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Joachim Wiberg
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Dad, woke leftist, UNIX programmer, vegetarian, Buddhist, coffee addict, and wine lover. I write to process things, life and work. RT a lot (!)

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Reminder to self: just because someone is better than you at expressing themselves in English, doesn’t mean they know more about your #opensource project than you do.
Use more and more found myself no longer writing about the stuff I care about because of reply guys or ppl who somehow manage to make what I write to be about themselves.

I guess I should just use more of my block finger but somehow I can’t just ignore the fact fact that these are like the only […]
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January 14, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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“PETROLEUM” By EVYREIN.
January 14, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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Anybody else discovered customer service LLMs that reply to email prompts about *anything*? Not just the company's business? I found one that happily writes metal lyrics and converses in French.

#llm
January 14, 2026 at 7:36 AM
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major thanks to @troglobit.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy for seemingly being the only source on the public internet for good multicast utilities and documentation. smcroute and mcjoin have been singularly valuable during this whole process.
January 14, 2026 at 7:28 AM
Alien : KF 20 Coffee makers
Leading from: Alien: The Nostromo and Alien: Nostromo commissary --- Nostromo commissary On Tue Dec 22, 2009 , someone by the username of Nexus42 at Propsummit was able to identify the coffee makers in the Nostromo kitchenette as Braun Aromaster KF 20, designed in 1972 by Florian Seiffert --- one of the coffee makers in the Nostromo's kitchen area in Alien --- white Braun Aromaster KF20 (source: http://www.domusweb.it/) 1. Nexus 42: Talking about the various props seen in the background on the nostromo, let me introduce you to one of my favourites, the most beautiful coffee machine in the world, and thanks to Ridley Scott in outer space too! --- Florian Seiffert The Braun Aromaster KF 20, designed in 1972 by Florian Seiffert was so far ahead of the competition in both looks and technology, reflected in the price of DM139. A design icon in the same vein as the Eames recliner, and the Barcelona chair, in demand by photographers, interior designers and creative types, wanting a futuristic icon of the time. The KF 20 came in white, yellow, orange, red, dark red and olive! It featured a coffee pot with a enclosed plastic handle, Brauns unique closed filter system also known as the c-principle , this put the water reservoir directly above the coffee filter which gave it it's distinct profile, as oppose to the water reservoir to the side known as the L-principle. --- Nexus42:Advert for the Braun KF 20. (PropsummitPosted: Tue Dec 22, 2009) The KF 20 was produced for five years unchanged, when the KF 21 came out the machine was identical to its older brother, the only difference being a slightly tweaked glass jug with the open handle design, the inclusion of a thermostat slider on the front of the hotplate and the reduction of colour choice to just white, yellow and orange. the beauty of this machine is that it could be produced today and still look ahead of its time! Ridley really does love his Braun kitchen products, in BladeRunner he kitted Deckards compact kitchen with the Braun MP 50 multipress the type 4045 coffee mill grinder the HL-1-70 desktop fan ( HL-1 1961 HL-70 1970) and the KF 35 "Traditional" coffee machine. Not surprised Parker and the nostromo crew loved their coffee so much. These machines can still be found occasionally on ebay, if lucky they still work perfectly, I recently picked up a pristine white KF 20 from germany for under £25, just add a schuko plug adapter add coffee and water and enjoy! . Here below is the KF 21 in orange, yellow and white finish, with the hotplate thermostat slider and coffee jug with open handle design.Propsummi Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009t) --- Nexus42: Here is the KF 20 in orange, same version used in the nostromos kitchen, featuring the enclosed handle coffee jug. (Propsummi, Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009t) --- Nexus42:: Here a KF 20 in olive green. (PropsummitPosted: Tue Dec 22, 2009)|
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January 11, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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I just found a sack in the attic containing all my old coax #networking cables, connectors and terminators. Can anyone suggest a useful destination for it other than the local municipal #recycling centre here in the UK?
January 11, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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i think the most surprising-to-me decision we ended up making while writing this Git data model was to not mention the .git directory at all https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/01/08/a-data-model-for-git/

in the past i’ve taken the approach of “let’s learn how Git works by talking about how .git is […]
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January 9, 2026 at 10:33 PM
The great thing about watching some TV shows is they remind you of old classics. Like this one: https://youtu.be/qxZInIyOBXk?si=IINLIiQi0MIqAMs0

#Talamasca
January 9, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Spent a few days now trying to learn NACM properly. Kind of a big deal to big corporate IT ppl if we want to ever make it big with our little OS.
January 8, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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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 […]
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January 8, 2026 at 9:16 AM
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I know this is pretty small beer in the light of world events, but I was not expecting to have to write “risk of invasion by the USA” into the risk assessment for my fieldwork in Greenland in June.
January 6, 2026 at 8:46 AM
RE: https://social.lansky.name/@hn50/115842436736740657

This is just too funny 🤣 April fools is really this year.
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January 5, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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It is now a joke, one of the many variations out there now:
January 3, 2026 at 11:46 PM
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John Pilger had a documentary about Venezuela - a good crash course for why they invaded today.

And you can watch it for free on YouTube now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyWVh4kRyg4
January 3, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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January 3, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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(Yes, Dad is away playing Scrabble for six consecutive days. Eight days was also an option. I wish I had a 'thing' like he does.)
January 3, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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I am reading Neuromancer and oh my goodness I forgot how absolutely brilliant is the writing. #books
January 3, 2026 at 4:29 AM
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Love this! 😍
From a few years ago. Forgot where it was made!
January 2, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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How then is a man happy? How?
Is it with what he has, takes, touches, sees
What he eats, loves, hears, or feels?
That is happiness, or course. And not a small one.
But behold night comes. You are alone.
You understand all that is nothing.
All that in you is just like clay

//Justinas Marcinkevičius
January 1, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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Bright Shining Round Thing

#landscape #nature #photography
January 1, 2026 at 7:13 AM
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mood
December 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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This image is from January 1st 2025 and, in my opinion, has remained unbeated as the most iconic photo of the year.

If you think of a better candidate for photo of the year, please share it in the comments!

#2025 #photography #photo #trump #cybertruck #tesla
December 31, 2025 at 4:51 PM