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Zack Weinberg

@zwol@masto.hackers.town
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Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET.

Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking.

New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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223 Following
50 Posts
Joined April 12, 2025
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physiologically cismale | politically agender | he/him preferred
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pittsburgh, pennsylvania
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all ages welcome, occasional swears

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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · Aug 02, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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Replying to @jwz@mastodon.social
@jwz@mastodon.social @jspath55@chaos.social that may well be the oldest occurrence still to be found *on the web*, but I'm certain it was already making the rounds on USENET at least five years before 2003 thanks for trying, though! at least that copy's got *someone's* pseud attached
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · Aug 02, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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Anyone happen to know who originally wrote the checklist response to poorly thought out antispam measures, easiest found today at https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt ? I remember seeing it circulating on USENET back in the nineties, but today I cannot find any version with attribution.
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · Jul 21, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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Replying to @darius@friend.camp
@darius@friend.camp I also read McSquared's Calculus Primer at about age 12. Sill the most lucid presentation of epsilon-delta proofs I have ever seen. (however, it spent *so much time* on continuity that it didn't really have enough space left over for differentials; when I got to Calculus A in high school we breezed past continuity in a couple weeks and spent months on what I'd thought was far less important)
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · Jul 18, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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Dear Wikimedia Foundation, I will not be giving you any money until you quit it with the union-busting, kthxbye
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · Jul 14, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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Does anyone make a mousing device that's in two separate pieces, one piece either a trackpad or a trackball, and the other piece has a set of mouse buttons? So you can hold buttons with one hand while dragging with the other.
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · Jul 14, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

masto.hackers.town
Replying to @ifixcoinops@retro.social
@ifixcoinops@retro.social can the handle be removed and replaced with a longer pole acquired in some raccoonish fashion?
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · Jul 13, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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Replying to @zwol@masto.hackers.town
@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange Because of this, my thought is we bake into machine language the principle that registers *have no byte order*, byte order is a thing that happens when data moves in or out of memory, and you have to make an explicit choice every single time you do that. And then that gives us the leverage to insist on the same principle at all higher levels. It's a rebuild-the-world idea but that's where all these polls are anyway.
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · Jul 13, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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Replying to @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange It might help to understand where I'm coming from if you know that at my job (which is an almost exclusively Python shop and we deal with a lot of historical scientific data that was archived big-endian) it is regularly a problem for me that NumPy exposes the endianness of data on disk to the programmer *without* also giving them the necessary tools to handle it efficiently. You wind up copying entire multi-GB data blocks just to byteswap them.
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · Jul 13, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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Replying to @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange I have the impression Spring's solution rests on "doors" being synchronous. If I designed a microkernel it would be strictly asynchronous: all cross-domain invocations "just" queue a message and the *only* blocking operation is "wait for next message". Backpressure is achieved by charging senders for all messages in flight. I *think* this environment could handle priority inheritance by tracking the task priorities of all unacknowledged messages.
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · Jul 12, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

masto.hackers.town
Replying to @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange I recall microkernels having similar problems with offering flexible scheduling policies, so that research seems like it might pay off in a bunch of directions.
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · Jul 12, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

masto.hackers.town
Replying to @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange I have had a *lot* of bad experiences with software that blindly assumes CPU endianness is interchange endianness, enough that I'm tempted to burn that bit of instruction encoding space, just to force low level programmers to make an explicit decision up front. The real counterargument is that for this to help you'd also have to force people to annotate the endianness of every non-register variable in every language besides assembly. And still I think it might be worth it.
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · Jul 11, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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CPU architecture in which there are no asynchronous interrupts, only hardware tasks that can be suspended waiting for an external event

yes
66.7% (12)
better idea:
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33.3% (6)
18 votes Poll closed
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · Jul 11, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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CPU architecture in which each register is extended with the standard set of arithmetic-result flags (zero, negative, carry, etc), which are set by anything that writes that register; conditional instructions can read these flags from any register; thus splitting the difference between "one flags re

yes
68.4% (13)
no
31.6% (6)
better idea:
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · Jul 11, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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CPU architecture in which all instructions that access data in memory *require* you to specify the byte order of the value in memory

better idea:
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64.5% (20)
yes
29.0% (9)
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · Jul 06, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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WD-40: machine lubricant or prophylactic?

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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · Jul 04, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

masto.hackers.town
Replying to @zwol@masto.hackers.town
this poll brought to you by the knob and tube wiring and the absence of subfloors in my 90 year old house
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · Jul 04, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

masto.hackers.town
Replying to @zwol@masto.hackers.town
My "something else" is the windows installed by the previous owner, which look nice when new and are decent insulators, but according to the guys I hired last spring to clean them all, something about the surface coating makes them attract dust which is then really hard to clean off dishonorable mention to all the frickin' glass block (but that's really about prev owner's questionable opinions about where ventilation is not needed)
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · Jul 04, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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What building practices of today will our descendants curse us for 90 years from now?

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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · Jun 04, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

masto.hackers.town
Replying to @marginalia@mastodon.social
@marginalia@mastodon.social @drwho@masto.hackers.town @reykjalin@social.treehouse.systems @b0rk@social.jvns.ca I think that's the technique that I remember not being able to handle searches where the order of words in the sentence matters. If I search for "convert git to mercurial" I don't want instructions for the opposite procedure.
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · Jun 03, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

masto.hackers.town
Replying to @drwho@masto.hackers.town
@drwho@masto.hackers.town @reykjalin@social.treehouse.systems @b0rk@social.jvns.ca @marginalia@mastodon.social I guess I was imagining that the LLM might be useful for handling things like, if I search for "convert A to B", I don't want instructions for converting B to A. Document retrieval really isn't my field though.
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · Jun 03, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

masto.hackers.town
Replying to @reykjalin@social.treehouse.systems
@reykjalin@social.treehouse.systems @b0rk@social.jvns.ca Serious research question: suppose a search engine that uses an LLM to *interpret queries* but not to produce text; the output is the traditional set of documents that seem to be statistically relevant to the query. The search engine's operators will need to train the model on the documents it can retrieve. How much *additional* natural-language text will they need to feed in to get something that does acceptably well at query interpretation? possibly relevant to @marginalia@mastodon.social
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · May 10, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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Replying to @gemelen@mammut.moe
@gemelen@mammut.moe thanks I'll try that
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · May 10, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

masto.hackers.town
Replying to @zwol@masto.hackers.town
So uh, anyone know a fedi client for android that either does boost and like notification aggregation, or can mute selected notifications for specific posts? I am delighted that yinz love my casual photo of a car in my neighborhood but this is getting ridiculous
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · May 09, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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Replying to @Littlebobbytables@mstdn.social
@Littlebobbytables@mstdn.social Roughly the same form factor, innit?
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · May 08, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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Let's Encrypt was down for three hours and apparently Caddy doesn't implement exponential backoff when it starts getting 503s from its ACME server, nor does it have the sense to remember the failure across vhosts

so I have received 102 copies of the same error message from my log scanner

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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · May 08, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

masto.hackers.town
Replying to @sarajw@front-end.social
@sarajw@front-end.social I love the idea and if you had one of those retro 88x31 gif badges I would put it on my website
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · May 08, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

masto.hackers.town
Replying to @SpiritualTechie@weirder.earth
@SpiritualTechie@weirder.earth me and @haloedrain@toot.cafe are still driving a 2002 Mazda Protege and plan to keep driving it until the engine gives out
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · May 08, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

masto.hackers.town
Replying to @killick@dmv.community
@killick@dmv.community In Japan they're fully road legal including highways, so I would assume there's at least some level of crash protection in the design, but I do not know what the actual standards are over there
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · May 08, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

masto.hackers.town
Replying to @keithpjolley@discuss.systems
@keithpjolley@discuss.systems @unsafelyhotboots@sharkey.world roof height is meh. it's ride height that really matters. (see other reply)
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · May 08, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

masto.hackers.town
Replying to @keithpjolley@discuss.systems
@keithpjolley@discuss.systems @unsafelyhotboots@sharkey.world I'm a ride height extremist. I think you should have to have a commercial driver's license to drive anything whose front grill is tall enough that, if there were a small child standing directly in front of the grill, you wouldn't be able to see them from the cab. (I don't know if CDL training covers that, but it _ought_ to.)
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · May 08, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

masto.hackers.town
Replying to @keithpjolley@discuss.systems
@keithpjolley@discuss.systems @unsafelyhotboots@sharkey.world TELO's still too tall. If they had a two-door model and they matched the ride height and roof height to the Mini Cooper SE that they like to compare to, then I might conceivably be interested.
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · May 08, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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Replying to @zwol@masto.hackers.town
@ethagnawl@mastodon.social My neighborhood is full of the modern pickups. Each one takes up two normal-sized cars' worth of street parking space.
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · May 08, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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Replying to @megabyteghost@masto.hackers.town
@megabyteghost@masto.hackers.town @hugo@social.treehouse.systems @unsafelyhotboots@sharkey.world further research indicates they _are_ road legal in many US states but it's kind of a mess, see e.g. https://keitruckconnect.com/us-states-you-can-drive-kei-trucks/
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · May 08, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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Replying to @FrazzledWings@bark.lgbt
@FrazzledWings@bark.lgbt the one in the photo is at least 30 years old and probably a stick shift (i didn't look at it that closely) but i'm sure they make 'em with automatic transmissions nowadays
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · May 08, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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Replying to @zwol@masto.hackers.town
@energisch_@troet.cafe yeah! probably not the one in the photo though, it looked like it was at least 30 years old under the paint job
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · May 08, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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Replying to @jiub@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net
@jiub@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net I did not know that! it's amazing what happens when the designers are thinking about utility first
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · May 08, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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Replying to @hugo@social.treehouse.systems
@hugo@social.treehouse.systems @megabyteghost@masto.hackers.town @unsafelyhotboots@sharkey.world oof, didn't even notice that until you pointed it out. (also apparently "all mini trucks advertised here are sold for off-road use only in the US and speed-limited as per federal law" which would explain why the one in my original photo is the first one I've actually seen in the wild; according to the license plate on the back (intentionally not photographed) that one is probably only road-legal under special "vintage car" rules...)
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · May 08, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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Replying to @megabyteghost@masto.hackers.town
@megabyteghost@masto.hackers.town that use case is probably better served by something along the lines of a VW microbus, yeah
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · May 08, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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Replying to @unsafelyhotboots@sharkey.world
@unsafelyhotboots@sharkey.world I regret to say I know nothing about that.
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · May 08, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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This is the ideal pickup truck. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · May 08, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

masto.hackers.town
Replying to @mdm@mcnamarii.town
@mdm@mcnamarii.town @flamecat@bark.lgbt @vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net I remember playing Myst for the first time and already being suspicious of both brothers after collecting only one or two pages of each prison book. I got stuck on the underground maze and didn't finish the game until years and years later by which time I'd been spoiled on the twist — but when I heard about it I was like, ha, I thought that was where the writers were going.
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · May 07, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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Replying to @mdione@en.osm.town
@mdione@en.osm.town @mwl@io.mwl.io @grumpybozo@toad.social @djfiander@code4lib.social @b0rk@social.jvns.ca I believe so, yeah.
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · May 07, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

masto.hackers.town
Replying to @bjc@tines.spork.org
@bjc@tines.spork.org @djfiander@code4lib.social @mdione@en.osm.town @mwl@io.mwl.io @b0rk@social.jvns.ca @grumpybozo@toad.social That or NetApp Filers, yeah.
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · May 07, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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Replying to @zwol@masto.hackers.town
@mwl@io.mwl.io @mdione@en.osm.town @grumpybozo@toad.social @djfiander@code4lib.social @b0rk@social.jvns.ca That said, the *point* of scrub is the same as for RAID: it checks *all* the block checksums. Ordinary FS operations only check block checksums on blocks that are referenced by those operations. If a disk sector goes bad within a file that's rarely accessed, and scrub is not being run periodically, nothing will notice until the next time the file *is* accessed, which might be too late to recover it. (2/2)
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · May 07, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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Replying to @mwl@io.mwl.io
@mwl@io.mwl.io @mdione@en.osm.town @grumpybozo@toad.social @djfiander@code4lib.social @b0rk@social.jvns.ca I reiterate that scrub *does not* do what fsck does. It *only* checks block checksums. It does not check for semantic errors in the on-disk data structures. This is a design error and an unforgivable act of hubris by the ZFS developers. (1/2)
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · May 06, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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Replying to @grumpybozo@toad.social
@grumpybozo@toad.social @djfiander@code4lib.social @mwl@io.mwl.io @b0rk@social.jvns.ca that's what I'm talking about when I say unforgivable hubris
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · May 06, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

masto.hackers.town
Replying to @mwl@io.mwl.io
@mwl@io.mwl.io @grumpybozo@toad.social @djfiander@code4lib.social @b0rk@social.jvns.ca zfs scrub does not validate or correct the on-disk data structure, it only checks the block checksums. That's what I mean by "doesn't have a *real* fsck." The data loss I experienced was due to a buggy migration of the on-disk data structure. All the block checksums validated, but files became inaccessible. Scrub did nothing. A real fsck might have dumped a bunch of stuff into lost+found, but that would've been enough to avoid having to restore from backup.
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · May 06, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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Replying to @technomancy@hey.hagelb.org
@technomancy@hey.hagelb.org only thing that comes to mind is https://archiveofourown.org/works/8613352 by @kitty@unpretty.space
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · May 06, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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Replying to @djfiander@code4lib.social
@djfiander@code4lib.social @mwl@io.mwl.io @b0rk@social.jvns.ca if you actually do a zine about ZFS please make sure to mention that it doesn't have a real fsck, and yes, this can and *has* caused data loss in production. to me. personally. not that i'm bitter. not that this wouldn't be an unforgivable act of hubris by the zfs developers even if it had never caused anyone any data loss even in testing, either.
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Zack Weinberg @zwol@masto.hackers.town · May 05, 2026
Zack Weinberg
@zwol@masto.hackers.town

Nerd of all disciplines. Online just barely long enough to remember USENET. Analog interests include pottery, candlemaking, board games, science fiction and fantasy, photography, and cooking. New follows welcome, but I probably won't follow back because I can't keep up as is. Also, if you are on a large instance please fill out your profile first so I can tell you aren't a spambot.

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Replying to @flamecat@bark.lgbt
@flamecat @vga256 I gotta wonder if that twist was the plan all along and they carefully didn't spoil it in the pitch.
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