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A wizard appears. He looks grumpy.

I was the guy behind eggdrop, paramiko, the sidekick ssh client, kestrel, and many smaller projects. I've been in 3 unsuccessful […]

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Hi! I'm Robey, a grizzled coder (tw----r, paramiko, eggdrop) and this is my new fediverse home! If you received a follow request from me, it was my account migration.

If we've interacted online (or in person) in the past and you're looking for an account, send me a private message. This server […]
Original post on messydesk.social
messydesk.social
always sad to see how far apple's design has fallen... what a tire fire

https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/
The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
A lot has already been said about the absurdly large corner radius of windows on macOS Tahoe. People are calling the way it looks comical, like a child’s toy, or downright insane. Setting all the aesthetic issues aside – which are to some extent a matter of taste – it also comes at a cost in terms of usability. Since upgrading to macOS Tahoe, I’ve noticed that quite often my attempts to resize a window are failing. This never happened to me before in almost 40 years of using computers. So why all of a sudden? It turns out that my initial click in the window corner instinctively happens in an area where the window doesn’t respond to it. The window expects this click to happen in an area of 19 × 19 pixels, located near the window corner. If the window had no rounded corners at all, 62% of that area would lie **inside** the window: But due to the huge corner radius in Tahoe, most of it – about 75% – now lies **outside** the window: Living on this planet for quite a few decades, I have learned that it rarely works to grab things if you don’t actually touch them: So I instinctively try to grab the window corner inside the window, typically somewhere in that green area, near the blue dot: And I assume that most people would also intuitively expect to be able to grab the corner there. But no, that’s already outside the accepted target area: So, for example, grabbing it here does **not** work: But guess what – grabbing it here **does** : So in the end, the most reliable way to resize a window in Tahoe is to grab it **outside** the corner – a gesture that feels unnatural and unintuitive, and is therefore inevitably error-prone.
noheger.at
January 13, 2026 at 2:40 AM
was going to try "bazzite" out on this laptop, but to my surprise, it appears to be impossible to install a custom keybord layout on fedora-based distros!

something about the combo of immutable OS and wayland?
January 12, 2026 at 8:48 PM
whoa, now even that guy who used to lick steve jobs nuts has been radicalized!

https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/fuck_you_make_me_without_saying_the_words

(don't worry, he still finds plenty of screen real estate on boot licking during the outrage. he has a brand to maintain you know)
★ ‘Fuck You, Make Me’ Without Saying the Words
Make the Trump administration object. Make them defend the indefensible — in public. Make clear why the apps were removed from the app stores and force Musk — and Trump, if he chooses — to argue that those things are A-OK by them. In court.
daringfireball.net
January 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
i was just whining a few days ago that older crypto standards like RSA are harder to support in current languages (like ts & rust) than modern ones like ed25519, and today i hit *exactly* that kind of bug, while working on support for RFC 9421 HTTP signatures.

i wrote some typescript to import […]
Original post on messydesk.social
messydesk.social
January 10, 2026 at 3:45 AM
Reposted by Robey ☠️
A few days ago, a client’s data center "vanished" overnight. My monitoring showed that all devices were unreachable. Not even the ISP routers responded, so I assumed a sudden connectivity drop. The strange part? Not even via 4G.

I then suspected a power failure, but the UPS should have sent an […]
Original post on mastodon.bsd.cafe
mastodon.bsd.cafe
January 8, 2026 at 9:16 AM
i hope that guy's grandkids go "say it again grandpa!" "say it!!!"

and he leans back in his recliner with a comfy grin and says

"... experience BIJ"
January 8, 2026 at 5:14 AM
January 7, 2026 at 6:06 PM
watching a tech talk where someone pronounced "caching on a server" as "KAYshing on a server" and i literally died RIP 2026
January 7, 2026 at 7:54 AM
"delicious in dungeon" has a 100/93 on rotten tomatoes
January 6, 2026 at 6:54 AM
🚨 new helicopter rescue album! 🚨

https://helicopterrescue.bandcamp.com/album/cache-checking

"For this experiment, only sounds from TikTok, the social media app, could be used to make tracks through recording sessions that relied only on what the algorithm decided to play. Every sound was […]
Original post on messydesk.social
messydesk.social
January 4, 2026 at 7:23 AM
happy new year, btw, to those who celebrate!
January 2, 2026 at 12:36 AM
to that last boost, i'll add: when we first started porting our server code to linux, it was so similar to solaris that porting was pretty straight-forward, AND when we found a bug, instead of despairing, we could go yak shave the bug, fix it, send off a patch, and continue... rapid iteration! […]
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messydesk.social
January 2, 2026 at 12:14 AM
taking a moment of mindfulness to remember that jack dorsey found someone willing to buy twitter who knew even less about how to run the company than jack did
January 2, 2026 at 12:00 AM
reading this RFC from 2022 that still uses the archaic term "big-endian" to refer to MSB byte order...

that's a big oof, chief!
December 31, 2025 at 7:32 PM
apparently some popu-fedi's chosen battle is to rage against CWs and photo descriptions, and i will just never understand the need of some people to take whatever little fame they have and use it to lash out at people

[insert men/therapy meme]
December 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
knives out 3: 3 thumbs up
December 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
[me watching the latest episode of the gay hockey show]

"wow i had no idea everyone in hockey is gay"

[half an hour later]

"being gay in hockey is the loneliest possible life. he has no friends."
December 27, 2025 at 9:08 AM
the most vicious observation: "I don't know a single person using facebook threads. Nobody's even _complaining_ about it."
December 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
merry christmas to those who celebrate!
December 25, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Reposted by Robey ☠️
December 25, 2025 at 12:03 AM
if you start "city of lost children" at just the right time on christmas eve, the mad scientist's oil platform will blow up at exactly midnight as one & miette row away

... so we did this but in retrospect i'm not sure "city of lost children" is the best xmas movie...
December 25, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Reposted by Robey ☠️
Yeah… I’ve been doing tech professionally since 1978.

We as an industry really got it wrong.

The US government also failed to regulate the industry… probably starting in 2005. But at the time, regulation and government surveillance went hand in hand. So, now we have a weakened government and […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Reposted by Robey ☠️
[uspol, samizdat]

The Canadian broadcast of the bari'd 60 Minutes segment "Inside CECOT" is available on the Internet Archive.

https://archive.org/details/3mam75w3oec2n

Practice your samizdat, grab a copy. Seed the torrent if you're willing.
Inside Cecot : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
https://bsky.app/profile/jasonparis.bsky.social/post/3mam565pyes24
archive.org
December 22, 2025 at 11:55 PM
[slow clap]
December 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM