]

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lea @lea.ordinary.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

If you/your project is affected by DigitalOcean stopping their OSS credits program, please shoot me a PM immediately. Might be able to help. Boosts for visibility would be appreciated. #foss #linux

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I literally just had an I Love Lucy level of Murphy's Law happen to me... I was making a cup of easy mac and did some dishes as it was in the microwave. As it finished I went to pick it up and bring it to the counter. Somehow i managed to spill it on my hand and the floor which caused me to […]

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

The "thread speed limit" on lobsters is really annoying when trying to field questions. Good thing I'm not trying to do an AMA... #Pidgin #OpenSource #Lobsters

An error message from lobsters stopping me from replying to fast that reads

1 error prohibited this comment from being saved

There were the problems with the following fields:

Comment Thread speed limit reached, next comment allowed in 1 minute.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

It's officially official, #DigitalOcean supports the #Fascists and has given up on #OpenSource at large.

Any email from the Digital Ocean Open Source Creditors Coordinator that reads...
Hello,

We’re reaching out to share an important update regarding the DigitalOcean Open Source Credits Program.

DigitalOcean has decided to sunset the Open Source Credits Program. As part of this change, we are no longer accepting new credit applications or approving credit renewals, extensions, or additional credit requests.

If you currently have Open Source Credits that have already been granted, those credits will continue to be honored according to their existing terms and conditions. No action is required for your existing credit allocation.

Additionally, the dedicated inbox for the Open Source Credits Program will stop being monitored as part of this transition. For any further questions or assistance, please submit your inquiries through our standard support channel: https://www.digitalocean.com/company/contact/support

We appreciate your participation in the DigitalOcean Open Source Credits Program and the work you do to support the open source community. Thank you for being part of the program.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@Sarahp/11736187937… The joke is on reddit... AI bots don't use APIs and will scrape regardless...

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Weirdest thing is happening right now.. Any control characters, arrows, home, end, etc are not working in the mastodon input box.. They work in the same browser yet, so seems to be a mastodon problem :-/ #Mastodon #Bugstodon

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

The triage is real... With the inevitable removal of GTK2 form Distros/Package Manager next year I've taken a very hostile stance on any bugs/feature requests for Pidgin 2 and in doing so have been closing _many_ issues. Last week we still had something like […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A screen shot of our issue tracker showing that the open issue count is down to 400.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

RE: ciberlandia.pt/@hackersbot/11732180… This could be funny to show when banning someone on stream... But then again, it might encourage people to get banned and then send unban requests which is way more crap than I want to deal with...

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

RE: mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/1173148509… I went to update my build agent just to discover it's actually running NetBSD 11 😅

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

@grimmy @pidgin Petition to change one of these to "that's a paddlin"

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I am by no means a keyboard junkie but I got this idea this weekend and it turned out pretty well minus the bad led placement causing partial diffusion. #keyboards #rgb

My keyboard with translucent key caps with my streaming lights on.

My keyboard with translucent key caps with my streaming lights off.

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

We’ll know they’re serious about slowing down on AI when the price of solid state memory drops back down.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Anyone know who to contact at #fastly about their #FastForward program? I applied a LONG time ago but didn't have a chance to actually do anything so I reapplied on 2026-08-31 and haven't heard anything back yet. Maybe I just need to be more patient, but I don't want to promote this at all […]

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Myk @notsle.kzoo.to.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

oh this is fun. Who wants to go first? #ssh #itmeme #humor

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

RE: thicc.horse/@and/117293289884500133 Didn't expect to have to watch out for a compiled backdoor in GCC, but it is 2026 so any and all horrible things seems to be not only on the table but advocated for... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdoor_(com…

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

America, a failed state... Took less than 4 months for me to be priced out of one of diabetes medication (mounjaro). Luckily I don't need insulin, but I was paying $25 a month for it, and now with my insurance it's $160, but if I use my Lilly discount card it's $283. Either way, I can't […]

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

[USA Nonsense] I'm so tired of having to jump through hoops to get a fair pricing. I'm on mounjaro for diabetes. I was paying $25 a month for it and yesterday and it was $300+. Apparently I was automatically enrolled in some maintenance prescription plan that required me to use CVS or do a 90 […]

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pchestek @pchestek.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

The thing I will be most happy about with the collapse of the AI bubble is all of the landscape I will regain on my vendor platforms interfaces when they don't push their AI solution (to problems I don't have) at the top of the page, obscuring the features I actually need and use

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Today's haul so far. Checking potatoes next 😳 #gardening

A big tray of vegetables from my garden that I harvested today

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kat cosgrove @kat.lol · 09/09/2026

Man why are all these well-loved tech companies so desperate to give their money to Mr Kill All Immigrants in exchange for his dotfiles

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Greetings Programs!! We're back tonight working on @pidgin 3.0 Alpha 3, which is, holy crap, just over 3 weeks out... Better get something worth while in there before then!! Come on by! twitch.tv/rw_grim youtube.com/@rw_grim #Pidgin #OpenSource #Streaming

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Developing Pidgin Universal Chat Client | www.pidgin.im | Streaming software and game development.

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Jason Parker (he/they) @handle.invalid · 06/09/2026

Those creatures at the bottom of the ocean sure have it made. They're unreachable by humanity.

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@violetblue/1172052… Great writeup, there's a few in here that are new to me that I need to take a look at!

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

As someone who determined their own diagnosis after 5 years of worthless medical treatments, including an exploratory surgery, this is infuriating... If you don't want to listen to your patients, stop pretending you want to help them […]

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

HEY, RETRO FOLKS! Are YOU going to #vcf #vcfmw #vcfmw2026 ? The wonderful Y2K said I could share a table with him to show off #CGHMN this year! I'll probably just bring an old XP machine and my little PowerBook G4 so I don't take up too much space. But I'm excited to meet folks!

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@itsfoss/1171895832… I've been mentioning how stupid it is for crawlers to get the web page instead of the actual repositories awhile ago, but regardless I'm just happy it's finally getting traction now :)

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Greetings programs! We're back again working on stuff related to @pidgin 3.0 instead of Pidgin itself because the world continues to devolve into a dystopia and I'd rather the money I pay for services not go to nazis! Come on by! twitch.tv/rw_grim youtube.com/@rw_grim #Pidgin […]

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Gary "grim" Kramlich @grimmy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

RE: sunbeam.city/@joeyh/117186104908741… I was going to say "unbelievable" but when it comes to AI every shitty thing seems to be the norm and should be expected...

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