Mastodawn

@anon_opin Absolutely this. There's no point telling me an LLM can create the work of 10 people if no one reads the shit 3 people produce already.

Gavin May 5

Decided to try Ubuntu 26.04. Instantly found a bug in hardware-backed full disk encryption via the installer. Guess I won't then.

Not that I'm really that bothered, but "easily accessible encryption" is one of the things I really wish they'd tested more thoroughly because I really want to be able to trust that my data isn't going to suddenly become dead to me.

Gavin Apr 2

Anon Opin Apr 2

There was never such a massive issue with parking in normal car parks to the point that ever warranted £100 fines for marginal overstays or infringements. It is largely a valueless money grab that is a shameful disgrace and a stain on our society.

Gavin Mar 30

Anon Opin Mar 30

Podcasting equipment should be much more expensive. The barrier for entry is far too low.

Gavin Mar 17

I'm sure this won't go anywhere, but on the off chance that anyone from WP Engine is looking for the #wpengine hashtag because of some kind of current Wordpress community drama, could you please poke someone to fix whatever is behind one of your load balancers serving up a TLS certificate that expired on Feb 28th 2026 please and thank you.

Gavin Feb 23

This weekend, I successfully deployed #NixOS onto a spare laptop.

Today, it's broken. Trying to do a rebuild from a slightly updated flake just pegs a CPU at 100% for 20+m until I get bored and `pkill -9 nix`

I _think_ I've narrowed it down to my use of "enterprise grade" Determinate Nix, because I assumed it would be more stable...hopefully the laptop improves once I've got around to taking that out of the flake, rebooting into a previous generation and rebuilding. Good test, I guess.

Gavin Feb 16

RE: https://toot.me.uk/@revk/116081199432169642

I'm not a company director anymore, but I signed anyway because I despise stupid, pointless dark patterns that (in a tinfoil hat world) exist purely so that people fuck it up and get penalised.

Gavin Jan 27

Charlie Stross Jan 27

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@LonM/115966748145817371

UK PEOPLE: this is REALLY IMPORTANT. If the government bans under-16s from using VPNs, then logically they must intend to REQUIRE AGE VERIFICATION FOR ALL VPN USE. Which will affect adults too!

*Your* privacy and right to anonymous web browsing is at risk!

Gavin Jan 11

Local "just ignore private parking notices, they can't do anything" crew are out in force on Facebook, so I'm ranting on Mastodon so I don't get tempted to reply to every single one of them "yes, they actually can take you to court, try actually reading the paperwork before giving someone bad advice, you tit"

Gavin Dec 19

Fesshole 🧻Dec 19

Many of my colleagues' first instinct with any technical query is to ask me before attempting any research. If it's not urgent I'll wait half an hour to reply, to give them time to look for the answer themselves. If they still haven't found the answer after 30m, then I'll help.