Federated Republic of Sean @freakazoid@retro.social

Followers on mastodon.social, consider this your official notice that you need to find another instance to follow me from. I no longer accept followers from there and will be removing any remaining followers that are still on there.

Fuck Eugen.

Please fill out a profile and post some stuff before trying to follow me, or send me a DM introducing yourself.

qoto.org:

"A free speech space. No censorship here."

And of course the Nazis are already joining: https://qoto.org/@kekuser

@emacsen @cwebber
I think I may have the answer: free hosting of free software web apps, with donation/subscription buttons and some kind of libre storage option, e2e encrypted of course. Maybe with a JS implementation of Tahoe-LAFS? I should track down Zooko and see if I can get him to put down ZCash long enough to find someone to implement that.

I would really appreciate it if multiple different mail sources would not spontaneously send me duplicate messages just after I change my mail server config. Thanks.

(In this case it was both Patreon and Pine64. They have different message IDs so I know the duplication wasn't on my end.)

Boy did I waste a lot of time by not just going straight back to amavisd-new for spam & virus filtering when I started running my own mail server again. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Amavisd-new has been actively maintained for over a decade. Most other mail filter software out there is broke. Like spampd and most milters. As is trying to use spamc and injecting mail back into the queue with the sendmail command.

Anyone know Mongo really well and wanna work in Santa Clara?

I was really enthusiastic about WASM for a while, but it's going to make it a lot easier to make and distribute proprietary software. It could end up being devastating to the free software movement. Any thoughts, @cwebber or @emacsen ?

I think growing up in a world where all CPUs work basically the same way is a serious handicap for programmers.

They haven't always worked this way, and they won't always work this way. We've hit the limits of SMP and ISAs that pretend to be fast PDP-11s.

Hey South SF Bay Area folks, when we getting together for food/drinks/coffee/whatever?

Are there any public Merkle trees out there for "not after" proofs? A blockchain solution would work fine too as long as it's not too expensive (penny or less per hash) and not a hack.

Along with The Kids' Whole Future Catalog, Robotech was probably the most influential creative work in my pre-middle-school life.

It's weird how dreams can incorporate experiences from one's childhood without context. The Winchester Mystery House and Kaiser Ceme t used to be regular settings in my dreams, and I did not know that's what either setting was until I re-visited each place.

My mom worked at Kaiser Aluminum, which is adjacent to Kaiser Cement, which has a tall tower that would be the centerpiece of the dream setting.

I dreamt I was in a hotel with a bunch of other people I knew. My room opened out onto the roof, and there was a large overhanging structure above. It seemed like the sky outside may have in fact been a ceiling, and the whole building would slide between two different positions on a fairly regular basis and the overhang would change shape.

While it never came up in the dream, I'm pretty sure I was on board the Macross (aka SDF-1 in Robotech).