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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Jul 31, 2026

Hunter Schafer and Michelle Yeoh in a new Blade Runner series? Just please stop. Make up new IP instead of repeatedly pulling a Highlander 2 on beloved IP.

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Jul 27, 2026

Replying to @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io https://music.apple.com/us/album/arrest-the-president/1444773704?i=1444773724

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Jul 25, 2026

Replying to @annmlipton@esq.social

@annmlipton@esq.social @aardvark@ioc.exchange Maybe we need some new laws defining intentionally impacting public health through graft/bribery as equivalent to treason.

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Jul 17, 2026

@atpfm@mastodon.social The eggplant emoji was in the Japanese carrier SoftBank and KDDI emoji sets when it was added by Unicode and Apple. In those two early renderings, it was skinny as it represented the variety of eggplant common in Japan. The “phallic” shape is therefore correct, much in the way that SWEET POTATO 🍠 should represent a Japanese variety and not the flavorless garnet yams common to American use. The originals: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10132-emojidata.pdf Genmoji sadly renders eggplants as Western aubergines.

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Jul 03, 2026

Replying to @gruber@mastodon.social

@gruber@mastodon.social It's worth noting that Slack went all in on Electron way back when by laying off the engineers working on a native Mac client -- both of whom were early engineers on both Danger and Android.

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Jun 02, 2026

Boosted by

disregard Joe Groff @joe@f.duriansoftware.com

FreeBSD folks -- does anyone have a way to get periodic's emails pushed into an LDA instead of via sendmail?

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · May 30, 2026

Replying to @zl2tod@mastodon.online

@zl2tod@mastodon.online @viq@social.hackerspace.pl @fogti@chaos.social @hailey@hails.org Me too. TrueNAS Core (and presumably Scale) ships with a broken rsync with patches applied to tack on some NFS stuff in a way that prevents Linux xattr info from passing properly so stock TrueNAS is unable to backup properly from Linux clients.

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · May 11, 2026

Replying to @ceejbot@toot.cat

@ceejbot@toot.cat LLMs are not quite as good at reverse engineering, so I expect closed source fares better here. Not for long, however.

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · May 05, 2026

If you ever get a product shipped to you by Amazon that is leaking, be aware that they will both tell you to dispose of it instead of bringing into a Whole Foods for return and then also will not fix their automated system that insists it be returned to the point where they charge you for the missing item and you have to engage Executive Customer Relations to try to fix things.

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · May 05, 2026

Food delivery apps should all have a “help pick dinner” randomizer.

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · May 02, 2026

I want a token refund:

● Spec landed. Let me copy it to main status/, clean up the worktree, and queue stages 2-6.

● Bash(cp …worktrees/agent-a/spec.md …)
⎿ cp: cannot stat ‘…worktrees/agent-a/spec.md': No such file or directory
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● The spec was lost with the auto-cleaned worktree — status/ is gitignored, so when the agent made no commits, its files vanished.

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · May 01, 2026

The incompetents at Microsoft are defaulting all of my email to spam, despite returning a 250 and despite my IPs never having been on a blocklist.

Their SNDS system only lets the ISP sign up and good luck getting Comcast Business or AT&T Business to let me manage my ranges properly myself.

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Apr 30, 2026

Replying to @mrmacintosh@mastodon.social

@mrmacintosh@mastodon.social @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Where was this art when I first demoed Disc Burner (Framistan) to Phil in Fall 2000 so we could have used it? (Somewhere I still have the discs Phil and SJ burned for their respective demos.)

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Apr 29, 2026

Just got the most helpful notification ever on my watch: “Slackbot: Claude has been deactivated.”

Entirely useless information without naming the team.

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Apr 28, 2026

@schwa@mastodon.social I've seen [one/many] vans like this https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1sv1fb9/saw_this_on_my_evening_walk_today/ parked in SF.

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Apr 28, 2026

@jwz@mastodon.social Did you find a good solution that inundation of spam? Something structural? I feel like greylisting would help, but I had to give up on that because every clown that makes a website these days assumes instant email delivery to use as 2FA.

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Apr 28, 2026

@schwa@mastodon.social Volume up/down could have been half-height keys next to the TouchID sensor. I get where the UI folks would prefer the higher-precision slider instead.

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @marioguzman@mastodon.social

@marioguzman@mastodon.social @siracusa@mastodon.social I worked on that project and somehow I’ve never seen that ad. Very ‘90s “extreme Mountain Dew” energy.

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Apr 22, 2026

Replying to @woody@pleroma.pch.net

@woody@pleroma.pch.net “by satellite” means that nobody technical reviewed this sabre-rattling article.

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Apr 22, 2026

Replying to @justkwin@toot.community

@justkwin @integerpoet @jamesthomson @Cdespinosa Which Sonar are we talking about? The other Aardvark client app for the Software Library or the DTS thing? (And I’d bet there’s been stuff named that since.)

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Apr 15, 2026

Replying to @ccgus@mastodon.social

@ccgus @Drarok They aren’t the first ones to use a Java to ObjC cross-compiler in production.

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Apr 15, 2026

Getting pretty fed up with having to click a checkbox for Cloudflare on absolutely every website including congress.gov. Cloudflare: figure something else out that doesn't suck as much.

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Apr 10, 2026

Replying to @jwz@mastodon.social

@jwz Any advice on this would be welcome. I’m drowning in this crap as well, plus the usual amount of legitimate GMail addresses sends by spammers that passes DMARC/SPF/DKIM just fine because Google believes that only others produce spam.

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Apr 10, 2026

Replying to @shac@ioc.exchange

@shac Drobo also promised the OS more space than it actually had to store stuff, so it scared me away. I think the new-ish ZFS RAID-Z Expansion feature gets close.

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Apr 10, 2026

Replying to @rmondello@hachyderm.io

@rmondello Is this CXF and FIDO Alliance? I’m wondering why a new organization and not just a published RFC via IETF. (As I am working on a forthcoming IETF standard, I’m wondering what I’m missing here.)

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Apr 01, 2026

Replying to @Cdespinosa@mastodon.social

@Cdespinosa During a prior performance in SF, that moment scared the bejeezus out of my wife, being that she was entirely unfamiliar with that song.

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Mar 31, 2026

Replying to @airspeedswift@mastodon.social

@airspeedswift Super cool. Is there any write up somewhere that breaks down the relative size costs for Swift for uses like this compared with C? I’d expect some overhead for the standard library’s extra capabilities and things like witness tables.

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Mar 22, 2026

Replying to @jyasskin@hachyderm.io

@jyasskin You only live twice, Mr. Bond.

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Mar 21, 2026

Replying to @Tijn@dosgame.club

@Tijn@dosgame.club @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social No, they did not by this time. They dumped it all on Stanford as a collection and fired the librarians and marketing competitive analysis teams around 1997-8.

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Mar 13, 2026

Replying to @kocienda@mastodon.social

@kocienda@mastodon.social Older IDEs are stuck with the idea that they manage the project/build with a closed file format and can remap files going through the toolchain. Most folks have given up and use the file system for organization and open format dependencies-and-build tools.

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Mar 13, 2026

Replying to @zygoloid@hachyderm.io

@zygoloid@hachyderm.io How about just calling this a defect and declaring that a zero-width type like this cannot be stored?

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Mar 10, 2026

Replying to @csilverman@mastodon.social

@csilverman @halcyon @root42 This was the strategy used to get existing apps to work for the public demos of Copland DR0. Bug fixing the OS one broken API call at a time or having Gestalt lie to the app about what was available. “Edition Manager? What’s that?” I’ve forgotten the full list of apps I got working, but I remember specifically doing Photoshop and Marathon, the latter resulting in one of the worst KON & BAL’s Puzzle Pages ever published.

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Mar 10, 2026

Replying to @ocornut@mastodon.gamedev.place

@ocornut@mastodon.gamedev.place That's awesome and well-deserved!

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Feb 26, 2026

Replying to @briankrebs@infosec.exchange

@briankrebs It certainly takes some effort to correctly instruct an LLM that it cannot read any secrets directly because that’s exfiltrating data. And then as context fills, it’ll forget that directive.

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Feb 10, 2026

Replying to @inthehands@hachyderm.io

@inthehands@hachyderm.io Strike? Nonsense with the pacifism. If that criminal interferes with the elections, I want a mob to remove him and execute him on the White House lawn. He’s committed too many crimes in public view including ordering murders and crimes against humanity.

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Feb 01, 2026

Zuck better have a really good explanation for why “pizza” doesn’t have any results on Threads when misspellings get corrected to the real results.

(“Pizza” apparently was the not-so-subtle way that Epstein and friends referred to victims, likely why Pizzagate came about because these ghouls are always confessing through bogus accusations.)

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Jan 05, 2026

Replying to @alexr@mastodon.online

@_the_cloud@mastodon.social For that matter, a post-mortem on a vintage Mac game would be a fun read.

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Jan 05, 2026

Replying to @_the_cloud__dup_23993@mastodon.social

@_the_cloud@mastodon.social If you’re bored, a new version of Stragtego would be welcome. 🤪

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Dec 04, 2025

Replying to @shac@ioc.exchange

@shac@ioc.exchange @llvm@mastodon.social I’ll summarize: they aren’t. Most of the bigger donors have been donating the same amount for a decade with no adjustment for inflation.

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · Feb 04, 2025

Replying to @ramsey@phpc.social

@ramsey@phpc.social @blaise@hachyderm.io @blogdiva@mastodon.social @kissane@mas.to Start a recall campaign. Surely this asshat has broken some laws you can hang him for.

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Alex Rosenberg @alexr@mastodon.online · May 10, 2024

Replying to @bbbhltz@framapiaf.org

@bbbhltz @aaronsgiles On LinkedIn, but lifted from TikTok. I fully expect ChatGPT to make it up itself in the future.

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