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I'm sure everyone here has "the tech box": that box where you shove the miscelaneous cables and dongles and other crap that isn't currently being used but is too useful to just get rid of. In my case it had spilled over into multiple boxes and had just become a bit of a nightmare.

Anyhow, my parents were getting rid of this guy, so we took it home with us. Katy and I just spent the past hour meticulously going over every single item in our various tech boxes and cataloging them into a system inspired by the one described in @Cory Doctorow's book, Makers.* It's not quite so elaborate as in the book. It's just an org-mode document that tells me exactly which drawer each item is in—no fancy RFID tags, but they're not items with a lot of churn either, so it's fine. Got to admit, it was rather satisfying to my probably #AuDHD brain.

Anyhow, I present to you the new gay tech organizer.

* That system has lived rent free in my head since I read the book like a decade an a half ago.

Edit: I make one little edit to fix a typo (okay two typos) and then need like three more edits to fix the formatting errors those introduced. I'm fired.

a stainless steel framed storage cabinet with colourful plastic drawers, filled to capacity with junk... I mean, useful things
#AuDHD @Cory Doctorow

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Got an email from a recruiter this morning. I thought it was for a position at a well-established company, and despite the yellow flags I decided to at least look into it.

It's clearly a different company than I thought, with a prominent typo right on their landing page (apparently they're a "worldwid" organization).

Also, they have both 10+ years of experience and were established in 2024? 🤷‍♂️

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Jonathan Lamothe started reading Count Zero

Count Zero

Turner, corporate mercenary, wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from: Maas-Neotek's chief of R&D is defecting.
William Gibson

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When I first learned about CollapseOS four years ago, I thought that it's a very cool concept, but did find the idea "you'll have to implement from scratch everything in your computing stack" very disconnected from the reality. Like, what kind of plausible scenario could there be that one won't be able to get system software for their computer that they could trust to be of safe origin, free from backdoors and malware, and fit for the purpose, I thought.

Ha-ha.

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Jonathan Lamothe wants to read Count Zero

Count Zero

Turner, corporate mercenary, wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from: Maas-Neotek's chief of R&D is defecting.
William Gibson

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Review of "Neuromancer" (5 stars): None
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It's hard to believe this book was written in the '80s. I'm going to have to give it a re-read at some point soon because there were a lot of moving parts and I'm sure I missed stuff that I'll pick up on the second time around. All in all, an enjoyable read.

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Jonathan Lamothe finished reading Neuromancer

Neuromancer

The first of William Gibson's 'Sprawl' trilogy, Neuromancer is the classic cyberpunk novel. More information on the [novel's official page][1]. [1]: http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/books/neuromancer.asp
William F. Gibson

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Welp, Nextcloud went sideways when I tried to upgrade it today. I am however happy to report that I have confirmed that my backup system works.

I'm probably gonna have to figure out how to do a manual upgrade again. I have to do this every few years, but not often enough that I can remember off the top of my head how. I just remember that it's a pain in the ass.

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A terminal UI is just a GUI where the graphics card is your imagination and the rendering engine is 50 years of accumulated technical debt.
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Badtux the Snarky Penguin

@me 95% of new programmers would benefit from knowing how to do control-break processing. I clean up after so many youngsters doing ad hoc processing for data we have known how to process efficiently since 1968.

Honestly I much prefer Java to COBOL and the recent enhancements to add more modern language features to Java version 255 are much appreciated. However: Programmer convenience is not the purpose of software engineering. Solving business problems is.

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Jonathan Lamothe

@Badtux the Snarky Penguin I think that programmers could also benefit from learning assembly. That doesn't mean I'm going to use it as my day-to-day language. A good software engineer knows that everything is a trade-off, and it's about picking the tool that best solves the problem at hand.

I wholeheartedly agree with you that the industry is overrun with inexperienced devs who build a ton of slop (even before so-called AI hit the scene) because the companies they work for want to make line go up above all else. That's a capitalism problem more than an engineering problem though.

@Badtux the Snarky Penguin
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Nationality isn't really important to them. Religion isn't really important to them. Culture? It isn't important to these kinds of wealthy and powerful people.

The only other people they can really "see" are those with enough wealth and power (and the will) to have an impact on their lives. Everyone else is essentially invisible, unimportant. Background music, an NPC.

Colorful hats of religion, ethnicity, nationality are like masquerade ball costumes. Useful, fun even, but not important.

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RiaResists❌ 👑

Religion serves as justification for hate, punishment. Words have opposite meaning, science means nothing, all to support their evil visions of having it ALL.
Regular people…. maybe they pick it up & mimic it to feel like they’re in w the soulless rich that are literally extracting us & everything else to death.
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Welcome to #TransTuesday!

There is NO ethical consumption of Harry Potter

Not the books, movies, or tv show. Not licensed games or merch. Not fanfic. Not even pirated.

EVERY bit keeps the franchise alive and enables JKR's transphobia

If you truly care about trans people, you need to let it die

tillystranstuesdays.com/2026/1…

TERFs, PART 3: NO ETHICAL CONSUMPTION OF HARRY POTTER - Tilly's Trans Tuesdays

Welcome to Trans Tuesday! This is what it all comes down to, for trans people and the cis folks who actually care about us. Listen up, and show it to every cis person you know who does not get it.
Tilly Bridges (Tilly's Trans Tuesdays - transgender education for everyone!)
#transtuesday
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Medea Vanamonde 🏳️‍⚧️

oh I checked her work out around 2005…I could see the appeal but it didn’t appeal to me. i think I read one book and maybe saw 2 movies.
Meh and Feh…just something innately wrong about it all. Chalked it up to cultural differences between here and there.
But still it felt like she was popular due to a Cross Roads Demon Deal.

Not far off the mark…

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After the recent reorganization in VPG, I’m leaving my job at Apple. Which means that I’m looking for a new job!

I’m looking for a senior or staff-level software engineering role, particularly where my experience with Swift, Objective-C, UI frameworks, Apple platforms, and large, complex software systems can be useful.

I’m looking for something in the SF Bay Area, something remote or something back in Belgium.

inferis.org/blog/2026/09/open-…

Boosts (or job offers!) would be appreciated!

Open To What’s Next | inferis.org

inferis.org

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"Jeff Bezos says AI could result in a 3-day work week"

Guy has employees peeing in bottles

What you don't realize is his plan is to redefine the week so it only has 3 days

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more reticulum/nomadnet stuff

So I'm working on adding a feature to #NomadNet that allows you to press Alt+r (keybinding not yet fully settled upon) to find the most recently failed message in the current conversation and copy it into the message editor so that it can easily be resent.

I think I've done this, but in order to properly test it, I need to first intentionally cause a message to fail. This is proving more difficult than I anticipated.

#reticulum

#reticulum #nomadnet

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more reticulum/nomadnet stuff
The funny thing is that when I attempt to send a message to a destination that I know is offline, it appears to just route through a propagation node even though I've got it set to direct delivery. I don't understand what's going on there. #reticulum #NomadNet
#reticulum #nomadnet

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Looks like #gentoo has had a bunch of sponsors pull out. I wonder if this has anything to do with their stance against LLMs. Looks like they're looking for new ones. While I'm not in a position to help out on this, I will at least do what I can to boost the signal.
gentoo.org/news/2026/10/07/inf…
#gentoo

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I've been working on this feature for over an hour without writing a single line of code. I'm just familiarising myself with this part of the (rather large) codebase. Working with other people's code is fun! #programming #reticulum #NomadNet
#programming #reticulum #nomadnet

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Jonathan Lamothe

@Shannon Prickett Probably has to do with the effect of surrounding themselves with sycophants. They've lost the ability to process criticism because they typically don't ever have to.
@Shannon Prickett

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#ActuallyAutistic #Autism #Autistic #AuDHD #Neurodivergent
#autistic #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent #autism #AuDHD
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PerryM ✅

@cameron29 Cameron thank you for your concern. 1 of us personally knows the autistic person and has repeatedly talked to him. It is fine for a day or 2 and the behavior returns.

I shared my experience because the person who posted this is autistic and believes that he is not understood and is put upon. I contend, with experience, that his attitude it's a matter of perspective and I know several people who would agree.

I would guess that he is not being treated and is angry!

@Cameron

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I was using my #Kaweko Sport #FountainPen, and noticed that it was making an odd rattling sound. I opened it up to investigate and found that the converter had somehow come detached. Fortunately, the converter doesn't hold a ton of ink, so it wasn't as big a mess to clean up as I would've expected. Besides, are you really a fountain pen user if you don't have ink all over your fingers? I have to say, though, I'm impressed at the capacity of the feed. It had been rattling for some time without any noticeable loss of ink.
#fountainpen #Kaweko

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Antonio Giamberardino

I bought that stupid converter even though my best pen friend told me not to. I had the exact same thing happen to me during a client meeting at my law office and I looked like a total dork.

I have since moved on to using a blunt-tip syringe to refill old ink cartridges and my brass sport (as well as my hands) thanks me for it.

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I think people are done with "left" parties that fuck around at the margins instead of solving problems.

Right-wing corruption doesn't bother them because they think everyone in politics is corrupt anyway. And they're mostly right. But that vacuum creates endless opportunities for fascists. Fascists create problems they claim only a fascist can solve.

And people are dumb enough to fall for it over and over again because they're too busy being mad at the establishment.

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honestly at this point writing your password down in a notebook or hidden on your desk might be more secure than keeping it online in some fashion. i mean what're the odds of you getting burglarized vs. someone just hacking the system you use

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