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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

Location	San José, California
Disposition	gay (they/he), pale, quiet, antifa
Nerd topics	distsys, firmware, retro computing
Blog	https://robey.lag.net/

Robey ☠️11h ago

NMDoerner 1d ago

Oh wow, I love that!

The Apple Lisa GUI in your Browser.

Try it here:

https://alpha.lisagui.com/

Absolutely awesome!

LisaGUI

A Lisa-themed Graphical User Interface

LisaGUI

Robey ☠️11h ago

Luke Miller 1d ago

Alien: What did you say your galaxy is called?

Me: The Milky Way Galaxy

Universal translator: The Milky Milk Milk

Alien: Um okaaaay. And what's "milk"?

Me: It's a fluid we secrete

Alien: ... I'm sorry I think the translator is faulty

Me: We drink it sometimes

Robey ☠️11h ago

the people representing apple at these EU hearings should be fired. they're going to get apple in real trouble

https://formularsumo.co.uk/blog/2025/apple-vs-the-law/

Apple Vs The Law

Apple & Google at the DMA compliance workshops, June 2025

FormularSumo

Robey ☠️1d ago

i forget how this crossed my tabs, but it's great: the problem with discarding material reality

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/material_girl

it explains a lot about the completely batshit way many people behave lately

Coding in a material world | deadSimpleTech

The common ideological kernel of all of this behaviour is a deeply embedded trope in anglosphere societies: a contempt for materiality, or the idea that the material world that we eat, sleep, drink, fuck and die in is somehow beneath the notice or the care of sufficiently important people.

deadSimpleTech

Robey ☠️1d ago

In This Economy?2d ago

Huey Lewis AND the News? In this economy?

Robey ☠️1d ago

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Robey ☠️1d ago

i might believe systemd was good if the systemd cheerleaders weren't working so hard to convince me

well that and fixing the binary logs

Robey ☠️2d ago

@balglaas oooh thanks for the tip... the internet thought this format was for email!

Robey ☠️2d ago

update: i found a website that will convert "tex" files into pdf.

it uses that "academic font" that makes me want to climb the walls and scream... ... but at least i can read it

Robey ☠️2d ago

someone invented a hobby 8-bit arch that i want to check out, but their only documentation is an "ods" file (?) and a "tex" file...

i've never used "latex" (we had word processors by the time i used computers) so the tex file just looks like noise to me.

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The perfect sticker for an old macbook that doesn’t quite work right

@olivvybee cc: @mcc

@olivvybee cc @vel

neocat_boop_woozy

@volpeon @olivvybee

neoapple_googly_woozy

drgn_think_woozy

std::living std::fish 5d ago

@vel @olivvybee @volpeon why does neoapple even exist...

I WILL USE IT FROM NOW ON

Cursed Silicon 5d ago

@olivvybee Unironically where can I get one

I have so many G5 quads (the awful liquid cooled ones) that need repairs it would be perfect for them

async sjolsen 5d ago

@olivvybee this is like the computing equivalent of Mr Yuk

decryption 5d ago

@olivvybee this is great! Are you able to share the graphic so I can print some off at home and cut em on my circuit? 😊

@decryption The svg is available here: https://github.com/olivvybee/emojis/blob/main/neofinder/neofinder_woozy.svg

emojis/neofinder/neofinder_woozy.svg at main · olivvybee/emojis

Various emoji packs I've made. Contribute to olivvybee/emojis development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

decryption 5d ago

@olivvybee you’re awesome!

luna, only carbon now 5d ago

@olivvybee oh my god i need this

U.Lancier 5d ago

@olivvybee here's a macbook from 2009. It'd be just right for that.

@olivvybee i need this for both my Macs...

@olivvybee I need this for my mid 2012 mbp, it mostly works but sometimes it's kinda

I kinda want to put that on my Tuxedo!

Jon Schwenn 5d ago

@olivvybee is this available?

Riku Voipio 5d ago

@olivvybee ..but still plays music for you

Minki the Avali 5d ago

@olivvybee i want one for my pb140, it has display issues where you need to put a lot of dark things on screen for contrast to start working after booting it

@olivvybee how do i get this?

a radish is a type of jewel that tastes like a salad 4d ago

@olivvybee nxfnfnkfkf i need this

Ari is in trouble 4d ago

@olivvybee Ahhh, this is so cool. I don't have a capacity for printing stickers, though. Dang it!