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Father | CTO & Geek | Lover of 1's & 0's | 🎖️ Vet | Pics of life around 🌍 and home in MI 🚜

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Guaranteed way to get your package delivered is to be almost out the door for a trip. My Commodore 64 nostalgia will have to wait 😭
December 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
AI is often seen as a catch-all for automation, but like the move to the cloud, hidden costs arise when outsourcing more work.

I came across an insightful comment on HackerNews about the rising costs of Google’s Gemini models. While more powerful and capable […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
December 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Reposted by oneguynick
"Hello, We're Firefox, The Only Browser That Hasn't Hit Itself In The Dick With A Hammer. For years now, folks use us because of our un-hammered dick. Now, you may be wondering why today we've brought this hammer and pulled out our dick. Well I'm glad you asked--"
February 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
3.5" for life
December 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Out with the apps, in with the fundamentals.

My daughter's new machine is an OpenBSD ThinkPad. She's learning the shell, not the swipe.

When she's an adult, she won't need tech support. She'll just fix her own damn printer.
December 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
RE: https://mstdn.social/@Nickiquote/115689504321086580

I would be totally fine with this if every government notification system utilised an open protocol like RSS.
mstdn.social
December 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
When I started on Mastodon in 2018, I was less concerned about the SNR (signal-to-noise ratio) and followed many accounts and hashtags. An exciting shift, for me, is that I find myself muting and unfollowing in 2025. There is enough chatter on Mastodon to make curating my timeline necessary for […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Reposted by oneguynick
Big news: Deutsche Welle has launched DW Access, an Android app that delivers independent news where it's needed most: in regions under information lockdown.

Key features:

➡️ No app store needed (share via link, messenger, bluetooth)

➡️ Offline mode

➡️ Built-in VPN protection

➡️ Zero […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I really enjoy the simplicity of Miniflux, but I find myself using a third interface for access versus the built-in. I need triple pane and @freshrss has it out of the box. I am going to kick the tyres on my OpenBSD VPS and see how it works
December 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I pre-ordered every Jolla device thus far, but given my experience with the last phone - hardpass:

https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder
Jolla Phone Pre-Order
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December 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Reposted by oneguynick
The Oxford Word of the Year is "rage bait" 🙁

In a world seemingly filled with "rage bait", we're building technology that lets you connect authentically. That's why we carefully designed consent-respecting Quote Posts. Free speech isn’t about giving hate a […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
December 5, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Upgrades on OpenBSD are so easy. Just bumped the server to "-current" since I live on the edge. PostgreSQL 17 -> 18 zero issues after following the README.
December 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Matrix feels like the future, but wow… it’s still a bit of a mess. Synapse is the only Matrix server I’ve found that runs reliably on OpenBSD, but the bridges are painful to set up and even worse to maintain.

In a moment of frustration, I installed Prosody IM on my OpenBSD box… and had it fully […]
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mastodon.social
December 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Reposted by oneguynick
xkcd has, once again, nailed it
December 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I had no idea that Foregejo used gitlab-CI yaml configs!

https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/user/actions/basic-concepts/
Forgejo Actions | Basic concepts | Forgejo – Beyond coding. We forge.
forgejo.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Not sure how I feel about the NES being old enough to have a 40th anniversary edition but I really like the controller from 8bitdo
November 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Remember when we used our idle computers for cancer research with folding at home and mapping out the stars with SETI? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Pope Leo XIV on taking things slow

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxr5drrpqxo
November 23, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I got all excited that Ford was going to add home assistance support before realising I named my API account for access to my truck homeassistant. I wish more companies would take an API first approach for things like this
November 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Finally, some sports highlights I can get behind!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgiG5gHiAq4

#curling #sports
November 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115569820207257167

Wow

I cannot thank you enough for all you have done for us Eugen ❤️ Truly!
Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I […]
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mastodon.social
November 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I have successfully transitioned the remaining members of my social network from Meta platforms. The combination of Signal and Matrix proved to be the decisive factor.
November 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM