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majick

@majick@mefi.social
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While not especially notable myself, I have been weirdly adjacent to quite a lot of notability. It's been an interesting life.

Second generation San Franciscan, First-ish generation Oregonian; Product of three-and-a-quarter families; Standing(ish) at the intersection of bi-raciality, disability, and ND/MH

I tinker with especially old computers, play games badly, write a little here and there, and share stories.

Mostly, I try to help people—and systems—be better at what they want to do.

45 Followers
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Joined January 13, 2023
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majick @majick@mefi.social · Jul 27, 2026
majick
@majick@mefi.social

While not especially notable myself, I have been weirdly adjacent to quite a lot of notability. It's been an interesting life. Second generation San Franciscan, First-ish generation Oregonian; Product of three-and-a-quarter families; Standing(ish) at the intersection of bi-raciality, disability, and ND/MH I tinker with especially old computers, play games badly, write a little here and there, and share stories. Mostly, I try to help people—and systems—be better at what they want to do.

mefi.social

RE: @majick@mefi.social

I have learned that my stepbrother's tenure-track AP spouse is... dealing with exactly this, the banana peel gag, as the centerpiece of her thesis project.

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majick @majick@mefi.social · Jul 27, 2026
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@majick@mefi.social

While not especially notable myself, I have been weirdly adjacent to quite a lot of notability. It's been an interesting life. Second generation San Franciscan, First-ish generation Oregonian; Product of three-and-a-quarter families; Standing(ish) at the intersection of bi-raciality, disability, and ND/MH I tinker with especially old computers, play games badly, write a little here and there, and share stories. Mostly, I try to help people—and systems—be better at what they want to do.

mefi.social

Picture this: A car made when Q3A came out. 1,100km to go. 170kph. @lukhash@mastodon.social on repeat.

That was my day, and it was *glorious.*

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majick @majick@mefi.social · Jul 25, 2026
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@majick@mefi.social

While not especially notable myself, I have been weirdly adjacent to quite a lot of notability. It's been an interesting life. Second generation San Franciscan, First-ish generation Oregonian; Product of three-and-a-quarter families; Standing(ish) at the intersection of bi-raciality, disability, and ND/MH I tinker with especially old computers, play games badly, write a little here and there, and share stories. Mostly, I try to help people—and systems—be better at what they want to do.

mefi.social

If your web site looks like this you don't have a web site. For the love of the goddess, please, please stop pretending Instagram and Facebook are hosting services. Please. I beg of you.

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majick @majick@mefi.social · Jul 24, 2026
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@majick@mefi.social

While not especially notable myself, I have been weirdly adjacent to quite a lot of notability. It's been an interesting life. Second generation San Franciscan, First-ish generation Oregonian; Product of three-and-a-quarter families; Standing(ish) at the intersection of bi-raciality, disability, and ND/MH I tinker with especially old computers, play games badly, write a little here and there, and share stories. Mostly, I try to help people—and systems—be better at what they want to do.

mefi.social

Kind of a treat to find out Grandmaster Flash streams live on Twitch.

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majick @majick@mefi.social · Jul 13, 2026
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@majick@mefi.social

While not especially notable myself, I have been weirdly adjacent to quite a lot of notability. It's been an interesting life. Second generation San Franciscan, First-ish generation Oregonian; Product of three-and-a-quarter families; Standing(ish) at the intersection of bi-raciality, disability, and ND/MH I tinker with especially old computers, play games badly, write a little here and there, and share stories. Mostly, I try to help people—and systems—be better at what they want to do.

mefi.social

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majick @majick@mefi.social · Jul 08, 2026
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@majick@mefi.social

While not especially notable myself, I have been weirdly adjacent to quite a lot of notability. It's been an interesting life. Second generation San Franciscan, First-ish generation Oregonian; Product of three-and-a-quarter families; Standing(ish) at the intersection of bi-raciality, disability, and ND/MH I tinker with especially old computers, play games badly, write a little here and there, and share stories. Mostly, I try to help people—and systems—be better at what they want to do.

mefi.social

reCAPTCHA has always, always been sketchy (and it seems to think scooters are motorcycles, which annoys the pedant in me). It sometimes *works* after 6 or 8 tries although I suspect it just gives up on the user at some point. But, uh... uh... QR code and a mobile app? What the *WHAT* just happened and why is this legal?

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majick @majick@mefi.social · Jun 04, 2026
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@majick@mefi.social

While not especially notable myself, I have been weirdly adjacent to quite a lot of notability. It's been an interesting life. Second generation San Franciscan, First-ish generation Oregonian; Product of three-and-a-quarter families; Standing(ish) at the intersection of bi-raciality, disability, and ND/MH I tinker with especially old computers, play games badly, write a little here and there, and share stories. Mostly, I try to help people—and systems—be better at what they want to do.

mefi.social
Replying to @mathowie@xoxo.zone
@mathowie@xoxo.zone fffffffffffffffffuck. It's at a point where if one drive in the zpool pops I'm just going to... ignore it for a while. Eat the risk and adore my backups. This is not the "supply chain is my replacement stock" strategy I was planning around.
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majick @majick@mefi.social · May 02, 2026
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@majick@mefi.social

While not especially notable myself, I have been weirdly adjacent to quite a lot of notability. It's been an interesting life. Second generation San Franciscan, First-ish generation Oregonian; Product of three-and-a-quarter families; Standing(ish) at the intersection of bi-raciality, disability, and ND/MH I tinker with especially old computers, play games badly, write a little here and there, and share stories. Mostly, I try to help people—and systems—be better at what they want to do.

mefi.social

It's hard for any especially thoughtful person to say they had a *good* May Day, but I did sit in contemplation of both children being working members of a labor union. That felt nice, like I'd finally contributed something to society in a secondhand way.

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majick @majick@mefi.social · Feb 12, 2026
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@majick@mefi.social

While not especially notable myself, I have been weirdly adjacent to quite a lot of notability. It's been an interesting life. Second generation San Franciscan, First-ish generation Oregonian; Product of three-and-a-quarter families; Standing(ish) at the intersection of bi-raciality, disability, and ND/MH I tinker with especially old computers, play games badly, write a little here and there, and share stories. Mostly, I try to help people—and systems—be better at what they want to do.

mefi.social
Replying to @richlv@mastodon.social
@richlv @tagir_valeev Yeah, I completely agree those factors can very much influence how bad something like that turns out to become. Rarely does someone think a thing they do routinely is actually high risk. I'd say they fall into the category of "factors" I mentioned as root causes: cultural, management-based (I've lived that life), and so on. Fatigue's one thing, for sure, not the only thing, and sometimes it's stuff like that deprioritizing the seriousness of an alarm. A different cause of fatigue/blasé attitude/misinterpretation. Like I said, it's almost never the dude and almost always what influenced the dude to be the last link in the chain up to a horrible tragedy.
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majick @majick@mefi.social · Feb 12, 2026
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@majick@mefi.social

While not especially notable myself, I have been weirdly adjacent to quite a lot of notability. It's been an interesting life. Second generation San Franciscan, First-ish generation Oregonian; Product of three-and-a-quarter families; Standing(ish) at the intersection of bi-raciality, disability, and ND/MH I tinker with especially old computers, play games badly, write a little here and there, and share stories. Mostly, I try to help people—and systems—be better at what they want to do.

mefi.social
Replying to @sbourne@mastodon.social

@sbourne @tagir_valeev I don't agree with this because no alarm should go ignored, but I do understand why it's done that way in the real world. And why it's the default method.

Nobody[1] calls a reliability engineer before putting together their building maintenance punchlist and sending dudes with ladders.

  1. note: nobody except my kid's boyfriend who is a chief facilities engineer, or my kid who is a marine engineer and grew up around rigid high-reliability high-risk operations. They're exceptions.
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majick @majick@mefi.social · Feb 12, 2026
majick
@majick@mefi.social

While not especially notable myself, I have been weirdly adjacent to quite a lot of notability. It's been an interesting life. Second generation San Franciscan, First-ish generation Oregonian; Product of three-and-a-quarter families; Standing(ish) at the intersection of bi-raciality, disability, and ND/MH I tinker with especially old computers, play games badly, write a little here and there, and share stories. Mostly, I try to help people—and systems—be better at what they want to do.

mefi.social
Replying to @richlv@mastodon.social
@richlv @tagir_valeev Operators resetting/muting the alarm without understanding why it fired is a perfect example of alarm fatigue. A tragedy like that underscores why it's a Big Fuckin' Deal to avoid it. The root cause of a failure like that is almost never the dude who did that. It's the circumstances that led to that dude thinking it was the correct thing to do. Then people die. My own opinion that evacuation is always the drill. Working on the alarm device, be it wiring, programming, or the noise that comes out of it, is part of working on an end-to-end system that includes people going away from the alarm.
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majick @majick@mefi.social · Feb 12, 2026
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@majick@mefi.social

While not especially notable myself, I have been weirdly adjacent to quite a lot of notability. It's been an interesting life. Second generation San Franciscan, First-ish generation Oregonian; Product of three-and-a-quarter families; Standing(ish) at the intersection of bi-raciality, disability, and ND/MH I tinker with especially old computers, play games badly, write a little here and there, and share stories. Mostly, I try to help people—and systems—be better at what they want to do.

mefi.social

Dear everyone who says we should go back to "forums:"

1. Search for obscure procedure or document you know has to exist.
2. Find a forum post discussing most of it, with a critical file that seems to be nowhere else on the planet attached.
3. Click attachment so you can get the thing you need from the one source that offers it.
4. "You must be logged in to do that."

We should go back to the web.

Sincerely,
Curmudgeon

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majick @majick@mefi.social · Feb 12, 2026
majick
@majick@mefi.social

While not especially notable myself, I have been weirdly adjacent to quite a lot of notability. It's been an interesting life. Second generation San Franciscan, First-ish generation Oregonian; Product of three-and-a-quarter families; Standing(ish) at the intersection of bi-raciality, disability, and ND/MH I tinker with especially old computers, play games badly, write a little here and there, and share stories. Mostly, I try to help people—and systems—be better at what they want to do.

mefi.social
Replying to @tagir_valeev@mastodon.online
@tagir_valeev Exceptions like that are reasonable, I think, with the caveat that 'being prepared to not die' is the actual work on any good day.
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majick @majick@mefi.social · Feb 12, 2026
majick
@majick@mefi.social

While not especially notable myself, I have been weirdly adjacent to quite a lot of notability. It's been an interesting life. Second generation San Franciscan, First-ish generation Oregonian; Product of three-and-a-quarter families; Standing(ish) at the intersection of bi-raciality, disability, and ND/MH I tinker with especially old computers, play games badly, write a little here and there, and share stories. Mostly, I try to help people—and systems—be better at what they want to do.

mefi.social
Replying to @tagir_valeev@mastodon.online
@tagir_valeev More galling still, a scheduled test of a fire alarm system typically *still includes evacuation.* Leaving the building *is* the drill. I have never worked in an office where there was any condition under which occupants are told to ignore the alarm. Ignoring alarms leads to alarm fatigue which then leads to failure. Alarms either exist for a reason or they don't. A device that says otherwise is a broken device. You're right, devices like that will kill.
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majick @majick@mefi.social · Feb 07, 2026
majick
@majick@mefi.social

While not especially notable myself, I have been weirdly adjacent to quite a lot of notability. It's been an interesting life. Second generation San Franciscan, First-ish generation Oregonian; Product of three-and-a-quarter families; Standing(ish) at the intersection of bi-raciality, disability, and ND/MH I tinker with especially old computers, play games badly, write a little here and there, and share stories. Mostly, I try to help people—and systems—be better at what they want to do.

mefi.social

I made brownies yesterday to encourage the household to use up excess milk that's stocked up. That's working, but...

Y'know what I could go for today? An overly-opinionated package manager for something that has package management already.

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majick @majick@mefi.social · Feb 06, 2026
majick
@majick@mefi.social

While not especially notable myself, I have been weirdly adjacent to quite a lot of notability. It's been an interesting life. Second generation San Franciscan, First-ish generation Oregonian; Product of three-and-a-quarter families; Standing(ish) at the intersection of bi-raciality, disability, and ND/MH I tinker with especially old computers, play games badly, write a little here and there, and share stories. Mostly, I try to help people—and systems—be better at what they want to do.

mefi.social

Overconfident Guy on the Internet:
> "there should be no dependence on swap existing whatsoever as long as you have more than enough memory for the entire workload."

Dear Confident: we regret to inform you that dead pages in low-to-no utilization daemons are not 'workload.' Furthermore, we refer you to the concept of translation lookaside buffer crowding. Perhaps you might find illuminating investigating the ways in which the TLB repopulation cost of context switching increases latency?

Yours truly,
Actual Engineering

p.s. Rule of thumb for overconfident internet guys: cache repopulations suck even harder if the cache is full of dumpster fire pages.

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majick @majick@mefi.social · Feb 02, 2026
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@majick@mefi.social

While not especially notable myself, I have been weirdly adjacent to quite a lot of notability. It's been an interesting life. Second generation San Franciscan, First-ish generation Oregonian; Product of three-and-a-quarter families; Standing(ish) at the intersection of bi-raciality, disability, and ND/MH I tinker with especially old computers, play games badly, write a little here and there, and share stories. Mostly, I try to help people—and systems—be better at what they want to do.

mefi.social

It's not even four o'clock in the morning and I have read the most important phrase I will read today. From a screenshot of Tumblr of all things. It appears to originate in an extinct McCracken series aimed at 4th graders.

"The seeker seeks to help because he knows what it is to be helpless."

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majick @majick@mefi.social · Jan 29, 2026
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@majick@mefi.social

While not especially notable myself, I have been weirdly adjacent to quite a lot of notability. It's been an interesting life. Second generation San Franciscan, First-ish generation Oregonian; Product of three-and-a-quarter families; Standing(ish) at the intersection of bi-raciality, disability, and ND/MH I tinker with especially old computers, play games badly, write a little here and there, and share stories. Mostly, I try to help people—and systems—be better at what they want to do.

mefi.social

I am strongly considering taking up cross-stitching for the express purpose of expressing profanity. Today is not the day, I have other higher priority shit directly in my face to deal with. But I think I want that day to come soon.

At least I have a little practice sampler kit to learn the basics from.

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majick @majick@mefi.social · Jan 25, 2026
majick
@majick@mefi.social

While not especially notable myself, I have been weirdly adjacent to quite a lot of notability. It's been an interesting life. Second generation San Franciscan, First-ish generation Oregonian; Product of three-and-a-quarter families; Standing(ish) at the intersection of bi-raciality, disability, and ND/MH I tinker with especially old computers, play games badly, write a little here and there, and share stories. Mostly, I try to help people—and systems—be better at what they want to do.

mefi.social

Few things go well the first time you try them. It's a part of the iterative learning process: when you don't know what the fuck is going on under the hood you have to investigate. Scratch your head. Be confused.

Or you could install an UthernetII in your #AppleII and it works the first time without thinking about it.

For once, the latter happened.

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majick @majick@mefi.social · Jan 16, 2026
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@majick@mefi.social

While not especially notable myself, I have been weirdly adjacent to quite a lot of notability. It's been an interesting life. Second generation San Franciscan, First-ish generation Oregonian; Product of three-and-a-quarter families; Standing(ish) at the intersection of bi-raciality, disability, and ND/MH I tinker with especially old computers, play games badly, write a little here and there, and share stories. Mostly, I try to help people—and systems—be better at what they want to do.

mefi.social

Pulled the SID out of my "to-eventually-fix" #C64 and stuck it in my #C64Ultimate so I can use real hardware instead of Gideon's built-in emulation on the FPGA. Oh, man, that's so delicious.

The whole rig is now on par with my "to-eventually-fix" 64+1541U-ii setup and slightly easier to use, too.

Now to play those pack-in @lukhash@mastodon.social tunes for real!

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majick @majick@mefi.social · Jan 16, 2026
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@majick@mefi.social

While not especially notable myself, I have been weirdly adjacent to quite a lot of notability. It's been an interesting life. Second generation San Franciscan, First-ish generation Oregonian; Product of three-and-a-quarter families; Standing(ish) at the intersection of bi-raciality, disability, and ND/MH I tinker with especially old computers, play games badly, write a little here and there, and share stories. Mostly, I try to help people—and systems—be better at what they want to do.

mefi.social
Replying to @lukhash@mastodon.social
@lukhash@mastodon.social Holy shit this is FIRE!
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majick @majick@mefi.social · Nov 08, 2025
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@majick@mefi.social

While not especially notable myself, I have been weirdly adjacent to quite a lot of notability. It's been an interesting life. Second generation San Franciscan, First-ish generation Oregonian; Product of three-and-a-quarter families; Standing(ish) at the intersection of bi-raciality, disability, and ND/MH I tinker with especially old computers, play games badly, write a little here and there, and share stories. Mostly, I try to help people—and systems—be better at what they want to do.

mefi.social
Replying to @jhavard@mastodon.social
@jhavard @fluffy @jk "They even hired the systemd guy..." This explains multiple mysteries.
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majick @majick@mefi.social · Jan 31, 2025
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@majick@mefi.social

While not especially notable myself, I have been weirdly adjacent to quite a lot of notability. It's been an interesting life. Second generation San Franciscan, First-ish generation Oregonian; Product of three-and-a-quarter families; Standing(ish) at the intersection of bi-raciality, disability, and ND/MH I tinker with especially old computers, play games badly, write a little here and there, and share stories. Mostly, I try to help people—and systems—be better at what they want to do.

mefi.social
Replying to @lavaeolus@fedihum.org
@lavaeolus@fedihum.org If this independent effort (yay!) isn't yet coördinated with the more established ArchiveTeam, it might be beneficial to do so if for no other reason than to share resources! https://wiki.archiveteam.org
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