Dustin L. Howett
@dhowett.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
Key-Value Observer; Leads a small team at Microsoft, doesn't toot about it much; Conjures up software from the wretched plane of constant screaming; Framework Laptop […]
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I’m actually really upset about this for some reason. A piece of future trash with obsolescence built into it, sold as a consumer benefit. “Look, you never have to change a battery! It saves you $40 over the next ten years!”
How much is another one of these going to […]
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How much is another one of these going to […]
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November 16, 2025 at 4:43 AM
I’m actually really upset about this for some reason. A piece of future trash with obsolescence built into it, sold as a consumer benefit. “Look, you never have to change a battery! It saves you $40 over the next ten years!”
How much is another one of these going to […]
[Original post on mas.to]
How much is another one of these going to […]
[Original post on mas.to]
"up to a few minutes"? Was "few" not sufficiently vague?
October 16, 2025 at 4:10 AM
"up to a few minutes"? Was "few" not sufficiently vague?
Gmail now offers a proud, brightly-colored "Unsubscribe" button that just takes you to the sender's website. Fuck that. If that's all you offer on your e-mails, you get the same treatment as all other spam.
August 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Gmail now offers a proud, brightly-colored "Unsubscribe" button that just takes you to the sender's website. Fuck that. If that's all you offer on your e-mails, you get the same treatment as all other spam.
August 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
@bagder my favorite part is that they are just calling the callback themselves after freeing the context. It isn’t even being called “back” by anything!
“Function call with freed SSL context uses freed SSL context”
🙃
“Function call with freed SSL context uses freed SSL context”
🙃
July 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
@bagder my favorite part is that they are just calling the callback themselves after freeing the context. It isn’t even being called “back” by anything!
“Function call with freed SSL context uses freed SSL context”
🙃
“Function call with freed SSL context uses freed SSL context”
🙃
Apple Pay does ads now? What?
June 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Apple Pay does ads now? What?
May 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Hot take: "1 other" is never a useful thing to display. In the space it took you to display it, you could have displayed another name.
May 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Hot take: "1 other" is never a useful thing to display. In the space it took you to display it, you could have displayed another name.
@eclectech I would like for our eyeless wonder to participate in the summer hatting! My partner and I said farewell to him only a couple weeks ago.
As a bonus, I do already have a conventional photo of him wearing a somewhat less silly hat which shows off his keen sense of style.
As a bonus, I do already have a conventional photo of him wearing a somewhat less silly hat which shows off his keen sense of style.
May 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
@eclectech I would like for our eyeless wonder to participate in the summer hatting! My partner and I said farewell to him only a couple weeks ago.
As a bonus, I do already have a conventional photo of him wearing a somewhat less silly hat which shows off his keen sense of style.
As a bonus, I do already have a conventional photo of him wearing a somewhat less silly hat which shows off his keen sense of style.
I could once say in full honesty that I had never seen a binding arbitration clickwrap EULA on a food product. And yet here we are!
(Found in the wild by @etryn)
(Found in the wild by @etryn)
April 26, 2025 at 4:40 AM
I could once say in full honesty that I had never seen a binding arbitration clickwrap EULA on a food product. And yet here we are!
(Found in the wild by @etryn)
(Found in the wild by @etryn)
@awakecoding.com You may have gotten this reply on bsky (sorry, can't see them here on fedi), but it looks like the service object returned by Get-Service contains a path with the group in the format you're already parsing.
April 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
@awakecoding.com You may have gotten this reply on bsky (sorry, can't see them here on fedi), but it looks like the service object returned by Get-Service contains a path with the group in the format you're already parsing.
cloud-init purports to perform declarative setup of your new virtual machine (or cloud instance)
As far as I can tell, the capabilities most cloud-init systems expose are adding user accounts and adding SSH keys:
user accounts you will invariably log into and do […]
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As far as I can tell, the capabilities most cloud-init systems expose are adding user accounts and adding SSH keys:
user accounts you will invariably log into and do […]
[Original post on mas.to]
March 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
cloud-init purports to perform declarative setup of your new virtual machine (or cloud instance)
As far as I can tell, the capabilities most cloud-init systems expose are adding user accounts and adding SSH keys:
user accounts you will invariably log into and do […]
[Original post on mas.to]
As far as I can tell, the capabilities most cloud-init systems expose are adding user accounts and adding SSH keys:
user accounts you will invariably log into and do […]
[Original post on mas.to]
@awakecoding.com Oh it absolutely isn't a Windows-only thing! It supports Linux, BSD, Android, iOS, and macOS! The bootstrap script is... well, it's something. :D
February 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
@awakecoding.com Oh it absolutely isn't a Windows-only thing! It supports Linux, BSD, Android, iOS, and macOS! The bootstrap script is... well, it's something. :D
December 31, 2024 at 6:35 AM
It does take a while to attach all those loopback devices, so sparsemapper sports a lovely progress bar!
December 19, 2024 at 8:03 PM
It does take a while to attach all those loopback devices, so sparsemapper sports a lovely progress bar!
Merry Cursedmas!
I've been using `sparsebundlefs` (github.com/torarnv/sparsebundlefs) to expose sparse bundles (usually used for networked time machine backups) as a single image to mount as a loopback device.
Then I wondered: can device-mapper do it?
Yes. And all […]
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I've been using `sparsebundlefs` (github.com/torarnv/sparsebundlefs) to expose sparse bundles (usually used for networked time machine backups) as a single image to mount as a loopback device.
Then I wondered: can device-mapper do it?
Yes. And all […]
[Original post on mas.to]
December 19, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Merry Cursedmas!
I've been using `sparsebundlefs` (github.com/torarnv/sparsebundlefs) to expose sparse bundles (usually used for networked time machine backups) as a single image to mount as a loopback device.
Then I wondered: can device-mapper do it?
Yes. And all […]
[Original post on mas.to]
I've been using `sparsebundlefs` (github.com/torarnv/sparsebundlefs) to expose sparse bundles (usually used for networked time machine backups) as a single image to mount as a loopback device.
Then I wondered: can device-mapper do it?
Yes. And all […]
[Original post on mas.to]