Anna Wilcox
@bsky.awilfox.com
Tulsa, OK. Programmer: C++/Py/Ruby/Rust. Cat mum: Mr Gaz, Melody, Willow. Photographer. Religious leftist. Real life librarian(ish) @ UCB! Fluent English, learning French and Ukrainian.
Hot takes about Unix, computers, politics, and Chicago Bears.
Hot takes about Unix, computers, politics, and Chicago Bears.
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I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives
October 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives
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"An actual community-oriented/governed/powered co-operative rolls in to do a full takeover of the RubyGems ecosystem after RubyGems/Ruby Central themselves got taken over by the fash" was not on my bingo cards for 2025 either but here we are and I am here for it: gem.coop
LFG, kids. Coops ftw
LFG, kids. Coops ftw
gem.coop
gem.coop
October 6, 2025 at 5:48 AM
"An actual community-oriented/governed/powered co-operative rolls in to do a full takeover of the RubyGems ecosystem after RubyGems/Ruby Central themselves got taken over by the fash" was not on my bingo cards for 2025 either but here we are and I am here for it: gem.coop
LFG, kids. Coops ftw
LFG, kids. Coops ftw
Reposted by Anna Wilcox
Imagine you're a career military general being summoned for a pentagon strategy lecture by a former game show host and a former weekend talk show host.
September 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Imagine you're a career military general being summoned for a pentagon strategy lecture by a former game show host and a former weekend talk show host.
Reposted by Anna Wilcox
A script you can use if you’re not good at speaking on the spot.
September 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
A script you can use if you’re not good at speaking on the spot.
Reposted by Anna Wilcox
What's not working: the pure JS fallback. The library I hoped would work did not. If there is anyone out there in my audience that is a WebAssembly expert, please poke me in DM.
September 28, 2025 at 4:32 AM
What's not working: the pure JS fallback. The library I hoped would work did not. If there is anyone out there in my audience that is a WebAssembly expert, please poke me in DM.
Reposted by Anna Wilcox
Hey, #ruby folks! I've been one of the #RubyGems maintainers for the last decade.
Ruby Central has forcefully taken control of the RubyGems organization on GitHub, the `rubygems-update` and `bundler` gems on rubygems[.]org, and more.
You can read the details here: pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...
Ruby Central has forcefully taken control of the RubyGems organization on GitHub, the `rubygems-update` and `bundler` gems on rubygems[.]org, and more.
You can read the details here: pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...
RubyGems.org | your community gem host
rubygems.org
September 19, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Hey, #ruby folks! I've been one of the #RubyGems maintainers for the last decade.
Ruby Central has forcefully taken control of the RubyGems organization on GitHub, the `rubygems-update` and `bundler` gems on rubygems[.]org, and more.
You can read the details here: pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...
Ruby Central has forcefully taken control of the RubyGems organization on GitHub, the `rubygems-update` and `bundler` gems on rubygems[.]org, and more.
You can read the details here: pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...
Why the actual hell did my phone in Tulsa, OK just tone out a #WEA for a blue alert in Texas? Who do I report this abuse of WEA to? This is clearly not related to anything #okwx and it will have a hugely detrimental effect on keeping people weather aware if this continues.
![My iPhone Lock Screen showing an Emergency Alert, about someone who injured a police officer in Texas. It says at the end: "no credible info Song [the suspect] is in Oklahoma".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:birgm623vujwqn3dbkrk36aj/bafkreicvm3dcpt2243nhf4k37evky622pxoxwpeikkfd6ejwcljhl45gya@jpeg)
July 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Why the actual hell did my phone in Tulsa, OK just tone out a #WEA for a blue alert in Texas? Who do I report this abuse of WEA to? This is clearly not related to anything #okwx and it will have a hugely detrimental effect on keeping people weather aware if this continues.
I am so excited! Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here with Bernie Sanders in #Tulsa act.berniesanders.com/signup/rsvp-...
Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here with Bernie Sanders in Tulsa
RSVP today to say you'll join Bernie in Tulsa on Saturday, June 21! Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here with Bernie Sanders in Tulsa Saturday, June 21 3:30pm Doors Open 4:00pm Music by Parker Mi...
act.berniesanders.com
June 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I am so excited! Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here with Bernie Sanders in #Tulsa act.berniesanders.com/signup/rsvp-...
Wrote a new blog on the surprising portability issues I hit while working on OpenCL for the distro:
catfox.life/2024/11/29/t...
#Linux #graphics #programming #MoreCPUDiversityNeeded
catfox.life/2024/11/29/t...
#Linux #graphics #programming #MoreCPUDiversityNeeded
The complexities of enabling OpenCL support
Hello, and welcome back to FOSS Fridays! One of the final preparations for the release of Adélie Linux 1.0-beta6 has been updating the graphical stack to support Wayland and the latest advancements…
catfox.life
November 30, 2024 at 8:40 AM
Wrote a new blog on the surprising portability issues I hit while working on OpenCL for the distro:
catfox.life/2024/11/29/t...
#Linux #graphics #programming #MoreCPUDiversityNeeded
catfox.life/2024/11/29/t...
#Linux #graphics #programming #MoreCPUDiversityNeeded
Reposted by Anna Wilcox
is this what they mean by rising murder rates in cities?
March 16, 2024 at 2:36 PM
is this what they mean by rising murder rates in cities?
Reposted by Anna Wilcox
Also: if you’re a privacy activist, watch NCMEC. US legislators will track to their position on this pretty quickly if things come under discussion. You can’t imagine how many doors opened for me because I was on their Board.
March 17, 2024 at 2:37 AM
Also: if you’re a privacy activist, watch NCMEC. US legislators will track to their position on this pretty quickly if things come under discussion. You can’t imagine how many doors opened for me because I was on their Board.
Even the supposed good guys can be bad sometimes. It's very important that the govt doesn't mess with our encryption.
What they want is a backdoor. The only person they ever had on their Board who understood tech was me and I’ve been gone since they went on this issue.
March 17, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Even the supposed good guys can be bad sometimes. It's very important that the govt doesn't mess with our encryption.
Reposted by Anna Wilcox
it's been long enough for me to admit publicly that when i left Gizmodo in 2022 I changed my Slack username to "S1ackbot" and the G/O Media failed to detect or delete it for months
February 23, 2024 at 12:54 AM
it's been long enough for me to admit publicly that when i left Gizmodo in 2022 I changed my Slack username to "S1ackbot" and the G/O Media failed to detect or delete it for months
For FOSS Friday, I wrote up how I have recently deployed a Gentoo #Linux virtualisation server: catfox.life/2024/02/23/e...
Experiences with building a Gentoo virtualisation host
As part of my work to set up infrastructure for a few projects that I hope to launch with some mates in the coming months, I needed to set up a KVM virthost using Gentoo. I decided to write up the pro...
catfox.life
February 23, 2024 at 8:51 AM
For FOSS Friday, I wrote up how I have recently deployed a Gentoo #Linux virtualisation server: catfox.life/2024/02/23/e...
Reposted by Anna Wilcox
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Lol. If you ACTUALLY think about it, libraries are the backbone of nearly every (traditionally published) authors' sales. There are over 17K public libraries in the US, and 100k libraries of every kind. They *all* buy books. And sometimes buy more when the first set wear out! Libraries are AMAZING.
I once heard an author say that libraries were "government-sponsored piracy, if you really think about it" which convinced me to pay zero attention to that author going forward.
Thank you for supporting libraries.
Thank you for supporting libraries.
February 14, 2024 at 7:43 PM
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Finally figured out the correct way to make a global theme for KDE Plasma 5, so now the design stuff we've done at Adélie Linux can be provided to users in a nice way.
December 8, 2023 at 10:47 AM
Finally figured out the correct way to make a global theme for KDE Plasma 5, so now the design stuff we've done at Adélie Linux can be provided to users in a nice way.
Hurts my soul.
A haunted house, but the ghosts are all the digital pets/digital avatars you’ve created over the years asking why you abandoned them a la Frankenstein.
September 21, 2023 at 7:45 AM
Hurts my soul.
I've written a long article on my identity but I'm nervous to share it with how the US seems to treat "others" these days. I want to share it on every social network, but I don't know how some of my ppl - family and professional - would react.
I'm in the "LGBTIQA+" acronym. It shouldn't matter…
I'm in the "LGBTIQA+" acronym. It shouldn't matter…
September 17, 2023 at 7:08 AM
I've written a long article on my identity but I'm nervous to share it with how the US seems to treat "others" these days. I want to share it on every social network, but I don't know how some of my ppl - family and professional - would react.
I'm in the "LGBTIQA+" acronym. It shouldn't matter…
I'm in the "LGBTIQA+" acronym. It shouldn't matter…
Reposted by Anna Wilcox
Any ham radio fans? 🙋Check out the Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications, now with >90,000 items related to amateur radio, shortwave listening, amateur television & more! blog.archive.org/2023/09/12/d...
September 12, 2023 at 9:08 PM
Any ham radio fans? 🙋Check out the Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications, now with >90,000 items related to amateur radio, shortwave listening, amateur television & more! blog.archive.org/2023/09/12/d...
Finally cleared out my phone of six years of photo and video debris. Now I have the space to install apps again, including Bluesky!
Maybe now I'll be more active here.
Maybe now I'll be more active here.
September 17, 2023 at 12:10 AM
Finally cleared out my phone of six years of photo and video debris. Now I have the space to install apps again, including Bluesky!
Maybe now I'll be more active here.
Maybe now I'll be more active here.
In the past ten years, I signed up for a total of one social network: Mastodon.
In the past month, I have signed up for two more social networks: Threads, and Bluesky.
Each one seems to have its own feeling and it's honestly kind of nice to see them all grow.
In the past month, I have signed up for two more social networks: Threads, and Bluesky.
Each one seems to have its own feeling and it's honestly kind of nice to see them all grow.
July 18, 2023 at 9:05 AM
In the past ten years, I signed up for a total of one social network: Mastodon.
In the past month, I have signed up for two more social networks: Threads, and Bluesky.
Each one seems to have its own feeling and it's honestly kind of nice to see them all grow.
In the past month, I have signed up for two more social networks: Threads, and Bluesky.
Each one seems to have its own feeling and it's honestly kind of nice to see them all grow.
Just setting up my bsky…
July 18, 2023 at 9:03 AM
Just setting up my bsky…