Nate Lesher
@natelesher.bsky.social
Consultant, artist, musician, FOSS enthusiast.
Opinions are whatever I'm allowed to think while still working in the industry.
Opinions are whatever I'm allowed to think while still working in the industry.
Microsoft going through the stages of grief.
November 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Microsoft going through the stages of grief.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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AWS outage? Happy Monday from your #selfhosted friend! Good luck everyone!
October 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
AWS outage? Happy Monday from your #selfhosted friend! Good luck everyone!
Grateful to own various computers!
it's so hard to be a computerhead without having various computers
October 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Grateful to own various computers!
Thinking about every day of the rest of my career. @shenanigansen.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Thinking about every day of the rest of my career. @shenanigansen.bsky.social
Scary stuff! Glad Apple actually cared enough about their customers to patch this. WhatsApp auto-download was also used as an attack surface per: dailysecurityreview.com/cyber-securi...
September 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Scary stuff! Glad Apple actually cared enough about their customers to patch this. WhatsApp auto-download was also used as an attack surface per: dailysecurityreview.com/cyber-securi...
Old notepad.exe still exists and you can get rid of new Notepad! However I am quoting this post from my new Linux daily.
Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.
August 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Old notepad.exe still exists and you can get rid of new Notepad! However I am quoting this post from my new Linux daily.
Reposted by Nate Lesher
A man rescued a skunk using a skateboard and leash after the animal got stuck in a skate bowl in Reading, Pennsylvania. Once the skunk returned to ground level, it was seen walking away with the leash.
August 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
A man rescued a skunk using a skateboard and leash after the animal got stuck in a skate bowl in Reading, Pennsylvania. Once the skunk returned to ground level, it was seen walking away with the leash.
Since I work in the industry, I'm one of the lucky ones who can simply switch to Linux this year. Looking forward to my new Windows 11 VM where all the poor industry decisions can live!
www.neowin.net/news/report-...
www.neowin.net/news/report-...
Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data
The latest Windows 11 24H2 Patch Tuesday update is causing SSDs and HDDs to reportedly break with chances of data corruption as well.
www.neowin.net
August 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Since I work in the industry, I'm one of the lucky ones who can simply switch to Linux this year. Looking forward to my new Windows 11 VM where all the poor industry decisions can live!
www.neowin.net/news/report-...
www.neowin.net/news/report-...
Went to IKEA with the wife and ordered the $1 veg dog. NONE of the photos of the IKEA dogs online or in the store reflect the actual size of this product. If IKEA told me I could pay $1 for a hotdog the size of a ballpoint pen, I would have still done it. They didn't have to lie like that.
August 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Went to IKEA with the wife and ordered the $1 veg dog. NONE of the photos of the IKEA dogs online or in the store reflect the actual size of this product. If IKEA told me I could pay $1 for a hotdog the size of a ballpoint pen, I would have still done it. They didn't have to lie like that.
If anyone else is unhappy with Synology's recent disk model restrictions, my first impressions of QNAP's NAS products are pretty positive. Physical design of the QNAP in this photo is more feature-rich than a similarly-priced Synology product. QTS, however, is going to take some getting used to.
July 28, 2025 at 9:38 PM
If anyone else is unhappy with Synology's recent disk model restrictions, my first impressions of QNAP's NAS products are pretty positive. Physical design of the QNAP in this photo is more feature-rich than a similarly-priced Synology product. QTS, however, is going to take some getting used to.
Also fight the devs.
July 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Also fight the devs.
If a car has big screens instead of buttons and an instrument cluster, it is a huge piece of junk. I have fixed too many broken screens in one lifetime. I am willing to die on this hill.
July 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
If a car has big screens instead of buttons and an instrument cluster, it is a huge piece of junk. I have fixed too many broken screens in one lifetime. I am willing to die on this hill.
I hope that when industry compliance evaluators read one of my submitted forms, that they can sense my hostility and spite at having to suffer a tortuous application process.
July 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I hope that when industry compliance evaluators read one of my submitted forms, that they can sense my hostility and spite at having to suffer a tortuous application process.
Coworkers and I wonder if Microsoft's recent massive layoffs suggest they're just vibecoding Windows 11.
looks like the latest build of windows 11 shipped with a broken version of pow() that says (-1)² = -1:
github.com/ppy/osu/issu...
github.com/ppy/osu/issu...
PP counter overflowing to NaNs during play · Issue #33948 · ppy/osu
Type Game behaviour Bug description Since a few days ago, PP counter in osu! lazer is almost guaranteed to overflow, out of nowhere. What makes this more weird is that I don't recall receiving any ...
github.com
July 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Coworkers and I wonder if Microsoft's recent massive layoffs suggest they're just vibecoding Windows 11.
U.S. Government websites are sunsetting IPv4 features. Although planned in 2020, I am now seeing live case examples where IPv6 is required for normal app functionality.
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
www.whitehouse.gov
May 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
U.S. Government websites are sunsetting IPv4 features. Although planned in 2020, I am now seeing live case examples where IPv6 is required for normal app functionality.
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
Microsoft can't take a hint:
"We’re removing the bypassnro.cmd script from the build to enhance security and user experience of Windows 11. This change ensures that all users exit setup with internet connectivity and a Microsoft Account."
blogs.windows.com/windows-insi...
"We’re removing the bypassnro.cmd script from the build to enhance security and user experience of Windows 11. This change ensures that all users exit setup with internet connectivity and a Microsoft Account."
blogs.windows.com/windows-insi...
Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5516 (Dev Channel)
Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5516 (KB5054687) to the Dev Channel.
REMINDER: Starting with
blogs.windows.com
March 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Microsoft can't take a hint:
"We’re removing the bypassnro.cmd script from the build to enhance security and user experience of Windows 11. This change ensures that all users exit setup with internet connectivity and a Microsoft Account."
blogs.windows.com/windows-insi...
"We’re removing the bypassnro.cmd script from the build to enhance security and user experience of Windows 11. This change ensures that all users exit setup with internet connectivity and a Microsoft Account."
blogs.windows.com/windows-insi...
Great privacy suggestions from EFF!
As more tech CEOs seem willing to put their companies’ culture and technology at the behest of the US government, it’s good to remember which platforms have access to what data.
When Platforms and the Government Unite, Remember What’s Private and What Isn’t
For years now, there has been some concern about the coziness between technology companies and the government. Whether a company complies with casual government requests for data, requires a warrant, ...
www.eff.org
February 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Great privacy suggestions from EFF!
I'm having a great time using the Session app. There are some pros and cons compared to Signal (read their docs). Some users described Session as difficult to use, but this seems to have been fixed:
getsession.org
getsession.org
Session | Send Messages, Not Metadata. | Private Messenger
Session is a private messenger that aims to remove any chance of metadata collection by routing all messages through an onion routing network.
getsession.org
February 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I'm having a great time using the Session app. There are some pros and cons compared to Signal (read their docs). Some users described Session as difficult to use, but this seems to have been fixed:
getsession.org
getsession.org
Here's my obligatory caution about public posting:
huggingface.co/datasets?sea...
huggingface.co/datasets?sea...
Hugging Face – The AI community building the future.
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
January 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Here's my obligatory caution about public posting:
huggingface.co/datasets?sea...
huggingface.co/datasets?sea...