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 ☠️33m ago

why does forgejo actions use *yaml*?

i thought we all agreed we were done with yaml?

Robey ☠️6h ago
Kee Hinckley1d ago
Someone spent months "generating a book" in ChatGPT and then discovered it hadn't actually created anything.
https://old.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1lyx6gj/how_to_download_a_487_mb_file_that_chatgpt_helped/
Robey ☠️6h ago
Andrew20h ago
Cool to see how much progress California has made defeating the "duck curve". same day 5 years apart, and the spike at sunset is almost completely supplied by batteries
Robey ☠️7h ago
Peter Cohen2d ago
how I started versus how I'm feeling, Gen X edition
Robey ☠️17h ago

this video on the history of nutmeg is nothing short of amazing. I won't spoil it for you

https://youtu.be/9mqerkFWjKU?si=YyDzLlDfUl_5kbc-

NUTMEG: The Horrible History Behind The Popular Spice

YouTube
Robey ☠️1d ago
Ericka Simone2d ago

So an alliance of 20+ tow truck operators have come together in #LosAngeles. They’re having people follow ICE vehicles around, actively reporting their locations.

As soon as ICE parks their car ANYWHERE, usually improperly… the tow trucks quickly swoop in, tag the ICE vehicle for illegal parking, and tow their cars away as quickly as possible. LAPD is letting it happen, unchallenged.

They’re estimating over 30+ ICE vehicles being towed in the last week alone.

I love LA.
I really do.

Robey ☠️1d ago
Danielle Foré2d ago

I keep seeing this sentiment that desktop Linux has become woke and gay.

Desktop Linux has been woke and gay the whole time. Y’all just for some reason decided you suddenly have a problem with it. We didn’t change, you did. Okay some of us came out of the closet. But we’ve been talking about diversity and inclusion for decades and equity has been the entire focal point of the free software movement since like the 70s! It’s woke gay anarcho-communism and you fucking loved it until 2016

Show threadRobey ☠️1d ago
@ceejbot extra gold star from me if every "utilize" becomes "use" :)
Robey ☠️1d ago

this cool news also answers the question "if california wore pants, which way would it wear them?"

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/07/14/in-historic-first-california-powered-by-two-thirds-clean-energy-becoming-largest-economy-in-the-world-to-achieve-milestone/

In historic first, California powered by two-thirds clean energy – becoming largest economy in the world to achieve milestone | Governor of California

State of California

Governor of California
Robey ☠️1d ago
geekysteven2d ago
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Vlado Vince5d ago

So I'm very sad to report that this 194 years old restaurant, with one half in Slovenia and the other in Croatia, sadly seems to be closed. Even though the pedestrian/bike bridge that was blocked by a border for 30 years is now welcoming and open...

I wrote about it a few years ago: https://mastodon.vladovince.com/@mejs/109651378544694996