Reposted by Matthew MillerFramework @frame.work · 19/08/2026The Fedora version is outselling the Windows version by >10:1. It’s the year of the Linux desktop. 425141
Matthew Miller @mattdm.org · 10/08/2026The new onboard fare collection on the #MBTA is a complete failure. At Gilman — the busiest station on the GLX — I see 0% (zero percent) of people tap on. 100
Matthew Miller @mattdm.org · 04/08/2026Job news! Starting this week I’m switching back to an individual contributor role to work on Lightwell.redhat.comLightwellA subscription-based offering from IBM and Red Hat that helps organizations move from vulnerability discovery to safer remediation with signed, backported fixes. 152
Reposted by Matthew MillerRoy G Biv @plunkettprime.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Life imitating art next to the Public Garden in Boston. (Officer Mike’s uni’s at the cleaners) 🦆 @universalhub.com 411724
Matthew Miller @mattdm.org · 23/04/2026WAIT. Dr. Cassie McKay is BART FROM DIRK GENTLY? This explains some things... but raises many, many more questions. 020
Reposted by Matthew MillerSimon Threadgold @sthreadgold.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Doctor Or Jesus? Round One: 651688298
Reposted by Matthew MillerAsher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 12/04/2026To any Hungarians annoyed that Americans are placing the credit for your momentous victory on the shoulders of our stunningly repellent little weasel of a VP: you are correct to feel that way, I'm sorry, we just want to seize any available oppurtunity to humiliate him specificially 1177711286
Reposted by Matthew MillerHarry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 08/03/2026The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning. 884365904
Reposted by Matthew MillerSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Reading Marco Rubio’s speech about how “western civilization” is about embracing God, rejecting the foolish ideal of cosmopolitanism, and celebrating the genius of bands like The Beatles who were founded by the guy who wrote that song about a world with no countries or the concept of heaven & hell. 681025237
Matthew Miller @mattdm.org · 06/02/2026I am enjoying Starfleet Academy for: 4) over the top angsty teen drama 3) futuristic take on Prarie Style decor 2) just, relentless optimism about people and possiblites 1) Holly Hunter's complete, absolute inability to sit in a chair like a normal person 231
Reposted by Matthew MillerDaniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 17/01/2026you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review 157163993281
Matthew Miller @mattdm.org · 23/11/2025Whenever D'Arcy Carden is in anything, I can't help but note if she is a Good Janet or a Bad Janet. (In _Loot_, she is definitely a Bad Janet.) 030
Matthew Miller @mattdm.org · 11/11/2025Here is a thing I like a about the English language (not just in specific but by example): "The Beeping": uh ok "The Beepening": oh no 1102
Matthew Miller @mattdm.org · 31/10/2025@publicrecdsource.bsky.social is that "criminal occupation" IWW, as in Industrial Workers of the World? 130
Matthew Miller @mattdm.org · 27/10/2025AirBnB deleted my wife's account because there is a woman in Florida with the same name and birthday but also a meth problem and parole violations. 230
Matthew Miller @mattdm.org · 26/10/2025This just solidifies my cardinal rule of European travel — never fly via Charles de Gaulle. www.reuters.com/world/europe...reuters.comSuspects in Louvre jewel heist case arrested near Paris, prosecutor saysSuspects in the brazen daylight heist of some of France's crown jewels from the Louvre were arrested near Paris on Saturday, just as one of them was about to fly out of the country from Charles de Gaulle airport, the Paris prosecutor said on Sunday. 030
Matthew Miller @mattdm.org · 24/10/2025Approximately the same number of human beings were born before 1 CE as those born after. 110
Reposted by Matthew MillerMike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 07/10/2025If I have not seen further, it is because giants have been standing on my shoulders. 820629
Matthew Miller @mattdm.org · 02/10/2025If Yankee Candle made a candle that smells like the Indian restaurant I just walked past, I would buy that candle. I would buy the hell out of that candle. 110
Matthew Miller @mattdm.org · 01/10/2025Image Mode is awesome.fedoramagazine.orgFrom Zero to Web Server: Building with Image mode for Fedora Linux & Caddy - Fedora MagazineLearn how to use bootc to manage your host operating system using containers. 150
Reposted by Matthew MillerDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 15/09/2025US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos. 356231686237
Matthew Miller @mattdm.org · 15/09/2025House spiders are pretty good, but I think we should genetically engineer house dragonflies. 040
Matthew Miller @mattdm.org · 25/08/2025Things I have accidentally invented because I don't have a proper CS education: 1. long format data tables 2. k-fold validation 3. simulated annealing To be clear, this is not bragging. Turns out, learning things from others is good, actually. (Notes for 20-year-old-self.) 040
Matthew Miller @mattdm.org · 19/08/2025The absolute best intervention for poverty: just give people money and stop hand-wringing about what people might spend it on. www.npr.org/sections/goa...npr.orgResearchers discover a secret weapon that saves babies' lives. And it's not medicalTo save the lives of infants and small kids in lower resource countries, there are a handful of tools: anti-malarial drugs, bed nets and vaccines. A massive experiment in rural Kenya suggests another. 095
Matthew Miller @mattdm.org · 15/08/2025Me: You know, this anniversary is a significant milestone! Her: What, because it's a cubic number? *rolls eyes" And that's why we've been married for 27 years. 080
Matthew Miller @mattdm.org · 13/08/2025Anya comes home from her restaurant shift. "Dad — go dish out ice cream. Mom — queue up the video. I'm going to go change into my PJs." *takes a beat* "Now imagine I said that but less bossy." 020
Matthew Miller @mattdm.org · 13/08/2025I like a lot of these candidates, so... it might come down to extra points for those who say "Somervuhl" and "Somervillan" properly. youtube.com/playlist?lis... #SomervilleMAyoutube.comSomerville Municipal Elections 2025 - YouTubeA collection of videos featuring candidates for the Somerville Municipal Elections in 2025. This collection of candidate profiles is incomplete and will grow... 010
Reposted by Matthew MillerPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 06/08/2025People have trouble interpreting this. Nobody’s saying Donald Trump or Pam Bondi are personally selecting Nazi iconography. They don’t read enough for that. The point is they hire and promote Nazis who ARE steeped in Nazi iconography, and they’re fine with it. 462592673
Matthew Miller @mattdm.org · 06/08/2025Huh. I did something which made my system load go up to 140 and filled 32gb of ram and 8gb of swap. Desktop wasn't responsive at all, but I could ssh in from another system and ran top and killed some stuff. I expected to have to reboot, but it all just sorted itself out. Good job, modern Linux! 270
Matthew Miller @mattdm.org · 30/07/2025I, for one, am glad I am finally going to be able to use my 1300 baud modem. lwn.net/ml/all/59060...lwn.netThe GNU C Library version 2.42 is now available [LWN.net] 071
Matthew Miller @mattdm.org · 26/07/2025K: You ate half this jar of Marshmallow Fluff! I just bought that! V: It's not my fault you got the small jar! 040
Matthew Miller @mattdm.org · 18/07/2025This is too long to post here so I'm just gonna link: hachyderm.io/@mattdm/1148...hachyderm.ioMatthew Miller (@mattdm@hachyderm.io)“We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supportin... 010
Matthew Miller @mattdm.org · 10/07/2025I made a new website for my wife's store. magpiekids.com #somervillemamagpiekids.comMagpie Kids — shiny things for your baby's cribShop baby and kid gifts, clothing, toys, and books from independent and trusted brands at Magpie Kids in Somerville, MA. 130
Matthew Miller @mattdm.org · 08/07/2025Boston University IT claims that they intend to retire AFS at the end of August. Good luck with that, BU sysadmins! (They've been trying since at least 2005.) 150
Matthew Miller @mattdm.org · 05/07/202599percentinvisible.org/episode/633-...99percentinvisible.orgOpen Borders - 99% InvisibleA border is an idea so powerful that we never even have to see it to believe it. Or believe in it. Global borders can be sites of peace and conflict, violence and celebration, opportunity and confinem... 030
Reposted by Matthew Millerdarth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 02/07/2025fine i will do it i will inspect the potato 69184695
Matthew Miller @mattdm.org · 02/07/2025I like how the Spanish word ojo is, like, the visual equivalent of onomatopoeia. 211
Reposted by Matthew MillerTroy Wagner @troywagner.bsky.social · 26/06/2025What if instead of the trolley problem it was the Trolli problem and instead of getting run over everyone got sour gummy worms. I believe this to be a much better deal. 4718
Matthew Miller @mattdm.org · 24/06/2025Just over here watching the temperature, listening to the AC struggling, and wondering how long Eversource can keep the power on. 000
Matthew Miller @mattdm.org · 21/06/2025I said "You know, technically the entire ocean is seaweed soup", and my daughter laughed out loud, so I am officially winning at Dad. 020
Matthew Miller @mattdm.org · 17/06/2025*sits down on plane* *gets notification from Egencia that my departure gate has changed* Thanks, Egencia! 030
Matthew Miller @mattdm.org · 16/06/2025I am on the bus to the airport in Prague, and am surround by old British men with whichever accent it is where every sentence ends with either "innit" or "an' that". 172
Matthew Miller @mattdm.org · 16/06/2025Is there a vscode plugin which automatically notices when you are adding comments or fixing typos in random parts of the codebase and breaks them out into their own distinct commits? As an undisciplined coder making things up as i go along, I don't know how to deal with this. 430
Reposted by Matthew MillerMatthew Miller @mattdm.org · 13/06/2025As a human, I * love the em dash, * enjoy making bullet lists, and * am not sure if that body of water counts as a "lake" or whether a moped is a "bicycle". 242
Reposted by Matthew MillerFarce Majeure @vathpela.uncooperative.org · 13/06/2025* and they are all crosswalks 011