Phillip Vuchetich

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Back on social media after making progress on work projects. Yay!
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If anyone is interested, her resolution is to switch from MS Windows and Gmail to Apple, getting a MacBook Neo since she mostly uses an iPhone, and the pc is for office type uses. Passwords will all be reset and synced with default apple tools.
I am looking for suggestions for which fediverse server software is well suited to a state (province) size professional association with 1,000 members. Mastodon? Gotosocial? Frendica? Something else? It would likely be members-only and not federated. Ideally it could also work for group of 50+ local artists (who currently use discord) using a separate VM, of course.
Update: she was able to change her password at 4 am (about 12 hours after calling me). Plan is to leave computer off until I can reinstall windows. Switching operating system is not a likely option, but I'll ask.

Question: I have an older relative whose Google account is compromised (phishing email from a known person whose account was also compromised, entered google password in a popup window). I walked them through going to the Google account page to change the password, but Google is preventing password reset for up to 72 hours, and won't even allow "forgot password" process to work. The actor appears to be actively emailing contacts with the same phishing email and replying to inbound emails. Any idea how to secure a personal google account when it won't let you change the password?

Separately, what is the recommended password manager for an iPhone for a non-techie person? I don't have an iPhone, so I can't directly evaluate the options.

Question: Anyone have experience with the Snapmaker U1 printer? With 4 separate print heads, and automatic switching from an empty spool, it would likely meet all of my FDM printing needs for prototyping.

The library makerspace Ultimaker S5 is good for 2-color printing, and has a good level of quality/detail, but is relatively slow compared to Bambu X2D (that was recommended as a 2-print head option by a local person who uses the Bambu P1S) and Snapmaker U1 (that I didn't know about before yesterday).

Snapmaker is putting some things out as open source https://github.com/Snapmaker , but I am not sure whether this is opensource, openwashing, or if I just would be working around rough edges on a new product (U1 Kickstarter Fall 2025) with a rugpull at the end.

Added ๐—จ๐—ฃ๐——๐—”๐—ง๐—˜ ๐Ÿณ - ๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—•๐—ฆ๐—— ๐——๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ ๐——๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ - ๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—บ ๐—™๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฝ๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ž๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—น ๐— ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜† [UPDATE 7 - FreeBSD Device Drivers - From First Steps to Kernel Mastery] to ๐—•๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ธ๐˜€ ๐—”๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜ ๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—•๐—ฆ๐—— [Books About FreeBSD] article.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2022/02/04/books-about-freebsd#UPDATE7

#verblog #freebsd #books

I like the Register's headline: "Anthropicโ€™s bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator"

... even though I did not say that. ๐Ÿ˜‚

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/11/anthropics-bug-hunting-mythos-was-greatest-marketing-stunt-ever-says-curl-creator/5238111

Anthropicโ€™s bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator

After all that hype, AI scanner found one low-severity cURL flaw

theregister

New post: FreeBSD resource monitoring and accounting.

A practical tour of the base-system toolkit for figuring out *what is actually using my server*: top, vmstat, systat, gstat, netstat/sockstat, procstat, pfctl, and per-jail attribution with kern.racct and rctl.

No ports, no agents. Just FreeBSD.

https://blog.hofstede.it/freebsd-resource-monitoring-accounting-and-troubleshooting/

#FreeBSD #BSD #Jails #pf #SysAdmin #DevOps #Unix #BSD #Blog

FreeBSD Resource Monitoring, Accounting, and Troubleshooting

A practical tour of FreeBSDโ€™s built-in tools for watching CPU, memory, disk I/O, and network activity, finding the process or jail that is eating your server, and applying per-jail accounting and l...

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I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/10/fiction-writing-professor-ai
I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment

The problem wasnโ€™t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. Itโ€™s whatโ€™s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words

The Guardian

โ€œPhotographer Spends Night on Freezing Mountain to Capture Rare Triple Galaxy Archโ€ - astonishing photo and interesting how-it-was-done narrative.

https://petapixel.com/2026/05/08/photographer-spends-night-on-freezing-mountain-to-capture-rare-triple-galaxy-arch/

#Photography

Photographer Spends Night on Freezing Mountain to Capture Rare Triple Galaxy Arch

Simply magnificent.

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