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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

@tezoatlipoca The "Copilot said to do this" or "Claude suggested" that bs drives me absolutely f*#@&ing nuts. Like please, you don't know what you are talking about so you are going to quote a slop machine that may or may not know what it's talking about, to me a person who understands the […]

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

@computernut43 100%. That sounds like a perfect counterbalance.

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

Yesterday it was emergency certificate authority updates (remember the number 4?). Can we take tomorrow of, yeah?

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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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Matthew Saunders Brown @msb.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@jon Yep, too true. My "bad-bots" config that I keep having to roll out for websites & servers just to keep them up is now 137 user-agents long.

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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 · 18/06/2026

@adamshostack Venus is the bright one near the moon. And further down to the right is Saturn.

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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 · 28/05/2026

@mattblaze Nice one. Really captured something there. What a glassy calm day. Looking for my boat, I had one in SD at the time, but don't think it's in the shot :)

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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 · 13/01/2026

M 3.8, approximately same spot a previous one.

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Matthew Saunders Brown @msb.norcal.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

@JessTheUnstill Ha! This strikes a chord :) My current project that almost no one knows about is STACK-Panel. It's a full featured hosting admin. Think simplified, free & open source cpanel. It's fully functional and ready for use. git.stack-source.com/msb/stack-panel

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stack-panel

Stack Panel is a full virtual hosting environment that includes cli & gui tools for managing websites & email.

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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

@superball 👍 just doing my bit to keep the norcal.social lights on :)

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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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