Jeff Forcier
@bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
Please see my pinned intro post below, & https://bitprophet.org/bio/ 😊
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://social.coop/@bitprophet, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
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We need this in Edinburgh!
December 2, 2025 at 10:07 AM
We need this in Edinburgh!
Quoting to note: these toots are part of a thread! 🧵 https://social.coop/@cwebber/115651855663663299
Christine Lemmer-Webber (@[email protected])
User-empowering technology is a lot of work, corporations aren't motivated to build it. We need research and development of new tech that changes the game from an org that isn't bound by pushing profit. And that's why @spritelyinst.bsky.social is a nonprofit research lab. So... what are we doing?
social.coop
December 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Quoting to note: these toots are part of a thread! 🧵 https://social.coop/@cwebber/115651855663663299
Still waiting for the “AI” boosters to put as much effort into asking their new friends to cut this shit out, as they do gaslighting the rest of us into thinking the tech is useful.
https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/115651806945386186
https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/115651806945386186
SnoopJ (@[email protected])
cool, the LLM scrapers have found my #Gitea instance anybody have advice about how to keep the bastards at bay? I would love to run Anubis, but I don't want to introduce Docker to this server. EDIT: It seems that Anubis is now shipping a .deb, so I'll give that a shot. They even use protecting a Gitea instance as their base-case in the docs https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/native-install/
hachyderm.io
December 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Still waiting for the “AI” boosters to put as much effort into asking their new friends to cut this shit out, as they do gaslighting the rest of us into thinking the tech is useful.
https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/115651806945386186
https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/115651806945386186
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this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it. https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/gitdatamodel.adoc
git/Documentation/gitdatamodel.adoc at master · git/git
Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documen...
github.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it. https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/gitdatamodel.adoc
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Hands up who used one of KaZaA, Morpheus, LimeWire, eMule or BitTorrent in 2002? That year was utter chaos in P2P, but a lot of fun too :) https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-2002/
December 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Hands up who used one of KaZaA, Morpheus, LimeWire, eMule or BitTorrent in 2002? That year was utter chaos in P2P, but a lot of fun too :) https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-2002/
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Imagine having a billion dollars and wasting your time doing anything other than:
1. Reading novels in the bath
2. Making art
3. Traveling
4. Cooking and eating
5. Giving heaps of cash to awesome people and institutions who need it
1. Reading novels in the bath
2. Making art
3. Traveling
4. Cooking and eating
5. Giving heaps of cash to awesome people and institutions who need it
December 2, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Imagine having a billion dollars and wasting your time doing anything other than:
1. Reading novels in the bath
2. Making art
3. Traveling
4. Cooking and eating
5. Giving heaps of cash to awesome people and institutions who need it
1. Reading novels in the bath
2. Making art
3. Traveling
4. Cooking and eating
5. Giving heaps of cash to awesome people and institutions who need it
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Jeff Geerling, the affable and adorkable raspberry pi guy, was a misogynistic forced-birth tradcath extremist from at least 2009 to 2013, and as far as I know, still is today. Do not link to him and do not support his work. This is a matter of record on his own website […]
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mastodon.social
December 2, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Jeff Geerling, the affable and adorkable raspberry pi guy, was a misogynistic forced-birth tradcath extremist from at least 2009 to 2013, and as far as I know, still is today. Do not link to him and do not support his work. This is a matter of record on his own website […]
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It's also notable that the Angles and Ghosts people want NOTHING to do with the Bigfoot and Aliens crowd.
Can't cross those streams. Hilariously each camp will talk about the other with a kind of eye rolling.
You saw Bigfoot and you are rolling your eyes about a ghost? REALLY?
Can't cross those streams. Hilariously each camp will talk about the other with a kind of eye rolling.
You saw Bigfoot and you are rolling your eyes about a ghost? REALLY?
December 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
It's also notable that the Angles and Ghosts people want NOTHING to do with the Bigfoot and Aliens crowd.
Can't cross those streams. Hilariously each camp will talk about the other with a kind of eye rolling.
You saw Bigfoot and you are rolling your eyes about a ghost? REALLY?
Can't cross those streams. Hilariously each camp will talk about the other with a kind of eye rolling.
You saw Bigfoot and you are rolling your eyes about a ghost? REALLY?
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RE: https://pan.rent/@tommi/115622055984553138
Oh, no, this and the next toot give me a very bad idea: hosting a MUCK or MUD interface over Meshtastic.
Oh, no, this and the next toot give me a very bad idea: hosting a MUCK or MUD interface over Meshtastic.
pan.rent
December 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
RE: https://pan.rent/@tommi/115622055984553138
Oh, no, this and the next toot give me a very bad idea: hosting a MUCK or MUD interface over Meshtastic.
Oh, no, this and the next toot give me a very bad idea: hosting a MUCK or MUD interface over Meshtastic.
I am utterly in love with this concept of mapping the Sun like a planet. Also a hand drawn looking thing in this age of digital data.
(I am familiar with the overall nature of stars and how their outer/visible layers change over time, thank you, I just hadn’t seen this particular kind of […]
(I am familiar with the overall nature of stars and how their outer/visible layers change over time, thank you, I just hadn’t seen this particular kind of […]
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social.coop
December 1, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I am utterly in love with this concept of mapping the Sun like a planet. Also a hand drawn looking thing in this age of digital data.
(I am familiar with the overall nature of stars and how their outer/visible layers change over time, thank you, I just hadn’t seen this particular kind of […]
(I am familiar with the overall nature of stars and how their outer/visible layers change over time, thank you, I just hadn’t seen this particular kind of […]
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@ricci again and again and again I come back to "Your data isn't that big", which has aged marvelously in the 12 years since it was penned.
https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoop_hatred.html
https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoop_hatred.html
Don't use Hadoop - your data isn't that big
www.chrisstucchio.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:19 AM
@ricci again and again and again I come back to "Your data isn't that big", which has aged marvelously in the 12 years since it was penned.
https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoop_hatred.html
https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoop_hatred.html
Do restaurants still do dessert carts? I don’t believe I’ve ever seen one in my entire life.
December 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Do restaurants still do dessert carts? I don’t believe I’ve ever seen one in my entire life.
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Mac FunPack
https://macintoshgarden.org/games/mac-funpack
5 hit titles. 36 games. Totally Mac. Totally fun.
#macgarden #arcade #cardcasino #gamecompilations #sports #1999 #macsoft #wizardworks
https://macintoshgarden.org/games/mac-funpack
5 hit titles. 36 games. Totally Mac. Totally fun.
#macgarden #arcade #cardcasino #gamecompilations #sports #1999 #macsoft #wizardworks
November 30, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Mac FunPack
https://macintoshgarden.org/games/mac-funpack
5 hit titles. 36 games. Totally Mac. Totally fun.
#macgarden #arcade #cardcasino #gamecompilations #sports #1999 #macsoft #wizardworks
https://macintoshgarden.org/games/mac-funpack
5 hit titles. 36 games. Totally Mac. Totally fun.
#macgarden #arcade #cardcasino #gamecompilations #sports #1999 #macsoft #wizardworks
It's 22:22, make a wish.
December 1, 2025 at 3:21 AM
It's 22:22, make a wish.
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Absolute debasement of academic standards
*student submits opinion in psych class
*gets bad grade
*instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources
*student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated
*professor suspended
*student submits opinion in psych class
*gets bad grade
*instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources
*student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated
*professor suspended
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Absolute debasement of academic standards
*student submits opinion in psych class
*gets bad grade
*instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources
*student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated
*professor suspended
*student submits opinion in psych class
*gets bad grade
*instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources
*student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated
*professor suspended
Randomly discovered by looking into that two-bit-history site from previous toot: its creator also made `git-who` which is super nifty for digging into a #git repo's authorship.
Eg, I am excited to use it at dayjobs when identifying who 'owns' which parts of a […]
[Original post on social.coop]
Eg, I am excited to use it at dayjobs when identifying who 'owns' which parts of a […]
[Original post on social.coop]
November 30, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Randomly discovered by looking into that two-bit-history site from previous toot: its creator also made `git-who` which is super nifty for digging into a #git repo's authorship.
Eg, I am excited to use it at dayjobs when identifying who 'owns' which parts of a […]
[Original post on social.coop]
Eg, I am excited to use it at dayjobs when identifying who 'owns' which parts of a […]
[Original post on social.coop]
Gonna build a time machine so I can box my 20-year-old self around the ears and tell him "over the next ~decade, find a specific topic within computing to get well and truly expert in, so you're not finding out the hard way that people don't like hiring generalists when the chips are down […]
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social.coop
November 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Gonna build a time machine so I can box my 20-year-old self around the ears and tell him "over the next ~decade, find a specific topic within computing to get well and truly expert in, so you're not finding out the hard way that people don't like hiring generalists when the chips are down […]
I've been a (curious, reasonably well-read, exposed to all sorts of non-mainstream topics) sysadmin for ~=25 years, but I was today years old when I learned why #dns resource records require you to say "IN" all the time.
It's to specify the record is related to the INternet! Isn't that helpful? […]
It's to specify the record is related to the INternet! Isn't that helpful? […]
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social.coop
November 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I've been a (curious, reasonably well-read, exposed to all sorts of non-mainstream topics) sysadmin for ~=25 years, but I was today years old when I learned why #dns resource records require you to say "IN" all the time.
It's to specify the record is related to the INternet! Isn't that helpful? […]
It's to specify the record is related to the INternet! Isn't that helpful? […]
WHY IS THE DOG LADY LABELED 'CAT'?! Maybe she's just being ironic? #myheroacademia #manga #demihumans
November 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
WHY IS THE DOG LADY LABELED 'CAT'?! Maybe she's just being ironic? #myheroacademia #manga #demihumans
Sudden intrusive thought: "write your own tiny little hardcoded-records DNS server in Rust, great learning experience!"
Why is my brain like this.
Why is my brain like this.
November 30, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Sudden intrusive thought: "write your own tiny little hardcoded-records DNS server in Rust, great learning experience!"
Why is my brain like this.
Why is my brain like this.
"naming things is one of the hardest problems in compsci" example 197,372: CoreDNS having both "file" and "auto" plugins, both of which read files, both of which can auto-reload.
(The salient diff seems to be "auto" expects to read >1 file from a dir, one per domain/zone, & wraps the "file" […]
(The salient diff seems to be "auto" expects to read >1 file from a dir, one per domain/zone, & wraps the "file" […]
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social.coop
November 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
"naming things is one of the hardest problems in compsci" example 197,372: CoreDNS having both "file" and "auto" plugins, both of which read files, both of which can auto-reload.
(The salient diff seems to be "auto" expects to read >1 file from a dir, one per domain/zone, & wraps the "file" […]
(The salient diff seems to be "auto" expects to read >1 file from a dir, one per domain/zone, & wraps the "file" […]
oh snap advent starts tomorrow!!! (I have both a whiskey and a tea calendar again this year…)
November 30, 2025 at 6:11 PM
oh snap advent starts tomorrow!!! (I have both a whiskey and a tea calendar again this year…)
Why is it so dang hard to stop crossing one leg over the other when sitting in a chair?
I don't mind sitting fully cross-legged (yoga style) when on a couch or w/e, but when I'm at a desk I ought to be watching my posture more. But I always find myself slouching + crossing a leg.
Maybe a job […]
I don't mind sitting fully cross-legged (yoga style) when on a couch or w/e, but when I'm at a desk I ought to be watching my posture more. But I always find myself slouching + crossing a leg.
Maybe a job […]
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social.coop
November 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Why is it so dang hard to stop crossing one leg over the other when sitting in a chair?
I don't mind sitting fully cross-legged (yoga style) when on a couch or w/e, but when I'm at a desk I ought to be watching my posture more. But I always find myself slouching + crossing a leg.
Maybe a job […]
I don't mind sitting fully cross-legged (yoga style) when on a couch or w/e, but when I'm at a desk I ought to be watching my posture more. But I always find myself slouching + crossing a leg.
Maybe a job […]
nearly all of my dumb browser brain games are absolutely fucking with me today, so much for relaxing!
November 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
nearly all of my dumb browser brain games are absolutely fucking with me today, so much for relaxing!