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Oliver Geer

@ogeer.org

🧑🏻‍🎓🧑🏻‍💻🌱🏳️‍🌈 Please see my pinned introduction post. Follows and boosts don't imply endorsement (I follow a very wide range of accounts I want to keep track […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ social.coop/@ogeer, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Oliver Geer @ogeer.org · 21/09/2026

Here's another of those screws (bottom-left) next to a screw that worked with my PH-00 screwdriver. Is it just a PH-000 screwdriver that's needed, but by mistake Dell called it PH-01?

The screw in question has a smaller cross than the PH-00 screw.

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Oliver Geer @ogeer.org · 21/09/2026

Does anyone know what size screwdriver this screw needs (it's something smaller than Phillips #00)? Dell's manual ( […] [Original post on social.coop]

A cross-head screw next to a ruler. The cross is around 2mm in diameter, and the arms of the cross are less than a millimetre thick.

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Oliver Geer @ogeer.org · 12/08/2026

I forgot to buy eclipse glasses, but saw the eclipse anyway via shadows on the wall. So lucky! #eclipse #solareclipse #eclipse2026

Golden crescents scatter over a rectangular section of a dark brown wall, giving it a feathery texture. It's the eclipse naturally projected through a window.

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Oliver Geer @ogeer.org · 31/07/2026

@liaizon The main codeberg.org's down now as well (503 Service Unavailable). #codeberg The Fediverse instance you mentioned has a status message; I've attached its Firefox machine translation. It doesn't state any cause such as denial of service, except that […] [Original post on social.coop]

❌ **Failure of proxmox-01**: social.anoxinon.de

Message

social.anoxinon.de is currently unavailable. Cause: Outage of the underlying host (proxmox-01). We're already at the fix.

Log

NVME of the Hetzner Root Server failed. Exchange is ongoing.

Restore of the VE is addressed.

Simultaneous failure of both root NVME. Exchanges.

The restore determined that an important directory did not secure, will see if a second backup variant that we still had, reached here.

Backup of the second variant via BorgMatic is on the recovery. But will break through the extent for some time.

2027-07-31

RAID1/5/6/* is not a backup and a backup should be complete. Our backup was not and had a gap, the DB. We are currently looking at it. You are welcome to use XMPP at xmpp: anoxinon@conference.anoxinon.me ? join in the discussion. Today is also only the 2. Day after the disaster and we go through all the backups again, whether something is hidden in one.

Date Created: 2026-07-30 09:32:08 (a day ago)
Last Updated: 2026-07-31 10:14:20 (6 hours ago)

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Oliver Geer @ogeer.org · 24/07/2026

The sunset showing a gentle vertical gradient from light blue to white clouds to pink then to light blue again, behind dark blue hills with a few household lights visible, and the silhouettes of trees in the foreground.

A similar image, but the colours now form light blue, pink, white, pink, light blue. This is just the same image, now mirrored vertically so the trees appear upside down at the top as well as at the bottom.

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Oliver Geer @ogeer.org · 20/07/2026

Deutsche Bahn in the UK? Yes (but for cargo, not passengers). Seems quite apt to see this for the first time after going to the EMF hacker (read: tinkerer, maker) camp. Hacker camps are very big in Germany... uk.dbcargo.com/rail-uk-en/our-compa…

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Oliver Geer @ogeer.org · 05/06/2026

[alcohol (indirect, neutral); a non-alcohol joke] Remember, anarcho-syndicalists, this DrinkAware notice is especially for you! /joking #anarchism #alcohol

A notice over a stand of wine bottles, with a red and black background resembling the anarcho-syndicalist flag. The notice reads "Under 25? Please be prepared to show proof of age when buying alcohol".

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Oliver Geer @ogeer.org · 31/05/2026

#event: As a professional #programmer and lover of #FOSS, should I be embracing #GenAI or boycotting it? @totherme is giving a talk followed by a Q&A, open to everyone in #Oxford and online, to get us closer to answering this question! Everyone's welcome, from […] [Original post on social.coop]

LLMs are revolutionising coding:

Empowering non-programmers to solve previously intractable problems.

Shovelling toxic agentic asbestos into our digital infrastructure

Making existing professional programmers hundreds of times more productive

Destroying the jobs market and causing layoffs

Finding CVEs and making us more secure

Wasting ecosystem-changing quantities of electricity and water

As a professional programmer and lover of Free and Open-Source Software, should I be embracing GenAI or boycotting it?

"The Next FLOSS Frontier"
Gareth Smith
19:00-20:00 Thursday 4 June
Terry Newport Room, Magdalen College & Online

See https://ox.ogeer.org
Free and Open to all!

and After the talk (same day+place)
Sticker Exchange
If you have stickers to share about free and open source software / anything else, please bring them!

No need to register.

Co-organised by Oliver Geer, Laura Fortunato, Rowan Wilson. Illustration (decorative) CC-BY-4.0 Wes Cockx for Google DeepMind.

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Oliver Geer @ogeer.org · 15/05/2026

Audrey Tang (@au / @audreyt.org) will be giving a talk on Friday 22 May organised with our local #FOSS / #FLOSS group, from 15:30 to 16:30 UK time, in #Oxford and online. You're welcome to join! […] [Original post on social.coop]

A poster of the talk, consisting of a portrait photo of Tang and the text:

Oxford's Free and Open-Source Software Local Group Presents an Event Free and Open to All:

Good Enough Ancestor

Software Freedom as Civic Care Across Generations

A Talk By Audrey Tang, Senior Accelerator Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI, 2025 Right Livelihood Laureate, and Taiwan's Cyber Ambassador.

More details at https://ox.ogeer.org

Friday 22 May, 3:30PM-4:30PM
Weston Library Lecture Theatre & Online

Poster design courtesy Olija Downing, CC0-dedicated.

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Oliver Geer @ogeer.org · 04/05/2026

Reminder for everyone in #Oxford interested in #FreeSoftware / #OpenSource: Details: ox.ogeer.org/event/free-software-an… On Tuesday 5 May from 18:00 to 19:30, @anthrolog , Rowan Wilson and I are co-hosting a #FOSS […] [Original post on social.coop]

A poster of the event. A photo of Magdalen tower has been edited to add crude flags with the MIT, LGPL, GPL and AGPL licenses on top, and colourful cartoon mascots of FLOSS projects in the windows. The mascots include: A green dragon called Konqi, a blue bird with lightning, various elephant or mammoth-like creatures, a traffic cone, a gnu...

The information reproduced in the post, and a QR code to the link mentioned in the post, are overlaid.

Organised by Oliver Geer, Laura Fortunato, Rowan Wilson.
Tower Photo CC-BY-SA-2.0 © Steve Daniels via Wikimedia Commons.
Mascots Photo CC-BY-4.0 © David Revoy via Pepper&Carrot.

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Oliver Geer @ogeer.org · 30/04/2026

Hello #Oxford, UK. You're invited to our in-person #FreeSoftware #OpenSource social #event on Tuesday 5 May, from 18:00-19:30! Like all of our events, anyone is welcome & entry is free of charge. More Info, Map, Add to Calendar […] [Original post on social.coop]

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