Justin Presley @thats-no-moon.com · 29/09/2026The most depressing ad this year depicts a content creator saying how it can be kinda lonely, but not after they've "hired" N Grok Bots. We can't be letting people who are already socially isolated fall deeper into this shit, and the "hiring" wording is so problematic. How do we fix this? 001
Reposted by Justin PresleyJohn in Western New York @johnwalczak.bsky.social · 22/09/2026So ICE agents are getting fired before their probationary periods are up and are having to repay the $50,000 signing bonus. I love this for them. 767156702920
Reposted by Justin PresleyIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 22/09/2026When I gave my keynote last week about community defense in Minnesota, someone from Ukraine came up to me afterward and said thank you for talking about what it’s like to be under attack and fight back, because most people can’t relate. I wish we couldn’t, but hey Ukrainian friends: we see you. 420026
Justin Presley @thats-no-moon.com · 14/09/2026Is Shipyard Pumpkinhead beer still a thing? I remember bars all over the south shore serving that with a cinnamon sugar rim 110
Reposted by Justin PresleyIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 12/09/2026“Chinga la migra, which for the non-Spanish speakers in the audience, means ‘we find ICE’s activities to be problematic’” 2461182
Justin Presley @thats-no-moon.com · 13/09/2026UNIX fact: Aliasing commands can make your day brighter alias acab='systat -pigs' 1488
Reposted by Justin PresleyChris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 11/09/2026For reasons known only to myself, I have created a single web page with links to privately hosted copies of a whole bunch of documents related to police oversight and reform in Somerville. dwan.org/index.php/po... 1/? 13214
Justin Presley @thats-no-moon.com · 27/08/2026What if parts of the maze get friction locked tho? WD-40? 000
Reposted by Justin PresleyKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 24/08/2026It is frustrating trying to be an honest, considerate, hardworking person, when many signs indicate it is much more lucrative right now to be a liar and a grifter with no moral core or ethical framework for daily life. I just hope these people eventually get what they deserve. 533232662
Reposted by Justin PresleyIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 12/08/2026That sound you hear is Minnesota loudly saying FUCK ICE 152070284
Justin Presley @thats-no-moon.com · 08/08/2026I've been using Kagi exclusively for the last year, no regerts. Can have it exclude suspected slop (best effort of course), and there's a small web explorer that will send you to personal blogs and the like. I'm all for paying for a quality service that won't do awful shit with my data 020
Justin Presley @thats-no-moon.com · 30/07/2026Holy shit, this exact thing almost gave me an aneurysm last week. Not only was the meeting useless, I had to write comments on an auto generated action item that was fucking useless; the proposed action was already addressed in the meeting, and the transcript that no-one reads showed that. 010
Justin Presley @thats-no-moon.com · 27/07/2026Hello from a ~12yr old Macbook Pro, though it's not running MacOS. Still does everything I need - 6hrs of battery, browser apps, development, screen recording at 1080 without dropped frames. You don't need new hardware every 1-5 years. You are lazy and purchasing things makes you feel good. Why? 020
Justin Presley @thats-no-moon.com · 21/07/2026Called out a healthcare professional wearing them at a baby event at the hospital last month. Only one I've seen so far, thankfully 030
Justin Presley @thats-no-moon.com · 20/07/2026Here's how to deal with incompetent AI chatbots; a live example, taken from my recent chat with Ally's bot: Bot: "I got my wires crossed. Can you try asking me in a different way?" Me: "No" Bot: "I'll pass the chat to a human associate who can help you." This is the way. 010
Justin Presley @thats-no-moon.com · 14/07/2026I'd be interested in either. In cases where there are options (audio-only and video), I do end up watching accompanying video in PiP/floating window while doing other stuff 010
Justin Presley @thats-no-moon.com · 07/05/2026When's the last time you left your phone at home? Went on a relaxed walk? Or just like, sat under a tree for a while? Go do that 000
Justin Presley @thats-no-moon.com · 26/04/2026Threw openSUSE back on the desktop Man, KDE is so pretty 010
Justin Presley @thats-no-moon.com · 09/04/2026On the topic of being pretty far gone, I present this: www.instagram.com/reel/DW14K0G... Yeah, we are pretty far goneinstagram.comInstagramCreate an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you. 010
Justin Presley @thats-no-moon.com · 19/03/2026You can even use OBS to screen record at native resolution, while doing all the other stuff and using pretty window transparency effects. It most certainly does not _want_ to do all that, and you will pay by having a very hot CPU and rapidly declining battery. But it _will_ do it. 000
Justin Presley @thats-no-moon.com · 19/03/2026Huge shout-out to this _FANTASTIC_ blog post; you made this so easy a while back on 13.3: joshua.hu/FreeBSD-on-M...joshua.huA Full Guide: FreeBSD 13.3 on a MacBook Pro 11.4 (Mid 2015) (A1398)A complete guide to installing FreeBSD 13.3 on a MacBook Pro 11,4. Covers Wi-Fi via wifibox, graphics, sound, keyboard backlights, and power saving config. 111
Justin Presley @thats-no-moon.com · 19/03/2026Quite happily running #FreeBSD 15.0 on my 2015 Macbook Pro Don't get me wrong, Discord in Firefox definitely feels like I'm on a decade+ old machine. Audio from Pandora never skips though, and Bluesky feels smooth to me most of the time. DWM and Kitty run more than well enough with picom. 110
Reposted by Justin PresleyKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10/03/2026may I offer you a loaf in this trying time (one week until Election Day) 1827986441
Justin Presley @thats-no-moon.com · 10/03/2026All this OS age verification nonsense is helping ensure I remain on FreeBSD for a very long time 010
Reposted by Justin PresleyChris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Cambridge has public toilets. Somerville doesn't. Here's why. medium.com/@fdmts/publi...medium.comPublic Toilets in SomervilleIn March of 2021, City Councilor Ben Ewen-Campen submitted a resolution: “That the Administration create clean, safe, and permanent public… 32410
Justin Presley @thats-no-moon.com · 07/03/2026Makes for a pretty good Linux distro, which you can also scream into Voidlinux.org 010
Justin Presley @thats-no-moon.com · 04/03/2026Run Your Own Mail Server Book by Michael Lucas www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/ryoms/tiltedwindmillpress.comRun Your Own Mail ServerYou Against the Email Empire Message services appear and disappear, but email remains. One of the Internet’s oldest and most open protocols, email reaches everywhere. Dominated by a handful of carrie... 000
Reposted by Justin PresleyGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/03/2026“Imminent.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. 936122942101
Justin Presley @thats-no-moon.com · 04/03/2026iRedMail is another solution that's been around forever. If you want to run things yourself and are looking for a solid foundation: iredmail.orgiredmail.orgiRedMail - Free, Open Source Mail Server SolutioniRedMail - Free, Open Source Mail Server Solution 100
Justin Presley @thats-no-moon.com · 04/03/2026It could be much easier than this too, take a look at Mailcow for example. Throw it on a container host and away you go mailcow.emailmailcow.emailmailcow: dockerized - BlogThe mailserver suite with the 'moo' – 🐮 + 🐋 = 💕 | Official Blog Page 100
Justin Presley @thats-no-moon.com · 04/03/2026That's not to say it's *all* older software in the stack: - Caddy makes for a stupidly simple and reliable reverse proxy - Authelia is a great IAM solution There's a lot of ol' reliable going on too though: - Postfix - Prometheus / Grafana - FreeBSD (VNET jails, ZFS) - Puppet 100
Justin Presley @thats-no-moon.com · 04/03/2026After running my own mail servers again for about a full year now, I have no regrets. The biggest problem is finding clean address space; everything else is good system design and using tools that have been battle tested for decades 100
Justin Presley @thats-no-moon.com · 04/03/2026Don't let anyone scare you from running your own email server. Is it work to set up and maintain? Yes. It's nowhere near the doom and gloom hassle I've heard others purport though. Most of the effort is front loaded. If you feel motivated to do it, and you understand the upkeep needed, go for it. 100
Justin Presley @thats-no-moon.com · 22/02/2026Something about the handicap accessibility logos in this concentration camp schematic fills me with rage. 110
Reposted by Justin PresleyKelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 15/02/2026Slop is the perfect word to describe the low-quality, high-volume, AI-generated content being thrown around. If you don't have time to write it, I don't have time to read it. 926334
Reposted by Justin PresleyKelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 15/02/2026"Bad thing existed before I made it easier to do bad thing" isn't the argument you think it is. 114528
Justin Presley @thats-no-moon.com · 15/02/2026Thanks for the share, will read later People tend to be fascinated by the New Thing; seeing paragraphs of vaguely correct sounding text is blowing everyone's minds. We need total understanding, auditing, and transparency of how these models work, with provable guarantees. We aren't there yet. 000
Reposted by Justin PresleyChris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Important heads up: The feds have -publicly- subpoenaed Google, Reddit, Discord, and Meta for information (names, phone numbers, email addresses) associated with accounts that are either critical of ICE or that are tracking ICE activities. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t... 1/?nytimes.comHomeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts 1139
Reposted by Justin PresleyChris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Re-posting this because I saw a headline today where some tech oligarch was bloviating about whether the chatbots are conscious or not. Wrong question. The correct question is ‘why do we need tech oligarchs?’ 0121
Reposted by Justin PresleyKelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 01/02/2026I'm still writing code the hard way. I'm slow. I like to think critically about every line of code and fiddle with variable names until everything looks right. I treat code as a liability and try to ship only what's necessary. It's hard to imagine writing code any other way. 351073120
Reposted by Justin PresleyHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 30/01/2026I know this is the wrong crowd for this but, I have an important test that I apply to new technologies that people think are going to fix everything. I ask "how does this help with the housing crisis?" Invariably (so far) it does not. 592519104
Reposted by Justin PresleyAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 30/01/2026CNN in Minneapolis: We are seeing thousands and thousands of people, we've been standing on the corner here for the past ten minutes. This this crowd has not let up. It's just continuous. 571292658514
Reposted by Justin PresleyKelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 21/01/2026Our industry loves to create problems in the name of innovation only to turn around and sell you a solution to the problem we just created. 1016522
Justin Presley @thats-no-moon.com · 10/01/2026But I'm losing my edge To better-looking people With better ideas and more talent And they're actually really, really nice 010