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bontchev.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy @bontchev.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2026

The destiny of humanity.

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Matthew Saunders Brown @msb.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2026

Client: Why is my new website loading so slow? Me: Hmm, this 50MB background video that must load before rendering the page might be an issue. Also the 32 WP plugins might be causing some bloat. And oh look, you have 76 css files loading on every page too. Should I go on? I remember when web […]

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Ged Maheux @gedeonm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2026

Wonderful Walter Koenig / Chekov tribute by artist Maria Piquer. 🥰🤓👏🖖 #StarTrek

A graphical portrait of a Chekov from Star Trek the Original series created with geometric shapes and soft gradients.

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Matthew Saunders Brown @msb.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

Remember when Google's moto was "Don't be evil". Yeah. This has been a reminder to California voters: Vote YES on #prop40 and NO on propositions 41 & 42. #TaxTheRich

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Matthew Saunders Brown @msb.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

Truth. Thanks @ondrej, your excellent work made yesterday fairly easy for me.

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Matthew Saunders Brown @msb.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

I thought #AI was supposed to cure cancer, fix the climate crisis, and free us from labor so we can spend our time on art and science and philosophy. That does not seem to be what's happening.

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Matthew Saunders Brown @msb.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

97 #php installs upgraded/patched. 33 installs that can't be upgraded/patched immediately have had mitigations applied. That was a fun morning.

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Jon S. von Tetzchner @jon.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

For a long time we have made our selves gradually more and more dependent on Big Tech. This applies when it comes to operating system, to browsers, to various services, to storage and now when it comes to AI. More and more are realizing this was and is wrong. You can take the first steps to be […]

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Jon S. von Tetzchner @jon.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

More and more sites are having to set up defenses from AI bots. It is costly to provide online services and they were not built for bots. One can say that the AI companies are performing a global denial of service attack, which incurs costs to all of their competitors, as well as the rest of […]

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Matthew Saunders Brown @msb.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

A client just asked me to do a big email migration at 5pm today, just as I'm heading out the door for the weekend. Does that count as #pushtoprodfriday ? Why yes it does, yes it does. Hasta la kaboom later.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

TALARICO: “The richest 1% now owns more wealth than the entire middle class. 3 dudes (Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos) now own more wealth than 165 million Americans combined… they aren’t just buying yachts and jets anymore. They’re now buying power.” 🇺🇸 (From @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social )

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Matthew Saunders Brown @msb.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Lunar eclipse is looking great from norcal right now.

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Remember, kids: In proper scientific terms, an attempt to explain observable phenomena is called a "hypothesis". It is called a "theory" when it fits all the observable facts, and there is no observable evidence to the contrary. We don't call it a "truth" because there's always a chance that […]

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Paco Hope @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

“When people like me argue that this technology is unfit for adoption on the basis of its energy requirements alone, AI users will simply ignore anything that we have to say.” Yep. Blog by @eamon www.eamoncaddigan.net/posts/ai-in-2…

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Potentially Useful | Hating AI in 2026

Being anti-AI feels like being anti-war

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Matthew Saunders Brown @msb.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

Earthquake! Shook the house good. Outside waiting for aftershocks

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Matthew Saunders Brown @msb.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

What's up with all these spam signups from Utrecht, NL? Seems odd. Maybe a VPN node, or a compromised network used by a botnet? Been going on for a couple of weeks now.

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Matthew Saunders Brown @msb.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

I did it, I pushed to prod. You might think I'm joking, but I'm not. Have a good weekend all.

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Matthew Saunders Brown @msb.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026

Apparently doing tech support now involves reviewing customers "AI suggested" code and ideas. Or rather, explaining why quoting LLMs to tech support when asking for help is... unhelpful. Sheesh, enough already.

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Matthew Saunders Brown @msb.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

I'm getting really sick of these #cloudflare pages verifying I'm a human before showing me the link I clicked on. Out of my way robot, who are *you* to verify *me*. Enough.

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Matthew Saunders Brown @msb.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

I've lost track of what day it is. I was about to push new code to production. Silly me, that's a task for 5pm tomorrow. #coding #programming #sysadmin

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Matthew Saunders Brown @msb.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/03/2026

And just like that #F1 is back. That seemed like a short break. Excited for the new season with new regs and teams. #formula1

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Matthew Saunders Brown @msb.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

Kegged a batch of Sequoia IPA today. Boy is that beer delicious. This is a repeat of the recipe that won the Mendocino Homebrew Festival back in November. And I get to brew a batch of it on the pilot system at Anderson Valley Brewing soon! #beer #homebrew #ipa

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

Well, everyone, you can now submit a comment to let the FCC know what you think about SpaceX asking for 1 million satellites for "AI datacenters" whatever the fuck that means. docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-… Comments due March 6. I am having a very hard time believing […]

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Matthew Saunders Brown @msb.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2026

Anyone know what's going on with outlook.com? Having issues sending to multiple domains that use outlook for email. DNS for their subdomains appear to not be working. Is it *always* DNS? #outlook #downtime #microsoft #dns

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Matthew Saunders Brown @msb.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026

I can tell the holiday's are over by the fact that repos are starting to push out software updates again. #sysadmin

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Matthew Saunders Brown @msb.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025

The wind is here. Batten down the hatches.

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Matthew Saunders Brown @msb.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025

All jokes aside about pushing to production on Friday, I just had a client request we do a big update on New Years eve. Ooh boy! No one will be around New Years eve, everyone late or hung over New Years day, then it's Friday - it's like a threefer of pushing to prod on Fri!

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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurbershow.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 11/12/2025

Fediverse pals, if your instance is run by a non-profit organization or a volunteer, now is a good time to see if they need a donation. I don't take for granted my instance moderators @tim @josh @crs @doug, especially as all other forms of social media enshittify. #fediverse #mastodonmigration

Snoopy, dressed as Santa Claus, rings a bell to solicit donations.

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Matthew Saunders Brown @msb.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/12/2025

NorCal.Social has been upgraded to Mastodon 4.5.2. Mostly minor bug fixes.

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Matthew Saunders Brown @msb.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/11/2025

Tomorrow is the Mendocino County Homebrew Festival! Come on down, I'll be pouring a tasty my Sequoia IPA & Midnight Stout. A fun time will be had by all 🍺 #beer #homebrew #mendocino www.mendohomebrewfest.com

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Matthew Saunders Brown @msb.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/11/2025

RE: norcal.social/@notifications/115510… Don't mind me, just testing out quote posting on the newly updated norcal.social.

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Matthew Saunders Brown @msb.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2025

Just got a notice from Meta about "using your interactions with AIs" to blah blah blah. I'm not going over to their apps to find out what they hell they are talking about. Dang I like it over here on the Fediverse. #NoAI #Fediverse #meta

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Matthew Saunders Brown @msb.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2025

Desktop Linux FTW! Spent Sunday updating the wife's laptop from EOL Windows 10 to Debian Linux w/ KDE Plasma. She was already using Firefox & Thunderbird and I was able to migrate those apps profiles so up and running lickety-split with no issues. #debian #kde #plasma #windows10eol

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Matthew Saunders Brown @msb.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2025

All these fruit and vegetable bowls must go. Clear the kitchen counters! Make room for candy!

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Matthew Saunders Brown @msb.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2025

I recently discovered shfmt (shell formatter) and am really liking it. I do a lot of bash programming and am surprised I hadn't discovered this before. I'm working through a bunch of repos and reformating them. Pleased to see that my code is largely formatted correctly already. But this forces […]

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Renewed Resistance @renewedresistance.channel.org · 12/10/2025

Just under 1 week till #nokings protest. Here’s the plan: 1. Share / boost this post to grow account - help us grow to largest social reach by 18th ✅ 2. Amp and boost all Nokings posts leading up to 18th. We will, too. ✅ 3. On protest day take pics and share […] [Original post on channel.org]

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

BREAKING: Governor Pritzker calls for the removal of Donald Trump as President by invoking the 25th amendment. EVERY governor should stand behind the Illinois governor. Governor Pritzker also cited health concerns for the president. He is clearly not well. youtu.be/Dt4mrxNWQWs?...

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Pritzker calls for Trump to be removed from office

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Matthew Saunders Brown @msb.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2025

Did the round trip over 20 between Willits and Fort Bragg a couple of times this weekend. Got inspired and came up with this bit on the last run home: Over the hills far and wide This motorcycle really does glide Friday traffic has everyone driving manic Ride […] [Original post on norcal.social]

R1250GSA motorocycle on the side of the road with rolling hills out to the Pacific Ocean in the background.

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Matthew Saunders Brown @msb.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2025

Just pushed some new mail server and spamassassin configs to production. Happy Friday, see you all Monday 😆 #friday #code #deploy #push

Cartoon of character under sign that says "do not push on fridays" over a big red button. The button gets pushed.

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Matthew Saunders Brown @msb.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2025

Beautiful sunset Cool breeze Dry lightning Rolling thunder Downpour Wow!

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 18/09/2025

There was a HUGE contingent of very hacky comics who went anti-Biden/pro-Trump claiming that "woke scolds" were "canceling comedy." Feels like maybe they should be speaking up?

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Linux Is Best @linux.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2025

1 of ? Let me tell you what it is like to work for Meta (Facebook). First, I sometimes jokingly wonder if Meta knows I am still working remotely in the USA. You see, I don't work for Meta USA, but rather one of the offshore divisions of Meta. At some point, they made me a salary employee, and […]

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