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Andy Wingo @wingo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14h

a fine noisy mellow tune ~~ https://rainrecs.bandcamp.com/track/every-time-i-hug-you-to-leave

Andy Wingo @wingo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h

it would please me if still posted about the radio in 2050

Andy Wingo @wingo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h

opened the live playlist page for https://wxyc.org for the first time in a decade, and, you know, it could have changed and that would be fine & great, but it is comforting that it didn't

WXYC

UNC-Chapel Hill's student-run, freeform radio station

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Andy Wingo @wingo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h

you install anubis on your server. i never got around to deleting my gnu arch repos from 20 years ago and so now they are poisoning the ai. we are not the same

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Andy Wingo @wingo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

in france we might not have a government but we do have butter-scented croissant stamps

newspaper article announcing butter-scented croissant stamps

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Glyph @glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

the biggest problem we *already have* in open source right now, which we have oversimplified into the term "supply chain security", is the lack of understanding that putting a dependency in your project's dependency set (package.json, pyproject.toml, requirements.txt, cargo.toml, etc) is not […]

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Paco Hope wishes ill for JK Rowling @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Thanks to my hardware store. New insult unlocked.

Photo of a white plastic bag with a UPC bar code. The text of the product name reads “BALLCOCK SHANK NUT BAG.”

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🎃Spooky tag mismatch error @fay59.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 1d

AI studio suggested “plot sin(x) from 0 to 2pi” to this guy, who did it, and the graph that came out is incredible
https://framapiaf.org/@nitot/115327611792815874

Tristan Nitot✓ (@[email protected])

Attaché : 2 images Sérieux, avec l'IA générative, on marche sur la tête ! J'essaye Google AI studio, et il me suggère de faire le prompt suivant, pour tester : "Plot sin(x) from 0 to 2*pi. Generate the resulting graph image." Du coup j'essaye. Le résultat semble flatteur, jusqu'à ce que je réalise que RIEN, mais RIEN na va dans ce graphe. Ni la courbe, ni le repère orthonormé. RIEN ! ALORS QUE C'EST LUI QUI M'A SUGGÉRÉ CE PROMPT !!! https://aistudio.google.com/

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Andy Wingo @wingo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

considering becoming an insufferable italo disco guy #typeofguy

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Andy Wingo @wingo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

i have a feeling that in a few years americans may learn that the hague is a town and not a court

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Andy Wingo @wingo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

i succeeded!!! (last week) broke a couple more drill bits but i seem to have avoided damaging the bike

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Andy Wingo @wingo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

i tried using C11 _Generic recently. boy was that a mistake https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/c11-generic/

Workarounds for C11 _Generic

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Andy Wingo @wingo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

make it stop

screencap of headline, "immutable distro for k8s at the edge"

Andy Wingo @wingo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

[trite thoughts regarding in-person events]

i have reached the "my delicate sensibilities must be coddled" age

Andy Wingo @wingo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

[trite thoughts regarding in-person events]

there are lots of reasons to criticise having in-person events. but i feel like many vocal critics don't actually enjoy them? like why would i listen to your criticisms if we don't share an appreciation for what is being criticised, i don't have time […]

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Andy Wingo @wingo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

nice url spec you have there, be a shame if someone just stuck json after the slash https://github.com/hyperium/http/blob/439d1c50d71e3be3204b6c4a1bf2255ed78e1f93/src/uri/path.rs#L62-L73

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Then Try This @thentrythis.social.thentrythis.org.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Pre-pre-pre-announcement that around the end of the year/early spring we'll be announcing some new funded residencies, based at our new studio in Cornwall to run around Aug/Sept 2026.

The theme this time is moths and their viruses - as part of a bigger research grant on how viruses and their […]

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Andy Wingo @wingo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

lately i am able to get the kids asleep before 8, as the good lord ordained, and i just don't know what to do with myself; time is a gift that is wasted on me

Andy Wingo @wingo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

(it will never produce 9 kW. but maybe it does ok!)

Andy Wingo @wingo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

i ordered a solar install today! 9.5kW peak, ac/dc inverter in the basement, 7 kWh battery. here goes nothing!

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Andy Wingo @wingo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

it should be easier to print a pdf. it is literally what the p stands for

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Andy Wingo @wingo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

service provider sent me a pdf via a web service, i clicked the email link and it previews a pdf on the web, i need to print it. so... "share". then the "..." button to get more options. then scroll down (not obvious this is possible). then print is an option alongside set as ringtone. pressing […]

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Andy Wingo @wingo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

ios 28 gives me the option to set a pdf as my ringtone #progress

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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @cremevax.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10d

Bruce Schneier has a good high-level look at threat-modeling under an authoritarian government. Alas, it’s not amenable to a simple recipe approach, but involves carefully thinking through the tradeoffs […]

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Screenshot of text that says:

Being Innocent Won’t Protect You

This is vital to understand. Surveillance systems and sorting algorithms make mistakes. This is apparent in the fact that we are routinely served advertisements for products that don’t interest us at all. Those mistakes are relatively harmless—who cares about a poorly targeted ad?—but a similar mistake at an immigration hearing can get someone deported.

An authoritarian government doesn’t care. Mistakes are a feature and not a bug of authoritarian surveillance. If ICE targets only people it can go after legally, then everyone knows whether or not they need to fear ICE. If ICE occasionally makes mistakes by arresting Americans and deporting innocents, then everyone has to fear it. This is by design.

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