@jyrgenn@mas.to

Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · Aug 01, 2026

Replying to @drs1969@mstdn.social

@drs1969@mstdn.social @dangoodin@infosec.exchange Absolutely agree.

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · Jul 30, 2026

Replying to @MicroSFF@mastodon.art

@MicroSFF@mastodon.art Yesterday at the supermarket checkout in front of me was a boy of maybe 8, 9 years or so who only wanted his bottle deposit back. What warmed my heart was that he had a whole arm full of library books. I wouldn't have pegged him as a reader, but apparently he was. I loved seeing that.

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · Jul 01, 2026

Replying to @davefischer@hachyderm.io

@davefischer@hachyderm.io @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social I think I read that.

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · Jun 19, 2026

Replying to @pdcawley@mendeddrum.org

@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org I am a bit conflicted about this. On one hand, the employer should be (well, usually is) obligated to provide you with adequate means to do your job, so you don't have to pay in order to be able to work. I would not want to buy a computer for work. (But I do have my own, and that is *better* one than the employer's budget laptop.) On the other hand, yes, that indepence aspect, that's right. That is exactly the reason I always bought my own books (reference or textbooks) when I needed a book for work (when books were still a thing). This way I always had my books still with me when I changed jobs.

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · Jun 18, 2026

Replying to @davidnjoku@mastodon.world

@davidnjoku@mastodon.world @meena@glitch.social No, that song is about the spicy crispy Indian bread.

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · Jun 16, 2026

Replying to @jiub@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net

@jiub@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net While that is somewhat true, for me it was never a war. I use both – vi for something small and quick, in particular (but not exclusively) remotely on a server with no Emacs, and Emacs locally but also remotely with Tramp/ssh for bigger things and real development.

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · Jun 10, 2026

Replying to @jwelby@social.treehouse.systems

@jwelby@social.treehouse.systems @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social “I start talking rubbish like a garbage collector" reminds me of something... At the university, a friend and I worked on a small Lisp interpreter for an assignment, and at some point on the garbage collector. Doing GC on the symbol table, in which the symbols were kept in a more or less consecutive character space, proved tricky. I cannot remember if we also had a length field or a separator character or the like. Of course we needed to move symbol names to reclaim space, and there we blundered, causing garbled symbol names. We saw the "new" names and rolled our eyes, but we burst out laughing when we saw “lambdambda”.

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · Jun 06, 2026

RE: @peterpur@hci.social

Reminds me of Drew McDermott’s “Artificial intelligence meets natural stupidity.”

Well, just the title. It is over 30 years ago I read it, no way I remember anything *in* the article any more. But the title sure is snappy, and fits *so* well here.

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · Jun 06, 2026

RE: @coba@gruene.social

This is why I don’t want “AI” to be put in *any* kinds of processes in administration or management!

It looks like people might more likely wave through a stupid idea (that outwardly looks attractive and shiny) than come up with one themselves. Also, uncritical “AI" admiration and things.

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · Jun 04, 2026

Replying to @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social @WizardOfDocs@wandering.shop This is beautiful!

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · May 15, 2026

Replying to @Larvitz@burningboard.net

@Larvitz@burningboard.net @WiseWoman@fediscience.org My own DB traveling needs are much simpler (Berlin-Hamburg, mainly), so much of this does not apply to me, but it does sound like sage advice. I always have a printed ticket with me (unless I forget it in the printer), usually some water, and I always book 1st class single seat. The battery of my noise-cancelling headphones usually lasts long enough, though. And *sometimes* the 1st-class waiter actually comes along and I can have a beer brought to me. I like that.

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · May 13, 2026

Replying to @NanoRaptor__dup_1737@bitbang.social

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social This should have been somewhere in Star Trek.

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · May 12, 2026

Replying to @joshsutphin@wandering.shop

@joshsutphin@wandering.shop @cmconseils@mastodon.social I bet he has.

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · May 12, 2026

Replying to @JohnAltringham@mastodon.online

@JohnAltringham@mastodon.online Beautiful!

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · May 11, 2026

Replying to @tubemapper@mastodonapp.uk

@tubemapper@mastodonapp.uk @cm@chaos.social The underground didn't go directly under the house I lived in 25 years ago, rather under the street in front of it, and I mostly stayed in the side wing rooms. Still, when it was quieter in the evening, I could hear a soft and very deep rumble when a train passed by. I liked that.

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · May 11, 2026

Replying to @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Or worse, 640 x 400.

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · May 10, 2026

Replying to @Elischeva91@babka.social

@Elischeva91@babka.social @frankboehmert@berlin.social Über die israelische Bürokratie hat sich auch schon Kishon mit Verve lustig gemacht (etwa im Blaumilchkanal); von ihm las ich als Kind einiges. Er hätte hier sicher zugestimmt.

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · May 10, 2026

Replying to @frankboehmert@berlin.social

@frankboehmert@berlin.social @regineheidorn@gruene.social In der Tat interessant, danke! Es ist wohl wirklich nicht einfach, eine funktionierende Verwaltung aufzubauen und zu pflegen; die Staaten Mitteleuropas arbeiten daran immerhin seit dem 18. Jahrhundert. Da kommt schon was bei rum, sozusagen. Der so ersehnte Bürokratieabbau ist, wie hier schon mehrere andere erwähnten, oft als Vereinfachung der Hindernisse gewünscht, die einen Schaden für andere verhindern sollen.

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · May 10, 2026

Replying to @BernardSheppard@mastodon.au

@BernardSheppard@mastodon.au @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Of course *this*, the Connection Machine DataVault, may originally well have been a nod to Seymour Cray.

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · May 10, 2026

Replying to @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social @BernardSheppard@mastodon.au To me, it looked a lot like the round platforms around the early Crays, which housed, dunno, cooling or power supply, and I thought you made it up. But this, of course, is even better!

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · May 10, 2026

Replying to @davefischer@hachyderm.io

@davefischer@hachyderm.io @DeltaWye@tiggi.es @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social @BernardSheppard@mastodon.au Right, I heard that at the time! A whole unimaginable *Giga*byte of RAM!

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · May 09, 2026

Replying to @alfonsosiciliano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

@alfonsosiciliano@mastodon.bsd.cafe Thank you for mentioning that! I have always wondered why this popped up now and then. Most likely at exact that point in a FreeBSD installation.

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · May 08, 2026

Dieser Artikel über Indigene Kulturen und die Kolonialisierung von @MissJonesTravel@norden.social hat mir einige neue Einsichten vermittelt. Sehr zu empfehlen!

Beispiele:
• auch die “Wilden im Busch” passen ihre Umwelt ihren Bedürfnissen an
• manche von Ihnen sind vor der Eroberung durch die Weißen in den Regenwald geflüchtet
• sie zu kontaktieren hat ein hohes Risiko, sie umzubringen (durch Krankheiten, gegen die sie nicht immun sind) und das wissen sie

https://www.miss-jones.de/2024/06/07/nein-die-wilden-im-busch-leben-nicht-in-der-steinzeit/

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · May 08, 2026

Replying to @fesshole@mastodon.social

@fesshole@mastodon.social *Excellent*.

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · May 07, 2026

RE: @MissJonesTravel@norden.social

"Es gibt nur einen Gott: Arbeitsschutz!"
Sehr gut und richtig. Ein konsequent vertretener Arbeitnehmerstandpunkt ist wichtig zur Wahrnehmung der eigenen *Rechte*.

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · May 05, 2026

Replying to @reeeen@norden.social

@reeeen [+1]

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · May 05, 2026

Replying to @dckim@mastodon.social

@dckim @mast0d0nphan @nixCraft mas.to has a 500 character limit.

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · May 05, 2026

Replying to @da_667@infosec.exchange

@da_667 @cm Selling weapons to both sides. Priorities, so important.

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · May 04, 2026

Replying to @CppGuy@infosec.space

@CppGuy @anon_opin Was thinking of “pre-hated”.

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · May 04, 2026

Replying to @simontatham@hachyderm.io

@wordshaper@weatherishappening.network @simontatham@hachyderm.io I knew that, but not that 'N' reverses the search direction. Could have used that many times. Thanks!

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · May 03, 2026

Replying to @Grey@basilisk.gallery

@Grey@basilisk.gallery I already hate the aggressive engine noise alone. And I have to admit, when I hear that, I sometimes wish the driver would lose control of the car and smash it high-speed into something very very solid.

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · May 02, 2026

Replying to @fishidwardrobe@social.tchncs.de

@fishidwardrobe@social.tchncs.de @endrift@social.treehouse.systems @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange I’d say “things we don’t understand” could be both God (“a miracle!”) as well as “magic”, often with the consequences you named for those who were blamed for it (“burn the witch!”). Because, when there was a bad harvest, that couldn't come from God, of course, rather from that single woman who knew her way with herbs and roots and who everybody found a bit spooky.

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · Apr 30, 2026

Replying to @quixoticgeek@social.v.st

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st @pndc@social.treehouse.systems How apt this is about "Leiden", which means "suffering" in German.

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · Apr 30, 2026

Replying to @FoxesInLove@social.neonpaws.digital

@FoxesInLove@social.neonpaws.digital Get well, and all the best!

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · Apr 29, 2026

Turns out when I am at work, the music of Rage Against the Machine is usually a good match for my mood.

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · Apr 21, 2026

Replying to @RogerBW@discordian.social

@RogerBW Thanks, I’ll look into it.

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · Apr 21, 2026

RE: @lostgen@det.social

I can see the quoted "Google effect" (no longer keeping lots of details on one's head; although with other search engines in my case) in myself, and I am not totally happy with that. It is not that different from the past with online manuals at your fingertips, though.

But an LLM effect, by outsourcing cognitive tasks like writing to LLMs, where people cannot remember what they "wrote", and feel no ownership of their "writing", that is *really* bad.

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · Apr 21, 2026

Found out why my GitLab instance is so slow: Facebook has been scraping my repositories for 3 weeks now, apparently at the top of what GitLab could deliver on that small VM with just 2 CPUs and 1 thread each. And more, but all others are small fry in comparison.

Well, not any more. For now, no access any more except for a very few select addresses. I'll be thinking of something more measured shortly.

So long, and a happy Fuck You, Crawlers!

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · Apr 21, 2026

Replying to @jyrgenn@mas.to

@JustaJason007 When we moved in together, we hired a small moving company, all part-timers (one a nursing student, one a taxi driver, one a restaurateur, and so on). The nursing student and the taxi driver looked at that chest and noticed it was empty, so they filled it with other stuff, and carried it without a hitch — not just the four flights down, but also four flights up at the destination. And proceeded with other stuff immediately. (2/2)

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · Apr 21, 2026

That reminds me... When my wife (to be) moved into her previous flat, two strong people, one a carpenter, the other a Tae Kwon Do champion, carried a big and really heavy oaken chest of hers four flights up. Impressive! They had to rest a bit afterwards, understandably. (1/2) @JustaJason007@beige.party @JustaJason007@beige.party

beige.party

JustaJason 🦜 (@JustaJason007@beige.party) - beige.party

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · Apr 18, 2026

Replying to @simoncozens@typo.social

@simoncozens Already!

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · Apr 17, 2026

Replying to @MBEverding@mastodon.social

@MBEverding@mastodon.social @ocean@raru.re @catsalad@infosec.exchange In the flat I had as a student, my favourite place was the bed. In my favourite reading position, I had the head against a cushion on the wall. With a strategically placed small mirror on the opposite wall, I could see exactly the face of a clock — not a grandfather clock, but one that had belonged to my grandfather. I learned how to read a mirrored clock pretty fast.

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Jyrgen N @jyrgenn@mas.to · Apr 16, 2026

Replying to @yaxu@post.lurk.org

@yaxu If you are looking for an alternative, Codeberg may be one for you. It is a free (as in beer), open source first, non-profit, community-operated service. https://codeberg.org

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