Robey ☠️

@robey@messydesk.social
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A wizard appears. He looks grumpy.

I was the guy behind eggdrop, paramiko, the sidekick ssh client, kestrel, and many smaller projects. I've been in 3 unsuccessful bands and I'm one of the 23 people who finished reading "Gravity's Rainbow". But I'm primarily known for making a dumb Fibonacci joke online in 2011.

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#programming #retrocomputing #firmware #leftist #content

LocationSan José, California
Dispositiongay (they/he), pale, quiet, antifa
Nerd topicsdistsys, firmware, retro computing
Bloghttps://robey.lag.net/
Robey ☠️6h ago
i don't have any photos from 2000 exactly, but i have one from 1995
Robey ☠️6h ago
josef9h ago

facebook: hi. its Facebook! we've turned your conversations --- into Apps!

you: i deleted facebook

facebook: You may have deleted Facebook. But we didn't! And now, using AI, we've turned your conversations, from 2008 to the present day... into Apps!

you: actually i never had a facebook. i was never on facebook

facebook: Sadly, you didn't have a Facebook account. But now, using AI ... you do! And we've turned ALL your memories ... into Apps!

Robey ☠️6h ago
Milcom Miasma1d ago

Somebody on the internet is very good at subtle humor.

#StarTrekTNG
#Humor

Robey ☠️6h ago
Seth "Twylo" Morabito10h ago
I’m grateful that whenever I talk with extended friends groups and I say something like “am I just old and out of touch like my grumpy grandfather was, or are things really bad now?” some 22 year old will say “no way everyone I know hates everything and stuff is really bad now”, so I guess that’s kind of a grim validation that I’m not old and out of touch, I’m just old.
Robey ☠️6h ago
Show threadJeremiah Lee11h ago

What is a song you absolutely love from an artist with less than 1 million monthly listeners on Spotify?

Help me break my husband’s Spotify taste bubble by filling his next playlist with less known bangers and bops.

Boosts appreciated!

#NowListening #AskFedi

Robey ☠️6h ago
Anuj Ahooja1d ago
In the last five years, we've gone from "employees will never have to go into an office" to "employees need to be in the office because creative and innovative work can only be done face-to-face between humans" to "lol we don't need humans"
Robey ☠️6h ago
Bálint Szilakszi22h ago

Alchemy is only ever going to get better and it is improving every year.

Soon Alchemy will make goldminers obsolete.

Robey ☠️6h ago
Show threadHailey1d ago
I spent a couple of hours yesterday getting Audacity building, reproducing and diagnosing the bug, and wrapping my head around the complex logic in this part of the code so that I could implement a correct fix. To have copilot review my work, which I contributed back for free, is just so incredibly disrespectful to my time and effort.
Robey ☠️6h ago
Hailey1d ago

Sent a pull request to Audacity fixing a crash bug I'd been running into frequently. The cause was an out-of-bounds memmove. Classic C++ areas.

Anyway I got a fucking copilot review on my PR which left two comments, both completely wrong, one of which suggesting I reintroduce the out of bounds memory access. I'm furious!

Robey ☠️8h ago

it drives me crazy that ubuntu keeps finding and installing a firefox "snap" to interfere with the *real* firefox i already have installed

leave my laptop alone! hands off!