Erik Ableson

erik@mastodon.infrageeks.social

I like solving interesting problems and understanding how things work.Dual citizenship <a href="https://mastodon.infrageeks.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Canada</a>/#France.Independent IT <a href="https://mastodon.infrageeks.social/tags/consultant" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#consultant</a> focused on <a href="https://mastodon.infrageeks.social/tags/infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#infrastructure</a>, with an ongoing hobby horse of <a href="https://mastodon.infrageeks.social/tags/backups" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#backups</a>, data protection and availability.Either a dilettante or a polymath - it's hard to tell some days.Core skills: troubleshoo

Posts

Post #4014563
Stupid question: can someone tell me the name of this type of graph? And maybe point me towards a tool for creating them?
Post #3638528
Join a union, join a neighborhood group, join an association, whatever it takes to unify decent people to shift the momentum towards purging the parasites from modern society. Not a uniquely American problem, but further along the curve (not counting Russia) so please show the world it can be done https://thegrimhistorian.substack.com/p/has-america-crossed-the-asshole-threshold
Post #3331184
More of this please: https://www.mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html-first/
Post #2597533
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe This has these vibes all over it. And I feel your pain seeing clients try to apply solutions suitable for Google and Meta scale infrastructures to the most basic problems. Schools aren't helping either. It's one curriculum for everyone and little or no attempt to contextualize when to use which tool
Post #1787318
Fascinating review of a new study on the effect of LLM use on cognitive behavior https://overcast.fm/+AACuhuf2I6Y
Post #1765329
More talk about stuff like this and less about AI please https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/04/the-invisible-engineering-behind-lambdas-network.html?utm_campaign=inbound&amp;utm_source=rss
Post #1038324
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116354480071471219 🧵Must read for USians (and others too, but slightly less urgently)
Post #1038323
Huh, I just listened to the latest Science Vs podcast (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Vs) about finding ways to cut down on doom scrolling etc. and one of the recommendations was using an accessibility setting to set the phone to greyscale. It actually works! (for me, YMMV)
Post #1038322
JFC. These trucks simply don’t fit on the roads here. Maybe a simple regulation with the basic maximum dimensions would do the trick? Not to mention some basic calculations about the visibility of small persons in front of the vehicle? https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/04/no-f-150-in-france-us-automakers-complain-the-eu-blocks-big-trucks/
Post #1038321
The good life https://leisureguy.ca/2026/04/08/gemma-napping/
Post #1038320
Baby steps towards the general commercialisation of the Earth Suits from Termination Shock… https://www.theverge.com/tech/907802/dyson-hushjet-mini-cool-handheld-personal-fan-specs-availability
Post #670851
Sigh. The disease of the MBA is not understanding the business and optimizing for the wrong metric.
Post #670849
It’s about understanding how things work most of all for me https://zy.bearblog.dev/self-hosting/
Post #670848
At this point, I’m no longer going to use any external libraries and just write everything old school https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/03/supply-chain-attack-using-invisible-code-hits-github-and-other-repositories/
Post #670847
Many feels here. https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/
Post #670846
A voté
Post #581706
Just posting this link so I can pin it until the current LLM craze dies down https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5.pdf
Post #581705
Just bringing this one back up again. On the nose. Edit to add the original source: http://humoncomics.com/mother-gaia