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Phil Ashby 🍵

@phlash@mastodon.me.uk

Meta-#Parent (#Grandparent)
#Space nerd (#FUNcube team)
#Guitarist (bass/acoustic)
#Sailor
Identical #Twin
old skool #Hacker (intern -> developer -> consultant -> security guy -> architect)
BT #Wireplay lead designer
#Retired -> #RetroComputing, #MicroPython, #FlightGear, #FUNcube #HamRadio (M6IPX), #SDR
- ported #Doom to 2022 #EMFcamp badge

Avatar: My #emfcamp 2026 hat
Header: Auckland panorama from Mt Eden.
Pronouns: he/him/oi you!
Maxim: Love thy neighbour - all of you, no exceptions! ❤️

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Joined April 25, 2022

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https://www.ashbysoft.com/articles/phlash

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https://sr.ht/~phlash/

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Phil Ashby

🍵 @phlash@mastodon.me.uk · Jul 19, 2026

@3goodthings@fedigroups.social #3GoodThings 1/ ElectroMagnetic Field #emfcamp has been utterly fabulous, as expected! 😍 2/ Many new friends made, and things to research when I get home... 3/ Totally banging final set in Null Sector from @gsuberland@chaos.social 🤘

Phil Ashby

🍵 @phlash@mastodon.me.uk · Jun 08, 2026

Replying to @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Oh my , look what fits... "Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, always gonna spin around and restore you!"...

Phil Ashby

🍵 @phlash@mastodon.me.uk · Jun 08, 2026

Replying to @Plan_A_to_Y@furry.engineer

@Plan_A_to_Y@furry.engineer @pwloftus@pwl.farted.net @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Vsync - James Brown classic: "always hit the one" 🎶

Phil Ashby

🍵 @phlash@mastodon.me.uk · May 17, 2026

Replying to @laurie@hachyderm.io

@laurie@hachyderm.io A thing of beauty, thank you 👏 🙃 I particularly like the SPIR punch cards..

Phil Ashby

🍵 @phlash@mastodon.me.uk · May 14, 2026

Replying to @reb@retro.social

@reb@retro.social Reminders are available from my bot 😁 @teabot@cupoftea.social

Phil Ashby

🍵 @phlash@mastodon.me.uk · May 13, 2026

Replying to @sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie

@sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie @pikesley@mastodon.me.uk Fairy Bose-Einstein Condensate, can crawl out of it's container....

Phil Ashby

🍵 @phlash@mastodon.me.uk · May 12, 2026

Replying to @Sheril@mastodon.social

@Sheril@mastodon.social This is what gets discussed at the book club I go to with my lovely partner, it's really interesting and fun!

Phil Ashby

🍵 @phlash@mastodon.me.uk · May 12, 2026

Replying to @dans@mastodon.me.uk

@dans@mastodon.me.uk @me@jaehanley.social I read it as "I would happliy buy a Chinese EV if my government and their controlling oligarchs would let me"

Phil Ashby

🍵 @phlash@mastodon.me.uk · May 12, 2026

Replying to @britter@chaos.social

@britter@chaos.social @rysiek@mstdn.social here for the frogejo 🐸 😁. Boing!

Phil Ashby

🍵 @phlash@mastodon.me.uk · May 06, 2026

Replying to @Becksy@mastodonapp.uk

@Becksy@mastodonapp.uk only barely, technically these are my daughters fish but she moved out to rented accommodation a few years back and they have a no pets, even fish policy so...

Phil Ashby

🍵 @phlash@mastodon.me.uk · May 03, 2026

Replying to @angelwood@merveilles.town

@angelwood@merveilles.town My day job 35 years ago, now some of my favourite things to read when #retrocomputing ☺

Phil Ashby

🍵 @phlash@mastodon.me.uk · May 01, 2026

Replying to @nixCraft@mastodon.social

@nixCraft IMO this. When softbank bailed out of nvidia (at a very decent profit!) it was all over bar the shouting that we are now witnessing. AI is dead, long live machine learning..

Phil Ashby

🍵 @phlash@mastodon.me.uk · Apr 29, 2026

Replying to @colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr

@colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr Loving the printer on top of the bench PSU to keep the paper dry?

Phil Ashby

🍵 @phlash@mastodon.me.uk · Apr 29, 2026

Replying to @phlash@mastodon.me.uk

@rygorous @bert_hubert @danluu My general feeling from 40 years in the industry is that there are many perverse incentives that drive people into bullshit tasks, re-inventing wheels, etc. that *could* be eliminated, but not without addressing the moral and social aspects that create existing perversities - current LLM hype does nothing towards this. End goals differ wildly between those who would ask the machine to "make me rich" and those who suffer the consequences of existing economics.

Phil Ashby

🍵 @phlash@mastodon.me.uk · Apr 29, 2026

Replying to @rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place

@rygorous @bert_hubert @danluu James sort of mentions the potential for LLMs to assist with the higher level challenges, towards the end of the post "But ultimately...by significantly reducing or removing essential difficulty from the software development process". This prompts (sic) me to think about how similar software systems really are (everything is s CRUD web app?) and that LLMs *should* have discovered such patterns, thus should provide that higher level help in formulating specs?

Phil Ashby

🍵 @phlash@mastodon.me.uk · Apr 24, 2026

Replying to @aadeacon@mastodon.social

@aadeacon @mayintoronto @ZachWeinersmith this! I use folks pretty much all the time as y'all feels odd (I'm british)

Phil Ashby

🍵 @phlash@mastodon.me.uk · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @alexhaydock@infosec.exchange

@alexhaydock Possibly this threat: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09717 ..but more likely attacks against the EDID and HEC support in display drivers, especially as HEC is largely abandoned and probably the driver code has had little attention for years.

Phil Ashby

🍵 @phlash@mastodon.me.uk · Apr 21, 2026

Replying to @thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza

@thesaigoneer I got frustrated by existing options and wanted to avoid running many processes: https://git.sr.ht/~phlash/phlashbar 👀 This is linux-specific, now looking at similar shenanigans for #freebsd 🙃

Phil Ashby

🍵 @phlash@mastodon.me.uk · Apr 19, 2026

Replying to @lilyyllyyllyly@mastodon.gamedev.place

@lilyyllyyllyly 👀 I feel seen 🙃

Phil Ashby

🍵 @phlash@mastodon.me.uk · Apr 18, 2026

Replying to @neauoire@merveilles.town

@neauoire I'm the lightest crew member (usually, unless kids are on board), so it's usually me up there trying to change the nav bulb... it's even more fun when done at anchor in a bay!

Phil Ashby

🍵 @phlash@mastodon.me.uk · Apr 18, 2026

Replying to @TeflonTrout@beige.party

@TeflonTrout @jmopp @skinnylatte @Daojoan Can confirm! Just in case folks have missed it... https://saladtheory.github.io/ from @gwenverbsnouns

Phil Ashby

🍵 @phlash@mastodon.me.uk · Apr 16, 2026

Replying to @jarkman@chaos.social

@jarkman @russss @gsuberland @yvan no no, how many La5£Rs!!?

Phil Ashby

🍵 @phlash@mastodon.me.uk · Apr 14, 2026

Replying to @mackaj@mastodon.me.uk

@mackaj yep ☺ my flow here is notifications, local feed, home feed, bookmarks if time.

Phil Ashby

🍵 @phlash@mastodon.me.uk · Apr 12, 2026

Replying to @ianthetechie@fosstodon.org

@ianthetechie Oooh a BSD homelab.. watching with interest as my brother & I work on our (currently) Linux based two-node multi-site cluster for hosting family services 😁 while getting mildly annoyed at the sheer volume of cruft on a standard (Debian, Ubuntu) Linux host these days. Rekon we might be up to releasing a stack of documentation soon!

Phil Ashby

🍵 @phlash@mastodon.me.uk · Apr 06, 2026

Replying to @prefec2@norden.social

@prefec2 @jwildeboer How about post framework server side rendering?

Phil Ashby

🍵 @phlash@mastodon.me.uk · Apr 06, 2026

Replying to @EllenInEdmonton@yeg.bike

@EllenInEdmonton @Giselle Seconding this ^^. Slow cookers have a tendancy to wash out flavour rather than concentrate it (no liquid reduction, unlike stove top cookery). There is also no browning (Malliard reaction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maillard_reaction) which often contributes richness & umami. I find slow cooked onions in particular have an unpleaseant metallic tanginess unless pre-browned. Do enjoy the curry, and ask why a lot as you watch / get involved in the process!

Phil Ashby

🍵 @phlash@mastodon.me.uk · Aug 03, 2024

Replying to @adele@phpc.social

@adele@phpc.social Seems possible.. the PDF viewer started out as a plugin and is still written in JS. There are some very capable Markdown plugins like: https://md-reader.github.io/ for serious multi-format support, pandoc-as-a-plugin would be awesome 😁

Phil Ashby 🍵

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