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• Post #3866615

  You are invited to join my new mailing list for people interested in internet resiliency clubs: https://lists.bowshock.nl/mailman/listinfo/irc I also updated the internet resiliency club HOWTO with some more hardware info and links to talks: https://bowshock.nl/irc/ Suggestions and corrections welcome! #internet #resilience #digital #independence

• Post #3507033

  I need to remember that if I'm feeling down, a quick scroll down https://genders.wtf will make me laugh uncontrollably. Today it was "Salutation Scale" that got me. Thanks to @effy@social.effy.space for collecting these!

• Post #3060403

  Philippe Ensarguet on AI slop and open source: The beautiful lie.... The open source model is built on a beautiful lie: code is the contribution It never was The code was a proxy, for understanding, for investment, for belonging The friction was the filter #ow2con

• Post #1813409

  Help me out: do you know of a consulting group that gets called in to fix major problems in systems of computers and people? I'm trying to find groups that do this (preferably in Europe) so I can find out how they got started #AskFedi

• Post #1774548

  Looking hot and smart and not at all forgetful today

• Post #1230463

  I'll be giving a talk on how to start your own Internet Resiliency Club at #Koppelting on Sunday January 25 at 12:15 in Amersfoort. Hope to see you all there! https://koppelting.nl/en/meetkoppel26/lineup#id696abc2eb672a

• Post #957487

  100% agree with this post https://social.treehouse.systems/@bodil/116328680455599369

• Post #918129

  RE: https://journa.host/@stribley/116307985671875485 Werner Herzog on fake Herzog social media accounts: “I understand them as my unpaid bodyguards,” he says with a smile. “Let them do combat out there. Let them do the ugly things out there. It’s fine for me.

• Post #769204

  Any SMART disk experts? I have a failing external USB drive (spinning rust kind) that I'm trying to get the data off. It has quite a lot of bad sectors that fail the CRC check. The read is going very slowly due to the retries on bad sectors and I'm currently estimating 1-2 weeks to read the whole thing. Is there a way to make this go faster, such as tuning the number of retries so it gives up faster on the bad sectors?

• Post #752871

  Oh, nothing, just thinking about the Least Weasel again https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_weasel

• Post #637784

  I Sold Out for $20 a Month and All I Got Was This Perfectly Generated Terraform I keep telling people that I'm excited for the LLM tools that are tuned for specific tasks; Claude Code is clearly one of them. I still don't get paid to do anything that it is good for, but this post is a good summary of the situation. https://matduggan.com/i-sold-out-for-200-a-month-and-all-i-got-was-this-perfectly-generated-terraform/

• Post #625947

  Is there anything cool happening in Zürich March 20 - 27?

• Post #503368

  Guess who is keynoting OW2con in Paris in June? I'm speaking about how to start your own Internet Resiliency Club. I hope to see you there :) https://www.ow2con.org/view/2026/Keynotes_Speakers https://bowshock.nl/irc/ #OW2con

• Post #389070

  I DID IT!! I ordered a de-Googled Fairphone 6 with Murena e/os!!! My iPhone still works fine so I will have some time to make the transition. Nothing like a pending US invasion of Greenland to resume my migration off US big tech https://murena.com/shop/smartphones/brand-new/murena-fairphone-6/

• Post #345932

  Eurostar is one of the crowning achievements of civilization, equivalent to the Pyramids or antibiotics

• Post #345931

  Hey fedi friends! Tell me what you are up to? No reply too trivial or detailed

• Post #345930

  Talking to a bunch of people in the European Commission today about why I emigrated from the US. I had far less of a political voice in the US than I do here in Europe, where I am not a citizen and can't vote. I have faith in the potential for the EU to take a different course and avoid falling into fascism or dictatorship, and I'm working extremely hard to make that hope a reality. #eupol

• Post #345929

  Was just telling a friend about what I call the "Wrong Limes" era of scurvy prevention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scurvy?wprov=sfti1#19th_century

• Post #95766

  "In [the Unaccountability Machine], I diagnosed the problem of populism as being that people had got tired of not being listened to by the systems that governed them, and responded by using the only remaining communication channel they had. To take the title of my post on the US elections, the gap between governance and governed had got so big that the only signal that channel could carry was a scream. This was (and is) my theory of Trump, Farage, Meloni, etc etc." https://backofmind....

• Post #95692

  The RAM crisis reminds me of my 2008 article on the ultimate physical limits of computing: https://lwn.net/Articles/286233/

• Post #69107

  I am appreciating the "don't make writers appear on video" discourse because it makes me feel better about wearing pajamas all day long and not always noticing when I have chocolate on my face https://bsky.app/profile/dumplingmenace.bsky.social/post/

• Post #66929

  I'm now running into what I think of as "ghost" open source projects due to genAI. You'll search for a project that does X, find a public repo for a project that says it does X, it has a beautifully formatted README and well-organized code, but when you install it, it doesn't work. Then you find the note: "Written with the help of AI, never tested, please send me spare hardware so I can test it." ... ..... Dead internet.