For all the #mastodon #selfhosting folks out there, any idea what I should be looking at as far as backoff timers or whatever from other instances coming back down, after something like a week of downtime? Several instances, most notably infosec.exchange, still haven't been sending me new […]

Time for #monsterdon !

Just seeding the clouds for later. #monsterdon

I ended up with a bunch of my follow relationships in a weird state. About 200 rows in the accounts table got corrupted and wholely disappeared (or never existed, it's complicated, and will be part of my write-up), so I had to stub them out. The stubbing seems […] [Original post on xn--8r9a.com]

Is...this thing on?

Is...this thing on?

A lot of times, when I have security-related meetings, I actually have to have nine+ of them -- one for each group. I recently had a meeting to watch somebody fill out a spreadsheet, which means... (scheduling nine+ of the same meeting is way more of a pain in the ass than you'd think)

What did taxes pay for in the middle ages?

Browser extension idea. Any time you go to access a URL with utm_source, it replaces it with utm_source=fediverse. Feel free to steal that and make it real.

What's a good book about #adhd for those who don't have it? I told my boss about mine recently, and he said he wanted to read something about it.

I don't know why my kid's school district didn't call off school today (like on Monday and Tuesday). It started snowing at 5am and our road (a reasonably busy one) was covered at 8am, and I'm unwilling* to drive on it. Normally we walk, but the sidewalks are still buried from Monday's blizzard […]

I rarely get to code anymore, but I've been able to write a bunch of shell scripts the last few days. Itch scratched.

If you're in public and somebody offers to sell you food out of their trunk, you say yes. You won't regret it.

Just got my first reply guy since joining the #fediverse over 2 years ago. I've made it.

I can always tell when @catsalad boosts one of my posts. 🥰 Your notifications must be impossible to navigate.

Unicode domain test for Mastodon PR 32333. https://ꩰ.com https://ꩰ.com/ https://xn--8r9a.com https://xn--8r9a.com/

If I'm currently running Mastodon, is there any reason to run something like PeerTube?

We're playing this Jackbox trivia game at work during a Teams call. I got curious, so I opened Chrome devtools to look at network traffic. Turns out it prints answers straight to the console, before the question even comes up.

My kid's friend stayed the night last night. My wife asked her what she liked, and she answered pizza and Chinese food. I'm pretty good at the latter, so I went ahead and made something. I discovered soon after that when she said "Chinese food", she actually meant chicken fingers. 🤦 Needless to […]

7am the long way 'round... Hyperfocus is fun. #adhd

Idea: Release software with version numbers that exclusively include special characters, like ' or \r\n.

I've never really understood why celebrity deaths affected people so much. But I just realized that Simon and Garfunkel are *really* getting up there in years (both 84), and now I'm sad.

OH: You can insult the Amish all you want on the Internet and they'll never know.

I've mentioned before that I'm on the service list for State of Georgia v. Trump. There was a pro se filing that was just submitted that is a real fucking treat. Quote: "There is a larger concern that as our country becomes a minority-majority question, where are the 10 inches Chinese-American […]

Have you ever wondered to yourself "what is the weirdest channel on Twitch?" Wonder no longer. https://www.twitch.tv/goatvsfish

Why do we do percentage-based tips in the US? Somebody working at a place with $10 meals works just as hard as somebody working at a place with $200 meals.

I spent a bunch of time on walks taking my kid to and from school trudging through deep snow banks and kicking the snow out of the way, bit by bit. I was pretty happy with the results yesterday. ...and then a plow came through and covered all of it. Fuckers.

I started typing here to ask how stock price affects a company. I look at the screen down ⬇️ from this one, and see @pluralistic answering exactly that in one of his long threads.

Lunch over ActivityPub

I so badly want to see this site to take off. If you're #actuallyautistic, you know just how much of a problem these things can be. For me personally, having the information about lighting and how to get service in advance would be a huge help. https://prepped.to/

Executive Function as a Service

If you have a 9v reverse polarity DC power supply and you need positive polarity, can you just...like...cut the cable and wire red to black?

I so badly want to see this site to take off. If you're #actuallyautistic, you know just how much of a problem these things can be. For me personally, having the information about lighting and how to get service in advance would be a huge help. https://prepped.to/

He's not completely out of the woods yet, but... https://www.reuters.com/world/judge-dismisses-murder-weapons-charges-against-alleged-unitedhealth-ceo-killer-2026-01-30/

County pays $600,000 to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/county-pays-600000-to-pentesters-it-arrested-for-assessing-courthouse-security/

#giftarticle Greg #bovino Loses His Job The #borderpatrol chief has been ousted from his role as “commander at large,” and will return to El Centro. #reneegood #alexpretti #statesponsoredterrorism #trump #law #murder #extrajudicialkillings #minneapolis #minnesota #constitution #righttoprotest […]

Self-OH: "It's their fault they're being lied to." Context: My wife doesn't want to tell our neighbor that we need to take the kid to a doctor's appt, in order to shame them into unburying their shit* from the snow at the bottom of the driveway. *They also threw all the snow they were […]

Food idea: Red Bull chicken

My wife sent me this picture she took, so now you have to see it too.

Is it illegal to "fall" on somebody's sidewalk, so I can go knock on their door and demand that they shovel snow and put ice down? Does it make it more or less illegal if I do it at three adjacent houses? What if I make my 9-year old do it? (Unrelated: To whom do I send my address to receive the […]

I don't think Mastodon can do math. @catsalad

I decided at the beginning of the year that I was going to walk my kid to and from school this year, since it's only ~15 minutes away. It's 6F right now. This may have been a mistake.

Cursed video playback idea on a vertical screen. The left half of a wide image is placed on the top half of the vertical screen and the right half of the wide image is placed on the bottom half of the vertical screen.

#monsterdon root thread

I think I just figured out how to get unlimited RAM. mount -t tmpfs -o size=16G tmpfs /tmp/ramdisk dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/ramdisk/swapfile bs=1G count=16 mkswap /tmp/ramdisk/swapfile swapon /tmp/ramdisk/swapfile

Apropos of nothing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials

What's your favo[u]rite song? I want to hear it -- reply with a PeerTube link (or YouTube, I suppose, if you must).

You can end a sentence with a proposition as long as you have a parenthetical after it and before punctuation, right (not that I care either way)?

Idea: a bot you can ping to find out (or monitor) your #fediverse latency

Could you cook an egg on top of a frozen waffle? That sounds delicious.