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Switchy leatherman into bad puns, thick boys, and distributed systems. Purveyor of fine jockstrap selfies. Woof.group admin.

Jim Starkey: "Of interest only to third-rate academics a few papers short of a tenure package."

Reddit: "would never ever ever hire this degenerate holy shit"

Peter Watts: "The most innovative fanfic I've ever read."

Last Notes

2024-08-13 18:18:58

I am begging software projects to release programs as tarballs or plain old static binaries. I don't know what a Helm chart is. I am not installing an entire Kubernetes cluster. Docker breaks LXC and firewalls and is constantly breaking for mysterious reasons. I would rather submit myself to hours of `./configure && make && make install` frustration than try to hack through the endless hellscape of containerized deployment systems.

2024-06-26 16:13:31

I love that reviewers get mad about Blizzard adding gay characters to Overwatch as if every single Overwatch character were not already gay

2024-06-07 17:57:34

So I popped by this estate sale for this gay leather couple and oh my GOD, what an experience. I... bought one of Chuck Renslow's jocks? And a text entitled "New Catechism of the Steam Engine"!? They had a whole model train room. Absolutely jaw dropping. I feel like I'm looking into my future.
https://estatesalegoddess.com/event/classic-men/

2024-06-03 13:03:44

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2024-04-15 20:23:46

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@npub1m9h…7spx You're... probably not wrong, it would really fit the aesthetic of the house and I look at it every day

2024-03-15 15:23:29

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TBH we should just offer direct grants/subsidies for this sort of thing. It's so difficult, even if you try to do all your homework right, to qualify for tax credits. Even the manufacturer didn't know they didn't qualify until recently.

2024-03-15 15:22:01

Fuck. Just discovered the $20,000 I spent on new windows last year doesn't qualify for the energy efficiency home improvement credit. They spec Energy Star V7, and the manufacturer only had V6.

2024-02-26 22:38:56

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@npub1m9h…7spx We block/silence a fair number of transphobic people & instances on woof.group, and I'm not sure I'd say that does "no good" for our users. :-/

2024-01-24 14:10:38

We started getting weird signup requests on woof.group for LA law firms this week. They're obviously spam, and they're coming from ABTS Karnataka IP space, so presumably it's actually an Indian company--but I can't figure out the angle. Shady marketing contractor? Independent actor using the firms' identities as cover for unrelated spam? The HTML tags in the request suggests it's at least partly automated.
Called one of the firms yesterday, and they had no idea what was happening. #admin
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2024-01-01 23:35:40

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If you're not sure where else to go, https://woof.group will be happy to host your account. Just mention bear.community in your application.
We've got no way to notify bear.community members about this directly--for good security reasons, Masto.host won't let random strangers take over the instance. That means we've got to let people know by word of mouth.
Urso, if you're out there--hope you're OK! ❤️

2023-12-11 20:54:40

Remember back before systemd how when something went wrong on a computer it put text into a log file and you could find out what happened? That was neat. We should do that again.

2023-11-06 16:16:16

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@npub1m9h…7spx ugh, lost the game again

2023-10-17 12:55:29

The gay tax of having contractors come to your house and spending two hours disassembling all the dungeon furniture and hiding the art with dicks because you don't know how Random Straight Men are gonna handle it.
The Birdcage still hits close to home

2023-08-20 16:29:56

Kris, you were such a force in this world. I remember walking through Fillmore with you chatting about containers, mountaineering, and everything under the sun. You were a prolific engineer, writer, and organizer--so full of ideas and spark. You were a beautiful person.
To all the peaks.
https://krisnova.net/bio/
https://hachyderm.io/@quintessence/110922746691596046
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2023-03-22 14:28:36

having a dockerfile for your software is a great way to ensure that people will send you an endless stream of bugfixes that break each other's docker setups