#ElizabethWarren tells #Democrats not “to sand down our edges to avoid offending anyone, especially the rich and powerful who might finance our candidates.… When Democrats water down their #economic#democrats#elizabethwarrenlatform to appeal to wealthy donors, whether the transaction is explicit or subtle, we squander […]

OH on slack: avocados are especially fun as they have 3 states. the first is too hard to eat, which lasts quite a while. then there's "just right" which lasts approximately 5 seconds. and then they are mush.

OH on slack: sometimes you think, "Oh, a regex could solve this." Now you have two ~problems~ administrators on your github repos #devoops #sre #infosec

If you're using a Mac, check out https://github.com/unixorn/tumult.plugin.zsh It's a collection of scripts that let you control a lot of your Mac's behavior from the CLI. You don't need a ZSH framework to use it - all the framework code does is add the repo's bin directory to your PATH. #macos […]

If you use #zsh and are interested in plugins, themes, tab completions or example setups for it, check out my https://github.com/unixorn/awesome-zsh-plugins/ list.

Periodic reminder - if you're using git , https://github.com/unixorn/git-extra-commands is a collection of helper scripts to make git more pleasant. @homelab #homelab #devops #sre #git

FYI all, portainer is giving away 3 node business licenses. https://www.portainer.io/take-3 When I signed up for the freebie I noticed they've added #kubernetes support since the last time I visited their site, so I'm interested in checking how well that interacts with #talos. Some of my […]

OH on slack: It's not prompt engineering. It's sloperating #ai #fuck_ai #generativeAI

So, remember when we said that if *anyone's* rights are imperiled, everyone else's rights also become conditional on the whims of power? Which part of that did you not understand? Did you just think it was about trans people or brown people or whatever? Fools. So now a white woman gets […]

infosec annoyance of the day - I use a tool for work that requires me to put in a rolling one-time code for 2fa, and doesn't show the code as I'm typing it. That would be ok, except if I switch apps to copy the code so I can paste it in, it usually forces me to re-enter my username and password […]

I set up a #talos #k8s cluster with #cilium on #proxmox over the holiday break. I documented how to set one up on my blog at https://unixorn.github.io/post/homelab/k8s/01-talos-with-cilium-cni-on-proxmox/ #selfhosted #homelab @homelab

OH on Slack: a code yellow is when an incident is so bad that you get frightened and pee yourself #sre #devops

From slack: > I was just telling a friend about the idea of a "Fractional CEO" and her first response was "good idea, let me go get a guillotine to help with the sharing"

Pro-democracy leaders in the US should one day make a show of wiping away Trump's legacy. Americans should crave the next episode of democracy vs. fascism. https://badfaithtimes.com/one-day-his-name-will-be-wiped-away/

Last month I switched from Google Workspace to proton.me for hosting email for my domains. It went smoothly, but if you're considering it, here's some things I wish I'd known when I was starting to move my old email […]

Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.

#christmas #indiana_jones #indiana_jones_and_the_temple_of_doom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMoql_RYVBQ > Eventual consistency? Eventually under the tree is not conforming to the SLA of a six year old #sre #devops

By way of slack: > Simple interview tactic used on me yesterday to prevent AI usage: "I'm going to give you a technical question to talk through. When I ask you the question, I want you to close your eyes when you talk through it." Not perfect...determined people will find a way around that […]

Read this. Then read it again.

I'm setting up a talos cluster to tinker with at home and want to use my Synology for persistent volume storage. I set up the NFS nfs-subdir-external-provisioner on my talos cluster and documented how at https://unixorn.github.io/post/homelab/talos-nfs-provisioner/ #talos #kubernetes #k8s […]

In the _Starfleet Technical Manual_ , there is a throwaway detail of the LCARS user interface that when it is upgraded, users can still utilize the previous several versions. This is because their work is mission-critical and it is unacceptable to compromise the mission by forcing unfamiliar […]

the security industry is a machine that turns `THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND` into `YOU ARE PART OF A SUPPLY CHAIN ATTACK, SHAME ON YOU`

Ran into a weird issue with macOS and iTerm 2 while experimenting with #talos over the weekend. Short version: I had to quit iTerm, reset the local network security permission for it and restart it before I could run talosctl from my a session in iTerm. Maddeningly it was working from a session […]

Fiona is enjoying this evening’s offering to Bast, a beef feast. She insists that the cow is the natural prey of the domestic #cat and that who should I believe, biologists or an actual cat.

Fiona had a very busy caturday and then today we had mandatory overtime for her - it’s the family holiday cookie baking day so she has to supervise 10 people baking in her kitchen. Here she is squeezing in a break while a batch is in the oven. #catsofmastodon #cats

"How do you acknowledge that the father of the computer was a homosexual, brutally bullied by the state into suicide, and then fund groups that want to deny gay people fundamental human rights? The ARM processor which powers the modern world was co-designed by a #trans woman. When you throw […]

Found this while updating my screensaver tree - #fionathecat in stealth mode #cat #caturday

Turned on #christmas Pandora playlist for the first time this year. And of course the first song was all about it being ok to abuse peers for being different and having the authority figure ignore it until he needs you for something important for him, not because it's wrong. The "Now that we […]

RE: https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/115622285573521088 Every zine I’ve bought from @b0rk has been well worth the money at full price, check out the sale

They did the Monster Slash: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4Iu3gJ5Kirk

I post this mostly as a periodic reminder to myself that it wasn't that long ago that the rule of law and the constitution prevailed. I hope it will again in my lifetime.

FYI for those of you interested in #iot - there is now an IOT tagpush bot in addition to @[email protected] Tagpush bots are less hassle than the old @a.gup.pe bots because instead of having to mention the bot to get your post boosted, all you have to do is follow the bot and any […]

By way of a Project Manager at work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBZtTW0pXLE #sre #devops #devoops

Released v0.23.0 of the ha-mqtt-discoverable and ha-mqtt-discoverable-cli modules. Details at https://github.com/unixorn/ha-mqtt-discoverable/releases/tag/v0.23.0 and https://github.com/unixorn/ha-mqtt-discoverable-cli/releases/tag/v0.23.0 respectively. @homeassistant #homeassistant

OH: Personally, I think that it's time to create a real risk model for depending on open source components. Some of them are "free as in public parkland", and some are "free as in mattress." #sre @homelab #devops

If you have a #nest 1 or Nest 2 that were bricked, https://nolongerevil.com/ will give them new life. @homeassistant #iot #homeassistant #homeautomation

[uspol] This weight presses upon me every day. I am flooded with stories. There are so many I cannot remember them all; cannot keep straight who was gassed, beaten, abducted, or shot. I write to leave a record, to stare at the track of the tornado which tears through our city. I write to leave […]

This is an important, eloquent piece by @aphyr - worth a boost I’d say: https://aphyr.com/posts/397-i-want-you-to-understand-chicago

If you're interested in the #aquarium hashtag, there's a new @aquarium bot that replaced the old a.gup.pe bot. For those who don’t know, these bots exist because when you look for a a hashtag, your server only checks the posts that have been federated to it. In order for a message to be […]

If you're interested in #selfhosting, here's a reminder that there is a new bots that replaced the old a.gup.pe bots. The bots improve message propagation. @selfhosting For those who don’t know, these bots exist because when you look for a a hashtag, your server only checks the postgs that […]

If you're interested in #neurospicy or #neurodivergent, here's a reminder that there are new bots that replaced the old a.gup.pe bots. The bots improve message propagation. @neurospicy @neurodivergent For those who don’t know, these bots exist because when you look for a a hashtag, your server […]

Periodic reminder for people interested in #homelab There is a @homelab bot that replaces the old gup.pe homelab bot. Mention it in your homelab posts and it will boost them. Follow it to see all the homelab posts it boosts that may not normally get federated to your instance.

Public service announcement for anyone interested in #homeassistant. I created @[email protected] to replace the dead @[email protected] group. There is also @[email protected]

Is there a way in the UI for me to update #haos, but not to the most current version? Basically most months I want to update to the last version of _last_ month, not the current bleeding edge of _this_ month. I feel like this can't be that unusual a desire and I'm probably not looking in the […]

Paraphrase of my #iot hardware rant on slack (unsurprising, since I maintain https://github.com/unixorn/internet-of-trash/) In a perfect world IOT hardware companies should: - Have to escrow the firmware. And escrow the source code, not just the binary blob - The firmware isn't allowed to use […]

Go fuck yourselves, NYT.

My #AuDHD met #github. I won't say it conquered, but it's holding its own.

AI shouldn't be making business decisions. https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/28/anthropics-claude-ai-became-a-terrible-business-owner-in-experiment-that-got-weird/ #aipocalypse #ai