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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · May 10, 2026

Replying to @grono@mastodon.com.pl

@grono@mastodon.com.pl I realize he's crazy, but still had to verify this was real. https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/2053341186530947337

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · May 07, 2026

Another emergency #Linux kernel patch is going to be coming down the pipe. Watch your distribution for security updates.

https://dirtyfrag.io/

#DirtyFrag

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · May 06, 2026

Replying to @johannab@cosocial.ca

@johannab Finally, Baha Men have an answer to their biggest question: who let the dogs out?

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · May 01, 2026

Replying to @bracken@hachyderm.io

@bracken @catsalad you're giving me flashbacks to trying to save a deadmau5 album.

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · Apr 28, 2026

Replying to @filippo@abyssdomain.expert

@filippo@abyssdomain.expert I'm sure there's lots of flakiness happening at GitHub given all their news. But at least when I checked, the PR showed up in the list following your second link. Hopefully that means it's eventually consistent and now fixed, and not that there's a bad server you're hitting.

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · Apr 19, 2026

Replying to @brettowe@fosstodon.org

@brettowe @msokolov @mike I can export my follows, but not my followers.

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · Mar 27, 2026

Replying to @b0rk@social.jvns.ca

@b0rk@social.jvns.ca @SnoopJ@hachyderm.io the "add the point" bit starts with a double quote, but ends with a parenthesis. I think it should be closed with a double quote.

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · Mar 15, 2026

Foggy morning.

#SilentSunday

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · Mar 08, 2026

#SilentSunday #ChesapeakeBay

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · Mar 07, 2026

Take a trip down #docker memory lane.
https://cacm.acm.org/research/a-decade-of-docker-containers/

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · Mar 03, 2026

Replying to @Natasha_Jay__dup_31065@tech.lgbt

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt point and snoot.

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · Mar 03, 2026

Replying to @GerardThornley@hachyderm.io

@GerardThornley@hachyderm.io @catsalad@infosec.exchange great point! Maybe I won't need my swap now.

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · Mar 02, 2026

Replying to @catsalad__dup_5@infosec.exchange

@catsalad@infosec.exchange don't forget the RAM.

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · Feb 26, 2026

Replying to @bmitch@fosstodon.org

My only critique is that it appears focused on short term grants for one-off projects, rather than providing a long term source of income for OSS maintainers. That's financially responsible for the endowment, but leaves quite the gap for OSS maintainers that need to maintain a day job to pay the bills.

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · Feb 26, 2026

The Open Source Endowment recently went public with their goal to help fund critical OSS projects. Looks like we have another option to the EU's Sovereign Tech Fund, Tidelift, GitHub Sponsors, and similar efforts. I'm happy to see more options in this space.
https://endowment.dev/

#OpenSource

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · Feb 24, 2026

Speaking of #OCI conformance tests, if you run a container registry and want to see what's coming, give this a test with your registry and report back any issues with the test itself (or work on fixes for your registry).

https://github.com/opencontainers/distribution-spec/pull/588

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · Feb 24, 2026

I've been mostly heads down in the #OCI conformance test redesign. But I managed to ship a new #regclient release yesterday with a feature that will hopefully help the #zot registry.

https://github.com/regclient/regclient/releases/tag/v0.11.2

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · Feb 22, 2026

#SilentSunday #Snow

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · Feb 18, 2026

TIL that generics in Go can be used to access public variables in private structs.

https://go.dev/play/p/crusKHkTLhg

#GoLang

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · Feb 03, 2026

Replying to @bmitch@fosstodon.org

@oclsc@mstdn.ca election workers would be easy enough to identify (public record, face scan app), who was allowed to vote is public record, and who signed off on the election results is public record. So if the workers don't follow illegal demands of masked agents, they will know, and workers know masked agents can follow up at their convenience.

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · Feb 03, 2026

Replying to @oclsc@mstdn.ca

@oclsc@mstdn.ca it doesn't need to be simultaneous, and it wouldn't be every precinct. Those in red locations would still think none of this applies to them. All that's needed is to suppress the vote in enough blue precincts to flip the results in key races.

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · Feb 03, 2026

Replying to @mattblaze@federate.social

@mattblaze@federate.social "but that's illegal" isn't something that's been stopping this administration from just doing the thing first, and escalating to SCOTUS later if anyone fights it. If this administration was following the laws, I would be in full agreement with you, but we're disagreeing on the fundamentals here.

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · Feb 03, 2026

Replying to @bmitch@fosstodon.org

@mattblaze@federate.social there's also some precedent for the Federal government dictating how states run elections: the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I'm sure there are more than a few on the right that would love to use that precedent to takeover elections for their political motives. /4

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · Feb 03, 2026

Replying to @bmitch@fosstodon.org

@mattblaze@federate.social the point that so many here have been making is that the laws may be good, and the system may be highly distributed, but those laws are worthless if the judicial and legislative branches keep rolling over in submission to the executive. We are becoming a country where might makes right, and it sickens me. /3

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · Feb 03, 2026

Replying to @bmitch@fosstodon.org

@mattblaze@federate.social But if masked agents show up before the polls open, give a list of Republicans, order us to only allow those people to vote, tell us they know where we all live, and doing anything against their demands will result in masked agents busting in our doors at 3am to disappear us,... I'm not sure there are enough 60+ year old retirees willing to defy that. The few that resist may only result in their precinct being declared as invalid, which is just as good for this regime's goals. /2

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · Feb 03, 2026

Replying to @mattblaze@federate.social

@mattblaze@federate.social election worker here. I simultaneously believe our elections are secure, and that they are vulnerable to a fascist takeover. When the laws are followed, any fraud is easy to detect and on an individual level that won't change the outcome. /1

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · Jan 07, 2026

Replying to @bmitch@fosstodon.org

@ploum@mamot.fr I've yet to encounter the "too many requests" error on GitHub from my own usage, though I'm aware of others reaching it with automated issue and PR generation tooling. I wouldn't be surprised if the limit is not a single usage threshold, but based on behavior analysis from a given source. If your account is frequently accessing content that has been flagged as spam by other maintainers, that could be a trigger.

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · Jan 07, 2026

Replying to @bmitch@fosstodon.org

@ploum@mamot.fr I've seen far too many LLM generated contributions, that appear to be scattered across multiple projects, with no follow up to questions. I've always assumed these are reputation farming bots, but it's entirely possible it's the result of students trying to get one PR approved, and then they abandon all the others when that happens. At the very least, require students to have a public profile, including a link back to your class in case maintainers have feedback.

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · Jan 07, 2026

Replying to @ploum@mamot.fr

@ploum@mamot.fr while I'm happy to see schools teaching OSS contributions, I worry this is creating one-off contributors similar to Hacktoberfest. From my experience, those are a net-negative for OSS maintainers. Rather than pushing students to maintainers that didn't opt-in to be part of the classwork, consider maintaining your own OSS projects, maybe as part of another class.

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · Dec 11, 2025

Replying to @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social

@jasonkoebler@mastodon.social this reminds me of when FTP servers allowed anonymous public uploads and forgot to restrict read access to the directory.

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · Dec 06, 2025

Replying to @bagder@mastodon.social

@bagder@mastodon.social a few from my own collection, all copied from various unknown sources.

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · Dec 01, 2025

Replying to @sammallammas@mastodontti.fi

@sammallammas@mastodontti.fi

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Brandon Mitchell @bmitch@fosstodon.org · Jun 21, 2025

Replying to @jef@mastodon.social

@jef@mastodon.social that cat comes with fur wheel drive.

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