Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026Start of our third week in Ireland, currently in Athlone. Settling into new work patterns. Mostly through the previously endless immigration task list. As said to our local friends, “The Irish are unhurried.” After frantic months of lead up to the move, that’s refreshing. 020 2
Reposted by Jeffrey HaasTerence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026If you publish any #OpenSource and you want people to use it, may I please implore you to test your README? Can you actually follow the steps you've written down? Does it work if the user doesn't have the same development packages installed as you? […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 5733 33
Reposted by Jeffrey HaasMignon Fogarty @grammargirl.zirk.us.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026Just got a mass email from our bank that essentially says, "If you give your username and password to an AI agent, you're on your own." You've. Been. Warned. 🤣 4772 72
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026Arrived in Ireland last Thursday. The journey of a new household begins with a single Allen wrench. 020 2
Reposted by Jeffrey HaasDaniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it. 20128448 448
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026@petti-labelle.bsky.social The IPA definitely means it's not the laws of gods but rather the other direction. 110 1
Reposted by Jeffrey HaasJames Smith 💾 @floppy.org.uk · 05/09/2026I 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 […]mastodon.me.ukOriginal post on mastodon.me.uk 2320 20
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026RE: 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 […]a2mi.socialOriginal post on a2mi.social 000 0
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026RE: mastodon.social/@glyph/117182774408… Under-emphasized in the article: The forces that steer you into using certain tools are absolutely not neutral ones. 000 0
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026RE: 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".mastodon.social 000 0
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026@theodoraward The pejorative path might go too far in some cases, but people are reaching for tools to avoid humanizing the machines. This is especially needed since part of the engineering of these systems is to make them agreeable. I have been known to call AI conversation "talking to the […]a2mi.socialOriginal post on a2mi.social 000 0
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026@petti-labelle.bsky.social I'm not the sort to be bothered by Garfield cosplay... but it looks a bit like a Garfield crustacean. 010 1
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026@mitch Finding bubba-wear shirts is a possibility since people often discard too-big clothes. But pants with his inseam? Um, probably not in most of the parts of the country he's depicted in. 001 1
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026@moira You won the game of filament chicken. 000 0
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026@sabik Also suggesting that somewhere we might be able to get the debug symbols. 000 0
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026@dan Somewhat overlapping: lingoharvest.com/english/grammar/no… I was introduced to a portion of these by way of understanding that sometimes the verb and the noun of the thing for the same word is a matter of the location of the stress on the […]a2mi.socialOriginal post on a2mi.social 000 0
Reposted by Jeffrey HaasA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I 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. 402467864 2.5K
Reposted by Jeffrey HaasThe Gneech! Awww Yeah @the-gneech.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026Well ouch. 6150235 235
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026RE: infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/117094… Your daily reminder: Advertising ruins everything.infosec.exchange 000 0
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026@Edent There are some people that prefer to go beyond toasting marshmallows over a fire to setting them briefly on fire. I hadn't realized there are people who enjoy the same thing for their bread at breakfast. 000 0
Reposted by Jeffrey HaasLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026Live your life so you don't need Air Defence and barbed wire while you enjoy your hobby at the weekend... #Trump 002 2
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026Things you find while cleaning out old jackets. #old 010 1
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026RE: 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 […]a2mi.socialOriginal post on a2mi.social 000 0
Reposted by Jeffrey HaasTwoowls Elt 🦉 🦉 @twoowls73.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026#iphonephotography #myphoto #aberdeenshire #silentsunday #rainbow #contrast #throwback 021 2
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026[CEOs] @futurebird The adjacent thinking, "... are grifters with MBAs" can also be good framing. 000 0
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026RE: 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.mastodon.social 010 1
Reposted by Jeffrey HaasA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 31/07/2026It’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. 15599145 599
Reposted by Jeffrey HaasCursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026 0315 15
Reposted by Jeffrey HaasEllen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Spotted in Ann Arbor 1496 49
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026RE: 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 #halflifemasto.ai 000 0
Reposted by Jeffrey Haasboo-randon 🎃 @dimcheff.wtf · 18/07/2026I am profoundly upset that I can even utter these words but: my coffee maker just crashed 2242 24
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026@petti-labelle.bsky.social The more disturbing question is where is the half life head crab nest that the raccoons are breeding with. 010 1
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/20261516 Radler. A sweet way to end a warm day working off jet lag. #vienna #beer 120 2
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026And the optimistic portions: "Between roughly 1870 and 1920, Americans went on the greatest civic-joining spree in the country’s history" [...] "They weren’t being noble. They were being practical: alone, each of them was lunch. Together, they were a market where decency broke even." 000 0
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026"Cooperators survive by clustering, finding one another, and repeatedly dealing with one another, so honesty compounds. And there’s a threshold: when cheaters get thick enough on the ground that an honest strategy can’t find enough honest partners to break even, cooperation doesn’t decline […]a2mi.socialOriginal post on a2mi.social 100 1
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026RE: 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." 100 1
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026@paulschoe Excellent article. Thanks for the pointer. 000 0
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026@petti-labelle.bsky.social For me, it was more the speak-and-spell impact. "The data goes MOO" 010 1
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026@peterhoneyman Dormitories would be a note more respectable. :-) Ireland's path to deploying renewables is interesting to read on. Since we've been looking at relocating there for retirement it's also encouraged us to look at deploying solar. 000 0
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026@evan As someone that's about to go swimming in IETF for a week, I sympathize. When I went reading through the activitypub specs a while ago, identity mechanisms were one of the things I had gone looking for and not found. PKI is where this stuff usually goes, and that's a very messy landscape […]a2mi.socialOriginal post on a2mi.social 100 1
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026RE: 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 […]a2mi.socialOriginal post on a2mi.social 000 0
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026Original 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 […]a2mi.socialOriginal post on a2mi.social 210 2
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026@evan This thread feels like it's missing a lot of context. A key is just a key - it proves nothing. It can be used for signing operations. By analogy, if you lose your passport, you don't stop being you. The government that issued your passport doesn't say you stop being you. You've just lost […]a2mi.socialOriginal post on a2mi.social 100 1
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 000 0
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026My discovery of this bit of trivia was from a page documenting treaties with the Native American nations in Michigan. "[...] this sum, three thousand three hundred and thirty three dollars thirty three cents and four mills, shall be paid to the Ottaway nation [...]" […]a2mi.socialOriginal post on a2mi.social 000 0
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026Random 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] 100 1
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026One 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 […]a2mi.socialOriginal post on a2mi.social 000 0
Jeffrey Haas @jhaas.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026@ianRobinson If they weren't usually inconvenient or accompanied by pain, it'd be nice to just enjoy the light show sometimes. 000 0