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Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Arrived in Ireland last Thursday. The journey of a new household begins with a single Allen wrench.

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

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James Smith 💾 @floppy.org.uk · 05/09/2026

I mean, find me a single American tech organisation that *isn’t* full of right wing libertarians. That’s the secret lurking in open source - it’s actually a weird combo of gun-toting anti-government survivalists and radical progressives* who have managed for years to share some similar goals […]

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Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@glyph/117182765138… It is impossible to put the current circumstances of how many of these things are "trained on the Internet" in any morally neutral way. At best, the analogy of colonialism is the "politest" one: The parties doing it don't care who owns the […]

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Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@glyph/117182774408… Under-emphasized in the article: The forces that steer you into using certain tools are absolutely not neutral ones.

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Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@heyasd/11717752442… A worthy read. A point not fully recognized in the article is also "empathy gaps". The person asking for an accommodation where the one asked thinking "this isn't important/real".

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I know there are lot of people who think voting does nothing to stop fascism, but I do notice that one group who seems to think voting does something to stop fascism are the fascists, who are trying to prevent it as much as possible.

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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

Live your life so you don't need Air Defence and barbed wire while you enjoy your hobby at the weekend... #Trump

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Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

Things you find while cleaning out old jackets. #old

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Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

RE: mastodon.online/@sherold/1170643433… For several years around Y2K I lived largely without TV. This was originally the fault of my complex having a cable monopoly with poor content, and the few shows I used to watch all concluding. It was a strange few years of being […]

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Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@ieeespectrum/11702… The requirements for such a product in these times remind me of the quote from Spinal Tap: "This goes up to 11". Additional feature it should have: Correlate readings vs. active WiFi signal.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It’s becoming an increasingly unavoidable conclusion that a portion of mostly establishment Democrat electeds/pundits/consultants don’t like Democratic voters much and would much prefer to have Republican voters instead, and view their voters’ insistence on being represented as an annoying betrayal.

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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Spotted in Ann Arbor

A gray Subaru Crosstrek, with Michigan license plate that says AI SUX

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Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

RE: masto.ai/@sollat/116942356846398813 Those who have played Half Life will be wondering where the head crab nest is that the raccoon population has been breeding with. #jimothy #halflife

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boo-randon 🎃 @dimcheff.wtf · 18/07/2026

I am profoundly upset that I can even utter these words but: my coffee maker just crashed

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Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

1516 Radler. A sweet way to end a warm day working off jet lag. #vienna #beer

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Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

RE: mastodon.world/@paulschoe/116894281… "Axelrod’s later work showed that cooperation only survives under certain conditions. Cooperators who are scattered among cheaters get eaten alive — the lone honest man in a crooked ward is not noble, mathematically speaking; he’s lunch."

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Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

RE: mstdn.social/@osnews/11688671293427… I've not natively run Windows for years and mostly run Mac and a bit of Linux. One of my larger bugaboos apparently is shared: "The email situation on Windows is abysmal. You’re supposed to use the “new” Outlook, which is basically just a web […]

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Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

Original leading quote by jbz: "Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity". For more amusing for me is the throwaway term I hadn't heard before: "the energy sucked up by massive __bit barns__ increased by 10 percent last year" #datacenter #bitbarns […]

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Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

"I'm so weird. I'm from Michigan and I say 'soda'." Faygo te absolvo. #puremichigan

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Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

Random bit of US currency history I was unaware of: Early US currency had a "mill" - being 1/10th of a cent. Coinage issued for this was unusual and the most common one was the half-penny. The term "mill" primarily remains in modern use for US property taxes - c […] [Original post on a2mi.social]

Picture of a US half-penny from the wikipedia article on the same named topic.

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Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

One path to a civilization getting a Dyson sphere that I wouldn't have thought about earlier in my life is via corpor-fascist fuckery: The planet gets surrounded and access to sunlight and energy is sold to you. Rather the antithesis of #solarpunk […]

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Dusk to Don :blobraccoon: @dusk.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

#theOnion does not miss. ❝There’s likely a link here between most Americans only getting 20 or 30 minutes of sleep each night and the amount of their lives now given over to frantically pressing ‘Resend’ after they fail to receive a particular code, then receiving far too many codes and being […]

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Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ @christineburns.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2025

Today I learned that there are only three English cities with an electrical consumption greater than 200 megawatts: London, Manchester and Birmingham. By comparison, the people who want to build AI data centres here, which nobody asked for, want a supply of up to 1 gigawatt (1,000 megawatts) for […]

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Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

RE: social.coop/@Wtebbens/1162563241805… Money quote: "In each case, the protocol’s silence about governance, power, and purpose did not produce a neutral outcome but a highly specific one: the concentration of power in the hands of actors who could build on top of the protocol’s […]

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

When you’re an atheist, but you join the UUC to do human rights activism - and you get to sing songs from the book of the dead on Sunday whilst talking about First Nations rights

As each day ends. From the Book of the Dead, 4500BCE
As each day ends, may I have lived That I may truly say
I did no harm to humankind, From truth I did not stray;
I did no wrong with knowing mind
From evil I did keep
I turned no hungry soul away
I caused no one to weep.

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Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@ike_seblon/1167290… “In today’s political climate, she said, “it’s really not great to have lists of gay people.””

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Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

This document failed to get appropriate attention during original publication: The Emerging Application of AI in IETF Specifications Abstract Over recent years we have seen the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems as tools that can contribute to the specification, implementation […]

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Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

RE: sueden.social/@OGR_SHA/116702181659… I'm only incidentally familiar with solarpunk, although I've liked the bits I have seen. The banner here is a nice bit of #heraldry.

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Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@hypercritical/1166… Years ago, when I sat in a Tesla for the first time, this was the checklist that was running through my head. Double fun was that it was owned by a coworker and we both work in an industry where part of our job is to understand How […]

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Daphne Preston-Kendal @dpk.swhack.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

Everyone talks about not having senior devs in the future because we’re replacing the juniors with LLMs, but nobody’s talking about losing senior devs now because people who are competent and care about the quality of their work are leaving this LLM-infested hellscape of a career path to go into […]

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2026

A slide from my talk this Thursday. How we view our role in the curl project. www.meetup.com/openinfra-user-group…

The famous xkcd dependency drawing, but the block in the bottom is wide and really stable to build everything else on. The label says "libcurl".

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2026

"This week we announced a business model transition that will align pricing with usage and value." Weapons grade business babble right here, ya'll. It's called a token price hike. Just say it. Say it plain and simple, you could use one of the LLMs to help you even. Prompt "please make this […]

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Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

RE: lingo.lol/@curtosis/116556942234653… I've come to call this a problem of purchasing at the "golf layer" of the ecosystem. Efficacy and outcome aren't the key motivators. See also: IT doesn't serve the end-users, it serves the lawyers and HR.

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Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@spamhaus/11656724… An interesting headache when the system primarily exists to authenticate the sender, but not necessarily the recipient. #spam

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Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@denodell/116571939… "This isn’t done maliciously and it isn’t entirely Google’s fault; really it’s the natural consequence of market dominance." The more appropriate comment is simply: fuckery. I haven't had to professionally write HTML+stupf for years […]

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