Jon Martin, Ph.D. 🦕

jon@cyberdeck.social

I dig hacking, ethnography, music, and Digital Humanities. I like to build things with code and words.PhD in Digital Humanities via King's College London. Formerly Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic at Cambridge (MPhil). A little Oxford. Some other places.Current interests: history of computer science, decentralized tech, virtual ethnography, privacy.Doing my best to forget Krypton and keep going... 🚧

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Post #3995314
Have just spent twenty minutes dealing with tedious GRUB issues that prevented this very Mastodon server from rebooting. Having sorted them, I intend to drink a beer in the shower as part of my healing journey. My rubber duckie and I ask for privacy as we navigate this difficult time.
Post #2567556
So, the new Massive Attack track has Tom Waits on it. I’m going to need some bourbon and for someone to hold my calls… https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/apr/16/massive-attack-boots-on-the-ground-ft-tom-waits-review-first-single-in-a-decade-is-a-dark-hymn-for-our-times
Post #2558531
Part of the little flask app I made to help me practice Japanese involves taking random tagged words from my database and telling me to make sentences with them (this is mostly about particles, and a little about learning verbs and adjectives)... I am slightly worried that all of the Japanese I know will consist entirely of MadLibs... For example: &quot;Nurse doesn&#39;t eat the bad fish at the Post office.&quot;
Post #2558530
Point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nxD-x52KB0 Counterpoint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFc08WTEN5g
Post #2558528
@wendynather Narrator: But she did not, in fact, want it that way.
Post #2558527
Studying Japanese has taken an unexpected turn: [ねこ (猫) : 1. cat (esp. the domestic cat, Felis catus) 2. shamisen 3. geisha 4. wheelbarrow 5. clay bed-warmer 6. bottom/submissive partner of a homosexual relationship]
Post #2558525
@wendynather Right?!
Post #2558523
To be fair, the &#39;unsafe&#39; Go package is, uh, working as intended... https://www.cyera.com/research/bleeding-llama-critical-unauthenticated-memory-leak-in-ollama
Post #2558522
There IS a light that never goes out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Light
Post #2558521
Sometimes, I explain things to my coworkers in my own Tamarian dialect. For example: Bosworth, his robo-butler toppled. I never get questioned on this. Which, honestly, is very Bosworth, his robo-butler&#39;s metal paws full of beer.
Post #2558519
Ten-year-old me is going to be livid when he finds out that this was a viable career option. Seriously, dude is going to go straight Sith after this: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/may/08/experience-i-am-the-best-lightsaber-fighter-in-europe
Post #2558518
Cliff Stoll not dead, despite what AI thinks. Source: The Undead Cliff Stoll: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037336
Post #2558516
I&#39;m pretty sure less effort went into planning the Normandy landings than goes into my making a mixtape that I just, you know, &quot;threw together...&quot; It&#39;s comforting to know that some things never change.
Post #2558515
&quot;Right, time to start writing this article. Been a long time since I wrote something... maybe some music? Let&#39;s put &#39;er on random, and...&quot; &quot;🎵 Let me ride on the wall of death one more time...&quot; That&#39;ll do. (Watch out for that bearded lady, though.)