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dave

@dave@rascalking.com

software developer, usually web and infrastructure stuff. currently at the mit media lab.

devourer of sff in books or on the screen, lover of heist stories. boston sports fan. clean energy enthusiast.

masshole.

he/him.

I hate having emotions about reality; I'd much rather have them about Sanctuary Moon.

previously @rascalking@octodon.social.

457 Followers

1773 Following

14 Posts

Joined July 09, 2023

twitter:

was @rascalking

tumblr:

https://rascalking.tumblr.com

github:

https://github.com/rascalking

bluesky:

https://bsky.app/profile/rascalking.com

bookwyrm:

https://bookwyrm.social/user/rascalking

location:

wakefield, ma, usa

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dave @dave@rascalking.com · May 07, 2026

Replying to @siracusa@mastodon.social

@siracusa@mastodon.social i love that clip, and i wish i'd thought to just go up and shame people like that. i can guarantee you'd get the same applause to the guy from the town agreeing that they were doing 3a without actually allowing any new housing at our meeting. sadly, ours are not as lively, most of the time, anyway. https://youtu.be/OnEDgGjFy4o?si=4uF_m92pOigpGeaA

dave @dave@rascalking.com · May 06, 2026

Replying to @mhoye@cosocial.ca

@mhoye@cosocial.ca yep. i started with slackware, everyone always complained it was too similar to a bsd anyway.

dave @dave@rascalking.com · May 05, 2026

Replying to @Kir@mastodon.uno

@Kir @infobeautiful also how in the hell do you omit chicken?

dave @dave@rascalking.com · May 04, 2026

Replying to @faraiwe@mstdn.social

@faraiwe@mstdn.social @SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange @faraiwe@mstdn.social @SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange and racism. which, i suppose, is all included in the british stuff.

dave @dave@rascalking.com · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @zkat@fedi.zkat.tech

@zkat yeah, i switched to it when i left octodon, and it's been ridiculously, almost cartoonishly easy to run.

dave @dave@rascalking.com · Apr 19, 2026

Replying to @jeffluszcz@mastodon.social

@jeffluszcz dear lord, I remember buying newtons there 25 years ago.

dave @dave@rascalking.com · Apr 17, 2026

Replying to @mcc@mastodon.social

@mcc @esm @thisismissem for the record, thanks hunting all this stuff down, parsing it out, and explaining it. it's really helpful.

dave @dave@rascalking.com · Apr 08, 2026

Replying to @packetcat@tenforward.social

@packetcat@tenforward.social fwiw, i've got it installed on a macbook, and there's no changes to my hosts file.

dave @dave@rascalking.com · Mar 19, 2026

Replying to @plaindocs@chaos.social

@plaindocs@chaos.social @jaredwhite@indieweb.social https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/bluesky-announces-100m-series-b-after-ceo-transition/ note the phrase "led by Bain Capital Crypto"

dave @dave@rascalking.com · Mar 17, 2026

Replying to @rcombs@treehouse.systems

@rcombs@social.treehouse.systems @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social yeah, my snowblower was completely unusable after a summer with gas sitting in it. had to have it cleaned out before it would run again.

dave @dave@rascalking.com · Jan 27, 2026

Replying to @cwebber@social.coop

@cwebber@social.coop dear god, i knew SO was taking a beating, but that chart the post linked to was _bleak_.

dave @dave@rascalking.com · Aug 26, 2025

Replying to @mjd@mathstodon.xyz

@mjd And a nice side effect is you have at least one other person who knows what the new/updated code does, and why.

dave @dave@rascalking.com · May 30, 2024

Replying to @jonathangulbrandsen@gigant.social

@jonathangulbrandsen@gigant.social @baldur@toot.cafe i see a grand total of 2 repair centers in all of iceland, MacLand and Skakkiturn EHF, both unsurprisingly in reykjavik. am i missing something? and the guy writing the post explicitly says he went to an apple-authorized repair center (which i'm guessing would also describe the two in reykjavik), and they told him apple won't let them do it. maybe the shop has old information? but if so, holy shit is apple doing a bad job of communicating with those shops.

dave @dave@rascalking.com · May 30, 2024

Replying to @jonathangulbrandsen@gigant.social

@jonathangulbrandsen@gigant.social @baldur@toot.cafe i mean, they won't even show me what parts are available, never mind prices, without entering a serial number on your second link. that is not especially encouraging. the battery procedure on the second link requires an iphone display press tool you have to rent from them, which is objectively insane. i've done a handful of battery replacements on intel macbooks using ifixit's instructions...it's annoying but doable with "just" a set of specialty driver bits. i'm very comfortable saying that requiring a tool rental from apple to replace just the battery puts it in "you cannot repair this yourself" territory, no matter what apple claims. and he said there wasn't an apple store in iceland, not that you couldn't ship it off overseas. i'm going to go out on a limb and guess that shipping to/from iceland is not going to be cheap.

dave

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