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Aaron

aaron@chirp.zadzmo.org

<p>I work in tech: unix (any) sysadmin. One of those weirdos that actively likes managing DNS - if you say "It's always DNS," I'm looking for a new job, consider hiring me and then it won't be. I also enjoy running SMTP servers so clearly something is wrong with me.<br><br>Has been mentioned in Ars Technica and had ideas ripped off by Cloudflare.<br><br>Cishet white male in the midwest United States. Too young to be a greybeard, plenty old enough to be a total curmudgeon. A previous boss described me as "A real bundle of joy sometimes" with dripping sarcasm.<br><br>My entire account needs a content warning for swearing and alcohol consumption.<br><br>Into: Open source software; Lua programming; synth DIY; ecology; botany; photography; aerospace; NetBSD user; Map Nerd; railfan; cyclist; NAF

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  • Post #4440377

    @Pineywoozle@masto.ai @Seb321@mastodon.social &quot;Both candidates are awful&quot; Yes, but, one is objectively worse *doesn&#39;t vote, shit gets far far worse* &quot;SEE?!?!! BOTH CANDIDATES ARE AWFUL&quot;  @benroyce@mastodon.social @Ilka4You@mastodon.social @Robotistry@fediscience.org @ariaflame@masto.ai @Amoshias@esq.social @hotelzululima@mastodon.social @UkeleleEric@mstdn.social

  • Post #4139206

    So Linus showed his entire ass ( again, if you&#39;ve been paying attention in the last twenty years, but for some reason this one really got noticed ), and now I keep seeing people talking about building weird #NetBSD / Debian hybrids, how Devuan was trying that, and You know you can just run NetBSD right? No need to loot it for replacement parts, it&#39;s a stable modern OS that works fine exactly as it is. Putting the GNU userland on top of it will be a lot of work to catch up with what it...

  • Post #2571341

    For my own sadistic entertainment, I built a tarpit that catches web crawlers, compete with statistics reporting just so I can watch them flail around in there. Amazon has a crawler for &quot;enabling Alexa to answer even more questions&quot; which has generated over six million hits since I noticed it That smells like LLM to me, so .... I just added a Markov babbler. Alexa, meet Markov. I&#39;m sure you&#39;ll be fast friends. https://ircz.us/maze

  • Post #2446134

    *KICKS DOOR DOWN* Hey everyone! Hate AI web crawlers? Have some spare CPU cycles you want to use to punish them? Meet Nepenthes! https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes This little guy runs nicely on low power hardware, and generates an infinite maze of what appear to be static files with no exit links. Web crawlers will merrily hop right in and just .... get stuck in there! Optional randomized delay to waste their time and conserve your CPU, optional markovbabble to poison large language models.

  • Post #2089149

    Seeing people complaining about EFF leaving Twitter now, instead of some arbitrary point in the past, and honestly Please don&#39;t punish behavior you wish to see.

  • Post #1909598

    And then Dan said, &quot;Oh yeah? I&#39;ll make my own airport, with blackjack and hookers!&quot;