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Thea

@sitharus@cloudisland.nz
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Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️

Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

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Joined May 14, 2020
pronouns:
She/Her
IRL name:
Thea
Website:
https://thea.hutchings.gen.nz/

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sitharus
Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Jul 14, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Replying to @sitharus@cloudisland.nz
@stephen@ephemera.vital.org.nz z-wave has the advantage of not using 2.4Ghz, but the disadvantage of using region specific frequencies so you can’t import it without making sure it’s the NZ/AU frequency model.
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Jul 14, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Replying to @stephen@ephemera.vital.org.nz
@stephen@ephemera.vital.org.nz z-wave, though it’s expensive, ZigBee, and Thread - home assistant has details on setting up your own Thread border router, though there’s likely some premade thread routers that don’t talk to the internet. Most of Ikea’s smart home products are Thread. I now use all three of those - Hue ZigBee lighting, Ikea Thread air quality monitor, ZWave smart switches since I’ve had those the longest
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Jul 12, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Boosted by Trending Bot @trending@homestead.social
I heard "It's just common sense" one too many times and got all ranty. https://thea.hutchings.gen.nz/2026/July/common_sense_and_the_theory_of_mind.html
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Jul 11, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
SMH people saying early 3D games were “blocky” and “angular”. How are you supposed to show off how many triangles your 3D accelerator can do if you can’t see the triangles?!
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Jun 14, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Boosted by Trending Bot @trending@homestead.social
I feel very alert right now!
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · May 15, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Replying to @evolutionise@cloudisland.nz
@evolutionise@cloudisland.nz They had one job!
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · May 14, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Boosted by fedicat @fedicat@pc.cafe
Hey lazywebs, where’s a good place to learn how people who use accessibility settings and devices on phones actually use them? I want to make sure the app I work on is as accessible as I can make it. Everything I can find says “use this and it’s accessible”, but when I try the accessibility tools the result is… well garbage. So I want to find how who people actually use these tools expect them to behave so I can properly set up the app.
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · May 09, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz

Huh, plasma arc cooktops for gas-like cooking without gas! Sounds really good for wok cooking and making every amateur radio user in a kilometres or so hate you!

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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · May 08, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Replying to @megahbite@cloudisland.nz
@megahbite@cloudisland.nz yeah. I managed to tame it with tinted mode, reduce motion, and reduce bright effects. Still not good though. Reduce motion is a bit too reduced for me, but the constant jiggling of everything without it is worse.
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · May 08, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz

Yesterday I learned that The Chemical Brothers’ Hey Boy Hey Girl’s lyrics aren’t “hey boys, hey girls”.

It’s a sample from The Roof is on Fire by Rock Master Scott & The Dynamic Three. The lyrics are “hey girls, b-boys, superstar DJs, here we go!”

But that song is also the basis of the song of the same name by The Bloodhound Gang. Then I realised I remember almost all the lyrics to the rap part of that song.

I don’t need to remember that! I need to remember the groceries!

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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · May 01, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Replying to @gwen@tech.lgbt
@gwen@tech.lgbt @diazona@techhub.social after some testing I’ve updated my blog post. It appears that my home server is set up weirdly, that shouldn’t surprise me 😅
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Apr 30, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Replying to @pearofdoom@cloudisland.nz
@pearofdoom@cloudisland.nz It's especially fun when you use Alpine linux, since it uses musl instead of glibc and doesn't use systemd
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Apr 30, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Replying to @sitharus@cloudisland.nz
Updated this post, the try/except block seems to be needed on machines that have a working af_alg, which mine apparently doesn't :D Still got to the magic 666 bytes though!
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Apr 30, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Replying to @mejofi@ngmx.com
@mejofi@ngmx.com yeah. I’m starting to suspect that af_alg is actually totally broken on my machine for some reason. I re-enabled it and the OpenSSL benchmark runs much slower when using it…
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Apr 30, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Replying to @mejofi@ngmx.com
@mejofi@ngmx.com setting up a Debian VM because apparently socket.recv throws on some systems as well... I bet this is something to do with musl and non-systemd systems :)
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Apr 30, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
setting up a Debian VM because apparently no two linuxes are alike…
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Apr 30, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Replying to @mejofi@ngmx.com
@mejofi@ngmx.com on my Alpine 3.23 system the blacklist prevents the exploit, the socket bind call for aead fails
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Apr 30, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Replying to @diazona@techhub.social
@diazona@techhub.social @gwen@tech.lgbt iiiinteresting. Perhaps it depends on some system config, I use alpine for all my VMs so I guess it’s time to try Debian or something.
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Apr 30, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
There is a previous draft of my blog post which criticises the slop on the copy.fail website and PoC a lot more... I decided it distracted from pointing out all the problems.
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Apr 30, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Replying to @gwen@tech.lgbt
@gwen@tech.lgbt I was wondering, but it's after midnight and I have work in the morning 😆
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Apr 30, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz

I've seen a bunch of really weird "fixes" for copy.fail with strange modprobe things.

Add this line to /etc/modprobe.d/af_alg.conf or any .conf file in there you like:

blacklist algif_aead

I also disabled af_alg entirely because it's not useful on my machines:

blacklist af_alg

if lsmod | grep af_alg shows anything reboot, or use rmmod if you know how.

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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Apr 30, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Replying to @sitharus@cloudisland.nz
@gwen@tech.lgbt Wait, 615 bytes with another optimisation I forgot :)
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Apr 30, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Replying to @sitharus@cloudisland.nz
Wait I forgot an optimisation. I saved 66 bytes for a python 2.5 compatible size of 666 bytes! :blobhaj_devilsneaky:
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Apr 30, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Replying to @sitharus@cloudisland.nz
Yes I need to make the code blocks better... not sure how though.
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Apr 30, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Replying to @sitharus@cloudisland.nz
OK I blogged about this, got it down to 654 bytes if you exclude Python 3.5, 672 if you need 3.5 support: https://thea.hutchings.gen.nz/2026/April/copy_fail_code_golf.html
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Apr 30, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Replying to @gwen@tech.lgbt
@gwen@tech.lgbt Neat! That gets down to 620 bytes with all the extra things I found in Python!
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Apr 30, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Replying to @gwen@tech.lgbt
@gwen@tech.lgbt I don't think a human wrote the Python at least, I haven't looked in to the ELF. It's clearly not machine minified, and if a human did that I'm very disappointed in them. Basic things like socket.recv doesn't throw since Python 3.5, so there's no need for the try. Even if you were targeting pre-3.5 you don't need it there. I agree that it's just trying to sound scary, but it doesn't need to be this obfuscated.
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Apr 29, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Replying to @yakmoose@cloudisland.nz
@yakmoose Maybe this evening when I can set up a test VM 😆
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Apr 29, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Replying to @sitharus@cloudisland.nz
I should add that I haven’t validated the unminified version because I don’t have a vulnerable system to check, and I need to do my Real Job so don’t have time to spin up a VM.
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Apr 29, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
It really bugged me that copy.fail only published the (very poorly) minified Python proof of concept exploit, so I unminified it https://www.thea.net.nz/~thea/unminified.py Why do I say very poorly? There are at least 5 extraneous bytes: a redundant comma and two cases of a value which is also the default parameter. That and including a shebang in a .py file is redundant. Additionally Python has a function specifically for AF_ALG sockets, which would save even more bytes. They said 732 bytes, I say 688. Anyway here's a slightly more pythonic version: https://www.thea.net.nz/~thea/unminified_pythonic.py
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Apr 29, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Replying to @witix@mk.absturztau.be
@witix I don’t know about anyone else, but I’d love to experience the power of [product name]! Sold!
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Apr 29, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Life is like a hurricane #NowPlaying
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Apr 16, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Replying to @canllaith@chaos.social
@canllaith@chaos.social @duckalini@cloudisland.nz @jsr@social.jsr.com Ah, my client didn’t load all the messages. I thought it was about the AI enslopification they sold for.
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Apr 16, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Replying to @canllaith@chaos.social
@canllaith@chaos.social @duckalini@cloudisland.nz @jsr@social.jsr.com they sold all the shoe assets (and liabilities!) to a fashion conglomerate to get the cash they’re going to throw in to the AI dumpster fire. The shoes will be owned by American Exchange Group, pending a shareholder vote.
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Apr 01, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Replying to @xssfox@cloudisland.nz
@xssfox fair, it just irks me that we’re destroying perfectly functioning things.
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Apr 01, 2026
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Replying to @Heterokromia@aus.social
@Heterokromia @xssfox Why aren't there programs to install second-hand panels for people who can't afford new ones? I'm no solar expert but even at 50% of originally installed capacity that's still better than none!
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Nov 06, 2022
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Replying to @vapid@mastodon.nu
@vapid@mastodon.nu it does, you can't search everything in the fediverse because it's not a unified network. Larger instances will (in theory) have more diverse connections and therefore more results in search.
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Nov 06, 2022
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Replying to @marcosflobo@hachyderm.io
@marcosflobo@hachyderm.io it depends on your instance. Some are run for free because their admins want to and have spare server space, some take donations, some - like the one I use - have subscriptions. Back In The Day services like irc and usenet were often run on the side by ISP or university sysadmins. Part of the decentralisation of the fediverse is that these different models can exist and communicate, we don’t have to find just one that works
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Nov 06, 2022
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Replying to @busesarecoolactually@toot.community
@busesarecoolactually@toot.community you can search for hashtags and people, not on arbitrary content. It’s a deliberate choice to stop topic brigading. Also you can only search what your instance has seen, not the whole fediverse.
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Nov 06, 2022
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz
Replying to @sitharus@cloudisland.nz
This also is very much like early Twitter. I joined in 2007. Twitter was a cheap group SMS service, it connected you to your friends not to companies and celebrities. I get that I’m not like most people. I grew up in a very conservative rural area so the internet has always been my connection to friends and peer groups, a way to converse with people rather than a way to escape or get famous.
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Thea @sitharus@cloudisland.nz · Nov 06, 2022
Thea
@sitharus@cloudisland.nz

Coding, sewing, baking. I know far too much about AWS. 🏳️‍⚧️ Known to rant about chronic fatigue and the healthcare system.

cloudisland.nz

I keep seeing people say Mastodon is nothing like Twitter. And they’re right.

Mastodon is an echo of the old internet, it’s decentralised, chaotic. What you get depends on your sysadmin. You can’t search, everything has to be shared to you by a human. Networks split apart and rejoin. What you see is your unique connection to it.

Is this good? Maybe. But for me that’s the internet I grew up with. No algorithms, no targeted adverts, just human interaction, and it was glorious.

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