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Jeff Sonstein
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retired RIT Prof, longtime hacker, former Moffett Field cubicle monkey, once upon a time an Army Sgt & SignalPuke™, now WA2RRB… personal acct

“In Gawds we […]

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yes! finally figured out how to tell vibe.d how to log the IP of low-level TLS-error attackers. now I can use fail2ban and do a decent job of blocking their [expletives deleted] addresses.
December 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
from my sysadmin
December 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
for me it was reading the first edition of Jensen & Wirth. the clarity of language of the "Pascal User Manual and Report", and groking a language in it's entirety with EBNF, these things blew my young mind open to everything that followed in my checkered […]

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December 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
everydamnedbody is a wannabe media critic
November 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I love walking with our neighbor
November 29, 2025 at 1:13 AM
a recent investment <ugh/>
November 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
now I just have to let it cool and somehow make myself not eat it before tomorrow
November 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
soon to be a cherry pie for tomorrow
November 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Winter Sun and Cat in Chair
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I have been chasing a bug in my server code for months now, and think it may be fixed at last. a few hours of stable operations & the log files will tell the story true.

if I did actually fix it, then I may need to bang my head on the desk for a while to understand why.
November 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
but of course
November 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
ya think?
November 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
an interesting graph (2 measures of US "income inequality" and major policy changes on one graph)
November 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Ziggie is finally starting to relax here, 9 months after we brought her home from the shelter
November 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
our friend staying dry
November 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
whatever can go wrong will eventually do so. whatever can be misunderstood will be. plan for it.

https://mastodon.social/@inautilo/115505726373009032
November 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
November 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
there has been another Catnip Involved Incident
November 7, 2025 at 12:39 AM
ready for the next “No Kings” event
November 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
government should make sandwiches for the people, do not make war upon them.
November 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
hmmm, I am going to have to think some about how best to understand and interpret this graph. I have only an idjits understanding of economics.
November 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
breakfast
November 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
delightful idea
November 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
so, no new in-migrants to the US will be allowed except for White South Africans? how subtle.
November 1, 2025 at 1:17 AM
and now, of course the next problem is making myself wait at least an hour while the brownies cool
October 29, 2025 at 1:59 AM