Jason Bowen 🇺🇦
jbowen@mast.hpc.social
<p>Storage guy. HPC/supercomputing. Sysadmin. Mathematician at heart. Free/open {soft,firm,hard}ware enthusiast. *BSD, GNU+Linux, AIX. Extreme software portability proponent.</p><p>(he/him or they/them)</p><p>🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦</p><p>(perfunctory: opinions are my own and not those of my employer)</p><p><a href="https://mast.hpc.social/tags/norobots" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>norobots</span></a></p>
Posts
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Post #4254626
RE: https://flipboard.com/@npr/business-uklg5idmz/-/a-2YtOzYduQG-rfzJUhbzI6g%3Aa%3A3195441-%2F0 Pop! Pop! Pop!
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Post #1966483
The GitHub issues for the copyfail PoC script are fun, including this one, aptly titled &quot;Golf Harder&quot;: https://github.com/theori-io/copy-fail-CVE-2026-31431/pull/5 #copyfail #codegolf
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Post #1880227
I&#39;ve been out of the loop for a couple of years on Linux phones. I&#39;m poking around on blogs and Mastodon posts, but I figured I&#39;d just ask: Whats currently (as of January 2026) the most functional, stable, boring phone + OS combination? Edit: I have been so thrilled with the conversations! Thank you all for sharing projects, experiences, knowledge, and links! I&#39;m also following a lot of new folks :) This post is at 400+ boosts, so no need to continue boosting :)...
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Post #1501980
Are folks retreating from the LLM hellscape of the web to Gopher or Gemini protocols? I&#39;d really like to hear from folks about what&#39;s going on in the &quot;small web&quot; these days. Where to look for info, is one protocol gaining/losing tracking, or have they attracted userbases with different interests? Any fedi-like communities on these protocols? Boosts for visibility are appreciated, but there&#39;s no pressure to do so. #smallweb #gopher #geminiprotocol
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Post #850562
I&#39;ve been using SwiftKey since mid-to-lay 2012 (SwiftKey 3 at the time). Against my better judgement, I kept using it after it was acquired by Micro$oft in 2016. In 2022 they announced they were ending support for iOS, which didn&#39;t affect me, but showed how much they were intending to stick their grubby hands in it. They sent an email the (US) morning of March 25, 2025 announcing they were going to be taking away the ability to back to up Google Drive or iCloud with only option...