I'll be talking Tailscale again today. We're doing a webinar where I'll be taking technical questions on YouTube and Zoom. You can register here if you're interested in watching or participating: tailscale.com/events-webin...

I think my career in tech could have been predicted by the fact that I was the guy who brought a soldering iron to the lan parties.

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Still managing EKS access with legacy VPNs + security groups? There’s a better way. Join us for a live webinar to see how the Tailscale Kubernetes Operator modernizes remote access to EKS: 🔗 tailscale.com/events-webin...

“Evil men are ceded importance even after they die, when it no longer matters to them, and only affects us.” ― Malka Ann Older, The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (though from context I don't know whether she originated this quote or if its from someone else)

Just leaned back in a chair as a wasp was stinging me, causing it to get stuck in my back. If I lived alone, that would have been it, just living with a permanent wasp in my back.

You checked the news: -10 HP

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

ME, IN TEARS: you can't just say every single part of a computer system is a file UNIX, POINTING AT THE MOUSE: file

Notes on getting Tailscale working for Kobo Sync: - Mount the Kobo. - Rename .kobo/ssh-disabled to .kobo/ssh-enabled. Still working on the next steps.

Building out my pi-based retro gaming laptop, I wanted a better way to turn just the display off and on. Eventually, I would like this to get called from a GPIO, maybe a hall-effect to see if the lid is closed. jws.sh/piscreen.html

Waiting on a few parts before its finalized, like a keyboard cable, but my retro gaming laptop project is functional.

We were going to do another big marketing stunt for THE TOXIC AVENGER UNRATED. Instead, Toxie, whose life was upended by crushing medical bills, has joined forces with Undue Medical Debt to erase at least $5 million in un-payable medical debt for those who need it most. Learn more:

Some progress on my retro sleeper build. Found an old, broken 286 compaq laptop that had the same vibes as my old 386 laptop I had as a young person. I've gutted it, converted the old keyboard to USB, and replaced the dead screen with an LCD from a 1st gen ipad running on an HDMI adapter.

If someone claims to be scared of the subway but isn’t scared of being in a car on the highway—which is exponentially more dangerous + deadly—they are not a serious person

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

I got new office art today! Piece by www.instagram.com/tchugness and www.instagram.com/axelalime I saw it hanging in a restaurant in Montreal when I was traveling and talked to them on Instagram to arrange to buy it and have it shipped to me. I love it!

✨ Discord lives! We keep hearing the same thing from the Tailscale community. The need for a place to connect in real time. So, we’re meeting developers, hobbyists, and enthusiasts where many already are: Discord If that sounds like your kind of thing, come and join the fun 👉 discord.gg/tailscale

Just wrapped a six book binge by Malka Older. The Centenal Cycle trilogy: Excellent characters, interesting world building, and satisfying depth of lore. The second book lagged a bit, but the whole series is worth the time. It wrapped in a way that was telegraphed, but still satisfying.

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

Among arguments being made today: The Air Canada staff are so valuable that they should not be able to strike. Also, they are so low value that they should not be paid for much of the time that they are working.

Booker T and the Fieros

The newest Tailscale client can encrypt its state file at rest. What does that mean? How does that work? Here's a look, across every OS: tailscale.com/blog/encrypt...

North - Thompson, MB West - Nanaimo, BC East - Sydney, NS South - Colchester, ON

I've been wanting to write this one for a while. One of the reasons Tailscale is good is that we forced some tough choices up front. One of those tough choices was to make it a security/privacy tool, *not* an anonymity tool. tailscale.com/blog/tailsca...

Staying at a hotel in Montreal for the night. It cost a lot. The pictures were nice. The pictures were obviously retouched. You can't smell pictures. We did not read the reviews before booking. The bed feels like plywood. Must do more research when booking hotels in the future.

I waded in the Atlantic. That's worth breaking my rule: Never post feet online for free.

The ocean is pretty nifty

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

you actually should produce some uniquely bad music or art I've been drawing and playing around with making music and writing fiction and poetry for a couple weeks and it's all very bad and the production of it has been 20x more empowering than any code I've written in years.

Road trip got an early start. In Oshawa, heading East!

"be kind, rewind!"

A little bit of Rheostatics sweetness to get your weekend started. #StolenCar @horseshoetavern.bsky.social @davebidini.bsky.social #LiveForLiveMusic

I take it all back. Paywalls can be a good thing.

I love how study after study after study shows that simply giving people financial stability and free time with no strings attached leads to better outcomes for *everybody*, and yet society keeps rejecting that solution by saying, "But then how would poor people know to be ashamed of themselves???"

This is a very specific blend of nerdery. I'm here for it

"Why do people treat ChatGPT's output like it's transcendent instead of trite?" Look, people will have spiritual awakenings over horoscopes, airport paperbacks, burnt toasts shaped like Jesus, and blurry pics of mangy bears they swear are Bigfoot. People are just biased toward finding meaning.

When I first installed TikTok, I put in my interests: Camping, fishing, hiking, welding, woodworking... and ~25 of my first 30 videos were all far-right extremists "just asking questions".

When I was a kid, we shared a phone line with two neighbouring houses. There were distinctive rings for which house the call was for. Sometimes you'd pick up the phone, the neighbour would be talking to someone. Telephones were too unimportant to have one line for each house in low density areas.

My big maple dropped a branch on my driveway while I was out today

It occurs to me that the are so many YouTube creators now who use the term "rinse and repeat" to mean "repeat" who are too young to have ever needed to read a shampoo bottle to pass the time.

Oh yay, they announced it!!

Have you tried talking to them about cryptocurrency?

I think I just jumped timelines. I swear, "enrol" always had two "L"s in it until this morning.

People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it. They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory. Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human. Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.

i'm no stephen hawking but i think what happens is that they cancel each other out

Sundog

Remember when experts and thought leaders knew something about their subjects? Before "free speech" meant amplifying uninformed opinions to avoid the appearance of bias, then having bias assumed anyhow?