dave
Dave W

https://dave.io

big queer infra overlord.  devops, infosec, politics, shitposts. collaboration not competition.  may contain gender.

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dave@dave.io

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2025-05-28 17:09:43

Thoroughly impressed with Keyoxide. Sidesteps the problem we ran into with Keybase of a third party which could go away. All the data is in the key and the proofs. The Webpage just provides easy validation; it calls across to the services to fetch the proofs in-browser.
https://keyoxide.org/729A7FAAB95A78A7AAB70E06B22EFAE146E2BB7E

2025-05-28 00:08:37

The alt text endpoint is working! Via GET anyway, I forgot to test POST.
But anyway; if you’d like a JWT which will let you call it for a week or 50 successful calls (whichever comes first), give me a yell.
Calling via GET is easy; `https://dave.io/api/ai/alt?image=X` where X is a URL-encoded image URL.

2025-05-22 11:53:36

if you have never seen star trek tos and for some reason don't want to, this image pretty much covers all the major plot points. you're welcome https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9a48e66ec6a813050f31911d595d5ad76db512b45b2edec6bee73a9fbbd4aca7/14f828141f90dc091613b0ff06002d43e8d60232f75cfd6bb745ee8f060b4bb3.webp

2025-05-15 23:36:18

As API endpoints go, this is pretty mindblowing.
https://developers.cloudflare.com/browser-rendering/rest-api/json-endpoint/#with-a-prompt-and-json-schema

2025-05-13 19:04:19

Can anyone do me a favour and identify this TV show? It appears to be on Amazon Prime. Image searches have not proved fruitful. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9a48e66ec6a813050f31911d595d5ad76db512b45b2edec6bee73a9fbbd4aca7/0b4566bc496a44f088b0e03ce2df34151c7be61ed5a4557b7134f61eaa90feb1.webp

2025-05-10 00:28:24

Got an Indian kid on Threads trying to tell me that the Wordpress scan is still legit despite it being a static site, and that being a static site doesn’t mean I don’t have to keep Wordpress up to date.
Did I mention that he’s looking for an infosec gig?
I despair.

2025-05-09 14:28:01

It's easy to sleep on BLAKE'S 7, it's fairly niche, and made on a budget of 50p and some wishes. Planets in the 'viewscreen' are tennis balls wrapped in tin foil dangling on a string.
But you really should check it out, the setting is superb British bleakness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxtZ1XXGk7I

2025-05-06 21:25:37

Demand commitment from the Democratic Party that they will apply all possible pressure to repatriate and try the people sent to El Salvador.
If found guilty and given a custodial sentence, sent to American prison under American law.
(you are not ready for the conversation about prison abolition)

2025-05-06 01:50:49

those splines aren't gonne reticulate themselves yanno

2025-05-05 15:05:35

Cloudflare released a bunch of MCPs late last week (13 of them). The others are very useful for interaction with Cloudflare services, but there's one which is a total gamechanger.
The Container MCP. It lets you spin up arbitrary containers on Cloudflare's infra.
https://github.com/cloudflare/mcp-server-cloudflare/tree/main/apps/sandbox-container

2025-05-04 12:08:33

the two flavours of Cat https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9a48e66ec6a813050f31911d595d5ad76db512b45b2edec6bee73a9fbbd4aca7/89e0987f690da387dd0536cdc302f062c5a3306169cce98e5716ffe58edb887e.webp

2025-05-02 16:21:50

today in atproto crimes, by @atpota.to on bluesky
https://flushes.app

2025-05-01 20:12:56

The owner of Substack is a turbo bastard. Do with that information what you will, the discoverability and monetisation possibilities are tough to give up. I realise that.
But if all else is equal, maybe consider alternatives.
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/14/substack-ceo-chris-best-doesnt-realize-hes-just-become-the-nazi-bar/
https://archive.is/E3DGg

2025-04-30 00:01:58

Ten years ago I absolutely could predict that every day would bring new reasons to use the word “irredeemable”, but not the sheer velocity of the horror.
They know that and they use it. Hit us with so many awful things, so quickly, that we can’t spend any time reacting to any single one of them.

2025-04-19 13:19:15

Today's DOCTOR WHO is pretty interesting, considering the people doing the animation are Disney themselves.

2025-04-16 16:37:23

With my memory truly dire because of the MS, I'm loving Pieces LTM. Similar to Recall, but I trust Pieces more than Microsoft, and a lot of the processing is done on-device (including configurably exclusively on-device). Ask questions about what you've done, get answers. https://pieces.app/blog/what-is-new-ltm-2

2025-04-15 15:09:27

ARTISTS: Would a platform for microcommissioning be useful?
Somewhere people can go to pay a small (usually £20 or less) fee for basic artwork?
Something to use instead of using AI, and pay an amount which can be disregarded for it?
Or is the number too low to matter? Does Fiverr do it already?

2025-04-14 16:53:20

Also I know it's childish but has anyone even LOOKED at the Blue Origin vehicle
I made COME ON
It's got a BELL END

2025-04-12 10:47:13

Varada Sethu’s new Companion is superb. I’ve always been a bit annoyed at the Companion’s tendency to magic roundabout whenever the Doctor gets technical, and Belinda absolutely does not. Sure, the Companion is an audience cipher, but the audience aren’t stupid!

2025-04-12 09:53:02

Gacha will always confuse the shit out of me. It’s not your friend. It’s not even a game design choice. It comes from the marketing department plain and simple. Reject it.

2025-04-12 09:46:25

Having a real “Nigel what” (not autocarrot) moment, didn’t realise the new series of Doctor Who had already hit iPlayer. Cracking.

2025-04-08 11:21:26

Terrible Men: HAHA MEN ARE GOING TO 'DATE' AI AND HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH WOMEN
Women: it's a deal

2025-04-08 10:35:52

If only there were some kind of trading bloc without tariffs or impediment, maybe even one near us geographically. Maybe we could call it ‘Yurop’ or something.
This is what happens when we willingly tie ourselves to America.
https://apple.news/Ay1Ar2trCTyygl0DTUkzhTg

2025-04-04 15:26:16

Will the power come back in 4 hours or will my monoclonal antibodies denature? It is a fun race!

2025-04-03 13:16:34

Depressing that everyone responding to this is talking about NuWho. The answer is clearly THE HAPPINESS PATROL.
Which is very much not as bad as everyone said. It's ludicrous, but that's DOCTOR WHO for you. It's *enormously* political. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9a48e66ec6a813050f31911d595d5ad76db512b45b2edec6bee73a9fbbd4aca7/d4ccb52b86479805e3be944e94abfe2c0b454a3e5f83de59edee8aef5548213c.webp

2025-04-02 20:08:11

Redis, I have questions https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9a48e66ec6a813050f31911d595d5ad76db512b45b2edec6bee73a9fbbd4aca7/4f40e718e3ad36e25f1c7649a520ef6100ac88af6f37d4b395db28bdf172a07a.webp

2025-04-01 15:07:45

If you're defending trans people because someone you know is trans, great! Keep doing it! We need you.
It does make me sad on a systemic level that people require personal impact to have empathy. If it's the other way round of course you would mention someone you know. But that's not everyone.

2025-03-30 14:40:55

Regardless of your opinion on AI - and mine is nuanced - surely we can agree that the Ghiblifier is indefensible. Miyazaki has been extremely vocal about his distaste for AI. Stepping on those toes to this degree is unambiguously childish and vicious.

2025-03-29 12:22:43

Today in JavaScript Are You High https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9a48e66ec6a813050f31911d595d5ad76db512b45b2edec6bee73a9fbbd4aca7/6d9f944769581761cdbccc798ce5c15c6a6184b2563f8d24b115353625ab9b77.webp

2025-03-28 14:14:04

Do you think today's kids will believe us when we tell them about Dashcon?

2025-03-28 10:16:04

CPAP. It changes your life. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9a48e66ec6a813050f31911d595d5ad76db512b45b2edec6bee73a9fbbd4aca7/672215a38dd030d557b2ce312aae3c7a80cae5bb02d51da5e252cfaa02eb91d0.webp https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9a48e66ec6a813050f31911d595d5ad76db512b45b2edec6bee73a9fbbd4aca7/83561326b78af18b2c43829e8f00a90413dfd91e8cea661a1386248be32796e2.webp

2025-03-27 21:01:46

Nifty 'what is my IP address' site is nifty. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9a48e66ec6a813050f31911d595d5ad76db512b45b2edec6bee73a9fbbd4aca7/b797b2c667ea0b3c49ba4c091de6a35ecb37c153c8d09053ce7f02828eca9674.webp

2025-03-27 19:37:51

I’ve written up my latest project to get answers about gender and sexuality into the hands of curious people, replacing bullshit artists with agendas. Get involved!
https://blog.dave.io/genderbase

2025-03-27 13:22:59

Call someone a thumb. Go for it. Feels good.

2025-03-27 13:22:16

Looking for a derogatory term but don’t want to be *ist about it? I’m always a fan of ‘peanut’ and particularly ‘thumb’.

2025-03-25 21:32:58

Good lord it’s easy to forget how good Montalban’s Khan was.

2025-03-25 20:54:21

I'm working on a post which explains everything, but if you're already boned up on ray cats let's all rock out to this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amn3kn0XPLQ

2025-03-25 19:00:03

reminder that lo, this slappeth. Mog introduced me to Public Service Broadcasting and if you like a bit of trip-hop, they're superb. https://soundcloud.com/psbhq/london-can-take-it-1

2025-03-25 17:32:52

Tech continues to kick my ass. I used Traefik for ingress for years, then they dicked about and made the OSS offering unsustainable.
So I switched to Gloo. Which worked fine. Now I find that using Gloo as just an ingress has become awful.
And Traefik has gone back to what it was before. Madness.

2025-03-25 14:11:45

Well this is going to be a stinker. If you’re using nginx ingress a) you can’t trust other pods right now and b) just grow up and use a proper ingress like Traefik
https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/03/24/ingress-nginx-cve-2025-1974/

2025-03-24 12:25:37

I am constantly blown away by how groundbreaking TOS was. In the era of Jim Crow, Dr. Richard Daystrom was a Black man with an understanding of computers, far beyond even Spock.
He was unquestionably capable and demanding of respect. And his name followed computing in Trek forever after.

2025-03-24 09:33:44

I mean it would be a disservice to call this one a banger, but it is an incredible track.
Play loud, with plenty of bass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQMzxiEQiyw

2025-03-24 00:03:49

Please stop using Flutter. I know the idea of “write once, run anywhere” is tempting. But it really doesn’t do native properly. It works fine until it doesn’t.
Just pick a platform. If that means I can’t use your app, I’ll live with that.

2025-03-23 23:46:17

`python -c "from __future__ import braces"`
We can but dream.

2025-03-23 18:30:52

PSA: if you're building a new infrastructure-as-code codebase or looking to build one for yourself, I cannot recommend [Pulumi](https://pulumi.com) enough. Feature parity with Terraform - they generate many providers directly from Terraform, and some directly from the upstream provider's API docs.

2025-03-23 16:25:27

Fun times with IaC. And this is only *part* of the tree... https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9a48e66ec6a813050f31911d595d5ad76db512b45b2edec6bee73a9fbbd4aca7/7d0e8c437b716e2dfe5efd76e1407e9319b63c76c170478846e6a47b19fd981a.webp

2025-03-22 21:21:01

As pictures of you your mum would have around go… https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9a48e66ec6a813050f31911d595d5ad76db512b45b2edec6bee73a9fbbd4aca7/9badf1f03c0a25fe8c37d817733449a0e5bed80648dfe87ba558e9cceb6618a5.webp

2025-03-22 19:28:21

FAO anyone who needs to hear it for their Ruby tinkering:
`irb ` ❌
`pry` ✅

2025-03-22 17:08:13

Fun with AI. Wanted it to filter a YAML file for me. Prompt "filter dnsimple_zones.yml for system_record: false".
First tried feeding it to Warp. That.. didn't work. As in, for some reason it decided to turn the YAML into a Bind zone file.
Cursor understood the assignment. But a zone file? Blimey.

2025-03-22 09:49:13

I will defend found footage to the death. In no other genre can have have a great idea, and make a whole film around that idea without any budget to speak of.
Sure, it benefits from cash - what doesn't - but you CAN make a great film for 50p and some string. That has massive value in itself.

2025-03-21 23:37:13

Further to my last about Tom Baker: the man is such a wonderful lunatic https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9a48e66ec6a813050f31911d595d5ad76db512b45b2edec6bee73a9fbbd4aca7/35370bb5909fb1c1787d66f1ab4dcc99a54d2c113d16628c6729a895a95c257b.webp

2025-03-21 15:48:41

And then there’s this. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9a48e66ec6a813050f31911d595d5ad76db512b45b2edec6bee73a9fbbd4aca7/89f34f24d9a568e63cacacbee68927eeb467a7b1fea209f1ade037d424d780d4.webp

2025-03-21 15:42:12

You know, even five years ago, being able to do this and expect it to be able to extract the text, be accurate, and be correct, was unthinkable. Never mind interpreting the meaning of the image. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9a48e66ec6a813050f31911d595d5ad76db512b45b2edec6bee73a9fbbd4aca7/63603b2450873faef321dc031cafc9eec9b3d88a33c9b7ec65a3e46333087806.webp

2025-03-21 00:46:13

TIL that Tom Baker was literally hired off a building site. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9a48e66ec6a813050f31911d595d5ad76db512b45b2edec6bee73a9fbbd4aca7/f8b431cb84b1de24632e5908479fe8edab39c1d53b1aa7bcadbd187cf6af1e6d.webp

2025-03-19 22:38:39

I cannot tell you how badass [Sunsama](https://www.sunsama.com) is.
I am allergic to daily planning and GTD. This thing is incredible.
Especially if you’re syncing in work from Notion and GitHub and schedules out to Google Calendar like me, but operates perfectly well all on its own.
Excellent.

2025-03-19 11:43:45

Been looking into low effort and high impact options for code scanning on GitHub.
The two that I’ve found that work well, regardless of language of the repository, are Codacy and DevSkim, both of which can output SARIF.
https://github.com/daveio/shared/tree/main/.github/workflows

2025-03-18 17:35:23

Can’t read the news about Liz Kendal’s fucking benefit “reforms” because yet again, it’s easy to grab column inches by making the lives of disabled folks EVEN WORSE.

2025-03-18 15:23:00

Really liking the iOS ability to type using your voice. I’m having dexterity problems at the moment and I can just speak to my iPhone and my iPad to write posts.

2025-03-16 21:10:06

further to my last this is why we like furries these days
https://soundcloud.com/master96pro/renard-feat-futret-gabberst-g

2025-03-16 21:05:42

god bless the internet
https://soundcloud.com/wonky-goose-audio/kake-badadonk

2025-03-16 15:58:37

Doing some organising on Notion and discovered this absolutely incredible site if you're looking for free SVG icons.
It's superb. The biggest deal to me is that it doesn't try to mix in paid assets on the sly.
https://www.svgrepo.com

2025-03-15 20:38:45

This is your regular reminder not to use Telegram under any circumstances.
t does nothing which isn’t replicated by Signal or even WhatsApp, both of which have an actual security model.

2025-03-15 13:26:56

How about Damus? Further cat tax.
https://image.nostr.build/03c176351e7d3e781da26188df40b0fc72a081c060d46b8360c00b6c819692e7.jpg

2025-03-15 13:23:14

Can OpenVibe post images? Cat tax. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9a48e66ec6a813050f31911d595d5ad76db512b45b2edec6bee73a9fbbd4aca7/5e3530d009caaef053761de8bcc44b76c04a147f0d5b51b36203f93e49b98620.webp

2025-03-15 05:46:25

This is a test of the emergency crossposting system. Disregard.