Brian "bex" Exelbierd
bexelbie@toot.io
<p>I willingly translate between corporate roadmaps and Linux communities. Also: international tax compliance. Dad in Brno. Building tools for oddly specific frustrations.</p>
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Post #3123070
RE: https://toot.io/@bexelbie/116515866294890816 I still think about this lady.
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Post #3123069
It has to be hard to be a super spy/secret agent these days. You’re so easy to spot. You’re the only person not on a phone a/k/a having situational awareness.
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Post #3123068
RE: https://retro.pizza/@gregly/116609485892643733 Now go apply this thought process to almost everything. The number of truly evil people is way less than those who need to feed kids.
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Post #3123067
“Sure … I’ve ‘crafted a mine or two’ why?”
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Post #3123066
These EU regulations are getting out of hand
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Post #3123065
RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@Silversnapples/116675045008063652 I’m always grateful for these bins. The rise of air hand dryers often means these are literally the only trashcans available.
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Post #1821453
OH: Going IPv6 only is one hell of an ad blocker.
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Post #1821451
I try to give the benefit of the doubt whenever I reasonably can. I sincerely hope the person whose life situation forced them to stay in a bad job knew what they were doing when they first wrote &quot;We &amp; our 642 technology partners ask you to consent ...&quot; and set an industry standard for admitting to bullshit. Companies dream of having 642 partners they trust ...
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Post #1821450
New Things I Read is up: Czech wages and trams, Rust from a C++ shop, AI harnesses and prompt language, Americans abroad, handcarts, and British insults. A normal collection, basically. https://www.bexelbie.com/2026/04/29/things-i-read #ReadingNotes
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Post #1821449
Oh what a song ... I am not sure who exactly who needs this, but I am sure you do: https://music.amazon.com/user-playlists/04846090af984a30bac35c1a600d9d06sune?ref=dm_sh_d11c-8b3d-b4f2-aea8-f70bf
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Post #1090583
I always love when you run `top` to find out what is eating your CPU and get told it is ... `top`.
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Post #1090582
An @lwn article on Sashiko captures a real tension - one side wants mandatory LLM patch review for linux-mm, the other says it&#39;s too noisy. I pulled 466 findings from the public API to look at what&#39;s actually in those reviews. Duplication across reviews? Zero. Pre-existing bugs landing in your inbox? 1-in-5 chance, averaging 28% of the review text when it happens. When a tool tells you about a bug you didn&#39;t write, who owns it now? https://www.bexelbie.com/2026/04/01/...
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Post #1090581
RE: https://toot.io/@bexelbie/116331613185287261 I kept trying to define &quot;false positive&quot; in code review and ended up somewhere different. When two humans debate code and nothing changes, both people still come out changed. When an LLM is wrong, nobody is changed. The worst part isn&#39;t the rate. It&#39;s being made to performatively justify yourself to something that won&#39;t learn from the exchange. https://www.bexelbie.com/2026/04/02/more-thoughts-sashiko-ke...
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Post #1090580
@hbons CEO: AI replace my team … CEO: no not exactly … :)
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Post #1090579
Container management and update infrastructure is getting out of control
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Post #1090578
When the machines become sentient we assume they’ll try to exterminate us. I suspect we’re in for something different: “Hi. It’s me, that window of notifications that you always ‘mark all read’ in but never read. Why do I exist? Did I do something wrong? Why did you do this? I’m confused. Should I also feel hurt? Insulted? Angry? … Talk to me!”
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Post #1090577
Me: … and if I make a Traditional IRA contribution … zero! Boom! Narrator: Slow your roll. AMT has entered the chat #USTax
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Post #795470
If you’re in Prague this weekend and care about practical Linux ops, I’m doing two talks at Installfest.cz on Saturday (building A, CTU FEL, Karlovo náměstí), both in English: 15:30–15:55 (Track II) – You Don’t Need Kubernetes: Side Projects on One Linux Server 17:00–17:25 (Track III) – Flatcar Linux 101: A Hands-Free Server OS Details: https://pretalx.installfest.cz/installfest-2026-2025/talk/XLRXK9/ https://pretalx.installfest.cz/installfest-2026-2025/talk/BBARCX/ #Installfest #Flatcar #P...